206: Break free from the shackles! Fourth-tier Card Master!

Boom!

A blood-red light shield, even more solidified than any previous defense, instantly shot out from his body.

It didn't try to encompass the entire space, but instead compressed itself to the extreme, turning into a stream of light that precisely enveloped Lu Yuan!

It was a thin, blood-colored membrane of light, as if it would shatter at a touch.

It was Blazing Flame, this Seventh-Tier Venerable's, last desperate protection!

After doing all this, Blazing Flame's vision went black, and he almost fell from the sky.

All the power in his body had been completely drained.

He could only watch, helplessly, as that destructive white light fiercely slammed into that thin blood-colored shield!

"Bang—!"

The blood-colored shield only held for a thousandth of a second before it shattered with a crash!

But it was this thousandth of a second of buffer that bought Lu Yuan the time he needed most!

"Ah ah ah ah ah—!!!"

Lu Yuan roared to the sky, his voice hoarse, with even traces of blood seeping from his seven orifices!

In his sea of consciousness, the gold card, Heaven and Earth Origin Power Great Teleportation, was flashing wildly!

Stored within it was the seemingly endless power of the earth vein fire source, drawn from the Fire Vein Earth Spirit's body!

At this moment, this power, violent enough to burst any container, found an outlet!

"Let! Me! Swallow!!!"

Lu Yuan poured all his mental power, along with the vast earth vein fire source, and his own insignificant Frost Flame Power, all at once into the flame heart crown above his head!

If previously activating the crown was like striking an ancient bell with a drop of water,

then what Lu Yuan was doing now was like smashing an entire ocean against that giant bell that had slept for eons!

"Buzz—buzz—buzz—!!!"

The flame heart crown seemed to be thoroughly enraged!

It was vibrating violently!

Above the crown, the ancient flame patterns, representing the epic history of flame civilization, were no longer dormant carvings.

They came alive!

One!

Two!

A hundred!

A thousand!

All the flame patterns, at the same time, erupted with an unprecedented scarlet light, dazzling like the core of a star!

A supreme Royal Authority aura, thousands of times more terrifying than when it suppressed all fires before, suddenly awakened!

It opened its eyes!

"Rumble—!"

Centered above Lu Yuan's head, an enormous scarlet vortex appeared out of thin air!

That vortex was filled with an overbearing dominance, as if it ruled the world!

It rotated, emitting a terrifying suction force that seemed capable of devouring all things!

And its target was precisely the oncoming energy storm, capable of destroying everything!

"What?!"

The Fire Vein Earth Spirit's fading residual consciousness was completely stunned by this scene!

Its mind fell into an unprecedented state of stupor.

Devouring?

It's devouring my origin self-destruction?!

How is this possible?!

That is destruction at the Law level! It's chaotic energy that can even erase space itself!

Unless... unless it's a higher-level Law!

It's the true... Monarch, transcending all the Flame Law of this world!

The Earth Spirit's consciousness saw the core of the scarlet vortex.

It saw that tiny human, wearing the crown and enveloped in endless light.

It finally understood.

That was not merely a sacred object.

That was... the embodiment of authority!

It was the Flame World's... Genesis Codex!

It had actually dared to detonate a grain of sand in the Monarch's kingdom, right in front of the Monarch?

How ridiculous!

How... pathetic!

These were the Fire Vein Earth Spirit's last thoughts.

The next moment, the world-destroying energy storm and the incomparably domineering scarlet-gold vortex collided head-on!

There was no earth-shattering explosion as imagined.

Nor was there a stalemate of energy clashes.

The violent white torrent, as if encountering its absolute sovereign, had all its ferocity and chaos instantly smoothed and tamed the moment it touched the vortex!

Then, it was madly, greedily, completely swallowed into it!

The scarlet vortex, like a monstrous glutton, devoured the white destructive energy, mouthful by mouthful, completely!

The entire underground crystal cave trembled violently under this terrifying devouring power!

"Uh... ah..."

Lu Yuan felt his body being torn to shreds.

His spirit also felt as if it had been thrown into a meat grinder.

On one side, the power of the earth veins surging from Heaven and Earth Origin Power Great Teleportation was bursting him from the inside out.

On the other side, the destructive storm devoured by the flame heart crown, after being transformed, was pouring into him from the outside in!

He was like a fragile energy transfer station, enduring the back-and-forthflushing of two forces, each capable of destroying him billions of times over!

Pain!

Excruciating pain that pierced his soul!

His consciousness swayed wildly on the verge of collapse, threatening to extinguish at any moment.

But just then, a warm current slowly seeped from the crown body of the flame heart crown itself.

This warm current flowed through his limbs and bones, through every inch of his nearly shattered meridians, repairing his battered body.

Furthermore, a cool thought directly surged into his sea of consciousness, firmly guarding his flickering soul fire.

It was Little Red!

the crown was protecting him!

Protecting its chosen, the sole Monarch!

Amidst this extreme pain and exhilaration of tearing and repairing, Lu Yuan desperately maintained his last shred of clarity.

He could feel that his understanding of flame was deepening at an incredible speed!

The devoured energy, whether it was the power of the earth veins or the self-destructing origin, was transformed by the crown into the purest Flame Law fragments, branded deep into his soul!

Time, who knew how long had passed.

Perhaps an instant, perhaps a century.

When the scarlet vortex devoured the last wisp of white destructive energy, the entire world finally fell silent.

The vortex slowly dissipated.

Lu Yuan gasped for breath, his body already drenched in sweat, looking as if he had just been pulled out of water.

He swayed, almost falling headfirst, but fortunately, he propped himself up with the ancient sea shark war halberd in time.

The exhaustion of surviving a catastrophe washed over him like a tide.

But he won!

He gambled and won!

"Monarch... Monarch..."

Behind him, Blazing Flame's voice came, trembling beyond recognition.

Lu Yuan looked back to see this Seventh-Tier Venerable kneeling on the ground, prostrate, with eyes that looked at him as if he were a god, his body shaking like a sieve, continuously repeating that single word.

The scene before him had completely shattered all his understanding.

Lu Yuan ignored him and instead cast his gaze forward.

The original gold lava lake had completely disappeared.

The Fire Vein Earth Spirit had long since vanished into thin air.

The entire massive crystal cave was empty.

Only at the center of where the lava lake once was, a crystal quietly floated in mid-air.

It was the primal fire heart crystal!

At this moment, it was completely different from before.

Although the cracks on it still existed, even more numerous and dense,

it no longer emitted that violent energy fluctuation; all its light was contained within, its entire body presenting a warm, jade-like crimson, like a supreme treasure that condensed all the mysteries of flame.

After being devoured and transformed by the crown, its impurities and violence were completely removed, leaving only the purest, most primordial Law power.

Lu Yuan took a deep breath, suppressing his physical fatigue, and slowly extended his hand.

The primal fire heart crystal, as if drawn by some force, floated lightly and landed in his palm.

It felt warm and smooth to the touch, and pure streams of fire source power slowly nourished his parched body through his palm.

Good stuff!

Absolutely good stuff!

Just as Lu Yuan's fingers touched the fire heart crystal,

a voice, without warning, sounded directly in the depths of his mind.

It was a woman's voice.

With a hint of languor, and a hint of unconcealed surprise.

"Well done."

Lu Yuan froze!

Yan?!

"It truly exceeded my expectations."

The female voice ignored Lu Yuan's astonishment and continued speaking to herself, with a hint of approval in her tone.

"How long has it been, and you already know how to feed me in such a crude way."

"Kid, you truly are... the last lucky star of our sai'an clan!"

Yan!

It was Yan! She was alive again.

Lu Yuan's heart leaped!

As Yan's voice faded, Lu Yuan clearly felt an unprecedented enlightenment rise in his heart!

He seemed to be able to "see" the active, pulsating fire elements in the air.

They were no longer unfamiliar energy, but rather... subjects that could be communicated with, that could be commanded!

His Frost Flame Power also underwent a qualitative change at this moment!

Ice and fire were no longer a simple superposition of energies.

They seemed to have found a perfect balance point, beginning to intermingle and transform into each other, forming a perfect cycle!

With a single thought, extreme cold and scorching heat moved as he willed!

This sense of control over power was more than ten times stronger than before!

He had broken through the shackles!

From Third-Tier Nine-Star, he officially stepped into the threshold of a Fourth-Tier Card Master!

Moreover, his foundation was far more solid than any other Card Master of the same tier!

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