Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 447 - 45: Illusion Realm, Breakthrough, Rewards! (5K)

Chapter 447: Chapter 45: Illusion Realm, Breakthrough, Rewards! (5K)

Having ascended to a certain height, the Octagonal Earth Palace suddenly plunged into a ball of flames.

As for the ground below, the mountains caught fire.

"Hiss hiss hiss~"

The flames, as if sentient, furiously tried to wriggle into the Earth Palace, searching for any opening.

"Fire’s coming!"

Zhao Xing continued casting his spells, attempting to fight fire with fire, as it was simply not possible to use water to extinguish the fire at this point. One could tell from the mere drips of the Rain Dripping Skill that it wasn’t meant for putting out wide-scale fires.

"Hiss hiss hiss~" The Earth Palace shook precariously, unable to ascend any further.

Because the spell he used was "Heavenly Fire", which was just a mid-tier spell at the full mastery level, it couldn’t withstand the Earth Evil Fire.

But due to the strong Divine Movement Protection surrounding the Earth Palace, and with the evil winds offering resistance, the Earth Fire couldn’t burn its way in either.

Two high-ranking spells allowed Zhao Xing to hold his ground in the Fire Evil Barrier, but they were not enough to allow him to keep ascending.

"I don’t have any high-ranking Fire Element spell capable of overcoming this barrier," Zhao Xing concluded shortly after persisting for a moment.

The Wind Evil enhances the Fire Evil, and if this continued, he ultimately would not be able to hold out.

"Give up."

Zhao Xing silently thought to give up, and the next moment, he was back outside the portal.

"You’ve passed the Earth Evil Barrier of the Yin Yang Six Harmonies Formation and can obtain a reward of a Fourth-tier Supreme treasure. You may choose between an elixir and a weapon," the voice of the Xiezhi rang out.

"Elixir." Zhao Xing was lacking in enthusiasm.

A Fourth-tier Supreme reward was barely better than nothing for him.

The challenges set up by Da Li in the Dream Palace were designed for the elites, and the rewards were hard to come by.

Of course, he was not discouraged.

"According to my calculations, to pass the Yin Yang Six Harmonies Formation, I just need to possess a high-ranking Fire Element spell," Zhao Xing thought.

The Volcano Skill was actually an Earth Element spell because its essence was the "Earth Splitting Technique". Even though its name was Fire Element Earth Splitting Technique, it wasn’t considered a pure Fire Element spell.

The Fire Evil Barrier required a pure high-ranking Fire Element spell.

"As long as I get past the Fire Evil Barrier, the Thunder Evil Barrier is actually not a problem for me," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

Earth, Wind, Fire, Thunder... With the last being the Thunder Evil Barrier, Zhao Xing was confident he could pass since he had a pure high-ranking Thunder spell.

After passing the Earth Evil Barrier, Zhao Xing obtained three Fourth-tier Supreme Earth Evil Pills, the effects of which aided the body training in the Earthly Evil Realm.

Without wasting time, he left the Heavenly Craft Palace and went to challenge the Heart Inquiry Platform.

"The lust challenge of the Heart Inquiry Platform was ten levels, which I passed quite some time ago. The fact that it’s appearing again now means that I can continue challenging, but I wonder what test it holds," Zhao Xing took a deep breath as he stepped onto the steps of the Heart Inquiry Platform.

"Boom!"

The moment Zhao Xing stepped onto the stairs, his thoughts were scattered by a startling thunderclap.

He was flung backward, and his Life Soul was injured from the challenge, causing him to be ejected from the Dream Palace.

"Why is it so difficult? How could this version of the Heart Inquiry Platform be so strong?" Zhao Xing pondered, feeling that something was amiss and a sense of unease.

However, he took the version of the Heart Inquiry Platform in the Dream Palace to be vastly stronger than he was familiar with, attributing it to the Da Li version’s power.

Activating Divine Movement Protection, he floated back to the ground.

Just as he reached the ground, he received a message from Chen Shijie.

"Zhao Xing, Fire Dragon Pass is in a critical situation! We’ve received news from Wen Shaoyang and Jiang Ming that the Golden Feather Royal Court is sending a large army to reclaim Fire Dragon Pass! We must hurry back!"

"What?"

Zhao Xing was stunned, but seeing that Liao Rulong, Xia Jing, and others were hurriedly setting sail, he wasted no time in boarding the ship and headed for Fire Dragon Pass.

Sitting on the warship, Zhao Xing stared blankly at the map and intelligence reports.

He hadn’t expected the Golden Feather Royal Court to be so determined to reclaim Fire Dragon Pass; it was so different from what he had anticipated.

Yue Haisheng had only just fled not long ago, and their own side that occupied Fire Dragon Pass had no more than a few hundred thousand people, yet the Golden Feather Royal Court had mobilized an army of eight hundred thousand!

"Zhao Xing, you now lead a lone camp, and I’ve assigned three thousand warriors to you, drawn from the original Fire Crossbow Camp, Brave Camp, Nine-Section Camp, Divine Machine Camp, and Five Elements Camp," Liao Rulong said after disembarking from the warship, promptly assigning combat tasks before speeding off on the supreme warship.

Zhao Xing and his three thousand mixed forces were left behind.

As he watched Liao Rulong’s warship fly away, Zhao Xing couldn’t help but frown. He felt there was something strange.

But events were unfolding one after another, pressing him into action before he had time to think it through.

"We set off!"

Leading his three thousand warriors, Zhao Xing boarded the Netherflame Warship and flew towards the fort.

Liao Rulong had supplied him with familiar aides like Han Bing, Wang Ji, and Che Shihai. The three thousand men quickly left Fire Dragon Pass to reinforce Wen Shaoyang’s Division, which was under attack.

After the warship had flown five hundred miles, Zhao Xing spotted an army of demon soldiers.

They were marching massively towards Fire Dragon Pass. Han Bing immediately asked, "Commander, should we intercept this Ape Demon Army?"

Zhao Xing shook his head and replied, "No, our mission is to reinforce Wen Shaoyang. Leave the Ape Demon Army that has detoured to the rear forces to deal with."

The Netherflame Warship flew through the Gang Wind Layer for a day and a night and finally reached the border of the fort.

Below them were the White Bone Golden Toe Army and the Flying Bear Barbarian Army in the sky, besieging the fort where Wen Shaoyang was like ants.

"How could there be so many? Zhao Xing was horrified at the sight of the battlefield.

"Commander, do we fight?" Wang Ji asked.

Just as Zhao Xing was trying to figure out what was amiss, a martial artist from outside the cabin suddenly came to report, "Commander, we’ve been surrounded by the Flying Bear Army’s warships!"

"Wang Ji, quickly order the Mechanical Masters to prepare for battle!"

Zhao Xing had no time to ponder as he hastily geared up for the fight.