198: Controlling Yin Inflammation (I)

Hiss... Xiao Shi's chest rippled like water, sending out waves of ripples.

A faint rustling sound slowly spread from his body.

Xiao Shi looked down.

He found a coffin flying out of his body.

This coffin... was none other than the [mysterious coffin] he had obtained from the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree.

Xiao Shi could still see the information related to this coffin.

[Name: mysterious coffin]

[Type: Coffin]

[Grade: Unknown]

[Introduction: A mysterious coffin that the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree has always guarded.]

[Remarks: Owning this coffin allows one to become the master of the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree.]

...It could be said that Xiao Shi was able to become the master of the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree because he had obtained this coffin.

After obtaining it, the coffin had merged into his body and had shown no movement within him until now.

Now, this coffin was flying out of his body automatically!

Regarding this coffin.

Xiao Shi knew very little.

Even in the item's introduction and remarks, not much information was displayed.

He only knew.

The status of this coffin was extremely high.

Now that the coffin had flown out of his body, it immediately transformed into its original size of nearly a hundred zhang in length and forty to fifty zhang in height.

Originally, this coffin was extremely massive.

It had only shrunk when Xiao Shi took it into his body.

Xiao Shi understood that the appearance of the coffin was clearly because of this heart; it seemed there was some connection between the heart and the coffin.

And when the coffin appeared.

A dull "creak-clack" sound suddenly erupted from the coffin.

The entire lid was actually slowly opening.

At this moment.

The entire valley was shaking.

Xiao Shi even saw that amidst the continuous shaking of the valley, even the Formations in the valley were being covered in cracks.

It seemed an extremely terrifying aura was being continuously released from the coffin.

This aura far surpassed that of the heart.

Although Xiao Shi could not feel this terrifying aura under the effect of the [martial emperor mask], he could see a gray gas constantly rising from the coffin.

This was even though the lid was opening very slowly.

It had only opened a tiny, microscopic slit.

Once the lid fully opened, Xiao Shi felt that the Formations here might collapse from being unable to withstand it!

This made his breathing quicken.

A thought suddenly rose in his heart.

"Perhaps... this will be my best opportunity to obtain the Yin Flame!!"

Thinking of this.

Xiao Shi immediately tried to pull the coffin back into his body.

Swish!

The entire massive coffin immediately turned into a black light and merged into Xiao Shi's body.

However, after merging into his body, the coffin kept trying to burst out.

But Xiao Shi suppressed it firmly.

He glanced at the heart floating above.

He didn't dare to touch the heart.

He could take the coffin into his body, but he didn't dare to move the heart casually.

According to the plan in his heart.

Xiao Shi moved.

At his fastest speed, he rushed directly towards... the deepest part of the valley!

During his advance.

The coffin inside him kept trying to burst out, but he held it down.

But the impact of the coffin was getting stronger and stronger.

If this continued, he wouldn't be able to hold on for long.

This made him even faster.

After a burst of rapid travel.

Xiao Shi successfully reached the depths of the valley and saw the giant ice wall, a hundred zhang high.

When he came within only a hundred meters of the ice wall.

He was blocked by a Restriction again.

This time, Xiao Shi did not hesitate.

He decisively took out the [Blood Sky Separation Pill].

He swallowed it directly.

Hiss... In an instant.

Xiao Shi's body was directly stripped from reality, entering a special ethereal state of void.

He could not be seen, touched, or sensed.

In this state.

The entire Restriction could no longer block him, and he passed through it effortlessly.

Xiao Shi knew that the void state brought by the [Blood Sky Separation Pill] could only last for three minutes in total, so he had to hurry.

Immediately, he moved.

He rushed quickly towards the ice wall ahead.

As he approached.

He found that the Formation runes covering the ice wall were all incredibly profound.

Even with his current attainments and talent in Formations, he could not understand them at all.

At the same time, these Formation runes gave the entire ice wall a very strong locking power, which was not only inward but also outward.

This made Xiao Shi realize... even if he had reached this point without the [Blood Sky Separation Pill], he would have been blocked by the ice wall and unable to enter.

But now that he had transformed into a void state.

Even this powerful locking power was ineffective against him.

It was as if the two were not on the same spatial level.

This allowed him to pass directly through the ice wall and appear... inside it!

This hundred-zhang-high giant ice wall formed an incredibly large circle.

At the same time, Xiao Shi discovered that the ice wall was far more than a hundred zhang high.

This hundred-zhang wall was only the height exposed on the surface.

In fact, underground.

There was much more!

This made the interior of the ice wall look like an incredibly vast giant pit, deep and bottomless.

And located in this pit was the one known as the Flame Emperor within the Flame Land... the Nether Yin Flame!

Although Xiao Shi had known for a long time that this Nether Yin Flame was extraordinary.

When he actually saw it, a huge wave still surged in his heart.

The entire Yin Flame was incredibly massive, occupying the entire giant pit; Xiao Shi's current position was right above its head.

Xiao Shi could clearly see.

This Yin Flame was pitch black and humanoid, with a head, body, and limbs... but it only had a rough form and was not particularly detailed.

For example, its hand could be identified as a hand, but it wasn't detailed enough to have nails or textures; on its face, there was only a pair of dark red pupils filled with perversity, violence, evil, and arrogance.

The entire massive body was wrapped in countless ice chains, which bound its body completely, making it unable to move.

At the same time, beneath it, at the bottom of this giant deep pit, was the core of this Formation, making the Seal and suppression power here reach its peak!

Given the size of this Yin Flame.

It almost filled the space within the ice wall.

It was fortunate that Xiao Shi was currently in a void state, making it impossible for the Yin Flame to touch his body; otherwise, even if he had entered from the outside, he would have been burned to ashes instantly.

Xiao Shi took a deep breath.

He hadn't expected the full appearance of the Yin Flame to look like this.

Time was tight now.

Upon arrival, he stopped suppressing the coffin inside him and let it fly out of his body.

Since he could not be sensed or detected in this void state.

Even this Yin Flame did not discover that someone had already entered.

However, the coffin flying out of Xiao Shi's body was not in this void state.

Therefore, the moment the coffin flew out.

The Yin Flame sensed it immediately.

Just as it raised its head.

The entire coffin crashed down from above its head.

And it grew rapidly as it fell.

Boom!

Even with the Yin Flame's massive size, it was directly suppressed by this coffin.

It could be seen.

The Yin Flame's knees were instantly pressed down, forcing it to kneel on the ground.

Its dark red pupils were filled with shock and disbelief.

After the coffin burst out of Xiao Shi's body, the lid continued to open.

Although it was now a certain distance from that heart.

This distance was only a step away for it.

Even less than a step.

Therefore, this would not have any impact on its opening.

A low "creak-clack" sound continuously came from the lid as it was pushed open bit by bit.

As the lid opened.

More and more gray gas drifted up from within the coffin.

Spreading in all directions.

This gray gas was actually a type of corpse Qi!

As it spread.

Even the massive ice wall began to melt instantly!

At this time, although the Yin Flame's head was pressed down by the coffin.

It was fully aware of the movements around it.

When it saw the ice wall melting, it was both shocked and delighted!

It felt it saw the hope of escaping this place!

Not only was the ice wall melting, but the ice chains wrapped around its body were also breaking one by one.

Even the formation core beneath its feet began to be covered in cracks.

Even the core of this Formation was like this.

The movements elsewhere were even more massive.

Booming sounds.

Continuously came from all over the valley.

Many parts of the massive Formation covering the entire valley had already begun to shatter!

Even the sky here was covered in cracks.

It seemed the entire valley was in a state of being unable to withstand it and was about to collapse.

And it wasn't just this valley.

Lieyin City, located above the valley, also experienced tremors at this moment.

This sudden tremor.

Surprised everyone in Lieyin City.

"What happened?"

Before this.

Lieyin City had never experienced such a situation.

Even Lord Mo, who was usually calm.

His expression changed drastically at this moment.

Swish!

He went directly to the front of the Zhiyan Division's main hall, staring at the hall before him with extreme gravity.

Old Ancestor Guizhen, who was waiting nearby for Xiong Wu and the others, also frowned.

They all realized.

This sudden tremor.

Was caused by the Yin Flame Valley deep beneath Lieyin City!

It seemed some unknown situation had occurred there.

But they could not enter to check.

Crack!

A faint sound.

Caused the pupils of Lord Mo and Old Ancestor Guizhen to shrink violently.

They clearly saw.

A crack had actually appeared on the hall in front of them!

A bad premonition.

Rapidly filled their entire minds.

Although the lid opened slowly, after continuous opening, it had now successfully opened by two meters.

But for a hundred-zhang-long coffin, these two meters were only a small slit.

Most of the surrounding ice wall had already melted.

The ice chains wrapped around the Yin Flame had also shattered, with almost none left.

The Yin Flame, which had originally felt delighted and excited about this.

Now no longer had any feelings of delight or excitement.

Only endless fear and shock!

It was shocked to find.

Even though the suppression and Seal power within the Formation were no longer enough to trap it as the Formation shattered, the suppression coming from this coffin was far more terrifying than the Formation.

It made it completely unable to move!

Whether it tried to escape with powerful escape methods or burn the coffin with its own Yin Flame, none of it worked.

And what terrified it most... was when the lid opened to three meters.

Crack!

Even the Yin Flame's massive body began to show cracks!

This made its eyes widen.

It felt an unprecedented crisis!

Under this increasingly dense corpse Qi, even its body would be unable to withstand it and would risk breaking apart!

The lid continued to open.

When it opened to five meters.

Boom!

The Formation that covered the entire valley had completely shattered.

At the same time, the sky above the valley was completely covered with dense cracks, looking as if it would collapse at any moment.

By now, half of the time for Xiao Shi's void state had passed.

He still had a minute and a half.

And after the lid had opened to this extent, it seemed to have reached its limit and could not open any further.

Although Xiao Shi was standing on top of the coffin.

He could clearly see the five-meter slit that had opened, but he could not see what was inside the coffin.

He could only see pitch blackness.

Just then.

Ssh!

A dark shadow suddenly burst out of the coffin, grabbing the distant heart with startling speed.

It retracted instantly.

Because the speed was too fast.

Xiao Shi couldn't see what the dark shadow was at all.

He could only vaguely feel... that it seemed to be an arm!!

After pulling the heart back into the coffin, the entire lid began to retract with a dull "creak-clack" sound.

It was closing itself.

"It's about time to act!"

Xiao Shi's gaze suddenly became sharp.

His eyes focused on the Yin Flame below, which was suppressed by the coffin and covered in numerous cracks.

He realized that once the lid closed.

The entire coffin would return to its original form.

By then... he would no longer be able to suppress the Yin Flame through the coffin.

His idea this time was very simple.

That was to suppress the Yin Flame through the opening of the coffin, thereby giving himself an opportunity to cut off a part of the Yin Flame's body!

He knew.

Given the status of the Yin Flame, it was impossible for him to accommodate the entire Yin Flame.

What he wanted was only a part of the Yin Flame.

Just a part of the Yin Flame would be enough for him to form an incredibly powerful second mass of Natal Martial Blood.

Now was undoubtedly the best time.

"Action!"

Xiao Shi moved.

Although the Yin Flame was being suppressed miserably and was covered in cracks, Xiao Shi knew that given the Yin Flame's status, it wouldn't be easy to cut off a part of it.

To this end.

He didn't plan to hold back at all, intending to first use the [Blood Burning Technique] to increase his strength, then perform a Blood Art, striving to succeed in one strike!

Whoosh!

However, just as he was about to act.

From within the closing coffin, another dark shadow suddenly burst out!

Its target was none other than the Yin Flame beneath the coffin!