Chapter 556 - 556: Adding Fuel to the Fire

Anyone who could join the Saint Extreme Sect...

...aside from a few who relied on connections, was an elite, the cream of the crop, one in a hundred or even one in a thousand.

In both intellect and talent, they were all top-tier throughout the entire Northern Domain.

The group of over a hundred people gathered together, and after seeing Chu Qingyun enter the Fire Poison District, it only took them a moment to completely analyze what he had done.

Hiding not far inside the Fire Poison District, Chu Qingyun naturally heard their discussion loud and clear.

However, he couldn't care less.

Because this was, fundamentally, an open conspiracy.

A conspiracy using his ninety-thousand-plus Saint Extreme Points as bait to lure them into the Fire Poison District!

Faced with such a temptation, even knowing they were being used and deliberately drawn here, few could likely resist.

After figuring out Chu Qingyun's goal...

...many among the hundred-plus people outside couldn't help but feel a reluctant admiration.

They suddenly felt that Chu Qingyun managing to obtain over ninety thousand Saint Extreme Points might not have been the result of dumb luck, as the rumors claimed.

A mere Level 6 Martial Spirit daring to use over ninety thousand Saint Extreme Points as bait, playing over a hundred Celestial Spirit Realm experts in the palm of his hand and using them all.

How many in the entire Outer Sect possessed such boldness?

Chu Qingyun waited inside the Fire Poison District for a full five minutes.

But the people outside remained hesitant, neither entering the Fire Poison District to hunt him down nor choosing to leave.

'This isn't looking good…'

Chu Qingyun muttered to himself.

Immediately, a vicious glint flashed in his eyes. He turned his head to look at a Molten Beast lying on the ground six or seven meters away, groaning.

'Since you won't come in, I'll just have to add more fuel to the fire!'

"Thunder Sword!"

Chu Qingyun drew his Thunder Shock Sword and slashed at the nearest Molten Beast.

A blinding flash of thunder cut through the darkness.

Even from outside, a brilliant ball of thunder could be seen flashing within the Fire Poison District.

BOOM!

A loud explosion rang out.

The silence of the night was instantly shattered.

A Molten Beast shrieked in agony as the ball of thunder shattered its Molten Rock Armor, leaving it severely wounded and unable to even crawl.

The other Molten Beasts in the area were instantly jolted awake, climbing to their feet one after another.

Roars echoed continuously.

In the outer area, all the Molten Beasts went berserk. Seeing Chu Qingyun make a move, they roared and charged at him.

The Shadow Martial Soul wasn't true invisibility, after all.

Once the Molten Beasts got close, they could faintly make out his silhouette and immediately launched a fierce assault.

Fortunately, this was still the outer edge of the Fire Poison District. Most of the Molten Beasts here were only comparable in strength to a Level 8 Martial Spirit; Level 9 ones were rare.

Therefore, by relying on his Thunder Sword, his Iron Wire Ten-Star Vine Martial Soul, and the cover of his Shadow Martial Soul, Chu Qingyun could hold on for a while.

However, the people outside didn't see it that way.

The reason they had been hesitating outside was because they thought that once Chu Qingyun could no longer bear it inside, he would naturally come out.

At that point, he would still fall into their hands.

Yet they never expected that Chu Qingyun, who was capable of Concealing Aura, would actually attract the attention of the Molten Beasts!

"That damn good-for-nothing actually provoked the Molten Beasts!"

"The edge of the Fire Poison District is almost entirely filled with Molten Beasts as strong as Level 8 Martial Spirits. That kid is a dead man!"

Hearing the commotion inside, the expressions of many people changed drastically.

They weren't worried about Chu Qingyun's safety, of course. They were worried that after he died in there, his sect Token would be lost inside as well.

That would make things difficult.

Just searching for a sect Token in a place teeming with Fire Poison would be an incredibly troublesome task.

Not to mention all the Molten Beasts in there!

"Wrap yourselves in Primordial Power! Be careful of the Fire Poison! We're going in!"

At this, Chen Yi and his two companions were the first to move.

The three of them were under orders from Elder Huang to kill Chu Qingyun and seize his sect Token, so they had more motivation than the others.

Moreover, although their strength couldn't compare to the Outer Sect Seed Disciples, they weren't considered weak among the Level 9 Martial Spirits of the Outer Sect.

They were confident they could enter the Fire Poison District, find his sect Token after he was killed by the Molten Beasts, and then escape.

Dazzling Primordial Power flared around the three of them before they instantly charged into the Fire Poison District.

As long as no one moved, everyone could hold their ground.

But once someone made the first move, it put considerable pressure on the rest.

Over ninety thousand Saint Extreme Points... Who would want to just hand over such an opportunity to someone else?

Soon, two more Level 9 Martial Spirits, also glowing with Primordial Power, rushed into the Fire Poison District. Before they went in, the two of them even swallowed an Elixir.

Aside from people like Zheng Tianrong and Chen Yi who had rushed to the Molten Rock District unprepared...

...most of the others would have prepared some elixirs to counteract the Fire Poison before entering the Molten Rock District.

More people went in. Now, even some of the Level 8 Martial Spirits couldn't hold back any longer. They took their elixirs and charged into the Fire Poison District.

Over ninety thousand Saint Extreme Points—it was a chance to turn one's life around, a heaven-defying opportunity that no one wanted to miss.

As more and more people entered, even the Level 7 Martial Spirits eventually couldn't resist and stormed into the Fire Poison District. Zheng Tianrong and his group of a dozen or so also gritted their teeth and followed.

However, his group had no elixirs to counter the Fire Poison.

Zheng Tianrong and the two Level 8 Martial Spirits were fine.

But the eleven Level 7 Martial Spirits were already struggling from their first breath of the Fire Poison. Each one coughed violently, retreating in a pathetic, almost instinctual manner.

If they stayed any longer, they would likely be killed by the Fire Poison before the Molten Beasts even got to them!

"Useless trash!"

Zheng Tianrong cursed under his breath.

But he couldn't be bothered with them now. He immediately looked deeper into the Fire Poison District, trying to find the location of Chu Qingyun's "corpse."

All in all, in less than a minute, almost all of the hundred-plus people had entered the Fire Poison District.

And to their surprise, Chu Qingyun, who they thought was certainly dead, was not only alive but still fighting the surrounding Molten Beasts.

The moment the first person entered, Chu Qingyun had deactivated his Shadow Martial Soul and ignited a dazzling aura of Primordial Power to resist the surrounding Fire Poison.

After all, once the fight started, with thunder flashing from his Thunder Shock Sword, there was no point in keeping the Shadow Martial Soul active.

At the edge of the Fire Poison District, after Chu Qingyun made his move, almost all the Molten Beasts had targeted him, launching a frenzied attack.

But soon, three Level 9 Martial Spirits with powerful auras and intense Primordial Power fluctuations also charged in.