Chapter 855: An Eternal Being (1/2)
Chapter 855: An Eternal Being
Translator: LawEditor: Hitesh
Fire burned ragingly in the palace. Except for the essence sun fire and the other few types of top-grade divine flames, all the other divine flames and spirit flames could be seen in the palace. Different colored fires were so bright and dense, they even seemed to be tangible. The fires burned, and made the space inside the palace quake intensely, seeming ready to collapse anytime.
The fire power gathered in the palace was way too strong, to the extent that every type of fire had even turned conscious, transforming into all kinds of legendary creatures, flying, walking in the palace, or lying on the ground and taking a nap.
Fire dragons, fire phoenixes, fire horses, fire snakes, fire Qi Lin, leopards, tigers, boars…All kinds of creatures could be seen in every corner of the palace. They were all flame spirits, condensed from fires, but without fleshy bodies.
The temperature in the palace was incredibly high. Ji Hao took a deep breath and sensed a hot stream of air surging into his chest through his nostrils. The hot airstream roared inside his chest like an erupting volcano, which Ji Hao spent quite a while to absorb.
Ji Hao had been pursuing the great Dao of sun. Therefore, every inch of his body was filled with the purest sun power, that allowed him to stay unharmed in this palace. Standing in this palace for a short while could kill any ordinary person, and even a steel body would be melt into liquid in this place.
Zhu Rong gave a shout, followed by which, a few flame spirits who had been chasing each other for fun obediently stepped back and cleared a path, leading straight into the inner area of the palace. On the red bronze floor, fist-sized fire lotuses gradually bloomed. Zhu Rong trod on those flowers, walking quickly forwards while telling Ji Hao how to do it.
Ji Hao fixed his eyes on where Zhu Rong stepped and dared not to make any mistake. Zhu Rong clearly told him that these fire lotuses were also a powerful trap. If he made a wrong step, a poisonous, prehistorical flame would be released. The poisonous flame could kill a person with a single touch, without leaving a chance to cure, unless this person was as powerful as Zhu Rong.
Walking along the path paved by fire lotuses for tens of miles, dense clouds of purple mist could be seen in the front. Fire reached high into the sky, and ninety-nine fire dragons coiled on a fire column that emerged out of a hole in the ground. Five-colored spheres of flame flew all over the ground, and because of the great heat released from the column, even Ji Hao didn’t want to approach it.
The temperature was wildly high, burning Ji Hao’s skin and causing him a great pain. The Gold Crow cloak was activated automatically and released spheres of golden flame to wrap his body up, fending against the high temperature.
The temperature in the palace had been raised to an unreasonable, unimaginable degree, by the fire column, such that even Ji Hao felt it hard to withstand. Ninety-nine fire columns stood in a strange formation, and every single column had ninety-nine fire dragons coiling around it. Those fire dragons largely opened their mouths, letting out thin threads of transparent, colorless flame.The transparent and colorless flame formed an invisible cage, sealing a water-tank-sized head in midair.
Just like the seventy-two muscular men chained on the square, this head had a pair of sharp, bull-like horns. The face on this head was square and his skin rough. At first glance, this face might seem to be a bit ugly, but if one looked closer, they would discover the specialty of this face. The longer one looked at it, the more charming it would become.
Hearing the footsteps of Zhu Rong and Ji Hao, the eyes on this face suddenly opened, showing a pair of watery eyes in front of Ji Hao, with black pupils. This pair of eyes could even be counted as beautiful. The eyes formed a strong and magical contrast against the square face. It was like seeing a creature with the body of a muscular boar and the head of a beautiful girl.