99: Chapter 99 Taking Chestnuts from the Fire, Crimson Flame Refined Gold

"Big brother!!"

The other Tianluo Sect Cultivator, who was controlling the net-like Magical Artifact, stared with eyes nearly splitting, utterly terrified.

How could he dare to fight any longer? He immediately put away his Magical Artifact, turned, and fled.

"Want to run?"

Su Qinghan's eyes were icy cold as she swung her sword again with a backhand strike.

The ice-blue Sword Qi crossed a distance of dozens of feet, slashing ruthlessly onto the man's back.

"Ah!"

The man shrieked miserably as a bone-deep wound was slashed across his back, his Protective Aura completely shattered.

Risking his severe injuries, he frantically burned his essence blood, transforming into a streak of bloody light and escaping into the poisonous miasma.

Su Qinghan stood where she was, panting heavily, and did not pursue him.

That single strike had already drained more than half of the spiritual power in her body.

She cast a cold glance at the headless corpse on the ground, sheathed her sword, took out a Medicinal Pill to restore her spiritual power, swallowed it, and turned to walk in another direction.

After this battle, Su Qinghan had completely established the illustrious reputation of a Xuantian Sect Sword Cultivator in Qianji Valley.

Hiding in the shadows, Qi Yang watched this smooth and flowing battle, and a hint of admiration couldn't help but appear in his eyes.

"Not bad, brave and resourceful, and her Sword Intent has truly crossed the threshold."

Qi Yang nodded secretly in his heart.

This girl no longer needed him to act as her secret babysitter.

Retracting his gaze, Qi Yang stopped paying attention to Su Qinghan.

He took out his map, confirmed his direction, and with a flash of his body, sneaked toward the active volcano region in the deepest part of Qianji Valley.

His target was the scarlet flame essence gold!

Deep within Qianji Valley, the active volcano region.

The environment here was completely different from the outskirts; the Five Elements poisonous miasma was directly evaporated by the terrifyingly high temperature, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of sulfur and violent fire poison.

The ground presented a dark red color, with churning lava pools and erupting volcanic ash visible everywhere.

For ordinary Cultivators here, even breathing would make them feel as if their lungs and internal organs were burning.

Wearing a gray robe, Qi Yang stood on the edge of the volcanic crater, letting the scorching hot airwaves buffet his face.

The liquid Poison Wood Spiritual Power in his body flowed slowly through his Meridians, swallowing and converting all the invading fire poison.

"This is the place."

Qi Yang looked down at the massive lava lake below.

The lava lake churned and boiled, presenting a heart-palpitating bright red color.

Relying on his abnormal perception, Qi Yang could clearly sense a wave of extremely pure spiritual power, possessing both fire and metal attributes, slowly pulsing in the deepest depths of the lava lake.

scarlet flame essence gold!

A fiery look flashed in Qi Yang's eyes.

As long as he obtained this item, he would only be missing wood and earth out of the Five Elements spiritual materials needed for Foundation Establishment.

But he did not act rashly.

Because above that wave of spiritual power, a colossal creature was perched in the center of the lava lake.

It was a giant lizard over fifty feet long.

Its entire body was covered in dark red, hard scales, with half of its body soaked in the lava. As it breathed, black flames were constantly spewed from its mouth and nose.

A half-step Tier Two Yao Beast, the Magma Fire Lizard!

This creature lived in the lava year-round, and its Physical Body was strong to the extreme; an ordinary low-grade Tier Two Magical Artifact couldn't even pierce a single one of its scales.

Moreover, it naturally controlled fire poison. Once it went wild, even an Early Foundation Establishment Cultivator would have to keep a respectful distance.

"A direct clash definitely won't work. This beast has thick skin and tough flesh, and the lava is its home turf."

Qi Yang rubbed his chin, his mind racing.

The essence of the cautious path style was that if a problem could be solved with brains, one must never use brawn.

Qi Yang took a few steps back, found a concealed crevice in the rocks, and hid inside.

He fished out a jade box from his Storage Pouch, which contained a completely ice-blue Spiritual Plant that emitted a bone-chilling cold.

The extreme cold ice explosion grass.

This was a rare poisonous grass he had previously cultivated in the Nether Grass Field. It was of an extremely cold attribute, and once violently stimulated, it would unleash a terrifying icy poison gas.

Qi Yang took out the black gourd and, without the slightest hesitation, dripped a drop of green liquid.

The extreme cold ice explosion grass was rapidly matured to three hundred years of age, its cold energy so dense it almost condensed into substance.

Afterward, Qi Yang took out a specially-made monster-attracting pill used to attract Yao Beasts.

Using his liquid Poison Wood Spiritual Power, he crushed the extreme cold ice explosion grass and carefully wrapped its poisonous juice at the very core of the monster-attracting pill.

Having done all this, Qi Yang flicked his finger, sending the monster-attracting pill—which emitted a rich, strange fragrance on the outside but hid a deadly ice poison within—flying.

Whoosh!

The monster-attracting pill traced a parabolic arc, landing precisely on a protruding black reef about a hundred feet away from the center of the lava lake.

The strange fragrance rapidly diffused under the catalysis of the high temperature.

The Magma Fire Lizard, which had been dozing in the lava, suddenly snapped open its dark yellow vertical pupils.

It smelled the fragrance emitted by the monster-attracting pill, which held a deadly attraction for Yao Beasts.

Splash!

The Magma Fire Lizard's massive body rose from the lava, bringing with it a downpour of molten rock.

Its limbs were thick and powerful, and with a few leaps, it climbed onto the black reef, opened its bloody maw, and swallowed the monster-attracting pill in one gulp.

Hiding in the shadows, Qi Yang let out a cold laugh.

"Three, two, one... Explode!"

As Qi Yang counted down in his heart,

The Magma Fire Lizard's massive body suddenly went stiff.

Immediately after, a terrifying force of extreme cold exploded violently in its stomach!

How terrifying was the icy poison gas contained within the three-hundred-year-old extreme cold ice explosion grass!

This extreme cold force directly clashed violently with the wild fire poison inside the fire lizard's body!

Ice and fire were completely incompatible!

"Roar!!!"

The Magma Fire Lizard let out a shrill, miserable shriek.

Its massive body rolled and struggled frantically on the reef, and a bizarre blue-red blood actually seeped out from the gaps between its hard scales.

The conflict between ice and fire directly destroyed the originally perfect spiritual power circulation within its body.

Its internal organs were frozen, its Meridians were torn apart, and its originally incomparably formidable Physical Body defense plummeted to its lowest point at this moment!

"Now is the time!"

Killing intent surged in Qi Yang's eyes, and his body shot out from the rock crevice like an arrow from a bowstring.

While still in mid-air, the liquid Poison Wood Spiritual Power inside his body poured out.

"Death God's Scythe!"

Qi Yang pressed his fingers together like a blade, and the dark green Poison Wood Spiritual Power condensed at his fingertips into a massive spiritual power scythe over thirty feet long.

Emitting a sickening corrosive aura, this scythe brought with it a screech that tore through the air, slashing ruthlessly toward the Magma Fire Lizard's vulnerable neck!

Pfft!

There was not the slightest obstruction.

Having lost all its defense under the conflict of ice and fire, the Magma Fire Lizard was utterly powerless to resist this long-premeditated, fatal blow.

Its massive head soared into the sky, dark red monster blood spraying across the horizon like a fountain. Before it could fall into the lava, it was corroded into puffs of white smoke by the Poison Wood Spiritual Power.

Decapitated in a single strike!

Qi Yang landed steadily on the reef. Without casting even a glance at the melting, headless corpse, he sucked with one hand, directly pulling a crystal emitting a dark red glow from the fire lizard's abdomen into his hand.

This was a strange metal the size of a fist, its surface covered with golden patterns.

It felt extremely heavy in his hand, emitting scorching hot fire-system spiritual power and sharp metal-system spiritual power.

scarlet flame essence gold!

"I finally got it."

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Qi Yang quickly packed the scarlet flame essence gold into a specially-made jade box and put it away.

Afterward, he deftly cut off the Magma Fire Lizard's monster core and several intact scales, stuffing them into his Storage Pouch. Finally, he sprinkled corpse-dissolving water, cleaning up the scene completely.

Qi Yang did not linger at the volcanic crater. He slapped on a divine mobility talisman, turned into a gray shadow, and quickly vanished into the endless volcanic ash...