Immortal-Exterminating Divine Venerable

Chapter 690: Chapter 689: The Best Opportunity

“You sense it?”

Celestial Evil frowned and spoke.

The remaining members, Earth Evil and Fire Evil, all nodded.

Nangong Xinghui, however, was a bit confused.

“It’s the temperature. The power inside the Forbidden Fire Domain seems to be weakening. Even the temperature out here has dropped slightly.”

Seeing his confusion, Celestial Evil immediately explained.

“Weakening? Is that brat absorbing the power inside?”

Nangong Xinghui’s expression changed in an instant.

His eyes turned incredibly grim.

“Young Master, that brat is courting death. The power inside was too strong for us to dare enter before, but once it starts to weaken, we can go in. Then, while he’s busy absorbing the power and receiving the inheritance, we could easily kill him,” Fire Evil suddenly proposed.

Hearing this,

Nangong Xinghui glanced at him.

Then, he nodded.

He clearly agreed with the idea.

But Celestial Evil’s heart skipped a beat.

‘But thinking about it,’ he thought, ‘even if I object now, it probably won’t do any good. It would only make the Young Master disappointed in me, the Seven Evils Leader.’

More importantly,

they had come here on a suicide mission from the start.

As for how they died…

what difference did it make?

Besides, a scheme like this might actually make the operation easier.

Of course,

it could also make things worse.

But no matter what,

their final outcome couldn’t be changed.

It was just death.

Since that was the case,

what did it matter?

‘As long as the Young Master doesn’t go in, nothing else matters.’

Celestial Evil made up his mind.

He began to wait patiently.

And so, the days passed, one by one.

Every three days,

the aura within the Forbidden Fire Domain would diminish.

It was very regular.

But after the third time the Forbidden Fire Domain’s aura diminished,

even Nangong Xinghui could clearly sense that the outside temperature had dropped significantly.

When he had first arrived,

with his strength as a Tier Five True God and a Titled Divine General, he had found it unbearable.

He had needed to use all his power to resist the heat.

But now,

that was no longer necessary.

Another piece of evidence, clearly visible to the naked eye, was the size of the Forbidden Fire Domain.

It had shrunk by a tenth.

Though it was only a tenth, one must remember this was the remnant power of a Supreme Divine King who was once comparable to a Great Emperor. Even a tenth of that…

…was equivalent to the full power of a Top-tier Divine King.

And a Top-tier Divine King at his Peak, at that.

“A tenth of the power… even if the utilization rate is only one in ten million, it’s still comparable to the power of an ordinary Tier One God King! That kind of power… damn it! To think it’s being absorbed by that bastard son! Damn it! This is infuriating!”

Sensing this,

Nangong Xinghui’s expression grew even uglier.

Whenever one absorbs external power, there’s always the issue of utilization rate. The more high-end the power, the greater the loss during absorption.

Even when absorbing the most compatible power from the same realm, the utilization rate would be a tenth at most, and that’s only in a case of perfect compatibility.

As for higher-tiered power, the utilization rate is even lower.

But the power of this Forbidden Fire Domain was simply too immense.

Even a one-in-ten-million fraction of it was comparable to the level of a Tier Two God King, while a tenth of its total power was at the level of a Tier One God King.

Nangong Xinghui felt that…

…even if Yang Xiao suffered greater losses while absorbing such vast power, it was still an unbearable thought.

‘This… this should have been mine,’

he thought to himself.

He desperately wanted to rush in right now and kill Yang Xiao.

But in the end,

he restrained himself.

This exercise in patience…

…lasted for another three days.

Yang Xiao used these three days to temper his body and spirit.

Every time he finished absorbing external power and fusing with a type of flame, Yang Xiao would spend about three days tempering his body and spirit.

And with each enhancement, the time he required would actually increase significantly.

For example, the first time he tempered his body and spirit, Yang Xiao took seven days.

After that, it took longer and longer, until he mastered the Power of Time, which finally curbed this ever-increasing time requirement.

It was the same now.

Only, as his cultivation improved, Yang Xiao’s Power of Time also grew stronger and stronger.

That was why it had stabilized at around three days.

So, after another three days,

Yang Xiao had reached the limit of the Cyan Flame Sixth Revolution.

and he had completed his final Essence and Qi Refinement.

And at this moment,

it was time for Yang Xiao’s fourth absorption of the external Fire Domain’s power.

‘Peak of Cyan Flame Sixth Revolution. Three cycles of Essence and Qi Refinement for my body and spirit has consumed a tenth of the power here. At the same time, it has raised my physical body to the level of five hundred Flood Dragons, and my constitution has reached the Peak of Ultimate Treasure Body. Next, if I can break through to the Blue Flame Realm, it will become a Dao Body!’

‘But for now, I should absorb all the remaining power and activate my fifth Talent Power. I wonder what this fifth Talent Power will be?’

Yang Xiao’s eyes…

…were filled with anticipation.

Then,

he closed his eyes.

He began to absorb the external Fire Domain’s power with all his might.

Because he had relied on the Seven-Colored Divine Fire—the Origin Divine Fire—to break through to the Cyan Flame Sixth Revolution, he had achieved a perfect degree of compatibility with the power here.

The absorption process…

…was now more than a hundred times faster than before.

At Yang Xiao’s original speed, absorbing a tenth of the power had taken less than an hour. Now, for the remaining nine-tenths,

under normal circumstances, it would probably only take eight hours.

But in reality, his absorption speed would only get faster and faster.

Therefore, five or six hours at most…

…should be enough to finish.

Such a short amount of time…

…combined with the Power of Time…

If Yang Xiao were to absorb without restraint, he could compress it all into a single hour.

This was still only because his cultivation was too low; if too much external power surged in at once, his body could easily explode.

Otherwise,

with his Power of Time, Yang Xiao could have completed this task in a matter of minutes.

But even compressing it into one hour…

…that speed…

…was still absolutely terrifying.

And so it was.

The moment Yang Xiao began to absorb the external power,

one could instantly see…

…that the Forbidden Fire Domain, which had once stretched for an unknown distance,

began to recede like an ebbing tide.

At a speed visible to the naked eye,

it was continuously shrinking back,

growing smaller and smaller.

The external temperature…

…also began to drop steadily.

That rate of change…

…was so fast that even an ordinary person…

…could probably sense it.

Of course,

even with the current temperature, it was obviously impossible for an ordinary person to be here.

But the Seven Evils outside,

and Nangong Xinghui,

were clearly not ordinary people.

The very instant it began,

they sensed it.

“So fast! It’s too fast! That brat… did he really obtain the Flame Domain Divine King’s inheritance?”

Nangong Xinghui was both shocked and enraged.

And the Seven Evils…

…were utterly stunned.

This speed was indeed too fast.

Even though every one of them was a Divine Venerable Peak existence, they still found it hard to believe.

This was, quite simply, a miracle.

“Quick! Get in there! Don’t let that brat absorb all this power! Now is absolutely the most critical moment! All of you, get in there and kill him!”

His voice was almost a furious roar.

Nangong Xinghui screamed at the Seven Evils present.

The Seven Evils hesitated for a moment,

then complied.

They strode towards the Forbidden Fire Domain.

This was indeed the best chance.

The best chance to kill Yang Xiao!