Chapter 991: Help from the Flame Spark (1/2)

Every Son of the Stars of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace would have a chance at competing for the position of the Lord of the Stars. All those who had been chosen to be Sons of the Stars had extremely outstanding cultivation talent and potential.

Every generation of Sons of the Stars would eventually produce a Lord of the Stars, and perhaps one or two God domain experts.

No matter how weak a Son of the Stars turned out to be, as long as he didn’t die prematurely, the cultivation and tempering he received from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace would allow him to grow into a Saint domain expert, at least.

Of course, different Saint domain experts’ strengths varied greatly.

A Saint domain Son of the Stars would be much more powerful than a Saint domain expert like Jing Feiyang, Quan Zixuan, or Qu Mingde, even though their cultivation bases were the same.

As for Nie Tian, the newborn seventh Son of the Stars, his name had spread far and wide recently. Even the outsiders had heard about him.

However, what had made the outsiders really apprehensive about him was the fact that he was a hybrid.

Being a hybrid meant that his limitations as a human, such as feeble bodies and short lifespans, had probably been made up for.

Therefore, as such a special Son of the Stars, his name was already high on the outsiders’ list of most wanted humans.

If the newly-arrived Demon grand patriarch could catch or kill Nie Tian, his prestige among his people would definitely soar. He might even win the favor of their grand monarchs, allowing his clan to rise to prominence, and gain the eligibility to move into the First Demon Domain.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Three large purple balls separated themselves from the Demon’s abdomen and fell onto the sand like giant watermelons.

Upon landing, the balls of flesh split, releasing dozens of demonic bugs.

Disguised by the raging Demon qi, they rapidly drilled into the sand and crawled towards Nie Tian soundlessly.

The newly-arrived Demon grand patriarch was named Feimos, and was also at the middle ninth grade. His people had given him the nickname “The Controller”.

All of the Demons who had been given nicknames were grand patriarchs or grand monarchs that carried ancient bloodlines.

Feimos the Controller himself came from an ancient Demon clan, which was famous for raising and controlling demonic bugs.

He had fed a large number of demonic bugs with his own flesh and blood, and enveloped them in those lumps that grew on him.

Standing on the Star Boat, Nie Tian became instantly alarmed, his hair standing on end. “Something is wrong!”

As soon as Feimos the Controller had locked him down, he had sensed great danger, feeling that something extremely ferocious had fixed its bloodthirsty eyes on him.

No matter how hard he had tried to hide himself with his bloodline talent, he hadn’t been able to escape that thing’s detection.

Now, he realized that danger was spreading towards him like waves, yet he didn’t know exactly what it was.

BOOM!

Raging flesh power suddenly burst forth from within his meridians, bones, internal organs, and muscles, instantly putting him in the Life Strengthening state.

His heart raced as his senses grew increasingly keen.

The ten drops of Blood Essence in his heart also blossomed with sparkling, crimson light.

He was ready for battle.

Moments later, he looked down at the sand, his expression flickering. “There’s something in the sand!”

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Dozens of demonic bugs crawled out of the sand and flew towards him like black lightning bolts.

Unlike the ones that had chased after the ninth grade ice phoenix, these bugs looked as if they had been forged from black steel, their smooth shells giving off an ice-cold luster.

The bugs had sharp teeth and tender antennae on their heads that seemed to allow them to capture even the slightest flesh power fluctuations.

With the help of his bloodline power, Nie Tian could tell that each and every one of them carried shockingly strong flesh power within them.

“I can’t believe that most of those demonic bugs are at the seventh grade! And there are eighth grade ones among them too, which seem to have even developed their own intelligence!”

Looking into the demonic bugs’ compound eyes, Nie Tian suddenly saw the ugly soul shadow of Feimos the Controller in them.

A shudder ran through Nie Tian as he instantly realized that these demonic bugs were actually Feimos’s pets, which had avoided the human experts and come after him.

“Low-tier demonic creatures controlled by high-tier Demons...” A train of thought flashed across his mind in the time it takes a spark to fly off of a piece of flint.

“Flame Dragon’s Cry!”

Furious flame power was summoned from within the Flame Dragon Armor, and after mixing with flame power from his flame power core, it morphed into an enormous flame dragon that floated in midair.

Exuding raging flames, the flame dragon plummeted towards the demonic bugs.

At the same time, the Star Boat tipped its prow towards the incoming demonic bugs.

As numerous Star Stone were drained of their power and cracked, a beam of starlight shot straight out of the Star Boat’s pointy prow.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The flame dragon and the Star Boat rained flames and starlight on the demonic bugs.

Hit by flames and starlight, the seventh grade demonic bugs wobbled in the air before falling onto the sand like rocks, but they didn’t die.

The eighth grade ones, however, managed to remain in the air, even though their solid shells split, giving rise to loud sounds.

Nie Tian looked with rapt attention, and discovered that as mighty as the starlight was, it didn’t seem to inflict much damage on the demonic bugs.

Instead, the flame dragon he had released with Flame Dragon’s Cry seemed to damage and scare them more.

All of a sudden, he realized the reason behind this.

The flames seemed to be vested with wisps of the Divine Flame within his flame power core.