“Nie Tian!”

Pang Chicheng, who had traveled a great distance to this realm, instantly figured out the identity of the man underneath the lava lake from the people’s exclamations.

“Get the hell out of there!”

As he shouted, numerous wisps of his soul will swirled out like slithering flame dragons, fusing into the fiery spell formations on the rocky inside of the volcano.

RUMBLE!

Dozens of different fiery spell formations burst into flames one after another as mysterious divine symbols came to form.

Each and every divine symbol seemed to be vested with a unique profound truth of flame power.

By deriving enlightenment from just one of them, anyone who practiced flame incantations would be able to enter the Saint domain.

These fiery symbols had been vested with Pang Bo’s lifetime understanding of flame power.

Every single one of them contained his heart-blood, and could interact with this volcano and even the entire Realm of Fire Spirit in a wondrous way!

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Like blazing butterflies, the divine symbols attempted to pass through the ward that separated the lava lake and the underground palace, then locate Nie Tian’s soul aura and annihilate him.

FZZZ! FZZZ! FZZZ!

However, as soon as the divine symbols fell and made contact with the ward, they were burned.

They then had to return to the lava lake where they were safe.

“The Four Manifestations Flame Soul Cauldron!” Pang Chicheng bellowed, staring into the lava lake with reddened, frenzied eyes.

His flame domain suddenly descended into the lava lake.

As it did, countless fiery talismans, flaming lines, earthflame crystal strings, and mysterious spell formations swarmed into his domain.

Part of the wonders his father had vested this place with seemed to be sucked into his domain.

Since this was the place where he had practiced cultivation in his early years, he knew everything about it.

Watching the divine symbols released by the fiery spell formations his father had left behind being stopped by the ward, he instantly realized something.

The Four Manifestations Flame Soul Cauldron was warding him off!

However, his father had left this divine tool for him, no one else.

One of the reasons why he had returned to the Realm of Fire Spirit was because he was hoping to break through into the God domain with the help of the profound spell formations and immense flame power in this place.

Another reason was that he aspired to finally take the Four Manifestations Flame Soul Cauldron into his own hands after he entered the God domain, and use that level five Immortal grade divine tool to awe all of the fire element sect elders.

He had never expected that the Four Manifestations Flame Soul Cauldron, which had its own will, would help a stranger against him!

Anyone who wasn’t him that entered the palace was a stranger, no matter who it was!

For his father had left everything in that palace for him, and only him!

“Pang Chicheng, I’ve heard stories about you for years.” Nie Tian’s calm, unhurried voice came from the underground palace. “Thanks to the fact that you were cornered in the Shatter Battlefield and gave up the Flame Dragon Armor to save yourself, I was able to get its Blood Core. That Blood Core helped me a lot when I was a child. In a way, it helped make me who I am.”

SHEW!

Under Pang Chicheng’s amazed gaze, a streak of crimson flames shot up from the depths of the earth.

It passed through the lava lake in the blink of an eye, and came to a stop in the sky over the volcano, completely ignoring the fiery spell formations on the inside of the crater.

The five Divine Sons and Daughters of the Five Elements Sect, along with Peng Yan, couldn’t help exclaiming, “Nie Tian!”

Clad in the Flame Dragon Armor, Nie Tian seemed to be bathed in fire like a true god of flames, his aura so fierce that it matched that of Pang Chicheng’s, who was still in the lava lake.

“Young Lord!” Fu Huan cried out. “That man... That man’s aura! He came from that palace indeed! But master left that palace and everything in it for you!”

“I’ve heard your name on various occasions as well!” Pang Chicheng said, his eyes reddened and wide. “I persuaded Wu Zhuri from the Domain of Primal Yang to rise up against the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, but you screwed things up for us. You stood in my way at every turn! Even the Thunder Devil, Yuan Jiuchuan, was almost killed because of you!”

Nie Tian bowed slightly with a cold smile on his face. “It’s my honor that you’ve heard about and are able to remember me.”

Pang Chicheng let out a cold harrumph and said, “So you’ve seen the Four Manifestations Flame Soul Cauldron, haven’t you?”

Nie Tian nodded. “Of course I have.”

“That Flame Dragon Armor...” Pang Chicheng said, with tiny fiery sparks condensing in the depths of his eyes. “Its great secret is intended for me! I killed Lou Hongyan and took the Flame Dragon Armor because it should belong to me!”

“My master forged the Flame Dragon Armor for me!” Lou Hongyan thundered.

Pang Chicheng laughed coldly. “For you? The Flame Dragon Armor’s great secret doesn’t lie with the armor itself or the Blood Core, which is Agaz’s heart. Its great secret lies with the arcane realm it connects to! My father held the key to entering that arcane realm, and later gave it to Shao Tianyang. Who would have thought Shao Tianyang would forge it into the Flame dragon, along with Agaz’s bones and heart?

“My father left that key for me!

“You, and you! Neither of you deserve to own the Flame Dragon Armor!”

RUMBLE!

A heaven-shaking, earth-toppling aura madly built up within Pang Chicheng’s flame domain.

Observed from afar, his domain seemed to turn into a boiling lava lake!

Peng Yan’s expression flickered drastically. “His saint domain was forged with this lava lake as the blueprint. It’s a wondrous combination of flame power and soul will. I suppose this means he can draw as much power as he likes from this volcano, its lava lake, and the spell formations the former sectmaster left in it.”

Pang Chicheng let out a cunning laugh. “Of course!”

In the next moment, rivers of burning lava shot from within his flame domain.

They seemed to be the essence extracted from that lava lake. Fine crimson earthflame crystal strings could be seen looming inside of them.

“Heavenly Lava River! Burn!”

As Pang Chicheng exclaimed, numerous lava rivers spread through the sky like crimson burning galaxies, releasing ultimate light and heat.

Soon, they interwove into a gigantic fiery spell formation in midair.

As soon as the spell formation came to form, the volcanoes throughout the Realm of Fire Spirit seemed to be shaken. Immediately afterwards, pure flame power poured in from all directions.

People looked up, and saw that the heavens seemed to be veiled by a curtain of fierce flames.

Huang Jinnan’s expression flickered as he couldn’t help exclaiming, “Such terrifying flame power! It’s almost as profound as that of a God domain expert! I can’t believe Pang Chicheng, who’s at the late Saint domain, can actually raise his power to such a level with the help of the lava lake and fiery spell formations here!”

Peng Yan smiled bitterly. “That’s because our former sectmaster left all of this power for him, and he’s the only one who can draw from it!”

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The lava rivers that were floating high in the heavens suddenly started to rain fire on everyone.

FZZZ!

Touched by the burning droplets, even Peng Yan’s flame domain started to burn in an unusual manner.

Many others summoned Spirit Channeling grade treasures to ward off the flaming rain.

DRIP!

A burning droplet fell on Nie Tian’s shoulder, and immediately started burning fiercely.

Nie Tian let out a cold harrumph. Bearing the pain, he cast bloodline magics in an attempt to put the fire out. However, he discovered that it would cost him a great amount of flesh power just to put out this single droplet of fire.

After a quick attempt, he was forced to form protective wards with the help of the Flame Dragon Armor to shield off the burning rain.

Each and every raindrop seemed to be a droplet of burning lava that contained strong corrosive power and a vicious aura.

Nie Tian frowned and shot a glance at Peng Yan, who was in a plight protecting himself. “Did Pang Bo derive his fire incantations from lava? This power from lava seems to be hard to control and a bit unorthodox. Did your former sectmaster pass these kinds of truths of flame power to him?”

“No, our former sectmaster’s fire incantations merged all kinds of fire, with a focus on earthflame and heavenflame,” Peng Yan explained. “Pang Chicheng found his own path, and focused on the flame power within lava. It seems to have redeeming qualities as long as he uses it to do good. But who would have thought he...”

“No! Wait!” Nie Tian exclaimed. “That’s bloodline power! Like me, Pang Chicheng is also a hybrid!”