Chapter 49: Disguise

  Despicable! Xie Fengzi cursed in a low voice. After being hit by the乾坤圈, his body's true fire scattered everywhere, and Xie Fengzi took a deep breath, grasped the law seal with his hand, and his entire body exploded, transforming into over a dozen flames that rapidly jumped in all directions. Lin Fan and Xi Men Shuai each locked onto one of the flames and killed their way over, extinguishing two of them. When they looked again, the other flames had already escaped. Xi Men Shuai let out a sigh: "The Liè Huǒ Fēn Shēn Dà Fǎ is indeed formidable." The Liè Huǒ Fēn Shēn Dà Fǎ split into over a dozen flames, all of which were real; as long as one flame remained unextinguished, Xie Fengzi would not die.

  Ximen Shuai and Lin Fan came all the way, both sides designed multiple sets of coordination methods to deal with the thousand-year-old demon fox. Unexpectedly, they were hit by Xie Fengzi first. Faced with Xie Fengzi's cultivation, Lin Fan decisively used the first set of coordination methods, using the Nine Turns Locking Key to lock up Xie Fengzi, while Ximen Shuai took advantage of Xie Fengzi's inability to move and attacked him. Although he succeeded in one hit, unfortunately, he still let Xie Fengzi escape.

  Ximen said: "However, the Lihuo Split Body Great Method damages one's cultivation. Although only two flames were extinguished, Xie Fengzi has already suffered heavy injuries and can only retreat to heal for the time being."

  Lin Fan said, "Unfortunately, next time Xie Fengzi won't be able to engage in a battle of true energy with me." The Nine Turns Locking Demon Technique requires both parties' controllable true energy to come into contact or their bodies to touch each other.

  Ximen nodded: "The Blazing Fire Clone Technique is not that simple, he was caught off guard and suffered a great loss. Otherwise, if the clone of Blazing Fire had confronted us, it's possible that he could have retreated unscathed."

  Lin Fan curiously asked: "Are you and he one on one?"

  "I won." Ximen Shuai replied confidently, he had the celestial-grade treasure: Seven Breaking Flags. The rich and handsome were indeed rich and handsome, born with more resources than others. However, Ximen Shuai did not want to use the Seven Breaking Flags unless absolutely necessary, because the abilities of the Seven Breaking Flags were fixed, and relying too heavily on it would limit his own development space.

  The Blazing Fire Sect, strictly speaking, is not considered an evil sect. It was founded by a foreigner from a very distant place over a thousand years ago. The sect worships fire and believes it to be the source of life. There is also the saying that as long as the blazing fire does not die out, life will not cease. However, seven hundred years ago, the leader of the Blazing Fire Sect became greedy for power and began to spread his teachings among the people, recruiting disciples. Over several decades, the number of followers exceeded one million. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the followers from eleven continents rose up in arms together. The emperors of the eleven continents fought separately, with three continents completely falling into chaos. The leader of the Blazing Fire Sect proclaimed himself emperor and granted thousands of royal titles.

  Later, under the leadership of the Central Continent Emperor, each continent began to eliminate the Blazing Fire Sect and besieged the fallen three continents. In a situation where the army was defeated like a mountain collapse, the leader of the Blazing Fire Sect could not hold back and led the cultivators to participate in the struggle for power. Using cultivation to slaughter ordinary people is considered an evil sect, so the Purple Bamboo Pavilion immediately responded and joined forces with the Eight Gates Sect to attack the old nest of the Blazing Fire Sect. In the end, the main altar of the Blazing Fire Sect was breached, the leader died, and the followers scattered in all directions. A small number of people escaped into the desolate wilderness and re-established the Blazing Fire Sect.

  The Blazing Fire Sect had been quietly unknown in the vast and desolate land, not even making a splash during the Great Evil War. However, over the past two hundred years, the Blazing Fire Sect suddenly rose to prominence, swallowing up six nearby small evil sects, unifying the Flame Mountain, laying down protective arrays, and instantly becoming one of the top ten evil sects in the vast and desolate land.

  Apart from the Emperor's Dream drama 700 years ago, the Lihuo Shenjiao had no heretical behavior. However, there were some conflicts with the Demon Sect and a few Orthodox disciples in the desolate land, showing no mercy. They publicly declared: "If people do not offend me, I will not offend them; if people offend me, I will definitely offend them." In addition, the Lihuo Shenjiao had another characteristic: they did not associate with other heretical sects and did not accept any invitations from them.

  Yun Qing Men has a certain subjective understanding of the records of the Lihuo Shen Jiao, thinking that the current nature of the Lihuo Shen Jiao is similar to that of the Du Long Jiao of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, both righteous and evil. However, the Lihuo Shen Jiao carved the shame of 700 years ago on a stele, erected in front of the main hall of Huoyan Mountain, indicating a strong hostile sentiment towards the Zheng Dao, including the Zi Xiao Temple. This also indirectly reflects the narrow-mindedness and vengeful nature of the people of Lihuo Shen Jiao.

  Originally, Zheng Ye and Xue Feng had a fight on Mount Taihang, which was normal. Since no one died, they should just go their separate ways and mind their own business. However, Xue Feng happened to be a master of the Lihuo Sect, so according to the sect's temperament, this meant that they had become sworn enemies. But neither Sima Zong and Lin Fan were too concerned about it. Xue Feng would have to go into seclusion for a period of time, and by the time he came out, the two of them would have already returned to their hometowns. This way, no matter how arrogant Xue Feng was, he wouldn't dare to cause trouble in the Twelve Continents again.

  Lin Fan and Xi Men Shuai searched for four hours in the Great Snow Mountain, but they didn't encounter any lone Ice Spirits again. At least seven or eight would appear together. Lin Fan had been frozen once before, and his heart still felt a lingering fear. In the end, under Lin Fan's suggestion, the two flew high and left the Great Snow Mountain.

  Once out of the Great Snow Mountain, it is a vast and desolate land. The main geographical features are Gobi Desert, desert, wilderness and swamp.

  Entering the desolate land, General Ximen warned: "Fly low, be vigilant all around, evil people come and go frequently. This is a map, remember it clearly, don't rush to someone's home like a madman, or you'll die without knowing how."

  Lin Fan looked at the map: "Is this the Ziyan Gate?"

  "Alright, we're at the Emerald Valley." Ximen Shuai said: "We'll be taking the route through the Desert Canyon, passing through the central area of two small evil sects' territories. This route is relatively safer. Also, as soon as we encounter any evil sect disciples, immediately kill them to prevent them from sounding an alarm and getting surrounded."

  This road is a detour, and we have to travel at least hundreds of miles more. Lin Fan asked: "Why can't we pretend to be disciples of the evil sect?"

  "You asked well, don't think that the evil sect is like the righteous path, where disciples meet and greet each other with courtesy as brothers. Why are they called the evil sect? Besides practicing evil magic, it's also because of their wicked hearts. You'll have to carry several magical treasures around, and you might get beaten to death at any time. So, another characteristic of the evil sect is that they send out scouts to patrol around their mountain gates, but they won't go far. Unless it's an elite master like Xie Fengzi who roams freely, generally speaking, small sects won't provoke the masters of larger sects, and even among large sects, they'll kill and rob each other, but they won't make a move until they're sure they can silence them. The two of us showing up near someone else's territory is like announcing that we're sheep waiting to be slaughtered."

  Lin Fan said: "But I can wield the bamboo sword." The Blood Shadow Sect was a major sect, and he had taken a token flag to impersonate a Blood Shadow Sect messenger. Who would dare to kill an unprofitable messenger?

  "......" Xi Men said wordlessly: "But I won't."

  Lin Fan asked curiously: "Last time in Jiulang Mountain Range, I saw you use Blood Shadow Great Method?"

  "What is the Blood Shadow Great Method? It's just using true energy to make one's blood vessels like the Blood Shadow Great Method." Ximen Shuai's eyes flashed with inspiration: "I can pretend to be a Tianjiang Gate disciple, Tianjiang Gate disciples dress in cloth strips wrapped around their faces, only revealing their eyes. And when Tianjiang Gate people take action, they use all kinds of poisonous substances, killing is useless, and various evil sects will not take the initiative to provoke."