Chapter 531 – Devouring Flame
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
Although they had a very short time to match the throws, everyone was a saints, once they released their hand, there was not too much of a difference, and practically all the bronze balls landed at the triangular target at the same time.
Pa pa pa!
Like rain splattering on banana leaves, the sound of the bronze balls breaking sounded out.
The anticipated explosion did not appear, as not even one bit of light aura was produced, causing everyone to be startled.
The senses of the saints were acute, they were able to feel the dangerous energy undulation inside the bronze ball, and no one thought that there would actually be no explosion at all. Could it be them sensing a wrong thing from the balls?
Meng Ta squinted his eyes, and shouted: “Look, a tiny flame!”
Everyone was roused, they focused and look, truly, every place where the bronze balls broke, would release a strand of flame, but then very quickly everyone revealed a disappointed look. All the flames were translucent and extremely dim, every flame was around the size of a candle, it truly was tiny flames, no wonder no one noticed.
Those tiny flames wanted to burn the entire humongous stronghold, wouldn’t that day never come?
Everyone had the same thought, seemed like the refining of the bronze balls had some deviation. But they did not make a ruckus out of it, the Master had just stepped into the saint realm for a short time, and having a little hiccup was normal.
Suddenly, everyone noticed that Zheng Yu had a weird look on his face, it seemed to be of excitement and of fear, his entire body was trembling, and so someone asked: “Old Zheng, what happened to you?”
“Those….those flames are terrifying!”
Zheng Yu’s voice was trembling, he trained in eye type spirit techniques, and from the very start when the tiny flames appeared, he was taken aback, so out of habit, he used his eye type spirit technique to look, and was stunned.
In his vision, the small tiny flames were like demonic and extremely famished worms, frantically devouring the stronghold.
So powerful?
Everyone was startled, and turned to look at the stronghold once again.
Wooosh!
A demonic flaming tongue suddenly soared up, and by then, it was already colored with different colors, looking like beautiful rainbow. It’s target was the triangular area, which had already quietly disappeared.
Little Fool who had opened his umbrella had happiness in his eyes, he suddenly remembered of a sentence Gui Wu had said in one of the memory fragments.
On the Star Treasure Stronghold, there was a large hole on the glossy and intact hemisphere shaped stronghold, which was very eye catching and looked to be extremely ugly and terrifying.
The saints who were in the air were shocked.
The thick and dense energy barrier of the stronghold far exceeded their expectations. They had already prepared for a long battle of attrition, and had expected that only an extremely terrifying energy explosion was able to bring down the thick energy barrier.
They did not even feel the least bit of energy fluctuation…..
That flame….what exactly is it…..
Some of them who were more intelligent, like Meng Ta, were already thinking ahead. If those flames were to infect spirit treasures…..
That thought made them tremble with fear.
The stronghold was completely in a mess.
Seeing the hole that was still expanding, Ye Shou Xin looked as though he had lost his soul, his face void of any blood. His Adjutant was shouting in panic: “Extinguish that fire! Quickly, extinguish that fire!”
Various attacks of different attributes frantically struck the faint colorful flames.
Everyone’s heart was filled with fear, the indestructible stronghold was actually melting like snow. The strange colorful flame was burning continuously, like a strange beast constantly devouring the stronghold.
Regardless of what attributes the attacks were, whenever they struck the colorful flames, it would be like a bull going against the ocean, disappearing without a trace.
But the intense fear caused everyone to go out of control, they only knew how to attack with all their might, until they had exhausted the True Power in their body, and they started to fall to the ground.
An Honorable Martial Group martial artist’s psychological barrier finally crumbled, he screamed and flew out, he wanted to leave, leave the hellhole!
In one second, he was about to fly out of the gap, wooosh, in the next second, the demonic colorful flaming tongue suddenly stretched out, with one mouth it devoured the martial artist whole. In the blink of an eye, without even being able to scream, he had disappeared without a trace.
The Honorable Martial Group martial artists inside the stronghold were all stupefied.
Everyone’s faces were white as paper, they stared blankly at the colorful flames above their heads, it was practically an unrestrained devouring beast!
The saints in the air were also frightened from the scene.
Even though they had killed before, even though they had seen blood before, the scene in front of them caused their palms to sweat and turn cold.
The martial artists of the Light Blade Army were like trapped animals, they were all fleeing from their respective defensive positions.
“What do we do?” The adjutant asked Ye Shou Xin, his teeth trembling.
The stronghold was being devoured at an astonishing rate, the entire Light Blade Army was cramming together, like sheeps waiting to be slaughtered. Every single person’s face was covered with fear and despair, for they know, when the stronghold was completely devoured, it would be their turn. The rainbow flame would devour every inch of them.
“Surrender!” Although Ye Shou XIn’s face was pale white, but he was still the most calm and steady.
“Surrender?” The Adjutant was startled, and immediately became enraged: “How can we surrender? We are Honorable Martial Group’s…..”
Ye Shou Xin looked at him quietly, but did not speak a word.
The Adjutant who was initially shouting like thunder gradually became softer and softer, in the end he became silent, his expression of defeat. The soldiers around them only had looks of despair, no one had any will to fight, he himself included.
And, he had no other ideas.
“Let me make this decision, I will accept the [Trial of Light] by myself.” Ye Shou Xin said indifferently.
For a high grade army like them, they have all sworn oaths to Honorable Martial Group, something similar to a martial spirit contract, if they were to betray it, they would be punished by the Trial of Light.
“No, there is no reason for you to accept the punishment alone.” The Adjutant struggled to stand up, his face recovering a strand of anger: “We lost this battle together, we have no way of resisting at all, although I am not a military leader, but I am one who knows shame. If even the soldiers do not even have the guts to fight for their own chance of surrendering, I am unable to forgive myself.”
Ye Shou Xin looked at his Adjutant, an unyielding man from the 3rd Gold Branch. In truth, he did not like his adjutant, because he knew that his adjutant was the true holder of the army, and he was a commander only in name, and was honestly just a manager with a high salary. It was just that in normal times, he was a modest person who did not like battle, and thus he respected his adjutant for that.
But at that moment, he admired this adjutant of his.
For his own subordinate’s lives, he was willing to carry the burden of shame and punishment. This bravery and staunchness was not something everyone had.
Ye Shou Xin nodded his head, then immediately shouted out.
“I, Ye Shou Xin, Commander of the Light Blade Army, represents the Light Blade Army to surrender!”
His adjutant also shouted: “I, Mo Lei, Deputy Commander of Light Blade Army, represents the Light Blade Army to surrender!”
Bang!
A white light aura immediately blossomed from the inside of their bodies, trapping the two of them. It was the Trial of Light from Honorable Martial Group, whenever a martial artist goes against their oath, the Trial of Light would appear. The two of them revealed a pained look, their expressions became distorted, their martial spirits, inside the light aura, quickly started to combust.
“Commander!”
“Deputy Commander!”
The soldiers were all shocked by the sudden disturbance.
The saints in the air suddenly jolted to their senses, they all looked towards Tang TIan.
“Surrender?”
Tang Tian was also startled, he had never thought that Honorable Martial Group’s army would surrender. In his eyes, Honorable Martial Group were always extremely annoying, and would completely fight to their deaths.
He never expected them to surrender…..
When the Trial of Light blossomed from their bodies, Tang Tian immediately understood, they had truly surrendered and were willing to suffer the punishment. Tang Tian could sense the Martial spirit contract from the white light auras.
“LIttle Fool!”
Tang Tian shouted.
Little Fool was extremely unwilling, he previously did not expect the spirit fire’s might to become so immense. And when the spirit fire transformed into the colorful flames, he suddenly thought about the other type of spirit treasures recorded by Gui Wu.
Devouring the entire Star Treasure Stronghold, with a total of 2000 star treasures had already caused it to evolve.
The colorful flames had a name, called the Spirit Devouring Flame.
This was a type of unorthodox spirit treasure, and only blood saints were able to produce the strange and demonic spirit treasure. Yin and Yang gave birth to spirit fire, and when the spirit fire kept on evolving, it would finally be refined into the Spirit Devouring Flame. The most important aspect of refining the Spirit Devouring Flame was that it required a constant expenditure of star treasures to rear it, and allow it to keep on growing.
After eating over 2000 star treasures, the Spirit Devouring Flame’s spirit value kept on rising until its current value of over 180 spirit value points, only a step away from 200 points.
If it broke through the 200 spirit value points, the Spirit Devouring Flame would evolve once again.
The Spirit Devouring Flame could devour a martial artist’s martial spirit, and could also grow from it, if it devoured the entire army, it would be able to evolve again.
But a pity, they actually surrendered…..
Little Fool was secretly feeling sad, the Forceful Subjugating Bead flew out from his body and revolved slowly. Just now, he had used the Forceful Subjugating Bead to control the Spirit Devouring Flame, and devoured the soldier who was preparing to escape.
The Spirit Devouring Flame instantly became sluggish, in a moment it quickly shrunk, and the rainbow color became denser.
All the panic stricken soldiers of the Light Blade Army appeared in front of everyone, and Ye Shou Xin and Mo Lei who were wrapped inside the white light cage. The Trial of Light would not take their life, its most terrifying aspect was that it made the traitors live their lives worse than death.
Little Fool was extremely unsatisfied, seeing the dazzling light of the Trial of Light, he became even unhappier. Little Fool was not willing to accept their surrender, but he was unable to betray Tang Tian’s order.
Damn it!
The two Trial of Light, became increasingly dazzling, making Little Fool even more unhappier. He snorted in his heart, and the Forceful Subjugating Bead in front of him spun gently.
The Spirit Devouring Flame suddenly pounced on the two of them, devouring them both and causing the group of people to exclaim loudly. The spirit devouring flame separated from them, leaving the two of them fainted.
The spirit devouring flame transformed into a slithering flame that flew into the Forceful Subjugating Bead. The Trial of Lights were actually devoured by it.
But Little Fool’s expression became extremely bad, he looked very gloomy and unhappy. With a thought, he and the Forceful Subjugating Bead disappeared.
Damn the Honorable Martial Group, this Trial of Light has something weird in it!