Distress

Before the words had even faded, Shen Wen's right hand fingers had already tightened.

"Hum—!"

That cluster of milky-white, infant Fallen Heart Flame trembled slightly, as if it had received some kind of summons, transforming into a stream of light and instantly breaking away from its original position.

It obediently fell into the 'fire gathering pot' that Shen Wen had long prepared, and he flipped his hand to store it away.

Even Venerable Skyfire was unable to stop it.

"You—!"

Venerable Skyfire's remnant Soul fluctuated violently, both shocked and angry.

He had not expected the other party to be so decisive and straightforward, completely disregarding any sentiment, and showing absolutely no pity for his identity or predicament.

He wanted to say something more, but Shen Wen had already turned and walked towards the outside of the energy barrier.

"Stop! You take things without asking like this, you are no different from a bandit..." Venerable Skyfire's angry shout rang out from behind him.

Shen Wen did not stop his steps, but interrupted him without even looking back, his voice coming through flatly: "The weak are prey to the strong; it is the natural law of heaven and earth. If you are not convinced, you are welcome to try and stop me with the power of your remnant Soul."

All of Venerable Skyfire's rebukes were choked in his throat. Stop him? How could he stop him?

The other party's unfathomable Soul Power and the aura that made his heart palpitate made his remnant Soul feel stinging pain and helplessness even just approaching him.

In his Peak days, he might have been able to put up a fight, but now... he was nothing more than a candle in the wind.

He could only watch helplessly as Shen Wen's figure easily passed through the pale-white energy barrier, submerged back into the dark red surging magma outside, and rapidly drifted away.

The remnant Soul flickered violently on the spot, filled with unwillingness and anger, eventually turning into a long, helpless sigh, slowly shrinking back into that cold skeleton.

The light of the energy barrier seemed to dim by an imperceptible fraction along with it.

...

Shen Wen floated in the magma; he had never considered himself a person of the Righteous Path.

His friendliness, or rather, his peaceableness, was only for those he acknowledged and appreciated, or those around him.

As for Venerable Skyfire, he was not within the scope of his considerations.

He was not Xiao Yan, who only had a half-understood knowledge of so-called Heavenly Flames.

Just as he had said, the Fallen Heart Flame was naturally born and reared; if Venerable Skyfire hadn't fallen, Shen Wen might have cared.

But since he had already fallen, could it be that just because you refined it, this thing still belongs to you after you die?

That doesn't make any sense.

'Tuo She Ancient Emperors Mansion'.

He held the fire gathering pot containing the infant Fallen Heart Flame, suspended in the scorching, viscous magma, with a halo of Chaos flowing around his body, isolating the high temperature and pressure.

His gaze was cast further down, into that bottomless darkness that seemed to lead to the depths of the earth's core.

That was where the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode was in the original story, and also where the Void Ancient Dragon Old Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun had been trapped for thousands of years.

"Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode..." Shen Wen muttered to himself.

He now possessed the space ancestral talisman, and his control over Space Power was already quite exquisite.

Although the entrance to the Cave Abode required the ancient emperor tuoshe jade to be assembled to open.

However, the space ancestral talisman was a supreme treasure of heaven and earth, involving the Origin of space, perhaps it could allow him to find some gaps or clever methods to bypass the restrictions of the ancient jade?

Moreover, he had now refined the Fallen Heart Flame, and he still carried the scent of Zi Yan on him.

If Zhu Kun sensed the Bloodline of his own kind, especially the aura of his own daughter.

Even if trapped, he probably wouldn't immediately try to kill him, and might instead take the opportunity to communicate a little.

However, he still had to try it out, after all, that was left behind by a Dou Di...

He cast his gaze toward the bottomless darkness below, thoughts flying through his mind.

Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode... If he could really get in without relying on the ancient emperor tuoshe jade, then he wouldn't need to bother collecting those eight pieces of ancient jade, nor would he need to ponder whether to cultivate the Burning Technique.

Thinking of this, Shen Wen no longer hesitated, his body moved, and he continued to dive deeper into the magma.

The further down he went, the darker the color of the surrounding magma became, almost turning into a thick, inky black, and the temperature was high enough to instantly vaporize an ordinary Dou Zong.

Even with Shen Wen's Three-Star Dou Zong cultivation and the protection of the four ancestral talismans, he felt a faint stinging pain coming from his skin at this moment.

He expanded his Space Power, protecting his body more tightly, his Soul Power perception spreading downward like a spider web, attempting to capture any trace of unusual spatial fluctuations.

However, just as he had dived about a thousand zhang, and his Soul Power perception was about to touch some obscure boundary.

Boom!!!

An indescribable, terrifying aura suddenly surged from the deepest part of the magma!

That aura was ancient, savage, and filled with a sense of destruction, as if a Vicious Beast that had slept for ten thousand ages had suddenly opened its eyes.

Just a trace of the aftermath rippling out caused the surrounding inky-black magma to boil and explode crazily, forming countless violent turbulent currents!

Shen Wen's mind shook violently, the hair all over his body stood on end, and an unprecedented sense of crisis instantly gripped his heart.

Without the slightest hesitation, he said nothing, his internal Dou Qi erupted crazily, and he turned and rushed upwards!

Faster! Faster!

The power of the space ancestral talisman was pushed to the limit, his figure dragging a twisted afterimage through the magma, his speed so fast it was almost tearing through this viscous barrier.

However, that existence in the depths seemed to have been alarmed.

"Hiss—!!!"

Two low, yet highly penetrating hisses, like the sigh of the God of Death, came from far below.

Immediately following, two terrifying beams of energy, red as blood and several zhang thick, carrying the scorching heat that incinerated everything and monstrous killing intent, broke through layers of magma and shot violently towards Shen Wen!

Before the light beams arrived, the chilling killing intent that locked onto his Soul had already made Shen Wen's spine turn cold.

He instantly recognized the source of this power.

Flame Lizard Tribe!

But compared to those Peak Dou Huang he had casually slaughtered before, these two attacks were more than ten thousand times stronger!

The Fire Poison and destructive will contained within them were simply like two Flame Demon Gods striking in anger!

"Dou Sheng?! No... it's a Half-Saint!" Shen Wen's pupils shrank, his heart filled with shock.

Although he had not reached Dou Sheng, his Revered Master Old Monster Lin was a true Dou Sheng powerhouse, and he was not unfamiliar with the power aura of that level.

Although these two attacks had not reached the true Dou Sheng level, they had far exceeded the Peak Dou Zun, clearly being the power of a Half-Saint that had touched the Saint-Grade threshold!

He had actually forgotten about this! Venerable Skyfire Yao Tianhuo was a Five-Star Dou Zun; to be able to kill him here and force his remnant Soul to only survive by attaching to his remains, how could the murderer be an ordinary character?

Deep in this magma underground, there really was Saint-Grade power guarding it! This was likely one of the guardians of the outer perimeter of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode!

He had indeed been a bit reckless this time!

As his thoughts raced, those two blood-red light beams had already chased to within a hundred zhang behind him, the terrifying high temperature making the spatial barrier around Shen Wen emit an overwhelmed "sizzling" sound.

No way to avoid it!

A fierce look flashed in Shen Wen's eyes, he abruptly stopped his body, and turned around suddenly.

He formed seals with both hands, and the power of the four ancestral talismans within his body revolved and gathered at an unprecedented speed!

The deep darkness of the devouring ancestral talisman, the chaotic crimson of the Flame Ancestral Symbol, the violent purple-black of the thunder ancestral symbol, and the void silver light of the space ancestral talisman.

Four-colored brilliance surged out from his body, like four roaring torrents, all poured into the trump card he had never used!

"king destroyer celestial disk, appear!"