As soon as those words fell, the entire Blackflame Territory sank into deathly silence.
All the experts seated cross-legged atop boulders raised their heads, grave expressions appearing on their faces.
But when they saw that there was only one person in the air—and an utterly unfamiliar one at that—rage immediately surged across their faces.
"One man, and he wants to take over our Blackflame Territory?"
Yan Tu roared furiously.
"Since he dared come to our Blackflame Territory, his strength should not be weak!"
As Lei Ming spoke, he examined Lu Ren's cultivation, and surprise appeared on his face. "Source-Integration?"
"A mere Source-Integration cultivator dares to take over our Blackflame Territory? Is he courting death?"
Yan Tu had always been hot-tempered. He shouted, "Activate the grand formation and kill him!"
As his voice fell, several Source-Integration experts immediately rose to their feet and formed seals with their hands.
Rumble!
The entire Blackflame Territory suddenly shook violently.
Streams of pitch-black formation patterns rose from deep beneath the earth between the mountains.
Those formation patterns resembled black fire serpents, wildly weaving together.
Then, vast quantities of black flames erupted from the fissures surrounding the Blackflame Territory. As they burned, even space itself warped beneath their heat.
This was the Blackflame Subduing-Dragon Formation, a killing formation of the Blackflame Territory capable of blasting even Domain-Transformation experts to death.
Many Blackflame Territory experts wore cold expressions as they stared fixedly at Lu Ren.
Boom!
In the next instant, all the black flames frantically gathered in the sky.
An enormous black flame dragon slowly condensed into existence.
The flame dragon was a full thousand zhang long. Its entire body was jet-black, its scales formed from flames, while ghostly black fire burned in its eyes.
It coiled above the Blackflame Territory, radiating a suffocating pressure.
Boom!
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