Chapter 420: Burning Soul Firebeam! (1/2)
Chapter 420: Burning Soul Firebeam!
Du Xiangyang realized that he had misjudged Qin Lie’s abilities. However, instead of being surprised, he was overjoyed and even grew a little excited.
Five of the fifteen sword tokens that had been forged by Heavenly Sword Mountain were given to Qin Lie and the others. The remaining ten were held by Heavenly Sword Mountain martial practitioners.
Prior to the exploration of a secret realm, the nine great Silver rank forces would often choose a core individual from among the group to be the leader.
Once the leader was chosen, the selection of the remaining martial practitioners would then revolve around the leader so that it would be convenient for the leader to manage the group.
For example, once Heavenly Sword Mountain had confirmed Luo Chen as their ringer, they immediately made him the leader, then chose Li Rong and seven other martial practitioners who were blindly loyal to him.
This was done to make things convenient for Luo Chen so he could gather the strength to go up against the ringers of the other Silver rank forces and obtain the final victory during the Trial.
The selection of the leader was often an intense competition. Du Xiangyang and another Heavenly Sword Mountain female disciple called He Wei both competed against Luo Chen for the position.
In the end, both Du Xiangyang and He Wei lost terribly.
That was also why Heavenly Sword Mountain arranged for seven martial practitioners who were close to Luo Chen to participate in the Trial. Those seven had even been handpicked by Luo Chen himself.
This greatly enhanced Luo Chen’s power.
If Du Xiangyang had won against Luo Chen during the competition, he would have been able to choose his own friendly group of martial practitioners and enter the secret realm with a powerful force.
Both he and He Wei were unwilling to withdraw from the Trial despite losing horribly to Luo Chen. They ultimately had to enter alone.
He naturally did not think well of Luo Chen.
As for Qin Lie, Luo Chen had planned to get rid of him as soon as possible. Worse still, Qin Lie held a Heavenly Sword Mountain sword token. If Qin Lie really was pathetically weak, then Du Xiangyang wouldn’t mind killing him early on so he could save Heavenly Sword Mountain from future embarrassment.
However, if Qin Lie were strong and could potentially cause trouble for Luo Chen, that would definitely be a wonderful thing for Du Xiangyang.
“Whoosh!”
A bright, colorful skyfire shot toward the area that Qin Lie and Du Xiangyang were in like a comet, leaving a long tail of fire behind it.
Flames that contained a shocking amount of fire energy continuously fell from the burning sky.
Even someone like Du Xiangyang who cultivated a fire spirit art looked at the descending flames in fear.
If no external force interfered with these descending flames, they would land between Qin Lie and Du Xiangyang. In fact, they might even land closer to Qin Lie.
Qin Lie was calm, and his eyes shone with a bizarre color.
The thunder aura around his body withdrew. A vast earth aura that was unwaveringly oppressive rippled out of his body.
The surrounding gravity fields instantly changed!
Due to the gravity’s influence, the blazing flames fell even faster than before.
In that moment, the bizarre change in the gravity field made the dazzling flames in the air shift course at an incredibly odd angle.
It was only a slight distortion, but the supernatural flames immediately changed direction…
…falling toward Du Xiangyang even faster.
A terrifying wave of heat capable of roasting thousands of beings alive—a sea of flames that looked as if it could envelop heaven and earth—swarmed toward Du Xiangyang.
The sight struck terror into Du Xiangyang.
“The work of a devil!”
Du Xiangyang screamed. Holding a burning sword in his hand, he transformed into a fiery sword beam, and shot away from his earlier position.
“Boom!”
The skyfire fell from the sky and crashed in that very spot, and several hundred bolts of flame scattered throughout the surroundings.
“Prak!”
The fiery rocks in the area exploded into smithereens, resulting in the appearance of two Heavenly Flame Crystals.
Qin Lie’s eyes lit up. With an odd chuckle, he flew out, prevented the two Heavenly Flame Crystals from falling into the lava pond, and threw them into his spatial ring.
Once he got the Heavenly Flame Crystals, lightning shone from his eyes as he looked at Du Xiangyang once more.
“Rrrmb!”
Amidst the dull rumbling, two head-sized Thunder Lightning Balls howled toward Du Xiangyang like two brilliant suns.
Cursing non-stop, Du Xiangyang had barely escaped from the descending flames when he suddenly discovered that two Thunder Lightning Balls were shooting toward him.
Meanwhile, after unleashing the Thunder Lightning Balls, Qin Lie charged across the giant rocks toward Du Xiangyang.
“Dammit!”
Du Xiangyang swore, spinning the Scarlet Fire Sword in his hands to use a sword art and summon clusters of fire.
The tip of the Scarlet Fire Sword shot a narrow, needle-like beam of fire into the surroundings.
He used the momentum of that beam to fly backward.
With the flames concealing his figure, Du Xiangyang was able to escape from where he had originally been. The beam of fire seemed to have a mind of its own, avoiding the Thunder Lightning Balls and piercing toward Qin Lie.
“Boom boom!”
The two Thunder Lightning Balls smashed into where Du Xiangyang had been, scattering fire everywhere.
Qin Lie suddenly experienced an acute feeling of discomfort.