Outside Emperor Land, in the Starfall Sea.
The six companions, led by the Eel Thunder Emperor, watched the departing Demon Emperor's back.
Suddenly, Ao Fen spoke.
"I hear Your Highness is the foremost Emperor Realm expert in the Myriad Worlds, the strongest demon beneath the Half-Sages. I am Ao Fen, and I have admired you for a long time. I have often wished to spar with you, but never had the chance to meet you. Meeting you today is truly a blessing earned over three lifetimes. Your Highness, please instruct me!"
With that, Ao Fen shook himself and suddenly expanded at tremendous speed, transforming into a flame dragon two hundred zhang long. He seemed to have shed his flesh and blood, his entire body composed of dark red flames.
The flame dragon instantly accelerated to his maximum speed, opened his jaws, and breathed fire at the Demon Emperor.
The ashen flame, red shot through with black, reached the Demon Emperor's back in an instant. Like world-destroying fire, it threatened to burn all things to ashes.
The other five companions watched, stunned by Ao Fen's decision. They could hardly imagine that he would attack the Demon Emperor of his own accord. At the same time, they marveled at his strength. The ashen flame he breathed far exceeded the limits of the Emperor Realm, approaching the power of flames breathed by a Dragon Sage's avatar.
"Insolence!"
The Demon Emperor abruptly turned around. Without using any treasure or combat technique, he threw a punch.
He stood only five zhang tall now, like a small giant clad entirely in armor. Before the two-hundred-zhang Ao Fen, however, he was tiny, smaller than one of Ao Fen's dragon claws. Even his outstretched right arm was smaller than the tip of a claw.
Yet when that unremarkable