Chapter 82
Flame Beasts and Humans
Chapter 82 Flame Beasts and Humans
Inside the main hall.
King Yanhuang looked at Gu Ce with great interest.
"Boy, you dare come here for your first training mission? The mortality rate here is extremely high!"
"Greetings, Lord Flame Phoenix King," Gu Ce said, neither humble nor arrogant. "I felt this mission suited me, so I came."
King Yanhuang chuckled softly and shook his head slightly.
"I have some connections with the Silver Moon King. If you die here, I won't be able to explain myself."
"Don't worry, sir," Gu Ce said confidently. "I'm not that easy to kill."
"Well, in that case, you will enter the Seven Flames Palace from... this direction, understand?" King Yanhuang's smile faded, and he said seriously.
"Thank you, Lord Flame Phoenix!" Gu Ce bowed his head in gratitude.
"Alright, go ahead." King Yanhuang waved his hand.
The Seven Flames Palace contains seven sacred flames, but only one of them is helpful to Gu Ce.
The Flame Phoenix King cultivates the fundamental laws of fire, and the greatest help he can give Gu Ce is to remind him where to enter the Seven Flames Palace.
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Receiving guidance from the Flame Phoenix King was merely a minor incident.
Outside the Seven Flames Palace, there are seven layers of rainbow light protecting it. Inside the rainbow light is the surface of the Seven Flames Palace, also known as the Chaos Land.
The spaceship stopped outside the rainbow light. Gu Ce put the spaceship away and passed through the rainbow light with his physical body.
The seven layers of rainbow light, each containing cosmic radiation, exerted pressure on Gu Ce's body, but even Gu Ce's "No Limits" couldn't be broken, let alone directly affect his body.
The ground is getting closer and closer!
"Gah!"
A terrifying behemoth with wingspans nearly three thousand meters and covered in sharp spikes made a duck-like quack sound, opened its massive jaws, and hurtled rapidly toward Gu Ce through the air.
Swish!
The next moment, Gu Ce appeared above the terrifying behemoth's head, and with a backhand strike, he shattered its brain.
Stepping on this terrifying behemoth, Gu Ce landed on the surface of the Seven Flames Palace. As soon as he arrived, he felt a scorching heat, which disappeared as soon as he tried to feel it more closely.
"A Flame Beast? Its mind couldn't withstand the illumination of the Seven Sacred Flames, thus losing its reason and becoming a ferocious beast driven only by instinct?" Gu Ce murmured. "That feeling just now, was it the illumination of the Seven Sacred Flames? Fortunately, I made a breakthrough in Absolute Instinct before coming here."
Flame Beasts are the names given to these irrational monsters by humans living in the Seven Flames Palace. The lowest level is the Eternal Star, and the highest is the Domain Lord level.
The large bird beneath Gu Ce's feet was a Flame Beast that had reached the Domain Lord level, but because it lacked reason, it could not unleash its full strength, and even its domain was only driven by instinct.
It is estimated that the core geniuses of the Virtual Universe Company, even those from the Apocalyptic Secret Realm, would all be confident in killing him after thirty years of cultivation in Chaos City.
"As expected of a chaotic place!" Gu Ce exclaimed.
The Chaotic Land is the name given to the outer layer of the Seven Flames Palace.
Correspondingly, there is also the Orderly Land within the Seven Flames Palace.
In the chaotic land, a large number of flame beasts live. These flame beasts pose a great threat to the humans of the Seven Flames Palace. Although they have lost their minds, making them far weaker than humans of the same level, their strength lies in their large numbers. Universe-level beings are everywhere, while domain lord-level beings are as insignificant as dogs.
Therefore, the number of humans from the Seven Flames Palace living in the Chaotic Lands is quite small.
According to the Virtual Universe Company's explanation, if Gu Ce wants to complete the cultivation mission, he must first find the 'tunnel' in the Chaotic Land. The tunnel will lead to the inner layer of the Seven Flames Palace, the Land of Order.
The Land of Order is home to over 95% of the humans and other intelligent beings of the Seven Flames Palace. It is there that one can obtain Fire Coins to complete the first cultivation task.
Finding the tunnel wasn't difficult.
The Land of Chaos and the Land of Order are connected by millions of tunnels of varying sizes. These tunnels are essentially giant sinkholes, making them relatively easy to find. The only challenge is that entering a tunnel requires paying a certain amount of Fire Coins.
As an outsider, Gu Ce naturally did not have any Fire Coins.
However, killing Flame Beasts allows you to extract Flame Beast Blood from their blood, which can be used in place of Fire Coins to enter the Land of Order.
The Cloud Sea Sword sliced open the body of the large bird beneath his feet. Gu Ce took out a semi-transparent jade bottle, which he had prepared beforehand, and poured all the blood from the bird's body into the bottle.
Gu Ce didn't know how to extract the blood of the Flame Beast, but as long as he collected the blood, he could still use it.
"Kill!" (Seven Flames Palace's language)
Shouts of battle reached his ears. If Gu Ce hadn't learned hundreds of human languages from the Seven Flames Palace beforehand, he wouldn't have understood what they were shouting.
As soon as Gu Ce had a thought, he realized that more than a hundred kilometers away from him, a group of humans were engaged in a bloody battle.
"These are... tribal humans?" Gu Ce exclaimed in surprise.
Tribal humans are common human settlements in the Chaotic Lands, somewhat similar to the early tribal humans of the primitive era on Earth. They act collectively, hunting fire beasts to obtain food, or fighting with other tribes for territory.
They also have their own language and civilization, and were originally humans who were expelled from the Land of Order.
The emergence of tribal humans also illustrates one point.
That is, there are 'tunnels' all around!
Most of the tribes harbored the delusion that they could one day return to the land of order, so they lived very close to the 'tunnel'.
The two tribes currently at war are only at the cosmic level in terms of their strongest members.
With a thought, a pink ocean appeared out of thin air on the plain where they were fighting, enveloping them within it.
Mirage Sea!
The leaders of the two tribes were brought before Gu Ce. Their eyes were glazed over, clearly trapped in an illusion.
The Mirage Sea Secret Technique has now reached the fifth level, which even some domain lords cannot break free from. Dealing with these top-level cosmic humans is naturally a piece of cake.
"What are your identities?" Gu Ce asked.
"The chieftain of the Cuilang tribe."
"The chieftain of the Golden Stick Tribe."
The two answered separately.
"Very good, where is the nearest tunnel? What are the requirements for entering?" Gu Ce continued to ask.
Although Gu Ce doesn't know any secret techniques like soul enslavement or soul searching, he can still ask for directions through the illusion.
"The nearest tunnel is the Wanqing Tunnel, located 3,000 kilometers to the east of here. It leads to Wanqing City. To enter, you need to pay 10 units of Domain Lord-level blood or 1 unit of Flame Beast blood." The two answers were almost identical.
"How much is one unit?" Gu Ce frowned.
"One unit of Domain Lord-level Flame Beast blood is roughly equivalent to the entire blood of a first-tier Domain Lord-level Flame Beast. Ten thousand units of Cosmic-level blood can be exchanged for one unit of Domain Lord-level blood," the two replied.
Gu Ce nodded slightly. By this calculation, the giant bird-like flame beast he had killed should have yielded a few units of blood.
At most, taking down nine more will be enough.
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