Li Yu's voice was calm and clear, piercing through the raging wall of fire, carrying a hint of pity.

This abrupt remark caused Han Qing's smile to freeze, and then Li Yu continued:

“If it weren’t for this moment, but at any other time and place, if you launched a joint attack of this scale, this plan might actually have succeeded.”

Li Yu slowly raised his head, his gaze piercing through the wall of fire, directly meeting the steel formations poised to unleash their power on the outer perimeter, and the stunned Han Qing. A faint smile played on his lips:

"But what a coincidence..."

"Luck was on my side after all."

Li Yu's inexplicable tone, which sounded like that of a victor, gave Han Qing a sense of unease.

"What? Luck?" Han Qing frowned deeply and replied sharply:

"Still spouting nonsense even when death is imminent! Making a big fuss over nothing."

Han Qing stared intently at Li Yu, trying to find evidence of bluffing on the other's face.

But Li Yu remained unmoved; her eyes, unlike those of a dying man, evoked a strong sense of unease that made Han Qing panic.

From the moment he met Li Yu, the other party had been in a lazy state.

Even as reinforcements from the steel-casting unit continued to arrive, Li Yu remained unusually calm.

This made him realize that if Li Yu didn't have absolute support, he could never have remained so calm under the siege of the steel-cast forces.

Han Qing was about to shout a question to bolster his courage when he was surprised to see that the phoenix bow in Li Yu's hand suddenly burst out with an unprecedentedly intense light!

Buzz—!

The bow trembled violently, emitting a high-pitched buzzing sound.

The raging flames roared and surged like boiling magma, or even more like the beating pulse of a fiery heart.

The black eyes on the bow suddenly opened, and thick white mist and crimson flames intertwined and swirled!

The Nightmare Beast gazed at the sky, a knowing glint in its eyes, and narrowed its gaze as it spoke to Li Yu:

"That guy has finally arrived."

Li Yu also seemed to sense something and looked up in the same direction:

"Yes, they arrived just in time."

What are Li Yu and the Nightmare Beast looking at?! Han Qing's inner unease was completely ignited. Instinctively, he looked up in that direction and quickly activated his spatial perception to spread it upwards, trying to 'see' what was there.

The next second, Han Qing's eyes were filled with terror.

"What...is that...?"

In the distance, the thick, dark clouds, which had been gathering rain, seemed to be ignited by flames, their edges gleaming with a molten gold-like luster.

In just a few breaths, half the sky was illuminated by the firelight, turning it into a boiling sea of ​​flames!

A sense of crisis that sent shivers down Han Qing's spine instantly filled his body, as if something was coming!

Before anyone could even see what it was, the temperature within Li Yu's Phoenix Flame Domain surged again at an alarming rate!

As if injected with even more powerful energy, the color of the fire wall at the edge of the Flame Domain changed, beginning to transform from crimson to a deeper, more primal white-gold!

[Alarm! Alarm! Alarm!]

[An unidentifiable high-order energy reaction has been detected rapidly approaching!]

At that moment, all the steel-cast single eyes flashed rapidly in deep red, issuing the highest level of alarm.

The source of the threat—the sky!

Higher! Stronger! Incomprehensible!

"Drip, drip..."

Before the fine raindrops even hit the ground, they were vaporized into white mist by the heat wave from the air, and the scorching air currents distorted the sky above.

Immediately afterwards, countless burning embers fell from the red clouds, like a magnificent yet deadly rain of fire and meteors.

Flames blotted out the sky, stretching across the heavens!

Under the crimson sky, the temperature in the entire valley suddenly rose, as if one were in a furnace!

"Snap—!"

A series of subtle cracking sounds rang out, and countless cracks quickly appeared on the semi-circular ice fortress within the wall of fire.

"What's going on?!" Xiao Zhan's expression changed drastically.

He could clearly sense that the ice castle was melting at an alarming rate.

It wasn't because of the steel attack, nor was it because he withdrew voluntarily, but because of the unbearable high temperature.

The originally solid ice wall melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into flowing water, which instantly evaporated into white steam.

The ice fortress's defenses crumbled quickly, and the outside world was revealed to everyone without any obstruction—the surroundings were blocked by walls of fire, and in the distance, flames stretched to the sky.

The world was now a sea of ​​fire that filled people with despair!

"Did Lord Li Yu win?"

"I believe in Lord Li Yu!"

But the refugees soon realized that these flames... weren't they Li Yu's abilities?

"It's the city lord!"

"He will definitely lead us to survive!"

The refugees huddled together, uttering sounds of almost divine devotion.

There was no fear of the inferno in their eyes, only complete trust in Li Yu.

Xiao Zhan and Bai Ya were equally shocked by the dramatic changes in the world. Gazing at the crimson scene that filled the heavens and earth, they were speechless.

The star array patterns on Bai Ya's fingertips quietly disappeared. His original escape plan seemed so ridiculous in the face of this world-destroying flame.

"Is this Li Yu's power..." Bai Ya's voice was hoarse. He had never felt such pure and powerful pressure from the flames.

The high-temperature environment surrounded by flames further suppressed Xiao Zhan's ice-type abilities to the extreme.

Just then, a strange noise came from above.

An indescribable, heavy pressure, accompanied by an even more violent heat wave, crashed down from the burning sky as if it were a physical force!

Everyone instinctively looked up.

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