by Feng Yise
"Yuan Fei, I'm out of time. I'll leave this place to you. Just an Earth Flame Lizard King that did not awaken its inherited memories. It shouldn't be an issue for you, right?"
"Rest assured, Young Master. Leave this place to me."
"Alright. I'll pass the spatial artifact to you. Clean this place up and then hide inside the spatial artifact and don't come out! There are two powerful fellows up there. You aren't their match."
"Alright, Yuan Fei understands. Yuan Fei assists Young Master to open up the path!"
Finishing, Yuan Fei brought along a large number of Long-arm Stone Apes and directly headed for the Earth Flame Lizard King to crush it.
While they were both Tier 3 demonic beasts, having awakened inherited memories and not awakening inherited memories were two completely different concepts.
And Yuan Fei brought along the Long-arm Stone Apes to attack the Earth Flame Lizard King at once. He simply could not hold his own and instantly made space for a path.
Ye Yuan hesitated no more and directly rushed over!
Chapter 169 - Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus!
The counterattack was not as tragic as imagined. Yuan Fei brought along a bunch of Long-arm Stone Apes and directly burst open a large entrance.
That Earth Flame Lizard King was taken by surprise when he saw Yuan Fei who suddenly appeared; it was not prepared to react with an effective response.
Yuan Fei had awakened his inherited memories. His intelligence already did not lose out to humans. It was not the slightest bit inferior when compared to Tier 5, Taking Form demonic beasts.
Making him lead a team was clearly much formidable compared to the Earth Flame Lizard King.
Ye Yuan did not hesitate and directly rushed over to the big entrance.
His movement technique was extremely fast, and very quickly, he vanished from within the tangled melee troops and headed deeper into the cave.
Ye Yuan discovered that the deeper he went, the wider this underground cave became.
Finally, he arrived at the end of the cave. This place was actually a vast underground plaza.
The plaza was entirely empty. Other than underground rocks, there was the lava which occasionally shot up.
At the end of the place was a very large magma pool.
Ye Yuan took a step into the plaza and instantaneously felt the exceedingly horrifying heatwave coming from the direction of the magma pool as if it wanted to incinerate some into oblivion.
"Really didn't expect that the treasure which came into being this time is actually the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus! This underground magma can actually give birth to the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus, truly inconceivable. Although it's newly formed, it already possesses the Tier 4 Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame!"
Seeing that horrifying heatwave, Ye Yuan did not get worried. Instead, he was delighted that it went beyond his expectations!
In this stretch of heaven and earth, apart from the Divine Realm, there were countless Lower Realm planes. The types of essence fires were also beyond count.
There was once a major power from the Divine Realm who added up the statistical data, classifying all the known essence fires into categories and compiling them into a book. Listed on it were several thousand types of essence fires from Tier 1 to Tier 9!
And the newborn Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame was a pinnacle existence among Tier 4 essence fires!
The Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame could not exist independently. Instead, it was the accompanying essence fire of the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus. As long as one refined the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus, the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame would become theirs.
Not only that, the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame was the most suitable essence fire for alchemists among all the Tier 4 essence fires and even among higher tier fires!
Because the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame had a built-in attribute, and that was cleansing all creation!
A lotus symbolized sanctity, and this Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus was exceptional even among lotuses.
If alchemists could properly employ the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame, they could purify the impurities in medicinal pills when refining pills and make the quality of the medicinal pills rise to another level!
Apart from this, the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame by itself could even refine an avatar body, which could allow Ye Yuan's power to improve a step further!
Hence, when Ye Yuan saw the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame at first sight, he was also indescribably excited!
This Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame was simply custom-made for him!
If it were during his previous life, a newborn Tier 4 essence fire naturally would not be placed in his sights. But now, this could become an extremely huge aid to him!
Even with Ye Yuan's Heart Like Still Water realm, his heart also could not help palpitating with excitement.
Ye Yuan took a step forward towards the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame. But right then, an instinctive warning suddenly arose!
Even though he did not turn his head back, Ye Yuan could sense that there was an extremely powerful palm wind attacking from behind.
Ye Yuan directly displayed the Nine Swords Stance movement technique without thinking at all and turned into nine Ye Yuans.
Bang!
Not far off, a rock was struck by the palm wind and instantly turned into fine powder!
The might of a single palm was overwhelmingly powerful!
"Tch tch, I didn't think that a paltry little First Level Spirit Condensation Realm could not only recognize the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame, but you can also even avoid my Soul Chasing Palm! Truly remarkable! Your movement technique just now seemed to be quite interesting!"
The ambusher did not seem to have the intention of hunting him down, instead, started to praise Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan turned around. A middle-aged man who appeared slightly aged showed up on the path he came from and actually cut off his path of retreat!
It looked like this fellow knew that someone was coming and had long laid in ambush here.
"Senior, as a Crystal Formation Realm martial artist, you sneak attacked a junior. If this spreads out, it wouldn't be proper, don't you think?" Ye Yuan said icily.
"Haha, there's only the two of us here. As long as you die, it naturally won't spread out. We demonic beast hunters put the word benefit as the top priority. We have never bothered with these conventional rules. As long as I can kill you, I don't mind sneak attacking."
The middle-aged man was not ashamed, but took pride in it instead,
Ye Yuan was also secretly astonished when he saw this middle-aged man.
This person can actually hide from the eyes and ears of Black Crow Old Man and the Golden Sword Condor and secretly sneak into the cave. It seemed like he had some capabilities.
Without talking about other things, just this one ability of concealment was most like eminent among the demonic beast hunters.
However, to actually encounter a Crystal Formation Realm demonic beast hunter made Ye Yuan feel quite surprised.
Crystal Formation Realm martial artists tended to be proud and normally would not impersonate as demonic beast hunters. According to what Ye Yuan knew, the State of Qin did not seem to have Crystal Formation Realm demonic beast hunters. And this demonic beast hunter was also an Alchemy Grandmaster!
It seemed like this person should be a reclusive powerhouse or some other country's Crystal Formation Realm martial artist.
From the undulation of the middle-aged man's divine soul, Ye Yuan could determine his strength.
"But pity, Senior still failed to kill me." Ye Yuan said lightly.
"It doesn't matter. You already have no way of escaping. You can only fight head-on with me. I don't think that a First Level Spirit Condensation Realm brat can escape with his life under my, Fang Yaojiang's' hands."
Ye Yuan's face darkened. It was clear what is Fang Yaojiang said was the truth. The situation was very unfavorable to him right now!
"S
enior really have the confidence to kill me just like this? Or should I say, do you have the certainty of killing me in this short time? Don't forget, Senior; there are still two even more powerful people outside glaring covetously! If I try everything to delay senior and wait until any one of those two arrives, at most the outcome is everyone fights it out to the death. Even if senior really kills me, I'm afraid that you also won't have the time to retrieve the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame. Am I right?" Ye Yuan said with a cold smile.
Fang YaoJiang's face changed. It was clear that Ye Yuan struck his sore spot.
Ye Yuan's movement skill just now made him feel quite fearful. Although a First Level Spirit Condensation Realm did not pose any threat to him, with that movement technique there, it probably would not be such an easy matter to have a quick battle.
Initially, he saw a Spirit Condensation Realm brat breaking in here recklessly and thought that he could get some petty gains. But he did not expect it to become a burning potato.
"Humph! What a rampant junior! Do you really think that I can't do anything to you?" Fang Yaojiang said stubbornly with a black face.
"It's not that I'm rampant. I'm just stating a fact. And even if Senior kills me, I'm afraid that you will also find it hard to subdue the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame, right?" Ye Yuan said calmly.
The Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame was a Tier 4 essence fire, and the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus itself was not something to be messed with. This Fang Yaojiang was only a First Level Crystal Formation Realm martial artist. His soul strength only at the low-rank Alchemy Grandmaster. Wanting to subdue the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame was way too difficult.
He himself already knew about this point. That was why he was in no rush to make a move but laid in here to ambush Ye Yuan.
When martial artists were subduing essence fires, the vast majority would subdue essence fires close to the level of their own strength. Leaping ranks to subdue essence fires would basically result in the outcome of being burned to ashes.
Of course, this excluded Ye Yuan.
As an Alchemy Emperor, he was the ancestor of playing with fire. Even though his strength was a little poor at the moment, he still had the means to subdue a Tier 4 essence fire.
Chapter 170 - Capital to Negotiate!
"Humph! Whether I'm able to obtain the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame or not, that is my business. But you must die now! I'll kill you first and then slowly think of a plan."
Having Ye Yuan expose his awkward situation, Fang Yaojiang appeared to have turned angry from embarrassment.
His current situation was just like walking into a gold mountain but lacking the tools to take away this gold mountain. This sort of feeling was really quite unpleasant.
Yet, Ye Yuan just had to mercilessly expose this point. How could this not make Fang Yaojiang pissed?
Ye Yuan ridiculed relentlessly, "Slowly think of a way? You aren't naïve enough to think that those two fellows outside will leave you alone to slowly think of a way, right?"
Fang Yaojiang's face was rather black. Killing a First Level Spirit Condensation Realm brat did not affect the overall situation. Those two outside were the truly troublesome existences.
He expended enormous effort before managing to conceal himself from those two's eyes and ears and entering here. Yet, he could see the things but not eat them. How could this not upset him?
"Just what are you trying to say?" Fang Yaojiang could also tell that Ye Yuan's words had another meaning as he asked with a black face.
"If I can help Senior get the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus, I wonder if Senior is willing to let me off?" Ye Yuan asked.
Fang Yaojiang burst into laughter when he heard him and said, "You? Stop joking! Even I, a Crystal Formation Realm martial artist can't do it. You're only at the First Level Spirit Condensation Realm, and yet you say that you can help me subdue the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus? Seriously making me die of laughter! Don't rack your brains to make me let you off. That's impossible!"
"Is that so?"
Ye Yuan also did not waste his breath anymore. With a step forward, he arrived at the edge of the magma pool.
The Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus was a spiritual object born from heaven and earth. Although it had not unlocked sentience, it had its instinctive consciousness.
It noticed that somebody approached and seemed to have suffered a shock. The lotus actually spat out a bundle of flame tongues which attacked Ye Yuan!
Fang Yaojiang snickered coldly and did not plan on stopping Ye Yuan's actions. This brat courting death himself saved him some trouble.
The Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame was a Tier 4 essence fire. A First Level Spirit Condensation Realm rookie would die upon contact with it.
Even if this was just the instinctive attack of the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus, its might was very terrifying. Even Fang Yaojiang himself did not dare to easily challenge this Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame, let alone a First Level Spirit Condensation Realm.
Fang Yaojiang seemed to have seen the outcome of Ye Yuan being burned to cinders.
But in the next moment, when that bundle of flame tongues extended in front of Ye Yuan, Fang Yaojiang's pupils constricted as if he witnessed something unbelievable!
"This . . . How is this possible? That's a Tier 4 essence fire! Even if Crystal Formation Realm martial artists touched it, it would virtually be certain death! This First Level Spirit Condensation Realm brat is actually completely fine?"
Even though there were a hundred disbeliefs in his heart, the reality that happened in front of his eyes left him no choice but to believe it. The Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame really could not do anything to Ye Yuan!
That bundle of Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame was surging with tumultuous momentum just like a fierce tiger. But when that 'fierce tiger' arrived in front of Ye Yuan, it became incomparably docile; just like a tame little kitty.
After which, Ye Yuan waved a single hand, and that bundle of Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame dissipated into nothing.
This . . . was too incomprehensible.
Oh, right, that brat seemed to have formed a set of seals. It was just that with Fang Yaojiang's realm and horizon, he actually could not understand at all!
This brat is bizarre!
Ye Yuan showed this move and then floated back, saying to Fang Yaojiang with a smile, "Not sure if I have the capital to negotiate with Senior now?"
Only now did Fang Yaojiang recover and said, "Of course! To think that you actually have such an ingenious fire controlling seal. Since that's the case, of course you have the ch.i.p.s to negotiate. However, I want to add a condition, and that is you have to teach this fire controlling seal to me!"
A greedy look flashed across Fang Yaojiang's eyes.
A complex expression appeared on Ye Yuan's face. "This . . . This is passed down from my ancestors. My family's elders will punish me if I rashly impart this to senior!"
"Haha, there's only the two of us here. You don't say, I don't talk, who would know? At the very most, I'll swear an oath to never display this seal in front of others in the future. But if you don't teach me the seal, I'd rather kill you! If you don't even have your life, then what's the talk about punishment?"
The current Fang Yaojiang was like a big gray wolf as he started to intimidate with threats and beguile with benefits.
Ye Yuan was silent for a moment and seemed to be having an intense inner struggle. Fang Yaojiang also did not rush him. He was grasping Ye Yuan's life and death right now. There was no need to rush.
"Fine then, but Senior must swear to never display this seal in front of other people. Otherwise, Junior's name will be removed from the family clan!" Ye Yuan said rather worriedly.
"But of course!" Fang Yaojiang agreed right away.
"Heh heh, looks like this brat came out of some hermit family clan for a trial test, but is a fledgling who has yet to experience worldly affairs. After your father learns this seal technique, how can I let you leave? If you were to
return and call for reinforcements or something, then wouldn't I, Fang Yaojiang, have no path to the heaven and no door into the earth? A hermit family clan that can possess such a remarkable seal is definitely extremely powerful. Hence, a dead person is more reliable!" Fang Yaojiang laughed coldly in his heart.
It was very evident that Fang Yaojiang did not plan on letting Ye Yuan leave from the start and already had the intent to kill.
An overjoyed expression showed up on Ye Yuan's face when he heard that Fang Yaojiang agreed. "Okay. Senior, swear a Heavenly Dao Oath first, and then we'll work together to subdue the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame. After subduing the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame and we leave, I'll then teach this fire controlling seal to senior. Otherwise, our small lives will be hard to keep if we wait for those two to come in."
Fang Yaojiang also felt that Ye Yuan's arrangements were very appropriate when he heard it. So he nodded and answered, "Fine, do as you said."
"My strength is still insufficient and can only forcefully pin down the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame. The matter regarding subduing the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus will have to be up to senior yourself," Ye Yuan said.
"Haha, that's natural. As long as you lure the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame away, leave the rest for me to do." Fang Yaojiang patted his c.h.e.s.t and said.
What he dreaded was the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame. As long as Ye Yuan could draw away the Cleansing Sandal Sacred Flame, wouldn't refining the Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus be very easy for him?
"Alright, there's no time to lose. We'll make a move now. We can't drag any longer!"
Ye Yuan finished talking and directly turned around and headed for the magma pool. At this moment, he was not worried that Fang Yaojiang would suddenly deal a pre-emptive strike from the back, because the benefits Ye Yuan brought him was too great.
The Cleansing Sandal Flame Lotus plus the fire controlling sea was enough to let Fang Yaojiang's strength rise several levels. How could he let this pass?
As for Fang Yaojiang's schemes, how could Ye Yuan not know? He was just playing along with the other party's acting.