26: Chapter 26 Natural Disaster Strikes? No, It's Man-Made Disaster

Zhou Yanlie stood up from the crater, his body burning with crimson flames.

His skin was completely incinerated. Every drop of blood that fell burned a lava pit into the ground. His eyes were burned away, and two clusters of flame flickered in his empty eye sockets, looking extremely terrifying.

A phantom of a dragon soul appeared behind Zhou Yanlie, glaring at all the living beings present.

"General Zhou has lost control. Everyone, evacuate quickly; do not linger."

Upon hearing that dragon roar, Zhao Xin secretly thought it was bad and immediately sent a voice transmission to the Cultivators around him who were fighting happily.

Everyone seemed to have anticipated this; ignoring the enemies in front of them, they circulated their spiritual power and quickly left the battlefield.

"Roar, roar, roar!!!"

Zhou Yanlie looked up and let out a long howl, and monstrous flames erupted rapidly around him, centered on himself.

In the blink of an eye, the Elf warriors who could not escape in time were incinerated into ashes.

Zhou Yanlie transformed into a meteor and rushed rapidly toward the Oak Giant, who raised its broad oak sword and slashed down.

"Boom!"

The flaming dragon fist collided with the broad oak sword, stirring up a massive gale.

The next second, both of the Oak Giant's greatswords were broken, along with its arm, which was several meters thick, being shattered.

The Oak Giant flew backward, carving out a deep trench, but before it could stand up, Zhou Yanlie's attack had already caught up.

Countless flaming fist shadows, combined with a terrifying battle-axe side kick, split the Oak Giant at the waist.

Zhou Yanlie roared as he swung his fists, pouring all his endless fury onto the Oak Giant.

Under Zhou Yanlie's powerful onslaught, the Oak Giant was pinned to the ground, forced backward as it plowed the earth, completely devoid of any power to resist.

The Flame of the Candle Dragon is no ordinary fire; it is an unquenchable living fire.

Once contaminated, it will not disappear until the enemy is burned to nothing but ashes.

Every one of Zhou Yanlie's attacks is a large-scale fire strike, and from the recent battle, he has already knocked the Oak Giant back a thousand meters.

The original forest map had now turned into a sea of fire, and the spreading speed of this flame was still accelerating.

"Hahaha, die, die, let the flames burn everything."

Zhou Yanlie laughed as he stood up, and five fireballs exuding an aura of destruction appeared around him, then shot toward the Oak Giant, which had turned into a wooden stump.

"Boom boom!!!"

Five pillars of flame rose from the ground.

Under this fiery attack, the [Heart of the Oak Sage] shook violently, then shattered into several pieces, completely destroyed.

At the God War Rookie Tournament venue.

Looking at the big screen, everyone saw Zhou Yanlie, who had fallen into a frenzied state, beating a Tier 1 Hero-level familiar like a toy.

The arena fell into an eerie silence, followed by a thunderous outburst of cheers.

Such an intense and stirring battle instantly ignited the enthusiasm of all the spectators; this was what a battle should be, and this was the reason they were sitting here.

But before they could get excited for long, the projection of the forest map in the No. 23 Virtual Divine Domain was disconnected.

The host stepped forward and said awkwardly, "Sorry, because the forest map has suffered large-scale damage, the map cannot be projected for the time being."

Divine Domain battles are just like playing online games; overly intense battles will cause the computer processor to overheat, thereby causing lag in information transmission.

And Zhou Yanlie's Candle Dragon flames caused irreparable damage to the entire forest map, and even affected the entire Virtual Divine Domain.

To put it simply, the screen went black.

Above the No. 23 Virtual Divine Domain.

"This is too brutal. It's an officially created venue, after all; will something go wrong if it's messed up like this?"

Yang Bai looked at the forest map engulfed in a sea of fire and could not help but worry.

The Oak Giant was summoned by the combined efforts of two heroes and bolstered by special items; its strength was indeed formidable.

With just one move, it had beaten Zhou Yanlie, who was in his prime, into a severely injured state, but at the same time, it had ignited Zhou Yanlie, this White Jade Capital powder keg.

In the legends of the Universal Continent, the Candle Dragon is a super-strong dragon species capable of burning the heavens and boiling the seas. A Golden Core Stage Candle Dragon can annihilate an entire Immortal Sect with just a single breath.

Zhou Yanlie's ancestor was a warrior under the Emperor of the Xianwu Dynasty. In his youth, he accidentally obtained a drop of Candle Dragon essence blood, and later, through the blood-swapping divine ability, he acquired the Candle Dragon bloodline, achieving hegemony in a region.

Although the Zhou family had fallen on hard times by Zhou Yanlie's generation, some Candle Dragon blood still remained in the bloodline of the Zhou clansmen.

Yang Bai gave the [Spirit Blood Vermilion Fruit], a spirit fruit capable of refining bloodlines, to Zhou Yanlie, which undoubtedly activated the power within his bloodline.

It was just a pity that while Zhou Yanlie's bloodline became stronger, his physical body and divine sense could not yet withstand the power of the bloodline and the dragon might of the Candle Dragon.

Therefore, before his strength was powerful enough to withstand the Candle Dragon bloodline, Zhou Yanlie was in a state of struggling to hold on, which turned him into a powder keg.

Whoever dared to light him, Zhou Yanlie would surely die, but everything around him would be burned to nothing.

If Zhou Yanlie encountered this situation in the Universal Continent, he would likely be doomed, but in the White Jade Capital where there is no death, this is a super-powerful one-time ultimate move.

"Damn, where did this forest fire come from? The officials didn't tell me there would be a Natural Disaster!"

"Oh no, this fire can't be put out at all! My familiars!!!"

"Everyone, pay attention. There might be random Natural Disasters on the map. You must be prepared in advance."

"No, this fire is moving too fast. There's no way to escape. Wait, what the hell are these white-clothed humans? How did they run in front of my familiars in the blink of an eye? They've turned around, they're attacking, ahhh, they're so strong."

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The surrounding Divine Lords who had descended onto the forest map were also seeing a sea of fire of this level for the first time, and they were all jumping with anxiety.

The [Natural Disaster] they spoke of is a special form of virtual battle, referring to random natural disasters that appear in the battle domain to increase the difficulty of the battle, thereby testing the strength of the Divine Lords' familiars.

Therefore, when an unquenchable large-scale forest fire appeared in the forest, their first reaction was not to wonder which Divine Lord's familiar had set the forest on fire, but to think that the tournament officials had activated the [Natural Disaster] mode on every map.

Hearing the words of these Divine Lords, the Divine Lords in other maps also took it seriously, guessing one after another what kind of disaster might appear in their own maps.

As for the certain Divine Lord who was surrounded by the big fire and facing the pursuit of the Cultivators, he was truly unlucky.

Yang Bai wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Judging from the situation on the scene, the impact of this forest fire was not small. He could already imagine the expressions of the people watching outside.

"This is also a strategy; I trust the officials won't hold me accountable."

After comforting himself, Yang Bai began to check the other Cultivators in the Virtual Divine Domain.

Soon, he noticed Chen Jianfeng and Chu Gehang walking in the snow.