After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

Mu Yan smiled.

That smile carried a hint of cunning and a touch of smugness.

There's also a hint of... indescribable deeper meaning.

“That’s right.” She nodded. “This is the true nature of the Heavenly Book World.”

Xu Ze's pupils contracted slightly.

"The reason why the Heavenly Book World sealed the Central Immortal Continent ten thousand years ago, and why it brought you and me into this era," Mu Yan said slowly, "is so that you can retrieve something."

She paused, her gaze falling on the stone door.

"Something that always belonged to you."

Xu Ze remained silent for a moment.

He suddenly understood.

From the moment I stepped into the world of the Heavenly Book, from the moment I met that father and daughter in the town, from the moment I decided to come to Fire Cloud Valley.

All of this seems to be accidental, and it seems to be his choice.

In reality, it was all Mu Yan's guidance.

No, it's not just Mu Yan.

It is the celestial book itself.

That's the rule of this world.

"Primordial Divine Fire?" he murmured.

Xu Ze had already guessed it, having heard about the existence of the Heavenly Book from the little girl Mu Qinghe after entering the palace.

Then, after breaking through to the Void Refinement stage, he sensed the contents of the fragments of the Heavenly Book.

Even a fool could make the connection... Wasn't his Daoist title in his previous life 'Hun Yuan Tian Zun'?

Mu Yan nodded, revealing a beautiful smile: "That's right."

She raised her hand, and a ray of light gathered at her fingertips.

The light fell on the stone gate, and the array patterns on the stone gate began to flow wildly, emitting a dazzling red light.

"Boom!"

The heavy stone door slowly opened.

A scorching heat rushed towards them, so intense that even Yan Tianlie, a cultivator in the Tribulation Transcending stage, couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Xu Ze, however, remained motionless and even felt an immense sense of familiarity.

The flames that were originally used for alchemy within his body suddenly awakened, surging in his dantian, flowing through his meridians, and burning in every cell.

It is excited, it is calling out.

Xu Ze took a deep breath and stepped through the stone gate.

Behind him, Mu Yan watched his retreating figure quietly, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes.

“Go,” she whispered, “and take back everything that’s yours.”

Beyond the stone gate lay a sea of ​​fire.

No, it's not a sea of ​​fire, it's a world of flames.

The sky was fiery red, burning with an eternal flame.

The earth is made of lava, flowing with molten lava.

In the distance, there is a mountain peak, and at its summit, a flame is burning quietly.

The flame was small, only about the size of a fist.

Yet the oppressive aura it exuded caused the entire world to tremble.

A crimson flame with golden edges, occasionally flashing with a wisp of purple light.

The purple hue flashed by, yet it contained a chilling aura of destruction.

"Is this... the Primordial Divine Flame?"

Xu Ze could strongly sense that this was the true 'strange fire'.

With this, there will be no pill I cannot refine in the future, and becoming a first-grade alchemist will be a piece of cake.

The flame that originally resided within him was merely a fragment of its essence.

Moreover, the other functions and powers of this strange fire are still unknown.

After thinking it over, Xu Ze walked step by step toward that mountain peak.

"Splash—"

The lava beneath his feet parted automatically, making way for him.

The flames in the sky receded automatically, no longer scorching his body, and the whole world welcomed his arrival.

Because within him lies the mark left by the master of this world.

Reaching the summit, I stood before that ball of flame.

Xu Ze reached out his hand.

"boom--!"

In that instant, something unexpected happened.

Suddenly, the Primordial Divine Fire surged, its flames shooting into the sky and transforming into a hundred-foot-high pillar of fire.

Xu Ze was unable to dodge in time and was directly engulfed by the pillar of fire.

Not far away, a clear, bell-like laugh rang out.

"Pfft haha..."

It was that enormous body; Empress Dowager Mu Yan had somehow returned to her original form.

It transformed back into that 'peerless carriage'.

At that moment, she was laughing so hard she was doubled over.

"I knew it."

Xu Ze slowly emerged from the flames, looking somewhat disheveled.

He asked, puzzled, "From the moment you brought me into the palace, to leading me into the Heavenly Book World, to luring me to Fire Cloud Valley... what exactly are you after with all this?"

Mu Yan was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

That smile carried a hint of cunning and a touch of allure.

"You ask me what I'm after?"

She said softly, taking a step forward.

The distance between the two instantly shrank to less than a foot.

Xu Ze could clearly see the curve of her eyelashes, the flames reflected in her eyes, and the faint fragrance emanating from her breath.

"Is Ben Gongtu not good enough for you?"

The terrifyingly round shape drew even closer.

Xu Ze: "..."

He took a deep breath and stepped back.

This thing is huge!

It's too oppressive.

"Empress Dowager, you are playing with fire."

A barely suppressed smile played on Mu Yan's beautiful face: "Playing with fire?"

"Now that the Heavenly Book is inside my body and I can control the Strange Fire, what's wrong with me playing around with it?"

She took another step forward.

Xu Ze had no choice but to retreat again.

Mu Yan went in again.

After a few steps, Xu Ze found himself retreating to the edge of the mountain peak, with a bottomless abyss behind him and boiling lava below.

"Do you still want a refund?" Mu Yan looked at him with a smile.

Xu Ze looked at her helplessly and sighed:

"...What exactly do you want?"

This woman did it on purpose.

They've been planning this from the very beginning!

You drive yourself into a corner, and then what?

In this regard.

Faced with the young man's questioning, Mu Yan simply blinked and said, "I don't want anything."

"I just want to ask you, you heartless man, do you have any conscience at all?"

Chapter 151 I have everything I need now

Faced with the relentless pressure from Empress Dowager Mu Yan, Xu Ze had nowhere to retreat.

Behind him was a bottomless abyss, below which boiled magma, the sparks from the churning magma reaching several meters high, turning the entire sky crimson.

The sparks landed on the rock face, scorching black pits and making a hissing sound.

"If someone falls from here, let alone someone at the Void Refinement stage, even someone undergoing Tribulation would probably melt instantly..."

Xu Ze swallowed.