Chapter 4517: The Ancestor of Heaven and Earth Fire
The Flame Lord escaped quickly; upon returning to normal space, the fire line wove through dimensions.
Yet Xiao Peng was even faster.
Despite repeated spatial jumps, the Flame Lord could not shake off Xiao Peng's pursuit.
After fleeing tens of trillions of miles, Xiao Peng finally caught up.
Repeated attacks from Xiao Peng forced the blood line to halt, the fire line abruptly transforming back into the Flame Lord.
At that moment, his aura was weak and fluctuating far less than before.
While his battle with Pan Sihai had heavily injured Pan, Flame Lord himself was in critical condition, now possessing less than a third of his usual strength.
Xiao Peng, though not a match for the Flame Lord at full power, could battle him equally in his current state.
Following Lin Moyu's instructions, Xiao Peng harassed and tangled with the Flame Lord, never risking his life, utilizing speed to keep the foe pinned no matter the means, the Flame Lord couldn't break free.
More and more desperate, the Flame Lord understood that this was Central Domain, not East Pole; attracting other top tier experts would mean certain death.
"Get lost!"
Flame Lord roared, forcing back Xiao Peng again and again, yet each time Xiao Peng returned immediately.
No matter what, speed rendered him untouchable.
From afar, a powerful aura approached: Lin Moyu soared directly through the void.
His formidable soul made his speed almost equal; very soon, he was near.
Spotting Lin Moyu, the Flame Lord's murderous intent spiked.
"You still dare chase me!"
He remembered all those he'd brought ten thousand chaos Great Completions, a hundred Perfection experts, Dog Rat Ancestor all had died at Lin Moyu's hands.
Even his hard won fortress had fallen to Lin Moyu.
He could not stem his rage, but reason told him now was not the time to fight Lin Moyu he needed to escape.
Xiao Peng's relentless interference hampered his route, and Lin Moyu was closing in.
Fed up, the Flame Lord expanded again, transforming into a four headed, eight armed giant, summoning a sea of flames to send countless fire dragons flying at Xiao Peng, forcing him away.
But the transformation was no true battle stance; it was an escape technique.
A breeze stirred; the Flame Lord, about to depart, hesitated and surprisingly turned to face Lin Moyu.
"I'll kill you!"
In his eyes gleamed insanity all eight eyes glowing red, glaring at Lin Moyu as if he were a mortal enemy.
Rather than flee, the Flame Lord now turned and attacked, waving his arms, driving his treasures so that fire dragons surged from the fire sea straight at Lin Moyu.
Lin Moyu remained cold faced, countering with heavy punches, shattering the fire dragons.
Around Lin Moyu appeared the corpses of several Perfection experts; with a flick of his finger, "Corpse explosion!"
Boom!
The fire giant exploded instantly, half its body blown away eight arms reduced to four.
The Flame Lord screamed in agony the blast seemed to awaken him.
His rage vanished instantly.
"What happened?
I intended to escape how did my mind suddenly change to fighting Lin Moyu? I shouldn't have!
This isn't the time; I can't kill him now…"
He realized something had twisted his thoughts Lin Moyu's interference.
Terror overwhelmed him; he sensed he might die here.
He didn't want to accept that billions of years spent in cultivation, destroyed in a moment, how could it be?
Already locked in battle, he poured his energy into a desperate last stand, casting a sea of flames that swept the void.
In that instant, he burned with peak power: "If I must die today, I'll take you with me!"
"You wish," Lin Moyu replied coldly, pointing again and again.
All the corpses he brought instantly disintegrated with more explosions.
The Flame Lord was never given a chance to retaliate before his final outburst was even finished, he'd been reduced to a sorry mess.
His body shattered, the fire giant vanished, soul flames extinguished in repeated detonations.
The void trembled; a mournful cry echoed through the chaos.
This was a lament from chaos itself, a sign of Heaven marking the death of a top expert.
It meant the Flame Lord had touched the pinnacle of the Dao if he had advanced further, he'd have passed into quasi Supreme realm.
Such figures were rare; their deaths resonated with Heaven and Earth, though that was the extent of the recognition.
Pan Sihai, rushing over, abruptly stopped upon hearing the lament a sound audible only to the mightiest, chilling the soul.
"Flame Lord has fallen!"
Pan Sihai whispered, accelerating toward the aftermath.
As the Flame Lord died, the fire sea faded away, leaving only a thin fire line in the void.
This fire line was no thicker than a finger and less than half a meter long it was the Flame Lord's essence.
Little Tree commented, "So it's him."
Seeing the fire line, Lin Moyu's previous suspicions were confirmed.
Apparently, the Flame Lord was tied to an ancient existence.
Chaos Spirit added, "That guy is seriously hard to kill."
Lin Moyu held the fire line in his palm, asking, "So what is it?"
Little Tree explained: "This is Heavenfire, known as the Ancestor of Heaven and Earth Fire. He once proclaimed that as long as there is fire in the world, he'd not die or be destroyed."
Chaos Spirit snorted, full of contempt: "Immortal, indestructible, my ass! He died not long after making that claim. Ancestor of Heaven and Earth Fire was he worthy of the title?"
"He was just a narcissist; it's not like he was the only fire in heaven and earth. How could he claim to be the Fire Ancestor?"
"In my opinion, the master's two kinds of fire are stronger than his."
Lin Moyu possessed two extraordinary flames: Undying Fire from the Undying Dao and the World Annihilating Flame.
Once he'd asked Little Tree and Chaos Spirit about their origins.
The answer was odd their era had many mighty flames, but not even they knew every kind.
Some flames became sentient, famous across epochs.
Some hid quietly, hardly ever seen but rumored occasionally.
Undying Fire was such little fame, vanish without a trace.
World Annihilating Flame was even less known, yet its potency was undoubted.
To Chaos Spirit, both flames Lin Moyu possessed far outstripped the infamous Heavenfire.
Little Tree recounted that Heavenfire, once self proclaimed Ancestor of Heaven and Earth Fire, was slain by other powerful beings.
Claiming immortality, he didn't truly die after countless years, he re coalesced from heaven and earth and became the Flame Lord.
But in Lin Moyu's eyes, the original Fire Ancestor was long dead.
When someone reincarnates with no memory of the past, they're a new being, not the original.
Memory defined identity; without it, there was no continuity.
Lin Moyu examined the fire in his palm: "It seems to contain unique power."
Little Tree said, "It's a primordial fire from the beginning of the world one of the original fire seeds, a peak ingredient."
"If the master absorbs and refines it, he'll never fear flames again. If he blends it into his domain, it can greatly strengthen the foundation."
Lin Moyu did not hesitate; for him, the answer was clear.
"Absorbing and refining is not my path it's better used as a material!"
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