Chapter 12: Physical Cooling of the Lava Pool and the Straight Man's Desperate Survival
Physical cooling of lava pools and the survival of straight men in desperate situations
Li Jiuyou's huge hand, wrapped in destructive energy and covered with red-gold demonic patterns, grabbed Jiang Xuelan's neck like an iron clamp with pure, uncontrolled physical traction!
"Ouch!" Jiang Xuelan's pupils suddenly constricted, and a suffocating feeling instantly overwhelmed her. Even more terrifying was the burning pain in her neck! It wasn't lust, but pure energy erosion and physical pressure! It felt as if her neck would be crushed in the next second! At the same time, the God-Slaying Gu seal within her body, already shattered by the impact, began to crack wildly under the stimulation of Li Jiuyou's rampaging demonic power! The cold, resentful evil god's remnant soul roared, threatening to burst out of her body!
Above, the immortal sect's killing formation, "Demon Slayer," took shape! Dazzling silver-white immortal light converged into a massive wheel imbued with destructive runes, crashing down with crushing pressure! Its target was Li Jiuyou, at the center of the energy storm, and Jiang Xuelan, who was "clamped" in his grasp! A flicker of icy satisfaction flashed in Bai Zhi's eyes—two troubles, eliminated together!
"King——!" Man Gu's eyes were bloodshot, and he tried to rush forward against the violent energy turbulence, but was thrown away and hit the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"Brother! Let my brother go!" Ah Che was pinned to the ground by the pressure, screaming in vain, his hand still tightly grasping the half-broken broom handle that looked like a fire stick.
Xuan Jia retracted his head into his shell, leaving only a crack. "Damn it! The energy storm crashed into the killing array. Even a god would be skinned alive! Can I even keep my shell?"
At this critical moment, when everything is destroyed——
Li Jiuyou's left eye, blood-red with chaotic energy (his right eye was still red, the sand still grinding at him!), was stimulated by the dazzling silver light of the killing array, and he managed to squeeze out a very faint trace of clarity! It was purely the demon king's instinctive battle in this life-or-death situation!
The severe pain from his neck and the crazy and restless evil and cold aura in Jiang Xuelan's body that made even his demon core feel extremely disgusted were like ice water being poured over his head!
**Can't explode! If it explodes here, Li Jiuyou will be finished too! The ghost thing inside this pretty boy is even more troublesome! **
Almost instinctively, the moment before the killing array's destructive beam was about to engulf them!
"Get down—for this king!"
Li Jiuyou roared like a beast, and instead of loosening his grip on Jiang Xuelan's neck, he suddenly unleashed the last bit of his controllable demonic power! It wasn't an attack, it was... a **throw**!
He twisted his waist, stretched his arm muscles, and used all his strength to throw Jiang Xuelan, the "human energy bomb + evil god carrier" in his hand, like a shot put, towards a lava pool in the corner of the side hall, which was constantly emitting hot bubbles and rolling with dark red magma!
“Plop——!!!”
Jiang Xuelan, along with Li Jiuyou's wide black robe, instantly transformed into a black parabola and plunged with incredible precision into the boiling geothermal lava pool of the Red Blood Palace, which was hot enough to melt pure gold! A large amount of boiling magma splashed up!
Almost in the same millisecond!
Boom——!!!
The destructive beams from the Immortal Sect's "Demon Slayer" killing array, like a silvery-white waterfall, filled the spot where Li Jiuyou had just stood! The violent energy instantly vaporized the obsidian floor and a small portion of the stone bed into nothingness! A bottomless, charred pit remained in its place, molten rock slurry flowing around its edges!
The shockwave swept through the side hall like a tsunami! Man Gu and A Che were thrown back like rag dolls, slamming heavily against the farther wall and fainting. The animal bone weapons hanging in the hall were instantly reduced to dust! Xuan Jia was overturned along with the floor tile it was lying on. The tortoise shell rolled on the ground for several times before coming to a stop. Muffled curses came from inside: "Ouch! My waist!"
And the moment Li Jiuyou threw Jiang Xuelan out, he was hit hard by the terrifying energy on the edge of the killing formation!
"Puff!" He spat out a large mouthful of blood tinged with golden light, and his whole body flew backwards like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into the only relatively intact supporting pillar of the main hall! The solid black iron pillar was deeply dented by his impact, and was covered with spider-web-like cracks! The energy of the demon core was forcibly interrupted and backfired by this terrifying blow. Coupled with the trauma of the killing array, his eyes went black, his internal organs felt as if they were displaced, and his consciousness quickly sank into darkness. The last thought before he fainted was: **The pretty boy... should... be cooked? That evil god... should... be afraid of fire? **
**Lava pool bottom.**
The moment Jiang Xuelan entered the water, he felt enveloped by an endless, sticky, and scalding aura of destruction! The suffocating, burning sensation, and the excruciating pain of his shoulder wound being soaked by the magma instantly overwhelmed him!
"Ugh--!" He couldn't even scream, he could only grit his teeth and desperately mobilize the last bit of weak spiritual power in his body to protect his heart and sea of consciousness.
**Is he going to die? Being thrown into the lava like garbage by that stupid demon king? The Qingleng Immortal Lord, his final destination is the base of the demon realm hot pot? How absurd!**
However, in this extreme pain and destructive atmosphere, mutation occurred again!
The frantically restless evil spirit within him, on the verge of breaking free, let out a silent, piercing roar of terror upon encountering the intensely yang and fierce lava aura, imbued with the power of both destruction and rebirth! The cold, resentful aura, as if encountering its nemesis, instantly withered and retreated madly into the depths of the seal, its force weakening even more than it had been designed to break free! The cracks in the God-Slaying Gu's seal, under the combined effects of the magma's burning and the evil spirit's retreat, had temporarily... stabilized?!
At the same time, the large black robe belonging to Li Jiuyou on his body did not immediately turn to ash in the boiling magma. Instead, it emitted a faint, soft red-gold light, forming a thin layer of protective film, barely isolating the most direct magma burning! This was a robe soaked in Li Jiuyou's demonic power, and it had a hint of protection!
**Physical cooling! Physical seal reinforcement! Physical protective clothing!**
Amidst the excruciating pain and suffocation, Jiang Xuelan grasped at this glimmer of hope! He didn't bother to consider whether Li Jiuyou had hit the jackpot by accident or had some deeper purpose (definitely an accident!). He immediately cast aside all distracting thoughts and focused on practicing his sect's "Xuanbing Jue" (Mysterious Ice Art). He used the extreme environment of the lava pool to forcibly suppress the chaotic aura within his body and the faint pull of that damned Heart-Slaying Contract (falling into magma, all senses were burned away!).
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