Ye Xiao's cultivation entered the Immortal King Realm. Now, he had gained some confidence to face those Immortal Beasts waiting for him outside.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Xiao vanished from the First Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda and again appeared at the same place where he had been standing after descending from above.
He had spent more than forty hours on the First Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda which was equivalent to more than four hours in the real world.
The moment he once again appeared, he was immediately locked on by dozens of Immortal Beasts.
These Immortal Beasts were looking for him for this entire time. They didn't believe that Ye Xiao had already left this place somehow under the watchful eyes of more than a hundred Immortal Beasts.
According to them, Ye Xiao must have used some sort of secret technique to his own existence from their eyes.
These Immortal Beasts were already very powerful and had long awakened their intelligence.. It would be more appropriate to say that all Immortal Beasts above Immortal Lord Realm would awaken their intelligence automatically, and their intelligence would not be inferior to an adult human in any way.
Since these Immortal Beasts were already cautious and were looking for any clue to find Ye Xiao, the moment they felt the slight fluctuation of energy, they immediately locked on that place, and not long after, Ye Xiao appeared at that place.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!"
"Roar! Roar!"
All the immortal beasts started roaring while some of them directly rushed at Ye Xiao and attacked him.
Ye Xiao was already ready for their attacks. He immediately flew up and dodged their attacks.
Ye Xiao was now already at the Early Stage of the Immortal King Realm. Martial artists can fly after reaching the Immortal King Realm, because of this, Ye Xiao was also able to fly now without using the Wings of Divine Dragon.
But after just a few moments, Ye Xiao came down while shivering due to cold.
He had totally forgotten about the extremely low temperature at this place. He came out of the Universe in his mind without using the Sun Fire Soul to cover his body so that it could protect him from the cold.
The moment he came down, he immediately covered his entire body with the Sun Fire Soul, becoming the man in the fire.
But to his surprise, this time, none of the Immortal Beasts attacked him. Instead, they looked at each other and continue to growl in low voices, as if they were communicating with each other and were debating over some matter.
Those Immortal Beasts also continue to look at him from time to time, not wanting to give him any chance to escape.
After a few breaths of time, a wolf-type Immortal Beast came forward, ready to attack Ye Xiao.
This Immortal Beast had the body of a wolf and its body was around 3 meters long and 2 meters high. Its fur was white in colour and one gray horn was growing out from its forehead, just like the horn of a unicorn.
Its claws were covered in frost and from the looks of it, it had definitely not moved from his place for a very very long time.
"Horned Frost Wolf!"
Looking at this wolf, Ye Xiao muttered in his heart. Horned Frost Wolf was mainly known for its unicorn-like horn. It is said that this horn was so strong that it can even make a hole in a High-Grade Immortal Rank Weapon.
Its horn was also very famous among Weapon Craftsmen. It was a very rare and valuable material to craft a strong and durable weapon.
The Horned Frost Wolf looked at other Immortal Beasts and seeing this, other Immortal Beasts nodded their heads just like humans.
Seeing that other Immortal Beasts were nodding their heads, it turned and looked at Ye Xiao with pride in its eyes before raising its head towards the crack above and roared loudly, causing some small pieces of ice to fall down from above.
Ye Xiao immediately understood that these Immortal Beasts were treating him as their playthings by looking at their behaviours. In their eyes, Ye Xiao was nothing more than a toy that they could destroy at any time they want.
Maybe, these Immortal Beasts stayed underground for too long, causing them to be extremely bored. It was maybe because of this, the first thing they wanted to do after noticing Ye Xiao was not to kill him but play with him for some time before taking his life. And the first player was the Horned Frost Wolf.
The Horned Frost Wolf was the same as the Man-Demon Ice Horse. It was at the Late Stage of the Immortal King Realm.
Roar!"
The Horned Frost Wolf roared once again before raising one of its claws and clawed at Ye Xiao from a few meters away.
Light flashed as four marks of claw appeared in the air that rushed at Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao knew that he had to deal with many Immortal Beasts. This Horned Frost Wolf was just one of them and the weakest ones at that.
So, he first dodged the claw attack of the Horned Frost Wolf by using the "Spirit Devour Escape", and not wanting to waste his time, he immediately used the "Soul Destruction" to destroy the Horned Frost Wolf's soul, killing it immediately.
Shock appeared in every Immortal Beasts' eyes when they saw Horned Frost Wolf that was healthy and kicking just a breath of time ago suddenly felling on the ground and losing all signs of life.
They could not understand what happened just now and changed gazes between Ye Xiao and the Horned Frost Wolf.
In their eyes, the Horned Frost Wolf must have died because of some unknown reason. The thought of Ye Xiao killing the Horned Frost Wolf never crossed their minds.
But maybe, the status of the Horned Frost Wolf was too low among these Immortal Beasts, after a few moments of time, they ignored its dead body and sent another Immortal Beast to play with Ye Xiao.
It was a huge furry white spider that was waving its sickle-like claws. It seemed that it had a mocking look on its small face and thought of Ye Xiao as its prey.
Momentarily, the spider had already come in front of him. Its body was like a snowball and its eight legs were very sharp with white barbs, looking quite scary.
This Immortal Beast was known as Snow Spider.
When Ye Xiao was observing the giant snow spider, it suddenly opened its mouth. A white rope as thick as a baby's arm shot towards Ye Xiao.
"Dammit!" Ye Xiao immediately wanted to retreat, but it was too late already. The white rope had already caught one of his arms.
Ye Xiao could feel how cold this thick web of Snow Spider was. If not for the Sun Fire Soul, Ye Xiao guessed that his arm would have been completely frozen and shattered to pieces because of this rope-like web of the Snow Spider.
Even with the Sun Fire Soul, it took more than ten breaths of time for the Sun Fire Soul to completely disintegrate the spider's web that was sticking on his arm.
Seeing that Ye Xiao had freed himself from its web, the giant Snow Spider opened its mouth again and another white shadow was shot at Ye Xiao.
This time, Ye Xiao was nimble enough to dodge the rope-like white web of the Snow Spider.
Seeing this scene, as if the giant Snow Spider was angered, it started giving birth to many small snow spiders on the spot.
Ye Xiao was surprised to see this scene but he was more shocked when these tiny spiders rushed at him with incredible speed. They didn't seem to be newborn spiders at all.
Ye Xiao immediately retreated.
All the tiny snow spiders chased after Ye Xiao like an avalanche. The giant Snow Spider was especially fast, coming forward a hundred feet with each move. Ye Xiao could not outrun it because of two reasons.
The first reason was that the space where he could move was too small and he was surrounded by many Immortal Beasts. Although those Immortal Beasts were not taking action at this time, they did give Ye Xiao mental pressure. He had to stay cautious of their sneak attacks.
The second reason was that a large part of the small space where Ye Xiao could move was now filled with hundreds of tiny Snow Spiders.
In addition, the giant Snow Spider was constantly spitting spider silk at him, which Ye Xiao had to dodge as well. When stuck, He would be in trouble.
"Fire Clones!"
"Soul Destruction!"
"Sea Dragon Descends: First Style, Hands of Waves!"
Ye Xiao immediately released tens of fire clones that started using their own attacks to deal with tiny snow spiders.
In addition, he also continuously used Soul Destruction to destroy the souls of tens of tiny spiders and then used the first style of the Sea Dragon Descends and
Sea dragon Descends: First Style, Hands of Waves!"
Ye Xiao immediately used the First Style of the Sea Dragon Descends to change the surrounding into the deep sea. Hundreds of Dragon Claws clawed towards the Snow Spider.
Looking at this attack, the Snow Spider didn't even buzz from its place. In its eyes, this attack of Ye Xiao had no power at all.
But who would have thought, this attack of Ye Xiao was only for misleading the Snow Spider, the real attack soon followed after the First Style of the Sea Dragon Descends?
"Dragon Shattering The Heavens: First Style!"
A brilliant blue light shone brightly as an incomparable radiance burst forth which soon took the form of a Dragon. Hundreds of thousands of strands of Heavenly Thunder were flashing on the body of this dragon.
Unlike the First Style of the Sea Dragon Descends which was only a Low-Grade Immortal Rank martial arts skill, the First Style of the Dragon Shattering The Heavens was actually a High-Grade Immortal Rank martial arts skill.
"Roar!"
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A loud roar echoed out that caused each and every creature present here to tremble in fear and forced them to take a few steps back subconsciously. It was only after a few moments of time did those Immortal Beasts came back to their senses and understood that Ye Xiao had used his martial arts skill to launch an attack. There was no real dragon here.
But still, for a moment, they did felt their bloodline being suppressed due to the previous loud roar of the dragon.
As for the Snow Spider which was the main target of Ye Xiao's attack, it was nowhere to be seen.
At the place where the Snow Spider was used to standing a few moments ago, there was only a few meters deep pit and nothing else. Even that pit was empty as if the dragon from before had swallowed the Snow Spider.
After dealing with the Snow Spider, Ye Xiao turned his head to look at other Immortal Beasts, waiting for another Immortal Beast to come forward and fight with him. He also dispersed the Fire Clones that he had summoned previously.
Along with the disappearance of the giant Snow Spider, those tiny snow spiders also disappeared mysteriously, as if they were one with the giant Snow Spider.
To Ye Xiao's surprise, this time, instead of one Immortal Beast, three Immortal Beasts came forward to deal with Ye Xiao.
Maybe, they were scared because of Ye Xiao's previous attack and now wanted to play this game of life and death safely, they sent three Immortal Beasts to deal with Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao shook his head and thought that he could not continue wasting his time dealing with these Immortal Beasts one by one. Even when he saw three Immortal Beasts coming forward to fight with him, he still thought this was too slow.
He wanted to quickly leave this place and return. Fighting with these beasts was just wasting his time.
What was more, he had already guessed one thing. Since the Space Channel appeared in front of him, it should have also appeared in front of other participants of the competition.
What if all other participants had chosen to go back? Doesn't it mean he was currently the only participant left on the Land of Ice and Fire?
If this really was true, he might lose the opportunity to become one of the ten candidates to participate in the Competition of Myriad Worlds.
Ye Xiao didn't want to lose this opportunity and wanted to go back as soon as possible.
He jumped inside the crack only for the corpse of the Man-Demon Ice Horse. He wanted to devour it and increase his cultivation base since the Man-Demon Ice Horse was a Late-Stage Immortal King Realm Immortal Beast.
He never thought so many Immortal Beasts to present underground. If he had known this, he would not have chosen to jump down the crack, instead, he would have taken the White Flag and teleported back to the large arena.
Well, since all was done, he could nothing to change the past. What he can do right now was either deal with all these hundreds of Immortal Beasts before going up or think of a way to escape this place.
"Wings of the Divine Dragon!"
"Sun Fire Soul!"
"Heavenly Thunder!"
"Law of Fire and Thunder!"
A brilliant idea immediately appeared on Ye Xiao's mind.
He was not confident that he could deal with these hundreds of Immortal Beasts among which, majority of Immortal Beasts were at the Immortal Emperor Realm. Even if he were to transform into a dragon and use all the dragons' abilities he has, it'll still take a very long time before he might be able to go out.
So, thinking of the brilliant idea, Ye Xiao immediately used the ability he had gained from the Heaven Devouring Divine Dragon and a pair of beautiful dragon wings grown out from his back.
His entire body was already covered with the Sun Fire Soul, he used the Sun Fire Soul to cover his wings as well before his entire body started flashing with thousands of sparks of lightning at once.
Ye Xiao immediately flapped his wings and flew up before started spinning at an incredible speed.
Ye Xiao was going to use the "Thunder Fire Tornado".
He had used the thunder Fire Tornado when he was still at the Holy Beast Continent a few years ago. He had used this Thunder Fire Tornado to kill many people at that time.
Right now, he was again using the Thunder Fire Tornado to not only kill the Immortal Beasts and cause a huge commotion amongst them but to also escape from this place.
The moment Ye Xiao started spinning in the air, waves of intense heat and destructive lightning started spreading all around.
And because Ye Xiao used the Law of Fire and Thunder in this move this time, the burning and destructive power of fire and thunder increased by more than tenfold.
Immediately, Ye Xiao as the core, a huge tornado of fire and thunder was formed and an extremely strong suction force also appeared that started forcefully sucking all the Immortal Beasts as well as all the small big pieces of ice or every other thing that was present underground.
Because of the strong suction force as well as the destructive power of Thunder Fire Tornado, even the cave-like large holes which were the resting places of the Immortal Beasts started falling apart on their own.
Many Late Stage Immortal King Realm and Early Stage Immortal Emperor Realm Immortal Beasts were sucked inside the Thunder Fire Tornado and were burnt alive because of the intense heat and destructive lightning.
The underground's temperature immediately sky-rocket and even ice started melting slowly.
Law of Fire and Thunder really did increase the power of Fire and Thunder by a very large margin.
What was more, Ye Xiao even had the feeling that if he were to strengthen his control over the Law of fire and thunder and comprehend these laws while understanding their true meanings, he could control and use the thunder and fire according to his will.
This feeling motivated Ye Xiao to comprehend the Laws again and deepen his understanding of Laws.
"Roar! Roar!"
"Shriek!"
"Ughhhh!"
Miserable screams of Immortal Beasts filled the entire underground. The temperature underground was increased by so much that even those Immortal Beasts who were still out of the area of effect of Thunder Fire Tornado, started having trouble standing.
They were Ice Creatures. The lower the temperature, the better it was for them.
But Ye Xiao using the Thunder Fire Tornado and the Law of fire and thunder at the same time, destroyed their living environment, causing them to feel extremely uncomfortable. They felt as if they were going to die at any time, even breathing normally became extremely difficult for them.
This move was Ye Xiao was even more effective than what he had thought before. Looking at the miserable situation of these Immortal Beasts who were playing with him previously, a cold smile appeared on Ye Xiao's face as he muttered: "That's what you go for messing with me!"
The Thunder Fire Tornado continues to become bigger and stronger as time passes by sucking and swallowing everything from the surrounding, including the Immortal Beasts.
A scene of destruction appeared underground as the walls of ice were melting rapidly, causing many cave-like holes to fall apart.
The high temperature as well as the destruction caused by Heavenly Thunder was really terrifying. Its effect even started taking action outside the crack.
Ta Mu, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and was meditating, waiting for Ye Xiao's emergence from the crack, suddenly frowned his brows.
He could hear the miserable cries of the Immortal Beasts clearly. He could even feel the temperature rising rapidly from underground that was slowly spreading outside also, causing the ice ground to start melting slowly.
What is happening down there?"
Ta Mu who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and muttered in confusion.
He could head the miserable and fearful cries of many Immortal Beasts. Suddenly, he felt that the temperature here has somehow started to rise rapidly. The chilling cold was slowly subsiding and the ice ground started showing the sign of melting.
Ta Mu could not understand what was happening. He was still extremely confused when suddenly, he felt the destructive power of thunder and lightning.
Ta Mu's expression changed. He immediately spread his spiritual sense inside the crack, wanting to know what was happening down there, but unlucky him, even his spiritual sense showed the sign of burning and being destroyed the moment it entered a thousand meters down the crack.
Ta My hurriedly retracted back his spiritual sense fearfully. If his spiritual sense would have been burnt, it would have caused a great damage to his soul.. After all, the spiritual sense of a person is directly related to that person's soul.
Although Ta Mu retracted back his spiritual sense hurriedly, he was still able to sense the terrifying power of fire and thunder down the crack.
"Laws of Fire and Thunder!!"
Ta Mu exclaimed with a stunning face. He still could not believe what he had just sensed. Not only could he feel the Law of Fire and Thunder, but he could also feel many Immortal King and Immortal Emperor Realm Immortal Beast being burned alive in a terrifying river of thunder and fire.
At least, this was what Ta Mu had guessed after trying to sense the situation down there.
But this was also the thing that confirmed Ta Mu that Ye Xiao was still alive. After all, only Ye Xiao, a human was present in the Land of Ice and Fire other than the Immortal Beasts. And among Immortal Beasts and Humans, only humans could comprehend the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
Since Ye Xiao was underground right now and Ta Mu could also feel the terrifying power of the Laws of Fire and Thunder, he believed that it was definitely Ye Xiao who was using the Laws he has comprehended to fight against the Immortal Beasts.
It was no wonder that the temperature here suddenly started to rise rapidly.
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_Underground_
The terrifying Thunder Fire Tornado was destroying everything. It burned down each and every Immortal Beast it came in contact with, also destroyed tens of cave-like holes on the walls of the underground.
Because of the immense heat, the underground ice had long started melting, and right now, there was already so much water gathered as if a huge pond was about to be born.
"Now is the time!"
Ye Xiao muttered and stopped spinning. Then he directly flew towards the crack above and shot out of the crack, flying directly in the sky.
The underground city of Immortal Beasts was mostly already destroyed by him and tens of Immortal Beasts were burned alive, dying immediately.
The remaining alive Immortal Beasts had no time to check if Ye Xiao was still there or not. They were trying their best to not be caught in the Thunder Fire Tornado and were escaping further and further from the area of effect of the Thunder Fire Tornado in order to save their lives.
Although Ye Xiao had already flown out of the crack, the Thunder Fire Tornado was still there. It'll take some time before the Thunder Fire Tornado would dissipate. For now, it continued to destroy everything in its path.
The strength of the Thunder Fire Tornado did weaken by more than 50% the moment Ye Xiao flew out of the crack. It was because he was no longer present there nor was he using the Law of Fire and Thunder to enhance the destructive power of thunder and burning power of Fire.
When Ye Xiao flew out of the crack, he also retracted back the Wings of Divine Dragon. It was also the moment when he noticed Ta Mu whose head was raised high and was also looking at him flying in the sky.
Ye Xiao slowly flew down and landed on the ground beside Ta Mu. He didn't know why Ta Mu came to the Land of Ice and Fire. Is it because he didn't use the Space Channel to go back? Was it really that necessary to use the Space Channel to go back?
Ye Xiao looked at Ta Mu with confusion while Ta Mu was looking at him with astonishment.
After a short while of staring at each other without saying a single word, Ta Mu said, "So... You have comprehended the Laws of Fire and Thunder!"
Ye Xiao nodded his head and replied, "Yes!"
Ta Mu again asked what happened underground and in reply, Ye Xiao smiled and said that there were some Immortal Beasts underground but there was no need to worry. He has already dealt with them.
After answering Ta My, Ye Xiao asked what he was doing here.
Ta My replied, "Hell Flame is about to erupt so we opened the Space Channel so that everyone can return back. You on the other hand ignored the Space Channel and continued to fight the Man-Demon Ice Horse. I had no choice but to come personally so that I can bring you back before the eruption of the Hell Flame!"
"Hell Flame is about to erupt! Really?"
Ye Xiao was dumbfounded when he heard this. Although he had already known that the Hell Flame will erupt soon, he still didn't believe that he'll be unlucky enough to encounter the Hell Flame.
If not for Ta Mu who came here personally, he was planning to stay on the Land of Ice for some more days and comprehend the Law of Ice.
If he had really done that, he was sure that he would have to deal with the Hell Flame later.
To confirm something, Ye Xiao asked, "Senior Ta Mu, is the Hell Flame really very terrifying?"
Ta Mu took a deep breath and nodded his head while saying, "Yes, it is said that Hell Flame could destroy all the lives in the Land of Ice and Fire. Even Late Stage Immortal Emperor Realm martial artists have no way to return alive if they were to come in contact with the Hell Flame."
If what Ta Mu said was the truth, Ye Xiao had no doubt that he would have been in an extremely dangerous situation if he would have chosen to stay here and comprehend the Law of Ice. So, he immediately thanked Ta Mu for coming here for his sake.
In his heart, he did decide that he'll return here one day and search for the reason for the eruption of the Hell Flame. If possible, he also wanted to come in contact with the Hell Flame and devour it.
Since the Hell Flame could swallow all the lives, it might come in some use in the future.
After thanking Ta Mu, Ye Xiao went forward, arriving in front of the floating White Flag. Then he looked at Ta Mu who was standing not far away from him and said, "Senior Ta Mu, let's return!"
If Ta Mu were to return by himself, he needed to fly again for more than four hours before he could return back. The shortest method to return back was to use the White Flag that was floating in front of him.
White Flag could transport back a martial artist but it was not said that it could transport back only one martial artist. More than one person could also be transported back using the White Flag.
Ta Mu nodded his head and arrived beside Ye Xiao. Then both of them touched the White Flag at the same time with the count of three.
"Woosh!"
A brilliant white light surrounded the two of them as the two of them vanished from the Land of Ice and Fire.
.....
On the large arena, air fluctuated with the energy as a brilliant light suddenly appeared out of nowhere before vanishing again, leaving behind two figures.
Ye Xiao and Ta Mu returned in an instant by using the White Flag.
It was also the time when the big water screen disappeared from the view of the crowd.
Wu Cheng and Huang Daniu flew down and arrived in front of Ta Mu and Ye Xiao.
Wu Cheng said, "Ye Xiao, you were too reckless!"
Ye Xiao only smiled and didn't say anything. In his eyes, he was not reckless at all. The thing he did was the right thing to do in his eyes. After all, he was different from every other martial artist. He could devour and increase his strength, so it was not wrong for him to jump down the crack to devour the Man-Demon Ice Horse.
Seeing that Ye Xiao was not saying anything, Wu Cheng again said, "You really surprised us. We didn't expect you to have comprehended both the Laws of Fire and Thunder."