The Clans Wary, Famous After One Battle!
The Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda, having lost the support of the Nascent Soul's origin, shrank dramatically.
Shi Jian reached out with one hand and steadily held the dark red pagoda, which was no more than a foot in size, in his palm; the pagoda was still warm, and the ancient demonic inscriptions on its surface were flickering.
The few remaining wisps of the Blazing Fire Lion King's Divine Sense imprint, like a trapped beast struggling in its death throes, raged wildly within the tower.
Shi Jian showed no joy or sorrow as Purple Pivot Lightning surged from his palm and slowly seeped into the tower.
Those few remaining Divine Sense, upon encountering the supremely yang and powerful source of thunder, couldn't even withstand half a breath before emitting a faint hissing sound and turning into ashes and dissipating.
The pagoda became completely ownerless.
Shi Jian flipped his hand and put it into his storage Law Treasure, then looked up at the sky.
Above the sky, the fiery clouds that had been stirred up by the Blazing Fire Lion King had mostly dissipated; but in their place, a strange, blood-red drizzle was falling from the depths of the sky.
Blood rained down on the scorched earth, making a slight hissing sound and rising wisps of blood mist.
This is a spontaneous phenomenon that occurred in the world when a powerful demon in the Nascent Soul Late Stage stage perished.
The Blazing Fire Lion King Death Dao, his spirit vanished.
Shi Jian stood atop the ruins, his purple and white robe tattered. The burns on his chest and left shoulder from the Heaven-Burning Flame had not yet fully healed, and demonic blood was faintly seeping from the charred wounds.
A dull pain shot through his chest; the fight he'd just endured hadn't been in vain.
However, these injuries healed within a day or two under the influence of the dense Dao of Lightning energy, so they were not a serious problem.
Shi Jian looked down at his palm; the silver fragment had vanished.
"What a pity."
He thought to himself that the fragment of the Spaceless Dao Fruit was originally the core material he planned to use to forge his personal secret realm in the future.
The origin of the Space Dao is so rare that it would be difficult to find even a second strand in the entire Beast Realm.
Now, using it to pay off that world-destroying fire lotus, although it saved my life, it still hurts to part with it.
However, the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda is a precious treasure bestowed by the Nascent Spirit Transformation Ancestor of the Frenzied Lion Clan, and its grade is extremely high. Although most of the nine kinds of primordial true fire in the tower were detonated by the Blazing Fire Lion King, the tower itself was not damaged at all.
Once the true fire is rekindled in the future, this tower will become an extremely useful suppression Law Treasure.
According to the classification of objects, Law Artifact correspond to Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment; Law Treasure correspond to Golden Core and Nascent Soul; and above that are Dao Artifact!
This Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda can be considered to have touched the threshold of Dao Artifact; however, its foundation is still flawed, so it cannot be considered a true Dao Artifact, but it is not far off.
"Trading a fragment of the Space Dao for a half-finished Dao Artifact, that's enough, that's enough."
Shi Jian's lips twitched slightly, as if he had convinced himself.
On the outskirts of Six Kings Mountain, at the edge of the wilderness.
In a patch of rubble, ravaged by lightning, two slender figures clung tightly to a crevice in the rock, barely daring to breathe.
These two demons were both Golden Core spies of the Heavenly Serpent Race.
Ordered by the Serpent King of the Black Water Cold Pool, I came to spy on the movements of the Three Kings Mountain; I originally thought it was just a matter of watching from the sidelines, seeing how the giant bear and the Frenzied Lion clans would fight.
Who would have thought that they would witness such a world-destroying war?
The collision of the raging sea of fire and the purple-gold lightning, even from hundreds of miles away, caused them to bleed from all seven orifices.
The moment the Blazing Fire Lion King burned his Nascent Soul and unleashed the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda, the two demons were terrified out of their wits.
At that time, the world was filled with the light of the world-destroying fire lotus.
The two demons thought they would also be caught in the crossfire and die, but then they saw a flash of silver light, and the fire lotus disappeared without a trace.
"That bear... that bear demon actually withstood an attack that burned away the Nascent Soul!"
The Azure-Scaled Snake on the left was trembling uncontrollably, its tail coiled up in a ball.
The small snake on the right was terrified, its eyes vacant, only able to mutter the same phrase over and over, "How come he's not dead yet... how come he's not dead yet..."
But the moment the blood rain fell, the two demons had no chance of survival left.
Even the Blazing Fire Lion King, a Nascent Soul Late Stage -stage Nascent Soul cultivator wielding a powerful Spirit Transformation treasure, was killed by this white bear. What kind of being is this!
"Run! Run!"
The Azure-Scaled Snake grabbed its companion and, not daring to use its escape technique to stir up the energy, could only slowly flee underground.
At this moment, in their eyes, the pale giant bear standing on the ruins was the most terrifying being in the world.
The West, tens of millions of miles away.
Deep within the ancestral land of the Frenzied Lion Clan, in a secret chamber with walls made of crimson lava.
On the stone wall enshrining hundreds of life tablets, each one represents an elite member of the Frenzied Lion Clan, a being with the potential to Spirit Transformation.
But at that moment, a gilded life tablet suddenly shattered.
"Snap!"
Fragments flew everywhere, scattering across the ground.
The old lion on guard in the secret chamber looked up at the sound, and his face turned deathly pale when he saw the name on the shattered life tablet.
"The Blazing... Blazing Fire's life tablet is broken?"
The news spread like wildfire throughout the ancestral land.
In the deepest forbidden area of the ancestral land, several Spirit Transformation stage auras suddenly surged.
"Waste!"
A deafening roar, carrying immense Spirit Transformation power, shook the entire ancestral temple to the point of collapse; it was the Spirit Transformation ancestor who had issued the decree earlier, now radiating boundless rage.
"The Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda! That's a treasure I've nurtured for nearly a thousand years!"
Another aged voice came from deeper within, yet it carried a hint of restraint. "Third brother, calm your mind; that brat Blazing Fire, although he is your direct descendant, is still Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator; anyone capable of killing him is no ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivator."
"When did this person join the Giant Bear Clan? We need to find out more about him."
"If they are the direct descendants of those old bear spirits, our clan's hasty action would be tantamount to breaking ties with the Giant Bear Clan; if they are just some bastard who appeared out of nowhere..."
Upon hearing this, the Spirit Transformation ancestor's furious aura paused slightly; then, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest by three-tenths.
The struggles between Spirit Transformation cultivators are never determined by the life or death of a single Nascent Soul cultivator.
Three Kings Mountain is merely a border buffer zone. Whether it is worth triggering a full-scale conflict between the two major Spirit Transformation clans for it is something that needs to be carefully considered.
"Send someone to investigate and find out the origins of that bear demon."
The aged voice delivered the final verdict. "If they are truly just pawns sent away by the Giant Bear Race, then things will be much easier."
"When the time comes, I will personally take action and crush that bear cub, along with half of Three Kings Mountain, into dust to avenge our blood feud!"