As Shi Feng's words fell, the colossal gate towering within the Flame Mountains suddenly lit up with the Divine Script engraved upon it, blooming with violet-gold radiance that could be seen clearly even from outside the Flame Mountains. Immediately afterward, a pillar of light shot into the sky and spread outward in all directions.
"No!"
Having finally closed to within 50 yards of Shi Feng, the Flame Demon King was instantly seized by terror and tried to turn and flee.
However, the pillar of light spread far faster than the Flame Demon King. In the blink of an eye, it swallowed the Flame Demon King whole. Devoured by the violet-gold radiance, the Flame Demon King let out frantic screams. Its massive, mountain-like body began to rapidly shrink, while the scorching flames around it seemed to lose their fuel and gradually died out.
When the World Gate finally burst open, all the flames in the Flame Mountains crazily converged upon it, as though they were being sucked inside. Meanwhile, the Flame Demon King's body shrank faster and faster.
From forty or fifty meters, it quickly fell to thirty or forty meters... then twenty or thirty meters... then a little over ten meters...
By the time the World Gate had fully opened, the black hole within had sucked in every flame in the Flame Mountains. Unable to resist, the Flame Demon King was dragged toward it by the black hole's overwhelming pull.
"No! That is my power!" the Flame Demon King roared in terror, using all its strength to resist the black hole's attraction.
Seeing this, Shi Feng could not help but let out a sigh of relief.
The ancient demon-level Flame Demon King was simply not something he could contend with. Fortunately, opening the World Gate could send things that did