Battle Through the Heavens: Starting from the Jia Ma Empire

Chapter 143 The Old Dragon Emperor

While Lin Feng and Zi Yan waited, the entire Desert Iron Mercenary Group set out across the Tagor Desert, searching in the direction indicated by Yao Chen. Since the Snake-People tribe relocated, the mercenaries in the desert had greatly increased their gains, and their explorations had become increasingly thorough.

Of course, Yao Chen remained hidden behind the scenes. Ever since he learned from Lin Feng that the Soul Palace had issued a warrant for his arrest, this old guy had kept a very deep secret. His signature move—the Bone Spirit Cold Flame—had never been revealed. Even when refining pills, he used Xiao Yan's beast fire.

They would rather expend their soul power than increase the risk of exposure.

"Brother Yan, we've been searching this desert for days. Is the spirit your teacher spoke of really in this area?"

After several hours of searching, during a short rest for the mercenaries, Xiao Yan's second brother, Xiao Li, couldn't help but complain.

"Second brother, since Brother Yan's master said it exists, it must be true."

Xiao Ding glanced at his second brother, whose personality was somewhat ruthless and irritable due to his lightning-attribute fighting spirit, and thought to himself.

"Since Yan Di's mysterious master was able to solve his physique problem, he must be an extraordinary master. Father once privately asked a master alchemist to investigate for Yan Di, but he found no problem at all."

"Even if we really can't find that spiritual item, it won't be a waste of a little more time. In fact, with the pills that Brother Yan gave us, the mercenaries in the group can search hard every day. This job doesn't require risking their lives at all."

"Hehe, big brother, Yan brother, I didn't mean anything by it, it's just that I've been searching for so many days and haven't found it yet, so I'm getting a little impatient." Xiao Li scratched his head.

"Little Yanzi, let's come back and explore again tonight. I already have some guesses."

Just as Xiao Yan was about to speak, Yao Lao's voice suddenly rang in his mind.

As night fell, a figure dressed entirely in black leaped out of the tent and charged toward an unknown direction.

After an unknown period of time, a soul slowly floated out and stood in front of Xiao Yan, gazing into the deeper desert.

"Little Yanzi, during my exploration today, I discovered a passage that has been pierced through, leading to the Earth's core. Presumably, the strange fire lies beneath that magma."

Before Xiao Yan could even show his joy, Yao Chen's voice continued.

"The appearance of this passage means that the strange fire may have already been subdued by someone."

"What?!"

Xiao Yan's expression was extremely grim. He knew that because of Lin Feng, the Snake-People had relocated to the foot of the Monster Mountain Range. Although they hadn't prevented the people of the Jia Ma Empire from entering, those with high cultivation levels had minimized their presence to avoid conflict with the Snake-People.

Yun Yun, who first clashed with Xiao Yan in the Magical Beast Mountain Range in the original story, naturally did not re-enter the Magical Beast Mountain Range, which resulted in Xiao Yan not obtaining the sixth-tier magical beast fire.

Despite absorbing numerous low-level beast fires, as well as beast fires obtained through the exchange of pills refined by Yao Chen, the Burning Technique is still only at the mid-level of the Yellow Rank. Although it can rival the high-level or even peak of the Yellow Rank, the Cloud Mist Sect, as a top power in the Jia Ma Empire, has a young sect master whose cultivation technique is at least at the Profound Rank or higher.

At that time, the cultivation method alone might become the last straw that breaks his back.

"Little Yanzi, don't worry. Strange fire is a rare treasure of heaven and earth. Perhaps that person only found it but didn't actually subdue it."

Seeing his disciple's distraught appearance, Yao Chen knew how much this was affecting him, and couldn't help but speak up to comfort him.

"Moreover, even without this strange fire, I will not let you lose the three-year agreement."

"Master."

While the master and his apprentice were searching for the strange fire in the Tagor Desert, far away beneath the magma of the Black Corner Region, as time passed, Lin Feng sensed that many powerful lizardmen were already approaching this place.

Among them were even scattered lizardmen exuding the aura of a Dou Zong. Seeing this, Lin Feng knew that his plan had failed.

"Ziyan, let's go."

Although she didn't know why Lin Feng was behaving this strangely, Miss Zi Yan had never liked to think, and upon hearing Lin Feng's words, she prepared to disperse the dragon seal and leave.

Just as Zi Yan used the Dragon Seal, in a place infinitely far away from here, there seemed to be another world, isolated from the endless magma. If Lin Feng were to arrive there, the scorching energy would instantly reduce him to ashes.

Within this space, an infinitely enormous figure, whose head and tail were indistinct, was sleeping with its eyes closed. When Zi Yan Dragon Seal was unleashed, a pair of abyssal giant eyes suddenly opened.

"A dragon seal? This is the aura of our clan!"

"roar"

A roar from the ancient wilderness resounded, and the enormous figure suddenly moved, its massive claw reaching out towards the source of the sensation.

Lin Feng and Zi Yan, who were about to leave, suddenly found themselves unable to move, as if they had lost all sensation. They saw the endless magma suddenly transform into a giant dragon claw that fiercely grabbed at them.

"This, how is this possible? This is a fight!"

Inside the ancient storage ring, Yao Tianhuo's aged face was filled with shock and fear. The aura emanating from that giant magma claw was far more terrifying than the Dou Sheng powerhouse he had sensed when he obtained the Five-Wheel Fire Disc Relic.

"Boom!"

After the giant claw disappeared, endless magma instantly began to flow backward, and the lizardmen at the Dou Zong level who appeared in Lin Feng's perception were annihilated into ashes without any ability to resist.

"Child, this is a child, truly a child."

At the bottom of the endless magma, there was a space that isolated it, a fact that would surely shock anyone who knew. This place was incredibly close to the Earth's core; the temperature emanating from the magma alone would be unbearable even for a typical Dou Zun.

It's terrifying that someone could actually create a space here!

However, the people in the empty space ignored him and stared at the trembling giant in front of them.

"Lin Feng, what do we do now?"

When Zi Yan woke up, she was startled to see a large face right in front of her and quickly jumped behind Lin Feng.

"Senior, we are from Canaan Academy. Our Dean is from the Thunder Clan and has already reached the Dou Sheng level. May I ask why you have invited us here?"

Although he knew that the person before him was Zi Yan's biological father, the supreme beast king of the Dou Qi Continent, and arguably the strongest person in the world, and that any resistance against him would be futile, Lin Feng still had to make a show of force. Otherwise, if the old dragon emperor, who had been imprisoned for countless years, were to become enraged, his imperial ambitions would crumble prematurely.

(End of this chapter)