74: Fourth Soul Skill

"Roar—!"

The Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard was completely enraged.

It felt a strange, burning pain deep within its body, as if scorching from its very bones, and the humiliation brought by that momentary stagnation.

It roared to the sky, and the dark golden flames flowing over its body suddenly surged, instantly raising the temperature of the entire cave to a terrifying degree.

Between the gaps of the Crimson Crystal armor covering its entire body, the dark golden light flared brightly.

"Not good! It's going to use its primal power!"

A warning bell rang in Mo Yuhan's heart. He floated in mid-air, looking at the giant beast below, which resembled a lava demon god, his thoughts racing.

A direct assault wouldn't work; he had to find a weakness and kill it in one blow.

Its defense was too strong, especially its head and back... its abdomen?

When he struck its flank just now, the crystal armor there seemed relatively weak.

Furthermore, the earth fire molten core within its body, like a small sun, should be its source of power and its greatest weakness, but to attack there...

The Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard's massive mouth opened again. This time, it didn't spew a pillar of fire, but instead frantically condensed a golden-red, terrifying fire sphere within its mouth, as if a lava storm was swirling inside it.

The energy fluctuations emanating from the fire sphere caused the space of the entire cave to begin distorting. This was its ultimate move, accumulating its primal power.

At the same time, its thick tail violently plunged into the lava river beneath it, stirring furiously.

Immediately, dozens of scorching lava streams, like living fire snakes, shot up from the lava river, carrying shrill whistles, and twisted towards Mo Yuhan in the air from all directions, sealing off all his evasion space.

There was no way to heaven, no door to earth.

A fatal crisis instantly descended.

Mo Yuhan's eyes sharpened. Far from panicking, a hint of madness flashed in them. "Now!"

He abruptly retracted his Eagle Wings, his body plummeting like a meteor towards the giant mouth below that was condensing the terrifying fire sphere. This was a completely suicidal act.

"Phoenix Flight Step, Reverse Sky!"

Halfway through his dive, just as he was about to be swallowed by the lava fire snakes, a brilliant green light erupted from beneath his feet.

The profound mystery of the Phoenix Flight Step was unleashed in reverse, and his downward momentum was suddenly reversed.

His body was pulled upward as if by an invisible rope, narrowly avoiding the interwoven lava fire net below by a hair's breadth, drawing a bizarre zigzag line, and his speed surged, targeting the relatively soft jaw and throat area of the Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard, which was exposed as it tilted its head to condense the fire sphere.

"Xuan Huang Lion Flame Crash, Extreme!"

He poured all his Soul Power and Dou Qi into this single strike.

The purple flame lion-shaped armor on his body burned to its extreme, and the outline of the lion's head was as clear as a solid object.

His entire being transformed into a purple-gold spear that tore through space.

"Pfft—!"

The purple-gold spear, imbued with all of Mo Yuhan's power, fiercely pierced through the relatively weaker crystal armor protection of the Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard's lower jaw.

The violent Xuan Huang Purple Flame surged wildly into the wound. This time, it was no longer a test, but a fatal invasion.

Its target was the violently pulsating earth fire molten core within its body, which resembled a small sun.

"Awoo—!!!"

The Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard let out an unprecedented, agonizing scream of extreme pain.

The terrifying fire sphere in its mouth instantly disintegrated due to the intense pain and uncontrolled energy! Its massive body twisted wildly, its giant claws flailed indiscriminately, and its tail swept wildly, smashing the cave walls and sending debris flying.

After successfully landing a blow, Mo Yuhan immediately used the recoil from the impact, spreading his Eagle Wings again, and shot backward like a startled bird, narrowly avoiding the opponent's desperate counterattack before its death. He landed on a protruding rock in the distance, panting heavily, his face as pale as paper.

That single strike had almost completely drained him of all his power.

If he still couldn't kill this Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard, no matter how unwilling he was, he would have no choice but to retreat disheartened.

Fortunately, the Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard's struggles grew weaker and weaker.

The Xuan Huang Purple Flame that had invaded its body was like a maggot in the bone, carrying the characteristic of primal burning, frantically destroying its vitality.

Under Mo Yuhan's precise control, it went straight to the core, scorching the earth fire molten core.

The indestructible Crimson Crystal armor on its body rapidly dimmed, and cracks spread.

Finally, accompanied by an unwilling wail, this overlord of the lava cave crashed to the ground, its massive body stirring up a sky full of dust and hot rubble.

A spirit ring, as deep as black crystal but with dark golden and purple-golden flames flickering at its edges, slowly emerged from its gigantic corpse, emitting heart-palpitating energy fluctuations!

A ten-thousand-year spirit ring!

Mo Yuhan looked at the deep and powerful spirit ring, his eyes bursting with fervent light.

He propped up his weakened body, sat cross-legged, circulated his Soul Power, and began to draw in the spirit ring.

The spirit ring descended, instantly merging into his body.

A terrifying torrent of energy, like a volcanic eruption and a reverse flow of lava, instantly rushed into his limbs and bones.

It was far more violent, hotter, and heavier than when he absorbed the first three spirit rings.

Mo Yuhan felt as if his body was about to explode, to be melted.

The intense pain caused his muscles to spasm all over, his skin instantly turned crimson, and his blood vessels bulged.

"Xuan Huang Purple Flame, Refine!"

He roared in his heart, fully activating his Spirit.

The dark and heavy Xuan Huang Purple Flame instantly enveloped his entire body, frantically refining and guiding this violent spirit ring energy.

The Spirit's essence and the residual Crimson Crystal Hellfire Lizard's essence within the spirit ring produced intense resonance and confrontation. The power of the earth and the violent earth fire, the profound heaviness of Xuan Huang and the violentness of purple crystal, engaged in a tug-of-war within Mo Yuhan's body.

Time flowed in extreme pain. Mo Yuhan's body was like a battlefield, sometimes as red as a furnace, sometimes as dark as the earth, with purple-gold light flickering on and off his body.

He gritted his teeth, blood seeping from the corners of his mouth, enduring with incredibly tenacious willpower, guiding the violent energy to impact the solid barrier between Dou Zhe and Dou Shi.

After an unknown amount of time, when that violent torrent of energy was finally initially tamed by the Xuan Huang Purple Flame, flowing into his Dantian Qi Sea like a hundred rivers returning to the sea—

"Boom!"

A thunderous sound seemed to erupt within Mo Yuhan's body.

A powerful aura, several times stronger than before, suddenly burst forth! The surrounding rubble was pushed away by an invisible wave of energy.

He had finally broken through the shackles of a Nine-star Dou Zhe and officially advanced to the Dou Shi realm!

His Soul Power also reached Spirit Ancestor level 41!

At the same time, information about his Fourth Spirit Ability clearly appeared in his mind, as if branded there:

Fourth Spirit Ability: Earth Vein Molten Blast!

Form: When activated, the Xuan Huang Purple Flame no longer covers the entire body, but instead frantically gathers in a certain part of the body like a liquid, highly compressed and condensed, forming a terrifying molten core whose core flows with crimson-gold lava and whose outer layer is covered with a Xuan Huang crystal shell.

The surface of the crystal shell is covered with profound purple-gold patterns, emitting heart-palpitating energy fluctuations and terrifying high temperatures, as if holding a miniature volcano about to erupt.

Then, the highly compressed and condensed molten core is violently blasted out by punching or throwing.

Upon contact with the target, it triggers an earth-shattering explosion.

The explosion's power is extremely terrifying, and the central temperature instantly reaches the level of the earth's molten core, enough to burn metal, melt iron, and evaporate giant rocks.

The explosion generates a wide-ranging shockwave and molten fire rain, causing devastating area damage.

At the same time, the shockwave generated by the explosion contains the heavy pressure of earth pulsations. Enemies within the affected range will not only suffer impact damage, but their movement speed and attack speed will be forcibly reduced by 15% for the next 5 seconds.

It's like falling into a sticky molten swamp, making movement incredibly difficult.

And the most overbearing aspect of this Fourth Spirit Ability is that targets directly hit by the molten core will have their internal energy recovery rate forcibly suppressed by 50% during the explosion and the subsequent "Molten Heart Burn" period.

At the same time, any means attempting to heal their injuries or restore their energy will have their effectiveness weakened by 30%, as if the earth vein lava devours vitality, cutting off their hope of recovery.

Mo Yuhan slowly stood up, feeling the surging, far greater power than before within his body, and looking at the heart-palpitating phantom of the molten core slowly retracting into his right fist, a cold and satisfied arc curved at the corner of his mouth.

He looked at a large dark golden ore deep in the cave, his eyes narrowed, and he suddenly pushed his hands forward.

"Crimson Crystal Furnace, Blast!"

The purple-gold furnace phantom shot out like an arrow from a bowstring, instantly aiming at the giant rock.

At the moment of contact—

"Boom—!!!!"

A terrifying explosion, as if it could tear eardrums, roared out.

The entire lava cave trembled violently, and dazzling purple-gold flames mixed with dark red lava streams shot up into the sky, instantly engulfing the giant rock.

At the core of the explosion, a massive fireball with a diameter of over three meters expanded, and violent purple-gold fire waves swept outwards like raging tides.

Countless crimson crystal fragments burning with purple-gold flames, like sharp arrows of death, shot out with the shockwave, deeply embedding themselves into the surrounding cave walls, emitting a rapid "thud, thud, thud" sound.

The aftermath of the explosion had not yet subsided, leaving only a huge deep pit in its place. The pit walls were melted into a glassy state by the high temperature, and crimson lava flowed at the bottom of the pit.

And that hard dark golden giant rock had long since vanished without a trace, not even leaving behind dust.

Around the pit, countless burning crimson crystal fragments were densely embedded, as if a forest of deathly crystal clusters had grown.

Mo Yuhan looked at the terrifying scene he had created, feeling the surging power brought by the Dou Shi (Fighting Master) realm within his body, and that overbearing Spirit Ability named "Crimson Crystal Furnace," a sharp arc slowly curved at the corner of his mouth.