Chapter 1693: Eight Thousand Leagues a Day
Zhong Yingxue recognized it at a single glance, and her heart immediately sank to the bottom.
Xia Yao's scalp went numb: "Yang Que? One of the Four Evils, the Yang Que?"
Then her eyes lit up brightly.
(*ง⁰̷̴◡⁰̷̴)ง "Hey hey hey～ Sister Li Bing said before that if Little Nan's Blood Incineration wanted to level up again, he'd need Yang Que blood as a material!"
"Let's get its blood and give it to Little Nan as a present, okay?"
Lip Ring V was already panicking.
(๑ŏ﹏.ŏ๑) "A normal person's first reaction upon seeing one of the Four Evil Beasts should be to run away, right?"
"And you actually want to take it down? Seriously? This Yang Que's rank is at Dao Heaven Two Stars!"
Xia Yao was brimming with excitement: "What's there to be afraid of? We've already met three of the Four Evils, and the Yang Que is the last one!"
The original Four Evils were the Translucent Void Dragon Loach, the Dusk Cloud Tiger, the Mist Swamp Blood Vine, and the War Giant Rhino.
But the Yang Que that appeared in recent years had kicked the War Giant Rhino off the altar!
Jiang Nan and the others had already arranged things, and some of them even used skills from the Four Evils.
Zhong Yingxue looked nervous.
(xin| (｡･ˇ﹏ˇ･) "Don't get carried away! Do you think the Four Evils are just handed out for free? The Yang Que is only second in danger to the Dragon Loach; it's the real deal!"
"Its skill..."
But before Zhong Yingxue could finish, the white-hot giant sun came rushing toward the group at an astonishing speed.
Zhong Yingxue turned and ran with the other two, not daring to clash with it.
Her flames turned pitch-black, using Undying Black Flame to resist the Yang Que's terrifying heat.
The white sun's speed was utterly terrifying. Wherever it passed, mountains melted and magma evaporated.
It carved a magma trench more than thirty thousand meters wide into the ground.
Nothing could stop the white sun's charge.
Even from this distance, Xia Yao was shrieking from the heat.
٩(#˃᷄口˂᷅#)۶ "Ahhh～ If it gets any closer, I'm going to become a well-done acquaintance! What kind of ghost skill is this?!"
Zhong Yingxue ran while speaking urgently: "This is the Yang Que's second skill: Eight Thousand Leagues a Day! It's a combo with its first skill!"
"The most troublesome thing is its Blazing Sun!"
"The Yang Que's flames are not ordinary flames. In nature, the essence of combustion is a violent oxidation reaction, which is how flames are produced."
"The maximum temperature of flames produced by such combustion is only about three thousand degrees!"
Lip Ring V was already nearly cooked.
(´థ﹏.థ) "What the hell is an oxidation reaction?! This white sun is far more than three thousand degrees!"
Zhong Yingxue bit her lower lip tightly: "That's exactly the problem. Ordinary flames aren't entirely plasma, so they have a limit."
"But the Yang Que's flames don't come from combustion; they're derived directly from spiritual energy. Their essence is completely plasma."
"Three thousand degrees is not the limit! Plasma can heat up indefinitely!"
"It can be tens of thousands of degrees or tens of millions! The sun's surface is 5500°C, and its core temperature is only 15 million degrees Celsius."
"And this white sun is nowhere near its limit! In theory, its Blazing Sun has no upper bound. It can heat up infinitely and could even surpass the sun's core temperature!"
"Now do you understand why it's called the Yang Que?"
Nothing could withstand the searing heat of this temperature.
Her own flame temperature...
Zhong Yingxue was suddenly startled.
(*ﾟ口ﾟ) Wait!
At that moment, a realization struck her. What was the essence of fire-type abilities?
Her flames were also rootless flames generated through spiritual energy.
But in essence, they didn't reach the level of complete plasma. In an oxygen-free environment, their power dropped significantly.
But Uncle Xiao's Great Furnace could reach tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of degrees, burning curses and even refining angels?
How did he...
Hiss~
Thinking about it, Zhong Yingxue sucked in a breath of hot air, her scalp tingling.
Uncle Xiao had seen the essence of fire-type abilities long ago.
He had evolved his flames early on to the state of complete plasma.
Though both were fire, there was a world of difference in their essence.
That was why Uncle Xiao's flame temperature could reach such heights, and the temperature could be controlled at will.
The Fire God.
He truly lived up to the name of the Fire God. He had traveled far on the path of fire.
If she could also evolve her flames to the level of complete plasma, her attack power would skyrocket exponentially.
Meanwhile, Xia Yao felt like her wolf fur was almost scorched.
(☍⌂⁰#) "Xuexue! What do we do?! It's getting closer! We can't outrun it!"
Looking back, the blazing white sun was already right in front of them.
Zhong Yingxue gritted her teeth and led the two of them diving into a lava river.
"Boom!"
A violent explosion rang out as the high temperature evaporated the lava river, light engulfing everything.
A white sun sped past, recklessly circling through the Fire Mulberry Spirit Ruins, destroying everything.
Only after it passed did three figures emerge. The darkened Zhong Yingxue reverted to her human form, gasping heavily, her face pale as snow.
She stared at the retreating Yang Que, still fear in her eyes.
If it hadn't been for the indestructible property of her Undying Black Flame, she would have been cremated that time.
Xia Yao had been roasted into a black coal ball, covered in burns, even under Zhong Yingxue's protection.
She grimaced in pain and stuffed Little Ginseng into her mouth.
(●⁰﹏⁰●) "So terrifying! We almost died. Lip Ring V? You should have one too."
She poked Lip Ring V beside her, who had also been charred black.
But with that poke, the frozen-stiff Lip Ring V directly turned into a pile of black ash, crumbling away until only dust remained.
Cremated on the spot.
Xia Yao and Zhong Yingxue's expressions froze.
(•́口•̀٥)(°口°#)
D-Died that horribly? Turned to ash? When did she die?!
Even though Zhong Yingxue had done her best to protect her, the temperature that seeped through the Undying Black Flame had still cremated Lip Ring V.
After all, she was only Diamond rank and didn't have the physical constitution. Big Wolf Mode was also Diamond, but her physical fitness had already reached Starlight, so she survived the scorching.
Xia Yao scratched her head awkwardly.
(´-﹏-`#)୨ "This injury doesn't seem like something Little Ginseng can fix..."
Fortunately, it was just a clone and not actually dead.
She quickly put the matter aside, her eyes lighting up.
(งᵒ̌◡ᵒ̌)ง "Xuexue! Let's take down that Yang Que!"
"That Blazing Sun is amazing. If you absorbed it as your Starlight skill, it would be perfect!"
Zhong Yingxue smiled wryly: "I'd love to, and Little Nan needs Yang Que blood too. But how? We couldn't even withstand one Blazing Sun."
"And the Yang Que's third skill is Nirvana. It won't be easy to deal with."
"Odins was probably trying to absorb its third skill back then, right?"
Xia Yao patted her chest.
(︶◡︶#) "Why can't we do it? Don't forget, I also have a Four Evil spirit skill on me."
"The Extreme Day Cloud Vortex compressed from the Extreme Day Cloud Sea can seal skills up to one major rank above me."
"I'm currently at the peak of Diamond Ten Stars, so I can seal up to Starlight."
"But once I successfully break through to Starlight, I can seal Dao Heaven skills! If I could seal the Yang Que's skills... hehehe~"
Zhong Yingxue's eyes also lit up.
(๑ᵒ̴̶̷ꇴᵒ̴̶̷) "In that case, maybe we can really take down the Yang Que?"
"But are you sure you can reach Starlight?"
Xia Yao smirked slyly.
(˵ಡ.̫ಡ˵) "This Wolf Mode swears: I must get either Starlight or Little Nan!"
Zhong Yingxue: (≖_≖)...
Alright. The moment Yao Yao made that vow, Starlight was guaranteed.
Little Nan simply didn't have that kind of luck.
...
Meanwhile, Jiang Nan and the others had already searched nine Spirit Ruins and caught three of Wristband V's 'Vs.
Hairpin V's rank had also risen to Starlight Nine.
If they caught another five or six, maybe she could regain Dao Heaven rank?
Along the way, any mercenary spirit warriors Jiang Nan encountered—if persuasion failed and they still intended to pull out the Path Nails—he simply killed them.
By now, over a thousand had died at Jiang Nan's hands.
He had already warned them before entering. If they came looking for death, Jiang Nan wouldn't show mercy.
As for passing through the space gates, Lan had thought of the same method Jiang Nan had.
Use spatial barriers to form a spatial prison, isolating the external space.
Make the Rainforest Maze think it was a single entity and teleport it as a whole.
He had changed nine Spirit Ruins without losing anyone, but he hadn't found the others.
On the way, Hairpin V would sometimes be delighted at leveling up from absorbing Wristband V's clones.
But other times, she'd curse.
Because it wasn't just her hunting Wristband V's Vs.
Wristband V had also started hunting Hairpin V's Vs.
Whenever they encountered one, Hairpin V would directly order the clone to self-destruct.
She wouldn't give it a chance to merge. But Wristband V still caught a clone and absorbed it.
However, the clone knew limited information. Hairpin V had done a good job keeping secrets.
"Boom!"
Hairpin V leveled up again. This time, she didn't curse. She just stood there, twitching at the corner of her mouth.
Jiang Nan was curious: (๑◔～◔ิ๑) "What's up? Did one of your Vs self-destruct again?"
Hairpin V was speechless.
(⇀‸.↼‶) "No... nothing. Just one was cremated. You wouldn't believe what my clones go through."
"Just what kind of weirdos are your teammates?"
Better not tell Jiang Nan. His wives said they wanted to give him Yang Que blood as a surprise.
If he found out beforehand, there'd be no surprise.
Speaking of which, those two girls must be crazy, studying how to kill a Dao Heaven beast at Diamond rank?
And a Yang Que, one of the Four Evils, no less.
But Jiang Nan was getting impatient after finding nothing again. He was even considering using a Lucky Little Cherry.
But he was afraid something would go wrong in his bad luck, and someone might pull out the Path Nails. That would be interesting.
He led the group through another misty space gate.
As soon as they came out, everyone stared blankly at the flat expanse before them.
(´ﾟωﾟ)?
Beneath their feet was clean spatial base plating. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing.
Liu Mang was stunned, rubbing his eyes incredulously.
█ "What's going on? Did we clear the dungeon too fast and break through the model?"
Mo Tian shook her head.
(๑･᷄ｖ･᷅) "No, no... Very likely Nan Shen used cheats that caused a bug in the Rainforest Maze system, resulting in a map error."
Jiang Nan rolled his eyes: "What is this? The map wasn't even finished, and they released it? That's a bit sloppy, isn't it?"
"A blank map to fill the space? What the hell is a blank map?"
Even Hairpin V was confused: "My clones have been in the Rainforest Maze for over a year, and this is the first time I've seen this."
There were empty rooms in the Rainforest Maze?
This was ridiculous!