Chapter 102: The Power of the Command Flag

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  Rumble... rumble... rumble...

  Su Che was unwilling to give up and continued to throw punches, one after another, with increasing force, each time bouncing back stronger, and would have fallen into the magma if he hadn't already mastered the art of flight.

  His right fist had already swollen up, but Su Che was still unwilling to give up, with an air of not stopping until he had beaten it into submission.

  Lao Hei promptly administered a life-warming treatment to his right hand and reminded him, "Master, the ancient witch tribe was known for its bravery and ruthlessness in battle. You can't force it, or you'll definitely fail."

  "I know."

  Su Che laughed and said: "Doing this is just to prove to it that my temper isn't bad either, I'm on the same level as it."

  This statement seems ridiculous, but Su Che thought that all treasures have spirits, and perhaps it was also quietly observing itself.

  However, the warm current of Xianyu sent by Laohei at this moment reminded Su Che that the banner had been floating above the black giant stone all along, and whether there was any connection between the two.

  So, Su Che took off his shoes and stepped barefoot on the black boulder. The familiar clear stream immediately flowed into his body. Then, Su Che guided that strand of clear stream to flow to his arm, condense in his palm, and once again tentatively touched the flagstone.

  It's done

  This time, without any obstruction, Su Che approached the flag and grabbed the flagpole after a slight hesitation.

  This banner was originally not large, and the flagpole was only as thick as a thumb. Holding it in his palm, he immediately felt a scorching sensation.

  Su Che thought that this scorching feeling was not strange, after all, this was an underground fire vein, the air temperature could even roast food, and the flagpole was metal, it was a bit hot to the touch, which was normal.

  As soon as this thought arose, a loud rumble sounded, and the scorching sensation in his hand was magnified countless times. Su Che felt like he had fallen into the lava lake behind him without any defense, and his body was instantly burned to ashes.

  His consciousness was fading away, as if his soul had escaped, and he was about to die...

  At this moment, if there were outsiders present, they would see that Su Che had not fallen into the lava lake. Instead, his body burst forth with a dazzling red light, as if a fierce flame had been ignited.

  Su Che felt that his soul had already left his body, floating and flying over mountains, rivers, and the Gobi Desert, going tens of thousands of miles away...

  Time was extremely long, as if a hundred years had passed, and suddenly the sky and earth changed drastically, and his soul saw another picture.

  On the vast plain, a huge altar stands towering, emitting an ancient and solemn aura.

  This altar is built with countless giant stones, each of which is inlaid with dark red totems; these totems seem to be alive, heaving and jumping, as if the souls of countless people are attached to them, wailing, struggling, and suffering terribly...

  On the altar stood a robust man, his face and body also tattooed with strange totems, holding a golden command flag in his right hand.

  Roar

  The great general raised his command flag and let out a thunderous roar.

  Rumbling sound

  Hundreds of strong men kneeling under the altar suddenly transformed, all turning into giants with a height of hundreds of feet, with ferocious faces and terrifying momentum, their incredibly powerful bodies could shatter the sky.

  The giants shouted in unison, a massive sound wave that shattered mountains and rivers, causing the earth to twist and crack, splitting out numerous deep gorges.

  At this time, the sky suddenly darkened, not because of overcast clouds, but because countless immortals flew in, too many to count, and actually covered the entire sky.

  In an instant, the cultivators' army and the giants engaged in a fierce battle to the death. Countless magical artifacts and spells fell upon the giants, but they couldn't cause them even the slightest bit of harm.

  Rooooaaaar...

  Giants roared continuously, and with a casual raise of their hands, they could shatter the tiny cultivators into powder or crush them to death in the palm of their hand.

  One by one, the cultivators fell, their physical bodies destroyed, and their primordial spirits were also unable to escape. They were pulled by a vast suction force onto the altar, transforming into brand new dark red totems.

  "Seize"

  "Seize"

  Seize

  A robust man on the altar waves a command flag and roars loudly, shaking heaven and earth.

  "Seize the creative power of heaven and earth, seize the essence of all things, seize the primordial spirit of the immortal, seize the luck of the demon..."

  As he roared, the giants' momentum grew stronger, and more and more cultivators died at their hands...

  At this point, Su Che suddenly realized that he was just a spectator, and his soul had not escaped, but rather, his mind had produced an illusion, perhaps it was the ghost of that command flag.

  Thinking of this, I felt slightly relieved, but...

  The robust man on the altar suddenly turned his head and roared, "You insignificant ants, dare to offend our tribe's sacred object? Die!"

  Death

  Death

  Death

  A dead word, as if a great mountain had crushed his head, Su Che's eyes turned black and he fainted directly.

  At this moment, Su Che's mind was thoroughly disrupted by an inexplicable force, as if a world was about to collapse. This meant that Su Che's soul faced the danger of complete dispersal.

  If a person's soul is scattered, it will be completely annihilated, and even the qualification for reincarnation will be deprived, which is more terrifying than eternal damnation.

  Hummm...

  At this moment of extreme crisis, the Xianyu Black Tower slowly rotated, bursting out with golden light and playing a heavenly melody that was like the Dinghai Shen Zhen, stabilizing Su Che's mental domain.

  Boom

  On the black islet in Lava Lake, Su Che grasped that command flag, upside down and silent. Fortunately, his slightly heaving chest showed that he was still alive.

  An hour has passed.

  Another moment has passed...

  Su Che had never woken up before, and since entering the Xiu Zhen realm, this was still the first time he had fallen into such a deep coma-like sleep.

  In the prison, Lao Hei was also nowhere to be found, without a sound or movement. Only a dozen or so prisoners were still busy with their own affairs, completely unaware of what had just happened.

  Time slowly passed, and after a while, a bright red figure emerged from the other end of the lava lake. It was surprisingly that red-tailed fox again.

  A few moments ago, the Red-tailed Fox was scared away by Su Che, and now it's guessing that the human cultivator must have taken the banner and left, so it's trying to sneak back and take a look.

  Firstly, what made it feel at ease was that the most precious little black island was still in its original place and hadn't been taken away. Then, it saw Su Che who had fainted.

  "Yikes"

  The red-tailed fox let out a cry, purely to test Su Che, to see if he was asleep or what...

  Yelled for more than a dozen times, Su Che was completely unresponsive. The red-tailed fox swooped over and circled the small island, mustering up its courage, brewing a small fireball, planning to add insult to injury and put Su Che in a desperate situation.

  The fox's mouth slowly opened, a faint flame condensed...

  With a loud "Ka", like a crow that had just opened its mouth to cry out, was slapped into silence by someone. The red-tailed fox fell from the sky and landed with a thud beside Su Che, kicking its hind legs a few times before falling unconscious.

  Then, a wisp of blue smoke drilled out from its head and returned to Su Che's head. Lao Hei's rough voice appeared again: "Damn it, I had expected that you, this dead fox, would come back to take advantage of the fire."

  It turned out that Lao Hei had been prepared for a long time, transformed into the Tianmo form and floated in mid-air, quietly waiting for the Red Tail Fox to come and crash into him.

  Nowadays, Lao Hei and Su Che are also at the level of Ling Qi Da Yuan Man. Through possession, they can easily collect a small fox.

  After that, Lao Hei captured the Red-tailed Fox and put it in the Xian prison. Then he transformed into the Mouse Emperor form and issued a mental summons, summoning countless Yin Wind Mice to surround the entrance of the underground fire vein layer by layer, so as not to let any creatures rush in, ensuring that Su Che would not be threatened again during his coma.

  Almost fainted for two days and two nights, Su Che woke up with a splitting headache.

  Upon seeing a fiery red fox with a crimson tail in the Xian prison, Su Che had already guessed everything. He thought to himself: "Little fox, I always felt that you broke through the shackles of your bloodline, which is not easy. Wanting to let you go and give you a way out, but you insist on jumping into the net... Fine, after entering, continue being neighbors with that Earth Fire Spirit."

  The little fox had long been tamed by Old Black, and now it has become the assistant of alchemist Luo Lianqiao. Every day, it has to spit out strange flames in front of the alchemy furnace. In the future, its life will definitely not be as carefree as it was on the Black Stone Island.

  "Master," said Lao Hei, "I have a piece of good news and a piece of bad news. Which one would you like to hear first?"

  "Bad," Su Che rubbed his temples and replied.

  "This golden command flag, although it doesn't have a spiritual energy, still has the consciousness of autonomous attack. The blow it gave you almost shattered your soul, fortunately, it was suppressed by the Xianyu Pagoda. However, the golden command flag's fierce flames are overwhelming, and to suppress it, the Xianyu Pagoda needs to consume a considerable amount of energy, so..."

  "Consume energy?"

  Su Che immediately realized that energy couldn't be created out of thin air. Then what kind of energy was Xianyu consuming?

  Focused and checked, well, the more than 50,000 spirit stones stored in Tianyu were all gone, not a single one left.

  In his daily life, to be on the safe side, Su Che would only symbolically store a few hundred spirit stones in his own Qiankun bag. All of his family's wealth was stored in the more secure Xianyu prison. This time, however, the remaining 50,000+ spirit stones from buying dan medicine were swallowed up by the Xianyu prison.

  "It's okay, it's okay..." Su Che comforted himself: "It's just a spiritual stone, if I lose it, I can still earn more. Anyway, I have the secret medicine garden and the Yin Wind Gorge, earning spiritual stones is not a problem."

  Lao Hei also said, "Yes, Master. Fortunately, there are so many spiritual stones stored in the Xianyu, otherwise, at critical moments, the Xianyu Pagoda wouldn't have enough energy to save you."

  "That's right, one's life is the most important thing, and the spiritual stone doesn't matter. This isn't bad news at all." Su Che forcefully waved his hand, throwing aside the loss of the spiritual stone: "Let's talk about good news instead."