154: Chapter 154 Don't move, I'll suppress it!

The moment he stepped into the sea of fire, the surrounding temperature instantly soared to an appalling degree.

It felt as if this was no longer the mortal realm, but a purgatory deep within the starry sky.

The violent Three Thousand Blazing Flames roared wantonly, its purple-black tongues of fire like countless hungry venomous snakes, crazily licking the void in an attempt to devour any intruder. Even with the protection of a Half-Saint cultivation, an ordinary person entering would likely be reduced to a pile of withered bones in an instant.

But Xu Chen was no ordinary person.

"Hmph."

He gave a cold snort, his footsteps not pausing for a single moment.

Following that cold snort, a dazzling golden light suddenly erupted from within his body. That was the aura of the Nirvana Golden Flame, the supreme pressure of the ancestor of all fires.

The purple waves of fire that were originally baring their fangs and brandishing their claws in an attempt to attack Xu Chen actually let out terrified "sizzling" chirps the moment they touched this golden light, like mice encountering their natural enemy. They retreated forcefully to both sides, carving out a path to the core for Xu Chen.

At the end of this grand avenue of flames lay a shocking patch of scorched earth.

Xiao Yu, the Dan Tower Saintess who was usually insufferably arrogant and always looked down on others with her chin held high, was currently curled up in the center of the ruins.

More than half of her signature long fiery-red hair had been burned away, becoming charred and curled. Her originally fair and delicate skin was covered in black-red burn marks, and in some places, it had even carbonized, oozing shocking blood.

As for her clothes... they had long since turned into nothingness in that destructive explosion just now.

She was exposed without any cover in this cruel, high temperature, like a plucked turkey about to be roasted, her whole body twitching as she let out unconscious groans of pain.

"Help... help me..."

Her voice was so weak it was almost inaudible, filled with despair.

Watching this scene, Xu Chen's brow furrowed tightly.

Although he had no good feelings for this little wildcat who was always looking for trouble, and even felt she was a bit ignorant of the heights of heaven and depths of the earth,

seeing such a stunning beauty reduced to this state where she was barely recognizable as human or ghost due to a moment of jealousy and stupidity, a wave of inexplicable irritation still rose in his heart.

"What a fool."

Xu Chen cursed under his breath. With a flicker of his body, he instantly crossed several zhang and arrived by Xiao Yu's side.

As if sensing the presence of a living person, the source of the Three Thousand Blazing Flames—which had already invaded Xiao Yu's body and was crazily devouring her vitality—suddenly became even more violent.

"Roar—!"

A hideous phantom of a purple fire dragon suddenly drilled out from the top of Xiao Yu's head, opening its bloody maw to bite fiercely at Xu Chen. It was protecting its food; it didn't want anyone to interrupt this gluttonous feast.

"Vile beast, you dare to act fierce in front of me?"

A cold light flashed in Xu Chen's eyes.

He didn't dodge at all. Instead, he reached out his right hand directly, his fingers forming a claw enveloped in the brilliant Nirvana Golden Flame. In an extremely overbearing posture, he grabbed the fire dragon by the neck.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!

The golden Ancestral Fire and the purple strange fire clashed crazily in his palm.

Although the Three Thousand Blazing Flames ranked ninth on the strange fire ranking and had a fearsome reputation, in front of a legendary divine object like the Nirvana Golden Flame, it was ultimately just a younger brother.

"Get down!"

Xu Chen's arm suddenly exerted force, pressing down.

Bang!

That insufferably arrogant purple fire dragon let out a wail and was directly pressed back into Xiao Yu's body by Xu Chen.

But this was not the end.

Although the fire dragon had been pressed back, it did not yield. Instead, it rampaged even more crazily through Xiao Yu's fragile meridians, attempting to drag its host down with it.

"Ah—!!!"

Xiao Yu suddenly arched her body and let out a shrill scream. Her already blurred consciousness was forcibly awakened by the intense pain, and she began to struggle and roll violently on the ground like a madwoman.

"It hurts... kill me... quickly kill me..."

Her hands clawed wildly in the air, her fingernails leaving bloody streaks on the ground. That kind of pain from being burned from the inside out was simply not something a human could endure.

"Want to die? It's not that easy."

With a cold face, Xu Chen knelt on one knee and grabbed her flailing hands, pinning them firmly above her head against the scorching ground.

"Don't move!"

He barked, his voice laced with a soul shock in an attempt to awaken Xiao Yu's reason.

But by now, Xiao Yu was already driven mad by the pain; how could she listen? She felt that the man in front of her was also there to harm her, to mock her.

She twisted her body desperately, her smooth but scarred form rubbing crazily beneath Xu Chen like a slippery, dying fish.

"Get away! Everyone get away!"

She opened her mouth and bit down hard on Xu Chen's arm, blood instantly flowing out.

"Tsk."

Xu Chen's brow twitched. Looking at the teeth marks on his arm, the patience in his eyes finally ran out.

"Refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit."

"Since you don't want to live, then I'll insist on saving you, and then I'll make you my fire-refining maid for a lifetime to pay back the debt!"

Before his voice had even faded, Xu Chen no longer hesitated.

He leaned down directly, pressing his entire body onto her.

Using his Hongmeng Creation Body, which was as powerful as divine iron, he firmly suppressed Xiao Yu's constantly struggling, red-hot body beneath him.

"Sizzle—"

The moment their skin touched, a tooth-aching searing sound erupted.

The Three Thousand Blazing Flames within Xiao Yu's body followed the point of contact, crazily trying to invade Xu Chen's body.

But this was exactly what Xu Chen wanted.

"Using the body as a furnace, devour all fires!"

Xu Chen silently recited a mantra, and the fire control secret technique recorded in the newly acquired Emperor Grade Alchemy Art instantly began to circulate.

At this moment, he treated his own body as a humanoid pill furnace, and Xiao Yu was the pill within the furnace that was about to explode.

Rumble!

The Nirvana Golden Flame within him poured out in full force, surging into Xiao Yu's body through their pressed chests, abdomens, and thighs.

The golden flames were like a massive army, charging into Xiao Yu's meridians and launching a ruthless encirclement and suppression against the chaotic purple flames.

"Mmph... mmph!"

Xiao Yu was pinned down and unable to move, only able to let out pained whimpers.

As the two types of flames used her meridians as a battlefield, the pain was more than ten times more intense than before.

But soon, she realized something was wrong.

Although the newly entered golden flame was overbearing, it carried a strange sense of vitality.

Wherever it passed, the purple flames that were originally causing crazy destruction were rapidly devoured and assimilated, and her charred meridians actually began to heal at a visible rate under the nourishment of the golden light.

That feeling was like a dying traveler in the desert being forcibly given a gulp of sweet spring water.

It was rough, but it was life-saving.

"Are you... Xu... Chen?"

Xiao Yu's dilated pupils finally focused for a split second.

Through the swirling firelight, she saw the face that was inches away.

It was still just as handsome, still just as overbearing, and even carried a few hints of the ferocity she disliked. But at this moment, this face was more dazzling in her eyes than a deity in the heavens.

He didn't mock her.

He didn't despise her current state, which was neither human nor ghost.

He even went so far as to use his own body to help her bear the fire poison.

"Shut up and save your strength."

Sensing that the woman's struggling had weakened, Xu Chen gave her a cold glance.

"This fire has been swallowed too deep; it's already drilled into your bone marrow and dantian origin. Relying only on this external suppression can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause."

Currently, although the surface fire was suppressed, Xu Chen could clearly sense that the core source of the Three Thousand Blazing Flames was hiding deep within Xiao Yu's dantian, putting up a final desperate resistance.

It was accumulating power, preparing for one last counterattack.

Once it exploded, Xiao Yu would surely die.

"Then... then what should I do..."

Xiao Yu's voice carried a sob; she was truly terrified. That fear of being only a hair's breadth from death had completely shattered her pride.

"What to do?"

Xu Chen glanced around.

This was the entrance to the Medicine Spirit Abyss. Although he had kicked the door away just now, they were still outside. With such a big commotion, the Dan Tower elders would likely arrive soon.

If they saw the dignified Saintess pinned to the ground naked by him, the scene would be too 'beautiful' to explain.

Moreover, to completely subdue that source of the strange fire hiding in the dantian, a deeper and more extreme method had to be used.

That kind of method was not suitable for broad daylight.

"What else can we do? If you don't want to die, follow me."

Xu Chen grabbed Xiao Yu's scarred slender waist and, regardless of whether she was willing or not, hoisted her over his shoulder like a sack of grain.

"Hanyan! Seal the door!"

He shouted toward the inside, then his figure flickered. Carrying Xiao Yu, he strode deep into the Medicine Spirit Abyss where the dust had not yet fully settled.

"Bang!"

As Xu Chen entered, although Liu Hanyan was full of astonishment, she immediately struck out several hand seals to reactivate the backup defensive formation of the Medicine Spirit Abyss, which turned into a light barrier that completely isolated the place from the outside world.

The forbidden land was sealed once again.

Only this time, there was an extra 'little wildcat' inside who had played with fire and gotten burned.