203: Primal Fire Core Crystal!

Blazing Flame suddenly turned his head, his cloudy eyes filled with anxiety.

"Your Majesty! This..."

"I have a way!"

Lu Yuan didn't explain.

He strode past Blazing Flame, past the Lava Troll that was struggling to hold on amidst the explosion, and took a step forward alone.

He faced the death zone composed of explosions and flames directly.

He faced the new wave of hundreds, even thousands, of Pseudo Fire Spirits rushing towards him like streaks of light.

Under Blazing Flame's utterly horrified gaze, Lu Yuan spoke.

"They have no reason."

"It's simply because they lack a monarch."

The moment his voice fell.

Lu Yuan's mind stirred.

An ancient, majestic crown, as if bearing all the history of fire civilization, quietly appeared on his head!

The flame heart crown!

He hadn't even successfully activated the crown!

He had merely stirred a wisp of spiritual power, touching the supreme Royal Authority law of fire, slumbering within the crown.

"Buzz—"

An indescribable, supreme aura spread from the crown.

That aura was not energy, nor was it coercion.

It was more like a proclamation.

An absolute Royal Authority from the source of bloodline, from the pinnacle of law!

Time, at this moment, seemed to be paused.

The deafening explosion disappeared.

The destructive torrent of energy subsided.

The thousands of Pseudo Fire Spirits, rushing forward fearlessly, solidified their forms in mid-air!

Their violent consciousness and chaotic energy were instantly calmed the moment they touched that aura of Royal Authority.

Blazing Flame was stunned.

He gaped, staring at the scene before him that overturned his lifelong understanding.

A shocking scene unfolded.

After a moment of stillness.

The Pseudo Fire Spirit floating closest to Lu Yuan, at the very front, its body made of flames, suddenly trembled violently.

Then, it slowly lowered its "head" towards Lu Yuan.

Its entire body prostrated itself, forming a five-limbed posture of complete submission in the void.

As if worshipping its only god.

One.

Two.

Ten.

A hundred... Like a prairie fire ignited, this posture of submission spread wildly throughout the entire core space with an unstoppable momentum!

Thousands upon thousands!

Dense and numerous!

All the violent Pseudo Fire Spirits, at this moment, completely reined in all their savagery and madness.

Like subjects seeing their monarch, like believers seeing their god, they prostrated themselves uniformly towards Lu Yuan, trembling, offering their most humble respect from the deepest part of their instincts!

Ten thousand fires, worshipped!

"Thump!"

Blazing Flame could no longer hold on, his knees buckled, and he heavily knelt to the ground.

He raised his head, his wrinkled old face now filled with tears and fanaticism.

He looked at the figure standing alone before the ten thousand fires, at the young man wearing the crown.

An excitement and worship originating from the deepest part of his bloodline erupted!

"Your Majesty... The majesty of the King!!"

"This is the most fundamental bloodline suppression from the crown!!"

"Ten thousand fires submit!!"

"Ten thousand fires submit!!!"

At this moment, he truly understood the meaning of the flame heart crown.

It was not merely a holy relic, a weapon.

It was Royal Authority!

The supreme Royal Authority of the entire fire world!

Lu Yuan himself was also a little surprised.

He could clearly feel the pure, unadulterated intent of submission surging from all directions.

He didn't even need to expend much spiritual power.

The flame heart crown itself represented Order.

Its appearance naturally suppressed all chaos.

This feeling... was like a lion king walking into a flock of sheep; its mere presence was enough to make all the sheep bow their heads in submission.

"So, this is one of the true uses of the crown!"

Lu Yuan understood in his heart. He was grateful for Little Red's reminder earlier.

"Control it, you must completely control it!"

Just then, the prostrate Pseudo Fire Spirits seemed to receive some silent command.

They began to slowly retreat to both sides.

Their movements were uniform and full of ritual.

Soon, a wide path, "sent off" by countless fire creatures, appeared before Lu Yuan.

At the end of the path was the stone wall of this giant core space.

And on that stone wall, a hidden cave entrance, originally guarded by countless Pseudo Fire Spirits and thus concealed, was revealed.

The cave entrance was not large, only a little over a person's height.

But at the entrance, a layer of rich firelight, flowing slowly like liquid glaze, enveloped it.

An aura of primal fire veins, thousands of times purer than the surrounding environment, rushed out from that cave entrance!

Just taking a breath, Lu Yuan felt the Frost Flame Power within him begin to leap with joy.

This was the purest fire source energy!

Untainted by regularization!

Blazing Flame also noticed the cave entrance.

He stretched out his trembling finger and shouted excitedly to Lu Yuan:

"Your Majesty! It's here!!"

"I feel it! This old servant feels it!"

"There is an extremely pure primal fire vein aura inside! This is definitely... definitely one of the core fire sources of this Lost Water Realm!"

...Lu Yuan didn't hesitate in the slightest, stepping into the cave entrance where liquid firelight flowed.

Blazing Flame followed closely behind.

The sight before them made even this Sai'an Clan High Priest, who had lived for countless years, gasp.

This was an incredibly vast underground crystal cave.

The walls of the entire cave were not rock, but composed of countless fire-red crystals of varying sizes.

Inside these crystals, it seemed as if clusters of unextinguishable flames were sealed, illuminating the entire space like a divine realm.

The air was filled with fire source energy so pure it was almost liquefied.

Just breathing made Blazing Flame feel his dry bloodline power being rapidly replenished.

"Your Majesty... this place..."

Blazing Flame's eyes were filled with fanaticism.

"This is the legendary Fire Source Crystal Cave! It's a supreme treasure land recorded in our clan's sacred texts, said to only form at the world's genesis!"

"Who would have thought this regularization turned out to be a blessing in disguise!"

Lu Yuan's gaze had long been firmly attracted by the scene in the center of the crystal cave.

At the center of the crystal cave was a lava lake with a diameter of over a hundred meters.

The magma in the lake was not dark red, but presented a brilliant, golden hue.

It looked incredibly impressive at first glance.

And in the very center of that golden lava lake, a head-sized, translucent, crimson crystal, pulsating like a heart with "thump, thump" sounds, floated quietly.

Each pulsation caused the fire source energy of the entire crystal cave to ebb and flow like a tide.

Terrifying energy fluctuations spread outwards from it as the center.

The primal fire heart crystal!

The most primal fire heart of this world!

"Found it."