Snatching the Rune Bones

The rune bone was extremely heavy, as though it had taken root.

Lei Chong began to channel the Bi Fang Runes. Golden runes shone in his palm, and the rune bone beneath him began to tremble. He successfully picked it up.

The Divine Flame Man was still standing there in a daze. He had tried from the start, but had never managed to budge the rune bone. Yet now Lei Chong had picked it up.

As for the Divine Flame Man's opponents, they knew nothing about this.

After a brief moment of shock, they immediately came to their senses.

"Put down the rune bone!" Their eyes all turned red.

Before they had even studied it, someone was about to take the rune bone away.

Boom!

Several enormous hands reached out, grasping toward Lei Chong.

The hands blotted out the sky and sun, rumbling through the void.

Whoosh!

Flames raged around Lei Chong and took the form of a giant Bi Fang. The Bi Fang soared into the sky and turned into flames that rushed toward the enormous hands.

"Ah..." Screams rang out as their palms turned charred black. At the same time, the aroma of cooked meat wafted out, making people swallow in spite of themselves.

Lei Chong put away the rune bone, turned around, and flew away from the nest.

"Stop! Leave the rune bone behind!" The others pursued him in fury.

"Heh, you're angry too? Then I'll do exactly what you don't want. Stay here." The Divine Flame Man's expression turned cold.

Although Lei Chong had snatched the rune bone, which had indeed made him somewhat angry, and he wanted to grab Lei Chong and give him a brutal beating to vent the resentment in his heart,

he liked watching those people come to grief even more. They had disturbed him as he comprehended the Dao, and he hated them far more than he did Lei Chong.

Now that he saw them trying to give chase, he naturally stepped in to stop them.

He would ruin their plans and leave them to rage helplessly.

Boom!

The Divine Flame Man controlled a mass of divine flame, forming a Bi Fang behind him.

He had spent a long time studying it and had memorized the runes. He had even mastered some of them and could use a rudimentary precious technique.

The Bi Fang was enormous, blotting out the sky and sun. Golden flames burned and spread through the void, making even the sky rumble.

The Bi Fang blocked all the cultivators, preventing them from pursuing Lei Chong.

"You..." They were all enraged, their eyes practically shooting fire.

The Divine Flame Man was not afraid. Instead, he charged madly toward them.

He was already skilled at controlling flames, and now that he had obtained the Bi Fang Precious Technique, his control over fire had improved, and his strength had also soared by a large margin.

These people had disturbed him today, so he naturally wanted to use them for practice.

He felt that once he had fully comprehended the Bi Fang Precious Technique, he could compete with Lei Chong again.

Lei Chong bore a pair of feathered wings on his back. They were the true Kunpeng Wings, and lightning flickered around them as he also activated the Earth-Shrinking Talisman.

Hum!

His speed had reached its utmost limit. His body seemed to turn into a streak of light, and simply flying like this made the void tremble.

He was far too fast, already well beyond the limits of his cultivation realm.

After only a few breaths, he arrived at the Li Fire Crow's nest.

Divine fire filled the area, still preventing anyone from approaching. At this moment, numerous cultivators sat cross-legged near the nest.

They were all sitting at a distance, studying and learning the Li Fire Crow Precious Technique.

Among the cultivators here, Lei Chong spotted a familiar face: Yue Chan of the Heaven Mending Sect, who was studying the precious technique.

He did not rush recklessly toward the nest, but stood at a distance and silently studied it.

Both were divine birds that controlled fire, and the ways their precious techniques operated were very similar. Lei Chong had already learned two, so the third naturally posed no difficulty for him.

Moreover, with the aid of the first two, he could learn the third precious technique even faster.

Hum!

In the time it took one incense stick to burn, black fire blazed behind him. A fire crow formed within the flames and broke free of them.

After roughly another half an incense stick's time, the fire crow behind him had fully taken shape.

The black fire crow opened its mouth and spat out a mass of black flame.

The black flame was extremely strange. At first, its temperature was scorching hot, but moments later, it dropped sharply. Like the ice of the Nine Netherworlds, it was frighteningly cold.

Such was the Li Fire Crow. He himself was not very strong, but the black flames he controlled made all sides wary.

Boom!

The enormous Li Fire Crow swooped down and landed on the huge nest. The flames beneath the nest surged upward and gathered around the Li Fire Crow.

Lei Chong stepped forward and stood above the nest.

The flames around him were gone, and the temperature quickly returned to normal.

Hum!

Lei Chong reached out and grabbed for the black rune bone. It was so terrifyingly hot that it nearly burned his palm.

Fortunately, he had mastered the Li Fire Crow Precious Technique and could control the black flames around him.

Soon, he picked up the rune bone and put it in his storage bag.

The instant Lei Chong put away the rune bone, all the cultivators around him awoke.

"How dare you! Put down the rune bone!"

"So it's him! Quick, seize him!"

"He's not afraid of the black fire!"

"..."

Even Yue Chan raised her eyes. They were hazy, veiled in mist, and stirred the heart.

"Brother Lei, what do you mean by this? Are you trying to take it away?" Yue Chan slowly rose to her feet, but her voice remained calm.

But Lei Chong knew very well that this woman was deep and scheming, and her feelings rarely showed on her face. In truth, she was already gathering her strength in secret.

Lei Chong did not want to linger here either. He turned into a streak of light and vanished.

He was so fast that the others could not react in time.

"Holy Maiden, should we pursue him?" a Venerable of the Heaven Mending Sect asked.

"There's no hurry. First, study the Li Fire Crow Runes. Our goal is the True Phoenix Precious Technique." Yue Chan quickly made her decision.

It had to be said that Yue Chan was very calm. She knew her objective clearly.

The other cultivators, on the other hand, would surely fly into a violent rage whenever they encountered something like this, itching to kill Lei Chong on the spot.

Apart from the few members of the Heaven Mending Sect, many Venerables gave chase.

But Lei Chong was simply too fast, and they all lost track of him.

Before long, Lei Chong stopped again. He had reached his new destination, where an Azure Luan nest stood, with people studying it nearby as well.

The people of Demon Spirit Lake were here, as were cultivators from Immortal Mountain.

Lei Chong studied it rapidly. As before, with the aid of the previous precious techniques, he was even faster this time.

In less than the time it took one incense stick to burn, he had fully comprehended the Azure Luan Precious Technique.

After grabbing the rune bone, Lei Chong immediately soared into the sky.

A group of Demon Spiders roared in anger, while the creatures of Immortal Mountain were so furious their hair stood on end.

Lei Chong, meanwhile, rushed toward the next nest, which was also the last.

The Witch and the cultivators of the Heaven Severing Sect were here, along with a group of monks from the Western Sect.

Lei Chong did not disturb them. He stood nearby and studied in silence.

This was a divine bird from a branch of the True Phoenix clan, related to it as the Golden-Winged Great Peng was to the Kunpeng. It had inherited some of the True Phoenix's abilities.

He was even faster this time. After studying it for only a short while, Lei Chong had already mastered the precious technique. Before the formation had been broken, he had once studied a ball of light.

A precious technique had been hidden inside the ball of light, and it was very similar to this one.

Hum!

After comprehending the precious technique, Lei Chong immediately grabbed the rune bone. With this rune bone in hand, all five would be his.