The Key to the Lock Is the Lock Itself!

At this moment, not only Chu Xinghe was stunned... but everyone from all Three Continents was stunned by the changes in the Land of Flames.

Chu Xinghe's rampage against the Fire Spirits left everyone baffled. What was the point of Chu Xinghe's constant slaughter of these Fire Spirits?

But at this moment, with all the Fire Spirits ceasing to revive, the fire barrier that had been protecting the last area of Land of Flames had simply vanished...

Elder He stated that professional matters should be explained by professionals. Old He only has a smattering of knowledge, so the reason why the flame barrier disappeared should be explained by the White Tiger Holy Venerable.

The White Tiger didn't keep anyone in suspense...

At this moment, White Tiger looked dejected and said, "Both are Innate Formation Mastery. In the past, I, White Tiger, always thought that all naturally formed Innate Formation Mastery were the same. But today, Xinghe has shown me with facts that even though they are both naturally Innate Formation Mastery, Xinghe's understanding of formations far surpasses White Tiger..."

The White Tiger stated that even he, the White Tiger, hadn't initially realized that this Land of Flames was actually a massive Spirit Gathering Formation.

That's right, it's the lowest-level Spirit Gathering Formation that almost anyone with a basic understanding of arrays can use.

Yet this lowest-level Spirit Gathering Formation was arranged by the fallen Flame Deity to an effect that even the White Tiger, Innate Formation Mastery, could not easily detect.

That's because the Spirit Gathering Formation that the Flame Deity set up back then was too terrifying...

A normal Spirit Gathering Formation works very simply. Whatever Spirit Gathering Formation you set up, the Spirit Gathering Formation will guide the corresponding attribute power within a certain range towards Spirit Gathering Formation location.

This is the lowest level of things.

Basically, cultivators who know a little about formations will set up a small Spirit Gathering Formation for themselves during cultivation to increase their cultivation speed.

But White Tiger said he had truly seen something new today!

When the Flame Deity's Flame Spirit Gathering Formation reaches its peak, the attracted flame power can even transform this area into an absolute flame domain.

All forces will be assimilated by the fire power within...

The existence of these Fire Spirits is actually to maintain the power of the fire barrier at the very center of the Flame Spirit Gathering Formation.

In other words, the flame barrier is actually a domain formed by the accumulation of an excessive amount of flame power.

The power of this domain has been experienced by both the Ning Clan and other major forces before; it is an absolute domain that is almost unshakeable!

Using the term "absolute domain" is perfectly accurate, because the Flame Spirit Gathering Formation set up by the Flame Deity is inherently very powerful. Over countless years, this super Flame Spirit Gathering Formation has absorbed countless powers to form the final fire barrier.

That's why the flame barrier appeared to be indestructible.

Under normal circumstances, no matter how powerful you are, even if your fire power could match Gu Mingchao's, you would absolutely not be able to budge the fire barrier even slightly if you tried to blast it head-on...

The only way to break through the flame barrier is the method Xinghe has chosen...

Keep killing these Fire Spirits!

To everyone else, Xinghe's frantic killing of the Fire Spirits seemed like a waste of resources...

But the White Tiger said the opposite... You only saw the Xinghe consuming resources, but you overlooked one point: every time the Fire Spirit is killed and then revived, it actually consumes the power of the entire Land of Flames, which is the Flame Spirit Gathering Formation.

While the Xinghe may seem to consume a lot of resources, the power of the Spirit Gathering Formation is actually even more terrifying each time the Fire Spirit revives.

However, since no one had tried to kill the Fire Spirit that many times before, even though the Fire Spirit consumed a lot of energy after reviving once or twice, it didn't have a significant impact on the Flame Barrier overall.

Even the White Tiger had to admit that the Flame Spirit Gathering Formation set up by the Flame Deity was simply exquisite.

Under normal circumstances, if you kill Fire Spirit and find that Fire Spirit can revive, and even if you kill it again, it will revive again. In this situation, everyone will have the same preconceived notion as the Clan Head Ning that these Fire Spirits can revive indefinitely.

In this situation, most people would definitely avoid these Fire Spirits.

After all, if you assume they can regenerate indefinitely, you simply can't keep trying to kill them.

Thus, the Flame Deity's goal is achieved. When you arrive at the fire barrier without killing the Fire Spirits, you will face a complete or nearly complete fire barrier... This type of fire barrier is virtually impossible to break...

So no matter how many times you try, you can only retreat in the face of the fire barrier.

Who would have thought that the key to unlock the door was the lock itself...?

The White Tiger's formation was Innate Formation Mastery, yet the White Tiger admitted that he himself hadn't even noticed it...

However, Xinghe saw through all the mysteries of this Land of Flames at a glance. Xinghe knew immediately that the key to opening the fiery barrier was not the barrier itself, but the constantly resurrecting Fire Spirits.

These Fire Spirits were being killed more and more often, and each time they revived, they consumed more and more of the power of the fire barrier.

When the Fire Spirit revives too many times, it actually affects the strength of the fire barrier. So eventually, when the Fire Spirit stops reviving, it means that the fire barrier has completely disappeared...

After White Tiger's explanation, everyone suddenly understood.

White Tiger is right. Who would have thought that the key to unlock the lock was the lock itself?

But Xinghe had figured it out... Otherwise, tell me why Xinghe had been frantically slaughtering these Fire Spirits from the very beginning?

He couldn't have been doing this just for the sake of consumption...

So you think Xinghe is acting recklessly, but in reality, Xinghe saw through the mystery from the very beginning Innate Formation Mastery...

At this moment, after White Tiger's explanation, the entire Three Continents fell silent...

That's right, everyone seems to have forgotten that Chu Xinghe not only possesses terrifying combat power, but he also has a natural talent for Innate Formation Mastery...

Moreover, Chu Xinghe's Innate Formation Mastery even surpasses that of White Tiger. Chu Xinghe understood the Flame Spirit Gathering Formation at a glance, even though White Tiger couldn't comprehend it...

And they found a way to break the Flame Spirit Gathering Formation immediately...

Chu Xinghe's Innate Formation Mastery is truly well-deserved!

If you don't understand the specific method to break this Flame Spirit Gathering Formation, then no matter how many times you go in or how much you struggle inside, it will ultimately be meaningless.

Everyone believed that the Fire Spirits could regenerate indefinitely, so everyone who entered tried to avoid Fire Spirit as much as possible and headed straight for the fire barrier, hoping to break it open.

Little did they know... they weren't avoiding the Fire Spirit, but rather the only correct path to open the door...

At this moment, Chu Xinghe, within the Land of Flames, naturally knew what had happened...

That's not just the White Tiger, it's Innate Formation Mastery, I, Chu Xinghe, am too... How could this bastard have imagined that the lock is also the key to unlock it?

This Flame Deity, are you fucking crazy?

Are you sure you didn't design this thing just to trick me Chu Xinghe?

Why the hell did you make it so complicated? Is it for defense or to sabotage me?

At this moment, looking at the automatically activated flame barrier, Chu Xinghe remained calm...

Looking at Chu Xinghe's calm expression, the Clan Head Ning thought, "I've finally seen... the legendary calm and collected Chu Xinghe."

I had long heard that Chu Xinghe always had such a calm and composed expression when he was strategizing... and today I witnessed it with my own eyes.

At the same time, the Clan Head Ning was completely convinced...

It was only because of Chu Xinghe that this happened... Otherwise, even if all the powerful experts in the world came, it wouldn't have mattered, because as long as they didn't go on a rampage against the Fire Spirits, the flame barrier would never be able to open.

The Phoenix Fire, combined with the Innate Formation Mastery, is absolutely essential to activating this flame barrier...

The Clan Head Ning was very fortunate that he had gone to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to ask Chu Xinghe for help. If it weren't for Chu Xinghe's intervention, no matter how the Ning Clan tried, they would never have been able to break through the flame barrier.

The ultimate result can only be the gradual decline and fall of the Ning Clan...

Therefore, at this moment, the Clan Head Ning exclaimed excitedly, "The Xinghe Innate Formation Mastery truly lives up to its reputation..."

Not only the Clan Head Ning, but all the young prodigies of the Ning Clan were also dumbfounded at this moment.

That's Chu Xinghe for you. Every time you think you've seen his potential, you realize you've only seen his limit.

The Innate Formation Mastery... This would make anyone else an exceptional genius, a peerless prodigy...

However, Chu Xinghe was so dazzling that many people even forgot about Chu Xinghe Innate Formation Mastery.

Today, Chu Xinghe has shown the entire Three Continents what Innate Formation Mastery is.

As the flame barrier completely disappeared, the entire Land of Flames began to tremble violently.

Being in the Land of Flames, you can clearly feel all the power of fire beginning to converge towards the center of the Land of Flames.

The fiery red color of the entire Land of Flames began to deepen, and at this moment, the surrounding flames had turned from fiery red to purple!

Countless purple flames began to converge in one direction, and in the instant these purple flames gathered together, the earth was burned into a land of lava by the purple flames.

Beneath the magma, a hand made of purple flames suddenly reached out, grabbed the ground, and crawled out of the purple lava.

This is the legendary Flame Deity, but at this moment, the Flame Deity is not complete; he only has his upper body left, as his lower body was shattered when he died... He has been hiding here for so many years, yet he still cannot fully recover.

Even a broken Flame Deity is still a god in the past. When the Flame Deity crawled out of the lava with only half its body remaining, a terrifying purple fire shockwave instantly swept across the entire Land of Flames...

"Xinghe, be careful!" At this moment, the Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird unleashed all his flames, instantly forming a fire barrier that protected Xinghe and everyone in the Ning Clan within it.

But just as the Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird activated the flame barrier, the purple flame shockwave arrived before it... The Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird's flame barrier shattered like glass in front of the purple shockwave!

The purple flame shockwave shattered the barrier and instantly enveloped everyone present. The flames on the Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird's body were extinguished in an instant after being swept by the purple flames... This was an absolute power of flame suppression!

The Ning Clan fared even worse; apart from the Clan Head Ning, all members of the Ning Clan who were struck by the purple flames were sent flying backward, coughing up blood.

If it weren't for the Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird's barrier that blocked most of the shockwave's power for them, the Ning Clan, except for the Clan Head Ning, would have been wiped out on the spot by this one wave of impact!

"Retreat immediately... this purple flame is invincible!"

Vermilion Bird wanted to use his Egg Transformation Technique to escape with everyone, but when Vermilion Bird was about to use it, he discovered that his flames were completely suppressed by the purple flames and he couldn't use any of them at all!

"Run!" The Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird disregarded all sense of shame and shouted loudly, urging everyone to flee.

Just as the Sacred Venerable Vermilion Bird was about to escape with Xinghe, a huge blue Phoenix suddenly appeared behind Chu Xinghe.

A giant blue Phoenix stood behind Chu Xinghe, spreading its wings and crying out towards the purple Flame Deity!

In an instant, the blue and purple flames transformed the surrounding world into only those two colors!