569: Chapter 569 Good People

Daoist Lord Lihuo's Divine Sense swept across the surroundings, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Boom!"

Purple-red flames instantly swept through the entire Star Space, shrouding everything in a sea of fire.

"Good Disciple, this place you prepared for me to heal is so fitting that I shall forgive your act of fleeing before the battle!"

He then looked at the Peach Blossom Demon Lord beside him and smiled, "I have a secret technique called Nirvana Rebirth. If you cooperate, I can preserve a strand of your Divine Thought to become the artifact spirit of the blood fiend tree heart in the future."

"Ah!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, before Peach Blossom could respond, the purple-red flames ignited her true form along with her soul body.

A pitch-black tree manifested within the Star Space, its branches and roots occupying most of the area as bright flames blazed upon its trunk.

"Wood fuels fire... From the very beginning, you never intended to accept my allegiance; you only saw me as a consumable!"

The Peach Blossom Demon Lord's face contorted in pain as she discovered that her true form, which had been tainted by the blood fiend tree heart, was easily ignited from the inside out. Her demonic power and blood qi were being drawn by an invisible force, completely beyond her control.

"Husband, save me!!"

Peach Blossom did not despair; she turned her head and looked at Liu Xuan with a piteous expression.

Daoist Lord Lihuo was taken aback.

He almost burst out laughing. "Husband? You are a dignified Peak Nascent Soul Demon Lord; how could your will be so weak?"

"If you're afraid of death, you can beg me. What is the point of begging my Disciple?"

"Good Disciple, surely you wouldn't dare to defy your Revered Master?" He looked at Liu Xuan with a smile, his expression filled with the calm of someone in total control.

"This Disciple wouldn't dare!"

Liu Xuan cupped his hands in a respectful bow and said, "Revered Master, your aura has greatly diminished, so you must be severely injured. I have something that can assist in your recovery!"

A pitch-black crack opened in the ground, and an eerie flame flew out from within.

Countless vengeful souls gathered upon the eerie flame, swelling into a massive fire lotus in an instant.

"Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire!"

"And it's at the fifth rank!!"

Daoist Lord Lihuo's eyes lit up as a wave of immense greed surged within him. If he could devour such a flame, not only would his injuries heal, but his Dao of Li Huo could even progress further.

*Buzz!*

Just as his greed arose, he saw the Karmic Fire Red Lotus merge into the sky-filling flames and then converge upon his body.

"Hiss!"

"It's burning my soul body! You actually dare to attack me?!"

With his Divine Soul ignited by the karmic fire, Daoist Lord Lihuo instantly realized that this kid Liu Xuan wasn't helping him—he was seeking death.

"Since you no longer wish to live, I shall grant your wish!"

The purple-red flames surged toward Liu Xuan like a tidal wave, the extreme heat turning him glowing red.

"Heh..."

Liu Xuan's magic robe vanished, and gold-red scales grew on the surface of his body. His blood qi erupted like a primordial beast, and two terrifying phantoms manifested behind him.

"It seems Revered Master's injuries are indeed not light; your methods are quite average!"

"I have a few more grand gifts to offer; please examine them one by one."

*Rumble!*

The power of brilliant stars cascaded down, and countless pitch-black cracks split the ground. Bright white lightning spread out, forming a thunder net that enveloped the entire Star Space.

Feeling the terrifying power of the Star Thunder Pool Array, Daoist Lord Lihuo instantly panicked.

"You're not Liu Xuan! Who exactly are you?!"

He had personally investigated Liu Xuan's situation; his strength was only slightly greater than an Early Nascent Soul Stage True Lord, at most at the Middle Stage of Nascent Soul. He was definitely not this terrifying.

Furthermore, the Star Array was no longer the original Star Array. The sky-filling lightning made even him tremble; this was not a power that a Nascent Soul Cultivator could possibly Revered Master.

Liu Xuan did not answer his question. Instead, he extended a finger and tapped the Void Realm in front of him.

*Hum!*

Space froze, and black and white Qi surged out from a mysterious place, flying toward Daoist Lord Lihuo.

Daoist Lord Lihuo couldn't understand what kind of technique this was, but he felt an inexplicable sense of danger.

Not daring to take it lightly, he forcibly summoned the lihuo heaven-burning tripod, which transformed into a solid flame barrier in front of him.

The Black and White Life-Death Qi made contact with the lihuo heaven-burning tripod, but there was no collision. It passed through as if it didn't exist at all, merging into Daoist Lord Lihuo's body.

"Hmm?"

Daoist Lord Lihuo was initially stunned, as he didn't feel any harm to himself.

A moment later, his pupils constricted as surprise and terror erupted simultaneously. Without hesitation, he immediately cast a movement technique to flee.

*Rumble!*

A pillar of lightning struck down.

*Rumble! Rumble!*

Countless bolts of lightning locked onto Daoist Lord Lihuo, while a layer of silver-white spatial power permeated the Star Space, forbidding the use of movement techniques.

Relying solely on the Great Dao of Space mastered by Liu Xuan, he couldn't completely seal space like the Ghost King Lianyue.

But he could restrict the speed at which Daoist Lord Lihuo cast his movement techniques, preventing him from escaping in a short time.

Once he couldn't leave instantly, the Avici Karmic Fire could lock onto his position, and then draw upon the power of the Nine Heavens Thunder to interrupt his movement technique.

"Revered Master!"

"Your injuries haven't healed yet, so why the rush to leave?"

Taking advantage of the gap when the lightning struck Daoist Lord Lihuo, another wave of Black and White Life-Death Qi merged into his body.

"Fellow Daoist... no, Senior, I am a Dao Lord of the Beast Taming Sect, a person nurtured by Lady Yaoguang. You cannot kill me!"

"I can give you whatever you want; please, spare my life."

Liu Xuan's methods were too bizarre; Daoist Lord Lihuo was truly terrified!

He could understand the Avici Karmic Fire and the Star Thunder Pool Array, but that plain-looking black and white Qi was too terrifying!

There was no way to block it; once it merged into the body, it directly dissolved one's Origin and depleted one's Lifespan.

The most terrifying thing was that such a bizarre technique actually didn't trigger any backlash from the Heavenly Dao!

The order of the Heavenly Dao in the Southern Borders was stable; even a Great Soul Transformation Cultivator would have to endure Heavenly Dao backlash and pay a certain price to harm him.

Though Liu Xuan's cultivation and strength were weak, his methods were so eerie they made his scalp tingle.

He had never even heard of such a method that directly eroded Lifespan without triggering Heavenly Dao backlash.

Having escaped from Demon Saint Xuanyu and Ghost King Lianyue, he was already severely injured. If Liu Xuan continued to wear him down like this, he would surely die.

"Revered Master, Peach Blossom is my Dao Companion, and she is about to break through the Soul Transformation Bottleneck. If you cooperate, for the sake of our Revered Master-Disciple relationship, I can preserve a strand of your Divine Thought to become the artifact spirit of the blood fiend tree heart in the future."

Daoist Lord Lihuo froze; those were the words he had just said to the Peach Blossom Demon Lord, and in the blink of an eye, Liu Xuan had returned them to him.

"You want to use my soul and magic power to help the Peach Blossom Demon Lord break through to become a Hua Shen Demon Saint?!"

"In your dreams!!"

Daoist Lord Lihuo's eyes nearly split from rage, and his soul aura suddenly became violent. He wanted to detonate his soul at any cost, but he was tightly bound by the Avici Karmic Fire.

The more he stimulated his soul body, the stronger the Avici Karmic Fire grew. He couldn't self-detonate at all, and he couldn't even forcibly consume his Origin to burst forth with power for long.

As the karmic fire gradually intensified and the Black and White Life-Death Qi eroded his Lifespan, Daoist Lord Lihuo's injuries grew heavier, and his resistance weakened.

Several hours later.

The Star Space was completely occupied by the eerie karmic fire, with only a clump of purple-red Li Huo remaining in the center, emitting a faint soul aura.

"I was originally worried about not having enough Spirit Stones, but then Revered Master stepped up to sacrifice himself."

"What a good person!!"