Chapter 1205, Yuan Burning Lightning

Translator: Silavin

  

The Heaven Burning Array was an extraordinarily domineering Array.

 

Within its bounds, fierce flames burned without ceasing. Yet these were no ordinary flames. They were fires condensed from the World Energy of Heaven and Earth.

 

Even a Peak Stage Martial Ancestor could not endure these flames for very long.

 

What made it most fearsome was this: for any expert below the Saint Realm who entered the Array, a single moment of carelessness could ignite the Yuan Energy within their body, causing it to burn from the inside out. It was a form of self-immolation which there was no return from. The sheer savagery of it was enough to make one’s tongue click in disbelief.

 

Perhaps it was for precisely this reason that the Azure Sky Demonic Flood Dragon, not yet having broken through to the Saint Realm, had halted here and refused to go any further.

 

Without Saint Prestige, one simply could not withstand the flames of the Heaven Burning Array. Had it dared enter, it would have been reduced to a smear of ash in no time at all.

 

For all its greed, the Azure Sky Demonic Flood Dragon was, it had to be said, rather self-aware of its own limitations.

 

As for why it had told Qin Yichen about the Ten Thousand Year Old Earth Vein Liquid, the reason was surely to get its Beast Core and Sacred Energy Fruit returned. In its estimation, with the Heaven Burning Array present, no matter how many strange tricks Qin Yichen possessed, he would be unable to enter and claim the prize.

 

What the Azure Sky Demonic Flood Dragon did not know, however, was that while the Heaven Burning Array was a tricky business, Qin Yichen cultivated both Spiritual Energy and Martial Arts. Using Spiritual Energy to resist the invasion of the Heaven Burning Array’s flames was, for him, nothing short of child’s play.

 

And so, Qin Yichen gathered his aura, suppressing the Yuan Energy within his body entirely. Beneath an invisible Spiritual Energy barrier, his figure shot swiftly downward toward the plaza below.

 

Having entered the Heaven Burning Array, Qin Yichen kept his Spiritual Energy spread wide, alert at every moment to the movements around him. Using the Heaven Burning Array as the outermost layer of protection, in a place of unknown nature such as this, no one could say whether any other dangers lurked within.

 

“Oh?”

 

And sure enough, Qin Yichen had not been overly suspicious. Barely had he slipped into the Heaven Burning Array when a subtle disturbance stirred in the surrounding space.

 

The disturbance was detected by Qin Yichen in the same instant it arose. His gaze sharpened, and then he saw it: throughout the space around him, flickers of firelight were coalescing one after another. Within those flickers, what appeared to be round, reddish spheres, each roughly the size of a fist.

 

From those spheres, an explosive, violent wave radiated outward, one that caused even Qin Yichen’s expression to shift slightly.

 

“Yuan Burning Lightning!”

 

Qin Yichen recognised these spheres with their ferocious aura.

 

The Yuan Burning Lightning was condensed from the most pure World Energy, yet it was extraordinarily volatile. The lightest touch would cause it to explode, and its destructive power was immense. Even a single one carried enough force to inflict grievous injury upon a Peak Stage Martial Ancestor. With enough of them, even a Saint would be unable to walk away unscathed.

 

And by all appearances, the number of Yuan Burning Lightning spheres surrounding Qin Yichen had already reached a truly fearsome count.

 

Qin Yichen’s gaze swept the Yuan Burning Lightning scattered in every direction around him, his expression growing exceptionally grave.

 

Without clearing away these Yuan Burning Lightning spheres, he simply could not advance any further.

 

“There is only one thing for it.” He cast his gaze down at the plaza, gritted his teeth, slowed his pace, and continued to descend.

 

Even with all of Qin Yichen’s care, however, avoiding every single Yuan Burning Lightning sphere was an impossibility. Within just a few metres, he brushed against one of the small red spheres.

 

*Bang!*

 

The force of the explosion sent the blood and Qi within Qin Yichen’s body churning violently. What was more, inside the Heaven Burning Array, he dared not invoke Yuan Energy to suppress the upheaval.

 

It was just fortunate that Qin Yichen’s physical body far surpassed that of experts in the same realm. Had it been otherwise, that single explosion would have been enough to strip an unprotected peak Martial Ancestor of all capacity to act.

 

“Oh?”

 

But even as Qin Yichen strained to suppress the churning blood and Qi within him, he suddenly became aware of a mighty, vast Yuan Energy flowing into his body from within the explosion’s aftermath.

 

This Yuan Energy did not enter his meridians. Instead, it spread through every limb and bone, with traces of that violent energy still laced within it, sending a numb, prickling sensation through his entire body.

 

This Yuan Energy was, in fact, tempering his physical body from the inside out.

 

A look of delighted surprise washed over Qin Yichen’s face. He immediately guided the energy that had surged into his body along the Supreme Tyrant Body’s circulation route, and beneath that influx, he could even sense his physical body, which had already reached what he had thought was a limit, now carrying the feeling of growing ever stronger.

 

After resting for a brief moment, Qin Yichen drew a deep breath and descended once more. This time, however, he no longer made any deliberate effort to dodge the Yuan Burning Lightning spheres drifting in mid-air. Instead, he let them be triggered freely.

 

*Boom! Boom!*

 

The thunderous roars rang out one after another without cease. The blood and Qi within Qin Yichen’s body was sent churning repeatedly by the blasts. At one point, three Yuan Burning Lightning spheres detonated simultaneously, sending him spewing a mouthful of blood.

 

But each explosion, and the flood of energy it brought pouring into him, left Qin Yichen all the richer for it.

 

“He is using those terrifying things to temper himself?”

 

At that moment, above Qin Yichen, beyond the curtain of lava, the Azure Sky Demonic Flood Dragon stared in bewilderment at the plaza overhead, where the rumbling never ceased, its heart filling with nothing short of horror.

 

In an earlier time, when it had first discovered there was Ten Thousand Year Old Earth Vein Liquid below, it had charged in without a second thought.

 

But the Heaven Burning Array had delivered it a profound lesson for its recklessness. Even after it had managed to detect the Array’s strange nature in time, suppressing the spontaneous combustion of its Yuan Energy, it had narrowly escaped being buried within those terrifying Yuan Burning Lightning spheres.

 

For those deceptively innocuous-looking spheres, whose explosive power was nothing short of horrifying, the Azure Sky Demonic Flood Dragon had already developed a deeply ingrained dread for them.

 

And yet, here was Qin Yichen, charging through like some rampaging beast, making no effort whatsoever to dodge. He had not even invoked that armour with its terrifying defensive capability, simply crashing his way through.

 

Dishevelled and wretched-looking as he appeared at this moment, the Azure Sky Demonic Flood Dragon could nonetheless sense that Qin Yichen had not sustained any truly grievous harm. Extraordinarily, beneath those very explosions, his physical body seemed to be growing stronger.

 

“Just what Race is he?”

 

The Azure Sky Demonic Flood Dragon’s expression was profoundly grim. It had originally calculated that by sending Qin Yichen down there, the best outcome would be for him to perish within it, at which point the Beast Core and Sacred Energy Fruit might still be recovered.

 

But as things stood, this young man’s performance had completely unturned its every expectation. There was a real chance he might actually break through that peculiar Array and reach the place inside.