Yet the flame spirit smiled with open disdain.
He completely disregarded the hundred-zhang cage woven of thunder, stepping straight out through the lightning.
"A thing like this cannot hold me..."
The corners of Li Guanqi's mouth curved into a cold sneer.
"Of course I know that."
As soon as the words left his mouth, fiery chains pierced and bound Li Guanqi's body in an instant.
Bang!!
Before the flame spirit's startled gaze, Li Guanqi's body shattered like a cracked mirror.
"Mirror Flower, Water Moon."
Li Guanqi appeared abruptly barely a zhang behind the flame spirit, Red Lotus in his hand slashing out three consecutive strikes!
"Sever Heaven and Earth!"
Three swords sealed the realm!
A flicker of panic finally flashed deep in the flame spirit's eyes.
The three slashes swept past him, transforming the hundred-zhang expanse around him into an isolated, independent world!
He could pass through the gaps between woven thunder, but he could not slip through the space of a sealed, independent domain...
Boom!!!!
The flame spirit shot backward in retreat as boundless flames erupted from within him.
In just a single breath, the scorching flames burned this independent realm until it tottered on the brink of collapse.
The warped space splintered continuously.
Yet right then, Li Guanqi violently crushed the Ancient Spirit-Burning Ring!
Boom!!!!
The precious immortal artifact exploded with tremendous power, momentarily suppressing the flame spirit's might!
Yet that single instant threw the Devouring Void Sacred Flame into complete turmoil.
Boom!!!!
Li Guanqi stamped forward with a thunderous step. The sword in his hand slowed, and an indescribable aura of the Great Dao rippled outward!
Li Guanqi closed his eyes, pushing his power to the absolute zenith.
"Red Lotus: Dao Fall!"
As Li Guanqi's words resonated through the clouds, the flame spirit thought to himself:
*It's over...*
Then his eyes flashed, unleashing his most formidable fiery power in a desperate bid to incinerate Li Guanqi to ashes.
"Devour the Void!"
Boom!!!!
Terrifying flames formed a vast ocean of fire before him, causing the void to cave in.
The flame spirit stared fixedly at the figure pressing relentlessly forward, his eyes flickering with complex emotions.
The piercing sword light was like the first ray of sunlight tearing through the night, piercing wave after wave of fire.
From beginning to end, Li Guanqi's gaze remained rock-firm.
The blistering flames had mostly been suppressed by the Ancient Spirit-Burning Ring's power.
Yet all the remaining power poured onto Li Guanqi's body.
Scorching heat... searing pain... unable to breathe...
The horrific temperature seemed intent on reducing both his physical body and his divine soul to utter nothingness.
Only now did Li Guanqi truly experience face-to-face just how terrifying the Devouring Void Sacred Flame was.
As he plunged forward, his consciousness grew drifted and hazy.
His pace slowed, his footsteps growing heavier with every step.
The flesh on his cheeks began to wither away, and the light in his eyes gradually dimmed...
Suddenly!
Li Guanqi's formidable willpower brought him a flash of lucidity.
Li Guanqi bit through his lip, tearing away a chunk of flesh from the tip of his tongue.
The coppery sweetness of blood had barely emerged before it was incinerated into nothingness.
Clenching his teeth, his bloodshot eyes locked onto the flame spirit a hundred zhang away!
An unyielding roar shook the heavens!
"Ahhhhh!"
Li Guanqi opened his mouth and roared with everything he had, the blistering waves of fire rushing down his throat and scalding his trachea raw.
Yet his speed surged faster and faster, his entire aura seeming to blend into one with the sword in his hand.
Unity of man and sword, sword intent reaching divinity!
Sword intent of the Sword Po realm raged unchecked, crackling against the flame spirit's armor and scattering showers of sparks.
The power of thunder radiating around Li Guanqi was devoured entirely by the flame spirit.
Even the pulsing sword glow seemed to dim significantly at this moment.
Inside Li Guanqi, the Thunder Bead trembled, and violent thunder surged forth, carrying an aura capable of destroying heaven and earth!
"Dao! Fall! Slash!"
Boom!!!!!!
The blade thrust toward the flame spirit, the boundless sea of fire colliding with the sword glow to unleash a blinding, brilliant radiance!
Inch by inch, the blade forged ahead, ultimately piercing through the flame spirit's palm and striking his chest.
Light swirled across the sacred armor, only for a sharp, overburdened crack to suddenly resound.
One crack, two cracks...
Where the sword point pressed, the fractures in the sacred armor spiderwebbed outward, bursting open!
Bang!!!
The deafening explosion swept across heaven and earth, accompanied by a boundless, towering inferno!
A dark figure plunged from the fiery waves toward the sea of magma.
A gruesome sword scar several thousand zhang long ripped across the entire Third Domain!
Everywhere the thunderous sword light passed, both the Second Domain and the Fourth Domain were torn with long fissures of void!
The Dao Fall blade cleaved open the Third Domain!
The heavens were thick with shattered flames and lingering thunder.
A figure scorched almost to a cinder stood upon the void.
His charred, scalded fingers had fused to the sword hilt.
With a head bald and charred like a braised egg, Li Guanqi slowly looked down at the black flame amidst the magma.
The scales across his body were all burned and curled; his chest heaved violently, presenting a thoroughly wretched sight.
Forcing down the burning sting coursing through his body, Li Guanqi breathed heavily, his gasps raspy and thick like a bellows.
"You lost."
Yet at that moment, Li Guanqi suddenly noticed that the flame spirit's burly physique was gradually transforming...
From a towering eight-foot-tall muscular man, he shrank down bit by bit.
With the sacred armor shattered, the revealed flame was merely the size of an arm...
Unable to endure the aura of Spirit Absolution within the Dao Fall sword, the spirit of the Devouring Void Sacred Flame could no longer sustain his conjured humanoid form.
In the end, he shrank into a palm-sized flame, the purplish-black fire possessing two purple eyes.
Li Guanqi's mouth twitched. He had never imagined that the grand and awe-inspiring number one heavenly flame...
...its true form was actually something like this...
Even the Five Yang Ghost Flame's origin form had been immensely imposing.
The Devouring Void Sacred Flame closed his eyes in agony and muttered under his breath:
"Ten thousand years of my illustrious fame... ruined in a day! Utterly ruined!"
Though his words sounded world-weary and experienced, his voice... was as childish and tender as a toddler's.
Approaching the flame spirit, Li Guanqi couldn't help finding that childlike voice rather amusing.
Raising his hand, he released a wisp of gentle spatial power to lift him up.
Li Guanqi asked with utmost sincerity,
"Would you like to follow me?"
The flame spirit manifested little hands and spread them open with apparent helplessness.
"Do I even have a choice?"
Li Guanqi laughed, tossed him straight back into the magma, and turned around, saying calmly,
"If you want to follow me, follow me. Don't speak as though you've been wronged."
With that, Li Guanqi sheathed Red Lotus onto his back alongside the sword coffin and turned to leave.
Within the sword coffin, the sword spirit covered her mouth and giggled.
Back then... when she and Li Guanqi first met at the courtyard on Tianlei Peak, it had been the exact same story.
He had nearly thrown even the sword coffin off a cliff.
A tiny flame spirit putting on such airs—it would have been strange if Li Guanqi had put up with him.
Lying in the magma as if in a daze, the flame spirit's eyes were wide as saucers, utterly unable to believe what he had just heard.
Chapter 1360