Chapter 481 - 481: Get Back to Your Fire Demon Realm (First Update)
Chapter 481: Chapter 481: Get Back to Your Fire Demon Realm (First Update)
This flame was not an ordinary fire, but a kind of demon flame that emitted a red glow.
As soon as it flew out, even the air was twisted by the scorching heat.
Yet, facing such a fierce blaze, Xue An’s expression became more and more excited, as if a gluttonous epicure had seen a delicate and delicious snack.
In an instant, the demon flame had reached him.
The boundless Sea of Fire instantly swallowed Xue An’s body completely.
The Fire Demon King sneered, “And here I thought you had some special abilities, but in the end, you were still consumed by my flames? Never mind, I’ll find a suitable body for you later!”
The latter sentence was directed at Lai Shuo’s soul.
In his view, anyone consumed by his flames would be incinerated, even an Immortal.
Xue An must have been utterly destroyed, his soul reduced to nothingness.
Lai Shuo flattered, “Your Highness truly possesses divine might, this Xue An was so arrogant, and yet he was ultimately slain by you!”
The Fire Demon King laughed heartily, “How could a mere mortal Cultivator be a match for me, the Fire Demon King!”
“Your Highness is right, it’s a pity that the Xuan Bird fellow was just too stupid, dying in utter confusion!”
The Fire Demon King chuckled, “That Xuan Bird was nothing more than a dispensable piece sent out by the Lord, absent or dead, it doesn’t matter!”
Lai Shuo offered another round of unabashed flattery, so crass it was nauseating.
But this Fire Demon King actually enjoyed this bootlicking, breaking into proud laughter at Lai Shuo’s compliments.
At that moment, a sudden change occurred.
The bubbling demon flame, as if encountering an extremely terrifying natural enemy, suddenly began to scatter and flee.
The Fire Demon King’s proud laughter came to an abrupt halt.
For at the center of the demon flame, a pure white lotus gradually emerged.
Once the white lotus appeared, all the fleeing demon flames were immobilized and then turned into flame giants, kneeling and worshiping the white lotus.
All flames worship the white lotus!
“How is this possible!” The Fire Demon King screamed as if he were a young girl being teased.
The overwhelming pressure emitted by the white lotus made him, as the Fire Demon King, want to kneel and worship.
At this moment, the worshiping demon flames began to explode one by one, and then surged into the white lotus.
As they surged in, the white lotus began to bloom bit by bit.
And the pressure that enveloped the heavens and the earth grew more and more intense.
The Fire Demon King trembled as he watched this scene.
When the white lotus finally bloomed completely, it transformed into a blazing white flame.
The Fire Demon King let out an almost moaning cry, “Divine Flame, how could such a Divine Flame exist in this world!”
Within the white flame, a slender and delicate hand slowly reached out, then Xue An’s entire figure emerged from it.
“Tastes good!” Xue An said with a smile.
The flame used by the Fire Demon King was a special kind of flame from the Demon Realm, powerful in its own right.
But in front of Xue An, it could only serve as food for the Divine Flame.
Witnessing this scene, the Fire Demon King did the smartest thing he had ever done in his life!
He turned and ran.
Because he knew better than anyone else.
Anyone who could command such a Divine Flame was not someone he could afford to provoke.
But Xue An clearly had no intention of letting him go.
With an extension of his hand, threads of white flame weaved like a Dragon-Snake, completely enveloping a segment of the heavens and the earth.
The Fire Demon King was trapped within it.
Xue An said indifferently, “Thinking of leaving now, don’t you think it’s a bit rude?”
The Fire Demon King turned around, his dignified face contorting into an exceedingly sycophantic smile.
“My lord, I truly did not know you possessed such great power. I’ve lost. I will now return to the Demon Realm and report to the Fire Monarch. From now on, I shall not come to this world again. What do you think?”
The Fire Demon King surrendered.
His surrender was incredibly swift and decisive.
To onlookers, this seemed difficult to comprehend.
For instance, Lai Shuo found it utterly inconceivable.
How could the mighty Fire Demon King capitulate without even putting up a fight?
Thus, his soul uttered, “Your Majesty, you…”.
With a crisp snap,
The Fire Demon King directly crushed the soul of Lai Shuo he held in his hand and then bowed and nodded, saying, “My lord, everything was this man’s doing; I knew nothing of the rest.”
Xue An’s lips slightly curled upwards, revealing a faint smile.
The Fire Demon King’s lack of backbone, incomprehensible to others, seemed perfectly normal to Xue An in the context of the Demon Race.
Because in the Demon Realm, the law of the jungle where the strong prey upon the weak and the strongest reigns supreme was an unbreakable absolute truth.
Submitting to those stronger than oneself and devouring those weaker than oneself—actions that might be hesitated over in other worlds—are as mundane as breathing in the Demon Realm.
Observing Xue An’s silence, the Fire Demon King began to feel panicked.
The white lotus he had just seen had utterly terrified him.
For that was the Apocalypse Flame, which even the Fire Monarch and the Demon Gods did not possess!
The flame that Xue An had was reborn with his soul.
This flame was something Xue An had obtained by chance from a crack in time and space while exploring the Sky Beyond the Skies.
Initially, Xue An did not pay it much mind, but later on, he discovered the fire’s marvel.
That marvel was its ability to transform into any other type of flame.
This was why, when he eradicated the Church of Light, the Son of Light and others thought they faced the highest Divine Flame of Light, but now the Fire Demon King believed it to be the Demon Realm’s most powerful Divine Flame.
After pondering for a moment, Xue An said to the Fire Demon King, whose expression was shifting uncertainly, “You come from the Fiery Demon Realm?”
“Yes!”
“Well then, I will spare you a sliver of soul. Go back and tell that so-called Fire Monarch of yours, if he dares to transgress again, beware that I might annihilate your Fiery Demon Realm!”
Upon hearing this, the Fire Demon King let out a piercing scream, “Do not, my lord, I am but a minor Fire Demon King. I will surely convey your message, please spare my life!”
“Spare you?” Xue An’s lips curled into a cold smile, “The very act of coveting the mortal world is your deadly sin. Now, sparing you a sliver of soul is an offer of mercy. Are you still not satisfied? Or perhaps, I should just obliterate you completely!”
“No!” The Fire Demon King suddenly recognized the reality of his situation.
This man was different from the other human cultivators.
Decisive in his killing, and his methods mysterious and unfathomable.
If he continued to waste words, he might indeed be utterly destroyed.
With a wave of Xue An’s hand, strands of white flame, like threads, bound the Fire Demon King, while the ends of those threads plunged into the Fire Demon King’s body, voraciously absorbing his essence.
A look of utter terror appeared on the Fire Demon King’s face as he let out waves of agonized screams.
Simultaneously, his once towering figure rapidly shrank.
After a short while, all that remained was a tiny flame the size of a fingertip.
Only then did the white flame reluctantly release its binding.
The feeble flame floated in mid-air, as if it could extinguish at any moment, and a very faint voice came forth.
“Lord, have mercy!”
Xue An nodded slightly, “Remember, tell that Fire Monarch of yours, any further inappropriate thoughts, and the outcome will be a hundred times more miserable than yours.”
“Yes!”
“Begone!”