In the Realm of Red Sun in the Domain of Primal Yang, where the Primal Yang Sect was located.
Seven fierce suns hung high in the sky, baking the earth dry and full of cracks.
Like crimson mountains, solemn majestic palaces that were hundreds of meters high stood in a certain formation in the middle of a vast desert.
It seemed as if the crimson palaces could absorb the suns’ blazing power and store it within them.
Enormous Earth Flame Beasts could be seen crouching under those palaces, with most of their bodies buried in sand. With their gigantic mouths, they breathed in the fiery auras that flew out of the stone walls of the palaces.
Most of the Earth Flame Beasts were at the seventh grade, with a few at the eighth grade.
Meanwhile, Sun Sparrows chirped cheerfully from time to time, standing on the palace roofs. Their unique bloodline talent allowed them to absorb flame power from the suns with the help of the Primal Yang Sect’s Primal Yang Heavenly Grand Formation.
Normally, Sun Sparrows and Earth Flame Beasts only lived in realms with rich flame power.
Even though Sun Sparrows were much smaller than Earth Flame Beasts, the true sunflame they refined was even fiercer than the earthflame refined by Earth Flame Beasts.
A blood-colored stone mountain peak in the shape of a pyramid sat to the north of the Primal Yang Sect’s headquarters.
That was the place the Primal Yang Sect used to imprison sect rebels or crime-ridden villains in the Domain of Primal Yang.
On the smooth outside of the mountain peak hung numerous huge cages that had been forged from different types of metal. Each of them was used to keep one prisoner.
The fifth Son of the Stars, Fang Yuan, and his subordinates could be seen imprisoned in a few cages close to the mountaintop.
All of them had been forced to take spiritual sea-suppressing pills, and thus looked withered and listless.
In the baking sun, Fang Yuan and his subordinates looked like boiled shrimps, red and dripping with sweat.
There was a small stone altar atop the pyramid-shaped mountain peak, on which sat a bulky young man, who was naked from the waist up.
Crimson patterns that looked like tattoos covered his upper body that was full of bulging muscles, which gave him a mysterious look.
SHEW!
An eighth grade Sun Sparrow suddenly flew over and landed obediently on his shoulder.
It started to chirp in a low volume.
The young man’s eyes snapped open, with two clusters of raging flames in the depths of his pupils.
With a cold snort, he frowned and said, “The seventh Son of the Stars is on his way to the Primal Yang Sect? That Nie Tian is also a hybrid, and seems to be very much in the limelight recently. However, he’s only at the Soul realm.
“If he hasn’t entered the Void domain…”
A hint of disdain appeared at the corner of his mouth.
BOOM!
He rose to his feet and burst into a ball of flames before descending to the cage where Fang Yuan was imprisoned.
In the cage, Fang Yuan was dripping with sweat. The moment he saw the man come to a stop in midair right before his cage, he shouted furiously, “Qi Jiaoyang, how dare you imprison me?! Do you know what kind of calamity you’re bringing to your sect by doing this?”
Qi Jiaoyang let out a wild laugh. “Calamity? Don’t tell me that you think the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace can still do whatever they want in the human world. Haven’t you wondered why all thirteen subordinate domains of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace rose in rebellion at the same time? You think it was a coincidence?”
“Who’s been secretly giving you orders?” Fang Yuan asked with a heavy tone.
Wild arrogance filled Qi Jiaoyang’s face as he said, “It won’t be long before you find out yourself. By the way, I just got news that the Seventh Son of the Stars Nie Tian is on his way here. I waited and waited, wondering which elder they’d send. Who would have thought that they’d actually send him?”
Fang Yuan’s expression flickered with astonishment. “Nie Tian?!”
He looked skywards. “He’ll soon be imprisoned here, like you. If someone hadn’t demanded you Sons of the Stars be kept alive, both you and that Nie Tian would have to die.”
With these words, Qi Jiaoyang returned to the mountaintop, where he resumed gathering flame power and refining his bloodline with it.
…
SHEW! SHEW! SHEW!
A few days later, several figures shot from the distant palaces like streaks of fierce flames.
It was as if rivers of flames spread through the sky towards Qi Jiaoyang’s location.
Looking at the figures that came to a stop before him, Qi Jiaoyang frowned and asked in confusion, “Sectmaster, Elders… Why are you here? According to my Sun Sparrow, that Nie Tian set out here by himself. Am I wrong?”
The sectmaster of the Primal Yang Sect, Wu Zhuri said with a grim face, “No, he’s not alone now.”
Qi Jiaoyang went blank for a brief moment before asking, “Who joined him? Master Blood Spirit, Xie Qian, and his other Saint domain subordinate? Hehehe. As long as we’re here and protected by our grand spell formation, what can Saint domain enemies do, no matter how many?”
With these words, he cast a downwards glance at Fang Yuan’s Saint domain subordinates that had been put in neighboring cages. “That’s what’s going to happen to them.”
Those Saint domain subordinates of Fang Yuan had been burned by the doubled might of the true sunflame and earthflame released by the Primal Yang Sect’s grand spell formation, and had eventually been captured alive.
As a sect that had produced God domain experts in their long history, the Primal Yang Sect had profound reserve power, and their Primal Yang Heavenly Grand Formation was revered by all of the major human sects.
There had been a saying that anyone who hadn’t reached the God domain would have all of their spiritual power drained and refined by the grand spell formation and fall captive if they dared to enter it.
In fact, this grand spell formation was one of the reasons why the Primal Yang Sect was so daring.
“Mo Qianfan from the Heavenly Thunder Sect is coming with him,” Wu Zhuri said in a heavy tone.
“Mo Qianfan?” Qi Jiaoyang clicked his tongue and laughed in a derisive manner. “I heard that he’s been attempting to enter the God domain lately. Don’t tell me that you think he can actually do it, Sectmaster. Are we threatened by a man who was scared into a rushed attempt for a breakthrough by the Thunder Devil Yuan Jiuchuan?”
“He…” Wu Zhuri said with difficulty. “He actually succeeded.”
Finally, a shred of fear appeared on Qi Jiaoyang’s face. “That’s impossible! Given my understanding of him, there’s no way he could have broken through into the God domain!”
Wu Zhuri let out a sigh. “Yeah, I also thought that Mo Qianfan didn’t even have the slightest chance at succeeding. However, unexpected things happen all the time. That Son of the Stars Nie Tian somehow helped turn the situation around, allowing him to enter the God domain.
“Afterwards, the Heavenly Thunder Sect specifically sealed the news for our benefit. That’s why we didn’t receive word of it even after so long.
“In contrast, many other sects that don’t have problems with the Heavenly Thunder Sect learned about what happened long ago. Patriarchs like Yin Xingtian, Zhang Qiling, and Li Wanfa even went to the Heavenly Thunder Sect as soon as they got the news.
“And I heard that they’re all on their way to our sect.
“Perhaps it won’t be long before they arrive.”
Wu Zhuri seemed somewhat worried.
“Did it just get dark?” An elder of the Primal Yang Sect suddenly asked, raising his head subconsciously.
Immediately afterwards, another person called out, “It’s not getting dark, but rather starships are here and blocked the suns!”
Upon hearing this, everyone jerked their heads skywards, and saw several ancient starships that looked like enormous Ancientbeasts arriving in the starry river right outside of the Realm of Red Sun, blocking the suns.
“The Heavenly Thunder Sect!”
“The Heavenly Thunder Sect is here to attack us!”
“It must be Nie Tian and Mo Qianfan!”
Exclamations escaped the mouths of the Primal Yang Sect elders as they prepared for battle.
Wu Zhuri pondered for a moment before saying, “The Heavenly Thunder Sect isn’t a subordinate force of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. Normally, they wouldn’t stick their necks out for Nie Tian. However, if Nie Tian actually helped Mo Qianfan enter the God domain…”
He hesitated over whether they should charge into the starry river to face them in battle before the Heavenly Thunder Sect’s starships settled down.
Meanwhile…
On one of the Heavenly Thunder Sect’s starships, Nie Tian and Mo Qianfan stood side by side and gazed at the rosy aura-wreathed realm where the Primal Yang Sect’s headquarters was located.
“Nie Tian, do we negotiate with them first or…?” Mo Qianfan asked in a low voice.
Yin Xingtian, Zhang Qiling, and Li Wanfa, along with numerous elders of the Mo Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Sect, fixed their eyes on Nie Tian, waiting for his decision.
“Bombard the realm barrier. No negotiation.” Nie Tian said.
Mo Qianfan was taken aback. “We’re going to battle without negotiation? Weren’t Fang Yuan and his subordinates imprisoned by the Primal Yang Sect?”
“If they dared to kill them, they would have done it already. They wouldn’t have waited till now.” Nie Tian said with determination. “Now, let’s get started. If anyone from the Primal Yang Sect comes up from down there, kill them with no questions asked.”
Mo Qianfan pondered in silence for a few seconds before saying, “Got it.”
