Chapter 651: Achieving the Goal

The four deputy envoys soon realized that Lin Jiu and Guang Qi were safe under Su Che’s protection. So, they too wanted to rush over. Su Che quickly transmitted a message to Lin Jiu and Guang Qi: “Before my personal domain is activated, I can’t protect that many people.” In other words, if those four came over, it would only drag the two of you down with them. Of course, Su Che wouldn’t say this outright.

“Don’t come over!”

Lin Jiu immediately showed his ruthless side, casting a powerful defense spell. With a whoosh, a huge blue energy shield formed in front of them, firmly blocking the four deputy envoys.

While the defense spell couldn’t prevent the Chaos Demon-Annihilating Flame from harming their spiritual cores, it was highly effective at blocking others.

“Envoy Lin, why are you doing this?” one of the deputy envoys asked loudly, his face twisted in pain. The pain wasn’t only due to the continuous damage to his spiritual core but also from confusion and despair.

“You four, hold on a little longer!” Lin Jiu shouted at them. “Guang Qi and I are helping Tian Yu restore his personal domain. You just need to hold on a bit longer. Don’t worry, it will be over soon!”

“This…”

His words held no persuasive power, and the four deputy envoys surely wouldn’t believe him. But for now, they didn’t dare confront him directly and could only hope that Su Che would activate his personal domain as soon as possible. They could only resist desperately, enduring the relentless damage from the Chaos Flame to their spiritual cores.

This was exactly the goal Su Che had planned from the start: to eliminate Lin Jiu and Guang Qi’s right-hand men and weaken their overall strength. At this moment, although it seemed like Su Che was protecting Lin Jiu and Guang Qi, it could also be said that the two of them were protecting Su Che as well. Even facing death threats, the four deputy envoys didn’t dare launch a retaliatory attack on Su Che. On the contrary, if Su Che tried to kill Lin Jiu or Guang Qi, he would face their final deadly strikes before they died.

After delaying things for a while, one of the deputy envoys shouted, “Envoy Lin Jiu, Envoy Guang Qi, how much longer? We really can’t hold on anymore!”

Surrounded by countless black flames, their spiritual cores were attacked countless times every moment. Even an elephant would be reduced to bones by an army of ants. It was already quite remarkable that they had lasted this long.

“It’ll be done soon. Hold on, you must hold on!”

Guangqi could only perfunctorily respond to them with such a sentence, while privately urging Su Che, “Young Tianyu, how much longer?”
Lin Jiu’s tone was even more blunt as he asked directly, “Are you deliberately trying to kill them?”
“I already said it—restarting the domain takes at least fifteen minutes. This is not even half of that time. What more do you want from me?” Su Che retorted angrily. “Besides, it was you who shattered my domain just now, not me doing anything suspicious. Do you know how much I have to pay each time I activate the domain?”
Lin Jiu and Guangqi were left speechless, as Su Che had every right on his side and showed no flaws.
On the other side, one of the four deputy envoys turned around and shouted, “How much longer? How much longer?!”
Their cries were hysterical; clearly, they were at their absolute limit.
“It’ll be done soon. Hold on!”
Guangqi and Lin Jiu could only respond with that, as they couldn’t think of any other solution.
The Chaos Demon-Annihilating Flame was called the Holy Flame not only because of its ability to destroy demons but also because it was almost impossible to extinguish, with no effective defense against it. Generally, one could only stay far away from it.
Especially now, trapped in a sea of fire, all attacks and defenses were useless; one could only endure it head-on, unless one had complete immunity like Su Che.
“How much longer? We really can’t take it anymore!”
“Envoy Lin, save us!”
“We can’t hold on any longer. Our vital spirits are about to dissipate…”
The four deputy envoys screamed in agony. Eventually, Lin Jiu and Guangqi’s perfunctory replies became useless. The four of them rushed over desperately, trying to seize Su Che as their last hope.
“Don’t come here!”
Guangqi still had some conscience. As he shouted, he used a restraining divine technique to block their approach. But Lin Jiu wasn’t so polite. While using a powerful defensive spell to block them, he also swung over a dozen crescent-shaped spatial blades in quick succession, even resorting to his most lethal slashing technique against his own colleagues and subordinates.
“Envoy Lin!”
The four deputy envoys on the other side were struck, but since they also possessed the cultivation level of Xuanxian, a few spatial blades weren’t enough to kill them instantly; their protective auras deflected them. Yet, such merciless attacks left them utterly disheartened, plunging them into desperate madness in an instant.

“Then let’s die together!”
The four deputy envoys unleashed their most powerful attacks at the same time—terrifying techniques from the Great Paths, also their most skilled forms of assault.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Four utterly different, fierce blows struck them head-on. Although Lin Jiu and Guang Qi were slightly stronger than them, they still had to exert all their strength to withstand them.
“Bastards!”
With a burst of blue light, Lin Jiu cursed angrily as he pushed his defensive techniques to their limit, creating a deep blue energy shield several zhang in radius in front of him. It was uncertain whether it could block the combined attacks of the four deputy envoys.
Guang Qi also didn’t dare stand idly by. He unleashed a defensive technique Su Che had never seen before, which must also be one of the Three Thousand Great Paths.
Colorful streams of light surrounded the three of them like a dream, along with a translucent, magnificent magic array appearing above their heads.
Su Che could faintly sense that these streams of light had some ability to transmit force—perhaps they could intercept incoming attacks and instantly transfer them to the magic array above. That array, like a portal, seemed to connect to some pre-determined special space, such as the interior of an immortal artifact.
If that space was large enough to absorb and dissipate the incoming force, it meant Guang Qi himself wouldn’t suffer any harm.
Of course, these defensive methods could only deal with physical attacks and were ineffective against the harm inflicted by the Chaos Demon-Slaying Flame on the soul.
Boom!
Under the combined attacks of the four deputy envoys, Lin Jiu’s blue energy shield held out for just a thousandth of a moment before shattering completely. Yet it still managed to consume at least 60% of the power of those four attack techniques.
Puff puff puff puff…
The remaining force struck the colorful streams of light. As Su Che had predicted, the heavy blows were indeed transmitted to the magnificent magic array above, causing no harm to the three of them at all.
“Bastards! How dare you defy us and attack us?”
Lin Jiu, his face filled with fury, shouted harshly at them.
But the four opponents were already on the verge of death and cared nothing about hierarchy. At this moment, their thoughts were simple: If you won’t let me live, then let’s die together!
Su Che sneered inwardly: Good. This is exactly what I wanted!
Yet aloud, he said to Guang Qi, “I can move us over a short distance. Should we take cover first?”
“Go, go, go!”
Before Guang Qi could respond, Lin Jiu waved his hand and shouted, “Leave now! Let them die!”

Those four bastards dared to attack me! Lin Jiu also felt furious, thinking to himself, “All the care I’ve shown you guys all these days was in vain. At a critical moment, you attacked me first, using your strongest moves right away… Damn it! Bastards, die!”
Guang Qi also sighed silently and gave Su Che a nod.
Whoosh!
Su Che grabbed their shoulders and plunged vertically downward along the passage. In the blink of an eye, they had descended hundreds of feet.
“Come back!”
“Don’t go!”
“You’ll never die easily!”
“Kill them! I’ll kill you all!”
The four vice envoys screamed frantically, trying to chase after them, but were stopped by the incredibly dense Chaos Demon-Annihilating Flames.
Under normal circumstances, these flames should be intangible and only capable of burning, lacking any blocking power. But today, the dense flames had condensed into impenetrable walls, layer upon layer, impossible to break through.
Moreover, as he descended, Su Che controlled tens of thousands of Chaos Flames to launch simultaneous attacks on their spiritual cores in an instant.
Ah!
Ah…
The agonized screams of the four vice envoys could be faintly heard. Their spiritual defenses were completely torn apart, and their already meager spiritual strength seemed to be devoured by some ancient beast.
With their spiritual cores destroyed, their remaining souls fell like thin paper into the raging flames, burning up instantly and turning to ashes.
The four Xuanxians perished on the spot, dying in utter humiliation.
Furthermore, their spiritual cores were slowly devoured bit by bit by countless Chaos Sacred Flames, suffering excruciating pain as if being torn apart.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh…
Su Che continued to descend with Lin Jiu and Guang Qi. After a few breaths, Guang Qi asked in a deep voice, “Are they dead?”
“I don’t know.”
Su Che shook his head, showing no emotion, but inwardly sneered, “They’re definitely dead! My goal has been achieved.”
Lin Jiu’s gaze turned extremely dark. He wanted to say something but forced himself to hold back.
In fact, with his and Guang Qi’s wisdom, they could suspect that Su Che might have the ability to save the four vice envoys. The reason he didn’t help them was likely to weaken their own strength on purpose.
But this was just a suspicion, with no evidence. Besides, they still relied on Su Che’s power to survive and leave this fiery realm.
If they didn’t want to die, they couldn’t blame Su Che or hold him accountable.
This debt could only be temporarily attributed to Su Che. Once they found the right opportunity, they would ensure he had no place to bury himself!