Perfect World

Chapter 739: Chapter 739: Treasure Flame
 

A flame, serene and green, merely the size of a fist, but even from a great distance, it made Shi Hao feel as if his divine soul could ignite. This was a mysterious divine flame.

Surrounding it, strands of mist dispersed, enigmatic and inscrutable, and a kind of palpitation-inducing fluctuation permeated the air, as if ripples of the Dao were spreading.

Is this still a flame?

Shi Hao was astonished, staring intently, ‘How could there be an aura of the Dao?’ he marveled.

“Martial brother, come over and help me. Once the Dragon Bone Soup is ready, I’ll treat you to a whole cauldron!” Shi Hao exclaimed, but his heart was truly anxious, as he felt an ominous aura.

He sensed that this divine flame was difficult to subdue and had to think of another way.

Indeed, he was ready to soar into the heavens; the Kun Peng wings faintly visible behind him. Should he spread his wings, he would possess extreme speed and did not believe the sphere of light could catch up to him.

Shiiing!

Green radiance engulfed everything, as if the heavens had descended, clear and untouched, without a speck of impurity. And as it burned, the color deepened to a brilliant blue, more and more resembling the color of the sky.

Shi Hao was shocked. Going by his instincts, he knew this flame was extraordinarily extraordinary and seemed indifferent to him, ready to “rough him up.”

Sure enough, in a swoosh, a green line flew at him. It was a strand of flame that twisted the very void itself, sending out ripples of Dao laws.

Shi Hao recoiled in alarm, his body shifting sideways. That was just a strand of flame, yet it melted a boulder weighing tens of thousands of pounds and turned the ground into a Magma Lake.

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He gasped in shock at its might. Those ripples of Dao laws were terrifying, certainly capable of easily killing Deities!

“Can’t be subdued!” Shi Hao soberly realized this reality—the flame seemed to have a will of its own, bearing hostility towards him.

“Martial brother, let’s talk this over. You want bones, can I give them to you?” Shi Hao chuckled dryly.

“Boom!”

Suddenly, the azure flame turned an even deeper blue, rapidly pervading everything and compressing the space above the ruins, as if the heavens were falling, azure and immaculate!

Shi Hao flapped his wings while his body was wrapped in lightning. Runes appeared under his feet, combining the techniques of Kun Peng, laws of thunder, and the Ground Shrinking Technique into one, forming an extreme speed and preparing to shoot into the sky.

However, at that moment, he suddenly felt something peculiar and stopped because the “Green Sky” retreated, not rushing forward to attack him.

At the same time, he felt a warm radiance close by. There, a glowing flame, pure and crystalline, emerged beside the Ancient Bronze Coffin, frightening the green flame away.

This flame, also merely fist-sized, was dense with symbols. Upon closer inspection, one would feel it was not flame, but composed of runes.

It was even more bizarre!

‘Another flame has emerged?’ Shi Hao was stunned. These flames were twisted, not the ordinary divine flames.

“Is it the Chaotic Flame?”

The place was suffused with chaotic mist, originating from the Ancient Coffin. He did not know if the flames contained the chaotic mist themselves and could not discern.

Boom!

Suddenly, the green flame moved, bursting forth with immeasurable light, manifesting a crushing force, turning into a blue heavens, plummeting down towards him.

At the same time, a gentle light spread from before the Bronze Coffin. The flame, which had appeared later, densely covered in symbols and unlike divine flame, and more like Dao patterns, effortlessly propped open the “Blue Sky,” keeping the area unaffected.

Shi Hao’s pupils rapidly constricted. What powerful flames!

Without a sound, the green light vanished, startled, it was chased away, sinking into the depths of the earth, and this astonished Shi Hao!

And the crystalline symbol light beside the coffin flickered and disappeared, also vanishing swiftly without a trace.

“They’ve both gone?” Shi Hao rubbed his hands together, suddenly realizing the two types of divine flames were quite formidable, not as easy to absorb as he had imagined.

“I don’t understand their nature; I need to consult the bone texts and seek more information!” He felt the need to prepare extensively, otherwise it was unfeasible.

The place quieted down, and Shi Hao went back to pondering over his Dragon Bone Soup. But after simmering for ages, the bones remained lustrously white, unaltered. Meanwhile, the water in his cauldron had all evaporated.

“Could it be… a True Dragon?” Clutching a segment of bone, Shi Hao tried biting it with his own teeth only to nearly burst into tears—the pain in his jaw was unbearable, as he couldn’t bite through it at all.

“It seems like there’s Dragon Marrow, but why can’t I extract it?” He held the bone, inspecting it from the left and right, it was maddening.

Afterward, like a thief, he decided to move and hide this object. Leaving it here was far too risky, especially since two groups of bandits also knew the location.

However, to his disappointment, all Treasured Artifacts were ineffective; he couldn’t place the Bronze Coffin within them, nor could he take the nine massive skeletons. Whether it was the Heaven and Earth Pouch or the cauldrons, they all seemed to fail.

“Rise for me!” Shi Hao roared, lifting the entire grand Bronze Coffin. Although unable to pry open the lid, he possessed Divine Power and hoisted it with great effort.

Shi Hao was amazed. The casket was heavier than a true great mountain, and he felt it immensely burdensome!

“This won’t do, it’s too big. If I carry it out like this, I’ll definitely be noticed,” Shi Hao fretted.

He paced the ruins with hands behind his back, silently devising a plan. When the green flame suffused the sky, it didn’t destroy the ruins, and the whole remnant remained here.

He sought an ancient altar, hoping to borrow its power to transport the coffin away.

Despite searching hard, the whole city was eerily silent. Eventually, he found an ancient altar, but it had been destroyed, with only its foundation stones remaining.

“Huh?”

Shi Hao was surprised. While searching the ancient city, he discovered some broken items made of Divine Material, extremely valuable. He collected them eagerly.

“Alchemy Ground!”

What surprised him even further was finding the remnants of a collapsed Alchemy Ground, from which several intact Jade Vases were unearthed, emitting dazzling light upon opening.

Obviously, the Jade Vases once bore terrifying symbols, which had almost all faded now, but these had preserved the vases.

“What a pity, it’s been too long. The Divine Pills have all disintegrated, leaving only a faint medicinal fragrance behind.”

He was quite regretful, sensing that they were at least made from Divine Medicine, and potentially even including Deities in their formulation.

Similarly, he found the Weaponry Pavilion, where all Magic Artifacts had been destroyed, unable to withstand the erosion of time, with the characters fading and the weapons broken.

Shi Hao searched the entire ancient city, puzzled, feeling that this place existed in an exceedingly remote past, far older than he had imagined.

“Is this… a World’s Treasure Box?” Suddenly, Shi Hao was pleasantly surprised when he found a Magic Artifact that resembled a bronze precious box containing a small world within.

However, the box was full of cracks and emitted a faint light. With a gentle flick from Shi Hao, it cracked open with a snap.

With a booming explosion, this place blew up. After all, it was a small world unraveling, and the disintegration was both terrifying and astonishing.

If not for Shi Hao’s quick speed, this time would have been perilous.

He was full of regret; the precious box had also failed to stand the test of time and was mostly destroyed in the explosion.

“What is this thing?” Suddenly, he was astonished as a piece of stone material flew out from the explosion, dark and the size of a baby’s head, hurtling towards him.

The contents of the precious box, there was actually one piece undestroyed, intact, which was astounding – even the rupturing of space had no effect on it!

Thud!

The moment Shi Hao caught it, he grunted from the weight, because this not-so-large stone was incredibly heavy at a hundred thousand pounds. Coupled with the force of the explosion propelling it, it felt like a mountain striking him.

Had it been any other Venerable One, it would certainly result in broken bones and torn ligaments.

“The World’s Treasure Box exploded and it remained unscathed; is this an Immeasurable Immortal Material?” Shi Hao’s heart was pounding,

This small piece weighed a hundred thousand pounds, intimidatingly heavy!

He felt that this item might be extraordinary, a defiance of the natural order; otherwise, why would it have been stored in the World’s Treasure Box? Immediately, he carefully stored it away.

When the area had calmed down from the explosion, Shi Hao looked forward and saw the glowing Yingying bright light, with fragments all over the ground, and he wailed, “Oh heavens, my treasures, my Holy Talisms!”

He howled in grief; it was truly a pity that the ground was covered with divine symbols, all cracked, yet the material was absolutely astonishing.

The World’s Treasure Box, which can seal everything, was a treasure!

However, once it fell apart, the outcome was terrifying; almost all of its contents were destroyed.

Shi Hao roughly counted and there were over a thousand divine symbols. What a staggering generosity? All were carved from treasures of heaven and earth!

“Oh heavens, just strike me dead with lightning!” Shi Hao lamented greatly.

Finally, he unexpectedly saw a character shining in the distance; it spread out a light screen and was not truly destroyed. Inside the light screen, there were a few characters, undamaged.

“Guardian Talisman?” Shi Hao was shocked. He had actually encountered this legendary Mysterious Bone Scripture that remained intact even after the World’s Treasure Box exploded, showing its high rank.

“It has a crack. I wonder if it can still be used next time.” Shi Hao murmured softly, waiting for the divine character’s light to fade before picking it up.

Clearly, the other divine symbols on the ground were preserved because they were enveloped by the light emitted from the Guardian Talisman.

“World-breaking Talisman?” Shi Hao was surprised. There were two World-breaking Talismans here, similar to the one Ye Qinxian gave him, and even their auras were somewhat close.

Clearly, it could penetrate the walls of worlds, traversing boundless distances – these were marvels, and suddenly two appeared.

There were two other talismans; for one of them, he studied for a long time without figuring out its function and simply stored it away, while he managed to get a rough idea about the other—it was a Voidbreaker Talisman.

Its function was clear: it could tear through the void and teleport a certain distance away, a weakened version of the World-breaking Talisman.

“Let’s try out its power.” Shi Hao searched the dead city entirely, with no other gains, and desired to test the effect of the Voidbreaker Talisman, so he came to the front of the Bronze Coffin.

“Whoosh!”

Ultimately, he controlled the direction, taking the Ancient Bronze Coffin and nine skeletons, disappearing from there, entering deep within the earth’s layers tens of thousands of miles away.

The underground was dark, a sealed space.

“If I place the Bronze Coffin here, there should be no problem, right?”

Suddenly, he was startled as the place lighted up, and that crystal-clear, bright flame made up entirely of mysterious symbols appeared once again.

It had followed him too, Shi Hao was astonished and then overjoyed, while also a bit skeptical—could this flame actually be inside the coffin?

In the following half month, Shi Hao exhausted all manner of means trying to tame this fire, but all were ignored; during this period, the fire was mostly in a state of disappearance, only manifesting once every few days.

In the end, he had no choice but to leave regretfully, deciding to check the bone texts and understand it thoroughly before returning.

The Bronze Coffin, Dragon Marrow, and Treasured Fire were all moved to a new location; he believed outsiders would not be able to find them.

He made his way back and went to the territories of the two bandit groups, secretly inquiring information and accidentally learned that these two groups had gone to the abyss before him and had not discovered the underground ruins.

Instead, they once startled the Green Flame and were directly annihilated by half their number by the azure “heavens,” with the survivors fleeing in panic.

“An unexpected joy, with the World-breaking Talisman, I can take a trip to the Celestial Immortal Academy.” Shi Hao spoke to himself, no longer worried about being unable to escape should his identity be inadvertently revealed.

He wanted to go there, to peruse various bone texts and learn in detail about the flame beside the Ancient Bronze Coffin.

Moreover, he wanted to obtain some juice from the Tribulation God Lotus, so he would be able to safely consume the Golden Bodhi Fruit and from then on possess a character immunity that could grow alongside him.

“Yue Chan’s Second Body is there; what will it be like when we meet again?” Shi Hao pondered.

At the same time, he recalled something else; he had once battled with Feng Wu at the Copper Sparrow Altar, where she called him a great disaster and wanted to capture him as a mount. However, before she could display the Primordial precious symbol, she was defeated by Shi Hao.

Back then, Shi Hao had jokingly said that if he were to visit the Celestial Immortal Academy one day, Feng Wu would need to acknowledge her loss and become a mount instead.

He had not anticipated that such a day would come, arriving at the border area of the Fire Province, close to that place.

A few days later, Shi Hao returned to Fufeng City, then investigated the routes, discovering that it was adjacent to the Celestial Immortal Academy since it was at the convergence point of Fire Province, Celestial Immortal State, and Kun Province.

The Celestial Immortal Academy was nearby this region.

He did not use the transport formation and directly flew there. It took only one day to reach this bustling and sacred place of cultivation. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)