Chapter 768

At the center of the Flame World, Zi Chen saw the third ancient road's passageway. In front of the passageway, the king life form had completely awakened, releasing a terrifying pressure.

Zi Chen faced him in the air, his cold eyes staring at the king life form. The Dragon Soul Spear in his hand emitted a chilling light.

"You actually killed all the life forms of my Flame World. Human trial taker, you are not bad." The king life form emitted a cold spiritual fluctuation.

The king life form was humanoid and was nearly two meters tall. Flames burned all over its body. If it didn't have two horns on its head, Zi Chen would definitely have mistaken it for the flaming man he had seen in the ancient battlefield.

"You clearly woke up a long time ago, so why didn't you make a move?" Zi Chen stared at the king life form and asked the question in his heart.

The king life form laughed loudly. "Human, your perception is extremely sharp. That's right, I woke up a long time ago. However, I wasn't in my peak state when I woke up, so I didn't have the confidence to kill you. You killed all my people, so the flames returned to the ground while I completely awakened. My combat strength has returned to its peak."

Zi Chen nodded. He finally understood why the other party hadn't taken the initiative to attack.

"Human trial challenger, you do have some methods. In the past, all the trial challengers that passed through here relied on their speed to directly enter the depths, and then took advantage of the fact that I was unable to awaken to enter the passageway. But, you actually chose such an extreme method of slaughter. But, I like this method. You slaughtered all my people, and I will use the same method to kill you." The king life form cruelly laughed.

Zi Chen bitterly smiled. So it was like this. It seemed that it wasn't that difficult to pass through this ancient road before. As long as one had extreme speed, it would be fine. But now, it seemed that things had become much more troublesome.

However, Zi Chen quickly calmed down and said to the king life form, "Among the many ancient roads, you are only on the second one. This proves that you are the weakest. Even in your peak state, you are still the weakest. I don't believe that I can't even kill you at your weakest."

"Human trial taker, don't boast shamelessly. The guardians of the ancient road don't differentiate between strong and weak. You dare look down on me? Today, you will die without a burial. Remember, the one who will kill you is the king of the Flame World, Hughes."

Just as the king life form finished speaking, the entire world of flames began to erupt. At this moment, all the flames in this world were controlled by the king life form.

Zi Chen's expression became serious. A king level entity was not much different from the mountain fire spirit from before. As long as they were in the world of flames, the other party would never be afraid of exhaustion. Therefore, as long as Zi Chen could not unleash a sure-kill attack, he would never be able to kill the other party.

Judging from the aura emanating from his body, a fully awakened king level entity was undoubtedly extremely powerful. If such an existence were in the outside world, it wouldn't be a problem for him to kill an ordinary origin realm cultivator. Normal attacks wouldn't be able to kill him at all.

After pondering for a moment, Zi Chen made a decision. Battle intent surged from Zi Chen's body as he pointed his dragon spear at the life form king and shouted, "Come, let's decide life and death in one strike."

The king level life form let out a disdainful laugh. "One strike, human. King Hughes can kill you with half a strike."

With that, the king level creature charged at Zi Chen. At the same time, the flames in the entire world began to rage. A terrifying pressure swept out, and a terrifying aura spread throughout the world of flames.

"Die."

The king level creature launched a powerful attack at Zi Chen. Flames filled the sky as it rushed at Zi Chen like a fire dragon.

Zi Chen didn't move, and the spear in his hand didn't move at all. He just stared at the King of Life. Just as the fire dragon was about to reach him, a wave of heat surged toward him. Zi Chen tapped his forehead with his left hand.

Within the purple gourd was Zi Chen's greatest trump card for the road of trials.

With a tap of his finger, the lid of the gourd opened. Three rays of silver light shot out from the center of his forehead, breaking away from the Light of Bewilderment. The three rays of silver light instantly transformed into lightning dragons, their terrifying aura explosively increasing.

This was the lightning of the ninth level of the Lightning Dominion. In Zi Chen's opinion, even an ordinary mortal origin realm cultivator could be killed. Now that Zi Chen had released three rays of lightning, he should be able to destroy a king level life form.

The moment the lightning dragons appeared, they became hundreds of meters long and charged at the king level creature with the terrifying might of lightning.

The king level creature was wrapped in flames, so its expression couldn't be seen. However, when it saw the three lightning dragons, it was shocked to the extreme. It cried out, "This is impossible. You're just a human trial taker. How can you have something like this?"

Amidst its shocked voice, the fire dragon was instantly destroyed by one of the lightning dragons. The lightning dragon didn't lose any power and continued to charge forward. At the same time, the other two lightning dragons also headed straight for the king level creature.

The king level creature kept retreating. Its flaming eyes were filled with terror. The three lightning dragons appeared at the same time, making it feel the threat of death. As it retreated, it kept controlling the flames to form fire dragons to block them.

However, after just two fire dragons, the lightning dragons caught up to it.

The three lightning dragons exploded one after another, creating an earth-shaking sound. The world of flames instantly turned into a world of silver. In this silver world, countless lightning snakes swam about, and lightning energy wreaked havoc.

The king level creature's miserable cries rang out in the world of flames, sounding extremely mournful. Its mood also represented the world of flames. At this moment, all the flames in the world of flames were trembling in fear because of the king level creature.

In the silver world, the thin lightning snakes continued to wreak havoc. The king level creature's miserable cries also continued.

Zi Chen frowned. The three lightning dragons didn't immediately kill the king level creature. In the next moment, he saw strands of flames squeeze into the silver world from the outside.

"Not good. It's absorbing the flames to recover." Zi Chen's expression instantly turned ugly.

He originally thought that the three lightning dragons would definitely be able to kill the king level creature. However, he didn't expect the king level creature's vitality to be so strong. Moreover, with the help of the endless flames, it was actually able to block the lightning dragons' attacks.

Time didn't allow Zi Chen to continue hesitating. Once the lightning disappeared without killing the king level creature, all of his previous attacks would have been for nothing.

Taking advantage of the fact that the lightning hadn't disappeared and he could still attack, Zi Chen clenched his teeth and gripped his spear. The lightning imprint between his eyebrows flashed once more, and then he turned into a beam of golden light and charged into the silver world.

Within the silver world, lightning wreaked havoc, bringing with it a terrifying aura. Even though Zi Chen was protected by the lightning imprint, he still felt his scalp go numb. However, the king level creature that had been struck by the lightning didn't die. It was clear that the king level creature was much stronger than Zi Chen.

Just as Zi Chen was charging forward, even more flame energy rushed into the silver world. Like fire snakes, they entered the center of the lightning destruction and were absorbed by the king level creature.

In the next moment, Zi Chen charged into the center of the destruction and saw the king level creature. The raging flames around its body had become extremely dim, and its whole body was injured in many places.

Under the ravaging of the lightning, its injuries were rapidly worsening, but it didn't die immediately. This was because there was a huge fire crystal on its chest that was emitting a brilliant light, summoning flames from all around it. At the same time, it absorbed these flames to resist the power of the lightning.

If Zi Chen hadn't appeared, this flame crystal would have been enough to protect the king level creature and allow it to smoothly resist the lightning attack, allowing it to return to its peak state.

However, with Zi Chen's timely appearance, the situation naturally changed.

Under the king level creature's terrified expression, Zi Chen held his dragon spear and ruthlessly stabbed it towards its heart.

This was where the flame crystal was located, and it was also the life core of the king level creature. The dragon spear suddenly emitted a joyous dragon roar, and then the tip of the spear directly pierced into the king level creature's forehead.

If it was before, the dragon spear naturally wouldn't have been able to break through the king level creature's flame crystal. However, the dragon spear had absorbed a large amount of Flame Essence, causing its quality to increase. Moreover, it had great destructive power against flames, which was why it was able to succeed in one strike.

As the spear pierced into the flame crystal, the king level creature emitted a pained howl. At a rate visible to the naked eye, the flames around the king level creature began to dim. At the same time, one could see a red energy being constantly absorbed by the dragon spear.

After just a few times, the king level creature's body exploded, turning into a sea of flames that slowly dissipated. The flame crystal still remained, pierced through by the dragon spear until the Flame Essence within was completely swallowed up.

The silver dragon spear had also swallowed up too many unrefined Flame Essences, causing it to turn crimson red. At the same time, Zi Chen felt a blazing heat in his right hand as he held the spear.

The heat continued to spread. Even with Zi Chen's perfect body, he couldn't withstand it. As for the flame crystal in front of him, it seemed that only half of its energy had been swallowed up.

After several breaths of time, Zi Chen felt the blazing heat in the spear become even more intense. Moreover, this blazing heat was actually threatening him. Thus, Zi Chen simply let go of the dragon spear, allowing it to automatically swallow it.

The silver world slowly disappeared, and the lightning that filled the skies dissipated. The sea of fire still existed, but after losing all the fire spirits and the king level creature, this sea of fire had lost its spirituality.

Zi Chen's second ancient road journey had come to an end. Next, he would wait for the dragon spear to finish swallowing the flame crystal. Then, he would enter the third ancient road.

Of the 36 ancient roads, Zi Chen had only walked two and had already used his trump card, the Thunder Dominion. He had also consumed a great deal of time and resources, so what was the third one?

Cracks began to slowly appear on the flame crystal. This was caused by the excessive consumption of Flame Essence. At this time, the entire dragon spear had turned red, as if it were a spear of fire. After absorbing so many Flame Essences, the dragon spear would naturally change. However, it would take a long time to refine these Flame Essences.

Zi Chen hadn't launched a particularly powerful attack before, so he hadn't consumed too much energy. While the dragon spear was absorbing the Flame Essences, he sat down cross-legged and absorbed the fire energy, slowly replenishing his previous consumption.

After staying here for a long time, Zi Chen felt that the speed at which he absorbed the fire energy had increased by a great deal.

The cracks in the flame crystal finally spread to a limit. Finally, with a loud bang, it exploded, and the dragon spear fell to the ground.

The dragon spear that fell was originally crimson red. But as the dragon soul swallowed and refined the fire energy, a silver light began to emit from within the crimson red. The temperature of the dragon spear that emitted a blazing heat began to slowly decrease.

The dragon spear couldn't be used for a short period of time. Zi Chen put away the dragon spear. After the energy in his body was restored, he stood up and stepped onto the third ancient road.