#369 - Miscalculated
Jun Wuxie exerted a great deal of effort to tear open the barrier and enter the cave.
Once inside, the temperature was unimaginably high.
His golden blood energy shield instantly melted.
He had no choice but to continuously construct blood energy shields at great cost to isolate the high temperature.
Even so, his body was on fire, and his entire being was burning.
"Damn it! Kid, I can't take it anymore!" the Blazing Sun Flower cried out in his heavenly passage.
"Almost there!" Jun Wuxie gritted his teeth, forcibly enduring the burning pain of the flames, and directly opened the Eternal Divine Hall, instantly taking in the sun-like metal sphere.
Rumble!
As the metal sphere disappeared, the barrier at the cave entrance instantly vanished, and fiery red magma surged in.
Jun Wuxie originally wanted to leave immediately, but in the instant he collected the metal sphere, he saw a yellowed ancient talisman.
Unrecognizable runes were engraved on the ancient talisman.
Anything that could appear here must be extraordinary, otherwise it would have been burned to ashes by the high temperature long ago.
He immediately used blood energy to construct a barrier, temporarily sealing the cave entrance.
"What kind of talisman is this?" he wondered.
He came to the ancient talisman and examined it carefully.
The ancient talisman was only the size of a palm, located very close to the metal sphere he had collected, but it was perfectly preserved.
The temperature inside the cave was no longer as terrifying as before.
The flames on Jun Wuxie's body had also extinguished.
However, he was covered in black, the flesh on his surface was charred, and blood continuously seeped out from under the char, making him look extremely terrifying.
"Never mind, I'll figure it out after I get out!" he said.
He reached out to grab the ancient talisman, and the blood seeping from his festering palm smeared it all over.
He casually put the ancient talisman away.
But he didn't notice that the runes on the ancient talisman glowed faintly when they came into contact with the blood.
However, the faint light quickly disappeared.
Seeing that there was nothing else here, he turned and left the cave, checking the Spring of Life, which now had less than twenty drops left.
He desperately swam towards the whirlpool.
Now, all that remained were the Fire Lotus and the Fire Serpent.
He had no hope for the Fire Serpent at the moment, but seizing the Fire Lotus was not without hope.
He arrived at the bottom of the whirlpool.
The power of the whirlpool was extremely terrifying. He forcibly resisted the power of the whirlpool, stabilized his body, and looked upwards.
He could faintly see the Fire Lotus floating in the air above the whirlpool.
Its petals and leaves had more mysterious golden runes than when it first appeared.
Those runes were filled with the rich aura of the Sun's Essence.
"The power of the whirlpool is too great. If I rush up directly, the result will only be being caught in the whirlpool and spinning around with it! I must get as close as possible to that Fire Lotus. Right now, the experts from various forces are fighting with the Fire Serpent. This is a rare opportunity!"
Looking at the faintly visible Fire Lotus, Jun Wuxie forcibly stabilized his body at the bottom of the whirlpool, slowly rising, gradually closing the distance.
At this time, above the whirlpool, the battle had reached a fever pitch.
Hundreds of experts at the Sect King Realm had died more than half, with only dozens of them still alive.
The ancient remnants also suffered heavy casualties.
The main force besieging the Fire Serpent had changed from Sect Kings to Sect Emperors!
Each major force had sent several Sect Emperors, forming a lineup of more than a hundred Sect Emperor experts, plus tenth-order ancient remnants, there were a total of more than one hundred and fifty Sect Emperor Realm experts.
The Fire Serpent was covered in blood, and many of its scales had fallen off, appearing to be at the end of its rope.
Just when the Sect Emperor experts were confident of victory, the Fire Serpent roared, lowered its head, and opened its mouth to suck at the Fire Lotus.
A rich source of Fire Essence was instantly sucked into its body.
In an instant, the Fire Serpent's aura skyrocketed, and its realm directly returned to the peak of the tenth order!
Jun Wuxie, seeing such a scene below, his pupils contracted violently.
Wasn't that the source of Fire Essence that the Fire Serpent had spat out before?
He had always thought that the Fire Serpent was consuming its source of Fire Essence to help the Fire Lotus transform.
But the current situation was that the Fire Serpent had taken back part of its source of Fire Essence, and the Fire Lotus had not been affected in the slightest.
"This guy, could it be that it temporarily stored the source of Fire Essence in the Fire Lotus, so that everyone would think that it was consuming its source to help the Fire Lotus transform, thereby attracting people to attack it?"
Jun Wuxie was shocked when he thought of this.
The Fire Serpent's intelligence was too high, it even knew how to set up a scheme.
But what was its purpose in doing so?
As he was thinking, shrill screams came from above, and they were continuous.
He could vaguely see experts falling from the sky like dumplings, falling into the magma sea.
"Evil creature, you still dare to be fierce!"
A Saint Sect expert took action.
Rumble!
Above the whirlpool, energy surged, and the pressure of the Saint Sect was like a great mountain pressing down on the heart, making people's hearts explode.
Affected by this pressure, Jun Wuxie's body almost lost control, and he almost got caught in the rapidly rotating magma around the whirlpool.
The Fire Serpent roared repeatedly.
Jun Wuxie saw it open its mouth and suck at the Fire Lotus again.
This time, it actually sucked back all the source of Fire Essence it had spat out.
Immediately afterwards, there was a scream.
A Saint Sect Realm expert was hit by the serpent's tail and exploded in the air, scaring all the Sect Kings and Sect Emperors to retreat.
"Quick, join forces to form an array to seal it!"
The angry voices of the Saint Sect experts from various forces came from above.
They had not expected that the Fire Serpent could still return to its peak.
At this time, they finally realized that this was likely a scheme set up by the Fire Serpent.
It wasn't that they were stupid, it was just that they didn't have Jun Wuxie's good observation position, so they could see everything.
Naturally, it was difficult to think of the Fire Serpent setting up a killing trap before.
Rumble!
The great battle above was fierce, and even the beast kings participated, with true energy and blood energy covering the sky.
"Fight, the more fiercely you fight, the better!"
Jun Wuxie continued to approach the Fire Lotus, and when he was still a hundred meters away, he suddenly rushed up, instantly arriving in front of the Fire Lotus.
Without any hesitation, he opened the Eternal Divine Hall and was about to take the Fire Lotus into it.
But then, he was stunned.
The Fire Lotus swayed, the natural runes on its petals lit up, and it actually released a strong resistance, causing his plan to use the Eternal Divine Hall to collect the Fire Lotus to fail.
He had overlooked that the Fire Lotus had developed intelligence and knew how to resist!
At this time, the Fire Serpent and the Saint Sect Realm experts from various forces who were fighting in the air noticed him and looked down together.
Suddenly, big eyes met small eyes.
All three parties were stunned.
For a moment, Jun Wuxie had thought about giving up and fleeing immediately.
But even if he gave up at this moment, would the Fire Serpent let him go?
He gritted his teeth and went for it!
He reached out, golden blood energy covered the Fire Lotus, wrapped it up, restrained it to his front, endured the burning heat of the flames, and plunged into the magma sea.
"Hiss!"
The Fire Serpent was furious, and with a roar, the magma sea within a hundred miles exploded!
With a swing of its body, it was about to plunge into the magma sea to chase after that hateful human who dared to steal its treasure!
At this moment, not far away, a figure suddenly rushed out of the magma sea, like a golden light cutting through the sky, heading towards the distant sky.
The Fire Serpent was stunned and roared as it chased after it.
"Chase!"
All the Saint Sect experts, Sect Emperor experts, eleventh-order, tenth-order ancient remnants chased after it as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
It was much easier to get the Fire Lotus in the hands of a low-realm human than to take it from the Fire Serpent.
The speed of the experts was extremely fast, and they disappeared into the end of the sky in an instant.
The chasing Fire Serpent suddenly turned back and hovered quietly above the magma sea, its fiery eyes staring fixedly at the surface of the magma sea.
At this time, Jun Wuxie, using an incarnation to confuse people and draw away the experts, was hiding in the magma sea, taking in the Fire Lotus.
After paying a huge price, being burned beyond recognition, he finally collected the Fire Lotus into the Eternal Divine Hall.
He breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
He estimated that the experts had gone far away.
Now was the time for him to leave.
What he didn't expect was that when he rushed out of the magma sea, he was completely stunned.
In the air, a serpent dragon with a body length of a thousand meters, burning with flames, was staring at him with those eyes that were bursting with anger.
The two stared at each other, big eyes meeting small eyes.
Damn it, miscalculation!
Ten thousand grass mud horses galloped through Jun Wuxie's heart...
"Despicable human, you deserve to die!"
The Fire Serpent spoke human words, opened its bloody mouth, and fire flashed in its throat.
Jun Wuxie's pupils contracted, runes flashed under his feet, and he turned and ran.
At the same time, a chaotic light rushed out of his body, causing him to be shocked.
"Bastard! Come back!"
He reached out to grab, but grabbed nothing.
The bastard was like a ray of chaotic lightning cutting through the sky, actually rushing directly into the Fire Serpent's mouth, disappearing into its throat.
The fire flashing in the Fire Serpent's throat also disappeared.
It originally wanted to spit out flames, but it was broken by the bastard.
Jun Wuxie clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, stepped on the Divine Travel Without Distance, and instantly fled far away!
The Fire Serpent reacted, roared wildly, chased after it, and instantly closed the distance.
An eleventh-order sacred beast is equivalent to a Saint Sect Realm expert.
A martial artist in the early stage of the Star Sea Realm.
No matter how fast the Divine Travel Without Distance is, how can it compare to the speed of the Fire Serpent?
"Young Master Jun, is that you?"
Just as he was thinking about how to escape, a voice suddenly came from the communication jade talisman.
He was stunned, and immediately remembered that the three half-demons had said that their people would come to help him, and immediately replied: "It's me!"
At this time, the Fire Serpent was about to catch up.
At the critical moment, a figure rushed over in an instant.
Jun Wuxie only felt his body lighten, and immediately after, the magma sea beneath him vanished at once.
He was shocked to realize that he had already crossed the magma sea and entered the sky above the forest.
What speed was this?
He was utterly astonished.
Coming back to his senses, he realized that it was a horse carrying him.
No, it shouldn't be called a horse!
It was a woman with the lower body of a horse and the upper body of a human.
Her speed was too fast, like lightning, more than twice as fast as his Divine Travel!
Even so, it was still difficult to shake off the Fire Serpent's pursuit, only barely managing to keep pace with the Fire Serpent's speed.
"Young Master Jun, you need to think of something. I can't maintain this speed for long. This is a forbidden technique of my race, it consumes a lot of energy…"
The Centaur Saintess's voice was very pleasant, very ethereal, but at this moment it was slightly anxious.
"Okay!"
Jun Wuxie agreed verbally, but he was at a loss.
He looked back at the furious Fire Serpent, which had been chasing all the way, leaving behind a fiery river that stretched for thousands of miles.
That power was suffocating!
"Ye Qingxue can't take action now, what should I do, how can I get rid of this guy?"
Jun Wuxie's mind raced, and sweat broke out on his forehead. This was the first time he had faced an eleventh-order sacred beast head-on.
Such a fellow was much more terrifying than a human expert in the Saint Realm!
