Chapter Seventeen: The Flame Blade

The Flame Giant glanced at the cultivators of the Three Alliances, utterly ignoring their prepared stance, and casually swung his Flame Blade.
“You lot, taste my flames first!” the Flame Giant roared loudly, his voice charged with fire as it rushed toward the cultivators.
As soon as he spoke, the Flame Giant swung his Blade at lightning speed. Wherever the blade pointed, a wall of flames appeared in the air, like an insurmountable barrier. Countless flame spirits emerged on that wall, attacking the cultivators fiercely.
The wall of flames struck the center where the cultivators were gathered, forcing them to scatter quickly to defend against the attacks from the flame spirits.
“Don’t panic! Defend together!”
Shaxi, Kongjiu, and Huaxiu, the leaders of the three alliances, saw some of their subordinates panicking and trying to flee on their own, so they shouted sternly.
The Tianhun Immortals and Tianhun Demons who wanted to escape were startled by their leaders’ words. They immediately turned back, grabbed their magical artifacts, and cast spells to deal with the incoming flame spirits.
The Water Lake Sect and the Water Flood Alliance both practiced water-based cultivation techniques, so their spells involved water spirits. With over two hundred cultivators from both alliances, they conjured as many as twenty thousand water spirits, which easily extinguished the incoming flame spirits.
The wall of flames disappeared, leaving the sky filled with mist and wind, causing countless craters to form on the planet’s surface.
In their first encounter, the cultivators of the Three Alliances suffered no injuries, which filled them with confidence and reduced their fear of the Flame Giant.
Seeing that his first attack hadn’t even killed a low-tier Tianhun Immortal, the Flame Giant became enraged. More flames erupted from his body, and the surrounding sky grew hot, creating an illusory sky window.
“You bastards! Daring to block my Flame Wall? You’ve seriously challenged my authority. Now, I’ll deliver an even heavier attack!” the Flame Giant roared again.
Before the cultivators could react, he raised his Flame Blade and swung it repeatedly in the air in a flash, delivering countless strikes.
Each flame blade in the air was actually a flame spirit, automatically searching for a cultivator to attack individually. Clearly, this time the Flame Giant intended to attack each of the cultivators one by one, preventing them from uniting for defense.
“Disgraceful!”

The cultivators of the Water Lake Alliance, Wood Cutting Alliance, and Flood Alliance surely understood the Flame Giant’s plans, but they were powerless to stop him and could only curse loudly. Soon, the cultivators of the three alliances had no choice but to rely on their own strength to defend against the rapidly approaching flame blades. These flame blades were essentially spiritual entities with innate vitality, moving swiftly through the air, leaving no opportunity for the cultivators to cast spells for defense. With grim expressions, the cultivators could only resort to full-body defense, each creating a shield to withstand the blows of the flame blades with their own strength. The flame blades struck the shields with force. Boom! Boom! Boom! Hundreds of loud noises echoed across the starry sky, causing violent tornadoes to form in the planet’s atmosphere and causing widespread damage to its surface. The cultivators of the three alliances suffered heavy casualties. Those among them who were lower-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals or Heavenly Soul Demons had limited numbers of spiritual entities, and under the attacks of the flame blades, their shields shattered after just a couple of strikes, turning their bodies into flames and causing their immediate destruction. Of course, some stronger lower-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons managed to hold on, though they were also severely injured. The mid-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons, though slightly stronger, could only barely resist, at great cost to their immortal essence and demonic essence. Only the higher-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons were able to fully block the attacks, but there were only seven or eight of them. Naturally, this attack dealt a devastating blow to the cultivators of the three alliances, eliminating at least the lower- and mid-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons, leaving only the higher-ranked ones capable of resistance. It was clear that the cultivators of the three alliances had now become prey for the Flame Giant. The overwhelming strength of the Soul Body warriors was once again evident as they single-handedly suppressed all the higher-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons. If they encountered individual cultivators, it would likely take just a breath from them to kill them. “What should we do?” Sha Xi, Kong Jiu, and Hua Xiu, the leaders of the three alliances, were extremely anxious. They saw that none of their subordinates could escape, meaning the strength of the three alliances had been completely destroyed. The more anxious they became, the harder it was for them to think of a solution, especially with a powerful Flame Giant ready to launch an attack at any moment. The three leaders had lost their ability to think rationally.

“You bastards, stay right where you are! I said I’d kill you all—there’s no way you’ll leave alive. Fine, my final attack. I hope you won’t waste my divine essence any further.” The Flame Giant roared triumphantly.

Divine essence?

Hearing the Flame Giant’s shout, the three alliance leaders suddenly came up with an idea and all turned to look at their subordinates on the ground.

“Everyone, release your life artifacts and use self-destruct attacks on that Soul Body Man!”

Sha Xi, Kong Jiu, and Hua Xiu shouted almost simultaneously, their voices hoarse.

Clearly, their plan was for their already weakened subordinates to use their artifacts in self-destruct attacks, forcing the Flame Giant to expend his divine essence, allowing them to escape.

The three alliance cultivators on the ground immediately released their artifacts upon hearing their leaders’ orders. They all flew toward the Flame Giant, and when they reached him, they suddenly exploded.

“It’s useless! You bastards don’t know how powerful my flames are, do you? Then let me show you.” The Flame Giant watched as over 300 artifacts flew toward him but didn’t retreat, shouting arrogantly.

Suddenly, flames burst from his body, forming a flaming world right in front of him. The intense heat from these flames melted and reddened the entire surface of the planet, making it visible across the entire sky as it turned red.

As soon as the artifacts released by the three alliance cultivators exploded, their fierce energy rushed into the flaming world, only creating countless rings of flame without breaking the world created by the Flame Giant.

The loud sounds of impact subsided, and the Flame Giant retracted his flaming world. He stood calmly in the air, swinging his Flame Knife as he casually glanced at the three alliance leaders.

“How could this happen?”

“How can that Soul Body Man be so strong?”

“Am I really going to perish here today?”

Sha Xi, Kong Jiu, and Hua Xiu’s eyes were filled with sorrow. Now, they truly felt endless fear and regret.

“Kong Jiu, Hua Xiu, when the previous leaders of the Wood Cutting Alliance and the Flood Submersion Alliance ascended to the divine realm, didn’t they leave any divine artifacts for you?” Suddenly, Sha Xi asked softly, her eyes full of suspicion.

Undoubtedly, if they had divine artifacts to explode, they might be able to harm the Flame Giant.

Kong Jiu and Hua Xiu both shook their heads, their expressions grim, confirming that they indeed had no divine artifacts.

In such a life-or-death situation, neither of the two brought out any divine artifacts. Sha Xi also confirmed that, like herself, they had not received a single divine artifact from their predecessors as league leaders. Divine artifacts could only be forged in the Divine Realm. Without the existence of the Meteor Realm Divine Realm, how could cultivators from the Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, or Monster Realm obtain such artifacts? Naturally, those who had acquired divine artifacts in the three realms before would never give them away; they would keep them for themselves to ascend to the Divine Realm and ensure their own survival there.

“Then, all we can do now is rely on our own strength to escape,” Sha Xi said with a gloomy expression and obvious pain.

Kong Jiu and Hua Xiu could only nod slightly.

The current situation was beyond what the strength of the three leagues could withstand, so they had no choice but to flee on their own.

At that moment, the Flame Giant also saw through the intentions of the cultivators from the three leagues and shouted wildly, “You bastards, you plan to run away, right? But alas, in front of me, your speed is far too slow. You can’t escape my attack range at all.”

Without giving the cultivators from the three leagues any time to react, the Flame Giant suddenly swung his Fire-Sword. Flowers of flame emerged—five hundred in total—most of which fell to the ground, enveloping the lower and middle-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons from the three leagues, preventing them from escaping.

A small portion of the flame flowers targeted the eight higher-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons, with the three league leaders being the main targets of the attacks.

The cultivators on the ground, who already had very little Immortal Essence and Demon Essence left, desperately tried to defend themselves against the approaching flame flowers but failed to withstand them, being completely burned to death.

The eight cultivators in the air saw the flame flowers approaching and realized, since their number was not large, that the Flame Giant’s plan was to first eliminate the cultivators on the ground before turning his attention to the last eight. Naturally, the flame flowers coming from the air were merely meant to prevent those eight from escaping.

Sha Xi, Kong Jiu, and Hua Xiu, the three league leaders, managed to block most of the flame flowers in the air with great difficulty.

The other five higher-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals and Heavenly Soul Demons only had to fend off a few flame flowers, so they easily blocked them without much effort. Among these five was Ze Di, who had once fought against Qu Yi.

The Flame Giant killed all the cultivators from the three leagues on the ground in one go, then laughed lightly as he looked at the remaining eight cultivators. His body erupted in flames again, and he laughed arrogantly.

“Now, it’s your turn to face my most powerful attack.” The fire giant was covered in flames, but his voice carried absolute coldness.