Volume 1, Chapter 436 – Solar Flare

Across the continent, beacon smoke rose on all sides, steeped in the bloody light of slaughter. At every moment, tens of millions of living beings were being consigned to the Yellow Springs.

This scene was even more brutal than the war in the Chengtian Domain that Shi Lan had once experienced, because what filled it was far more one-sided slaughter. The Reincarnation Hall had no need for prisoners at all.

Not all of these people from the Reincarnation Hall who had come from beyond the world were reincarnators. Most of them were followers or attendants of certain powerful figures. Very few could truly pinpoint Shi Lan’s location.

After discovering this, Shi Lan’s movements grew much bolder, and she began taking the initiative, intercepting and killing the Reincarnation Hall’s armies.

The power of the Extreme Dao Rune Seal was still being released bit by bit. The power of Shi Lan’s nascent soul was surging at a rate visible to the naked eye almost every moment.

Shi Lan traveled from place to place, crossing the continent. The people who came searching for her grew stronger and stronger, each one a dominant figure among the seventh tier, at times nearing the realm of an eighth-tier supreme powerhouse, and their methods were incomparably strange and unpredictable.

More and more powerful experts fell beneath the Scarlet Crow War Halberd. Shi Lan’s martial edge grew ever sharper, and under constant tempering, an invisible momentum became clearer and clearer.

Without realizing it, Shi Lan had once again returned to the birthplace of the Extreme Dao Rune Seal. Beyond the mountain range lay a city that had already fallen silent and desolate.

She stepped into the city. Not long ago, it had still been crowded with streams of people, but now it had become a field of ruins, clearly having been purged by the Reincarnation Hall’s army.

The rune tower in the center of the city had already half-collapsed. A corpse had been pierced through the chest by an iron spear and nailed to the tower wall, hanging in midair like a bundle of dried firewood.

Shi Lan walked beneath the tower. Looking at that somewhat familiar face, she fell silent for a moment.

Molen’s eyes were still half-open. The pain he had endured before death was fully displayed on that wrinkled face. In his dilated pupils, a trace of spirit still remained, as though it were telling of things he had yet to accomplish.

The shops nearby were also in utter disarray. Standing where she was, Shi Lan could see everything inside them.

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Many of the corpses were incomplete, with great cavities torn through their chests and abdomens. Shi Lan had seen many such bodies along the way. Clearly, someone had raised some kind of evil spirit that delighted in feeding on internal organs.

There was no trace of life left in the entire city. It was almost a miniature reflection of the whole Qiongluo Realm.

Shi Lan did not stay long. With a single step, she leaped into midair, then struck downward with one palm, burying the entire city a hundred zhang beneath the earth. She then turned and once more fled into the void.

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“Shriek—”

When Shi Lan stepped out of the spatial passage once more, a wave of heat rushed over her. Lifting her eyes, she saw a blood-colored battlefield.

High in the sky several thousand li away, the crimson giant bird she had seen not long ago was locked in fierce battle with a man clad in silver soft armor.

The crimson ferocious bird carried true Vermilion Bird blood within it, and it was already fully grown. Ordinary eighth-tier supreme powerhouses were simply no match for it.

But at this moment, facing that silver-armored man, it was at a disadvantage. Its body was already covered in wounds, and scorching blood poured down in torrents.

The silver-armored man was not faring easily either. Many places on his armor had been scorched black, and exhaustion was difficult to hide in his expression.

Without outside intervention, this crimson ferocious bird would not escape a defeated and dying end.

For eighth-tier experts, a distance of several thousand li was no different from standing right beside one another. The instant Shi Lan appeared, both of them sensed her.

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Two divine senses swept over at once, and a trace of surprise appeared in the crimson ferocious bird’s eyes.

It also remembered their meeting not long ago, and it was shocked by the speed at which this little thing’s strength had grown.

‘What luck—this really saves me the trouble.’

The silver-armored man sensed Shi Lan’s true nature, and the corners of his lips lifted slightly. A thought flashed through his mind, and his mood brightened at once.

To him, killing this ferocious bird and then conveniently completing his side mission would make this war mission well worth the trip.

To prevent Shi Lan from escaping, he condensed a strand of divine sense and left a mark on her. Even if she got away, he would still be able to sense her location.

What surprised the silver-armored man somewhat was that after seeing him, his target did not flee. Instead, she began slowly drawing closer.

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Shi Lan slowly approached the battlefield between the man and the ferocious beast. She had noticed the divine-sense mark the man had left on her, but paid it no mind as her thoughts raced.

At present, the only things in her hands that could threaten an eighth-tier expert were two items: the World-Ending Divine Thunder and the Solar Flare.

The World-Ending Divine Thunder was a pitch-black bead the size of a longan. Inside it was another space altogether, a world contained within a mustard seed, filled with crimson-black world-ending lightning.

The Solar Flare, meanwhile, was a metal cube that likewise made use of some kind of spatial method.

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She had once tried probing inside it with her divine sense and had nearly been burned. She could only vaguely sense an overwhelming sea of Solar True Fire within, incomparably overbearing.

But by Shi Lan’s own judgment, the threat posed by the World-Ending Divine Thunder was far greater than that of the Solar Flare. The gap between the two was immense.

Against a single eighth-tier expert, with her current strength, the hope of killing him in a direct one-on-one fight was vanishingly small. Even with these two items in hand, she did not have much confidence.

This situation could truly be called a heaven-sent opportunity. The only thing lacking was the right moment to activate those two items.

Even if the system’s mission did not exist, Shi Lan had still intended to give this ferocious bird a hand. At the very least, during their first meeting, it had not attacked her, and had even helped her solve some trouble.

From afar, Shi Lan sent the crimson ferocious bird a voice transmission as a warning, then gradually drew closer to the battlefield.

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The silver-armored man paid no heed to Shi Lan’s approach. He stopped holding back any strength in reserve and went all out, intensifying his offensive. Clearly, he wanted to end the battle as quickly as possible.

The crimson ferocious bird’s strength seemed to have reached the end of its rope, retreating again and again.

Boom!

The silver-armored man, divine sword in hand, slashed down a streak of divine radiance, instantly hacking the crimson ferocious bird thousands of li away.

At the moment the ferocious bird was sent flying backward, its body suddenly shrank and slipped into the void, shooting away ten thousand li in an instant.

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“Trying to run?”

The silver-armored man let out a cold laugh and instinctively glanced in the direction where Shi Lan had been.

Shi Lan’s figure had already vanished without a trace. In midair, a metal cube without the slightest aura fluctuation was flying toward him.

“What is this…?”

A trace of confusion flashed through the silver-armored man’s expression. Out of caution, he did not approach. Instead, he reached out and condensed a giant hand of true essence, grabbing toward the cube.

Bzzz—

The metal cube let out a hum, and in the next instant, an incomparably blinding flash burst forth.

Boom!

Dazzling white divine light, accompanied by peerlessly blazing Solar True Fire, surged out and exploded in an instant!

“Blazing Sun Flash?!”

That thought flashed instinctively through the silver-armored man’s mind, and in the next moment he was swallowed by the Solar True Fire.

The Solar True Fire wrapped within that separate layer of space seemed endless. At a speed beyond description, it devoured the void across tens of thousands of li in an instant. It was as though another great sun had appeared between heaven and earth, melting all things!