Lie Yan's Doubts

Ji Dong watched the two figures disappear into the distance, wanting to retort, "Aren't you just going to leave like that? Aren't you going to fight the rest of the Dark Continent with us?"

However, looking at the Thunder Hell Battle Axe and Dragon Scale that Xu Xingyu had thrown at him, he sighed helplessly and said, "Oh well, they've helped us enough."

Indeed, not only did they help them deal with the troublesome Light Heavenly Stem Saints and the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon, but they also gave them the incomparably precious Divine Artifact, the Thunder Hell Battle Axe.

While ninth-tier crystal cores are indeed precious, they are not as valuable as Divine Artifact. Although Ji Dong cannot use Lightning Attribute Divine Artifact, it doesn't mean that no one present can.

Without hesitation, Ji Dong threw the Thunder Hell Battle Axe to Fu Rui, who was fighting against Li Yonghao, the commander of the Dark Continent and known as the ultimate weapon, the Dark Saint of Kang Metal.

Seeing this, Fu Rui quickly caught the Thunder Hell Battle Axe, and the moment he grasped Thunder Hell Battle Axe, Fu Rui could feel a powerful surge of lightning energy coursing through his entire body.

Fu Rui was originally only able to barely contend with Li Yonghao, who possessed the ultimate Kang Metal, had Fu Rui lightning amplified exponentially with the help of the Thunder Hell Battle Axe, instantly defeating Li Yonghao.

Ji Dong glanced at the Dark Heavenly Stem Holy King, who had been defeated by his senior brother, and nodded slightly before turning back to the battlefield of light and darkness. The interference of the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon and the Light Heavenly Stem Saints was ultimately just an interlude; the battle between light and darkness continued.

Meanwhile, deep underground in the Five Elements Plane lies the Earth Core World.

A girl who looked only eighteen or nineteen years old sat beside a crimson lake, staring intently at the scene unfolding before her.

Her long, crimson hair cascaded down her back, just past her hips, like a burning sea of fire.

Her appearance is impeccable; the perfect golden ratio makes her features and contours appear harmonious.

Her fair skin, like lustrous amber, emitted a faint glow, making her look like a goddess sculpted from flames.

She is indeed a goddess, the only God Level powerhouse in the entire Five Elements Plane, the ruler of the Earth Core World, the Flame Empress, Lie Yan. She is also the goddess that Ji Dong has been dreaming of pursuing.

At this moment, the Flame Empress watched everything in the scene with concern, especially everything related to Ji Dong.

Lie Yan had always been concerned about Ji Dong's safety, and this worry intensified after they arrived at Sacred and Evil Island.

She knew that no matter what difficulties Ji Dong faced, she couldn't go to help him; if she did, she would face utter destruction.

Therefore, Ji Dong has to solve all the dangers on Sacred and Evil Island on his own. She can only watch from here through the Hong Lian Mark as Ji Dong resolves the difficulties before him.

However, after Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi appeared, her vigilance instantly increased. This was not only because she, as a God Level expert, could not see through their true strength, but also because she sensed a divine aura emanating from this young man.

Divinity is a special aura that only God Level powerhouses or Godhood Inheritance can possess. The sudden appearance of such an existence beside Ji Dong is definitely not a good thing for her.

After she killed the Flame Monarch and the Dark Flame Demon King, who had once ruled the Earth Core World, the two demon kings told her before they died that her existence was not tolerated by the Divine Realm.

Although she didn't quite understand the reason, after some investigation, she learned that the current Divine Realm only allows humans to become gods.

Fortunately, beasts have the option of becoming servants of gods to ascend to godhood. However, the problem is that the Divine Realm does not classify them as beasts, but rather as the race of Abyss Demon.

Lie Yan knew nothing of the grudges surrounding this so-called race of Abyss Demon; he only knew that they were different from the Beast Clan had the potential to become servants of the gods.

Once any Abyss Demon becomes a god or is about to become a god, and is discovered by the Divine Realm, they will immediately send people down to the mortal realm to kill it on the spot, without giving it the slightest chance.

That is why, even though she, Lie Yan, yearned for the world beyond the Earth's core, she could only remain in the Earth Core World after scanning the entire continent with her Divine Sense, fearing that she might be overtaken by some powerful Divine Realm.

Therefore, after Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi, who were suspected to be inheritors of the gods, appeared, Lie Yan immediately wanted to sever his connection with Ji Dong, fearing that these two inheritors would discover him and cause him to be discovered by the gods behind them.

However, to Lie Yan's surprise, the boy named Xu Xingyu possessed such exceptional Spiritual Power that he discovered the existence of the Hong Lian Mark before she could sever the connection, as if he already knew that Ji Dong had such a thing.

However, after discovering it, the boy neither revealed it nor contacted the god behind him. It was as if he had known of his own existence and then ignored it, as if he had discovered something that was none of his concern.

"Who is this young man?" Lieyan asked in confusion, "If he is really the inheritor of the gods and knows about my existence, he should also know that the abyss demon's becoming a god is not tolerated by the gods. Once discovered, he should report it immediately, right?"

"Could it be that he intends to take matters into his own hands? Indeed, he definitely held back when he killed the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon. If he were truly determined, dealing with that Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon would only take a moment."

"But such performance is still within the realm of mortals, isn't it? Although those who inherit the divine throne are stronger than ordinary people because they have passed the divine trials, they are still ultimately different from true gods until they have fully inherited their God Position."

After much thought, Lie Yan still couldn't figure out what Xu Xingyu's purpose was in approaching Ji Dong; it couldn't possibly be just to get close to him.

Although she, Lie Yan, is a deity, she doesn't possess many truly valuable things. Being confined to the lowest level of the Earth Core World, she has limited resources for creation.

Even something as special as a natal Divine Artifact is currently only in the conceptual stage for her; she hasn't even started making it yet.

"However, I'm not completely ignorant of his identity." Looking at the nine-colored dragon scale in Ji Dong through the screen Nannan Lie Yan to himself, "As expected, that dragon scale should be related to the one the Dragon Clan worships."

Although her Lie Yan reside in the Earth Core World, as mentioned before, she had scanned the entire Five Elements Continent with her Divine Sense, including the Three Harmonies Mountain Range where the Dragon Clan resided.

There, she had seen countless Dragon Clan worshipping a mural depicting a nine-colored dragon, and her intuition told her that the nine-colored dragon scales were definitely related to the being in the mural.