The Nine Cauldrons
chapter-143

"That elderly man has some reputation in our Xuyang County." Someone interrupted, "He's called Wang Yun! He an expert with some influence in our Xuyang County's Fanwu City. However... in our Fanwu City, he can only be considered to be ranked in the top few. Despite that, he was still able to fight it out with the experts listed on the "Earthly Ranking". I did not expect Old Wang to keep such strong ability hidden.

"He can only be considered the top few in the Fanwu City? However, he's not that far off from Commander Ji Hong, as well as Elder Qi Yan from Qingzhou's Shan Shui Sect. He should be considered close to be listed in the "Earthly Ranking" now."

Hearing that, the other warriors were also full of praises and admiration for him. It was easy to gauge how strong a warrior was when he could not even rank first in a small city. By right, these people could only be considered First Rated Warriors.

"He has really concealed his skills and ability well!"

Quite a number of people secretly remembered the name 'Wang Yun'. From that day onward, Wang Yun's name would rapidly spread out across.

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The Black and White Elders joined forces to deal with Teng Qingshan while Ji Hong, that silver-haired Wang Yun, and that vicious lady, Qi Yan, went killing at each other.

...

No one present had paid any notice to the magma lake.

Blob~~blob~~

There were bubbles rising up and heat scattering out. This was a very common sight. In the depths of the scorching magma lake, a massive creature was hiding at the very bottom. The magma flowed very slowly and had a terrifyingly high temperature, but the magma was unable to hurt this massive creature in the least.

It had a massive body of over two Zhang tall and four to five Zhangs in length. It also had a terrifying tail that was over two Zhang long.

It was the Red Scaled Beast!

The Red Scaled Beast was a fire attribute demonic beast in the first place and the power that seethed in its body was the power of fire! Once it transformed after swallowing the 'Red Fire Spirit Fruit', it would be able to spew out flames with a prowess that would be even more terrifying than that of the magma flow and that could easily melt down metal. Even innate experts would be wary of it.

As for the magma currents... The Red Scaled Beast love a scorching environment.

It had been born in a scorching environment.

To the Red Scaled Beast, being at the bottom of the magma was merely a bath. It could even open its eyes at the bottom of the magma currents!

The invisible film on the surface of its pupils allowed it to be able to easily withstand such high temperatures. It was completely different from the eyes of humans. Not only would it be able to adapt to high temperature and could also see things in the dark just as well as in the day.

It was lying in ambush!

As a demonic beast, it had a terrifyingly powerful hearing. Its ears clearly heard the sounds of weapons clashing above it and it could even distinguish where everyone was at just by listening.

...

No one knew that the Red Scaled Beast was hidden at the bottom of the magma lake. Teng Qingshan and the other five were still fighting it out.

"This Teng Qingshan's spear arts is really amazing. Even when I join forces with Old Bai, we aren't able to handle him. The Black and White Elders exchanged a glance, unable to conceal the astonishment they were feeling now. After all, the two of them were ranked sixty-ninth and seventieth in the "Earthly Ranking".

They were considered to be at the very bottom of the rank.

However, the two of them were still experts listed on the "Earthly Ranking" and they were also situated in a narrow space.

"My identity mustn't be exposed!" Silver-haired Wang Yun dodged Qi Yan's attack. "I've only managed to completely figure out Wang Yun's lifestyle habits, actions, and smile after close to one year. It was only then could I completely replace him and live with his identity. Living a carefree life! Once my identity is exposed, Wei Wuya will definitely come after me to kill me! I can only play around a bit more with these kids."

Wang Yun swung about his long saber, displaying great prowess.

Just as the six great experts were killing each other——

"Boom!" The calmly flowing magma river sudden erupted!

Magma splattered and even the experts who were far away on the shores of the magma lake all gasped and tried to dodge. however, there was still a small amount of magma that splattered over. When the scorching magma landed on them, the extremely high temperature caused their clothes to be lit up in flames immediately and it would also burn their skin and flesh. The unlucky warriors who were hit by the splattered magma cried out agonizingly.

"Ahh!" "Chi——"

There was also the smell of cooked meat. However, the warriors were fine as they only suffered an injury on a small portion of their body.

The six people who were on the black boulder thought, 'This is bad!'

"What is that?!" All six of them were taken by surprise. Faced with the splattering magma, all six experts rapidly dodged. However, they immediately saw a massive head appearing on the surface of the magma. Just the head alone was eight Chi (two meters) long. Such a massive head was already bigger than an adult man's head.

"Red Scaled Beast!" Teng Qingshan's countenance changed.

"Red Scaled Beast!"

A series of gasps rang out. No one had expected that the Red Scaled Beast would actually be hiding at the bottom of the magma lake.

This massive Red Scaled Beast revealed it head, and its crimson red eyes that were like a pair of lanterns stared at the six of them. Then, it opened its huge mouth——

Hu!

A large spurt of magma shot out toward the six people on the black boulder like a sharp arrow.

"The Red Scaled Beast is able to consume the magma? And it can even spurt it out?" Teng Qingshan was extremely astonished. The Red Scaled Beast had long gotten used to high temperatures and even its fragile eyeballs had the resistance to high temperatures, let alone its mouth and throat. The magma that had been spurted out formed a fan shape and encompassed toward the entire black boulder.

All six experts leaped up at the same time.

"Boom!"

The Red Scaled Beast's massive body came charging out from the magma. Its massive body that was like a small mountain was over two Zhang tall, four to five Zhang long. It caused the cultivators in the distance to gasp in alarm.

The Red Scaled Beast opened its terrifyingly big mouth and headed for the expert from Qingzhou, who was the only female amongst the six--Qi Yan. Qi Yan's scarred face become distorted from horror. She let out a furious bellow and struck out the curved blade that she was holding toward the Red Scaled Beast.

The Red Scaled Beast dodged slightly.

Clank!

The curved blade struck onto the scaled armor on the Red Scaled Beast's head, leaving a white mark on the densely packed scales. At the same time, the Red Scaled Beast took the opportunity to bite down on Qi Yan.

"Kacha!"

Its sharp interlocking teeth that were like saws bit down on Qi Yan. Her body broke into two parts and one of it dropped into the magma lake, turning into ashes. The other chunk was swallowed by the Red Scaled Beast. This scene caused all the warriors to shudder in fear!

In just a split second, Qi Yan died!

Hu!

And Teng Qingshan and the four other people who had jumped earlier had also landed. As they were landing and unable to control their movements…

"Hu!" The Red Scaled Beast's massive body pounced toward the five of them!

The surface of the entire black boulder was only slightly over one Zhang in length and width. However, the Red Scaled Beast was a massive creature with a height of over two Zhang and a length of four to five Zhang. When it came pouncing toward them, Teng Qingshan and the other four people only felt as if a small mountain was crashing toward them. The Red Scaled Beast's front legs and sharp claws grabbed out toward them!

It did not dare to grab out at Teng Qingshan!

In its eyes, out of the five humans, Teng Qingshan was the one who posed the greatest threat.

"Hu!" "Hu!"

Its sharp claws pierced out like four sharp blades, respectively heading for Commander Ji Hong and the White Elder.

"Clank!" "Clank!"

"Ahhh—"

As the massive Red Scaled Beast pounced out, all the five experts were thrown off and sent flying. Commander Ji Hong and the White Elder who had been struck by its sharp claws had it the worst. Ji Hong's long saber had been sent flying off and his right arm and been crushed into pieces, with blood splattering around. The White Elder's left leg had also broke.

"Scram off!" "Scram!"

The other three unleashed fierce attack and as that Black Elder was sent flying out, he thrust a fierce sword attack onto the scale armor. However, there was not even a single crack.

Teng Qingshan and that silver-haired Wang Yun also unleashed fierce attacks!

"Boom!" Teng Qingshan's Reincarnation Spear brought about an unbearable piercing screech in the air and smashed out toward the Red Scaled Beast. At the moment when the spear was about to come into contact with the Red Scaled Beast, its prowess suddenly rose tremendously!

Boom!

The battle saber the silver-haired old man Wang Yun was holding tore across the air and hack down fiercely on the Red Scaled Beast's body.

"Roar~~~"

The Red Scaled Beast roared out in pain and its massive body rolled about.

The attacks from Teng Qingshan and the silver-haired old man Wang Yun had injured it.

"This kid isn't bad." The silver-haired old man threw a glance toward Teng Qingshan. The rest of the people were very far away. Moreover, Teng Qingshan's attack from earlier had demonstrated the greatest prowess at the very last moment. In this short moment, the people who were far away would not be able to notice or assess the prowess of this spear attack. However, this silver-haired old man could.

"Amongst the postliminary experts in the world, Teng Qingshan would at least be ranked amongst the top twenty." the silver-haired old man thought to himself.

The Red Scaled Beast was sent tumbling away by the two men's attacks.

Teng Qingshan and the silver-haired old were also sent flying toward the shores from the impact of the Red Scaled Beast's pounce as well as the backlash from their own attacks.

Amongst the five people who were sent flying away, Teng Qingshan, the silver-haired old man, and the Black Elder were prepared and were able to get to the shores of the magma lack by tapping on the impact. However, the White Elder and Ji Hong were different. Both of them were seriously injured and were sent flying back toward the direction of the shores. However, they did not last long and were about to fall.

"Old White!" The Black Elder cried out and could only watch as the White Elder, who had lost one of his legs, struggled helplessly and eventually dropped into the magma, bursting out in flames.

"Commander!" On the shores of the magma lake, Guan Lu and the others gasped.

"Commander!" Teng Qingshan's countenance changed as well.

The White Elder had been in a very bad state, but the same could be said for Ji Hong!

"Am I going to die just like that?" Ji Hong was about to plunge downward and there was nothing he could do. He even felt a scorching heat behind his back.

"Commander!" A loud bellow rang out next to Ji Hong's ears.

Ji Hong turned in that direction.

He saw a spear shadow lashing out toward him, and as if hitting a sandbag, the spear shadow struck Ji Hong on the stomach——

Hu!

Ji Hong was sent upward until he landed on the shores of the magma lake.

When Ji Hong landed on the ground, he had no time to feel elated and merely looked at the Teng Qingshan who was in the air of the magma lake, "Qingshan!"

"Qingshan!" Guan Lu was shocked as well.

Quite a number of people were staring at Teng Qingshan from the shores of the magma lake.

There were those who were astonished, those who were filled with admiration, and also those who were elated…

Teng Qingshan had lashed out toward Ji Hong and was sent back toward the direction of the black boulder from the backlash force.

The power of this backlash was clearly insufficient and Teng Qingshan was still three Zhang away from the black boulder. He was about to plunge downward, where there was on scorching magma!

"Qingshan!" Teng Qinghu shouted out anxiously.

"Lieutenant!"

The members of the Black Armored Army shouted out anxiously.

Teng Qingshan turned abruptly, facing the direction of the black boulder. Then, smiling as he swung his Reincarnation Spear about, he smashed out toward the magma below him!

Boom!

The Reincarnation Spear's flat diamond-shaped spearhead struck against the magma and a powerful backlashing force acted on Teng Qingshan. He was like an eagle, once again pouncing toward the black boulder in the middle of the magma lake.

The Red Scaled Beast's massive head emerged from the magma lake and was just next to the black boulder. It's cold red eyes were starting at Teng Qingshan, who was flying toward its direction.