"Wan'er!"
Sensing the increasingly dense and violent fire spiritual energy, Lan Ruo said, "Keep Senior company here. Your master and the Nascent Soul Ancestors from the other sects will go seal the volcanoes!"
"You won't be able to seal them!"
Qin Hao suddenly said, "This time, the Fire Beasts of Huofen Kingdom are actively breaking the seals. Unless you kill every last Fire Beast, they will break them again even if you reinforce them!"
"What? The Fire Beasts are breaking the seals?"
The moment those words were spoken, Lan Ruo and Feng Luan's expressions changed dramatically.
Huofen Kingdom had many volcanoes and abundant fire-attributed spiritual energy. Most of the cultivation techniques and divine abilities they practiced were fire-attributed.
Those Fire Spirit Beasts were innate fire spirits. Not only could any fire-attributed spell not harm them, it would instead strengthen their power.
For some unknown reason, those Fire Spirit Beasts had never left the volcanoes in the past, nor had they ever interfered with the humans' sealing of the volcanoes.
If these Fire Spirit Beasts were truly breaking the seals, it would be an absolute disaster for Huofen Kingdom.
Not only would mortals suffer, even Cultivators like them would have no choice but to flee to other nations for refuge.
Without seals on these volcanoes, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth would become extremely violent.
Even though they regularly sealed the volcanoes, they still needed Burning Gold Fruit to refine Spirit Melting Pills and regulate and dilute the fire attribute.
Spirit Melting Pills were not only the most heavily consumed pills in Huofen Kingdom, but there were also dozens of Pill Recipes for them, with varying effects.
"Little Brother Qin Hao, can you help Huofen Kingdom?"
Li Muwan raised her head to look at Qin Hao and could not help pleading, "Once these Fire Beasts break free of the seals, Cultivators can still leave their homeland and escape, but the mortals of Huofen Kingdom will have nowhere to go but death!"
"Alright!"
Qin Hao gently stroked Li Muwan's lovely face and said with a smile, "Huofen Kingdom is your homeland. Naturally, I won't let those Fire Spirit Beasts destroy it!"
"That's wonderful, thank you!"
Li Muwan was overjoyed.
"Mwah~"
Unable to restrain herself, she pressed her flame-red lips directly against Qin Hao's cheek.
It was only a fleeting touch.
Li Muwan said shyly, "Y-you should go now!"
"You kissed me, so I have to kiss you back!"
Qin Hao smiled and leaned closer, kissing Li Muwan's tender cheek.
He knew Li Muwan was thin-skinned, so he did not take things too far.
"Let's go!"
With a sweep of his hand, Qin Hao teleported away with Feng Luan and Lan Ruo.
"Phew!"
Only after Qin Hao had left did Li Muwan finally let out a sigh of relief.
For some reason, she felt as if she were a bad girl—nervous and worried, yet also somewhat thrilled.
She touched the lingering warmth on her cheek, then hurriedly shook her head. "I'm not a bad girl. He's the big bad guy!"
Zhou Zihong approached with a complicated expression and asked with a smile, "Little Sister Wan'er, you were so bold. You actually took the initiative to kiss Senior. What did it feel like?"
"Big Sister Zihong, don't make fun of Wan'er."
Li Muwan's face flushed crimson with embarrassment. Her heart pounded wildly, and she felt especially guilty.
In everyone else's eyes, she had always been a well-behaved girl. Yet today, in front of so many people, she had kissed Qin Hao. It was utterly mortifying.
Zhou Zihong changed the subject and asked, "Little Sister Wan'er, did you know Senior long ago?"
"Mhm!"
Li Muwan nodded and said, "It seemed to be over ten years ago. Back then, he was still Early Nascent Soul!"
"What?"
Zhou Zihong's eyes widened as she said in shock, "Little Sister Wan'er, are you saying that Senior took only a little over ten years to rise from Early Nascent Soul to the Deity Transformation realm?"
She had cultivated for several decades, yet she was only at the late Foundation Establishment stage.
Compared to Qin Hao, Zhou Zihong felt as though she had lived her life for nothing.
Above an endless stretch of volcanoes, thick black smoke and violent, scorching spiritual energy filled the air everywhere.
Even Nascent Soul Cultivators who came here did not dare absorb the spiritual energy carelessly, fearing that fire poison would invade their bodies.
Inside the craters, vast numbers of Fire Beasts were attacking the seals.
Boom!
Suddenly, the largest volcano erupted, and scorching magma surged into the sky for hundreds of feet.
Roar!
An enormous Fire Beast raised its head and let out a howl.
Then, countless Fire Spirit Beasts of every size flooded out of the volcano, their numbers exceeding one hundred thousand.
Qin Hao and the others arrived under these very circumstances.
"There are far too many Fire Beasts!"
Zhao Chuanliang, the Sect Master of the Corpse Yin Sect, looked at the Fire Spirit Beasts covering the mountains and plains and felt his scalp go numb.
Among the army of Fire Beasts were sixteen massive Fire Beasts emanating Nascent Soul stage fluctuations.
There were about that many Nascent Soul Cultivators in all of Huofen Kingdom, but those at the Early Nascent Soul stage were simply no match for Nascent Soul-level Fire Spirit Beasts.
Only Cultivators at the Nascent Soul mid-stage and late Nascent Soul stage could contend with them.
Song Ming said to Qin Hao, "Senior, we can help you hold back ten Fire Beasts!"
"No need!"
Qin Hao looked calm. "There isn't even a single Deity Transformation-level Fire Beast here. I alone can deal with them all!"
As he spoke, his hands continuously formed seals, and he shouted inwardly, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones!
Buzz!
The next moment, three auspicious clouds appeared above Qin Hao's head.
Then, three streams of pure qi emerged and entered the clouds. They merged, shifted, and transformed into three figures.
They looked exactly like Qin Hao. They were not external incarnations; each was a true self, radiating the cultivation fluctuations of the early Deity Transformation realm.
This was a divine ability Qin Hao had obtained from triggering the system in the War God Temple.
Although the Dao Bodies created by One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones could only exist briefly, during that time, Qin Hao was equivalent to four people with four times the combat power.
As soon as the four Qin Haos appeared, they each took a position in one of four directions, surrounding the Fire Beasts.
Roar! Roar!
Sensing Qin Hao's terrifying aura, the Fire Beasts howled uneasily.
"Is this a Divine Dao Art from your War God Temple?"
Looking at the three additional figures that had suddenly appeared, Zhao Chuanliang could not help exclaiming in shock.
After all, having three Dao Bodies with identical cultivation was equivalent to gaining three times the power.
It would be immensely useful whether fighting enemies or fleeing.
"Doesn't seem like it!"
Song Ming shook his head. "We have also cultivated Divine Dao Arts, but according to the method in Progenitor Chen Chong's memory imprint, we can only cultivate a single clone with a lifespan of half a jiazi."
"Even if we continuously pile on medicinal materials, it can at most be cultivated to the Core Formation stage. It simply cannot create three clones with the same cultivation as Senior's."
What he did not say was that Progenitor Chen Chong might have left behind other inheritances.
And Qin Hao might have happened to obtain one of them.
"Once this matter is settled, it seems I should go comprehend the Divine Dao Art once more."
Song Ming thought to himself, If there truly are other inheritances, I might gain some additional combat power.
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