Chapter 151: The Birth of the Earth Fire Bead

Yi Tian fully operated the Great Sun Heavenly Art, unscrupulously devouring the fire-origin essence within the Fire Cloud Beast. The Great Sun True Qi within his dantian space grew increasingly dense and viscous.

After an unknown passage of time, the Fire Cloud Beast let out a mournful roar, and its entire body shattered with a boom.

Yi Tian's figure materialized in mid-air.

To Yi Tian, that Fire Cloud Beast was like a potent tonic pill. Absorbing the fire-origin essence within its body advanced his cultivation by a massive margin.

Having experienced this sneak attack, Yi Tian became even more cautious.

Several days later, Yi Tian had penetrated eighty thousand miles deep into the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes. He encountered numerous fierce exotic beasts, engaged in over a dozen battles, and harvested a considerable amount of fire-attribute blood crystals along with some precious medicinal herbs.

The Hundred Thousand Volcanoes were immensely vast, rumored to span millions of miles across, with a diameter of hundreds of thousands of miles.

Suddenly, a massive volcano ahead erupted with a colossal volume of magma. The earth within a radius of thousands to tens of thousands of miles trembled, and the magma flowed down in dark red torrents, presenting a magnificent and terrifying spectacle.

Upon seeing this, Yi Tian immediately skirted around the volcano ahead.

This was an outburst of subterranean fire essence. The terrifying magma could melt metal and iron in an instant. Even with his Indestructible Vajra Profound Art having reached the second level, he would not be able to endure it for long.

After bypassing that volcano, what appeared before Yi Tian's eyes was a magma lake spanning a thousand miles in radius.

This magma lake had not solidified.

Beneath the surface of the magma lake, bubbles continuously surged upward from time to time, suggesting that an underground fire vein was connected beneath the ground.

Yi Tian's gaze abruptly sharpened.

He had just caught fleeting glimpses of shadows darting across beneath the magma lake.

In that ephemeral, fleeting moment, Yi Tian managed to capture their appearance—they were precisely one-to-two-foot-long Fire Spirit Fish, swimming leisurely within the magma.

Fire Spirit Fish were an extremely rare fire-attribute lifeform. Their flesh was tender and delicious, brimming with abundant fire-origin essence. A single Fire Spirit Fish could fetch a primordial crystal, and ordering a dish made from Fire Spirit Fish would multiply the price at least several times over.

With a rough glance, Yi Tian discovered a vast quantity of Fire Spirit Fish beneath the magma lake.

This was equivalent to countless primordial crystals beckoning to him.

These Fire Spirit Fish could be considered an exotic species. Their offensive power was not strong, yet they were capable of surviving within magma where even Human-tier experts dared not descend.

Yi Tian immediately landed upon the magma lake.

Employing the Great Sun Heavenly Art, he condensed the fires of the great sun into a giant hand that plunged into the magma lake with a boom, grabbing toward the school of Fire Spirit Fish.

Rumble!

A pillar of magma soared into the sky.

His strike shattered the surface of the lake and plunged a dozen zhang deep.

However, those Fire Spirit Fish were exceptionally nimble. The moment Yi Tian made his move, they all dove headfirst toward the deeper recesses of the magma lake, vanishing in a flash.

When the giant hand was retracted, it had only managed to capture two Fire Spirit Fish.

Yet these two Fire Spirit Fish were not worth the effort he had expended, rendering his trip essentially fruitless.

Subsequently, Yi Tian discovered that the Fire Spirit Fish had become extremely cautious and generally refused to swim upward.

For Yi Tian to wipe them out completely would be exceedingly difficult. If he insisted on guarding this spot, his harvest might amount to merely a few Fire Spirit Fish a day.

Realizing the underlying logic, Yi Tian abandoned his covetous thoughts regarding the Fire Spirit Fish of this magma lake, deeming the gains not worth the losses.

Just as Yi Tian was regretfully preparing to leave the magma lake, the distant firmament suddenly turned crimson red in an instant, and the ambient temperature of the realm where Yi Tian stood surged drastically.

An immensely powerful energy fluctuation emanated from the depths of the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes, causing Yi Tian's heart to tremble involuntarily.

This energy fluctuation was diffusing all around; could it be that some powerful heavenly treasure had manifested?

Yi Tian hurriedly rushed toward the depths of the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes.

The various experts exploring within the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes were startled one after another, and without the slightest hesitation, they rushed toward that location.

When Yi Tian arrived at the scene, he unexpectedly discovered that atop an immensely massive and ancient volcanic crater, swarms of fire-attribute fierce beasts had gathered. Beneath the crater, which spanned a radius of tens of thousands of miles, a crude stone disk emerged amidst the churning magma.

At the center of the stone disk floated a crimson bead, radiating a hazy red halo.

Yi Tian found it hard to believe that such a bead could cause such a massive commotion.

Roar!

Atop the ancient crater, an intermediate-peak fierce beast could no longer restrain itself and instantly lunged downward.

This action immediately provoked dissatisfaction among the other beasts. One fierce beast after another lunged down, engaging in a chaotic slaughter around the magma lake within the crater.

Terrifying waves of flames collided and annihilated one another, stirring up towering waves hundreds of zhang high.

Yi Tian did not make a move immediately.

He could acutely sense that various auras were concealed behind massive boulders and peaks among the surrounding volcanoes.

They were all experts who had rushed over upon hearing the news while exploring the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes. Many of them were organized into battle squads or temporary teams, numbering quite a few, yet they dared to step foot here.

Clearly, they all harbored the intention of letting the mantrap stalk the cicada while the oriole lurked behind.

However, they would soon find their desires difficult to fulfill.

A flash of fire from the skies deep within the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes pierced through the void in an instant, appearing above that ancient volcano.

It was an elderly man whose eyebrows and long hair were crimson red, clad in a crimson robe as well.

"Haha, I never imagined my Red Fiend's luck would be so good, actually encountering the birth of the Earth Fire Bead right here. It is destined to be mine."

The old man laughed aloud.

Simultaneously, the expressions of all the Human-tier experts nearby changed drastically upon hearing this.

"This is too unlucky, actually running into this madman Red Fiend."

"Red Fiend hasn't shown his face in Dragon-Suppressing City for over a decade; I thought he had already perished, but who would have thought he was cultivating in the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes."

"Damn it, that is the Earth Fire Bead! A treasure nurtured by heaven and earth, equivalent to a top-tier middle-grade magical treasure, worth a king's ransom."

Those Human-tier experts who had rushed over could not conceal their annoyance and hatred.

Every single person capable of penetrating the hundred-thousand-mile region of the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes was a top-tier existence among the Human-tier, and the fire-attribute techniques they cultivated were extremely profound. Yet, they had never expected the birth of the Earth Fire Bead to attract Red Fiend, watching helplessly as a supreme treasure fell into someone else's hands.

Yi Tian also sighed inwardly.

That bead was likely a powerful fire-attribute treasure, but it had attracted a formidable enemy—a Earth-tier overlord.

Yi Tian had once engaged in a fierce battle with that overlord from the Demonic Palace, escaping death by a hair's breadth. If Little Black hadn't fought him to a standstill, leaving the opponent severely weakened, and if Yi Tian hadn't ultimately deployed his trump card to heavily injure him, the outcome would have been entirely different.

Therefore, he knew that with his current strength, engaging in combat with an overlord was extremely unwise.

Red Fiend looked down at the hundreds or thousands of intermediate-late and intermediate-peak fire-attribute fierce beasts contending for the Earth Fire Bead below, a sneer inevitably crossing his face.

In his eyes, these intermediate fierce beasts were entirely unworthy of his regard.

"Red Sky Palm!"

Red Fiend abruptly struck downward with a single palm.

Boom!

This palm strike felt as though it blotted out the sun and skies, transforming into a thousand-zhang giant hand, entirely crimson, staining the firmament red.

With this palm strike, the fierce beasts currently engaged in mutual slaughter were sent flying one after another, either crashing heavily into the magma or being knocked down the volcano, their bones cracking with crisp, successive snaps.

In the blink of an eye, over a dozen fierce beasts were heavily injured by Red Fiend's single palm, leaving them on the verge of death.

Red Fiend showed no mercy whatsoever upon making his move.

He launched continuous attacks, shaking the void and blasting apart or heavily injuring intermediate-late and peak intermediate fierce beasts one after another.

Seeing this, some fierce beasts soared into the sky and charged toward Red Fiend.

However, Red Fiend condensed streams of fire swords with a wave of his hand, resembling a peacock spreading its tail, and pierced through the fierce beasts one by one in an instant.

Red Fiend embarked on a massive slaughter, striking down fierce beasts as easily as butchering chickens and dogs. Before long, corpses littered the landscape.

Such was the strength of an overlord; Human-tier experts were utterly incapable of withstanding even a couple of moves before suffering defeat.

"Utterly vulnerable!"

Having slaughtered all the fierce beasts, Red Fiend descended toward the magma, raising a hand to retrieve the Earth Fire Bead.

Yet at that very moment, Red Fiend suddenly shot back up into the sky.

Boom!

A terrifying pillar of fire blasted over from the distance in an instant, destroying a fraction of that ancient volcanic crater.

The next moment, a thousand-zhang-tall Three-Eyed Fire Lion charged furiously from the distant sky, its momentum towering. The terrifying aura of a superior fierce beast swept across this realm, resembling the descent of a sea of fire.