Chapter 85 Leaving Huo Gong (2)

  Lei Hao saw Qingyan Daoshi respond and then set up a cloud head. As soon as he rolled it up, Qingyan Daoshi left the palace of the proud country.

  "Little Daoist, where is the Fire Palace in that direction?" Lei Hao asked casually.

  After being blown by the cold wind, Qingyan Daoist calmed down and listened to Lei Hao's question. He said: "Report to the Great Sage, Lihuo Palace is in the extreme south of Xiniuhezhou."

  Lei Hao nodded and began to hurry at full speed.

  A few days later.

  After a long time, Lei Hao finally set foot on the black land of Xiniuhe State again. He took a deep breath of the air mixed with the smell of blood, and let his divine sense run wild and free in the mountains and rivers.

  Feeling the wild and primitive atmosphere that permeates Wyoming, Lei Hao is somewhat intoxicated, only now can he be said to have truly discovered the unique beauty hidden in Wyoming.

  That is: Freedom. It is this precious freedom that attracts most of the monsters from the three realms to come and fight, survive on this magical land of Saikano State.

  Dongsheng Divine State is tranquil, but sometimes it makes him feel like a stagnant pool of water, unable to spark any fire. On the other hand, Xiniuhe State is a scene where all things are free and unrestricted. Here, new demonic caves and sects emerge every day. Some demonic caves and sects also gain extraordinary opportunities and develop rapidly.

  At this moment, Lei Hao, who was deeply intoxicated, did not notice that his divine consciousness, which had been able to cover only a few hundred miles after breaking through the Golden Immortal realm, was rapidly growing and expanding to over a thousand miles away. The primordial spirit in his dantian sat solemnly on top of the purple fruit formed when Lei Hao broke through the Golden Immortal realm, holding a mantra in its hand, from which ancient, mysterious, and archaic symbols continuously flew out, surrounding the primordial spirit and dancing around it.

  The purple fruit under the yuan god slowly gave birth to a green bud with infinite possibilities, and this bud was like it had been crawling for thousands of years and saw sunlight for the first time, swaying gently in the wind.

  The shackles of the boundary that had been restricting Lei Hao for so long finally loosened slightly at this moment.

  Meanwhile, the Qingyan Taoist beside him found that Lei Hao seemed to have sunk into a profound state, but he didn't dare disturb Lei Hao, nor did he dare escape, because he was very clear that in Xiniuhezhou, without Lei Hao's protection, every second was fraught with danger.

  However, he took the opportunity to secretly take out a small jade slip from his storage bag, glanced at Lei Hao a few times, and then crushed it with one hand, instantly releasing a strange wave of energy from his hand.

  After several hours, Lei Hao finally came back to his senses from that mysterious state, and he excitedly clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "Wonderful, wonderful, this is the way, this is the way."

  What is Tao? Asked Lei Hao a while ago, Lei Hao would have answered: reason. Now Lei Hao would answer: "The trajectory from birth to death."

  Lei Hao's eyes shone with a light that had never been seen before, he was like a child seeing the ocean for the first time, picking up what he thought was the most beautiful shell on the beach, overjoyed.

  Once again sensing the situation within his body, Lei Hao's face suddenly revealed an expression of wild joy. This was because the shackles of his realm, which had been produced due to his cultivation advancing too quickly, finally showed some signs of loosening. This allowed Lei Hao to see a glimmer of hope.

  "Has the Great King been to Xiniuhezhou before?" Looking at Leihao's appearance, Qingyan Daoist asked with some jealousy, knowing that Leihao must have obtained some unknown benefits.

  "Been here." Lei Hao glanced at Qing Yan's Taoist priest and withdrew the ecstatic expression on his face, saying calmly.

  The Qingyan Taoist had a sudden surge of energy in his heart and immediately wiped away the jealousy on his face.

  Lei Hao paused for a moment, then continued: "My king's older brother is the Great Sage Cow Demon King of Mount Accumulated Thunder in the Western Cattle Gift State!"

  Qingyan Daoshi's face turned pale upon hearing the words. He suddenly realized that bringing Lei Hao back to Xiniuhezhou was an absolute mistake! He had thought that with this demon's abilities, it could only dominate in small places like Dongsheng Shen Zhou, and when they arrived at Lihuo Palace, where many powerful cultivators resided, it wouldn't be able to cause much trouble. Moreover, he believed that the seniors of his sect would be able to avenge Kan Lidao for him. However, he had not expected that this demon's older brother was actually Niu Mo Wang, an existence that even Taishang Laozu would have to show respect to.

  Thinking of the message in the jade slip that he had crushed earlier, Qing Yan's face turned iron-gray.

  Lei Hao looked at the Qingyan Taoist, whose face had turned extremely ugly, and smiled: "Are you regretting the message you spread earlier?" The Qingyan Taoist thought that Lei Hao's current state would reduce his perception of the outside world, but in fact it was the opposite. Just now, when Lei Hao was in that mysterious state, his grasp of everything around him was clearer than ever before. So Lei Hao sensed that strange fluctuation, but why did he want to intercept it?

  Lei Hao finished speaking, and a look of terror flashed across the eyes of the Qingyan Taoist. He looked at Lei Hao with a terrified expression, fearing that the next moment Lei Hao would treat him like Kan Lidian, shooting out a knife energy to strangle him into a ball of bloody fog.

  But Lei Hao didn't, not that he wasn't willing, but rather he was too lazy to take action against a minor character in the Inner Dan realm. He simply raised his cloud head again, and the Qingyan Daoist flew towards the extreme south.

  It was several days later, when Lei Hao suddenly felt that the temperature seemed to have risen sharply. He released his spiritual sense and saw from a distance a palace entirely made of fiery red crystal glass.

  "Little Daoist, is it just ahead where we can leave the Fire Palace?" Lei Hao turned his head and asked.

  The Qingyan Taoist nodded silently, his heart only praying that the seniors of the sect had not received his message, but the Qingyan Taoist was destined to be disappointed.

  Lei Hao had yet to approach the Li Huo Palace when he heard a loud roar: "You wicked demon, you actually dare to kill the elder of my Li Huo Palace and still dare to come alone to my Li Huo Palace, die!"

  The sound had just fallen when Lei Hao's surroundings suddenly lit up with over a dozen fiery red glows, followed by over a dozen surging waves of pressure that shot into the sky.

  "Are these all of you Taoists from Huo Gong?" At this time, Lei Hao still had the mood to turn his head and ask Qing Yan Daoist.

  The Qingyan Taoist nodded, just about to speak, when he saw a purple light flash in Lei Hao's hand, and then everything went black.

  Lei Hao knocked out the Qingyan Taoist and casually threw him in the direction of the Fire Palace, then pointed with his hand, counting with interest: "One, two, three, four... Hmm? And a Golden Immortal? Not bad." Lei Hao carefully counted and found that there were eleven Heavenly Immortal-level pressures around him and one Golden Immortal-level pressure.

  "You demon, you still don't come to surrender and accept death? What are you waiting for!" Lei Hao had just finished counting when that voice sounded again.

  Lei Hao heard this and helplessly said: "Why do you self-proclaimed righteous people like to speak loudly without shame?"

  "Hubris!" Like he had been insulted, more than a dozen loud roars suddenly erupted around Lei Hao, the rolling waves of sound shaking the earth as if it were an earthquake, lightly trembling.

  Immediately afterwards, eleven fiery red lights shot rapidly towards Lei Hao from all directions.

  Lei Hao summoned the Dragon Slayer, grasping it tightly as he shouted: "Break Waves."

  One slash was made, a purple blade of air hundreds of feet long flashed by, and then Lei Hao heard a series of sounds like shattering glass.

  "You monster, how dare you." Eleven voices rose in shock and anger.

  Lei Hao raised his dragon-slaying pillar and slammed it onto the ground, splitting his mouth into a grin as he said, "What is there that this king dares not do?"

  At that time, the eleven heavenly immortals were about to take action when the leading golden immortal, He Zhidao, said: "Wait."

  Then a voice slowly flew towards Lei Hao, stopping at a distance of no more than ten or so zhang from him. Lei Hao looked over and saw that it was an old Daoist with red hair and beard, wearing a green Daoist robe. The old Daoist bowed to Lei Hao in the Daoist manner and said: "I am Chi Yan, the elder of Lihuo Palace. May I ask for your name and title, Your Majesty?"

  Lei Hao's eyelids twitched, this old Taoist gave him a sense of threat, but he still expressionlessly said: "I am the Great Sage Lei Hao of Wan Jun!"

  The old Taoist's face changed suddenly, and he asked solemnly: "Is it the Great Sage Wan Jun, one of the Eight Great Sages?"

  Lei Hao said faintly: "Isn't there a second Great Sage Wukong?"

  Hongyan Old Daoist heard this, hastily pressed down the cloud head, and again saluted Lei Hao with a serious face: "I don't know that the Great Sage has arrived at my humble palace of Departed Fire, I have lost the distant welcome, please come in and let's talk."

  Lei Hao replied in a gloomy and mysterious tone: "Forget it, I'm afraid you'll find it easy to enter this Fire Palace of yours, but wanting to come out... that's a different story."

  The old Taoist priest smiled all over his face and said, "What is the Great Sage saying? The Great Sage has arrived, and I am honored to have him here. How could I be angry with the Great Sage?"

  Lei Hao's face turned cold, with a hint of darkness: "Since I was born, few demons have dared to shout at me in my face. Those who have shouted at me are all dead now. Today, you, a mere heavenly immortal, dare to say that I am being presumptuous! Do you think your few words can dispel the evil intentions in my heart?" As Lei Hao spoke, the butcher beside him let out a shocking knife cry, as if he was taking offense on behalf of his master.

  The old Taoist's eyes contracted in a series of spasms, and the muscles on his face twitched slightly. However, after a few breaths, he still smiled and said: "This is all my fault. The other day, some juniors in the palace received a message saying that a powerful enemy was coming to attack. I suppose today, my fellow Taoists mistakenly thought that the Great Sage was the powerful enemy who came to attack. It's all my fault. As long as we can dispel the Great Sage's anger, I am willing to offer up a catty of fire essence." The old Taoist's handwriting was not small, and the fire essence was extracted from the magma that had been continuously rolling for ten thousand years without cooling down. It was a treasure that could be used to refine fire-attribute artifacts or directly consumed to increase the cultivation speed of fire-attribute cultivators. Only the Fire Palace and the Heavenly Court's Fire Department had the secret method of extraction in the Three Realms. A whole catty of fire essence was almost equivalent to the output of the Fire Palace for five hundred years. Unfortunately, although the fire essence was good, it was not what Lei Hao wanted.

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