The flames raged!
The terrifying pillar of fire even burned down many areas of the Severed Dragon Mountain Range!
His Nether Fire was powerful enough to burn the Law Treasures of experts at his own level!
But what made his pupils suddenly contract was that, under the torrent of flames, that young man actually remained standing in place, completely unharmed?
Just as he reeled in shock, Ye Chen's laughter came from within the flames. "Not a bad move. If anyone trespasses through our sect gates in the future, just blast them with fire."
The Nether Bone Dragon was no fool. He immediately realized that he had encountered a peerless expert he could never defeat!
He hurriedly spread his enormous wings and beat them hard, riding the powerful air currents into the sky in an attempt to flee.
But a supreme imperial might descended!
Buzz!
This was merely the most insignificant wisp of an Immortal Emperor's pressure, yet when it fell upon the Nether Bone Dragon, it caused him excruciating pain, as though his entire body were about to shatter!
Even his soul was about to be destroyed!
And this was because Ye Chen had no intention of killing him. Otherwise, a single wisp of imperial might would have been enough to destroy the entire Severed Dragon Mountain Range!
The Nether Ancient Dragon was utterly horrified. He had no doubt that he could be killed at any moment, without the slightest ability to resist!
"What? Still won't behave?" Ye Chen came up beside his enormous, star-sized eye and raised a hand as if to hit him.
This time, the Nether Bone Dragon dared not hesitate in the slightest. He hurriedly shrank his body from hundreds of zhang long to the size of an ordinary puppy.
"I am willing to submit! Please spare my life, Senior!" the Nether Bone Dragon begged, trembling.
Ye Chen looked down at him and smiled. "From today onward, address me as Sect Master!"
"Yes, Sect Master!" the Nether Bone Dragon hastily agreed.
As long as he survived, everything else was negotiable.
Besides, this senior sect master was quite nice and reasonable. He said he wouldn't kill him, and he hadn't, and his strength was terrifying.
Following this mysterious expert would definitely be better than claiming a mountain here as his own domain!
"Sect Master, where is our sect? I already can't wait to guard the gates!" Like a puppy, the Nether Bone Dragon stuck out his tongue and lay prostrate at his feet.
Ye Chen looked ahead, then raised his hand and released the reward he had just received: the sect gates!
With a rumbling sound, tall, imposing gates rose before them!
"Kunlun Holy Land? This is our sect? You're building it right now?" The Nether Bone Dragon was dumbfounded. He had thought they would be returning to some powerful sect.
He hadn't expected even the gates to be freshly built!
Still, Kunlun Holy Land was a fine name, subtly containing the Dao resonance of heaven and earth!
What caught his attention were the words "Holy Land"!
Only the world's most powerful forces could call themselves a holy land.
Across the world, which holy land hadn't been founded by an Immortal Emperor?
Could it be...
He was utterly shocked and terrified. Could this sect master be an Immortal Emperor? The Nether Bone Dragon dared not pursue that thought!
Ye Chen was very satisfied with these gates. Just then, another system notification appeared: Ding! The host has been detected taking in a little gatekeeping beast. The host is now rewarded with one sect main hall!
"Oh? An unexpected bonus?"
Ye Chen was very satisfied with the system's generosity, then took the main hall out of the system.
And placed it ahead of him!
It was called a main hall, but in reality, it was an entire unbroken expanse of magnificent palaces!
These palaces stretched across the Severed Dragon Mountain Range, looking lofty and precipitous, yet possessing the grandeur of an immortal abode!
Even the entire Severed Dragon Mountain Range became wreathed in Immortal Qi, and the power between heaven and earth grew more concentrated and abundant!
"This... what kind of power is this?" The Nether Bone Dragon's eyes nearly popped out.
Creating palaces out of thin air was nothing unusual.
But the palaces before him were wreathed in Immortal Qi and displayed a thousand magnificent vistas. This was nothing less than altering the environment of this stretch of heaven and earth!
"If I could cultivate inside these palaces, wouldn't one day equal ten years outside?" The Nether Bone Dragon swallowed hard, unable to believe such a miracle had appeared before his eyes.
He felt all the more that even being Kunlun Holy Land's little gatekeeping beast was reaching above his station!
Ye Chen looked at the imposing gates and the rolling expanse of palaces, quite satisfied.
While Ye Chen was setting up the palaces, elsewhere in the Severed Dragon Mountain Range, a black-robed figure covered in wounds slumped to the ground, his face filled with terror and bewilderment.
"Elder Li, what happened?"
This black-robed figure was a young man, and he spoke to himself in horror.
Elder Li's voice rang out in his mind. "Nether Fire! It's the Nether Bone Dragon's innate flame! Luckily, I protected you with my soul power, and your constitution has an affinity with fire. Otherwise, we would have been doomed!"
Elder Li's tone was far from calm as well.
"Mu Yan, kill the people from Nether Manor! Don't let them recover their senses! Hurry!" Elder Li urged anxiously.
Only then did the young man named Mu Yan come to his senses and kill the several people lying helpless on the ground!
These people were all from Nether Manor, which specialized in hunting down remnant souls and seizing them for its own use.
He carried Elder Li's powerful remnant soul with him.
It was precisely because of this that the people from Nether Manor had set their sights on him, pursuing him for more than half a year and forcing him to flee into the Severed Dragon Mountain Range.
He had intended to escape by taking advantage of the Severed Dragon Mountain Range's complex terrain and its many powerful Demon Beasts.
But unexpectedly, black Nether Fire had suddenly appeared just now, catching them in its reach and severely injuring everyone!
Fortunately, Elder Li's remnant soul was powerful, and Mu Yan himself had a special constitution with a natural affinity for fire. Only then had he escaped death.
The people from Nether Manor weren't so lucky. Severely injured by the Nether Fire, they could only be slaughtered to the last by Mu Yan as he seized the opportunity!
Elder Li's voice rang out in Mu Yan's mind. "The appearance of Nether Fire is very strange! And there was an unusual rumbling just now! What exactly happened in the Severed Dragon Mountain Range?"
Mu Yan also looked around in confusion, then turned his gaze toward the depths of the mountain range.
That single glance left him utterly shocked!
"Elder Li! Why are there so many palaces over there? I've never heard of any palaces in the Severed Dragon Mountain Range!" Mu Yan cried out in alarm.
Elder Li was also utterly astonished and shaken, because he had never heard of them either.
"Mu Yan, go take a look!" Elder Li said gravely.
"What?" Mu Yan jumped in fright. That was deep within the mountain range, where powerful Demon Beasts lurked everywhere.
Wouldn't going farther in be courting death?
But Elder Li said, "The existence of those palaces means someone is there! We have nowhere left to turn, so we can only take a risk!"
After listening to him, Mu Yan thought seriously for a while and also felt that his words made a great deal of sense.
"All right!"
He tossed a healing pill into his mouth, then headed toward the palaces.
What he didn't know was that, at that very moment, in front of Kunlun Holy Land, Ye Chen said to the Nether Bone Dragon, "Get ready to welcome our sect's first disciple."
The Nether Bone Dragon was a little confused. Their sect's first disciple? Where?