A bloody hand held onto the cliff of a small hill and in a breath's time, its body appeared.
It was a young man with black hair and black pupils that seemed to contain the deepest abyss. His naked body was covered with blood and a bloodthirsty aura radiated from him.
"Huff, huff" Lu Zheng panted heavily. Climbing the small hill wasn't an easy task.
The blood on his body wasn't his own but that of beasts. On his way to the small hill, he had killed many beasts and that had accumulated into the bloodthirsty aura that enveloped him.
Lu Zheng looked around curiously as he controlled his breathing. The top of the small hill was like the rest of the secret realm.
It had crimson red earth and a huge pool of lava stretched across it.
Lu Zheng's eyes dimmed in disappointment. He had expected something special on the small hill.
He walked towards the lava pool, contemplating on whether to enter it or not. That was when a cold voice aroused him from his thoughts.
"Who are you?"
Lu Zheng was stunned. The owner of the voice had managed to get close to him without him noticing.
If the voice wished, it could have assassinated him there and then.
Lu Zheng turned slowly and gave an awkward laugh. He was about to explain himself to the voice but when he turned, what he saw surprised him even more.
The voice didn't belong to a human like Lu Zheng had thought but to a beast.
It was a Purple Flame Lion the size of a car. Its purple mane strewn from its head and reached its large paws as yellow flames covered it.
An obvious rank four aura emanated from its body.
"An intelligent beast?" Lu Zheng mumbled quizzically.
"Answer my question human before I lose my patience" The Purple Flame Lion roared with anger.
Lu Zheng was still stunned by seeing an intelligent beast. In his past life, such entities were as rare as a phoenix's feathers and had power enough to destroy whole worlds.
However, this Purple Flame Lion was only a rank four beast. It could only hold dominance in this secret realm.
~Perhaps this is because of Nuwa~
The Purple Flame Lion got irritated by Lu Zheng's silence and spread open its mouth in a roar.
A huge flame ball made of yellow flames formed before crashing towards Lu Zheng.
"Boom!"
The collision caused a loud explosion that obliterated the ground around Lu Zheng.
"Hmph! Good riddance!" The Purple Flame Lion made a human-like sneer as it returned to its sleep.
"You can't kill me like that" Lu Zheng had a cold smile as a large thirty metre long Fire Dragon wrapped around his body.
The Purple Flame Lion was surprised to see that a mere Condensation realm martial practitioner had survived its attack.
"Die!" The Purple Flame Lion swiped its claw at the space before it.
Sharp winds formed as they moved towards Lu Zheng but a single scratch did not appear on his skin.
"My turn" Lu Zheng said with a smile as he manipulated his Fire Dragon to attack the Purple Flame Lion.
"Arrogant pest" The Purple Flame Lion's voice was shrill but the moment he sensed the fire in the Fire Dragon, it got serious.
"Roar!"
The Purple Flame Lion used its bloodline abilities as its body grew in size and purple flames surrounded it.
It swiped its claws again and this time, a gigantic claw made of purple fire formed at moved rapidly towards Lu Zheng.
The Fire Dragon moved itself to block the attack for Lu Zheng as its size reduced greatly.
The Fire Dragon let out a soundless roar and a large flame ball made of Vermillion True Flame formed, crashing down at the Purple Flame Lion.
"Arrgh!" The Purple Flame Lion couldn't dodge in time and was engulfed by the flame ball.
The crimson Vermillion True Flame combusted on the Purple Flame Lion's body, burning it.
The purple flames on its body multiplied in size as it fought back the Vermillion True Flame.
Even though the Vermillion True Flame was the strongest Mystical flame, Lu Zheng's cultivation base was too low. He could not use the Vermillion True Flame to the best of its abilities.
Hence, the Purple Flame Lion was able to suppress it even though it couldn't put it out.
A domain suddenly formed with the Purple Flame Lion at the centre. Purple flames enveloped the domain and surrounded Lu Zheng.
"A Domain?!" Lu Zheng sensed the trouble brewing.
Only rank four beasts or Domain Formation realm martial practitioners could create Domains and inside their Domains, any attack of theirs was a sure hit with a hundred per cent power.
Most attacks inside their Domains were instant-kill martial techniques.
Lu Zheng's life was in danger.