"Thank you, ancestor!" A seven or eight-year-old kid with braids that towered over the sky looked at Fen Qi in front of him with admiration, holding a bamboo sign in his hand and bowed to express his thanks.

Fen Qi smiled, touched his head, and asked gently, "Do you like it?"

The child clutched the things in his hands tightly, his eyes full of admiration for his elders: "I like it! As long as it is given to me by my ancestors, I like it!"

"As long as you like it." Fen Qi lowered his eyes, covering the emotions in his eyes, and said a few words to him in a pleasant manner before letting the child leave.

As soon as the child left, He walked out of the screen at the back.

"Is this the last one?" He asked calmly, looking at the closed door.

"Yes, the last one." Fen Qi played with the thing in his hand - it turned out to be the "talisman" he had given to his tribe these days - it was actually a bamboo tablet with a formation engraved on it. It was just the bamboo tablet in his hand. It is dark red in color, revealing an ominous atmosphere.

He rubbed the smooth surface of the bamboo sign, with a rare expression of neither joy nor sorrow, like a lifeless statue.

Tiandao became wary of Fen Qi's unusual behavior. He looked at Fen Qi and said in a cold voice: "Don't tell me, you regret it."

Fen Qiyi didn't hear anything, but looked at the bamboo sign in his hand quietly, and said in reply to the question: "That child looks a bit like me, which is rare."

"Feng Qi!" Tiandao stretched out his tone, and his voice became sharp, like a desperate gangster showing his ferocious true colors, "Don't tell me that your ridiculous compassion appears again at this time, aren't you? Got it! This is our last chance!"

He suddenly approached Fen Qi, lifted up the black veil, and stared directly at Fen Qi with a face without features, as if he wanted to see through Fen Qi's soul: "I am the incarnation of the law of heaven. They It’s impossible to destroy me, but what about you! If the Demon Lord knew what you did for me, do you think you could survive?”

There was still deathly silence in Fen Qi's eyes, but when Tiandao mentioned the Demon Lord, he suddenly fell back and leaned on the back of his chair to look at Tiandao for a long time.

It took so long that even Tiandao started to feel a little uneasy, and then he showed his usual smile.

——It was a careless smile that seemed very gentle, but after looking at it for a long time, I felt a chill down my spine.

This smile was like a signal, allowing Tiandao to regain his senses a little.

He knew that the only trump card he could rely on now was Fen Qi, and he couldn't be anxious.

So He slowed down his tone and tried his best to persuade: "Now we have no way out. You and I are both grasshoppers on the same rope. You have helped me for so long, are you willing to let all your previous efforts go to waste?" Moreover - the entire Fen family is prosperous because of you. As long as you help me successfully transform, it will be easy to create another Fen family after ascension, and all the sacrifices will be worth it!"

The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

After a long time, Fen Qi chuckled lightly.

"Yes, as long as I want, I can create another Fen family at any time." Fen Qi raised the corners of his lips with great irony. He didn't understand one thing until now.

No matter how human-like the form of Heaven is, He is not human, and there is only endless resentment in His heart under His human skin.

"Let's go." Fen Qi closed his eyes and took a long breath, as if he had thrown away all his reluctance and last conscience with this breath.

When he opened his eyes again, there was no joy or sadness in his eyes.

Fen Qi explained to the head of the Fen family that he would announce something very important tomorrow and asked all clan members to bring bamboo cards. No matter how old or advanced they were, no one could be missing.

Out of the worship of blood, the Fen family has always advocated internal intermarriage, which is why they are a hidden family in the Four Continents. When the blood line is thin to a certain extent, they no longer recognize it as the Fen family, and in order to better cultivate The next generation, they all live very close to each other.

Now Fen Qi gave an order, and all the Fen family members recorded in the genealogy gathered together, and they all guessed why the ancestor called him here.

When there were more people, it was inevitable that there would be commotion, and even the clan leader's intervention to maintain order could not stop the chaotic situation. But when Fen Qi stepped onto the specially built high platform, he silenced all the Fen family members below with just a slight hiss.

Awe, worship, admiration...

Countless pairs of eyes stared at Fen Qi, and they all gave the most reasonable trust to this ancestor they had never met before.

In fact, you already knew this day would come, didn’t you?

Fen Qi looked at the crowd below and opened his clenched right hand, with a cluster of beating flames in his palm.

"Help me one last time."

He murmured softly and numbly threw down the flame in his hand——

The crowd looked curiously at the flames falling from a high place, and even crowded towards the place where the flames fell in order to see more clearly, until...

"ah--"

A scream pierced the horizon, and the smile on the man's face, who quickly caught the flame with quick eyes and hands, turned into a burning fireman, screaming as he was stimulated by the heart-wrenching pain.

Before the people next to him could react, they were affected by the spreading flames and screamed one after another.

The flames were like hungry tigers smelling blood, sweeping through the dense crowd.

It's not that no one reacted and tried to block it with spiritual energy, but they were horrified to find that the spiritual energy they were proud of couldn't block the strange flames at all, and they could only watch as the flames engulfed them.

In an instant, the originally joyful party turned into a human tragedy, with screams and howls of pain everywhere.

The head of the Fen family never expected that such a thing would happen. Even now, he did not doubt Fen Qi. The moment the flames spread, he rushed into the flames to save people, but found that he could not do anything with this strange flame. .

He endured the pain of the flames burning his skin and looked at the high platform pleadingly, still wanting to ask Fen Qi for help——

But Fen Qi, who caused this tragedy, was still sitting on the high platform, looking down at everything that happened below, as if everything was within his expectation.

The clan leader was stunned.

Then he hung it on his waist, and the bamboo plaque given to him by Fen Qi, which he cherished very much, glowed brightly red.

Countless bamboo cards glowed red, forming a huge formation, like a giant bowl tilted upside down on the heads of the Fen family.

The clan leader saw the clan members engulfed in flames trying to rush out of the crowd in search of a chance to survive, but they could only be reduced to ashes in mourning because they collided with the formation.

The flames licked his skin, but it was not the flames that destroyed him in the end, but the endless confusion.

Why?

This question was still not figured out until the clan leader died.

Fen Qi didn't see the confusion in the patriarch's eyes, but he saw the child that day.

His short body stumbled among the crowd. After falling down, only one side of his braid was left in the sky. He was holding the bamboo sign in his arms in panic, not knowing what happened. When the flames touched him, he couldn't even cry out. It was reduced to ashes before it was too late.

Fen Qi's outstretched hand stopped abruptly in mid-air. He stared in the direction of the child, but could no longer move forward an inch.

His eyes were shrouded in darkness, and it turned out that Tiandao, who had been hiding behind him, came out.

He looked at the tragedy in the audience without any fluctuation in his heart, but he was feeling the huge formation that was slowly starting up. He turned his head to Fen Qi with joy and said, "Success! The formation has been successfully activated!"

Yes, it worked.

Fen Qi withdrew his hand that was hanging in the air, slowly stood up and walked to the high platform.

But why, am I not happy at all?

He stretched out his hand to grab something, but couldn't grab anything.

Tiandao was still chattering about how he would deal with Shen Mo after he successfully transformed, and was enjoying his future life, when he suddenly heard a muffled sound.

He turned his head suddenly and saw Fen Qi jumping down from the high platform!

"what are you doing!"

Tiandao was frightened and angry, and caught him at the last second.

There is a blazing flame underneath, and even if Fen Qi falls, he will not feel comfortable.

"I said it." Fen Qi looked up at Tiandao and said calmly, "After the formation is activated, it needs a formation eye, otherwise it will be very unstable. I set up this formation, and I will be the best choice for this formation. suitable."

Tiandao was moved, but still a little hesitant.

It is naturally best to have formation eyes, but if Fen Qi jumps down, what if the formation fails?

Fen Qi sensed Tiandao's hesitation, and the last hope in his heart was shattered. He knew him well, and knew that his hesitation was not because he was worried about his own safety, but because he was worried that he would not have the tools to use if the formation failed.

but……

A tool that is approaching its end of life and has no possibility of breakthrough will be abandoned without hesitation, right?

In this case, he might as well just take a gamble and really risk everything to stand on the side of heaven. If he wins, he will break through and ascend, if he loses, his soul will be shattered.

["But there are some roads where there is no chance of turning back...Aqi..."]

Her dying voice echoed in Fen Qi's ears. He exerted a sudden force, which shocked Tiandao, who was still hesitating, and let go of his hand, before falling into the blazing flames.

Fen Qi laughed loudly as he felt weightless.

——If there is no way back, then don’t look back.

…………

"It's strange...why I feel so confused." Master Xuanjing paced back and forth in the yard. He looked at the blue sky. It was obviously peaceful, but the feeling of uneasiness became stronger.

The higher the cultivation level, the easier it is for people to establish contact with the rules of heaven and sense that something bad will happen in advance. Master Xuanjing's uneasiness this time even shocked himself.

But where does this uneasiness come from?

Master Xuanjing thought of Qin Moyu first, but he quickly rejected it. If even Qin Moyu next to Shen Mo would be in danger, then there would be no safe place in the world.

Xuanjing Zhenren, who couldn't figure it out, simply went out for a walk, convincing himself that maybe he was just wrong because he was injured.

As a result, as soon as he went out, what he saw was the guards walking in a hurry. They all had solemn expressions on their faces, as if something big had happened.

Master Xuanjing's heart tightened, and he turned around and walked to the imperial study room without hesitation. Shen Sheng told him that if he needed anything, he could come to him here. As soon as he reached the door of the imperial study room, he heard Shen Sheng's startled voice. Call.

"What?! The land of the abyss is spreading outward?"

…………

Guanlan Sect.

The elders were called together again by Xuan Qing, and this time their faces were even uglier than the last time Shen Mo wrote.

"Are you sure the news is true or false?" Xuan Qing stared at Elder Xuanli closely, eager to hear from him whether the news was false.

But unfortunately, things did not develop in the direction he expected.

When Elder Xuanli finished explaining everything exactly, Xuanqing's breathing froze.

He slumped in the chair, letting his underwear soak with cold sweat, but there was only Xuan Li's words in his mind.

"The overwhelming fire... has already arrived at Guanlan Sect..."