Chapter 166 - Getting Angry
"Looking for a pen?" Luo Hongyi's lips curled slightly, her eyes flicking pointedly over Xie Zhao's visibly red ears. She then glanced at Chu Linyuan, who seemed oblivious but stood remarkably straight beside the tower base. "I see your spiritual energy recovery is... quite intense, aren't it? Your ears are red."
"Hot! Yes! Too hot! This abyss is so hot!" Xie Zhao fanned himself with his hands, his eyes wandering. He didn't dare look in Chu Linyuan's direction, let alone respond to Luo Hongyi's words. He turned around and wanted to slip away, "Well... I'm going to help Tie Niu smelt the scrap! See you later!"
"Second Brother!" Su Tang's voice was like a ghost chasing after her soul. The little girl, holding the photo stone, blocked Xie Zhao's way in one step. Her psychic eyes were frighteningly bright, and the camera was fixed on Xie Zhao's red face. "Explain it to me? That warm talisman lamp next to Senior Brother last night... was it you who secretly lit it? And your rosy little face... Tsk tsk, is this a record of the warming emotions after the war?"
"Su! Xiao! Tang!" Xie Zhao was filled with grief and indignation, his Jinghong Talisman Pen nearly stabbing the camera. "Slander! Pure slander! That lamp... that lamp was formed naturally by the energy escaping from the tower's base! It has nothing to do with me! My blushing is... caused by the Fire Evil of Burning Sky Valley!"
"Oh? Really?" Su Tang dragged out her tone, and the camera turned cunningly to Taki's side, "Big Brother~ Second Brother said that Taki lit that heartwarming talisman lamp himself~ and also said that the fire evil here is particularly irritating~"
Chu Linyuan, who had been silently repairing the tower's foundation, paused for a moment, barely perceptible. He slowly stood up, not turning back. His cold voice, like a chill wind sweeping across the square, said, "Shut up!"
Just two words, yet Xie Zhao's heart jumped to his throat! He stared at Chu Linyuan's back, fearing that his next sentence would be "For what happened last night, you should be executed."
However, Chu Linyuan remained silent for only a moment. He then turned sideways, his cold eyes sweeping over the huge pile of Burning Heaven Crystal Armor debris piled at the edge of the square. He said to the Iron Ox, who was grunting and carrying it, "Iron Ox, smelting area, temperature."
"Ah? Oh!" Tie Niu, whose massive body was cradling a door-sized piece of crimson crystal armor, responded in a deep, muffled voice, "Don't worry, Senior Brother! I'll use the brute force of the stars to ignite the earth's fire! I guarantee it'll be hot enough to burn all the garbage in Burning Sky Valley!"
As he spoke, the muscles in his arms bulged, and the star patterns under his bronze skin lit up. He strode towards the newly opened smelting area on the west side of the square, holding the crystal armor. The ground trembled slightly with his footsteps.
Chu Linyuan's gaze didn't linger on Xie Zhao, as if Su Tang's "complaint" had merely passed by like a gentle breeze. He refocused on repairing the tower's base, but the fingers gripping the Immortal Slayer Spear seemed to exert a bit more force than usual.
Xie Zhao's heart, trembling, finally settled halfway back into his stomach. He glared at Su Tang, who was trying not to laugh, and Luo Hongyi, who was enjoying the show, then, dejectedly, clutched his talisman pen and headed towards the smelting area.
When passing by Chu Linyuan, he unconsciously quickened his pace, looking at his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, not daring to breathe.
In the smelting area, the underground fire was ignited by the iron bull and burned fiercely in the specially made Shenyuan black iron furnace, emitting scorching high temperature.
Xie Zhao watched as the huge piece of Burning Sky Crystal Armor, which contained pure fire evil, was thrown into the furnace and gradually softened and turned red in the blazing white earth fire.
He calmed himself down, trying to put aside those messy thoughts, and the Jinghong Talisman Pen slipped into his hand.
"Stupid cow! Control the temperature well! Don't burn the Chaos Fire Evil inside!" Xie Zhao commanded, and a pale golden light flowed from the tip of the pen. Runes that channeled, condensed, and stripped away impurities flew towards the furnace, accurately guiding the red liquid like magma that flowed out after the crystal armor melted.
"Second brother! I'll do it! Don't worry!" Tie Niu responded in a muffled voice, veins bulging on his forehead, and the power of the stars continuously poured into the core of the earth fire, maintaining a stable high temperature.
Guided by the runes, the crimson metal solution flowed slowly like a docile red snake towards the huge star-patterned iron skeleton of the first level of the Rune Array Tower that had been prepared nearby.
When the scalding red molten liquid containing the Burning Sky Fire Evil came into contact with the cold star-patterned iron frame—
Tsk——!!!
A violent reaction erupted! White mist rose! Crimson and silver-grey intertwined, collided, and eroded! A piercing sound like the roar of metal!
"Hold on!" Xie Zhao shouted, and the light from the tip of his pen grew stronger! More runes of reinforcement, fusion, and energy channeling rained down like a torrential rain, forcibly suppressing the raging fire evil spirit and guiding it to merge with the cold evil spirit of the star-patterned iron with difficulty!
Tie Niu also roared, and injected the power of the stars without reservation, like an invisible giant hammer, fiercely pounding the fusion interface!
At this critical moment of fusion, the little white deer, who had been quietly holding the rabbit and sitting a little far away at the base of the talisman formation, suddenly trembled!
"Hmm..." She let out a short, muffled groan, her clear eyes instantly looking towards the core of the abyss. The blood drained from her face, revealing immense fear and pain! The Moon-Eating Rabbit in her arms also suddenly stood on end, its ruby eyes bursting into a dazzling star-blue light. The star runes on its back flashed wildly, and a sharp, warning "gurgle" sound came from its throat!
"Little Deer!" Su Tang was the first to notice something unusual and exclaimed in surprise.
Xie Zhao and Tie Niu were also alarmed by this sudden change, and the smelting action stopped instantly!
Chu Linyuan's figure appeared beside Bai Xiaolu as if by teleportation! An icy murderous aura instantly enveloped her, shielding her from any outside interference. He pressed his fingers together like swords, gathering pure, soul-calming power from the profound ice at his fingertips, and with lightning speed, he pointed it at Bai Xiaolu's brow!
"The abyss... the door..." Bai Xiaolu's pain was slightly alleviated by Chu Linyuan's evil spirit. She pointed her little hand in the direction of the abyss, her voice filled with tears and extreme fear, "...the thing inside... is so hungry... it's... banging on the door! It... it smells... the blood of those people in Burning Sky Valley!"
Boom——!!!
As if to confirm her words, a wave of will, which came from the depths of the abyss and was filled with indescribable horror and greed, suddenly swept across the entire Immortal-Slaying Square like an invisible tsunami!
The originally violent Burning Sky Fire molten liquid in the furnace instantly solidified and dimmed!
Tie Niu groaned, and the power of the stars was forcibly interrupted!
The Jinghong Talisman Pen in Xie Zhao's hand trembled violently, and the talisman light at the tip of the pen dissipated!
Even the black ice evil spirit that Chu Linyuan had wrapped around Bai Xiaolu shook violently!
Everyone felt a chilling shudder from the depths of their souls! It was as if a predator from the bottom of the abyss, across endless time and space, cast a hungry and greedy glance at them!
"Guixu...dangerous..." Luo Hongyi's beautiful face lost its color for the first time. The poisonous mist wrapped around her fingertips dissipated instantly. She muttered to herself, repeating the warning on the remaining scrolls in Fentian Valley.
Chu Linyuan's cold eyes suddenly became as sharp as a knife, piercing into the depths of the evil clouds rolling in the abyss!
The dark golden dragon pattern on his left cheek twisted like a living thing, emitting a violent murderous aura, as if responding to the terrifying existence under the abyss, and as if angrily declaring war!
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