The dazzling flames warped the surrounding space, their brilliant light illuminating Qing Yanjing's jade-like face.
"Th-this is!"
Qing Yanjing froze briefly, then disbelief filled her beautiful eyes.
In the next instant, the dazzling flames landed on the two enormous palm imprints.
Their collision produced no great disturbance.
Yet the enormous palm imprints that had left Qing Yanjing helpless began burning rapidly, until they were reduced to wisps of black smoke.
"It's you!" The Lust Demon Emperor also froze at the sight, then a vicious gleam flashed through his scarlet eyes as he looked into the distance.
Where the Void Annihilation Flame had been, the Black-Clad Youth, who had been all but devoid of life, now stood smiling as though nothing had happened.
The dazzling flames around him, once predominantly golden, were now dominated by gold and pitch-black.
Scorching heat radiated from the flames, distorting space. Clearly, the flames just now had come from him.
"You're actually alive, and you've refined the Void Annihilation Flame."
Disbelief flickered in the Lust Demon Emperor's eyes, along with a trace of wariness.
The power of those flames had indeed posed something of a threat even to him.
"Xiao Yan, you're really all right!"
Looking at the handsome young man standing there with a smile, like an emperor of flames, Qing Yanjing and the Tailing Saint Daughter felt a surge of delighted surprise, followed by apprehension.
Although Xiao Yan had somehow refined the Void Nothingness Annihilation Flame and even seemed to have returned to his peak condition, he still faced a Demon Emperor-and a powerful one at the Nether Demon Emperor Peak.
"Of course I'm alive. But if I hadn't played dead, how could I have lured out a big fish like you?"
Xiao Yan smiled faintly and began walking toward the Lust Demon Emperor.