Just then, beside Yun Yi, a black scroll shattered, and a tongue of black flame abruptly appeared.
Space rippled, and a vortex slowly took shape. Then a slender hand reached out from within it and braced against its upper edge as a figure slowly stepped out.
Wreathed in pitch-black flames, the figure shattered Gu Yuan's attack with a wave of his hand and looked up at him in midair with a strange laugh.
"Hmph!" Seeing that Gu Yuan had just tried to erase him, Yun Yi's expression immediately turned cold.
"Nihility Devouring Flame!"
Gu Yuan looked at the figure shrouded in black flames and said softly, "I never expected that palm strike back then would not only fail to stall your cultivation, but actually let you advance further!"
"Had I known, I should have finished you off back then."
"Heh heh, Gu Yuan, you think far too highly of yourself. You could defeat me back then, true, but completely destroy me? I'm afraid you still lack that ability!" At Gu Yuan's words, the black flames around the figure surged as he gave a strange laugh.
He indeed lacked that ability. To destroy Heavenly Flames on the level of the nihility devouring flame and the purifying lotus demon flame would require a Dou Di to come in person. Otherwise, even someone as powerful as Demon Saint Jinglian could only strip away their intelligence, not destroy them.
"Besides, I have you to thank. Without these thousand years in seclusion, I might never have reached Nine-Star Dou Saint!"
At this, Nihility Devouring Flame looked at Gu Yuan with a hint of ill intent in his eyes.
Nine-Star Dou Saints stood at the very pinnacle of this world. The Hun Clan already had a Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint as its clan leader. After the