160: Abyss Fire Spirit, Entrusting Life and Death to Each Other

The moment they stepped into the distorted space, it felt as if they had passed through a layer of viscous, scorching membrane, and the scene before them drastically changed!

It was no longer a dim magma zone, but an boundless Void Realm burning with raging flames! Underfoot was a rolling sea of crimson fire, stretching as far as the eye could see, with towering fire waves emitting deafening roars.

The sky was a deep dark red, with countless pale flame runes twinkling like stars, emitting destructive fluctuations that made one's Soul tremble.

The fire attribute energy here had solidified; sparks floated in the air, and every breath felt like swallowing burning charcoal, a searing pain reaching deep into the Soul!

"Is this... the Flame Abyss?!" A Yan Clan Disciple of the Dou Zong rank stammered, his mind still shaken by the pervasive destructive aura, even with the Elder's protection.

Elder Huo Yun's expression was unprecedentedly solemn; the flames burning around him seemed somewhat dim in this place: "Be careful! The flames here are no ordinary fire; they contain a trace of Nirvana Origin, capable of burning away Dou Qi and eroding the Soul!

Guard your minds and stick close to Young Friend Li!"

Without his reminder, everyone instinctively gravitated towards Li Ao.

Li Ao's Annihilation Domain, in this place, seemed to be the only lighthouse; the gray-white Qi flow gently smoothed and annihilated the approaching destructive flames, opening up a relatively safe area.

He carried the still-unconscious Xiao Yi Xian on his back, with Medusa following closely by his side, her Seven-Colored Dou Qi fully activated, resisting the terrifying external pressure.

The group flew with difficulty above the boundless sea of fire, searching for traces of the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, or a way to leave.

However, this Flame Abyss seemed endless, with only eternal burning and destruction.

After flying for about half an hour, two pale flames, like small suns, suddenly lit up in the sea of fire ahead!

The flames slowly rose, revealing a massive figure a hundred zhang tall! It was a humanoid creature entirely composed of pale flames, with a blurred face, only two hollow eye sockets burning with those two heart-palpitating pale flames.

The pressure it emitted was like vast heavenly might, far exceeding the previous Sky Burning Flame Python, even making Elder Huo Yun feel suffocating pressure!

"Ninth... Ninth-rank?! Flame Spirit?!" Elder Huo Yun's voice was dry, his eyes filled with despair.

Ninth-rank was equivalent to the Human Dou Saint level! This was an existence they simply could not contend with!

The flame giant seemed to have been awakened by the intruders; it slowly raised its giant hand, composed of pale flames, and gently clapped towards Li Ao and his group!

There was no sound, no storm, only a pure, pale sea of fire representing ultimate destruction, like the collapse of the sky, crushing down upon everyone!

Wherever it passed, even space itself seemed to wail and disintegrate!

Before this palm, the defenses condensed by the Yan Clan members were as fragile as paper, instantly disintegrating!

Everyone's faces showed despair; under this absolute power disparity, even the thought of resistance was difficult to muster!

"It's over..." Elder Huo Yun closed his eyes, despair filling his heart.

Just at this critical moment!

"Roar—!"

From Li Ao's glabella, the dormant black iron finally erupted with unprecedented light and throbbing! A Nirvana Power far more ancient, purer, and closer to the ultimate rules of the Universe than Li Ao's own control, descended with a roar, like an ancient king awakening from slumber!

A gray-black beam of light, condensed to the extreme, only as thick as an arm, shot out from Li Ao's glabella, meeting the sky-obscuring pale sea of fire!

This gray-black beam of light seemed insignificant, but the Nirvana Power it contained made the pale flames in the flame giant's hollow eye sockets flicker violently!

"Hiss—!"

Like hot soup poured on snow, the pale sea of fire, capable of annihilating a Dou Saint, was forcibly split in the middle the moment it touched the gray-black beam, annihilating a passage!

The beam's momentum did not decrease, and it shot directly towards the flame giant's chest!

"Buzz!"

The flame giant's massive body violently shook; where the beam struck its chest, the pale flames rapidly dimmed and extinguished, revealing a huge void, and the annihilating trend continued to spread outwards!

It let out a silent roar, seemingly full of anger and a hint of... dread? Its body, composed of destructive flames, was actually unable to withstand the ultimate Nirvana Power contained within that gray-black beam of light!

Seizing this opportunity, Li Ao endured the excruciating pain of his Soul feeling as if it were being torn apart (the price of forcibly activating the deeper power of the black iron), and hoarsely shouted: "Go! Follow that passage, quickly!"

Without him needing to say more, Elder Huo Yun was the first to react, grabbing several nearby Disciples and transforming into a fiery light, rushing into the temporary passage opened by the Nirvana beam.

The others also awoke from their daze and desperately followed.

Medusa did not hesitate, grabbing Li Ao's arm, intending to take him and Xiao Yi Xian on his back and rush out together.

However, the flame giant seemed to be thoroughly enraged; it ignored the constantly expanding void in its chest, and its other giant hand rose again.

This time, its target was clear, pointing directly at Li Ao, who had forcibly activated his Origin and whose aura had instantly withered to the extreme! It wanted to completely obliterate this ant who dared to harm its Origin!

Before the giant hand arrived, the terrifying destructive will, like billions of tons of weight, pressed heavily upon Li Ao!

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his body trembling violently, making it difficult even to maintain flight, let alone dodge!

"Li Ao!" Medusa let out a mournful cry, her purple eyes instantly turning crimson!

Without thinking, her Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python Bloodline burned frantically at an unprecedented speed, erupting with dazzling Seven-Colored light!

She was going to use her own body to block this fatal blow for Li Ao again!

"No! Cai Lin!" Li Ao's eyes were bloodshot; he wanted to push her away but found that he barely had the strength to even lift his hand.

Just at this moment of life and death, a plain white figure was even faster than Medusa!

It was Xiao Yi Xian, who had been unconscious on Li Ao's back!

She had awakened at some unknown point.

Perhaps it was the extreme crisis that stimulated her, or perhaps she sensed Li Ao on the brink of despair; her clear eyes were now filled with determination and calmness.

Her Calamity Poison Pill, which had been balanced by Nirvana Origin, was forcibly reversed and ignited by her secret technique at this moment!

A gray-purple, vast energy, filled with two distinct yet strangely Fusion attributes of Nirvana and extreme poison, erupted from her delicate body like a volcano suppressed for ten thousand years!

"Calamity... Nirvana Poison Body!"

She let out a clear cry, her body seemingly transforming into the most terrifying combination of poison Origin and Nirvana Origin in this world!

She broke free from Li Ao's back, her slender figure fearlessly met the descending pale giant hand, her arms spread open as if to embrace death!

"Xian'er! No!!!" Li Ao let out a heart-wrenching roar, tears mixed with blood sliding down his face.

Medusa was also stunned; she hadn't expected that this woman, who was usually gentle as water and seemingly delicate, could erupt with such resolute and tragic courage at a critical moment!

"Boom—!!!"

The gray-purple poison-Nirvana energy and the pale destructive flames violently collided!

There was no instantaneous collapse as imagined.

The gray-purple energy stubbornly resisted the pale giant hand's strike, and with its inherent Nirvana attribute, it frantically eroded and annihilated the destructive flames that made up the giant hand!

Xiao Yi Xian's body was covered in cracks the moment of impact, like a porcelain vessel about to shatter; blood continuously seeped from her seven orifices and skin, but the determination in her eyes did not waver in the slightest!

She was burning everything she had—life, Soul, poison pill... to buy Li Ao that fleeting moment!

"Go!!!" She turned back, revealing a blood-stained, tragically beautiful smile to Li Ao and Medusa.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

Li Ao watched the plain white figure slowly dissipating in the pale flames, his heart twisted as if by a knife, his Soul trembling.

He suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, the sharp pain stimulating his almost numb nerves, and with his last shred of strength, he activated the black iron, shooting out another faint gray-black beam.

It was not to attack the flame giant, but to envelop Medusa, who was falling like a meteor, exhausted of her power from the eruption, and at the same time, he forcibly tore open a faint spatial rift behind him!

"No—!!!"

Amidst endless pain and unwilling roars, Li Ao, holding the unconscious Medusa, was swallowed by the spatial rift, disappearing into this destructive sea of fire.

And Xiao Yi Xian's figure, which had bloomed its last light, was also completely engulfed by the pale flames... The Flame Abyss returned to deathly silence.

Only the injured flame giant let out a silent roar, and the slowly drifting ashes, carrying a trace of Nirvana and poisonous aura, proved the tragic and ultimate parting of life and death that had just occurred.