Chapter 729: Did I Interrupt You Two?

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in the Old Days Mountains.

This used to be the most lush primeval forest in the western Free Federation, but now, as far as the eye could see, it was all scorched earth.

Hundreds of continuous extinct volcanoes had all been detonated under the traction of invisible Laws.

Rolling thick smoke blotted out the sky and sun, turning an area of hundreds of kilometers in radius into an ocean of magma.

Dark red magma surged across the earth, devouring everything combustible, and the air was filled with a pungent sulfur smell and high heat.

And above this magma sea capable of melting steel.

Mr. Duan was still wearing an immaculate grey trench coat, a retro top hat, and his hands were tucked into his pockets.

He stood proudly in the Void Realm, letting the rolling fire waves below rage as they might, they could not come within half a foot of his body.

"Chaidamen, my old friend."

Mr. Duan looked down at the largest volcano crater below, his voice piercing through the volcanic roar.

"The time has come. You have slept long enough in this cramped furnace; isn't it about time to come out and witness our new world?"

As his voice fell, the magma sea fell into a brief silence.

Following that, a loud explosion!

The largest volcano crater erupted with a thousand-meter-tall pillar of fire shooting straight into the clouds!

At the center of the flames, the phantom of a rugged man condensed from magma and dark purple divine fire emerged.

His body was a hundred zhang tall, and every breath he took could cause the magma sea below to heave accordingly.

However, facing Mr. Duan's proposal, this descendant of the ancient Fire God burst into loud laughter.

"Duan, stop putting on this hypocritical act here, damn it! Do you really take me for one of those fools whose brains were worn away by the years?"

Chaidamen's two sun-like eyes stared at the grey figure in mid-air, his tone stiff:

"Do you really think I would foolishly run out and become a stepping stone for you to deal with the Heavenly Dao and achieve transcendence?"

The smile on Mr. Duan's face froze for a moment, then he sighed, his expression still gentle.

"Chaidamen, your misunderstanding of me is too deep.

Back then, who endured the pressure of the Heavenly Dao's great cleansing to seal a wisp of your remnant soul within the ley lines of the Old Days Mountains?

Now I have resurrected you as promised, originally thinking we could rekindle our old friendship, but who would have thought… you turned out to be a faithless villain."

"Me faithless? Hahahaha! What a colossal joke!"

The rugged man laughed heartily, his magma phantom trembling with his laughter, "Duan, what kind of person are you? Which old fogey from the old era doesn't know? What qualifications do you have to talk to me about credibility?!"

Speaking of this, two rays of divine light shot out from Chaidamen's two flame-like eyes, heading straight towards Mr. Duan.

"Let me ask you! Why is there the Aura of that old bat, the Blood Ancestor, on your body?!"

"Don't even think about lying to me! What I cultivate is the ultimate purifying divine fire, and my perception of the Origin of life is sharper than anyone's!

The smell of blood on your body that has not yet been fully digested, I can smell it clearly from a hundred miles away!"

Chaidamen snorted coldly, the flames around his body soaring, "That old bat had not long awakened before his Aura was cut off.

Aside from you, who else could obliterate him in such a short time? Only a fool whose brain was frozen stiff from sleeping like him would believe your ghost stories and fall for your trap!"

Having his lie exposed, Mr. Duan did not fly into a rage.

He looked at the raging Chaidamen below, and after a moment, he pulled his hands out from his pockets and took off the retro top hat on his head.

"Sigh…"

Mr. Duan sighed, his gaze turning cold, and high-dimensional coercion surpassing the world's rules erupted from his body.

"Originally, I wanted to let you go with some dignity, without suffering too much torture from fear. Since that's the case, I might as well just lay my cards on the table."

Mr. Duan looked down condescendingly at the hundred-zhang-tall flame phantom and sneered: "That's right, the Blood Ancestor was indeed absorbed by me. His decaying Origin doesn't taste very good."

"He is the first, and you… are the second!"

"Bang—!"

As Mr. Duan's voice fell, the space around him began to collapse. The Law of Annihilation crushed down toward Chaidamen below.

Facing this coercion, the rugged man did not retreat, but instead let out a wild laugh.

"Hahahaha! Arrogant! You can try!"

Chaidamen spread his arms, and the magma sea spanning hundreds of kilometers below was summoned, turning into countless ferocious fire dragons that soared into the sky, interweaving into a barrier of divine fire in front of him.

"Don't think that just because you luckily broke the shackles and became a so-called Transcendent, you truly have a chance to kill me here! This is my home turf; before these ley-line fires are extinguished, I am immortal!"

Chaidamen's voice rolled and scattered, "Furthermore… do you think that I would dare to defy you here without any preparation at all? I still have helpers!"

"Helpers?"

Mr. Duan stopped his hand movements, and as if he had heard some absurd joke, he let out a laugh.

"Stop joking, Chaidamen. Can't you see the current situation clearly?

The seal of the will of heaven is still there, and those old, weak, sick, and disabled in other ruins cannot step out of the ruins even half a step. Who would dare to risk being struck by heavenly punishment and suffering Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering to save you?"

Mr. Duan put his top hat back on, his eyes filled with a sense of control, "Where did you get any helpers from? Relying on those mortal ants who can't even take a single finger of yours?"

However, Mr. Duan's voice had just fallen.

"Hum—!"

In the Void Realm not far away, a circle of dazzling golden ripples unfurled without warning.

The domineering fluctuation of the sacred Law rippled out! This force forcefully tore open a crack in Mr. Duan's sealed spatial Domain!

Following that, a stream of golden light flowed out from the crack, condensing into the phantom of a young man in mid-air.

The young man's figure was somewhat blurred, not his physical body in person, but the Aura exuding from him dispelled the black smoke of the volcano all over the sky, forming a posture of contending evenly with Mr. Duan's high-dimensional coercion!

Yet another top-tier SSS-Rank Expert! And possessing the heaviness unique to the sacrifice of millions of lives!

The young man in the golden light stood with his hands behind his back, a gentle smile hanging on his handsome face. He looked at the raging Chaidamen below, and then turned his gaze to the man in the grey trench coat not far away.

"I am truly sorry."

The young man spoke with a smile, his voice clear and echoing in the Void Realm, "Seeing the two of you chatting so engrossed… I didn't interrupt you two, did I?"

The expression of Mr. Duan, who had originally been holding all the cards, froze on his face the moment he saw the face of this golden phantom clearly.

In his pair of normally calm eyes, a rare look of surprise finally could not help but reveal itself.

"Francis?!"