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Chapter 1118 - Chapter 1118 Chapter 983 Above the Fire Cloud the Pardoning

Chapter 1118: Chapter 983: Above the Fire Cloud, the Pardoning Thunder Lord Chapter 1118: Chapter 983: Above the Fire Cloud, the Pardoning Thunder Lord This scorching heat made it feel as if blood was about to be steamed dry.

Ever since they had reached the top, the searing heat had become almost unbearable. The icy domain created by the White Tiger and the Ice Mountain Lion couldn’t stop the overwhelming waves of heat, making everyone feel as though they were in the midst of a furnace!

“Chu Mu, why are you not sweating a single drop?” Teng Lang approached Chu Mu and observed him closely.

Once Teng Lang mentioned it, everyone’s gaze gathered on Chu Mu, and they were surprised to find that under the high temperature, Chu Mu appeared as if nothing was amiss, calm and composed, which was saying something because even the Goddess Mu, whose soul sense surpassed Chu Mu’s, was now drenched in sweat.

“I signed a soul contract with the White Nightmare Demon when I was at the Soul Warrior level. Back then, I had to endure the scorching of the Demon Flame almost every day. I got used to it after being burned over and over,” explained Chu Mu.

Chu Mu was indeed resistant to high temperatures, and now his physique was completely different from that of an ordinary human. For a Dominator-level creature, such a temperature really didn’t have much effect.

“You’re really bold.” Being from the Nightmare Demon Palace, Shen Mo naturally knew that signing a soul contract with the White Nightmare Demon at the Soul Warrior level could lead to the soul being devoured if not careful.

…

“Whooosh whoooosh whoooosh~~~~~~~~~”

A blast of heat struck their faces, feeling like flames sweeping over them, which made the six of them, who had finally climbed to the very top, retreat several steps.

The body of the volcano stood erect, and the six who had arrived were now at the edge of the volcano mouth, looking down into the volcano’s interior that plunged like an abyss.

Billowing molten lava tumbled, tongues of flame danced around, and fire waves splashed in all directions. When they looked down, the intense red hue seemed enough to pierce one’s eyes.

Fortunately, the volcano was in a state of calm for now. If it erupted as it had earlier, raining down destructive fire, the six standing at the edge would likely be engulfed by the lava.

“It seems there are no signs of life down there,” Chu Mu said after exploring with his soul sense.

“Yes, but now we have a rather difficult problem,” said Mu Qingyi, pointing a finger towards the molten lava below.

The body of the volcano was roughly five thousand meters high. Because of the recent eruption, the lava inside was slowly receding.

“The Phoenix Clan Territory is at the very center of the volcano’s basin, roughly at three thousand meters. Now the lava has submerged up to four thousand meters. This means that the Phoenix Clan’s Nirvana Nest is currently a thousand meters under the surface of the lava. We can only fly to the nest once the lava has receded,” explained Mu Qingyi.

Although Chu Mu was very confident in his strength, he wasn’t confident enough to soak his body into such frightful lava. It seemed waiting was necessary.

“Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Suddenly, from above the fire cloud, a startling bolt of lightning struck down from the sky. The soul-shaking purple color cut through the air before everyone’s eyes, striking the inner furnace of the lava!!!!

“Blubble blubble blubble!!!!!!!”

This bizarre bolt of lightning seemed to enrage the volcano which had been slowly lowering its lava level. Suddenly, the lava began to roll violently, rapidly rising and unleashing even more torrential heat waves!

“This… this damn lightning, is it intentional?!” Teng Lang was dumbfounded as he saw the volcano grow furious once again and immediately cursed out loud.

Since the volcano was on the verge of erupting again, the six of them dared not linger on the mouth of the volcano and hurriedly mounted their soul pets to flee toward the base of the volcano.

Before long, a spectacular fire rain appeared once again in everyone’s view, followed by scorching lava flowing down certain mountain gorges, moving slowly yet terrifyingly!

With no other option, they could only wait. They had no idea how much time had passed, but the volcano eventually began to calm down.

So, the six of them climbed back up to the mouth again.

They still had to wait for the lava to descend below three thousand meters before they could possibly see the Phoenix Clan’s nest situated in the middle of the volcano’s mouth.

“I see the red platform,” Pang Yue said excitedly, pointing at the glowing red center.

After a lengthy wait, the lava finally dropped to around three thousand meters, and they finally saw the special Phoenix Stone Platform standing tall in the middle of the lava.

However, just as they excitedly awaited for all the lava to recede, a suffocating purple lightning struck down fiercely into the middle of the volcano’s mouth!

“Gurgle gurgle gurgle!!!!!!!!”

The lava that had finally settled down suddenly became enraged again; this time, it surged up from three thousand meters in a jetting eruption!

Chu Mu and the others, seeing the bad turn of events, fled down the base of the volcano in a panic, followed by a beam of fire shooting into the sky, which left all six of them terrified!

“What the hell is going on? Every time the lava goes down, that damn lightning strikes!” Shen Mo cursed angrily!

“The frequency of the volcanic eruptions probably has something to do with how often the lightning strikes here,” Mu Qingyi suggested.

“The power of that lightning is immense, even the Invincible Emperor might not be able to withstand it,” Chao Lengchuan remarked.

What Chao Lengchuan meant was that the next time lightning appeared, they would use the power of their Soul Pets to block it. But he also had to consider the strength of the lightning and how often it struck because both Nirvana and revival took place inside. The lightning falling periodically would definitely trigger a volcanic eruption, and if humans and Soul Pets were below at that time, an eruption would certainly cause severe damage to the Soul Pets, making Nirvana and resurrection impossible.

In the end, after discussing it, everyone thought it would be more reliable to find a pattern, as the two instances of lightning might just be cases of a higher frequency.

However, after several life-threatening climbs up and down, the faces of the six people grew darker and darker.

Clearly, the lava was not going to drop below three thousand meters, as almost every descent would be met with lightning entering the volcanic basin, followed by a terrifying eruption, repeating at least ten times!

“Chu Fangchen, let’s go to a higher position to see what’s going on with the lightning,” Mu Qingyi said to Chu Mu.

Chu Mu nodded and leaped onto the back of Mu Qingyi’s Misty Immortal Bird.

Spreading its wings, the Misty Immortal Bird became a beam of white light, swiftly soaring into the sky filled with fire clouds.

Most of the fire clouds, composed of volcanic ash, hung dimly in the high altitude. The Misty Immortal Bird flew through these dusty clouds, reaching above the volcano’s mouth in search of the source of the lightning.

They rarely saw lightning when traveling through the Giant Mountain, so why was it that lightning was so frequent here at the volcano’s mouth? There must be a reason. If they could suppress this unusual lightning, the lava would naturally recede.

“Do you see anything yet?” Chu Mu asked.

“Not yet, we need to wait for the next lightning to strike before we can find the source,” Mu Qingyi replied.

Mu Qingyi had the Misty Immortal Bird circle above the mouth of the volcano, waiting for the next bolt of lightning.

Indeed, after a few circles, a deafening lightning bolt whisked past the Misty Immortal Bird, the power at the edge of the electric arc almost completely paralyzed the bird’s body, making it unable to flap its wings.

Mu Qingyi reacted very quickly, hurriedly reciting a spell and summoning the Thunder Sword Wing Lion in front of her. Then she swiftly returned the Misty Immortal Bird to the Soul Pet Space.

“Over there,” captured the trajectory of the lightning, Mu Qingyi commanded the Thunder Sword Wing Lion to fly toward a fire cloud above.

For safety’s sake, Mu Qingyi was still extremely cautious as she led the Thunder Sword Wing Lion through the fire cloud.

After passing this fire cloud, the sky cleared up, and at this altitude, the volcanic ash should not be suspended. Through the clean space, both Chu Mu and Mu Qingyi spotted a purple-red object resting on top of the fire cloud.

“Get a bit closer,” Mu Qingyi instructed the Thunder Sword Wing Lion.

Flapping its wings, the Thunder Sword Wing Lion headed toward the purple-red object, but it had not flown several hundred meters when Mu Qingyi’s face suddenly turned deathly pale!

“Stop quickly!” Mu Qingyi urgently commanded the Thunder Sword Wing Lion to halt.

Sitting behind her, Chu Mu was somewhat puzzled and, seeing Mu Qingyi’s nervous appearance, quickly asked through Mental Sound, “What’s wrong?”

“See for yourself,” Mu Qingyi replied, cold sweat already sliding down the back of her neck.

Chu Mu didn’t understand and looked at the purple-red object with his Soul Sense.

However, for some reason, why did that purple object seem somewhat familiar?

Chu Mu pondered to himself and then focused his gaze, only to remember that the shape of the purple-red object was very similar to that of the sleepy Little Mo Ye, a Demon Fox dozing there.

But upon closer consideration, even Chu Mu’s expression stiffened!

A purple-red Demon Fox, wasn’t that the Demonic Realm Guardian that Mu Qingyi had mentioned!

“Tha… That’s Sin Fox Thunder Monarch!” Chu Mu pointed at the purple-red creature and lowered his Mental Sound, fearing his mental waves would alert the creature.

Mu Qingyi’s heaving chest rose and fell gently as she nodded with lingering fear.

Thank goodness they had not recklessly flown straight over; if they had, they would definitely have awakened that Dominator-level creature!

Fox Lei Jun, the Absolver, had an overall shape very similar to that of the Fallen Flame King while it lay there, displaying perfect muscular curves and a noble, beautiful fur, and the lightning striking its body gave the Fox Lei Jun, the Absolver, a breathtaking beauty with an unsurpassed regal dignity.

In terms of color, Mo Ye was bright red, while this Thunder Monarch was purple-red. The biggest difference probably lay in the tail. It did not have nine tails like Mo Ye; that one beautiful purple-red long tail resembled a still, slender lightning bolt hanging down from the fire cloud.

“Crack! Crack!!!!!!”

Suddenly, electric arcs flashed over the entire body of the purple-red Thunder Fox, rapidly flowing to the tip of the tail that hung down, followed by an astonishing lightning strike from high above, landing squarely on the volcano mouth.

Then, the volcano erupted again, with boiling lava spraying from below, forming a gorgeous fire lotus blooming under the fire cloud where Fox Lei Jun, the Absolver, rested…

As the heat surged up, Fox Lei Jun, the Absolver, actually moved comfortably and seemed quite satisfied, enjoying the warmth.

After seeing this scene, Chu Mu and Mu Qingyi’s faces grew even darker.

This Fox Lei Jun, the Absolver, was actually using the heat from the volcanic eruptions to warm its cloud bed, and the previous ten-plus times the volcano erupted, it was all because the fox felt its bed was not warm enough!

Moreover, seeing how it completed that lightning strike in a half-asleep state so skillfully, it must have done this often and had already developed a habit.

Chu Mu was quite speechless; just because this thing was sleeping here, they had several times embarrassingly escaped from the volcano mouth to the foot of the volcano. If this guy was Little Mo Xie, Chu Mu would definitely lift it up and spank it for acting so willfully!

“Didn’t you say it should be at the entrance to the Demonic Realm? How come it’s lying here asleep?” Chu Mu asked.

“This… I don’t know either. I initially encountered it at the entrance to the Demonic Realm. If I had known it was sleeping here, why would I have taken such a big detour through Array Valley?”

“Now there’s a bit of trouble. We got so close without it noticing us, which means it’s in deep sleep. How many years it might sleep, we don’t know. But if we wake it, even together we might not be a match for this Sin Fox Thunder Monarch; its strength should be close to that of a low-grade Dominator,” said Mu Qingyi, also quite helpless now.

In the human domain, the strongest were Quasi-Dominators, and so far, Chu Mu had not seen a true low-grade Dominator-level creature.

The half-demon Bai Yu from before should be regarded as close to the low-grade Master level, as this guy had fought against the Nightmare Demon Ancestor and the Four Great Soul Hall Monarchs before being sealed. After its revival, it had also battled with the Azure Sky Hidden Dragon, so its strength was truly formidable!

If in a fully victorious state, the Azure Sky Hidden Dragon would have tremendous difficulty defeating the half-demon Bai Yu.

The strength of this Sin Fox Thunder Monarch before them was not likely to be much less than that of a fully victorious half-demon Bai Yu, so even if Chu Mu’s White Demon, Mu Qingyi’s White Tiger, and Chao Lengchuan’s Wanzhao Beast joined forces, they probably wouldn’t be a match for the Sin Fox Thunder Monarch, especially since these three soul pets had not truly entered the quasi-Dominator level.

Of course, due to the increase in strength of the White Demon, Chu Mu’s half-demonized state was also close to that of a low-grade Master, not much different from a fully victorious half-demon Bai Yu. Facing the Sin Fox Thunder Monarch in a one-on-one fight was still barely possible. The problem was that Mu Qingyi and everyone else were here, and no matter how covert Chu Mu was, a battle between two creatures near low-grade Master level wouldn’t go unnoticed and would likely reveal his identity.

Chu Mu felt he could trust these five people, but the matter of his half-demon was too sensitive. The slightest slip or hint discovered by that manipulative defector girl would not only put him in trouble but also implicate many others. Another sealing incident might even arise from this.

So, unless his life was threatened, Chu Mu would not reveal his half-demon strength in front of others. It had nothing to do with trust; the consequences of revelation were just too significant.

“If my phoenix could revive, along with your White Nightmare Demon, White Tiger, and Wanzhao Beast, we should barely be able to hold it off,” said Mu Qingyi.

“How long will the revival of your phoenix take?” Chu Mu asked.

“It should not be long. As long as it can touch the purest source of fire in the royal nest, it will immediately be able to reshape its body and return to its strongest state.”

“Then let me delay it, and you rush to revive your Crowned Phoenix King under the volcano as quickly as possible,” Chu Mu said.

Mu Qingyi was taken aback and asked with concern, “You won’t be able to handle it alone, and relying solely on the White Nightmare Demon could be life-threatening. The Thunder Monarch is extremely averse to enemies entering its territory.”

“It’s okay, I still have a secret weapon,” Chu Mu said with a smile emerging.

Mu Qingyi blinked her star-like eyes, watching Chu Mu with full confidence, wondering how many more secrets this man was hiding.

At that moment, Chu Mu already took out an old, exquisite wooden box from the Space Ring.

Inside the small wooden box was indeed the Dream of Oblivion, which had turned into a black little phoenix with butterfly-like tails.

“Dream of Oblivion, I’ll have to rely on you this time,” Chu Mu said as he gently brushed its thin wings and spoke.

The Dream of Oblivion’s wings trembled lightly, and then its eyes, cold as the moon, slowly opened. Its body gracefully floated up from the wooden box, landing full of spirituality on Chu Mu’s shoulder.

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