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"Grandpa, is this the level of flame you're looking for?"

Chen Yuan murmured, his eyes revealing shock and surprise.

He started as a mortal-level Crimson Flame, and later grew into a spirit-level Golden Pattern Flame!

Now, it has actually become the Xuan-rank — Yaotian Flame!

This Radiant Flame already possesses terrifying offensive power, and it has an absolute restraining effect on demons and evil spirits residing in the Purple Mansion.

Chen Yuan took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, and continued cultivating.

"After returning to the Western Frontier Prefecture, you will be placed inside the alchemy furnace and refined into blood. If you want to escape without implicating your family, you must withstand the burning flames and even be able to be reborn after being burned..."

While cultivating, Chen Yuan also planned how to deal with the upcoming calamity.

Entering the alchemy furnace was a must; otherwise, the Heavenly King would surely blame the Chen family behind him.

Therefore, the only way to escape or break the deadlock is through the Golden Crow Burning World Codex and the Great Nirvana Creation Scripture.

A sharp glint appeared in Chen Yuan's eyes as he pondered something.

"Let's see if, before we begin refining the human pill, we can upgrade the flames we control to the Heavenly Rank, the Burning Star Flame?"

"At the same time, I will also utilize fire-based attack techniques to break through from [Golden Flame Burning the Phoenix Tree] to [Golden Crow Melting Star]..."

Chen Yuan thought to himself, a determined look appearing in his eyes.

In the Golden Crow Burning the World Codex, the first thing to do is to control the flames.

Thus, the technique of "Golden Crow True Yang Flame," which allows one to comprehend the flames of the sun and the heavens, came into being.

Secondly, it is about controlling the flames.

【Xihe's Fire Control】is the most basic manipulation technique, suitable for alchemy, forging, and so on.

Most of the alchemists in the Chen family know the Xihe Fire Control Technique.

Besides that, there are techniques for killing.

Examples include Golden Crow Burning the Wutong Tree, Golden Crow Melting the Star, Blazing Sun Burning Evil Spirits, and Divine Bird Burning the World.

"Then the next goal is to upgrade the flame to the Heavenly Rank of Burning Star Flame, and then master the Golden Crow Melting Star Technique!"

Chen Yuan secretly made a plan for his next goal.

In addition, one must master both the Great Nirvana Creation Scripture and the Myriad Bodies Merging Dao Technique.

With this goal in mind, Chen Yuan studied the Golden Crow Burning World Codex while also focusing his attention on the other cultivation techniques he possessed.

Suddenly, Chen Yuan had a thought: he remembered that he also had a kind of flame.

Corpse-borne Osteitis!

"The Corpse-Rotting White Bone Flame and the Devouring Soul Scripture together are evil techniques that refine souls and destroy spirits."

Chen Yuan muttered to himself, a cold glint in his eyes, "Refining other people's souls and bones to strengthen one's own? Where did the old man find such an evil technique?"

As Chen Yuan grew up, he found Chen Qingcang increasingly mysterious.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his doubts, stopped thinking about it, and began to cultivate.

Time flies, and more than half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

When the spaceship emitted a violent roar and vibration, Chen Yuan and the others were awakened from their cultivation.

After more than half a month, Chen Yuan had stabilized all three cultivation realms, and even the transformed Radiant Flame was now completely under his control.

"What happened?"

Chen Yuan frowned slightly, stood up, and walked out of the cabin.

When he arrived on the deck, everyone had already gathered there.

Even Zhu Xin is here.

"Sister Xin, what happened?"

Chen Yuan came to Zhu Xin's side and asked.

"The army of the Dark Night Kingdom stationed in Night City has, for some unknown reason, attacked West Frontier City."

Zhu Xin spoke solemnly.

Chen Yuan's gaze sharpened, and he then looked around.

The spaceship has now arrived at the edge of the Cangming Mountains.

After flying past a dozen or so large trees, you can pass through the Cangming Mountain Range and reach the open area outside.

Outside, the world is vast and boundless, stretching as far as the eye can see, a boundless expanse of land.

At the edge of the land, the outline of a huge city can be vaguely seen.

Chen Yuan's gaze sharpened, and he immediately extended his powerful spiritual sense toward the city.

In an instant, it was as if the city was brought close to his eyes in his mind. He could clearly see the city stretching across the boundless land, huge, majestic, and magnificent.

Chen Yuan's pupils narrowed; that was indeed the Western Frontier City!

However, at this moment, the Western Frontier City had already activated the highest level of defense for war. The dark blue-green runes on the city walls kept flashing and spreading, emitting a dazzling light.

The rays of light formed arcs, extending towards the sky, and finally converged at the center of the void above the Western Frontier City, forming a semi-circular energy shield that firmly protected the entire city below.

Rumble, rumble...

At this moment, fierce battles are taking place in front of the city walls of Xijiang City, above the city walls, and even in the sky above Xijiang City. Terrifying figures are fighting back and forth in the void.

They emitted dazzling beams of energy, constantly touching and colliding at the top of the void, unleashing deafening roars like millions of thunderbolts rumbling and vibrating.

On the ground in front of the city wall, thick smoke billowed, flames soared into the sky, and endless death energy spread out, enveloping the sky and the ground, blotting out the sun, which was extremely terrifying.

Beneath this dense aura of death, countless skeleton soldiers and soldiers with rotting bodies appeared.

Some of them wore armor, but inside the armor were bloody, rotting corpses. The entire corpses exuded a strong aura of death and stench, which was both frightening and terrifying!

Within the empty eye sockets of the rotting corpse, a green flame flickered, energizing the entire body.

The flame transformed the death energy of the entire body into power, driving the corpse soldiers to roar fiercely and charge forward madly.

Some of the corpse soldiers wore Taoist robes or linen clothes, with a skeleton inside.

Many were reduced to mere skeletons, naked, yet still roaring and charging madly.

These armored corpses and skeleton soldiers were numerous, densely packed, and overwhelming!

These are the Yin soldiers of the Dark Night Netherworld, also known as ghost soldiers or corpse soldiers!

Inside each skull, there exists a wisp of ghost.

These ghosts, nurtured by the unique environment of the Dark Night Netherworld, were able to cultivate themselves and develop intelligence. However, most of the lower-level ghost soldiers and Yin soldiers lacked intelligence.

However, they will be controlled by the High Priest of the Dark Night Kingdom and will only know how to launch a frenzied attack.

So at this moment, they were emitting sharp cries as they charged madly toward the city wall in front of them!

Some rushed to the foot of the city wall and kept climbing, trying to climb up the wall and rush into the city of Xijiang.

However, there were also formations on the surface of the city wall. As the formations hummed and shone, the bodies of these skeleton soldiers and rotting corpse soldiers started to smoke and then tore apart, turning into piles of rotten flesh or bones, which were scattered at the foot of the city wall and piled up like mountains. But in the blink of an eye, the skeleton soldiers and rotting corpse soldiers continued to spread like a tide, trying to wash away the Western Frontier City Wall.

High in the sky, there were also many powerful skeleton cavalrymen riding skeleton warhorses and wielding bronze halberds. They were also attacking the protective barrier of the Western Frontier City, causing the energy on the barrier to be impacted, consumed, and temporarily dissipated. This allowed the skeleton soldiers to climb faster. In the blink of an eye, the transparent barrier above the Western Frontier City looked like it was covered with a dense swarm of ants.

This scene is both incredibly shocking and terrifying!

But as the Western Frontier City counterattacked, a terrifying golden light swept across, instantly shattering the skeleton soldiers clinging to the surface of the barrier!

Chen Yuan's pupils contracted, and his mind was violently shaken.

The next instant, he sensed something and immediately focused his spiritual sense on the passageway at the gate of the Western Frontier City.

The location of the city gate passage seems to have been shattered by a powerful ghost general, making the gate impossible to close again.

Thus, the city gate passage became a bloodbath, where countless beast soldiers, human soldiers, and even other types of ferocious beast soldiers blocked the way, fighting fiercely against the ghost soldiers, corpse soldiers, and ghost soldiers of the Dark Night Netherworld Kingdom. The battle was extremely intense.

Chen Yuan's pupils narrowed sharply, his heart churning with turmoil.

In his perception, the ghost soldiers, corpse soldiers, and Yin soldiers of that night city were extremely powerful and fierce. They were not afraid of death or pain, and they became extremely frenzied once they started fighting, causing heavy casualties among the beast soldiers, ferocious beast soldiers, and human soldiers in the Western Frontier City.

Human soldiers, in particular, suffered even more deaths because they were of the lowest rank and were often placed at the forefront by the soldiers of the Western Frontier City, serving as cannon fodder.

Even countless ordinary people were driven to the city wall passage, trying to block the city gate passage with their flesh and blood to prevent the ghost soldiers from entering.

These ordinary people were no match for the rotting soldiers or skeleton soldiers who pounced on them, tearing them to shreds and sending bits of flesh flying everywhere!

In just a few breaths, Chen Yuan saw countless ordinary people die tragically in his perception.

The bodies of these people were torn apart, their internal organs spilling out, covering the ground in crimson blood that stained the earth.

Chen Yuan withdrew his gaze, his eyes icy cold. "They actually used ordinary human civilians to block the city gate passages? Are they all fucking insane?"