: Mysteries in the Palm

Lava Immortal Palace.

Ning Zhuo sat cross-legged, breathing in and out, enveloped in floating clouds.

Under the concealment of the Hidden Cloud Bud, his sea of qi, which was actually at the ninth layer, appeared only at the fourth layer.

Lately, there had been too many situations consuming his magic power. Even with his ninth-layer cultivation, he felt it wasn't enough.

If he felt this way, the members of the three families' modification teams were even worse off.

They had to expend magic power to actively complete various tasks and earn merit points, while also finding time to cultivate diligently and advance their own cultivation bases.

It was truly exhausting.

However, the three families also revealed their底蕴, supplying large quantities of elixirs to fully compensate for the weaknesses of the modification team members and do their best to clear their cultivation obstacles.

Even the two Golden Core cultivators, Zhu Xuanji and Zhu Zhen, dug into their own pockets to provide many subsidies.

Ning Zhuo thus managed to acquire many good things, most of which he stored away. He had come too far; he simply had no use for them right now.

Suddenly.

In his divine sea, Ning Zhuo's My Buddha Heart Demon Seal radiated brilliant Buddha light.

The Buddha light enveloped Ning Zhuo's entire body.

"Who is detecting my fortune again?" Ning Zhuo immediately stopped his breathing exercises and channeled all his magic power into the Hidden Cloud Bud beneath his tongue root.

Working together, they perfectly concealed his fortune.

Boom!

A loud explosion shook Ning Zhuo, and he felt his bed tremble.

"What's going on?! What happened outside?" Ning Zhuo opened his eyes within the floating clouds.

At that moment, the Buddha light disappeared.

Clearly, the person detecting him had stopped.

Ning Zhuo immediately retracted the floating clouds, jumped to the floor, flung open his door, and strode into the courtyard.

Ning Jiufan was already standing in the yard, gazing into the sky.

Just as Ning Zhuo was about to bow and greet him, his eyes were firmly captured by the scene in the sky!

A massive fire python, nearly a hundred zhang long and as thick as an ancient tree, reared its head high. Then, its head, like a battering ram, slammed fiercely into the spherical light shield of the Lava Immortal Palace.

Boom!

The familiar sound echoed in Ning Zhuo's ears.

The Lava Immortal Palace beneath his feet shook violently once more.

"So that's what caused the earlier commotion!" Ning Zhuo immediately understood, sucking in a cold breath. "Ancestor, is that a Beast King at the Nascent Soul level?"

Ning Zhuo had seen Golden Core level Raging Fire Snakes and Raging Fire Flood Dragons from a distance.

Such a massive body and such fierce attacks were definitely not something a Golden Core level creature could possess.

Ning Jiufan nodded with a grave expression: "Correct!"

Ning Zhuo's heart shook. He thought, "So, a Nascent Soul level existence has finally joined this Crimson Flame Beast Tide!"

Crack, crack, crack.

Large cracks rapidly spread across the golden, semi-transparent spherical light shield.

The crisp cracking sounds were so distinct, they instilled fear and trepidation.

Almost all the cultivators in the Lava Immortal Palace were awakened, looking up at this scene, extremely worried.

Their cultivation levels were, at most, Golden Core. Facing a Nascent Soul level enemy, they were extremely powerless. Even if the Lava Immortal Palace had suppressive capabilities, it would inevitably be a bitter battle.

"Lord City Master Meng Kui, why hasn't he made a move yet?" Ning Zhuo asked anxiously.

He had one more layer of worry than the others.

That was his merit points!

The Crimson Flame Beast Tide was triggered by the cooperation between Ning Zhuo and the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit. If the Nascent Soul level Raging Fire Snake breached the light shield and caused massive destruction to the Lava Immortal Palace, it would result in a huge negative impact on Ning Zhuo's merit point calculation.

As soon as Ning Zhuo finished speaking, he saw Meng Kui take action.

Behind the Raging Fire Snake, clouds and mist churned, violently parting to reveal a giant human hand.

Spell — Mysteries in the Palm!

The giant hand moved deceptively slow yet fast, arriving behind the Raging Fire Snake in the blink of an eye.

Just as it seemed about to grab the Raging Fire Snake, the latter suddenly let out a shrill cry. On both sides of its flame-condensed body, it abruptly expanded, forming a pair of broad fiery wings.

Whoosh!

The Raging Fire Snake flapped its wings once, leaving a trail of sparks as its entire body shot forward.

The giant hand grabbed empty air.

Meng Kui was surprised. Although this Nascent Soul level Raging Fire Snake had poor aptitude, not even achieving a flood dragon form at the Nascent Soul level, it had actually mastered fire-element spells.

Meng Kui took a deep breath, fully mobilizing the city defense formation to suppress the boiling beast tide that was about to launch a frenzied attack.

Temporarily free from threat, the Raging Fire Snake flew directly above the Lava Immortal Palace, opened its mouth, and spewed forth raging flames.

The flames were extremely hot, adhering to the golden light shield and quickly dimming its glow. The temperature inside the entire Lava Immortal Palace suddenly soared, causing many cultivators to show discomfort, their faces reddening.

Meng Kui shouted loudly, casting a spell to summon wind and rain.

However, the ordinary wind and rain only slightly curbed the flames without extinguishing them.

"Damn it! Sustaining the light shield consumes an immense amount of magic power. Part of this debt will be counted against me." Ning Zhuo inwardly groaned.

Meng Kui cast another spell and also deployed a magic treasure, attacking the Raging Fire Snake.

The Raging Fire Snake shrieked, flapped its fiery wings, and dove downward.

It forcefully shattered the spell, sent the magic treasure flying, and then, with remaining momentum, crashed like a meteor into the ground, striking the spherical light shield for the third time.

Boom!

This time, huge cracks rapidly spread, almost spanning the entire sky as if to split the spherical light shield in half.

Countless fireballs overflowed from the Raging Fire Snake's body, quickly seeping through the cracks.

They passed through the light shield, officially reaching the sky above the Lava Immortal Palace, condensing into form: eight Golden Core level Raging Fire Snake Flood Dragons, dozens of Foundation Establishment level ones, and over a hundred Qi Refining level ones!

This move, however, wasn't a spell.

Each snake flood dragon was an independent life form.

It turned out that the life existence of Raging Fire Snakes was rather special; they were essentially clusters of flames without flesh-and-blood bodies. Within a single tribe, Raging Fire Snakes could intertwine and temporarily merge.

The Nascent Soul level Raging Fire Snake carried within it, merged, a massive horde of Raging Fire Snakes!

The Nascent Soul Raging Fire Snake perched atop the light shield, continuing to infiltrate its tribe inward. Meng Kui's Mysteries in the Palm spell reached out again.

The Raging Fire Snake raised its head and coiled its body, its gigantic form displaying incredible agility as it dodged this grab.

But this time, Meng Kui, learning from his previous mistake, had埋伏 a second spell hand that followed closely behind.

This time, the Raging Fire Snake couldn't dodge. Its head was caught squarely from below.

It let out an unwilling shriek but still couldn't resist the hand's power, being grabbed and flung away.

Bang!

It crashed directly into the vertical wall of the volcano crater, creating a violent sound.

The Raging Fire Snake hissed in pain, its tail dipping into the magma. It stirred the lava and suddenly whipped its tail.

A surging pillar of magma shot skyward, fiercely impacting the magic power hand that held it.

The magic power hand immediately began to melt and burn, becoming tattered and broken.

The Raging Fire Snake twisted its body excitedly, about to break free, when Meng Kui's other hand covered it again, suppressing it once more.

Thus, both sides fell into a stalemate.

Within the Lava Immortal Palace, the battle between the cultivators and the Raging Fire Snake horde had already begun.

Fierce fights erupted in the sky and on the ground.

Soldier against soldier, general against general.

Led by Zhu Xuanji, Zhu Zhen, and others, they darted back and forth in the mid-air, fiercely attacking the Golden Core level Raging Fire Flood Dragons, striving desperately to prevent them from landing on the ground.

There were also Golden Core level Raging Fire Snakes without flight capabilities that crashed to the ground, only to be intercepted by Golden Core level cultivators. Fierce battles unfolded among the various buildings.

"My merit points!" Ning Zhuo's expression was as heavy as his mood.

All he could do was gather the Ning family's modification team members, charge into the battlefield, and spare no effort to make up for his merit points!

"Destroy, destroy!" In the main hall of the Lava Immortal Palace, the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit excitedly roared repeatedly.

It controlled with all its might, making the magic power supply to the light shield intermittent, and causing the main force of the mechanical constructs to always avoid the powerful Raging Fire Snakes,偏向 weaker areas.

To it, the Lava Immortal Palace was both its temporarily inhabited body and a gigantic cage.

The more the Lava Immortal Palace was destroyed, the more injured it would be, but the larger the gaps broken in the cage would become.

"Sooner or later, these gaps will become big enough for me to break free!"

"Everything for freedom, all for freedom."

"Hang in there! Show the backbone of the Raging Fire Snake tribe! Well... even though we don't actually have bones." The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit watched the Nascent Soul level battle, even cheering for the Nascent Soul level Raging Fire Snake.

Ning Zhuo took a deep breath, slapped his storage belt, and immediately released ten Blast Monkeys.

The Blast Monkeys pounced on a group of Qi Refining level Raging Fire Snakes.

After just a few exchanges, the Blast Monkeys self-destructed one after another with loud bangs.

The Raging Fire Snakes' bodies were blown apart, but within a few breaths, they all regenerated.

Ning Zhuo frowned deeply. Self-destruction was the Blast Monkeys' strongest move, but since the Raging Fire Snakes weren't flesh-and-blood creatures, the results were minimal.

The Raging Fire Snake horde charged at Ning Zhuo, shrieking. They intertwined with each other, and by the time they reached Ning Zhuo, the merged Raging Fire Snake's life aura had reached the Foundation Establishment level.

Ning Zhuo slapped his belt again, releasing a Fire Bamboo Snake.

The Fire Bamboo Snake tangled with the Foundation Establishment Raging Fire Snake, locked in a stalemate for the moment.

Ning Zhuo seized the opportunity to cast a spell, sending out ten mechanical Flying Grasping Hands. Each mechanical arm shot forth spells.

A large cluster of frost spells rained down. The Foundation Establishment Raging Fire Snake disintegrated, reverting to over a dozen Qi Refining level small snakes, which were then covered by the spells and annihilated.

The Fire Bamboo Snake was severely wounded, with significant losses.

Fortunately, Ning Zhuo had more than just this one Fire Bamboo Snake in reserve.

He continued to fight fiercely.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Overhead, continuous thunderous explosions sounded.

Each explosion represented a fierce collision between Meng Kui and the Nascent Soul level Raging Fire Snake.

"The key to this defensive battle still lies in the Nascent Soul level contest!" This was clear to everyone.

Finally.

After Meng Kui had built up enough momentum, he used one hand to block the Raging Fire Snake while the other flew back, creating distance.

The magic power giant hand stood upright in mid-air and began forming hand seals, performing calculations.

Meng Kui's main body rolled its eyes white and coldly shouted: "Raging Fire Snake, I have calculated... your defeat and flight!"

In the next moment, the magic power hand used for calculation disintegrated, dissipating like clouds and mist.

And on the body of the Nascent Soul Raging Fire Snake, explosions erupted one after another, instantly crippling it.

The Raging Fire Snake initially paid no mind, but soon, it shrieked in alarm.

Because it horrifyingly discovered that its injuries couldn't regenerate. At this moment, its advantage of not having a flesh-and-blood body seemed to have vanished without a trace!

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