Immortality begin with Alchemy Grandmaster Chapter 2624 - 968: The Great Desolate Pursuit, Fishing for the Moon Within the Realm

"What is this?"

Shock overwhelmed Hong Ye Granny, who let out a cry of disbelief.

The Fifth-Order Desolate Beast, Netherworld Earth Dragon, had emerged first, and then odd flames burst forth from inside Luo Chen.

Any one of those events would fill her with total despair, leaving no chance to fight back.

Before her eyes.

Branches waved, fires leaped.

After Luo Chen unleashed his incantation, the azure-white flames exploded and rose high, swiftly spreading out with his form at the core.

In mere moments, they arrived right in front of Hong Ye Granny.

Desperation filled her shout, "Friend Luo..."

Yet her words barely traveled any distance.

Maybe Luo Chen caught them but chose to disregard her entirely.

The Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire rushed by, and even with Hong Ye Granny's frantic attempts to defend herself while badly wounded, she couldn't buy even a second of safety.

Right away, nothing remained but a heap of ash.

And those ashes vanished too beneath the intense heat of the flames.

A Storage Magic Item burst open, releasing vast quantities of Liuguang, though most of it dissolved under the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire.

Hong Ye Granny wasn't the only victim.

The entire area plunged into flames in an instant, and the once-unbreakable wall of flesh started seeping blood while giving off a burnt scent.

It resembled a doomsday spectacle!

Amid the smoky glow, Luo Chen's figure shimmered.

He cast a look at where Hong Ye Granny had stood, then abruptly raised his gaze.

"Go!"

With a resolute mindset, he shot upward.

Wherever he went, thick layers of flesh, rock, and soil melted into flowing lava.

Zoom!

A sharp sound of tearing through space rang out suddenly.

The speed was incredible, beyond even Luo Chen's powerful Divine Consciousness to track, prompting him to instinctively strike downward.

That strike summoned Infinite Divine Fire, which formed into a Flame Divine Palm.

Instantly, the Flame Divine Palm clashed with the hidden assault, producing a shrill noise.

Shh...

The massive hand imprint got punctured right away, and the strike continued a few feet more, ripping a huge gap in Luo Chen's frame and nearly destroying half of it.

Looking closer, it turned out to be a barbed-covered tongue!

"Ugh!"

Luo Chen let out a groan as Origin Force flowed swiftly, allowing the broken half of his body to reform and heal at a speed beyond imagination.

His gaze fixed hard on the pulling-back tongue, fury burning in his eyes.

During usual fights, Luo Chen possessed countless methods and sometimes employed the Nirvana Sacred Fire; so why did he rarely resort to the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire?

Because this flame ranked too highly, and in his prior cultivation level, each activation nearly exhausted his Qi Power.

Even after Qi Xia Emperor's teachings and adopting the "Tianhuang Nirvana Sutra," things got a bit better, yet he remained cautious about overusing it.

Now, with his grasp of the Fire Origin and the backing of Law’s True Intent, the Qi Power needed to wield the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire had lessened somewhat.

Still, the progress fell short; Luo Chen figured full control would only come after reaching Late Stage Nascent Soul.

Only then could he manage the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire with relative ease.

Until that point, he refrained from deploying this Fifth-Order Divine Fire except in dire straits.

And right now!

Confronting a Fifth-Order Desolate Beast qualified as such an emergency!

"Go!"

A savage yell echoed!

The branches of the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire twisted, trailing like creeping vines that shattered the yellow glow around the tongue in a flash and started incinerating its owner's flesh.

Agonizing torment struck the Netherworld Earth Dragon.

Since both held Fifth-Order status, how could Divine Fire prove inferior to a Desolate Beast?

It arrived with great speed, and withdrew even quicker.

The tongue retracted, spewing loads of saliva to smother the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire.

However, the highly sentient Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire ignited from within, spreading through the whole Netherworld Earth Dragon.

Its incredibly durable physique turned vulnerable against the ultimate Divine Fire from the Mountain Sea Realm.

A strange scent of roasted meat wafted, tempting the senses.

But the beast itself suffered greatly.

"Roar... Roar..."

Roars of agony kept booming, while a steady stream of earthy yellow radiance pushed back the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire from inside.

Boom...

The yellow halo exploded outward fiercely, driving away all the flames and once more unveiling the Netherworld Earth Dragon's ten-foot-plus form.

This time, though, it looked truly wretched.

Its body was flayed, with strips of flesh dangling, scarcely any undamaged skin left.

Rage consumed it!

It glared upward, but the foe's shape had vanished.

Escape was impossible, though!

The Netherworld Earth Dragon parted its jaws, unleashing a horrifying pull.

The nearby unbreakable barriers started wriggling, morphing into rivers of blood that surged toward it like tributaries to an ocean.

With the barriers crumbling, the Netherworld Mountain over the Yin Yang Tomb began to fall apart from within to without.

...

Whoosh!

Beneath the blood-red moon, a figure hung in the sky.

Wearing a tall crown with golden feathers, clad in partial armor.

Luo Chen breathed out a breath of impure Qi, sensing some ease.

At last, he had broken free!

His eyes dropped downward.

At first, it seemed harmless, but soon alertness gripped him tightly.

The towering Netherworld Mountain, spanning thousands of feet, crumbled swiftly, caving in from its core.

As stones fell, enormous channels of twisting flesh came into view.

All that flesh pulled inward, like some entity within was consuming it voraciously.

Luo Chen gulped down saliva, his features twisting in astonishment.

"Is it possible that this Netherworld Mountain originated from the remains of an ancient Netherworld Earth Dragon that perished from age?"

The longer he observed, the more convincing this idea felt!

That explained the eerie feeling of stepping into a colossal creature's maw upon entering Netherworld Mountain.

"I can't stay here any longer!"

Thinking that, Luo Chen wheeled around and sped away.