Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

On the same day he helped the Xia tribe resolve their bloodline curse, Jun Wuxie led the hundreds of millions of members of the Xia tribe out of Earth City.

“Lord Jun, we have too many people. Can we really cross the Redlands and reach the Fire Mountain Range like this?”

They told Jun Wuxie that this area was too special. As they went deeper, not only did the temperature get higher and higher, but they also couldn't use spatial artifacts due to a special field.

This was also the reason why they used carts instead of storage rings or space pouches when collecting fire crystal ore.

“It’s fine, don’t worry.”

Before the Redlands, Jun Wuxie looked at the densely packed but very orderly Xia tribe members.

With a wave of his sleeve, he used the Sleeve Universe technique, as if creating a world, and swept all hundreds of millions of Xia tribe members into the Eight-Nine Mysterious Palace.

Other spatial artifacts might not work, but the Eight-Nine Mysterious Palace definitely would.

Then, he stepped onto the Redlands without any abnormalities and headed directly towards the Fire Mountain Range deep within.

In a short while, he appeared at the entrance of the Fire Mountain Range.

He and Yue Yao followed the familiar path into the mountain range, arriving at the area surrounded by nine volcanoes, beneath the largest volcano.

“You’ve come. I saw everything in Earth City. I didn’t expect it to be so fast and so smooth.

Perhaps you are sent by the heavens to save the suffering Xia tribe people.”

From the main crater, a deep voice echoed, golden firelight soaring into the sky as a huge golden flame divine dragon appeared in the crater.

It opened its mouth and spat a mouthful of golden flames towards a certain area.

There, the field evolved, the space twisted, and gradually a vast area appeared, containing an ancient village, but no one lived there.

“Release them all. That secret realm has cultivation resources I prepared for them. Due to the special field here, there is also a time advantage of dozens of times. I believe that in the outside world, it won't take many years for them to possess considerable strength.

At that time, you can come back and take them away.”

After the Flame Golden Dragon finished speaking, Jun Wuxie nodded, opened the Eight-Nine Mysterious Palace, and directly placed all the Xia tribe people inside the entrance to that secret realm.

“Lord Jun!”

When the Xia tribe people came out and saw him, they surveyed the surrounding environment and then saw the Flame Golden Dragon.

Their eyes instantly moistened.

“Totem Divine Sacrifice!”

“Greetings, Totem Divine Sacrifice!”

They knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

“Quickly, rise. I am no longer worthy of your kneeling. Back then, it was because I was incapable of leaving this place and couldn't save you, otherwise you wouldn't have suffered these sins…”

The Flame Golden Dragon was incomparably remorseful, this being a knot in its heart forever.

“Divine Sacrifice, please don't say such things.

If it weren't for you back then, our Xia tribe might have ceased to exist long ago.”

The Xia tribe people all knew that in the distant past, the Xia tribe had benefited from the Divine Sacrifice's protection, allowing them to overcome calamities, develop and grow, and shine upon the world.

Moreover, the Xia tribe had many secret techniques inherited from the Divine Sacrifice.

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon was their Xia tribe's exclusive Divine Sacrifice, its bloodline able to resonate with the Xia tribe's bloodline, allowing the Xia tribe people to obtain more secret techniques from their bloodline and awaken their bloodline potential faster.

The Divine Dragon was silent, then sighed and said, “You should cultivate well, in that secret realm, cherish your time.

The secret realm cannot exist forever. Once activated, its duration is only ten years.

Ten years in the outside world is equivalent to hundreds of years inside.

Adding the special cultivation items prepared for you that are compatible with your bloodline, hundreds of years should be enough for you to become strong.”

After the Divine Dragon finished speaking, it concealed the secret realm.

Then, it looked at Jun Wuxie and said, “Young man who saved the Xia tribe, come up. I will never break my promise to give you what I agreed.”

As the words fell, the Divine Dragon's body sank into the abyss-like crater.

Jun Wuxie pulled Yue Yao and leaped down, arriving at the crater, looking down, it was very deep, only faintly able to see some firelight.

They jumped down, their bodies rapidly falling, not knowing how many tens of thousands of meters they fell, the firelight in their vision finally becoming clear.

It was a sea of lava, the lava inside actually golden-red, the temperature frighteningly high, with terrifying fire elements roaming above the lava sea, causing the void there to be distorted.

Just as they were about to reach the bottom, they moved horizontally in the air, landing steadily on the land near the lava sea.

The temperature inside was really high, even Jun Wuxie, with his fire resistance, felt a slight burning sensation.

He glanced around, the area not very large, the end of the lava sea not seeming to be a dead end, but connected to some place.

Because he could see the golden-red lava flowing.

At this moment, the lava sea stirred up golden-red waves, and a huge divine dragon poked its head out, its dragon head domineering, its golden eyes staring at him.

The Divine Dragon rushed out of the lava sea and landed on the shore, its body shrinking by more than ten times, the dragon scales on its body shimmering with metallic luster.

It looked at Jun Wuxie, silent for a moment, and then said, “Brave young man, I know you are the hope of the future, so I am willing to gift you the two innate fire origins.

Please promise me one thing.

After I give you the innate fire origin, I hope you can use my dragon scales and dragon skin to forge armor and battle clothes for the Xia tribe people, and use my dragon horns and dragon claws to forge weapons for them.

My dragon blood can cleanse their bodies, and my dragon core and dragon heart can be used as resources to cultivate the most outstanding people in the tribe.

Can you promise me?”

The Divine Dragon's voice and eyes were filled with pleading, and after it finished speaking, it quietly waited for Jun Wuxie's response.

Jun Wuxie didn't speak, just quietly looked at the dragon in front of him.

He pushed the effects of his composite pupils to the extreme.

In such a close range, whether it was his pupils or his perception, they allowed him to discover the truth.

Then, he shook his head and said, “I cannot promise you.”

Hearing this, a hint of disappointment flashed in the golden dragon eyes of the Divine Dragon.

It was silent for a moment, and then said, “Forget it, then you can take my physical body.”

After saying that, it began to peel away its own origin.

“Wait.”

Jun Wuxie stopped it and said, “Since the innate fire origin is fused with you, you don't need to peel the innate origin out.

I only need a small portion of the innate origin fragments, not to take your life.”

“This… but I promised you, made a promise, if you help the Xia tribe escape, I will give you the innate fire origin.”

“Do you want to die that much?”

“No, I don't want to die. I promised you to give you the origin, so I am destined to die. I don't want to break my word, the promised things must be done.”

This dragon was very stubborn.

“Your meaning is, from the moment I fulfilled my promise to you, bringing the entire Xia tribe here, my life is already yours, can you say that?”

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and then nodded, indicating that it could also be said that way.

“Since that's the case, then when you die is up to me.

From now on, you follow me, do you have any objections?

If you are not convinced, I can give you a chance to fight me one-on-one.

If you can defeat me, then everything is off; if you lose, then you will follow me from now on and listen to my dispatch.

As for the innate fire origin, I will only take a little, and take it again when you recover, taking it several times will be enough.

After all, I only use it to complete one step in evolving my bloodline physique, not to use it directly to evolve into an innate fire god body.”

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon was stunned for a moment, looked at him with strange eyes, sized him up for a long time, and then said, “You want me to follow you?”

“You seem very surprised, is there any problem?”

Jun Wuxie also felt surprised, a dragon that had evolved an innate bloodline, who wouldn't want to take it under their command, what's so strange about it, shouldn't it be a very normal thing?

“No, I have already evolved a partial innate bloodline, with great luck bestowed upon me. If I acknowledge a master, it will definitely devour your luck and cause a huge impact on you.

It's not that I'm unwilling, you have great kindness to the Xia tribe and cherish my life, I am very grateful and agree with you very much, but I can't harm you!”

Jun Wuxie couldn't help but laugh after hearing this, “If it's just because of these, then you're overthinking it.

Not to mention you are just a relatively primary innate bloodline, even if you were a complete innate bloodline, it wouldn't affect my luck.”

In these myriad realms, no one can use their own luck to affect his luck.

He constructed these heavens, how could they affect his luck?

“Are you sure?”

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon was full of astonishment, feeling unbelievable about what he said.

What physique does this young man have?

Could it be that it sensed wrong?

It sensed some innate aura in his body, but it shouldn't be as strong as its innate origin, wouldn't it be affected by his innate luck?

“Nonsense, I wouldn't say that if I wasn't sure.”

Jun Wuxie gave a definite answer.

As soon as he finished speaking, a primordial spirit mark emerged from the center of the Golden Flame Divine Dragon's brow, blooming with soul light.

This made Jun Wuxie couldn't help but be startled.

Although he said he wanted the Golden Flame Divine Dragon to follow him, he didn't intend to have it form a soul contract with him.

He didn't expect the Golden Flame Divine Dragon to actually take the initiative to form a soul contract with him.

Once a soul contract was formed, he would be controlled by him forever, his life and death at his whim, unable to break free, unable to regain freedom.

Unless Jun Wuxie was willing to take the initiative to dissolve it.

Soon, the soul contract between them was completed.

In Jun Wuxie's sea of consciousness, there was an extra small dragon shrouded in golden flames, that was the true soul mark of the Golden Flame Divine Dragon.

Jun Wuxie could control its life and death through this mark.

Next, Jun Wuxie took action and peeled out some innate fire origin from the Golden Flame Divine Dragon's body.

He strictly controlled the amount, ensuring that the extraction wouldn't cause fundamental damage or hinder its inherent self-recovery.

“Hmm, the amount is a bit small. I'll just take a few more times in the future.”

He looked at the flickering flame in his palm, pure gold, only about the size of his thumb, but the innate fire aura was extremely rich.

Within the dancing golden flames, fragments of innate energy could be seen rising and falling.

Of course, ordinary eyes couldn't see it; you'd need to activate a powerful pupil technique.

With the Innate Source of Fire, he could advance the Fire Path of his Innate Sacred Body evolution to an extremely high level.

At that time, his talent growth intensity would definitely receive a further boost, and his body's resistance to fire would increase to an astonishing degree.

“But it seems I can't leave with you. Once I try to leave the Fiery Mountain Range, I'll be attacked by the field here and disintegrate.”

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon said that it entered this place for special reasons back then, but unexpectedly, it couldn't get out.

This place seemed like a cage; any attempt to leave would be life-threatening.

It had tried many times, and each time it disintegrated. If it hadn't given up in time, even its primordial spirit would have collapsed.

Jun Wuxie frowned slightly. It seemed that this place was not as simple as it appeared on the surface and that it held other secrets.

Did the field have consciousness to behave in such a strange manner?

However, a Rune Master like him hadn't noticed this.

“Master, please come with me.”

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon soared into the sky, flying into the distance.

Jun Wuxie followed it, discovering that this place was actually connected to the interior of other volcanoes.

They quickly arrived inside a certain volcano crater.

On a protruding boulder in the rolling sea of lava, there was a formation platform with rune arrays engraved on it.

In the middle of the array was a pitch-black forbidden coffin, without a lid, radiating a faint golden light.

Many flames floated around the coffin.

“The monsters the master encountered last time were formed from those flames, but they were given the will to fight and became the avatars of the person in the coffin.”

Jun Wuxie looked at the coffin, feeling somewhat surprised.

He could sense a bloodline aura similar to that of the Xia Clan from within the coffin.

This meant that the person buried in the coffin was very likely an ancestor of the Xia Clan.

“An ancestor of the Xia Clan? Weren't they all buried in the Border Wasteland Battlefield?”

“They didn't all die in battle back then. Some were healing in the Holy Temple of the Border Wasteland City and never came out again, their fate unknown.

Some were corrupted by the Dark Curse. I brought them back to this continent and hid the news.

I didn't want the world to know that the peerless heroes of the Border Wasteland had been corrupted by darkness.

As a result, even so, the Xia Clan didn't have a good ending. Those forces still refused to let them go.

Over the long years, they have always maintained the last trace of their true souls undying, relying on the innate fire energy here to suppress the Dark Curse.

Now that I'm leaving, the fire energy here has changed. In a few years, they might…

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon sighed, feeling very helpless.

Its bloodline couldn't continue to evolve and couldn't completely purify the curse within the Xia Clan ancestors' bodies.

Because those curses had completely merged into their flesh and primordial spirits countless years ago.

Therefore, it still needed to set up some measures to ensure that when their true souls completely died, the power of fire would be used to seal the Dark Curse here, otherwise, it might pose a danger to the Xia Clan.

Jun Wuxie listened without speaking. He walked on the bubbles of the lava sea and came to the black coffin in the array.

Inside lay a burly middle-aged man, his eyes and lips tightly closed, his cheeks slightly sunken.

His features were very heroic; he must have been a striking figure in the past.

On his pale skin, one could vaguely see red hairs seemingly about to grow from his pores.

Jun Wuxie pointed his finger at his brow, and his divine sense immediately locked onto the lurking dark will within his body.

The dark will was originally dormant, conserving its strength. Upon sensing his intrusion, it suddenly awakened.

The Xia Clan ancestor inside suddenly opened his eyes, his blood-red eyes extremely frightening, his mouth revealing long, sharp fangs, and a large amount of red hair began to grow on his body.

Almost in the next instant, the Xia Clan ancestor's preserved true soul will awakened and began to fight against the dark will, causing his body to continuously convulse and tremble, making the black coffin shake loudly.

Jun Wuxie was about to activate the Star Devouring ability when he suddenly noticed something was wrong.

The dark will within the Xia Clan ancestor's body was still extremely strong. Even now, it hadn't truly displayed its power; it was hiding its strength.

Why would the dark will do this?

Obviously, over these long years, the Dark Curse had nurtured itself to be very powerful.

Logically, it should have completely devoured the undying true soul of the Xia Clan ancestor long ago.

However, the Dark Curse will hadn't done that!

While Jun Wuxie was thinking, he devoured the Dark Curse and surveyed the environment.

He temporarily released the suppression of his soul realm, and through the contact between his feet and the ground, he used the Rune Dao, relying on his powerful divine sense, avoiding the interference and influence of the special field, sensing everything in the Fiery Mountain Range.

Vaguely, he seemed to sense a faint, very secretive, but very dangerous aura.

He couldn't capture where that aura was hidden because the perception was very vague.

What exactly was it that could make him sense it so vaguely even after releasing the soul suppression, and even with the Rune Dao techniques?

This meant that his current perception sensitivity was much stronger than Yue Yao's.

This Fiery Mountain Range was not that simple; it held other secrets, unknown things!

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon had been dormant here for countless years, and although the field would attack it if it left, it didn't know anything else, not noticing anything in the long years.