A sea of fire surged across the sky, and a tear was ripped open above it.
A man wreathed from head to toe in blazing flames stepped through the air and appeared above.
His entire body was shrouded in fire, with only his face clearly visible outside it.
He was broad and towering, like a fire god descending beneath the vault of heaven, flames raging freely around him.
"Who are you?" the fire god-like man barked, his voice like a blow to the head. "How dare you trespass into this forbidden ground?"
"Oh, so you're the one who had been controlling this space," Xu Zimo said.
He had previously thought the man bound by chains was the one controlling this place. Now, it seemed there was someone else.
The flaming man before them did indeed look like this space's guardian.
"I am Xing Yan of the Fire Clan," the flaming man declared arrogantly.
"If you leave now, I can let bygones be bygones.
"Otherwise, if you cause a great disaster, no one will be able to save you."
"Xing Yan of the Fire Clan?" The Divine Emperor was slightly taken aback. Looking at Xu Zimo, he said, "He seems to be an extremely ancient forebear of the Fire Clan."
"What forebear? He is merely Myriad Flower Fairy's lackey now," the man beneath the flames snorted coldly.
"Emperor Qitian, you are already a man certain to die. Why do you still speak such wild words?" Xing Yan said coldly.
"Myriad Flower Fairy promised me that as long as I guarded this place until the day you died, she would help me ascend to Beyond the Heavens and open the ninth Meridian Gate."
Having said this, Xing Yan looked again at Xu Zimo and the Divine Emperor, advising, "Why must you two