, the Lord of Five Hues, and the Master of Extreme Arrows all turned their gaze toward the immense, towering Lava Demon God. Each one knew clearly that there was no longer time. Especially since Luo Feng and the Lord of Five Hues had been locked in a stalemate, their miniature universes and the Five Hues Realm colliding and shattering—that one second of deadlock had severed their safest escape route.
The safest route would have been to flee underground, burrowing into the earth and reaching a nexus point for an immediate teleportation escape. But now, having lost that single second, it was utterly impossible.
The distances between the four powerhouses were telling. Yintuo, currently encased in the Golden Sulfuric Armor transformed into a golden one-horned lizard, was closest to the Lava Demon God. Luo Feng was second closest, while the Lord of Five Hues and the Master of Extreme Arrows lagged slightly behind. Yet, even at their furthest separation, the four were no more than ten billion kilometers apart—barely the distance of a single stride from the Lava Demon God.
Although Luo Feng had previously offered to let the other three escape if he surrendered the Water Wave Prison, the Palace of Forbidden Reading, the Armor of Annihilation, the Blade Core Realm, and the Golden Sulfuric Armor, who among them could bear to relinquish such treasures? Possessing their most crucial supreme treasures, they still held onto a thread of survival; they had to struggle, no matter what.
“I am unwilling, I am unwilling, I am utterly unwilling!” the golden one-horned lizard shrieked madly. Its massive form began to swell rapidly. Originally composed of the supreme treasure Golden Sulfuric Armor manifested in a beast-god form, it now swelled exponentially under the frantic control of Yintuo within.
In the blink of an eye, it became a colossal golden one-horned lizard stretching hundreds of millions of kilometers.
“Master of Extreme Arrows, come inside.” The Lord of Five Hues waved his hand, and before him materialized a palatial treasure shrouded in crackling lightning—the Forbidden Exhibition Palace, a pinnacle flying palace-type supreme treasure.
“Yes.” The Master of Extreme Arrows did not hesitate and plunged inside.
The Lord of Five Hues shot a cold glance at Luo Feng in the distance before swiftly diving into the Forbidden Exhibition Palace as well.
Luo Feng also flipped his hand, presenting a blood-red pyramid. This Blood-Red Pyramid was, in fact, the Star Tower. Inside the tower resided Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast avatar, which, thanks to the Blood Cloud Bead, specialized in disguise. It could perfectly mimic divine bodies, auras, supreme treasures, and armor. Having previously disguised the Star Tower as a long prism, it now took the form of a blood-red pyramid. Being fundamentally a tower structure, transitioning from its previous nine-story configuration to mimic a blood-red pyramid was relatively easy.
“Whoosh.” Luo Feng swiftly entered the Blood-Red Pyramid.
Luo Feng had previously stalled them, causing them to miss their optimal opportunity. But as supreme powerhouses, they would absolutely not surrender meekly to death; they would fight for every last chance! In this final moment, the Yintuo faction, the Lord of Five Hues and Master of Extreme Arrows faction, and the Luo Feng faction—all three initiated their desperate gambits.
They fought for the faintest chance of survival!
At this instant, Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The endless black rocky ground shattered and cracked in countless places. The towering, gigantic Lava Demon God was entirely coated in searing magma, its three eyes burning with boundless, crazed battle intent. Even Luo Feng, Yintuo, the Lord of Five Hues, and the Master of Extreme Arrows dared not meet the Demon God’s gaze. A direct confrontation meant an onslaught of will that could potentially suppress their strength by half.
Its fangs jutted out, and deep roars erupted from within its colossal body cavity, causing the already solidified space around it to twist and shatter.
“Big, big, big.” The golden one-horned lizard had already attained a monstrous size nearing a billion kilometers.
“Die!”
The Lava Demon God’s three eyes locked onto the small crawler in the distance—the “golden one-horned lizard.” It emitted an invisible wave of sound. Though they hadn't heard the words, Luo Feng, the Lord of Five Hues, and the others, already fleeing for their lives, understood the meaning implicitly.
Come!
The Lava Demon God’s right leg moved. Unlike its previous bounding strides, this leg swung forward with unbelievable speed. That single kick felt to the escaping Luo Feng and the others as if it could punch clean through a small universe—utterly unstoppable. Moreover, the profound mysteries contained within that single kick far surpassed Luo Feng’s comprehension.
Peng! A foot slammed into the massive golden one-horned lizard.
The lizard let out a screech of agony, followed by a resounding Peng! as it completely disintegrated. Fragments sprayed out in all directions; many of the fragments themselves showed signs of cracking, demonstrating that even a single blow had damaged this pinnacle, ultimate-grade psychic weapon supreme treasure.
Amidst the chaotic spray of fragments, countless droplets of water also splashed out, landing upon the vast, endless black rocky ground. These droplets followed the fissures already split in the rock and rapidly seeped downward.
“Hmph.” The Lava Demon God seemed to sense residual life signs beneath the surface and stomped down again. The rocky ground shuddered and boomed anew, instantly annihilating numerous water droplets.
Immediately afterward, the Lava Demon God looked up, noticing the two small flying objects that had plunged into the sea of magma. It could sense two living beings within each projectile.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Inside the Blood-Red Pyramid (Star Tower) were Luo Feng and the Golden Horned Beast avatar. Inside the Forbidden Exhibition Palace were the Lord of Five Hues and the Master of Extreme Arrows. The two flying objects shot upward almost one after the other.
Swish! Swish!
Just as the Lava Demon God crushed the golden one-horned lizard with one stomp, it delivered a second kick, and both flying objects dove into the vast sea of magma above. “Die…” a fluctuating sound rumbled in the Demon God’s throat. It swung its massive hand violently, scooping directly into the magma sea above.
Deep within the endless black rocky earth.
A single water droplet had descended to an extreme depth where spatial fluctuations were already occurring. Swish! It instantly arrived in a distant location.
This was a subterranean cave, located about two hundred light-years from the previous battle site, also deep within the endless rocky earth. The cave was arranged rather elegantly. At this moment, the small, child-like crimson figure materialized out of thin air.
“I’m back,” Yintuo’s body trembled subtly.
He was the unique special lifeform from the First Reincarnation Era: Yintuo. Since he was the only one of his kind, his species was named after him. His divine body wasn't large, but it possessed a unique quality: it could weaken any physical impact force striking his body by a factor of one ten-thousandth. If this were combined with supreme treasure armor that reduced incoming physical attacks by one ten-thousandth, the total reduction would reach one hundred millionth. How terrifying was that? Hence, he was known as the Undying Yintuo.
“The Lava Demon God truly lives up to its name! One strike damaged my Golden Sulfuric Armor, and the second strike annihilated nine-tenths of my dispersed divine body. Fortunately, it was only trampling the ground that affected me, not a direct attack; otherwise, I would certainly have perished this time. Moreover, the Lord of Five Hues and Lord Silverwing also drew its attention, allowing me to escape disaster.” Droplets of water appeared out of nowhere around Yintuo, merging into his divine body and causing it to rapidly recover. Those droplets were components of his divine body; naturally, they returned automatically.
He actually had two choices earlier: either not decompose his divine body and rely on the supreme treasure armor, or decompose it. He knew that under such an impact, the supreme treasure armor could, at best, offer a tenfold reduction, and his undecomposed divine body might have resulted in complete annihilation. Therefore, he had quickly withdrawn his supreme treasure armor, allowing his divine body to completely decompose into countless water droplets the instant the golden one-horned lizard shattered.
The second stomp annihilated nine-tenths of the droplets, but because they were scattered everywhere—some having already seeped deep below—and since they were all clones of a Universe Master, some inevitably survived.
“Only 11 percent of my divine body remains,” Yintuo muttered, his eyes filled with resentment. “And my Golden Sulfuric Armor is damaged, likely possessing less than one-tenth of its former power, and it’s lost out there. I don't know if I can retrieve it.”
“Damn it, damn it all,” Yintuo raged inwardly. His losses this time were catastrophic.
“Lord Silverwing! Lord of Five Hues!” Yintuo seethed with hatred.
“That human is a madman! If he hadn’t gone berserk, how could I be reduced to this state!”
“Lord of Five Hues, that idiot, couldn’t even kill Luo Feng. If he had killed him earlier, I wouldn't be suffering like this! My Golden Sulfuric Armor, my divine body…” Yintuo gnashed his teeth.
“I will not let you two off easily.”
“Lord Silverwing, your Silverwing supreme treasure is so formidable yet you kept it hidden. Its value is no less than the Lord of Five Hues’s Armor of Annihilation.” Yintuo’s eyes gleamed viciously. “You don’t want the outside world to know? I will make certain everyone knows this news!”
“And the Lord of Five Hues, so arrogant, yet you are likely facing the demise of your main body clone thanks to Luo Feng! Haha, a huge scandal, a colossal disgrace! I will spread it, circulate it widely!”
“Neither of you will have an easy time of it,” Yintuo vowed, consumed by hatred for the other two.
In the endless sea of magma.
Whoosh!
A giant arm thrashed through the endless magma, while the Forbidden Exhibition Palace, small as a glass marble, skillfully dodged and advanced. Inside the palace, the Lord of Five Hues and the Master of Extreme Arrows had their faces drawn tight.
“Lord of Five Hues,” the Master of Extreme Arrows finally spoke.
“This is our only chance at life,” the Lord of Five Hues gritted out. “We must traverse this sea of magma, break through to the very top, and reach the Lake of Blazing Water. This journey will likely involve seven layers of mortal peril. The first is the pursuit of this Lava Demon God. However, since the Lava Demon God has awakened, it traditionally does not pursue prey into the magma sea—that is the established pattern.”
The Master of Extreme Arrows nodded in agreement.
From the Ravine of God Extinction, through the endless magma sea, directly to the next dangerous zone, the Lake of Blazing Water. This path was absolutely suicidal! Perhaps only the true peak experts of the universe would dare attempt it.
“Seven layers of mortal peril—we must pass them, we must!” the Lord of Five Hues ground out, madness blazing in his eyes. “Human Lord Silverwing! Lord Silverwing!” he screamed inwardly. He would never forget that all of this was brought about by that insane human, Lord Silverwing.
In the core of the magma sea’s “Magma Vortex.”
The Blood-Red Pyramid was already close to the vortex. Once it plunged in, it rapidly approached the center, allowing the suction force of the vortex to pull it straight into the deepest, most central core of the ‘Magma Vortex.’
“To reach the next dangerous zone above the Ravine of God Extinction, the Lake of Blazing Water, there is a shortcut: piercing straight up through the magma sea,” Luo Feng mused internally. “According to the records left by Jiefanzi, normally traversing the magma sea involves six layers of mortal peril. Even with the Star Tower, I might be trapped in the sea forever.”
“The only viable path is to enter the core of the Magma Vortex.”
“The Magma Vortex core affects the void below, generating ‘Annihilation Whirlwinds.’ The vortex core inside the magma sea is even more terrifying; the deeper it goes, the stronger the crushing power, capable of shattering even pinnacle palace-type supreme treasures.”
“But if one possesses a supreme palace-type supreme treasure, one can withstand the crushing force and follow the vortex channel deeper and deeper into the magma sea, accelerating exponentially, reaching speeds beyond a hundred times the speed of light, and being delivered directly to the Lake of Blazing Water.”
“It is a path of death for others,” Luo Feng concluded, anticipation in his eyes. “But for those possessing a supreme palace-type supreme treasure, this seemingly most terrifying Magma Vortex core becomes the safest route. Although the Lake of Blazing Water wasn't on my initial planned route, it’s just a slight detour. It’s worth it!”