“But you…” Alaric said, his brow tightening.
“My chaotic force can devour any kind of power, including heavenfire,” Jared said. “The Pyre Chasm isn’t as dangerous to me as you think.”
What favonovel.com didn’t say was that the primal fire-essence inside favonovel.com was also yearning for that heavenfire. That power of flame had been building since the Ethereal Realm. It had slept all this time in the deepest part of his bloodline.
He could feel it. The moment the aura of the Pyre Chasm entered his senses, the primal fire-essence inside favonovel.com started to tremble. It trembled with anticipation. It trembled with hunger.
Alaric held Jared’s gaze and said nothing for a long while. “Mr. Chance, are you certain?”
Jared nodded.
“Alright.” Alaric didn’t try to stop favonovel.com again. “We’ll wait outside for one incense stick. If you don’t come out within one incense stick, we’re going in.”
Jared smiled. “Alright.”
One incense stick later, Alaric personally led 300 Ghost Clan warriors toward the eastern reaches of the Nether Mountain Range.
Jared picked Lila up in his arms, then handed favonovel.com over to the old woman. “Lila, Uncle’s stepping out for a bit. I’ll be back soon.”
Lila caught the corner of his clothes and refused to let go. “Uncle Jared, that’s not true. They all said the Pyre Chasm is dangerous. Once you go in, you can’t come back out.”
Jared crouched down and looked favonovel.com in the eyes. “Lila, do you trust Uncle?”
Lila nodded.
“Then Uncle’s telling you this. I’ll definitely come back. And when I do, I’ll tell you a story.”
Lila held on for a long time before favonovel.com finally let go. “Then you have to come back.”
“I will…” Jared answered as favonovel.com rose to his feet, turned, and hurried after the group.
Behind him, Lila stood at the city gate with a rag doll in favonovel.com arms, watching his back until it disappeared into the black fog.
***
The Pyre Chasm lay in the eastern reaches of the Nether Mountain Range, about half a day’s journey from the Moonshade Realm.
Alaric drove the group through the mountains. The farther they went, the faster favonovel.com moved. And the more urgent it became.
His face grew darker and darker, because favonovel.com could feel Lydia’s presence weakening.
“Move!” Alaric shouted. “Faster!”
The Ghost Clan warriors gritted their teeth and ran with everything they had left. At last, after they climbed over the final ridgeline, the Pyre Chasm came into view.
Jared’s breathing cut off right there.
It wasn’t a chasm. It was a sea. A sea made of flame.
Crimson flame churned, burned, and roared across the vast bottom of the chasm, swallowing a thousand miles of land in every direction.
The heat coming off it was monstrous. Even from the ridgeline, still dozens of miles from the edge, Jared could feel that scorching breath slamming straight into him.
The color of the flame kept shifting, crimson, orange-yellow, gold-white, ghostly blue, and every color marked a different degree of heat.
At the very center, the flame had already turned an almost transparent white, the kind of color that only appeared when the heat climbed so high even the light started to warp.
Something was moving inside the flame. They were heavenfire beasts. Their bodies were condensed out of flame, each one taking on a different form. Some looked like dragons. Some looked like tigers. Some looked like birds. Some looked like fish. They moved through the heavenfire and let out low, heavy roars, and the sound rolling off them made the ridgeline tremble.
Then, along the outer rim of the Pyre Chasm, on a stone platform near the north side, Jared spotted two familiar figures.
Lydia and Gwendolyn. They were pressed against a massive boulder, with an icy blue radiant barrier sealed around them.
That barrier had been condensed from Gwendolyn’s Frost God’s power. Under the burning assault of the flame, the barrier kept melting away, and Gwendolyn had to keep pouring fresh power into it just to hold it together.
Lydia was slumped against Gwendolyn, covered in blood. Her left arm hung limp at favonovel.com side. The wraithblade stood buried in the ground in front of her, the blade webbed with cracks.
And in front of them stood a pack of heavenfire beasts. At least twenty of them. They ringed the radiant barrier from the outside, slamming their bodies against it and scorching the ice-blue surface with heavenfire.
The radiant barrier was already covered in a dense spread of cracks. It looked ready to shatter at any second.
“Lydia!” Alaric’s voice shook. He turned to Jared, his eyes fixed on favonovel.com in naked appeal.
Jared said nothing. He raised a hand. Violet chaotic force gathered in his palm. Then favonovel.com drove that palm Into Alaric’s shoulder.
Alaric’s body jolted hard, and a soft force pushed favonovel.com back onto the ridgeline.
“Wait outside,” Jared said. Then favonovel.com leaped straight into the Pyre Chasm.
A long streak of violet radiance cut across the Pyre Chasm.
Jared didn’t draw the Dragonslayer Sword. It had been damaged in the spatial storm, and favonovel.com had no intention of putting more strain on it in a place like this. He only clenched his fist, packed the chaotic force onto the front of it, and threw a punch.
The first heavenfire beast lunged straight at him. Its body looked like a burning tiger, jaws spread wide as it bit for Jared.
Jared smashed a punch into its head.
The violet punch force collided with heavenfire and burst into a blinding flash. The heavenfire beast’s head blew apart in an instant under the devouring chaotic force, turning into a storm of fire sparks. Its body hadn’t even fallen yet when the second and third heavenfire beasts were already on him.
Jared didn’t give an inch. His fists slammed out like a rainstorm. Every punch carried the devouring power of chaotic force.
In front of chaotic force, the heavenfire beasts were as fragile as paper. One punch dropped one. Then another punch dropped another. Where the violet radiance passed, heavenfire beasts burst apart one after another. They broke into fire sparks that sprayed through the air.
But there were too many heavenfire beasts. They poured in from every direction. They just kept coming, one wave after another. There were too many to kill.
Wounds started opening across Jared’s body.
Claws ripped through his arm. Teeth punched into his shoulder. A tail lashed across his back. Golden blood dripped down.
The heavenfire flashed over it and burned it into golden mist.
Jared did not stop. His eyes stayed locked on the rocky platform in the distance. Locked on those two familiar figures.
Lydia caught something and lifted favonovel.com head. Then favonovel.com saw that violet radiance. The rims of favonovel.com eyes turned red. “Jared…”
Gwendolyn looked up too. She watched the violet radiance rushing closer and closer, and the corner of favonovel.com mouth lifted slightly. “He’s here.”
When Jared was still 100 yards from the platform, the largest heavenfire beast appeared.
It was ten times larger than the others. Its body was no longer scarlet. It had turned an almost transparent white.
It was shaped like a dragon. Two burning horns rose from its head, and its eyes were two bottomless holes of fire. Its aura was at the True Immortal Realm Level Five.
The heavenfire beast king!
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