Chapter 00402: Bone Devouring Flame
# Bone-Devouring Flame
Chapter 402
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 402: Bone-Devouring Flame
Qian Qiong didn’t hesitate for even a moment.
He summoned a gray gourd, its mouth opening wide as streams of scorching gray flames surged toward Lan Xiaobu.
Lan Xiaobu had been prepared for Qian Qiong’s attack, his hand gripping a formation flag tightly.
In a one-on-one fight, he was no match for Qian Qiong.
However, as the Five Universe King, Lan Xiaobu wanted to capture Qian Qiong alive to avenge the countless innocent souls of the Five Universe Immortal Realm.
What he hadn’t anticipated was that Qian Qiong’s attack wasn’t a magical artifact but an endless sea of flames.
The gray flames instantly enveloped Lan Xiaobu’s entire body.
In the next moment, his clothes and skin began to melt away.
*Sssss!* A chilling sound echoed as Lan Xiaobu, even within his own trapping and killing formation, felt the aura of death closing in.
He frantically activated his formation flags, but while his formation trapped Qian Qiong and prevented further attacks, it couldn’t stop the flames that had already engulfed him.
Lan Xiaobu desperately circulated his *Undying Technique*, but the flames were too terrifying.
While body-refining techniques required stimulating the body, these flames weren’t stimulating him—they were burning him to ashes.
If this continued, he would undoubtedly die.
Unable to extinguish the gray flames devouring his body, Lan Xiaobu had no choice but to retreat into the Cosmic Dimension Matrix.
Yet, the flames clung to him like a bone-devouring parasite, following him into the Cosmic Dimension Matrix and continuing to burn his flesh and blood.
His vitality was rapidly draining away.
Lan Xiaobu was horrified.
At this rate, he wouldn’t last long.
He quickly swallowed a handful of healing pills and two drops of Void Immortal Marrow.
But this was only a temporary solution.
Once the energy from the pills and the Void Immortal Marrow was exhausted, he would still be reduced to ashes by the bone-devouring flames.
At this moment, Lan Xiaobu truly regretted underestimating an Immortal Emperor.
No matter how powerful his ninth-grade trapping and killing formation was, he was still only an Immortal King.
*Crack!* Lan Xiaobu could even hear the sound of the flames burning through his skin, his flesh, and now his bones.
If it weren’t for the Void Immortal Marrow and the pills, he would have already been reduced to his Primordial Spirit.
And even that might not survive.
Given the intensity of the flames, it seemed possible they could burn through his Primordial Spirit as well.
“Brother Lan, do you need my help?” A voice called from afar.
It was Gong Yunqi.
Earlier, Lan Xiaobu had told Gong Yunqi that, as the Immortal Court King of the Five Universe Immortal Realm, he wanted to personally capture Qian Qiong to avenge the countless innocent souls.
That’s why Gong Yunqi had stayed back.
“Don’t come over…” Lan Xiaobu’s voice was hoarse, as if it had crawled out of hell.
He knew that even though Gong Yunqi was a peak Immortal Emperor, he might not fare any better against these flames.
The horrifying sound of flames consuming flesh and bone made Gong Yunqi uneasy.
He wanted to approach, but Lan Xiaobu had already sealed off the space around him.
Lan Xiaobu thought of rushing to Mo Qiu’s side.
Mo Qiu possessed an extreme cold energy that might be able to counter these terrifying flames.
But he quickly dismissed the idea.
That might only hasten his death.
The Primal Eternal Flame! Yes, he still had the Primal Eternal Flame.
Without hesitation, Lan Xiaobu summoned the Primal Eternal Flame to cover his body.
To his delight, the Primal Eternal Flame began to devour the gray flames clinging to him.
Lan Xiaobu frantically circulated his *Undying Technique*, buying time for the Primal Eternal Flame to work.
As the Primal Eternal Flame continued to consume the gray flames, the rate at which Lan Xiaobu’s body was being burned slowed.
From unbearable agony, he gradually regained control, and eventually, he was able to use the flames to refine his body.
The areas burned by the flames began to heal.
When the Primal Eternal Flame erupted with a dazzling green light, the gray flames that had clung to Lan Xiaobu’s body were completely absorbed.
Had the Primal Eternal Flame advanced?
Lan Xiaobu opened his hand, and a green flame appeared in his palm, surrounded by seven golden rings of fire.
His flame had truly advanced to a seventh-grade immortal flame.
Lan Xiaobu let out a sigh of relief.
Even within his own trapping and killing formation, he had nearly died at Qian Qiong’s hands.
If Qian Qiong had intercepted him on the road, he would have had no chance of survival.
At least he hadn’t come away empty-handed—his Primal Eternal Flame had advanced by one grade.
Exiting the Cosmic Dimension Matrix, Lan Xiaobu returned to the Void Stone and his trapping and killing formation.
Feeling the burns covering his body, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of fear.
Even within his own formation, he wasn’t completely safe.
The universe was vast, and there were too many things he didn’t know.
If it weren’t for the Primal Eternal Flame, even the Cosmic Dimension Matrix wouldn’t have been able to save him.
*Boom!* A series of violent explosions rang out as Lan Xiaobu tossed a few formation flags.
Qian Qiong was frantically attacking the trapping and killing formation.
Within the sealed space, even Gong Yunqi couldn’t enter.
As a peak Immortal Emperor, Gong Yunqi could kill the Immortal Emperors trapped within Lan Xiaobu’s ninth-grade formations without the same level of danger Lan Xiaobu faced against Qian Qiong.
Following Lan Xiaobu’s instructions, Gong Yunqi had killed all the Immortal Emperors within the formation, leaving no survivors.
The surrounding space suddenly stabilized, and the oppressive atmosphere vanished.
Qian Qiong, who had been attacking the formation, stopped and turned around.
When he saw Lan Xiaobu, his expression was as if he had seen a ghost.
“You…” Qian Qiong stared at Lan Xiaobu in disbelief.
How was this possible? His bone-devouring flames could kill even a half-step Divine Realm expert.
Yet, despite being burned beyond recognition, Lan Xiaobu was standing before him, alive and well.
Lan Xiaobu swallowed another drop of Void Immortal Marrow, and the burns on his body began to heal rapidly.
“How could you survive my bone-devouring flames?” Qian Qiong finally asked the question that had been gnawing at him.
Wait, where were his bone-devouring flames?
Qian Qiong opened his hand, and the gourd fell into his palm.
The gourd still contained a vast amount of bone-devouring flames, but none of them had been refined.
The flames he had refined, less than one ten-thousandth of the total, had completely vanished.
Lan Xiaobu grabbed a handful of formation flags and tossed them.
The Seven Sounds Halberd erupted with a continuous wave of sonic booms, like a thousand horses galloping forward.
He wouldn’t give Qian Qiong another chance to burn him.
Qian Qiong’s gourd instantly expanded to a hundred feet tall and dozens of feet wide, blocking the attack.
But soon, Qian Qiong realized something was wrong.
He had clearly placed the gourd in front of him, so why was he now in front of the gourd?
The relentless halberd strikes, accompanied by the roaring sound of the halberd, swept toward him.
The oppressive aura of death made Qian Qiong feel as if he were suffocating.
He desperately tried to summon his attacking artifact, but his movements felt incredibly slow.
“Ah!” Qian Qiong roared, burning his essence blood and lifespan in a desperate attempt to unleash his power.
Finally, he managed to summon a long blade.
*Boom!* The continuous sonic booms exploded into countless halberd strikes, overwhelming Qian Qiong.
Trapped within the formation, his blade couldn’t even gather momentum before it was engulfed by the halberd strikes.
*Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!* Blood mist erupted from Qian Qiong’s chest as he collapsed to the ground, using his blade to prop himself up.
Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth as he stared at Lan Xiaobu.
The hatred in his eyes was gone, replaced by a cold, resigned expression. “You’ve won. If it weren’t for this Void Formation, you would have died by my hand. I just want to know… how did you escape the bone-devouring flames?”
To Qian Qiong, without the Void Formation, even a ninth-grade trapping and killing formation wouldn’t have been enough for Lan Xiaobu to kill him.
The Void Formation had completely suppressed him, leaving him helpless.
Lan Xiaobu coldly stared at Qian Qiong. “You’re not in a position to ask questions. Today, I will extract your soul and refine it to avenge the hundreds of thousands of innocent souls of the Five Universe Immortal Realm.”
Qian Qiong let out a bitter laugh. “You don’t have the right to refine my soul…”
With that, he immediately attempted to self-destruct his Primordial Spirit.
But his face turned pale as he realized that his Sea of Consciousness was now bound by chains of divine sense that didn’t belong to him.
These chains locked his Primordial Spirit in place, preventing him from self-destructing.
“Let me die. I’ll agree to anything you want…” Qian Qiong pleaded, his voice filled with terror.
“Die?” Lan Xiaobu sneered.
He reached out and extracted Qian Qiong’s Primordial Spirit.
Within Lan Xiaobu’s ninth-grade formation, even an Immortal Emperor like Qian Qiong had no power to resist.
Lan Xiaobu sealed Qian Qiong’s Primordial Spirit within a Void Restriction Formation.
A flame ignited beneath the Primordial Spirit, beginning to burn it.
“Ah…” A heart-wrenching scream echoed from the Void Stone as Qian Qiong collapsed to the ground.
Lan Xiaobu collected Qian Qiong’s belongings and reduced his body to ashes with a wave of his hand.
Outside the Void Stone, Shen Sen had already retreated far away.
Qian Qiong’s agonized scream shattered any remaining hope in his heart.
Lan Xiaobu deactivated all the trapping and killing formations on the Void Stone, and the scene within became clear once more.
Everyone’s eyes were fixed on the Void Stone, where dozens of corpses lay scattered across its surface.
The already dark red Void Stone was now stained even darker with blood.
“Lan Xiaobu, as the Five Universe King, how could you massacre dozens of Immortal Emperors before the Great Calamity? Where is your conscience?” Shen Sen pointed at Lan Xiaobu, his voice trembling with fear.
No one paid attention to Shen Sen’s words.
All eyes were on the Void Restriction Formation at the edge of the Void Stone, where a Primordial Spirit was being burned by flames, its agonized wails echoing.
This was the most brutal punishment for a cultivator—soul-burning.
Everyone knew it was Qian Qiong’s Primordial Spirit.
Dozens of Immortal Emperors and half-step Divine Realm experts had entered the Void Stone, but Lan Xiaobu was only burning Qian Qiong’s soul.
It was clear how much Lan Xiaobu hated Qian Qiong.
(That’s all for today’s update.
Goodnight, everyone! Just a quick note: I revised Chapter 399, but for some reason, the unrevised version was uploaded.
I’ve fixed it now.)
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