Chapter 40: The Heart of Flame Stone

After flying through the stars with the Dimensional Ball for a month, the Golden Qilin arrived at another planet. As usual, this planet was covered in red land and red stones, completely influenced by the Heavenly Fire. Almost every hundred miles, there was an active volcano erupting violently, resulting in constant loud noises across the planet.

The Golden Qilin flew above this planet, searching continuously for a suitable location to set up a spatial teleportation array. Ten more days passed before it finally found a place suitable for the array. It was an extinct volcano with a vertical hole at its summit. Flying down, the hole turned out to be over a thousand meters deep, and its bottom was quite cool—surely free from attacks by the Heavenly Fire.

The Golden Qilin landed at the bottom of the hole, and Qu Yi emerged from the Dimensional Ball. “Well done, Golden Qilin. Now go back inside the Dimensional Ball and have a good fight with Wu Yuan,” Qu Yi said with a smile.

Over the past month, the Golden Qilin had been flying through the stars, constantly expressing its desire to fight Wu Yuan. Even the Artifact God had heard this and had just informed Qu Yi. Therefore, to reward the Golden Qilin, Qu Yi naturally wanted to fulfill its wish.

“Great, master! You’re so considerate. This time, I’ll make sure to pluck all of Wu Yuan’s feathers,” the Golden Qilin said happily, announcing its plan aloud.

Qu Yi smiled and immediately sent the Golden Qilin back into the Dimensional Ball. Then he set up the spatial teleportation array at the bottom of the hole. However, Qu Yi did not use the array to return to the planet where the law enforcers were located. At that moment, the Artifact God suddenly sent a message through his spiritual sense.

“Qu Yi, I sense that there should be a Heart of Flame Stone on this planet. Fly around it first, and I’ll help you locate it,” the Artifact God said.

Pausing for a moment, Qu Yi quickly asked, “Artifact God, what is the use of this Heart of Flame Stone?”

The Artifact God chuckled and replied patiently, “Do you remember the Tide Stone? It contains a kind of Water Origin energy, which will be very helpful for you to understand Water Origin energy in the future. This Heart of Flame Stone, on the other hand, contains Fire Origin energy, which will surely be of great help to you in understanding Fire Origin energy.”

After hearing this, Qu Yi’s face lit up with joy. His luck was truly amazing.

“Alright, I’ll search the entire planet right away,” Qu Yi replied happily.

Soon, Qu Yi flew out of the celestial hole and then raced through the skies above the planet, searching for the location of the Flame Heart Stone.
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The eleven elders of the Jin Yang Sect, all at the Fusion Stage, had teleportation speeds more than ten times faster than those of the enforcement members from the other nine sects, who were at the Diversion Stage. Thus, they quickly caught up to the enforcement members from those sects and arrived at the planet where Qu Yi had set up the spatial teleportation array.
“According to the jade slips in our possession, this planet is located in the Tianhuo Star Region, numbered as Outer Star 93. If my guess is correct, the enforcement members from the Taiyuan Sect must have flown across the starry sky to this Outer Star 93 and set up a spatial teleportation array here,” said Shuo Shang, the head of the Jin Yang Sect’s enforcement team, after landing on the planet.
The other ten elders also nodded in agreement, as Outer Star 93 was the nearest planet from Outer Star 1 when flying across the starry sky.
According to the plan, these eleven elders of the Jin Yang Sect were to track down the enforcement members of the Taiyuan Sect and take the opportunity to eliminate all of them.
Soon, the eleven of them flew into the air, spreading their spiritual senses to search the entire planet for the whereabouts of the Taiyuan Sect’s enforcement members.
Three days later, the eleven elders of the Jin Yang Sect arrived near the Magma Waterfall. They had found the location where Qu Yi had set up the spatial teleportation array and detected the presence of the Taiyuan Sect’s enforcement members.
“Hmph, I finally found them,” Shuo Shang sneered, a murderous glint in his eyes.
At that moment, the enforcement members of the Taiyuan Sect, who were in the cool cave, suddenly stood up and looked toward the spatial teleportation array where a flash of white light had just appeared.
Head Captain Liang Kui had arrived along with nine elders!
It turned out that Liang Kui realized that the elder groups of the top ten sects in the cultivation world had all come. If they intended to attack the Taiyuan Sect’s enforcement team, they would surely kill all of them. Therefore, Liang Kui decided that each spatial teleportation array should have an elder stationed there to intimidate the elders of the other nine sects.
“Head Captain, why have you come?” one of the enforcement members asked in surprise.
Liang Kui smiled before saying, “Now that the people from the top ten sects have arrived, I expect their enforcement members and elder groups to come and attack you. That’s why I’ve come here to ensure your safety.”
The enforcement members weren’t overly excited upon hearing this. They understood that the so-called protection was actually out of fear that the spatial teleportation arrays might be destroyed.
“Thank you, Head Captain and elders,” the enforcement members said in unison.

Liang Kui understood the subtle actions and expressions of some of the law enforcers, as well as their thoughts, but he didn’t point it out. Instead, he said, “By the way, where has your captain Li Mu gone? Why are all of you law enforcers still here, while the captain is missing?” Not only Liang Kui but also the nine elders who came together were curious and waiting for an answer. “The captain told us to wait here. He will fly across the starry sky alone to search for planets in the Tianhuo Star Region,” one of the law enforcers said bravely. Hearing this, Liang Kui was shocked—this was beyond his expectations. He couldn’t understand why ‘Li Mu’ would rather take such a risky journey across the starry sky instead of staying put. “Alright, since Li Mu is willing to go, I trust he has the confidence to complete the task. I won’t interfere. Everyone, continue to sit in meditation,” Liang Kui said after thinking for a while, still unable to figure out why ‘Li Mu’ would do this. After some confusion, the nine elders and law enforcers also sat down in meditation. Meanwhile, the eleven elders of the JinYang Sect nearby, thanks to their hidden formation, went unnoticed by Liang Kui’s spiritual sense. But Shuo Shang had already heard everything the people from the TaiYuan Gate said. “Good. Liang Kui actually thought of this. Since I can’t attack these law enforcers, I must kill that leader, Li Mu,” Shuo Shang said with a fierce glint in his eyes. Elder Shuo Kai then said, “Chief Commander, since that Li Mu has gone to another planet alone, let’s rush over now. We will definitely be able to kill him.” Shuo Shang nodded, dismissed the formation, and they all flew into the sky once again, returning to the starry realm. …… “Qu Yi, I’ve sensed the presence of the Flame Heart Stone. Fly northeast—it should be there, near a magma fountain,” the Spirit of the Artifact transmitted through communication as Qu Yi flew in the air. As soon as the message stopped, Qu Yi immediately turned and teleported northeast. Sure enough, after hundreds of thousands of miles, Qu Yi saw a huge magma lake in the sky, with a 100-meter-high magma fountain at its center, from which streams of fiery red magma shot into the sky. “Qu Yi, enter the Dimension Sphere. The Flame Heart Stone should be beneath this fountain,” the Spirit of the Artifact said again. Quickly, Qu Yi entered the Dimension Sphere as instructed, then sensed that the sphere had fallen into the fountain and swiftly descended beneath it.

The magma of this fountain was extremely hot; even Qu Yi’s spiritual awareness couldn’t penetrate it. Its scorching heat was likely equivalent to that of the Xuan Ji Zhen Huo during its fusion phase. However, this magma had no effect on the Cun Jie Ball, as its grade was too high—no magic weapon in the cultivation world could harm it. The Cun Jie Ball continued to fall into the magma, endlessly descending, as if there would never be an end.

The deeper the magma flowed, the more turbulent it became, transforming from thick magma into bright red liquid. Further down, it turned into pure, fire-red gas, resembling gale-force winds.

It took the Cun Jie Ball about three days of falling before it reached a miraculous place—seemingly the core of the entire planet. There, there was an independent space shaped like a balloon, containing only a heart-shaped red stone the size of a human head. Outside this space, those gale-like gases were instantly repelled upon touching the space’s “air membrane,” turning into heat that tore through space and surged in all directions, stirring up the entire gas layer.

“Qu Yi, it’s indeed the Heart of Flame Stone. You’re really lucky,” said the Artifact God, lying on a soft chair and smiling joyfully at Qu Yi sitting beside him.

Both of them used their spiritual awareness to observe the outside constantly, and they saw both the independent space and the Heart of Flame Stone.

“Artifact God, how do we obtain the Heart of Flame Stone now? It seems that as long as those gases touch that air membrane, they’re instantly repelled. The Cun Jie Ball will probably be repelled too,” Qu Yi said doubtfully.

Suddenly, the Artifact God jumped up from the soft chair, stood there staring at Qu Yi, and shouted, “Qu Yi, you fool! Besides the Cun Jie Ball, haven’t you thought of the divine formula card that records the ‘Five Energies and Three Flowers’?”

Upon hearing this, Qu Yi didn’t blame the Artifact God for getting angry—he immediately understood what the Artifact God meant. The Cun Jie Ball was a defensive magic weapon, but the divine formula card could be used for attack. It could likely cut through that air membrane, allowing the Cun Jie Ball to enter the independent space.

Sure enough, Qu Yi took out the divine formula card and struck at the air membrane of the independent space, instantly tearing it apart. Before the membrane could recover, the Cun Jie Ball flew through the gap into the independent space.

Soon after the Cun Jie Ball arrived near the Heart of Flame Stone, the Artifact God took action and stored the Heart of Flame Stone inside the Cun Jie Ball.

As soon as the Flameheart Stone disappeared, the entire independent space vanished. Meanwhile, the intense heat and gases in the planet’s core stopped moving and gradually calmed down, while the liquids and magma above also became much less turbulent. Taking advantage of the magma not yet solidifying, the Tiny Realm Ball flew out of the ground and returned to the skies above the planet. Qu Yi emerged from the Tiny Realm Ball, filled with pride—having both the Tiny Realm Ball and the Divine Formula Cards, his treasure-hunting adventures would be invincible. “Qu Yi, I must tell you again: eleven experts at the Fusion Stage are flying toward you. It seems they’re here to deal with you,” the voice of the God of Tools suddenly rang out. In the sky, the eleven elders of the Jin Yang Sect flew over happily.