173: Guaranteed payout! The sixth gold card!

"Bedrock!"

"Stealing my flame heart crown, abducting my bloodline—your crimes deserve ten thousand deaths!"

Every word made their eardrums buzz!

The five members of the Leimeng Squad couldn't even dream of resisting, let alone breathing.

Their bodies were stiff, unable to move an inch.

Such a being could make them vanish into thin air with a mere breath!

Speaking of which—

The flame heart crown!

It was the flame heart crown again!

Raimond and the others were shaken. Although they didn't know what the crown was, its value was immeasurable if it could incite a Seventh-Tier Venerable to such a grand pursuit across dimensions!

And the words "abducting my bloodline" sent shivers down their spines.

This Flame Demon God actually had a bloodline descendant who fell into Bedrock's hands?

What the hell!

The five of them were innocent!!!

Bedrock's face at this moment was uglier than crying.

"No... it wasn't me!"

The shadow of death loomed over his heart, and in his extreme fear, Bedrock's mind raced.

He had to find a way!

He had to buy himself a chance at survival!

Otherwise, he would surely die today!

Suddenly!

He abruptly raised his still-intact right hand, pointing at Lu Yuan with a hoarse, desperate cry.

"It was him! The flame heart crown was stolen by this kid!"

"Esteemed High Priest! You don't know, this kid has a strange method that can restrain your flames!"

"Little Red... yes, that Flame Sprite, he also coerced me into catching it! Otherwise, how would I dare offend your bloodline!"

In his desperation, Bedrock threw caution to the wind, trying to push all the blame onto Lu Yuan, diverting the disaster to buy himself that sliver of hope.

A thousand grass-mud horses galloped through Lu Yuan's mind.

This old dog, even at death's door, still tried to bite back!

Upon hearing this, the High Priest's crimson eyes flickered with a ripple, but it wasn't trust; it was... a deeper rage.

"Fool!"

He scoffed at Bedrock's clumsy lie!

"My bloodline's continuation, its life essence and soul imprint—how could I sense it wrongly?"

"It is on you!"

The High Priest's gaze pierced through Bedrock's disguise, landing on the backpack.

He could clearly sense Little Red's faint flame of life, flickering within that worn-out backpack, seemingly about to extinguish at any moment.

"You vile ant, you still dare to speak glibly and mislead me!"

"No... don't..."

The High Priest had lost all patience.

He came here only for revenge! Only to reclaim everything that belonged to him!

"Die—!!!"

With a heaven-shaking roar, the High Priest stopped wasting words.

He suddenly raised his right arm, and endless fire elements furiously converged.

A colossal hundred-zhang hand, formed from the purest flames, blotted out the sky and descended!

With an aura that could incinerate all things, it powerfully grabbed towards Bedrock!

The attack range was so vast that it even covered Lu Yuan and the Leimeng Squad on the other side, caught at the edge of the giant hand!

Just the overflowing energy fluctuations were violently distorting the surrounding space,

as if it would shatter completely in the next second!

"It's over..." Lin Wei closed her eyes in despair.

Shi Tai and the others also had ashen faces.

They didn't even have time to think about their last words.

Lu Yuan's hair stood on end!

Even if he was only grazed by the peripheral aftershock of that giant hand, it would absolutely be a certain death scenario!

A single blow from a Seventh-Tier Venerable, even a casual one, was not something he could contend with now!

Could it be that he was really going to die here?

No!

He was unwilling!

In a flash of life and death!

"I'll gamble!" A silent roar erupted in Lu Yuan's heart.

[Talent: Guaranteed Gold Drop (Unique · Evolvable) (Cooldown Complete)]!

Lu Yuan instantly pulled out two cards from his simple card pouch woven from vines!

"Merge—for—me—now!!!"

It was as if it sensed the host's intense will to survive, on the brink of despair.

The next instant!

"Buzz—!!!"

A sudden inspiration!

The cards rapidly dissolved, transforming into a chaotic, indistinct ball of light.

Inside the light ball, countless runes seemed to be born and extinguished, and the power of space vibrated violently!

"Boom!"

The next moment, the chaotic light ball exploded!

Dazzling gold light, like the rising sun, burst forth, dispelling the oppressive darkness brought by the fiery giant hand!

A brand new card slowly solidified in Lu Yuan's hand!

On the card face, an indescribable stream of light was depicted, as if it had broken through the boundaries of time and space, freely shuttling between countless planes, never stopping.

Just one glance made people feel a strange sensation of dizziness and a soul about to fall!

At the same time, a torrent of information flooded into Lu Yuan's mind.

[Infinite Shuttle]

Quality: gold

Type: Skill card

Active Skill: [Space Warp]

Effect: Consumes Source Power to perform an instantaneous spatial teleportation to a specified coordinate or withinPerception range, unlimited number of people, ignores most spatial seals and imprisonment effects. Teleportation distance and stability are directly proportional to Source Power consumed and related to the user's understanding of spatial laws. No cooldown!

Passive Skill: [Dimensional Walker]

Effect 1: Depending on the user's tier, opens a small exclusive dimensional space (current size: ten cubic meters), which can be used to store non-living items or set as a temporary teleportation anchor point (anchor point duration: one hour, cooldown: twenty-four hours).

Effect 2: Greatly enhances perception of spatial fluctuations, spatial rifts, spatial traps, and other related phenomena.

"This is great! It didn't go wrong!"

Lu Yuan was overjoyed!

Infinite Shuttle!

A brand new gold skill card!

And it's a divine spatial escape skill!

Space Warp! Ignores most spatial seals!

Dimensional Walker! Storage! Temporary anchor point! Spatial perception!

This was simply... custom-made for his current desperate situation!

The talent [Guaranteed Gold Drop] is indeed awesome!

All this took a long time to describe, but in reality, it happened in a flash!

The fiery giant hand in the sky, carrying the might to burn the heavens and destroy the earth, slammed down!

The scent of death assailed them!

"Now!" Lu Yuan didn't hesitate for a moment.

"Space Warp!"

"Buzz—!"

A flash of gold light!

Just a split second before the fiery giant hand was about to touch their bodies, their figures suddenly became illusory, then vanished without a trace from their original spot!

As if they had never appeared!

"Rumble—!!!"

The fiery giant hand smashed down hard!

The hard rocky ground was easily crushed, and plants instantly turned to ash!

Bedrock, however, did not have Lu Yuan's heaven-defying luck and trump cards.

He watched with wide eyes as Lu Yuan and the others mysteriously disappeared at the last moment, a moment of bewilderment... followed by endless flames engulfing him!

"Ah ah ah—!!!"

Although Bedrock tried his best to avoid the core of the attack, how could a heavily injured man completely dodge the furious blow of a Seventh-Tier Venerable?

The edge of the fiery giant hand grazed his body.

"Puff—!"

Bedrock was blasted away like a tattered sack by the shockwave!

Half of his body was charred black, flesh and blood a mess, even revealing stark white bones!

"Bang!"

He slammed heavily against a mountain wall a hundred meters away, then rolled to the ground, spitting out mouthfuls of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

This time, he was completely doomed!

Dozens of meters away.

Space rippled slightly.

Their figures staggered into view, Lu Yuan's face somewhat pale.

That single Space Warp had almost drained one-third of his Source Power.

But he couldn't concern himself with that now.

He looked with lingering fear at the terrifying deep pit created by the fiery giant hand, and at Bedrock, whose fate was unknown, a cold sweat beading on his forehead.

That was close!

It was truly just by a hair's breadth!

In the sky.

The High Priest slowly lowered his arm, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

He had naturally noticed Lu Yuan's strange disappearance and reappearance.

"Hmm? Spatial fluctuation? An interesting ant indeed."

However, his attention was more focused on the culprit he had severely wounded.

He took a step, his figure instantly teleporting, appearing above Bedrock.

He looked down from above at the dying thief.

And liar!

"Stealing my treasure, harming my kin, destroying my home..."

"All of this! It was your conspiracy!"

"Or rather... your organization's conspiracy!"

The High Priest's voice was filled with hatred.

"Now, feel despair!"

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