Ye Chen frowned, expanding his spiritual perception. In this world of flames it met no resistance, swiftly covering tens of millions of miles - yet all he sensed was the searing heat.
"This world... how vast is its expanse?"
His mental command sent him teleporting forward at lightning speed while stretching his awareness to near-light-year range, like a colossal radar sweeping the void.
"No."
"No."
"Still nothing."
After probing over a hundred light-years in every direction, Ye Chen hadn't detected even a hint of Heaven-Sundering Weapon energy. Instruments of such magnitude should radiate annihilation-level aura detectable from vast distances. The absence suggested these surroundings simply lacked them entirely.
Frowning at the endless crimson inferno below, he accelerated once more - this time diving downward through the fire sea rather than flying straight ahead. As he descended deeper, his vision revealed a smooth coppery-red metallic plate millions of kilometers beneath him, burning with unrelenting flames that stretched for eons in all directions.
"Could this be the landmass?" Ye Chen blinked in astonishment, realizing these infernos originated from the self-combusting red metal sheet. The sheer scale was staggering - his hundred-light-year scans had only scratched its surface.
He flew directly along the metallic plane, stretching perception to a full light-year radius while pushing into deeper exploration. His spirit itself began transforming under the searing trials of this fire world, expanding from one to five light-years in diameter through each teleportation leap covering 100 million kilometers.
At some point he reached what appeared to be the edge of the red copper plate. Beyond it stretched an unfathomable void where countless fiery orbs hung like lanterns in cosmic night - a universe of flaming stars radiating ultraviolet intensity capable of reducing ordinary beings to ash within moments.
Ye Chen pierced through these stellar infernos, his perception expanding further until he reached seven light-years across. Finally at the edge of this fire-filled cosmos, he beheld an impossible spectacle: a multicolored rainbow spanning the entire sky in intricate patterns that shimmered with hypnotic beauty and searing heat.
Navigating through the dazzling spectrum, he recognized this wasn't mere light - it was another type of flame designed to seduce all five senses. His own black flames acted as sovereign fire, repelling everything as he pressed forward until reaching an enormous blood-red lotus spanning millions of star systems in size.
"This is no ordinary collection," Ye Chen mused, watching the celestial blossom expand before him. Then realization struck like lightning - these weren't just decorative fires, they might be the Heaven-Sundering Weapon itself!
As he approached to investigate, a figure emerged from the flames: a girl with porcelain skin and crimson silk trailing in fire-wracked air. Her amber eyes locked onto Ye Chen even as the blood lotus beneath them trembled violently.
"You trespass," she hissed, summoning walls of flame that crashed toward him like tidal waves. The temperature spiked to terrifying levels as the flower itself seemed to awaken.
"Who are you?" Ye Chen countered, black flames swirling to form a void-punch against her assault. "I've been granted safe passage by Fireblood Phoenix - cease this immediately!"
The girl snarled through fire-laced breath. "Your power is nothing compared to what awaits in the true Heaven-Sundering Weapon!" With that declaration, the entire cosmic lotus erupted with cataclysmic force as she unleashed the full fury of its divine wrath.