I will eventually become a god.

Chapter 317: Burning Tumors, Arriving at the Seventh Metropolitan Circle, Jiwu Dengtian Palace (4K)

After being woken up in the middle of the night and having his road blocked by a group of dragons, Xue Jing did not go back to his room to sleep. Instead, he chatted with Ning Yuantai about random things, keeping an eye on what was happening outside.

Although Ning Yuantai repeatedly assured that the route was secretive and safe, and that the dragons blocking the road was just an accident among accidents, Xue Jing felt that in his current situation, it was better to believe in metaphysics than science.

It’s better to be careful, in case the whole plane is suddenly blown up by something. He can’t go to the seventh metropolitan area alone.

Anyway, with his high level of energy, it wouldn't be a big deal if he didn't sleep for ten days or half a month.

Fortunately, no other accidents occurred afterwards and the plane flew smoothly on the scheduled route for the whole day.

"Brother Xue, look over there!"

Ning Yuantai suddenly pointed to the distant scene outside the right porthole.

Xue Jing looked in the direction of his finger and saw a huge pillar of fire rising into the sky above the distant land. He roughly estimated that it was at least ten thousand meters high, constantly emitting countless sparks and molten lava.

Xue Jing was somewhat shocked by such a spectacle, which was similar to the feeling he had when he first saw the skyscraper.

"what is that?"

Xue Jing asked.

Ning Yuantai explained: "That is a special junction, serial number F457, named 'Burning Garden', a rare A+ grade super large junction."

"The vast majority of the Flame-dwelling species come from this border area, including the 'Furnace Noble' you encountered earlier."

"Most of the world's borders are 'regional', but Burning Gardens is different. It is a 'connected border'."

"That pillar of fire actually acts like a portal. Once we step into it, we will be transported to the Burning Garden. There are many such portals around the world, all leading to the same 'Burning Garden'."

Ning Yuantai introduced it enthusiastically.

"In fact, a place like the Burning Garden feels more like an alien world, rather than a borderland attached to the real world... But we haven't found any evidence that it is an alien world yet, so we can only treat it as a borderland for the time being."

"It is said that the environment inside is quite interesting. It is a world where fire is burning everywhere, and the lowest temperature is over 300 degrees."

"But can you believe that it rains in this kind of environment? Even though it's liquid iron rain, a single drop can penetrate a person's head..."

"If you want to stay in the Burning Garden for a long time, even a top-level expert must wear protective clothing made of the skin of the 'Sky Jellyfish'..."

Xue Jing stared at the pillar of fire and nodded, "Interesting. If I have the chance in the future, I'd like to go in and experience it for myself."

Ning Yuantai smiled and said, "What's more interesting is the origin of the Burning Garden. It is related to a 'super creature'."

Xue Jing asked curiously: "Oh? How do you say it?"

A super creature with a danger level of more than ten and the ability to destroy the world.

No one can fail to be interested in such existential anecdotes.

Ning Yuantai considered his words for a moment and said slowly, "That was more than fifty years ago."

"At that time, our Zhuxia had just experienced a 'big event' not long ago. Although we were seriously injured, we were able to stand up again after the fall and have a thriving momentum."

"Just then, a great disaster suddenly struck."

"It will be a disaster that will endanger not only the Chinese, but also the countries around the entire Pacific Northwest region, and even the whole world."

Ning Yuantai drew a huge circle in the air with his hands.

"It was a giant sphere with a diameter of more than two thousand meters, and it looked like an ugly tumor, burning with flames."

"Our official code name for it now is 'Burning Tumor'."

"Without a doubt, it is a super creature with a danger level of more than ten."

"It appeared extremely suddenly, descending on the sea level in the northwest Pacific Ocean, evaporating a huge amount of seawater in an instant. The rising steam caused continuous torrential rains to fall all over the world."

Ning Yuantai stretched out a hand, raised three fingers, and said solemnly:

"Three days. The Burning Tumor will only exist in this world for three days."

"In just three days, the global sea level rose by 2.47 meters and the global average temperature rose permanently by 1.06 degrees."

"According to the experts' speculation, as long as the Burning Tumor continues to exist on this planet, even if it does nothing, it will only take three months to wipe out most of the human race."

"It will recreate the Genesis flood legend and submerge most of the land."

The global temperature is rising, the polar glaciers are melting, the sea level is rising rapidly and submerging the land, and the huge amount of water vapor will cause continuous and terrifying rainstorms around the world...

This is the terrifying threat that super creatures pose to humanity.

"So it only survived for three days? How was it solved?" Xue Jing asked curiously.

Ning Yuantai scratched his head: "This is top secret information, not something I can know."

"All we know is that Zhuxia took the lead and united with several powerful countries in East Asia and the Second Arctic Federation. They paid a huge price to defeat it."

"But I have heard some gossip. It is said that the key to the success of the crusade was the action of the 'King of Extreme Martial Arts'."

"I don't know if the news is accurate or not, but after the successful crusade, Zhuxia did take the lion's share of the spoils, and obtained the core organ of the 'Burning Tumor'. From this point of view, the news is very likely true."

Xue Jing nodded and said with emotion: "If it is true, he can play a key role in the battle against super creatures by himself. The strength of King Jiwu is really unimaginable."

Ning Yuantai said: "That's not true."

He pointed out the porthole and pointed to the giant pillar of fire over ten thousand meters high that was still visible.

"The power of the 'Burning Tumor' can be seen from that. Just by throwing out a few sparks, it burned many holes in the world. That was one of the 'sparks'."

"Now many people in the academic community believe that the Burning Garden is not a border area, but a different world where the Burning Tumor was born."

"However, the Burning Garden is not the only example of this kind of 'connected boundary', so there is no conclusive evidence to prove that it is an alien world. Based on a rigorous attitude, the academic community can only classify it as a 'super-large boundary'."

Time passed slowly while we were chatting.

Xue Jing's worries did not come true. It was as if God was playing a prank on him. While he was on high alert, the journey was extremely calm. He spent the whole journey secretly, safely and smoothly.

after one day.

"Brother Xue, we are almost at the seventh metropolitan area."

Xue Jing, who was resting with his eyes closed in his chair, opened his eyes after hearing Ning Yuantai's voice.

"We can already see the Edge City defense line. It's still early before the martial arts exam starts. Should we go for a walk?"

Ning Yuantai suggested.

"The seventh metropolitan area has a strong martial arts atmosphere. Many of the hunters in the border areas of the edge cities are warriors, and they are very fierce. In order to target the interests of this group of people, many interesting things have appeared in the city..."

Xue Jing remained indifferent and shook his head, saying: "No, let's go directly to Yincheng." He was very sure that in such a chaotic place, trouble would definitely arise once he went there.

It would be better not to waste time. He doesn't want to show off by arriving at the right time every time...

Although he had installed a lot before, it was all helpless and not his intention.

"okay."

Ning Yuantai naturally had no objection to Xue Jing's opinion.

Soon, the plane roared across the sky, passed through the edge city defense line, and entered the seventh urban circle.

What Xue Jing and the others didn't know was that in the 461st edge city of the seventh urban circle on the ground, on a dilapidated and smelly ditch street, someone was looking up and staring at the rapidly flying plane.

He was a bald man wearing only a small denim jacket on his upper body, revealing his thick arms and muscles on the front of his body.

He wore sunglasses and was over 1.9 meters tall. His exposed skin was covered with all kinds of horrific scars, telling of the countless brutal battles he had experienced. The unruly spirit of a battlefield veteran radiated in all directions, making people shudder at the sight of him.

The man pulled out an almost antique flip phone from his arms, gently opened it, pressed a few number keys in an unskilled manner, and then dialed the number.

"Hey... I saw it. I recognize the plane. It's the same one that the commander flew."

"..."

"He didn't stop, he went straight inside."

"..."

"Don't worry, he'll have to bear the consequences this time...Have those little guys arrived yet?"

"..."

"I'll rush over right away... but you should also know that I'm the last resort. If it's my turn to take action, it means that the matter will most likely fail."

"..."

After talking on the phone for a while, the bald man slowly closed the flip phone, then placed the phone in his palm, held it in his big hand, and squeezed it gently.

When he opened his palm again, the flip phone had been compressed into a small round black ball the size of a lollipop. Its surface was as smooth as if it had been polished by countless machines and it reflected a hint of black light.

The bald man threw the small black ball aside casually and strode forward. Opposite him, a muscular man who looked very strong was walking towards him, and his eyes accidentally met his.

"Huh?" The bald man took off his sunglasses with one hand, revealing a pair of weird and evil lion-like eyes.

"What the hell are you looking at?" he yelled.

The muscular man also stopped immediately: "Ah? What's wrong with me looking at you? You don't want me to look at you?"

A slap came down from the air, pressing down on the muscular man's crown, and then fell down inch by inch.

Muscles, bones, internal organs... the sounds of various things inside the human body shattering kept ringing. The muscular man's originally tall body was crushed into less than five centimeters in a second. He didn't even have time to scream before he turned into a pancake.

It was like a bag of flesh filled with blood bursting, and the black blood was squeezed out and sprayed over a radius of seven or eight meters.

When the passers-by around saw this, they paused slightly, but just glanced over here and left as if it was nothing special, as if killing people in the street in such a cruel way was just a trivial matter.

"You bastard, you've made my hands dirty."

The man shook his meat-stained hands with some disgust, turned around and walked away.

……

Five hours later.

The plane, flying at full speed, crossed the outer ring of the seventh metropolitan area and entered the inner ring.

Xue Jing looked out of the porthole and down below, and found that snowflakes were falling from the clouds continuously.

“…It’s snowing.”

Xue Jing stared at it for a while.

The Fifth Metropolitan Area where he was born is located in the south, and he has never seen snow in his life.

"The Seventh Metropolitan Area is close to the North Pole, and the climate is quite strange. Sometimes it may suddenly snow in the middle of summer in July or August."

Ning Yuantai spoke.

Xue Jing nodded and said, "I see...it's probably because of the influence of 'Heavenly Ice'."

When he was in Yuancheng before, he happened to meet Otogi Suzuka and a female duchess of the Arctic Federation who was also a member of the Troublemakers.

Out of curiosity about why the Grand Duchess wanted to capture the Forge Nobles, he also learned a little about the situation in the Arctic Federation.

After a quick check, it was discovered that the Arctic Federation was having an extremely difficult time right now... It was all because, deep in the Arctic continent, there was a super creature codenamed "Sky Ice".

'Sky Ice' possesses a strange ability to erode boundaries and will continue to expand its territory.

This caused the already harsh climate in Siberia to become even colder, the living environment of the Arctic Federation was continuously compressed, and a large number of citizens froze to death every year.

The 'Furnace Noble' is one of the very few species that can resist this kind of erosion, so it is in great demand in the Arctic Federation.

Ning Yuantai nodded and sighed, "Since its appearance, Tianbing has been expanding non-stop. We will have to deal with it in the future... But the one who is most capable of restraining and most confident in defeating Tianbing has some disputes with the Arctic Federation. Even though the federal government has lowered its stance and asked him to take action, it still has not received a response."

"If this continues, our Zhuxia will also be greatly affected..."

The plane kept moving forward, and there was mist outside the window. After a long time, we finally got out of the mist and the view in front of us suddenly became clear.

Xue Jing looked up——

Suddenly, in the extremely far distance ahead, a huge white pillar that supported the sky and the earth, like the "Jianmu" in mythology, suddenly came into his sight.

Xue Jing was surprised and asked curiously, "Is that the skyscraper center of the seventh metropolitan area?"

Ning Yuantai also looked over and said with a smile: "Brother Xue, this one in the seventh urban circle is different. It should be called - 'Jiwu Dengtian Palace'!"

As he spoke, Ning Yuantai's eyes showed reverence:

"This is a holy place in the hearts of martial artists all over the world. It is also the largest, best, and strongest place for martial artists to communicate in the world!"

"Forty-six thousand nine hundred and seventy-two floors! This is its exact number of floors. Starting from the first floor, countless martial artists have been competing and fighting with each other. As you go up a level, the competition becomes more and more intense."

"Any martial artist with great ambitions will definitely come here and try to reach the top of the 'Heavenly Palace'!"

……

(End of this chapter)