Capturing Void Swallowing Flame, a Terrifying Secret Art

Time passed slowly. More than ten days later.

Lin Yang had fully recovered from his injuries, and the Red Lotus Karmic Flame had also been devoured and refined.

At this moment, with nine flames within his body and the Saint Sun Heavenly Flame Transformation activated, Lin Yang could raise his strength to the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm.

A single Nine-Colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus could severely wound Void Swallowing Flame.

Over the course of a day, Lin Yang had prepared thirty Nine-Colored Fire Lotuses.

However, to ensure success in capturing Void Swallowing Flame, Lin Yang had already decided to join forces with Gu Yuan.

Once they got it, Void Swallowing Flame would belong to him alone. For the sake of the Ancient Emperor Jade, Gu Yuan could forget about claiming a share of Void Swallowing Flame.

At this moment, in the Ancient Clan's main hall.

Lin Yang and Gu Yuan sat in the seats of honor, sipping spirit tea. Lin Yang had already told him about capturing Void Swallowing Flame, and Gu Yuan had agreed.

However, Gu Yuan also brought up the Ancient Emperor Jades held by the other ancient clans and wanted Lin Yang's help.

Since Lin Yang could trade blood essence puppets and cultivation methods and battle skills for the Flame Clan's Ancient Emperor Jade.

Then for the Stone Clan, Medicine Clan, and Spirit Clan, as long as they were offered a drop of blood essence from a peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, an Eight-Star Dou Saint puppet, and a ninth-tier Mystical Pill, with a little intimidation from Lin Yang, obtaining their Ancient Emperor Jades should not be a problem.

If that still did not work, they could see whether Lin Yang could offer three drops of Nine-Star Dou Saint blood essence containing the bloodline power of a Void Ancient Dragon.

Lin Yang naturally agreed.

The Stone Clan, Medicine Clan, and Spirit Clan were basically settled. The only difficult one was the Thunder Clan's Ancient Emperor Jade.

After all, the Thunder Clan was Gu Yuan's ally, so coercion was out of the question. They could only entice them with benefits.

But Gu Yuan no longer had many things valuable enough to move the Thunder Clan.

"Little Friend Lin, do you have any good ideas for the Thunder Clan?" Gu Yuan asked with a deep frown.

"Well, Clan Chief Gu Yuan, I have an early Nine-Star Dou Saint iron puppet. If the Thunder Clan is willing to hand over the Ancient Emperor Jade, I can give this iron puppet to them. If Lei Ying feels that is not sincere enough, I can also offer a body-tempering cultivation method. Once cultivated to great completion, the physical body will be almost indestructible and immortal," Lin Yang said after a brief calculation.

Gu Yuan's eyes immediately lit up at those words. With such stakes, Lei Ying could not possibly refuse.

"Good. Then I must thank you, Little Friend Lin. It is getting late. Let us go capture Void Swallowing Flame," Gu Yuan said.

"Alright."

Extreme Southern Land.

Void Swallowing Flame had come to this place once again. On one hand, he intended to devour magical beasts to recover from his injuries.

On the other, he wanted to see if he could encounter another opportunity.

Above a volcanic basin, Void Swallowing Flame floated in the air in human form.

The injuries within his body had already healed. Moreover, he had fortunately obtained a secret art for raising one's realm from the memories of an eighth-rank magical beast.

This secret art burned the origin of a Heavenly Flame to forcibly raise one's cultivation realm. At his late Nine-Star Dou Saint cultivation, if he burned his origin sparingly, he could directly rise to the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm. If he erupted with all his strength, he could even reach the Half-Step Dou Di realm.

He had already mastered the secret art. Now, he only needed to regulate his breathing for another day before going to kill Lin Yang.

Just then, space suddenly tore apart, and Lin Yang and Gu Yuan descended with a thunderous crash.

Void Swallowing Flame froze. How had Lin Yang discovered his whereabouts? But after a turn of thought, he was immediately delighted.

"Hehehe, Lin Yang, Gu Yuan, there is a road to heaven, yet you refuse to take it. There is no gate to hell, yet you insist on barging in. My strength has just improved, and you two have come to deliver yourselves to death. This saves me the trouble of making a trip. Stay here and become my nourishment." Void Swallowing Flame laughed coldly.

Lin Yang paused slightly and carefully examined Void Swallowing Flame several times, but found no changes.

Then he sneered. "Void Swallowing Flame, what shameless boasting. I let you escape last time, but let us see how you escape this time."

Void Swallowing Flame sneered as well. "Lin Yang, enough nonsense. Today, you are finished. I said so."

The moment his words fell, Void Swallowing Flame fully activated his secret art, burning the origin of his Heavenly Flame and raising his strength to the Half-Step Dou Di realm.

He intended to end this quickly.

Lin Yang and Gu Yuan were both stunned. What kind of secret art was this? How was it possible?

Before they could think further, Void Swallowing Flame had already sent three towering sword qi slashing toward them.

A high-tier Heaven-class battle skill, Void Heaven-Swallowing Slash.

The three sword qi crossed and intertwined, directly sealing off every route of escape for Lin Yang and Gu Yuan.

Lin Yang hurriedly activated his secret art, raising his strength to the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm, and fired a Sacred Sun Fire Emperor Finger to meet the attack head-on.

Gu Yuan also hurriedly sent three thousand-zhang sword qi blasting toward Void Swallowing Flame.

The three attacks collided, yet Lin Yang and Gu Yuan's attacks were directly cleaved apart by the Void Heaven-Swallowing Slash.

The aftershock of the sword qi shot straight toward Lin Yang and Gu Yuan.

Seeing this, Gu Yuan quickly took out the repaired Ancient Emperor Shield and summoned a shield projection before the two of them.

The sword qi aftershock crashed viciously into the shield projection. The Ancient Emperor Shield let out a sharp tremor, and a tiny crack appeared on it.

Fortunately, it had blocked the attack.

"Hehe, Gu Yuan, your broken shield is somewhat useful. But let me see how many attacks it can block."

Void Swallowing Flame sneered and swung his sword again. Countless flaming sword blades swept toward Lin Yang and Gu Yuan like an overwhelming tide.

Lin Yang hurriedly struck out with a palm to intercept the sword blades, while Gu Yuan raised the Ancient Emperor Shield again before them.

Countless sword blades crashed down, and the Ancient Emperor Shield continuously emitted explosive booms.

The fine crack from before gradually widened.

Seeing that Gu Yuan might not be able to hold on much longer, Lin Yang grew anxious and considered how to break the situation.

He had not thrown out the Nine-Colored Fire Lotuses earlier because he had not found a suitable opportunity.

If he simply threw out the Nine-Colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses, there would be no chance of success. Void Swallowing Flame had yet to use his invisible and formless ability; if Lin Yang threw out the Fire Lotuses directly, Void Swallowing Flame would certainly use it to evade.

What should he do?

After a moment of thought, Lin Yang suddenly came up with a plan: a self-inflicted injury scheme. He would wait until Void Swallowing Flame could not resist devouring him, then detonate the Nine-Colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses inside him.

He had not thrown out any Fire Lotuses and had instead attacked desperately. With this act, Void Swallowing Flame would surely think he had not prepared any Fire Lotuses, then carelessly devour him.

Thus, Lin Yang directly transformed into his Void Ancient Dragon beast form and lunged at Void Swallowing Flame, intending to fight him head-on.

"You old dog Void Swallowing Flame, let me see how long your lousy secret art can last."

Lin Yang suddenly transformed into a Void Ancient Dragon, and Void Swallowing Flame was startled before becoming overjoyed.

"Hehehe, Lin Yang, I never expected you to be from the Void Ancient Dragon clan. Once I devour you, I will certainly devour your bloodline power as well."

Lin Yang did not respond. He simply raised his claw and grabbed at Void Swallowing Flame.

Seeing this, Gu Yuan also attacked with his sword.

Void Swallowing Flame sneered and slashed his sword directly at them.

Lin Yang's dragon claw was instantly injured, blood splattering through the air. Gu Yuan slashed out with his sword, but Void Swallowing Flame directly blocked it with his own. Gu Yuan was sent flying back by the impact, his palm numb from the shock.

Without the slightest regard for his injuries, Lin Yang swung his tail at Void Swallowing Flame again, while Gu Yuan attacked once more.

The two fought by trading injury for injury.

Until Void Swallowing Flame seized an opening and heavily wounded both of them with a single sword qi strike, making them both cough up blood.

Lin Yang had never thrown out the Fire Lotuses and had attacked desperately, so Void Swallowing Flame truly took the bait.

"Hehehe, Lin Yang, where are your Fire Lotuses? Hehe, did you not prepare any? I fell for your tricks twice before, but this time, let me see what you can use to fool me."

As soon as he finished speaking, Void Swallowing Flame directly transformed into a gigantic fiery demon head. Opening its enormous mouth, it unleashed a monstrous suction force that pulled Lin Yang and Gu Yuan into its body.

Within the void space, Lin Yang and Gu Yuan raised their hands and destroyed the void avatars.

A cold curve lifted at the corner of Lin Yang's lips as he directly took out thirty jade bottles containing Nine-Colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses from his storage ring.

"You old dog Void Swallowing Flame, take this."

The moment his words fell, Lin Yang hurled out the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses. The Fire Lotuses exploded throughout every corner of the void space.

Void Swallowing Flame suddenly let out a miserable scream.

The void space was blasted into pieces, and Lin Yang and Gu Yuan tore through the air and emerged.

Void Swallowing Flame's figure had become incomparably dim. He could no longer maintain his secret art, and his realm fell directly back to the late Nine-Star Dou Saint stage.

"Void Swallowing Flame, you fell for the same move three times. You really are stupid enough!"

Void Swallowing Flame gritted his teeth tightly. "Lin Yang, you are truly sinister. I have lost this time, but I possess a Dou Di realm soul. Let me see how you refine me. I will wait to possess your body."

Lin Yang sneered and said nothing more. He directly used a spatial seal to seal Void Swallowing Flame.

Void Swallowing Flame had already exhausted his strength and could not muster any power to resist.

After completing the seal, Lin Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Clan Chief Gu, let us return. Once I refine Void Swallowing Flame, we will begin planning for the Ancient Emperor Jades."

"Mm, let us go. This battle was truly exhausting."

Elsewhere, Soul Tian Di suddenly froze in place.

Just now, a strange voice had suddenly appeared in his mind, calling itself the Great Villain System.

Soul Tian Di instinctively believed that some force had invaded his sea of consciousness and intended to possess him.

He hurriedly circulated his soul power to resist it.

However, it was completely useless. The voice directly bound itself to him.

Soul Tian Di was alarmed, but then the voice suddenly gave him a novice gift package and automatically opened it.

A Dou Di-class cultivation method appeared directly in Soul Tian Di's mind: the Emperor Soul Star-Devouring Art.

This cultivation method could directly devour the power of trillions of star origins, allowing one to attempt a breakthrough into the Dou Di realm without needing origin qi.

However, the devouring process would take several decades. In the short term, it could only allow him to reach the Half-Dou Di realm.

After Soul Tian Di sorted through the cultivation method, his body shook violently before he was instantly overwhelmed with joy.

"Heavenly Dao! It is the Heavenly Dao blessing this Emperor!"

Soul Tian Di let out a long cry toward the sky, then hurriedly studied the cultivation method and immediately began cultivating.