Chapter 111: Samadhi True Fire Displays Its Might! A Sixth-Rank Burned to Ash!
“What!?”
Hearing that scream, the many sixth-rank experts of the Lionheart Kingdom and the Freedom Empire were shaken to the core.
When they had first seen Dracula make his move, everyone had assumed victory was all but certain.
A sixth-rank making a move against a brat who had not even reached the fourth rank—how could that possibly fail?
If he failed to take him down in a single move, that alone would have counted as a blunder.
Who could have imagined that a single flame would make the sixth-rank Blood King Dracula seem as though he were suffering some unimaginable torture?
The blue-white flame, gleaming like colored glaze, had almost turned Dracula into a living torch.
His screams were horrifying to hear.
In the blink of an eye, two pools of blood poured out from beneath Dracula’s feet and fled at high speed, abandoning the body being scorched.
—The Blood King’s class-exclusive skill, Blood Escape!
But the price was terribly severe. It had cost him nearly eighty percent of his combat strength, and even that was the best possible outcome. Otherwise, Dracula would have been burned to death on the spot!
“Myth-grade! It has to be a myth-grade flame!” Knight King Arthur’s eyes turned green with greed!
“Even Dracula couldn’t withstand it. This is the power of a myth-grade item!”
“Damn it! How could a divine flame like that end up in the hands of a brat like him!”
“No! That should have been mine!”
Aside from Dracula, the rest of the enemy experts were burning with envy. They no longer cared about Tong Mo and the others and rushed toward Ye Ze one after another, fighting to be first!
Even seeing Dracula nearly get killed in one blow was not enough to stop their desire to seize it!
That divine flame was already this powerful in Ye Ze’s hands. If it fell into their hands, how terrifying would it become then?
For six full sixth-ranks to join forces and attack a mere second-rank...that was the allure of a myth-grade item!
But in the next instant, no matter how fast the six were, they still lunged at empty air.
Ye Ze had been teleported to Liu Anran’s side from within their encirclement.
“What? He vanished!” “That damn Space Warlock!”
The six sixth-ranks, looking as savage as wolves, turned their eyes back toward the Chinese group.
“Ye Ze, you really cleared it!?”
“That was the myth-grade item?”
Yi Xing and Zhou Qi were astonished, and when Ye Ze nodded in confirmation, everyone on China’s side was overjoyed!
Tong Mo had no desire to keep fighting. He immediately took out that Anywhere Door.
“Quick! Everyone, leave first!”
Since the Secret Realm had already yielded the best possible outcome, there was naturally no reason to keep tangling with them.
And Ye Ze thought the same way.
Samadhi True Fire was indeed powerful—powerful enough to burn a sixth-rank—but the problem was... it was too powerful!
The stronger something was, the greater the cost of using it became... and right now, Ye Ze was extremely weakened because of it.
“Let’s go!”
The Hundred Flowers King, Shi Qing, dressed in yellow, was just about to escort Ye Ze and the others away at once.
But right before they stepped through the Anywhere Door, a sudden change occurred!
A white-bone spear shot across the sky!
Its force was astonishing, and it pierced straight through the doorframe of the Anywhere Door, nearly destroying it!
“Who is that!?”
Everyone retreated several steps at once, only to discover that from another direction, five more sixth-rank experts had closed in!
Tong Mo and the others were all stunned, because those five were precisely the ones from the Lionheart Kingdom and the Freedom Empire who had supposedly gone back to defend against the Fiends!
“Bone King! Have you gone mad?”
“You’re not even going to defend your capital? Weren’t you supposed to go back and save your wives?”
The leader of those five, a sixth-rank whose whole body looked as though it were made of white bone, the Bone King, gave a sinister laugh.
“My wives? Hah!”
“Once I seize the myth-grade item and gain the power to crush the entire world, won’t I be able to find as many women as I want then?”
“Exactly! For the sake of a myth-grade item, what does it matter if we lose a few wives and children?”
Another sixth-rank standing beside the Bone King echoed him.
That was right. Earlier, when they had pretended they were going back to defend against the Fiends, they had merely gone aside to watch in secret.
This first myth-grade item in the entire world, along with the power it had displayed, had driven them completely mad!
The killing intent radiating from all eleven sixth-ranks grew more and more terrifying.
“Hand over the divine flame!!!”
The gap between the two sides was far too great, and the expressions on China’s side all turned grim.
Tong Mo leveled his spear and spoke with complete resolve. “Liu Anran, take Ye Ze and leave!”
The moment he said that, China’s four sixth-ranks all tensed, fully prepared to cover their retreat.
“Wait.”
Suddenly, Ye Ze raised a hand and stopped Liu Anran, as well as everyone else present.
Knight King Arthur smiled. “Have you come to your senses?”
“Hand over the divine flame, and I can consider letting all of you live!”
“I just think...”
Ye Ze’s expression was icy and calm, without the slightest trace of panic. He lifted his head and revealed a cold sneer.
“Since you don’t want to leave, then don’t ever go back.”
The moment those words fell, Ye Ze’s five Summoned Beasts all appeared at once beside him!
“Don’t be reckless! In your current condition, you still aren’t strong enough to fight sixth-ranks!”
The Hundred Flowers King, Shi Qing, hurried to stop him.
She could tell that after using Samadhi True Fire, Ye Ze was in an especially weakened state. Forcing himself further was no different from risking his life!
But how could Ye Ze not know that?
Samadhi True Fire consumed an enormous amount of power. With one person’s Spirit alone, it was difficult to wield it continuously.
But Ye Ze happened to be a Summoner!
In the next instant, Samadhi True Fire appeared around all five Summoned Beasts at the same time!
Samadhi True Fire could only be wielded by its owner.
But Summoned Beasts were, in essence, their Summoner’s own power.
It was the same as Ye Ze lending Samadhi True Fire to all of his Summoned Beasts to use!
Ye Ze’s own second-rank Spirit was not enough to drive Samadhi True Fire again and again, but now there were five Summoned Beasts...and that changed everything!
The Fox Immortal in particular looked especially excited after receiving the power of Samadhi True Fire.
“Divine fire! I like it!”
At that moment, Knight King Arthur, who had been about to charge forward, forcefully stopped in his tracks.
“Five divine flames? That’s impossible!”
If there had only been a single strand of Samadhi True Fire, they still would have dared to attack together. At worst, another unlucky sixth-rank would die.
But now there were five strands of Samadhi True Fire. Who would dare step forward?
But just because they did not make a move did not mean Ye Ze intended to let them go!
“Attack!”
“Since they dared come here, none of them should even think of leaving so easily!”
The moment he spoke, all five Summoned Beasts attacked at once.
Simon the Magic Dragon shot out first, unable to wait any longer. Flames poured from his maw, and the blue-white Samadhi True Fire swept out in a fan-shaped wave, as though it meant to burn heaven and earth to nothing.
Ordinarily, the enemy’s eleven sixth-ranks could have completely ignored a single blast of the Magic Dragon’s fire.
But now that it had become Samadhi True Fire, not a single one of them dared take it head-on!
They did not hesitate for even an instant and immediately retreated!
Simon the Magic Dragon was overjoyed. “This flame is way better than Cataclysmic Black Flame!”
The Fox Immortal used Spiritual Energy to wield Samadhi True Fire, constructing layer upon layer of fire curtains to block off her enemies’ routes of escape.
“Hmph. Still trying to run?”
One sixth-rank from the Freedom Empire was accidentally grazed by one of the fire curtains. Samadhi True Fire ignited on his arm, and the scream he let out was ghastly to hear!
Seeing this, Knight King Arthur decisively slashed off the man’s entire arm with a single stroke of his spear!
“Aaahhh!! My arm!!!”
“Shut up! Or you’ll lose your life next!!”
That was not wrong at all. If Samadhi True Fire spread to the rest of his body, then unless he possessed some special means, he would be dead for certain.
But the Fox Immortal’s assault was not finished. Spiritual Energy gathered in her hands once more, and between the curtains of fire, she raised a blazing vortex of Samadhi True Fire!
Whether it was because of Spiritual Energy itself or because the Fox Immortal could wield immortal arts, she was actually able to unleash Samadhi True Fire twice in succession!
As for the Magic Dragon, the squirrel, and the Mantis, after using it once, they had already begun to “misfire.”
“Storm!”
The fire tornado formed from Samadhi True Fire carried a terrifying momentum, as though it would incinerate heaven and earth themselves!
That sixth-rank Bone King, his entire body like white bone, had still been planning to use the chance to kill Ye Ze.
Instead, he became the very first to be swallowed by the vortex of flame!
“Aaahhh—!”
This time it was not just some isolated body part. The Bone King’s entire skeletal body was completely set ablaze!
Unlike Dracula, the Bone King did not possess any escape method like turning into blood and fleeing...Under Samadhi True Fire, that seemingly indestructible body of white bone was burned away in an instant!
Not even a trace of ash remained!
The sixth-rank Bone King was dead!
【You have killed a sixth-rank Class User. Experience +100000 (+100%)!】
【Ding! Your level has increased to: 25!】
【Infinite Golden Traits — You have gained one draw chance!】