Fire Python Tiger, Sun-Shooting Divine Bow

Shi Teng rode the Fire Qilin along, scanning the shops around him.

From afar, he spotted a tall pavilion with three large characters inscribed above it: "First-Rank Tower!"

There should be plenty of good food inside.

Eating roast meat every day has even left the corners of my mouth inflamed. I need some lightly seasoned stir-fried dishes.

"Little Lin, head over there!"

Just then, a Fire Python Tiger, a primordial remnant, approached from the opposite direction. A richly dressed youth sat astride it, with several attendants following behind.

The two ferocious beasts faced each other, fierce light instantly bursting from their eyes.

The Fire Qilin's eyes flashed sharply, and the Fire Python Tiger immediately lost its nerve, lowering its previously proud head.

Perhaps this was bloodline suppression.

But an attendant behind the Fire Python Tiger shouted abuse. "Where did this lowborn wretch come from? How dare you block our young lord's path!"

Lowborn wretch!

Anger instantly flared in Shi Teng's heart. I'm a transmigrator, and he actually dares call me a lowborn wretch!

Before Shi Teng could unleash his fury, the brocade-clad youth on the Fire Python Tiger's back also shouted, "Get out of the way! Don't delay me from watching the matches at the Arena!"

Shi Teng raised his head, his face brimming with arrogance. He paid the young lord no heed whatsoever.

This is the Fire Kingdom, Huo Ling'er's homeland.

Even the Fire Emperor has drunk my wine. What breed of dog is this brat, daring to bark at me?

"Why should I give way? Why don't you move aside?"

A fierce gleam shot from the youth's eyes. "Who knows what little village this lowborn wretch crawled out of? Fire Python Tiger, teach him how to behave!"

The Fire Python Tiger kept its head lowered, its body beginning to tremble beneath the Fire Qilin's oppressive aura.

It would never have dared attack the Fire Qilin.

But under the brocade-clad youth's urging, it still lunged at the Fire Qilin.

The Fire Qilin did not even budge. With one slap, it sent the Fire Python Tiger flying, tumbling to the ground along with the young lord.

Seeing this, the attendants behind him rushed to help the young lord up while shouting, "Brat, you dare run wild in Vermilion Bird City? Do you know who he is?"

Shi Teng snorted softly. "Like I care who he is!"

"He's Su Yi, son of the Fire Kingdom's Marquis of Zhenyuan!"

Shi Teng frowned. He had not expected to run into the hackneyed spectacle of a useless official's son the moment he entered the city!

"Ahem!"

Shi Teng coughed twice, then said in a low voice, "I don't care which marquis he's the son of. If you've got the guts, come test yourself against me. Stop bringing up your old man.

"You can lean on your daddy now, but who will you lean on when he's dead? You'll still be nothing but a useless piece of trash!"

Su Yi stood up, his face filled with rage.

"Who says I'm trash? I'm a disciple of Demon Spirit Lake! I'll fight you. Do you think I'm afraid?"

Shi Teng's eyes shifted slightly, and he said in a low voice, "Demon Spirit Lake again. It's you people from Demon Spirit Lake I'm here to beat!"

"Little One!"

Shi Hao had long been itching for a fight. At Shi Teng's words, he immediately sprang into the air and hurled a punch at Su Yi.

Su Yi shifted and leaped up to meet him, leaving a shadowy image in the air.

It seemed he did have a tiny bit of cultivation after all.

Bang!

Their fists collided, and Su Yi was instantly sent flying, rolling several times across the ground.

"Just now, I was wondering whether you really were a disciple of Demon Spirit Lake. Now there's no doubt that's where you came from.

"After all, no other academy could possibly turn out such a garbage student!"

Hearing Shi Teng's insults, Su Yi grew even angrier.

"Brat, you can insult me, but you dare insult our Demon Spirit Lake? You're courting death!"

Shi Teng waved his right hand, sending another mass of spiritual energy blasting toward Su Yi.

Su Yi hastily defended himself. The two masses of power collided, sending him flying more than a dozen meters once again.

"Garbage Demon Spirit Lake! Sooner or later, I'll wipe it out!"

Everyone exchanged looks, unable to help seeing Shi Teng in a new light, and once again broke into animated discussion.

"I didn't expect this kid to actually have some ability. He even dares disregard Demon Spirit Lake!"

"Someone who can use a Fire Qilin as a mount definitely isn't ordinary!"

After hearing Shi Teng insult him again and again, Su Yi could no longer endure it.

He sprang to his feet and roared, "You little bastard, you're courting death!"

Su Yi's eyes turned bloodshot, fierce light blazing from them. With a slight stir of his thoughts, a longbow appeared in his right hand, scarlet flames burning all around it.

A cultivator who recognized it immediately cried out, "That-that's actually the Marquis of Zhenyuan's Sun-Shooting Divine Bow! They say it can shoot down pure-blooded creatures!"

By now, Su Yi's fury had reached its peak.

He drew the bow with both hands and exerted his strength. An arrow formed the phantom image of a fiery bird and instantly shot toward Shi Teng.

Shi Teng sprang up, dodging Su Yi's arrow.

Before he could steady himself, Su Yi fired three more arrows in succession.

Although the brat's abilities were mediocre, his archery was genuinely good. He must have put hard work into it.

Shi Teng dodged several times in succession, then saw an arrow hurtling toward him.

He extended his right hand to meet it, intending to dissolve it with Scarlet Emperor Fire Emperor Qi.

The arrows Su Yi fired were not physical arrows, but constructs of condensed spiritual energy.

Sure enough, the arrow Su Yi had fired was instantly dissolved by Shi Teng.

Although the arrow dissolved, it left a bird-shaped mark on his palm. The mark was actually consuming Shi Teng's spiritual energy, and he could not erase it for the moment.

Seeing this, Su Yi fired another arrow at Shi Teng, sending it straight toward the center of his brow.

The Fire Qilin immediately spat a fireball to intercept it.

But the arrow formed from that fiery bird pierced straight through the fireball and continued shooting toward Shi Teng.

Shi Teng swiftly dodged. It seemed he would have to seize the initiative.

Shi Teng picked his moment and darted through the air repeatedly, leaving Su Yi unable to get a bead on him.

But Su Yi showed no panic at all. A soft snort escaped his lips. "Hmph. Now that you've been branded by Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, do you think you can still escape?"

As it turned out, the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow contained the divine fire of the divine Vermilion Bird. Once it touched someone, it could not be removed.

Vermilion Bird Divine Fire would keep consuming the spiritual energy within its victim until their life force was exhausted.

It also had a tracking function. Once someone bore the mark of Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, the arrows fired at them could track them.

Sure enough.

Shi Teng had clearly already dodged the fiery bird.

Yet the fiery bird wheeled around in the air and shot toward Shi Teng again.

Shi Teng dodged several times in succession, but simply could not shake it.

He decided to meet it head-on instead.

His right hand instantly became covered in qilin power. He punched out, forming the phantom image of a Fire Qilin that charged to meet the fiery bird.

Boom!

The two ancient divine beasts collided, unleashing a massive wave of fire that swept outward.

Although he shattered the arrow Su Yi had fired, even his Qilin Arm was branded with Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, which began consuming the spiritual energy in it.

This thing really is a treasure.

Shi Teng sprang into the air again and unleashed a Qilin Arm strike at Su Yi.

Su Yi had only just raised the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow and had yet to fire when he was sent flying.

Shi Teng seized the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow with his Qilin Arm. A scorching aura rushed straight toward his heart, and he even sensed a will resisting him.

It really is a divine bow.

Shi Teng's right hand shook slightly, and the might of the qilin swept over the divine bow, forcibly suppressing it.