Preparing to Return to the Northwest Continent

"You still dared chase me?" He sensed movement in the Endless Abyss behind him, and faintly, the roar of a giant beast rang out.

"A rank 7 Magic Beast, the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast. You really think I'm afraid of you?" Zhang Tian's black eyes gradually became wreathed in blue and purple. He reached out and pulled, gathering countless flames into his palm. Within his Dantian, on the Strange Fire Plaza, two of the twenty-three towering fire pillars lit up completely.

"Yin-ang!" A roar like both dragon and lion rang out. A massive strange beast over a dozen zhang tall, like a dragon and a lion at once, charged out. Its huge beast pupils carried flames, blue-green fire coiled around its twin hooves, and it ran across the void straight toward Zhang Tian.

"Yin-ang!" As it ran through the void, it left a chain of flaming hoofprints behind it, which only slowly vanished after it passed. The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast stared fixedly at Zhang Tian as flames gradually wrapped around his whole body, the ferocity in its beast eyes growing stronger.

Crimson flames ignited over its body, as though it had been reborn from fire, and two dragon horns actually grew from its head. Its four hooves became even more slender; its head was like a dragon's, its waist like a lion's, its tail like an ox's. The fine black scales that had originally been like steel gradually turned green, then were occupied by blue-white. The three colors merged into a body of blue-green scales, as if fire burned and leapt within every single scale.

"Is this a Qilin? Hmph. In the Endless Abyss, I was wary of you. Now that we're out of the Endless Abyss, do you think I'm still afraid of you?"

Zhang Tian's gaze chilled. With a slight movement of his two fingers, the two heavenly flames blended together as if water and milk had fused. A dignified Fire God Manifestation appeared behind Zhang Tian. The Strange Fire Giant, tens of zhang tall, had flames pouring from its mouth and nose, and when it stepped on the ground, the mountains trembled.

"Roar." The Flame Giant slammed a palm down, spewing countless flames from its mouth. Fortunately, the Endless Abyss was dark and deathly silent; otherwise, it would inevitably have turned into a scorched wasteland.

One zhang was three point three meters, so tens of zhang meant close to two or three hundred meters. The Strange Fire Giant grabbed the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast with one hand. The scorching aura of the two heavenly flames directly drove back the flames on its body, and its mighty, thick blue-green scales slowly melted, turning into magma that dripped into the Endless Abyss.

"Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast, I'll be taking your Rank 7 Beast Fire!"

"Roar!" The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast struggled like mad. Its huge mouth bit down on the Flame Giant's palm, but even with its incomparably powerful strength, with hoof force enough to easily unleash ten thousand jun and shatter a mountain, it still could not break free of the Flame Giant's hand.

"Die!" The Flame Giant roared, slapping the struggling Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast down onto the ground at the entrance of the Endless Abyss.

Boom! The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's enormous body smashed into the earth. A huge rumble rang out as a pit nearly twenty meters wide appeared, and the ground within a hundred meters cracked open.

"Yin!" The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's powerless whimper sounded, its beast eyes filled with hatred.

Flames rose from its jade hooves and gradually covered its body where it lay on the ground, turning into a sea of fire.

The blue-green flames burned without end. Relying on his two heavenly flames, Zhang Tian did not retreat even half a step, surrounded by the sea of fire that filled the sky.

"Tap, tap." Crisp footsteps rang out. First, a slender hoof stretched out from the blue-green flames, then a pair of blue-green eyes lit up, and that dragon-like head emerged once more.

At that moment, the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast had already transformed into a Qilin. Its figure was well-proportioned; though lean, it was filled with a sense of muscular power.

Crack! As the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast took a step forward, the space actually fractured faintly, exposing spiderweb-like cracks as if a mirror had shattered.

A Dou Zong could walk through the air and touch the power of space. A high-level Dou Zong could use Space Lock. Only a Dou Zun could break space. This was already a fact acknowledged by the continent.

Without question, the fully released Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's attack had already reached the level of a Dou Zun.

"In this form, no matter what, you're going to die. Why not just make it easier for me?" Zhang Tian saw as clearly as watching a fire, seeing at a glance that the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's current condition was extremely bad. Even if it killed Zhang Tian, it could not survive.

And he did not believe he would die beneath the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's hooves either.

"Yin! Isn't it all because of you? Damned human." The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's eyes were full of hatred. This human Dou Emperor had barged into its lair, stolen the heavenly flame it had guarded for decades, and even caused it to be on the verge of bodily death and soul destruction. Every time it thought of this, it could not help wanting to suppress Zhang Tian in the Endless Abyss and have him burned by the Nine Nether Wind Flame every day.

"If I kill you and take back the Nine Nether Wind Flame... Human, that green flame in your hand is also a kind of heavenly flame, isn't it? When the time comes, with two heavenly flames joining forces, they might not fail to help me be reborn from the fire!" The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast snorted disdainfully, unable to keep a burning look from appearing in its eyes.

"Die!" Divine light burst from the Strange Fire Giant's eyes. Its palm, as large as a mountain peak, pressed down toward the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast, preparing to crush it to death.

"Roar!" The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast roared angrily. Its four hooves exerted force, shattering the earth, and the sound wave blasted everything around it away. Without the slightest fear, it charged toward the giant flaming palm.

Crack! The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast smashed through the giant flaming palm, and one hoof slammed heavily onto the Flame Giant's arm, actually producing the sound of shattering.

The Strange Fire Giant grabbed the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast with its other hand, and the terrifying temperature made it feel incomparable agony.

"Ten Thousand Flowers Return to One, Green Lotus Purifies the World." Zhang Tian pressed his palms together. The Strange Fire Giant holding the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast instantly melted away, and under the circulation of the Flame Emperor Mantra, it directly transformed into a massive Heavenly Flame Green Lotus, its bud just about to bloom.

"Roar! Let me out! Aaaah!" Inside the Heavenly Flame Green Lotus, countless heavenly flame petals closed one after another, overlapping layer upon layer and forming a space of their own, locking down the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's movements completely.

As Zhang Tian's hands tightened further, beads of sweat slid down his forehead, and the huge heavenly flame lotus actually opened bit by bit.

The petals of the Heavenly Flame Green Lotus opened one after another, while violent energy began brewing at the heart of the flower. This energy was continuously compressed, and when it finally erupted, its power could easily destroy an empire in an instant.

Boom, boom, boom! As the Heavenly Flame Green Lotus slowly bloomed, explosions kept occurring inside the green lotus, sending out muffled thunder-like blasts one after another.

The collision of flames roared without end, while monstrous waves of fire were locked firmly inside the green lotus.

"Open!" His hands trembled slightly, nearly unable to hold on. After pouring in seventy to eighty percent of his Dou Qi and circulating the Flame Emperor Mantra, he gave an exhausted shout that resounded through the Endless Abyss. In the end, the Heavenly Flame Green Lotus still bloomed, and in that instant, the boundless fire waves it had brewed exploded apart.

Rumble! As the fire lotus contracted and shrank, it completed its final expansion. Heaven and earth both buzzed and trembled. Then, amid explosions filling the sky, a vast stretch of land in front of the Endless Abyss was directly destroyed. It was as if a sun had lit up. The terrifying explosion instantly covered a range of dozens of li, and the dazzling light only dispersed after a full half minute. Large chunks of land fell into the Endless Abyss and never made another sound.

Under such terrifying power, Zhang Tian was directly swept several hundred meters away by the air wave. He retreated again and again for a long time before finally stopping, and his whole body was in an incomparably sorry state. His clothes were torn, and less than ten percent of his Dou Qi remained.

He swiftly picked up the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast's Magic Core, which had almost melted into liquid, as well as a clump of Beast Fire leaping in place. With no time to care about anything else, he directly stored the Magic Core in his storage ring and placed the Beast Fire into the Strange Fire Plaza.

The Beast Fire of what had originally been a rank 7 Magic Beast arrived in a different place and was about to display its ferocity, but then a simple, ancient, vast pressure descended, directly making it lower its banners and still its drums. Without the slightest dignity, it knelt and coiled beneath the two heavenly flame pillars.

The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast had already turned completely to ash. After putting the items away, Zhang Tian did not hesitate in the slightest. He directly chose a direction toward the south and used Control Sword with Spirit, turning into a streak of light as he fled.

Only moments after Zhang Tian had left, a powerful mass of Dou Qi energy light suddenly flew out from within the Endless Abyss. Its might was actually not the slightest bit weaker than Zhang Tian's Heavenly Flame Green Lotus from earlier. Only after it had once again destroyed everything within dozens of li did the Endless Abyss slowly sink back into deathly silence.

Within that eternal loneliness and darkness, a pair of huge eyes peered out from the abyss. They were more than ten meters large, and the pupils were a noble golden color.