Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The elder in green robes widened his eyes greedily.
“The elemental fire is mine!” He shouted, threw away the pickaxe in his hands, and grabbed the ball of fire.
“Hmph!”
An elder in black robes next to him grunted coldly. He flicked his sleeve, and a cold glint shot out. It was a pitch-black throwing knife that emitted negative qi.
The elder in green robes was shocked. He hurriedly activated his defensive Artifact.
However, he was unable to block the throwing knife.
The throwing knife pierced the light barrier and penetrated the elder’s head, causing blood to splatter everywhere.
His body stiffened, and a look of disbelief appeared on his face.
“Idiot!”
The elder in black robes laughed viciously. He reached out his hand and pulled out the elemental fire in the crystal wall.
“Haha! The elemental fire is mine!”
He laughed heartily and charged out with the ball of elemental fire in his hands. However, he suddenly let out an agonized cry. The ball of fire had scorched his right hand and turned it black.
The ball of fire continued to tremble as though it was struggling. It emitted a violent and evil aura.
“This… this is demonic fire!”
He cried out in shock. He swung his hand and was about to throw the ball of fire away.
At that moment, gusts of wind came from all directions and blasted him into bits. After some fighting, the ball of fire fell into the hands of the second person.
Before his hands were warmed, someone snatched the ball of fire.
The fighting became more and more intense, and more and more people fell.
The royalty and the elite disciples retreated to the side. They could not interfere in this battle at all and could only cheer for their own people.
If any of their people died, they would fight with the people from the faction that killed theirs.
More and more onlookers joined in the fight.
Tang Hao remained on the sidelines, weighing the possibility that he could snatch the elemental fire and successfully get away with it.
After all, compared to the elemental fire, his life was more important.
He looked around and frowned.
There were too many people, and nearly half of them were Perfected Masters. Some of them were royalty, some were elders from the major sects, and there were a lot of unaffiliated cultivators too.
As far as he could tell, most of them were in the early period of the State of the Golden Core. However, he could not guarantee that some middle-period cultivators were hiding among the crowd.
With his current cultivation of five chakras and the power of the divine bone, he could fight against a Golden Core cultivator in the early period. He could kill those that were not too powerful, but he would not be able to overcome too many of them.
He would not be able to defeat a middle-period cultivator. After all, he had only unsealed five chakras.
If there were any latter-period cultivators, he was not sure that he could even run away.
‘No, I can’t wait any longer! If I wait any longer, people from the latter period will definitely come. There might be even more powerful ones too. I have to act now.
“The chances aren’t high… I’d be more confident if I had six chakras instead.’
Tang Hao’s brows were tightly knitted as his mind spun.
Suddenly, he transfixed his eyes on the ball of elemental fire.
Then, his eyes sparkled with excitement.
The elemental fire was exactly the opportunity he had been searching for!
A great deal of qi was needed to unseal a chakra. The first two chakras were unsealed by qi pills, and the next three used the power of the divine bone.
The ball of elemental fire was a sentient object, and it must contain a vast amount of qi. With it, he might be able to unseal the sixth or even the seventh chakra.
However, the elemental fire was also extremely deadly. It was much riskier to assimilate the ball of fire than the divine bone.
“With the divine bone, there shouldn’t be a problem!”
Tang Hao gritted his teeth and made his decision.
He took a deep breath. In front of his chest, the divine bone trembled gently, and the qi aura of his body expanded into that of a primordial beast.
His pupils constricted, and his eyes turned beastly and shone with golden light.
He stomped his foot and shot out. In the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of the elder holding the elemental fire.
The elder had only managed to snatch the elemental fire from someone else, and Tang Hao was already in front of him before he could even catch his breath. The elder was shocked by the monstrous killing intent.
Who… was that?
The question appeared in his mind.
He did not have the leisure to ponder that question. In an instant, he waved his hand and activated his defensive Artifact in the form of a shield.
He managed to breathe a sigh of relief after he activated the Artifact.
However, in the next moment, his eyes widened in fear!
That guy had thrown a punch and destroyed his shield.
How was that possible?
Was that guy even human?
Without any loss of momentum, the punch landed on the elder’s chest.
Bang! His body exploded in a bloody mist.
That was the end of a Perfected Master.
The people who were charging forward were stunned. The killing intent in their gaze was replaced by befuddlement.
The onlookers who were watching from afar were also stunned.
It was truly shocking to destroy a Perfected Master with raw physical strength!
They gasped when they saw the appearance of that person closely.
That person was only a young man in his twenties, but his qi aura was as ferocious as a Golden Core cultivator, though he was not one.
“He’s in the awakening period!” Someone exclaimed.
“That can’t be! How can someone in the awakening period explode a Golden Core Perfected Master in one punch? That’s a total joke! How many chakras has he unsealed to have a qi aura like that?”
Everyone was in disbelief.
A cultivator in the awakening period was indeed stronger than one in the peak period, and they might be able to fight against a Golden Core cultivator. However, it was impossible to explode one in a single punch.
They would not believe it, had they not seen it with their own eyes.
Then, they were extremely puzzled.
Who was he? Where did that freak come from?
They knew that several prodigies in the southern region had unsealed three or more chakras, but there were not many, and the identity of every one of them was well-known. They all came from major factions like Martial Mountain and the Yue family.
Only the major factions had the resources to nurture prodigies beyond the third chakra.
The kid was not one of those prodigies.
Moreover, even the top prodigies would not be able to kill a Perfected Master that easily.
… Right?
The chaos in the cave died down. Everyone’s eyes were all focused on the young man who held the ball of elemental fire in his hand.
The people stared at him more than at the elemental fire.
They had various expressions on their faces. Some were shocked, while some were in awe.
Under everyone’s gaze, Tang Hao raised his hand, opened his mouth, and stuffed the ball of elemental fire into his mouth, and swallowed it.
