Qingfeng's Breakthrough, Crossing in Secret! (Double chapter, please vote and subscribe)

Within the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, crimson flames fell upon the desert like an undying volcano, stirring up terrifying waves of heat.

The spirit flames above shimmered with five different colors and transformed into all manner of silhouettes. Each flame seemed to have come alive, wondrous and extraordinary.

Amid the flames, an earthen-yellow hall continued to resist, holding open a sizable space. Golden light kept blooming from it as it raised one firebreak after another.

Yet those firebreaks could not completely withstand the terrifying flames.

Every so often, a golden earthen wall broke apart, and waves of fire and fiery spirit silhouettes bore down on the golden hall.

At that moment, the Golden-Scaled Beast sat atop the hall. Beads of sweat rolled off its body as it continually circulated its breathing method.

That breathing method was already worlds apart from its original version. It drew endless earth spiritual energy into its body, which it then channeled into its earth divine domain.

Only that allowed it to barely withstand the flames.

Although it had already broken through to the sixth stage, it believed the best way to improve was still to resist heavenly fire within the Crimson Flame Fox's Heavenly Fire Divine Domain, endure frost within the Jade Qilin Dragon's Frost Divine Domain, then try to establish its own divine domain within Zhuyan's Law-Breaking Divine Domain before engaging in physical combat.

The Golden-Scaled Beast's eyes were full of exhaustion, but also unwillingness to yield.

Though it hated to admit it, the only one of Ye Jingcheng's spirit beasts it now surpassed was the Seven-Colored Cloud Deer. Yet the latter could heal injuries and regulate blood and qi, so its future usefulness to Ye Jingcheng would be considerable.

Thus, even under immense pain, it refused to stop.

Just then, it suddenly sensed the