Hong Yan Breaks Through

Boom—!!

A heaven-shaking explosion rang out from afar. A black blade tore through the sky, followed by billowing smoke rising from a distant street.

"Hm?"

Lin Qiye turned to look, his brows knitting slightly. "That is..."

"It seems to be that black sword." Shen Qingzhu pondered aloud. "But this sword projection looks larger and more solid."

"It's Yurina Kurotetsu," Lin Qiye said with certainty.

Hansawa Shi was already dead. If his and Amamiya Haruki's deduction was correct, Black Rope should have ultimately fallen into Yurina Kurotetsu's hands. And his "King's Blood" possessed the power to forcibly activate any Magatsu Blade. Other than him, no one else in this city could do that.

"Friend or foe?"

"Hard to say."

As far as Lin Qiye was concerned, everything he knew now had been inferred from clues. Yurina Kurotetsu's true purpose in setting up this scheme was merely his guess. Without knowing his true identity, Lin Qiye had no way of determining what sort of person he truly was.

"Let's deal with the enemy in front of us first."

Lin Qiye turned his gaze toward the street.

The street had already become a sea of flames. Scorching fire surged from cracks in the ground, while strands of flame floated everywhere in the air. Centered around the Red Robe Oracle Envoy, the area within a three-kilometer radius resembled a flaming purgatory, impossible for any living creature to approach.

The road surface was melting, buildings were collapsing, and even the light was distorted amid the spitting tongues of flame. This was no longer simply a matter of fire—the heat contained here was enough to rival an about-to-erupt volcano!

And the soulless Red Robe Oracle Envoy was a moving source of volcanic fire.

Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu were now at least five kilometers away from