Chu Tian looked at the creature, which had wings on its back, and the wings were adorned with sharp bone blades.
Its entire upper body was held in the mouth of the Crimson Flame Qilin.
However, the scimitar on its back wings had also pierced the Crimson Flame Qilin’s eyes.
This… should be the reason for the Crimson Flame Qilin’s death.
The Crimson Flame Qilin was naturally immune to all flames.
Even after death, its body would not be incinerated by fire.
Submerged in the depths of the lava for an unknown period, it remained unharmed.
Yet, that creature could do the same, without a single scratch.
Furthermore, Chu Tian sensed a peculiar life energy within that fellow, still faintly pulsing.
“What is that?” Xiao Hong’s eyes were filled with hatred upon seeing the creature.
Chu Tian shook his head; how could he possibly know what that thing was?
As all this appeared before them, the two corpses were still floating upwards.
Slowly, something resembling a door panel emerged, supporting the two giant corpses, dead for who knew how long, and floating on the lava.
Of course, there was also the fiery red longsword.
The lava slowly slid off this floating board, gradually revealing its full appearance.
At this moment, Chu Tian frowned.
The aura emanating from this door panel was similar to the chains beneath their feet.
However, that was not the main point.
The main point was… the style of the door panel, which Chu Tian had actually seen before.
In his mind, the two great doors of the Netherworld’s Ghost Gate flashed.
And this door panel before him was as if it had been shrunk a thousand or a hundred times.
The style, the patterns, were completely identical.
Now that he thought about it, even this chilling aura.
It was exactly the same, no wonder he had felt a sense of familiarity mixed with strangeness when he first arrived on the chains.
After observing for a while, the strange door panel, and the corpse of that peculiar creature.
Chu Tian sensed no danger, so he pulled Xiao Hong out of the chains and drifted down onto the door panel.
Upon landing, Chu Tian stopped again, carefully sensing the strange creature for a long time.
Only then did he and Xiao Hong walk forward.
Although his divine sense had not detected any danger, Chu Tian did not relax in the slightest.
A palpitations in his heart had not disappeared.
In his past life, when he played a rogue, this feeling in stealth meant his stealth had been discovered.
Or that another rogue was targeting him.
And now, this was supposed to be reality, albeit the reality of another world.
This feeling appearing meant something bad was bound to happen.
Creak, creak…
The door panel beneath their feet was made of wood, and although it was enormous, spanning a thousand meters in circumference.
It trembled slightly with each step, emitting a grating sound that made one fear it would crack at any moment.
Chu Tian, fully alert, slowly approached the longsword with Xiao Hong.
Upon reaching it, he realized that the hilt of the longsword was being held by the foot of that strange creature.
This fellow’s foot could actually be used like a hand.
Arriving here, one could see its body shrunken, as if only a layer of grey skin was covering bones, with no trace of aura.
However, the longsword in its foot exuded a world-destroying pressure; this was an extremely terrifying divine weapon.
Chu Tian was certain that this longsword was absolutely a divine-tier weapon.
“Is what you’re sensing your ancestor, or this weapon?” Chu Tian asked. Da Feng Novel Network
“It is!” Xiao Hong replied affirmatively.
Chu Tian nodded, about to tell Xiao Hong to go and get it.
But he saw her turn towards the corpse of the Crimson Flame Qilin, her body trembling with excitement.
This was her ancestor, but it had been dead for too long, and Xiao Hong was unable to sense it.
However, just now, upon seeing it for the first time, Xiao Hong had instantly felt a bloodline resonance.
Suddenly, Xiao Hong knelt on the ground and bowed respectfully three times to the corpse, chanting:
“Ancestor, please forgive Chi Xue’s disrespect!” As she spoke, she waved her hands, and an arcane fluctuation emanated from her.
Streams of cold white flames appeared out of thin air, surging into the Crimson Flame Qilin’s body.
The Crimson Flame Qilin, which was immune to the fires of all realms, actually began to self-ignite from within.
In a moment, the Crimson Flame Qilin, with its massive body measuring a thousand meters, turned into a handful of dust and vanished on the door panel.
“This…” Chu Tian’s eyes widened, and he uttered a single word.
“The Crimson Flame Qilin is naturally immune to the fires of all realms, but it fears the Life Flame of its own kind the most!
I just used my own Life Flame to cremate my ancestor, hoping its soul would return to its origin.
This is also what every member of the Crimson Flame Qilin clan must do when they encounter a deceased fellow tribesman in the outside world.”
She knew what Chu Tian was going to ask and directly answered his confusion.
Her explanation only deepened Chu Tian’s confusion; he couldn’t understand why the Crimson Flame Qilin’s Life Flame was cold.
This might be related to the secrets of the Crimson Flame Qilin, so Chu Tian asked no further.
After completing this, the red-clothed girl, who had always been called Xiao Hong but whose true name was Chi Xue, looked towards the longsword.
“Legend has it that a million years ago, a genius of our clan entered the Sacred Spirit Realm with the Crimson Rainbow Sword and then disappeared, and the Crimson Rainbow Sword was lost. It seems the legend is true!”
“Is this sword very important to you?” Chu Tian asked.
“Yes…” Chi Xue’s eyes were filled with excitement as she slowly recounted.
This was the supreme sword of their Crimson Flame Qilin clan, and the key to opening the Crimson Flame Sacred Land.
For a million years, their Crimson Flame Qilin clan had lost their supreme sword, and the Crimson Flame Sacred Land could not be opened, preventing them from obtaining the complete inheritance when awakening their bloodline.
They began to be ostracized and were eventually forced to leave their ancestral land, wandering among the star fields.
By her generation, there were only three Crimson Flame Qilin left.
To be precise, only she remained.
Shortly after her birth, her parents also died of old age due to bloodline deficiencies that prevented them from advancing their cultivation.
Chu Tian was speechless after hearing this, “Why would something so important be taken into here by him?”
“Because… for millions upon millions of years, our Crimson Flame Qilin clan had never had a death record participating in the Sacred Spirit Realm trials!
The Crimson Flame, Rushing Water, Thick Earth, Sharp Metal, and Divine Wood Qilin five clans, aiding each other, who could defeat us?” she said with infinite pride.
Then, her gaze gradually softened. Although she appeared in the form of a young girl now, like Mo Qilin Xiao Hei, she was over ten thousand years old.
However, due to bloodline issues, her cultivation could only reach the Sacred Body realm at most.
And she could only live until twenty thousand years old.
For the Crimson Flame Qilin clan to continue, she had to break through this shackle.
Return to the ancestral land, open the Crimson Flame Sacred Land, obtain the complete inheritance, reach higher realms.
Then… procreate…
Thinking of this, she inexplicably blushed, and Xiao Hei’s image appeared in her mind.
“What am I thinking…” she muttered, slapping her cheek.
She quickened her pace and reached out her jade hand to touch the longsword.
The moment her jade hand touched the longsword, a sudden change occurred.
The longsword trembled violently, and Chi Xue spat out a mouthful of blood.
The blood splattered, splashing onto the corpse of the strange creature.
Chi Xue spat out a mouthful of blood and wilted to the ground.
Chu Tian was greatly alarmed, grabbing Chi Xue and backing away.
A white light flashed from his brow, and the Moon God’s Wrath appeared in his hand.
“Compress… Tear… Tear… Tear…”
The power of three consecutive skills surged into the Moon God’s Wrath.
Then, with a single-armed swing of the spear, a crescent-shaped blood-red light cleaved towards the怪异的 corpse.