_Outside_
"What is he doing? Why doesn't he enter the Space Channel?"
Ta Mu looked confused as he asked this question to Wu Cheng and Huang Daniu. He could not understand why Ye Xiao was not entering the Space Channel?
Huang Daniu thought something and said, "Maybe, he doesn't want to enter the Space Channel. Maybe, he wants to obtain the Flag first before teleporting here directly."
Wu Cheng nodded his head and said, "We can not waste resources waiting for him to enter the Space Channel. Space Channel consumes hundreds of Low-Grade Immortal Stones every minute. We have to close the Space Channel as soon as possible. And anyway, the indifference he just showed towards the Space Channel proves that he has no plan to enter the Space Channel and come back here. Let's close the Space Channel now!"
Ta Mu and Huang Daniu nodded their heads and agreed to close the Space Channel. They also know how wasteful of resources it is to keep opening the Space Channel for a long time.
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After discussing with each other, they decided to let Ye Xiao do whatever he want and closed the Space Channel.
Although Ye Xiao was important to them, they could not force him to change his mind or interfere with his decision. Since he wanted to fight and obtain the Flag, they could only let him do that.
But still, they prepared to send Ta Mu to the Land of Ice and Fire, so that he can save Ye Xiao and come back with him safely before the eruption of the Hell Flame.
Ta Mu didn't decline this request and immediately disappeared from his spot. He knew that no matter what, he had to save Ye Xiao. Saving Ye Xiao means getting many resources and benefits from their masters. After all, their masters decided to send Ye Xiao and some other nine people to somewhere unknown and had given them the mission to choose ten special young men.
In the eyes of the three of them, Ye Xiao was someone special. He could stay calm even in great danger. He also had the Divine Sea and could use the Soul Abilities. There were also other factors that attracted the attention of the three of them.
Although the Hell Flame was extremely dangerous, Ta Mu believed even if he were to come in contact with the Hell Flame, with his treasure, he could at least save himself. It was also the reason why he didn't hesitate to go to the Land of Ice and Fire to give Ye Xiao a helping hand before the eruption of the Hell Flame.
Of course, he would not risk his life after the eruption of the Hell Flame. If the Hell Flame were to erupt before he could save Ye Xiao, he would not even try to save Ye Xiao and return back.
In his eyes, his life was more important than some Late Stage Immortal Lord Realm young man.
At most, what he had to do will be to search for another young man in other worlds.
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The Sect Leader of the Seven Star Sect and other elders as well as disciples who returned alive from the Land of Ice and Fire were looking at the big water screen in the air.
They could not understand why Ye Xiao was so foolish to ignore the Space Channel. Does he not know that the Hell Flame is about to erupt? He should take the opportunity and come back alive.
Well, they could do nothing but watch Ye Xiao fighting the Man-Demon Ice Horse fiercely with helpless gazes.
In the eyes of others, Ye Xiao was the disciple of the Seven Star Sect, after all, they had seen him coming together with other disciples of the Seven Star Sect.
Seeing one of the disciples of the Seven Star Sect making such a reckless and foolish decision, other sect leaders and elders started laughing and mocking the Seven Star Sect.
Such an opportunity was very rare to come by.
It has to know that the Seven Star Sect was the strongest First Levelled Sect in the entire Immortal Star World. Other First Levelled Sects were always suppressed by the Seven Star Sect whenever they wanted to rise.
This time, the so-called 'foolish decision' of Ye Xiao in their eyes gave them the opportunity to mock the Seven Star Sect so they didn't let this opportunity go and started mocking them.
The disciples and elders of the Seven Star Sect were infuriated and were about to retort them, but at this moment, the Sect Leader of the Seven Star Sect came forward and stopped them before telling in a loud voice so that other sects' members and leaders could hear him: "Let the dogs barking. You cannot straighten the tail of dogs no matter how much effort you'll put."
"You..."
All the sect leaders and elders as well as disciples were infuriated by the Seven Star Sect's Sect Leader's words but they could do nothing at this moment.
If they were to say something, it'll prove that they were the dogs and their words were nothing more than the barking of dogs. They tried to calm down the anger in their hearts while cursing the Sect Leader of the Seven Star Sect's seven generations at once.
The Sect Leader of the Seven Star Sect said to his sect's people, "Let's watch what that brat will do now. The Hell Flame is about to erupt. There is less than a day left before the eruption of the Hell Flame. He has to get his hands on the White Flag before the Hell Flame's eruption no matter what."
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_Land Of Ice_
Ye Xiao and Man-Demon Ice Horse were looking at each other. They completely ignored the Space Channel. The Space Channel also disappeared after five minutes of its appearance.
It was also at this moment when the Man-Demon Ice Horse made its move again. It spewed out two arrows of terrifying acidic poison towards Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao had already seen how terrifying its poison was. This poison was dripping on the ice ground from its mouth when it made its appearance for the first time. When its poison came in contact with the ground, it started melting rapidly and smoke came out from the ground.
Although Ye Xiao knew this, he still had no intention of dodging the poison. He was immune to all kinds of poisons, why would he dodge the poison attack.
"Wings of Divine Dragon!"
"Fire Clones!"
Although the Man-Demon Ice Horse could use the poison, it was still a creature of ice. No matter what, the fire was one of its weaknesses.
That's why, Ye Xiao immediately used the Wings of Divine Dragon, and at the same time, he used the Myriad Fire Image Technique to reveal tens of Fire Clones.
All Fire Clones had wings of Divine Dragon grow out from behind their backs.
It was at this time when Ye Xiao flapped his wings fiercely as specks of dust flew in every direction before directly shooting towards the Man-Demon Ice Horse like an arrow shot out from the bow.
He didn't fly high in the sky. He kept his flying height at the distance of his waist from the ground.
It was now when the two arrows of poison landed on Ye Xiao's body before vanishing without leaving behind a single trace.
A look of confusion appeared on the Man-Demon Ice Horse when it saw this scene. The Man-Demon Ice Horse was not the only one who was confused but all the people watching him from outside had a look of confusion on their faces.
They all had the same questions in their minds: "What just happened? Why did the poison have no effect on Ye Xiao?"
Of course, none of them were able to guess that Ye Xiao was immune to all poisons, not even Wu Cheng and Huang Daniu.
As for Ta Mu, he was busy flying towards the Land of Ice and Fire with all his speed so that he could make it to this place as soon as possible.
Some of them thought Ye Xiao used a secret technique to deal with the poison and some of them thought Ye Xiao used the fire soul to burn the poison. Well, they didn't even know that both of the guesses were far from reality.
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"Roar!"
Seeing that its poison didn't work on Ye Xiao, the Man-Demon Ice Horse let out another furious roar before slamming one of its feet fiercely on the ground.
The distance that Ye Xiao had yet to cover to reach the Man-Demon Ice Horse was about ten meters. But before Ye Xiao could cover these ten meters of distance, dozens of thick ice spikes grew out from the icy ground suddenly, wanting to injure Ye Xiao badly.
Ye Xiao hurriedly distanced himself from the ground and flew high in the air but to his surprise, the ice spikes shot out from the icy ground towards Ye Xiao on their own.
The Ice Spikes shot towards Ye Xiao who was now flying in the air at a few meters distance from the ground.
Ye Xiao was surprised that the Man-Demon Ice Horse could control the Ice Spikes psychically.
He immediately started dodging but the Ice Spikes kept turning in the air and again chased after him.
Ye Xiao knew very well that letting this continue would do no good to him, so he stopped flying and stopped in the mid-air. Then he used the First Style of the Sea Dragon Descends and made countless Dragon Claws collide with the Ice Spikes.
In this attack, Ye Xiao was at a disadvantage as he was pushed back several meters but still, he managed to cancel out the attack of the Man-Demon Ice Horse.
"Fuse!"
It was at this moment when Ye Xiao gave out an order and tens of Fire Clones started merging with one another.
One single Fire Clone could show Ye Xiao's 90% of prowess but after fusing with each other, they could show at least 150% of his prowess.. Although this consumes a large amount of energy, Ye Xiao was not worried about that. He could just devour the spirit energy in an instant if needed.
This attack was something he had used only one time when he was still at the Holy Beast Continent. Now, it was the second time when he was going through the same attack.
After all the Fire Clones fused into one, Ye Xiao again said one word: "Merge!"
The moment Ye Xiao said the word 'merge', the Fire clone shot towards Ye Xiao before entering his body.
His body was immediately set ablaze as the Fire covered every part of his body, making him look like a man on fire.
Then, an astounding scene appeared that really shocked all the people that were watching Ye Xiao fighting against the Man-Demon Ice Horse. They could not help but stand up from their seats while exclaiming out loud.
Because of the Sun Fire Soul as well as the fusion of Fire Clones with one another before finally merging with Ye Xiao's body, a terrifying temperature rose. The temperature was so high that it immediately started melting the Ice on the ground.
This temperature also affected the Man-Demon Ice Horse. It let out a roar that clearly had a hint of fear in it before retreating a few steps back.
At the same time, Ye Xiao's cultivation also increased from the Late Stage of Immortal Lord Realm to the Early Stage of the Immortal King Realm, making his aura even more stronger.
His aura alone now had the pressure enough to suppress the Man-Demon Ice Horse. It was all due to the fire energy that was coming out of his body, making the already terrifying temperature even more hotter.
"Let's end the battle!" Ye Xiao smiled and said in a low voice while looking at the Man-Demon Ice Horse.
Although he didn't need to go to such length by merging with his fire clones to kill the Man-Demon Ice Horse and he could have killed it with any of the abilities that he had gotten from the four dragons, he still choose to not reveal these abilities.
Hiding an ability was equivalent to hiding a chance to live. Ye Xiao knew this fact clearly. He also knew many people were currently watching him, so he decided to stay careful and not reveal his abilities.
He also hide away the two martial arts skills that he had created during the state of enlightenment.
Ye Xiao flapped his wings and appeared behind the Man-Demon Ice Horse and punched at the man-head that was growing out at the back of this beast.
"Bang!"
"Roar!"
The moment Ye Xiao's fist made contact with the man-head of the Man-Demon Ice Horse, it exploded like watermelon, and blood splattered in every direction.
The Man-Demon Ice Horse let out a painful cry and immediately distanced itself from Ye Xiao.
The place where Ye Xiao was standing immediately started melting because of the high temperature.
In the eyes of the people who were watching him from afar with the help of the Water Screen, the hot temperature that was coming out from Ye Xiao's body right now was in no way less than the hot temperature in the core area
of the Land of Fire where Xu Feiyi was fighting against the Fire Demon.
Ye Xiao again flapped his wings and disappeared from his spot before reappearing in front of the Man-Demon Ice Horse.
"Roar!"
The Man-Demon Ice Horse again let out a furious but painful roar at Ye Xiao, warning Ye Xiao not to attack again.
Ye Xiao smiled again and punched out.
"Roar!"
The Man-Demon Ice Horse again roared. Then it again slammed its foot on the ground as tens of Ice spikes grew out which then shot towards Ye Xiao.
But before they could even reach him, they started to melt at a fast speed and melted away completely even before reaching Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao's punch again landed on the Man-Demon Ice Horse's back and it was forced to take a few steps back while the place where Ye Xiao's punch landed was burnt to black immediately.
It was too painful for the Man-Demon Ice Horse to endure the pain coming out from his destroyed man-head and burnt part of the body. It knew that it had underestimated the young man in front of it. It also knew that it was now in great danger and the young man in front of it could kill it anytime he wants.
The only way to save its life was to hide inside the icy ground once again.
The Man-Demon Ice Horse let out a strange roar that was filled with both fear and threat. Then it again slammed its feet on the ground and the ground trembled wildly.
The ground was split into two and the Man-Demon Ice Horse jumped down immediately.
Ye Xiao immediately knew that the Man-Demon Ice Horse wanted to escape. But would he let the Man-Demon Ice Horse escape this easily? The answer was no.
"Soul Destruction!"
Ye Xiao immediately used the "Soul Destruction" to destroy the soul of the Man-Demon Ice Horse. Without an exception, the Man-Demon Ice Horse immediately lost its life, but since it had already jumped down in the big crack that appeared after the ground was split into two, no one was able to see it die. Everyone only thought that the Man-Demon Ice Horse escaped from Ye Xiao's clutches.
After killing the Man-Demon Ice Horse, Ye Xiao also followed it and also jumped down in the crack.
The moment Ye Xiao jumped down in the crack, his figure disappeared from the Water Screen. Now, no one was able to see him.
Wu Cheng, Huang Daniu, and other people's faces changed. They could not help but worry about Ye Xiao. They also cursed Ye Xiao for his foolish action in their hearts.
Ye Xiao kept falling deep in the ground. The crack seemed to be limitless as the end never appeared. Ye Xiao's body was still on fire as he kept falling deep into the ground. At this time, he could not even see the corpse of the Man-Demon Ice Horse. It was as if the Man-Demon Ice Horse had completely disappeared.
"Thud!"
After falling for another minute or two, Ye Xiao heard a loud 'thud' sound. This sound was as if a heavy thing has just fallen to the ground from the height of at least 1000 meters.
Ye Xiao immediately started flapping his wings and slowly flew down and very soon, landed on the ground.
Because of the Sun Fire that was covering his entire body and was burning fiercely, the darkness immediately disappeared, revealing the true face of this place.
If not for the high temperature that was exuding out from Ye Xiao's body, he would have immediately frozen in this place. Even though right now his entire body was covered with the fire, he could still feel the coldness surrounding this place.
This was enough to let people know how terrifyingly cold this place was.
What shocked Ye Xiao was not the extreme cold but the fact that there were tens of different creatures hiding in this place. Some of them were still in deep slumber while some of them had woken up because of the loud noise that echoed out after the Man-Demon Ice Horse fell on the ground.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!"
Many fierce roars echoed out throughout the place and even went outside because of the crack via which, Ye Xiao came to this place.
Ye Xiao could see each and every one
one of these beasts were at least at the Late Stage of the Immortal King Realm. Some of them were even at the Early Stage and Middle Stage of the Immortal Emperor Realm.
What is more, although some of these terrifying beasts were still in deep slumber, once they woke up, it'll be extremely difficult for Ye Xiao to deal with them.
The place Ye Xiao was currently standing seems to be an underground city. Yes, it looked more like a city.
This place was a large empty space where Immortal Beasts caved a few large holes to stay. There were hundreds of such large holes and hundreds of different kinds of Immortal Beasts.
Ye Xiao was surrounded by many Immortal Beasts. The weakest among them was at the Late Stage Immortal King Realm.
If there were only one or two or even five of these Immortal Beasts, Ye Xiao could have easily dealt with them but unfortunately, there were more than a hundred Immortal Beasts, causing Ye Xiao's expression to turn serious.
He knew that he could not deal with these beasts even if he gave his 100% in the coming fight against these Immortal Beasts. So, he made the wisest choice, he caught the leg of the Man-Demon Ice Horse and entered the Universe in his mind.
He directly went to the First Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda and started devouring the Man-Demon Ice Horse..
Man-Demon Ice Horse was a Late Stage Immortal King Realm Immortal Beast while Ye Xiao was only at the Late Stage of the Immortal Lord Realm, he believed devouring the Man-Demon Ice Horse could at least help him reach the Peak of the Immortal Lord Realm.
The moment Ye Xiao started devouring, rich spirit energy started entering his body that made him extremely comfortable. Ye Xiao kept circulating his cultivation technique while refining the devoured spirit energy.
His guess was proved to be true as he did reach the Peak of the Immortal Lord Realm, only a small step away from the Immortal King Realm, but this small step was not that easy to take.
Many People stop improving after arriving at this step. Although it sounds easy to break through to the Immortal King Realm after reaching the Immortal Lord Realm but in reality, it takes people at least a few dozen years to successfully take this step and enter the Early Stage of the Immortal King Realm.
Of course, Ye Xiao was not worried about any of these things, after all, he was cultivating the Nine Dragon Universal Circulation Technique. Because of this cultivation technique, Ye Xiao had no bottleneck to break, not in the past, not now, and not in the future.
He would gain more confidence dealing with the Immortal Beasts outside if his cultivation were to increase. So, without thinking much, Ye Xiao took out the Spirit Stealing Fruit that he had already prepared to use after reaching the Peak of the Immortal Lord Realm, and swallowed it.
The moment Ye Xiao swallowed the Spirit Stealing Fruit, it melted in his stomach immediately, and suddenly, a surge of suction force erupted out from his body that started sucking the spirit energy from the surrounding at an amazing speed.
A whirlpool of spirit energy was made while taking Ye Xiao as the center. It looked as if a tornado was about to be formed while Ye Xiao was the core of this tornado.
It was a pity that the rank of the Spirit Stealing Fruit was not high.
Originally, the Spirit Stealing Fruit was only a Seventh Grade Medicinal Fruit but after its evolution on the Second Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda, it was evolved into a Low-Grade Immortal Rank Spirit Fruit.
To the current Ye Xiao who was already at the Peak of the Immortal Lord Realm, a Low-Grade Immortal Rank Spirit Fruit would not prove to be much of help. But since the property of the Spirit Stealing Fruit was to steal the spirit energy from the surrounding and provide those energies to the one who swallowed it, Ye Xiao thought that it would be of great help at the moment when he was about to break through to a new realm.
Right now, Ye Xiao was surrounded by a huge whirlpool of spirit energy that was constantly enlarging. Ye Xiao kept circulating the Fourth Layer of the Nine Dragon Universal Circulation Technique to refine these spirit energies that were making their way inside his body constantly, without any sign to stop.
He was also taking his step towards the Immortal King Realm while slowly refining the spirit energy.
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Four hours after Ye Xiao went inside the crack, Ta Mu finally arrived at the Land of Ice and Fire.
Without stopping in his path, he directly flew and went inside the valley. He went through everything that Ye Xiao had been through to reach the place where the Flag was placed.
It was another matter that Ta Mu didn't have to put up any effort to reach this place. With his strength, Ta Mu believed that he could venture at any place inside the Land of Ice and Fire without any problem.
When he arrived at the place where the White Flag was floating in the air without any support, he immediately started looking for Ye Xiao but to no avail.
It was at this moment when he felt something trembling inside his spatial ring. He waved his hand and a talisman appeared. This talisman was called the communication talisman and through this talisman, one could easily communicate with another person, no matter the distance.
Of course, there was also a condition, and the condition was: a person who wants to communicate and the person whom the communicator wants to communicate has to be inside the same world. They can not be separated by any world or space.
People could not communicate using the communication talisman if both people are in the indifferent worlds, or a person is inside the Immortal Star World while the other person is inside a secret realm.
Ta Mu immediately fused his spirit energy inside the communication talisman, causing it to lit up with orange light, and heard the message that Wu Cheng had just sent him.
"What? Is he mad? Why did he enter the crack?" Ta Mu immediately shouted in anger.
How could he not be angry? He arrived at the Land of Ice and Fire after flying for more than four hours just for the sake of Ye Xiao but when he arrived here, Ye Xiao was nowhere to be seen.
Now, he was hearing that Ye Xiao actually entered the crack while chasing after the Man-Demon Ice Horse. This message really infuriated Ta Mu.
He knew very well how dangerous the underground place of the Land of Ice and Fire was. More Immortal Beasts could be found underground than on the ground.
What should I do now? Should I return or should I search for him inside the crack?" Ta Mu used the communication talisman to ask Wu Cheng.
Wu Cheng thought for a while and answered, "I could not make any decision right now. It is up to you what you want to do!"
Ta Mu thought for a while and again said, "I could feel many powerful auras coming from the deep inside the crack. Many of these auras belong to Immortal Emperor Realm Immortal Beasts. It is very dangerous to go inside the crack. I think Ye Xiao should already be dead by now. It is impossible for him to survive under the claws of these many Immortal Beasts!"
"Then what do you want to do?" Wu Cheng again sent another message.
Ta Mu took a deep breath and said, "Although according to the situation here, Ye Xiao should be dead by now, still since I have already come here, I'll wait for him to come out from the crack on his own. If he didn't come out before the eruption of the Hell Flame, I'll truly consider him dead and return!"
Wu Cheng agreed with what Ta Mu said. He also told Huang Daniu and Huang Daniu also agreed. This decision was the most feasible decision considering the current situation of the Land of Ice and Fire.
Ta Mu sat down cross-legged not far away from the large crack on the ground and closed his eyes, preparing to wait for Ye Xiao to come out from the crack before the eruption of the Hell Flame.
The arrival of Ta Mu and his communication with Wu Cheng and their decision, all of these were seen and heard by everyone outside through the big water screen in the air.
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On the First Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda, the whirlpool around Ye Xiao was now slowly shortening in size.
Ye Xiao kept refining the spirit energy by circulating the Fourth Layer of the Nine Dragon Universal Circulation Technique and very quickly, the sound of something cracking and exploding came out from within Ye Xiao's body.
"Ktttt"
"BOOM!"
A powerful aura burst out from Ye Xiao's body, causing a huge ripple in the surroundings and the spirit energy from the surrounding once again started to surge inside Ye Xiao's body.
But this time, it was not because of the Spirit Stealing Fruit but because of him entering the new realm.
Yes, Ye Xiao was now an Immortal King Realm martial artist.