Published: February 26, 2025
Tan Yun remained indifferent, thinking about the remnants of the Elysium Sect's cruelty.
As he recalled the suffering he had endured, a fury ignited within him.
"Do you think I will show you mercy? You are merely a pawn to them!"
Zhang Jin's face turned pale, his body quivering as he realized the gravity of his situation.
"I-I didn't mean to offend you! I-I was just following orders!" he stammered, desperately trying to plead for his life.
Tan Yun's eyes narrowed, and he took a step closer, the air around him growing heavier with a palpable pressure.
"You think I care about your excuses? You should have thought about the consequences before betraying me!"
Zhang Jin fell to his knees, tears streaming down his face as he continued to beg for forgiveness.
"Please! I can help you in ways you can't imagine! Just give me a chance!"
Tan Yun considered this for a moment, weighing the desperation in Zhang Jin's eyes against his burning desire for revenge.
"Help me? What could a coward like you possibly offer?"
Zhang Jin seized the fleeting opportunity, his mind racing as he tried to think of something valuable.
"I know the secrets of the Ancient Fire Prison! I can lead you to treasures and powerful allies!"
Tan Yun's expression shifted slightly as intrigue sparked within him.
"Speak then. But know thisโ if you lie or waste my time, I will end you without hesitation."
Zhang Jin nodded vigorously, desperate to stay alive.
"I swear, every word will be the truth! Follow me, and I will show you the way!"
With a reluctant nod, Tan Yun followed Zhang Jin deeper into the Ancient Fire Prison, the weight of vengeance and a newfound alliance hanging in the air.
"Bang!"
Zhang Jin's head exploded, and his headless corpse turned to nothingness in the flames, leaving only his Ancestral Ring and Li Luo's Ancestral Ring quietly lying in the sea of fire, telling of their former owner's presence.
Tan Yun stood quietly in the flames, wiping away his tears and taking a deep breath to calm his sorrow.
After a moment, Tan Yun opened his eyes, still stained with tears, and said slowly, "Out of the one hundred and twenty thousand disciples of the Elysium Sect entering the Ancient Fire Prison, unless I, Tan Yun, am dead, I want none of you to think you can leave alive!"
Determined, Tan Yun's white hair danced as he released his divine consciousness, equivalent to the third layer of the ancestral emperor realm, enveloping the vast Fire Domain Mountain Range in all directions.
Finding that no one was around, the brilliance in Tan Yun's star-like eyes sparkled. "According to the records of the map jade tablet, I am in the Fire Prison Mountain Range to the northwest of the Ancient Fire Prison. This place is quite remote and is the best place for me to undergo tribulation and enter seclusion."
With his decision made, Tan Yun immediately sensed the barrier of the ancestral emperor realm.
"Wooโโ"
Suddenly, a violent wind whipped up above Tan Yun's head, and rolling dark clouds gathered like a pitch-black mountain over the Fire Prison Mountain Range, resembling an endless herd of black horses charging in.
In just a short moment, the void above Tan Yun, covering a radius of three million celestial miles, was engulfed by the dark clouds. In an instant, the world fell into darkness, while the flames burning in the Fire Domain Mountain Range became even more dazzling.
"Sizzle, sizzleโโ"
Within the rolling dark clouds, ancestral emperor divine thunder heavenly tribulation, resembling giant dragons, swirled in and out, appearing extremely terrifying.
In the next hour, the ancestral emperor divine thunder heavenly tribulation in the dark clouds grew more and more, and before the heavenly tribulation descended, the terrifying aura that made Tan Yun tremble filled the air and engulfed him.
Under the overwhelming aura, Tan Yun felt as if he were a small boat, drifting into the vast ocean.
"Primordial Chaos Dominance Body!"
With just a thought, Tan Yun's size wildly swelled to thirty thousand zhang, like a towering iron tower standing at the peak of the volcano.