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Lava Immortal Palace.

Ning Zhuo sat cross-legged, enveloped in floating clouds, breathing in and out.
Beneath the Concealed Bud of Cloud, his ninth-layer Qi Sea cultivation only showed as the fourth layer.
Recently, he had consumed too much mana. Even with his ninth-layer cultivation base, he felt it was not enough.
If he felt this way, it was even more so for the members of the three families’ revised cultivation teams.
While they had to expend mana to actively complete various tasks and earn merit, they also had to make time to diligently cultivate and advance their own cultivation.
It was truly a struggle.
However, the three families also brought out their accumulated resources, supplying a large number of pills to fully compensate for the weaknesses of the revised cultivation team members and doing their best to remove any obstacles to their cultivation.
Even the two Golden Core cultivators, Zhu Xuanji and Zhu Zhen, paid out of their own pockets to provide many subsidies.
Ning Zhuo benefited greatly from this, receiving many good items, most of which he stored away. He had advanced too far and truly had no use for them.

Suddenly.

In his Sea of Consciousness, Ning Zhuo’s Myriad Buddha Heart Demon Seal radiated with brilliant Buddhist light.
The Buddhist light enveloped Ning Zhuo’s entire body.
“Who is detecting my fortune again?” Ning Zhuo immediately stopped cultivating and poured all his mana into the Concealed Bud of Cloud beneath his tongue.
Working together, the two perfectly concealed his fortune.

A loud bang, and Ning Zhuo suddenly felt his bed shake.
“What’s going on?! What’s happening outside?” Ning Zhuo opened his eyes within the floating clouds.
At this moment, the Buddhist light disappeared.
Clearly, the person detecting him had stopped.
Ning Zhuo immediately withdrew the floating clouds, jumped to the ground, and yanked open his door, stepping into the courtyard.
Ning Jiufan was already standing in the courtyard, gazing at the sky.
Just as Ning Zhuo was about to bow and greet him, his gaze was completely drawn to the scene in the sky!
He saw a giant fire python, nearly a hundred zhang long and as thick as an ancient tree. It held its head high, then its serpent head, like a battering ram, fiercely struck the spherical light barrier of the Lava Immortal Palace.
A familiar sound echoed in Ning Zhuo’s ears.
The Lava Immortal Palace beneath his feet trembled violently again.
“So, that was what caused the commotion just now!” Ning Zhuo immediately understood, and couldn’t help but gasp, “Ancestor, is that a Nascent Soul level beast king?”
Ning Zhuo had seen Golden Core level Fiery Snakes and Fiery Flood Dragons from afar.
Such a colossal body and such a powerful attack could never belong to a Golden Core level being.
Ning Jiufan nodded with a solemn expression: “That’s right!”
Ning Zhuo’s heart pounded, and he thought to himself: “This Crimson Flame Beast Tide is indeed being led by a Nascent Soul level existence!”

Crack, crack.
Large cracks quickly appeared on the golden translucent spherical light barrier.
The crisp cracking sound was so clear, it sent shivers down one’s spine.
Almost all the cultivators in the Lava Immortal Palace were startled awake, looking up at this scene with immense worry.
Their highest cultivation was only at the Golden Core level, making them extremely powerless against a Nascent Soul level enemy. Even with the suppressive abilities of the Lava Immortal Palace, it would surely be a tough battle.
“Lord City Lord Meng Kui, why haven’t you attacked yet?” Ning Zhuo urgently asked.
He had one more layer of worry than others.
That was merit!
The Crimson Flame Beast Tide was triggered by the combined efforts of Ning Zhuo and the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit. If the Nascent Soul level Fiery Snake broke through the light barrier and caused massive destruction to the Lava Immortal Palace, it would be a huge negative consequence for Ning Zhuo’s merit calculation.

As soon as Ning Zhuo finished speaking, he saw that Meng Kui had taken action.
Behind the Fiery Snake, clouds and smoke churned, suddenly clearing the air, revealing a giant human palm.
Magical technique – The Profound Mystery in the Palm!
The giant palm seemed slow but was actually fast, reaching the Fiery Snake’s back in the blink of an eye.
Just as it was about to grasp the Fiery Snake, the latter suddenly let out a hiss, and the sides of its body, which was condensed from fire, suddenly expanded, forming a pair of wide fire wings.
The Fiery Snake flapped hard, leaving a trail of sparks in place, and its entire body shot out.
The giant palm grasped empty air.
Meng Kui was surprised. Although this Nascent Soul level Fiery Snake’s potential was not good, failing to achieve a Flood Dragon form even at the Nascent Soul level, it had mastered fire element magical techniques.
Meng Kui took a deep breath and fully mobilized the city protection array to suppress the boiling Crimson Flame Beast Tide, which was about to launch a furious assault.

The Fiery Snake was temporarily not threatened, and flew directly above the Lava Immortal Palace, opening its serpent mouth and spitting out raging flames.
The flames were extremely hot and adhered to the golden light barrier, quickly dimming the golden light. The temperature inside the entire Lava Immortal Palace suddenly soared, causing many cultivators to show discomfort, their faces flushed red.
Meng Kui let out a loud roar, casting a spell to summon wind and rain.
However, mundane wind and ordinary rain could at most slightly curb the fire, but they could not extinguish it.
“It’s over! Supporting the light barrier consumes mana extremely quickly. A portion of these debts will fall on my head.” Ning Zhuo secretly cried out in dismay.

Meng Kui cast another spell and also used magic treasures to attack the Fiery Snake.
The Fiery Snake hissed, flapped its fiery wings, and plunged down.
It forcefully shattered the spell, sent the magic treasures flying, and then, with undiminished momentum, crashed down with a bang, like a meteor hitting the ground, striking the spherical light barrier for the third time.
This time, huge cracks rapidly spread, almost spanning the sky, seemingly trying to cut the entire spherical light barrier in half.
Innumerable fireballs overflowed from the Fiery Snake’s body, and these fireballs rapidly infiltrated through the cracks. They passed through the light barrier, officially reaching the sky above the Lava Immortal Palace, condensing into form, transforming into eight Golden Core level Fiery Serpent Dragons, dozens of Foundation Establishment level ones, and hundreds of Qi Refining level ones!
This move was not a magical technique.
Every Serpent Dragon was an independent life form.
It turned out that the existence of the Fiery Snake’s life form was quite special, being a ball of intense flame without a physical body of flesh and blood. Within a clan, Fiery Snakes could entwine with each other and temporarily merge.
On the body of the Nascent Soul level Fiery Snake, a massive swarm of Fiery Snakes were attached and merged!

The Nascent Soul Fiery Snake was perched on the very top of the light barrier, continuing to infiltrate its clan inwards, when Meng Kui’s Profound Mystery in the Palm struck again.
The Fiery Snake raised its head and coiled its body, its massive body demonstrating incredible agility, dodging this grab.
But this time, Meng Kui learned from his previous lesson and ambushed it with a second magical technique giant hand, grasping it repeatedly.
This time, the Fiery Snake did not manage to evade, and its serpent head was firmly grasped downwards.
It let out an unwilling hiss, but still could not resist the power of the giant hand and was sent flying away.
It directly crashed into the vertical cave wall of the volcanic crater, producing a violent sound.
The Fiery Snake let out a long hiss of pain, its serpent tail dangling into the magma, stirring the molten rock, and fiercely whipping it.
A surging column of magma surged into the sky, fiercely impacting the mana giant hand that was holding it.
The mana giant hand was immediately melted and became severely damaged.
The Fiery Snake twisted its body in excitement, about to escape, when Meng Kui’s other giant hand covered it, suppressing it once again.
Thus, the two sides entered a stalemate.

Inside the Lava Immortal Palace, the clash between the cultivators and the Fiery Snake swarm had already begun.
Both sides engaged in fierce combat in the sky and on the ground.
Soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals.
Led by Zhu Xuanji, Zhu Zhen, and others, they moved back and forth in mid-air, launching furious assaults on the Golden Core level Fiery Flood Dragons, doing their utmost to prevent them from landing on the ground.
There were also Golden Core level Fiery Snakes that had no flight ability and crashed to the ground, being intercepted by Golden Core level cultivators, and fierce battles erupted between the two sides in various buildings.

“My merit!” Ning Zhuo’s face and mood were equally heavy.
All he could do was gather the members of the Ning family’s revised cultivation team, rush into the battlefield, and do his best to compensate for his merit!

“Destroy it, destroy it!” In the main hall of the Lava Immortal Palace, the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit roared excitedly.
It fully controlled the flow of mana to the light barrier, making it intermittent, and causing the main force of the mechanical creations to constantly evade the powerful Fiery Snakes and lean towards the weaker ones.
To the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit, the Lava Immortal Palace was its temporary body, but also a giant cage.
The more the Lava Immortal Palace was destroyed, although it suffered deeper wounds, the larger the breach created in the cage would be.
“There will come a moment when this breach will be large enough for me to break free!”
“For freedom, everything is for freedom.”
“Hold on, show the backbone of the Fiery Snake clan! Hmm… although we don’t have bones.” The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit paid attention to the Nascent Soul battle and even cheered for the Nascent Soul level Fiery Snake.

Ning Zhuo took a deep breath, slapped his storage belt, and immediately released ten Fiery Explosion Apes.
The Fiery Explosion Apes lunged at a group of Qi Refining level Fiery Snakes.
After only a few rounds of combat, they exploded one after another with bangs.
The Fiery Snakes’ bodies were blown apart, but after a few breaths, they recovered.
Ning Zhuo frowned deeply. The self-destruction of the Fiery Explosion Apes was their strongest method, but the Fiery Snakes were not beings of flesh and blood, so the battle results of self-destruction were very small.
The Fiery Snake swarm pounced on Ning Zhuo, hissing and intertwining with each other. When they reached Ning Zhuo, the merged Fiery Snake’s life aura had already reached the Foundation Establishment level.
Ning Zhuo slapped his belt again and released a Fire Bamboo Serpent.
The Fire Bamboo Serpent and the Foundation Establishment Fiery Snake fought fiercely, entangled for a while.
Ning Zhuo seized the opportunity to cast spells, sending out ten mechanical flying hands, each one shooting out spells.
A large burst of ice and frost spells rained down, and the Foundation Establishment Fiery Snake disintegrated, transforming back into more than a dozen Qi Refining level small snakes, which were then covered by the spells and all perished.
The Fire Bamboo Serpent was heavily injured, with significant losses.
Fortunately, the Fire Bamboo Serpents Ning Zhuo had stored were not just this one.
He continued to fight.

Boom, boom, boom!
Thunderous explosions constantly echoed above his head.
Every explosion represented a fierce collision between Meng Kui and the Nascent Soul level Fiery Snake.
“The key to this defensive battle is still the Nascent Soul level contest!” This was something everyone understood.

Finally.
After Meng Kui had accumulated enough power, he used one hand to intercept the Fiery Snake and the other hand to fly back, creating distance.
The mana giant hand stood in mid-air, and he began to calculate with his fingers.
Meng Kui’s real body’s eyes rolled back, and he coldly shouted: “Fiery Snake, I have calculated… your defeat!”
The next moment, the mana giant hand used for calculation disintegrated, like clouds and mist, rapidly dissipating.
And on the Nascent Soul Fiery Snake’s body, bangs and explosions sounded one after another, instantly crippling it.
The Fiery Snake initially didn’t care, but soon, it hissed in alarm.
Because it was horrified to discover that its injuries could not recover. At this moment, the advantage of not having a physical body of flesh and blood seemed to have vanished!

(End of Chapter)