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Chapter 199 Helper
The local earth god of Flaming Mountain wiped his sweat, racking his brains for a way to persuade Chen Guangrui not to go to the demonic den of Lion Camel Ridge, when a loud shout suddenly rang out, "Old man who tends the fire, I'm here!"

As soon as the sound faded, a blazing fireball struck the ground nearby, sending up a shower of scorching sparks and molten sand.

Sparks flew everywhere, threatening to engulf everyone. Tang Sheng cried out in fright and shrank back. Chen Guangrui reacted swiftly, flicking his sleeve, an invisible, gentle magical force rippled out, steadily suppressing the splashing fire sparks. The Earth God also quickly unleashed a beam of earthy yellow light, extinguishing the last few sparks at his feet.

Seeing that Chen Guangrui ignored the child who threw the fireball, the Earth God simply pretended not to see him and continued to persuade him.
“Immortal, you are all highly capable. Please take my advice and take a detour, the farther the better.”

After listening to the local earth god's description, Chen Guangrui remained calm, as if the mountain of white bones was merely an ordinary scene. He turned his gaze westward and continued to ask...
"The situation at Lion Camel Ridge is indeed perilous. Earth God, do you know the Earth God of Lion Camel Ridge or Lion Camel Kingdom? If you can find him and ask him, you may be able to learn more about the truth."

The Earth God hurriedly shook his head, his face showing bitterness and lingering fear. "Reporting to the Immortal, the land deity of Lion Camel Kingdom was terrified when the demon first occupied the city and started eating people. He fled at the first opportunity. There is no land deity left in that place now. As for the land deity of Lion Camel Ridge..."

He paused, lowered his voice even further, and spoke with a hint of sorrow, as if mourning the death of a fellow rabbit.

"Alas, that old brother was a bit slow back then and was captured by those three demons. He's still being treated like a slave in that demon's den. I heard he's barely clothed every day, being whipped and driven around, doing the hardest and dirtiest work. It's a hundred or a thousand times worse than me being roasted in this Flaming Mountain. There's no way he'd come to see you."

As soon as the Earth God finished speaking,
boom,
Another blazing fireball, the size of a watermelon, hurtled through the air with a scorching heatwave, striking the open space between the Earth God and Chen Guangrui with perfect accuracy. Sand and gravel, mixed with flames, scattered in all directions.

Immediately afterwards, a voice, arrogant yet childish, rang out, filled with obvious dissatisfaction.
"Old man, why are you so busy talking to him? I'm asking you a question."

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Red Boy pointing at the still-shaken Earth God. He was clearly annoyed that the Earth God was ignoring him and that Red Boy was only talking to Chen Guangrui.

Yellow Wind Monster's heart stirred slightly. He hadn't expected that their deliberate slowing down these past few days would actually bring Red Boy to their doorstep.

At this moment, Red Boy hovered in mid-air, his little face flushed red from the flames. With his hands on his hips, he saw that everyone's attention had finally been drawn, especially to the Yellow Wind Monster's face. Memories of his previous disheveled state flooded back.

"Old Yellow Hair!" Red Boy's eyes widened as he pointed at the Yellow Wind Monster.
"Last time you bullied me in front of my house, taking advantage of your broken windshield! Things are different now!"

He looked around at the raging, fiery mountains, his small body seemingly about to merge into the sea of ​​fire.
"See that? This place is all on fire! This is my territory! If you've got the guts, fight me again, and I'll burn your blond hair to a crisp!"

Before he could finish speaking, driven by his burning desire for revenge, he puffed out his cheeks and slapped his nose. A surge of Samadhi True Fire, even more refined and ferocious than the one he had used to slam the ground in protest, roared towards the Yellow Wind Monster's face like a raging, crimson fire dragon, carrying the power to incinerate everything! This attack was unreserved, aimed entirely at avenging his previous humiliation.

Yellow Wind Monster raised a thick eyebrow. Facing this fire attack, which was even more powerful than before and took advantage of the Flaming Mountain's terrain, he showed no tension. On the contrary, he had no intention of wasting time with Red Boy, and he didn't want to play the trick of you blowing wind and me breathing fire again.

"Hey kid, it's scorching hot here, I don't have time to play with you!"

As he spoke, his hands moved with lightning speed, a vibrant green banana leaf fan instantly appearing in his palm. Seeing the oncoming fire dragon, he didn't even bother to move his feet, simply waving his arm casually.
call!
A gust of wind, pure and ethereal yet possessing an incredible calming power, suddenly blew out. This wind was formless and shapeless, yet it seemed to be the natural enemy of fire. Wherever the wind passed, the arrogant and violent Samadhi True Fire Dragon was instantly grasped by an invisible giant hand, and before even a spark could struggle out, it completely dissipated into the air.

Even more exaggeratedly, the wildfires that were originally burning fiercely within a radius of dozens of feet around them were suppressed by the wind brought by the fan. The flames instantly shrank significantly, and the temperature seemed to drop a few degrees, revealing large areas of scorched and smoking ground.

"You...you cheated!" Red Boy stared dumbfounded as his charged attack vanished without a sound, along with a large chunk of his "home advantage" being sliced ​​off by the fan. His face instantly turned from red to purple, and he jumped up and down in anger, pointing at the Yellow Wind Monster and cursing loudly.
"If you want to fight, then fight! What kind of skill is it to use magic weapons? Old Yellow Hair, you're shameless! If you're so capable, then don't use that broken fan!"

He was incredibly frustrated, feeling that his fire-based magical abilities were utterly useless in front of this broken fan.

However, his angry curses still echoed in the heatwave when he suddenly felt a tightness around his waist. Looking down, he saw a golden rope, like a living serpent, had silently coiled around him and tightened instantly.

The fine runes on the rope suddenly lit up, and as the golden light flowed, a powerful binding force penetrated his body, suppressing his surging fire magic power. Even the flames of the Wind and Fire Wheels beneath his feet suddenly dimmed.

"Who? Who tried to ambush me?!"

Red Boy was both shocked and furious. He felt his body go limp and cried out in alarm. Like a bird caught in a net, he fell directly from mid-air and landed heavily on the scalding ground with a "thud".

Red Boy writhed futilely in the golden Immortal Binding Rope, his little face flushed red, half from the fall and half from anger. "Let me go! If you're so capable, fight me fair and square! What kind of hero uses underhanded tricks!"

He swept his fierce gaze across the group of people in front of him. Yellow Wind Monster crossed his arms, looking at him with a smug expression. The Earth God shrank back in fear. Sugar Sheng squatted beside him, his bald head gleaming in the firelight.

Chen Guangrui walked up to Hong Haier, who was bound like a rice dumpling, and looked down at him.
"Holy Infant King, didn't you go with your mother to find Bodhisattva Pilanpo? What are you doing here at Flaming Mountain? And you're even throwing fireballs at people, are you trying to be impressive?"

Red Boy was tightly bound, struggling to raise his head and try to maintain his composure, but the binding rope made it difficult for him to even speak.
"Hmph, I can go wherever I want. It's none of your business if I come here to have fun." Chen Guangrui looked at his blustering but cowardly appearance and nodded. "Oh, so you came here to have fun. Okay, you can continue having fun. Old Huang, Tang Sheng, let's go. Lion Camel Ridge is still a long way off."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and made as if to leave.

"Hey, wait!" Upon hearing the word "leave," Red Boy panicked and, disregarding all pride, struggled even more fiercely within the ropes. "Don't go!"

Chen Guangrui stopped and turned slightly to the side, his face expressionless. "What else does the Holy Infant King want to say? We don't have time to play with you."

Red Boy's face turned even redder. He fidgeted and hesitated for a long time, his voice barely audible, like a mosquito's hum.

“Well, my mother…” he stammered, his face almost buried in the dirt, “My mother said that I… should go with you.”

"With us?" Chen Guangrui raised an eyebrow, his tone slightly playful.
"We're going to Lion Camel Ridge to vanquish demons and monsters; it's a dangerous mission, not child's play. What would a little kid like you do with us? Does she really want you to go?"

"Who's a child!" Red Boy's voice suddenly rose, as if a cat's tail had been stepped on.
"What's she reluctant about? She made me go with you guys. If I don't go, she'll beat me to death when I get back!"

Red Boy seemed to be full of grievances, "She said...she said that following you, the deputy commander, would lead to a promising future..."

He spoke the last few words very quickly, almost indistinctly, clearly feeling extremely embarrassed.

Looking at his embarrassed yet forced composure, Chen Guangrui said slowly,
"Oh, I see. Princess Iron Fan wants you to come with us on this training trip, and also to lay low for a while."

Red Boy remained silent, which was taken as tacit agreement, though he stubbornly refused to speak.

Chen Guangrui shook his head.
"Lion Camel Ridge is no joke. That place is extremely dangerous; demons and monsters devour people without spitting out bones. We're barely able to take care of ourselves, let alone a child. No matter how skilled you are, if you set a fire, you'll only make a noise; if you fart, you'll only add a little wind. Going there would just be a burden."

"Chen Guangrui, what did you say!" Red Boy instantly exploded in anger, his eyes turning bloodshot. Even the Immortal Binding Rope couldn't restrain his rage as he writhed wildly on the ground.

"You dare to look down on me? I'm incredibly capable. Those ugly bastards from Lion Camel Ridge aren't even worthy of carrying my shoes."

If he had been somewhat perfunctory when he first arrived, now he was desperately trying to stand tall and prove himself.
"Look at me, when I go to Lion Camel Ridge, if I don't burn all those demons to death, I'll change my name to Red Boy!"

"Ha, you think you can just go like that? What if you change your mind halfway through?"

"Bullshit! I keep my word. I'll go when I say I'll go, and I'll never go back on my word."

"What if you come with me and don't behave?"

"As long as we can fight, that's fine. Don't worry about listening to you. Just tell me where to fight, and we'll fight there. As long as we can deal with the demons of Lion Camel Ridge, that's all that matters."

He shouted until he was hoarse, his little face turning purplish-red with excitement and anger, as if he was about to breathe fire and burn through the ropes so he could fly to Lion Camel Ridge to prove himself.

Huang Fengguai grinned as he listened, thinking that this kid was incredibly arrogant. Those three from Lion Camel Ridge were not to be trifled with. However, he was a discerning person and knew why Chen Guangrui had provoked this kid.

Chen Guangrui raised his hand and lightly pointed at the Immortal Binding Rope.

With a flash of golden light, the tightly bound Immortal-Binding Rope loosened as if it were alive, and flew back into Chen Guangrui's sleeve with a "whoosh".

Caught off guard, Red Boy sprang up from the ground, rubbing his aching waist, panting heavily, and glaring fiercely at Chen Guangrui.

Huang Feng thought to himself, "Well, another one has been tricked."

But these helpers are still not enough!
(End of this chapter)