Chapter 784: Torch Dragon (1/2)
“Why me?” the priest of fire turned to Ashu. “Why didn’t you choose the others? They’re better than me… I only became the priest of fire less than three years ago.”
Ashu spread his hands and shrugged like Lu Yun often did. “Because I only have the Fire Altar.”
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Once the priest of fire fully mastered the Fire Altar, everything within the volcano followed too. Endless waves of fire rushed toward the scarlet ape Lu Yun had manifested, exponentially amplifying its power.
Lu Yun got to his feet. Connate li fire could no longer harm him and he didn’t need the protection of his fire essence. He was free to fully tap into the Mastery of the Five Elements and combine li fire with the scarlet ape.
It grew bigger yet, imbued with the power of the Tome of Life and Death. Snarling, the scarlet ape punched through the ghostly yang fire around the moat snake and grabbed her true form.
The Tome of Life and Death trembled above Lu Yun’s head, blasting the power of reincarnation into the moat snake through the scarlet ape. The snake screamed and momentarily lost her consciousness, ghostly power scattered.
“Open!” Seizing the opening, Lu Yun opened the Gates of the Abyss and dragged the moat snake through the doors.
The snake was too powerful. Not even the Tome of Life and Death would be able to defeat her if her strength hadn’t been suppressed by the connate-grade peerless treasure, and if Lu Yun hadn’t used his death art to summon connate fire essence and create the scarlet ape with yang fire.
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Whoosh!
No sooner had the moat snake disappeared than the yang fire contracted violently and extinguished itself, leaving the world of blazing fire with nothing but a pitch-black void.
“The peerless treasure has come to a halt!” The priest of fire looked on with shock. Nevertheless, the area still brimmed with pure yang energy even without the flames of the volcano. It was still the point of purest yang in the tomb realm.
“The volcano was never here to guard the door to the yin tomb.” Ashu wasn’t at all surprised.
An oppressive coldness descended upon the area while wisps of chilling wind swept in from somewhere out of sight.
This was still the point of extreme yang, but the extremity of anything tipped over to the opposite, which created beings of extreme yin in this instance. Below them was a bottomless cavern from which the wind originated from.
“Let’s go,” said the priest of fire. “The volcano is now dormant and that will draw the other four priests to investigate.”
Becoming the real priest of fire made her stronger than the other four priests, but she had gained her new position only by agreeing to Ashu’s condition to become the dean of fire dao at the Dao Academy, which was effectively an act of betrayal of Xuan Yuan.
Deep down, she was very ashamed of that decision. She was thus reluctant to face her previous four colleagues.
“Stay here and don’t go anywhere.” Lu Yun suddenly withdrew the scarlet ape manifestation and landed on the Fire Altar. Nodding at the priest, he said, “The connate-grade treasure has ceased operations and the formation of Return to Origin torn down. The one truly guarding the door to the yin tomb has awakened.”