Chapter 866: Smash and Grab, Hit and Run (1/2)

“You’re… you’re not afraid of hellfire!” Dusk Snake’s voice turned hoarse and dry, like he was a dry corpse walking.

Hellfire, even its tiniest spark, was beyond the control of living beings. Taiyi’s cultivation had been infinitely close to that of a creator’s, and the great connate treasure that was the Bell of Chaos had been in his possession. Even so, he still hadn’t been able to obtain the slightest wisp of those flames.

Dusk Snake had succeeded only due to the black mountain-shaped connate treasure beneath him. For his success, he paid the hefty price of having the fire nibble away at his life force for every second he deployed it. Despite his strength, there was nothing he could do about that. The greatest reason why he wished to obtain the Bell of Chaos was to use its strength to fully bring his hellfire under control.

……

Lu Yun didn’t speak; he merely waved a hand to summon Diexi. It fluttered around him in the form of a graceful, bloody butterfly. He then took to the air and walked toward Dusk Snake.

The snake’s dark eyes followed the human’s movements. There was an increasingly uneasy presence exuding from the boy that put Dusk Snake on edge; the presence came from his own greatest trump card—hellfire.

“Die!!” Dusk Snake suddenly roared and sent hellfire roiling toward Lu Yun in the form of fiery snakes.

Seeing their comrade in full fury, Bai Ze and Xiangliu had ordered the celestial army to retreat long ago. They observed far from the sidelines as hellfire was too terrifying. When fully unleashed, it could transform the entire great wilderness and the cosmos above into a sea of flames.

“That thing is useless against me.” Twin sparkles of black danced in Lu Yun’s eyes. He’d discovered that energy from the Tome of Life and Death had soundlessly appeared within his body at some point and was protecting his replica. Plainly, the treasure felt that the current Xing Chen couldn’t withstand hellfire.

Lu Yun was slightly surprised by the development, he’d always thought that fire of the netherworld was contained within his own body. He hadn’t thought that strength from the book could also be found within Xing Chen!

“Ah, that’s right. Whether it’s Xing Chen or my primary body, both of them are me…”

Whoosh!

His eyes suddenly surged with two great gouts of black flame—his hellfire!

It wasn’t really manifesting, just deploying some strength and imbuing Xing Chen with it.

Hummm.

Diexi flared with scarlet light and near instantaneously cut down the fiery snakes pouncing at them. Radiance unabated, it continued ruthlessly to meet its opponent.

Dusk Snake hissed, sending the mountain beneath him upward to block Diexi’s light.

Booooom.

One gigantic collision later, the sea of ominous flames shook violently. Diexi’s sword light shattered to pieces on the mountain and the vast mass hurtled toward Lu Yun like a shooting star.

Instead of backing down, he threw himself forward to meet it and blasted out with a punch. Hellfire sprayed everywhere as he punched the sea of flames wide open. In the last possible second before impact, his hand turned into a claw and grasped the mountain in his hand.

Howling in challenge, Dusk Snake charged the human. The mountain was his ultimate treasure! It couldn’t land in someone else’s possession even if he lost his own life!

However, Lu Yun wound back his hand and smashed the mountain back at the screaming Dusk Snake, flinging him backward onto a nearby star.

The star that was transformed from a great master’s body exploded into pieces!

“The Stone of Three Lives!” Lu Yun yelled in surprise at the mountain he clutched. “This is the ultimate treasure of the netherdark—the Stone of Three Lives! If it’s your greatest treasure, then I have to kill you first before I can take it!”

Stone in one hand and shortsword in the other, Lu Yun pounced on Dusk Snake. The latter was sitting groggily in the wreckage of a former star, unable to wrap his mind around what had just happened.