Chapter 187: Chapter 161: Earth Vein Lava, a Terrifying Existence
He then circulated his familiar Spiritual Power, directing it toward the small cyan and earthen-yellow dots.
"Lingling, ling!" "Chirp? Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp chirp!!!"
Inside his mind, Egg Pancake’s excited cries echoed.
"Yin Yi, Egg Pancake!"
"Ling!" "Chirp~"
Hearing its master’s long-awaited call, Yin Yi jumped happily.
Egg Pancake happily scurried back and forth inside the Soul Beast Space, rolling over to expose its snow-white belly, clearly wanting Han Ning to pet it.
"Ling?" "Chirp chirp chirp?"
The two little ones waved their vines and claws, repeatedly pointing upward.
Han Ning immediately understood what they meant. They wanted him to let them out.
"Not right now. Wait a little longer."
"Ling~" "Chirp!"
The two little ones nodded obediently.
After so many days without being fed, Egg Pancake had gotten a little thinner, and its life aura had weakened somewhat.
Yin Yi was slightly better off, but it also looked listless.
Even though it was starving, Egg Pancake didn’t pester its master for food, which made Han Ning feel a pang of guilt.
"Yin Yi, Egg Pancake, just hang in there a little longer."
After comforting his two Soul Beasts, he lay down on the ground, closed his eyes, and continued to conserve his energy, waiting for a chance to escape.
Another half-day passed. The Cyan Insect Master, who had been staring blankly at the top of the rock wall, suddenly sent another message to Han Ning via Spiritual Power:
’The temperature’s rising again. Five days... The Burning Fire Race must have started drawing Power from the Fire Vein... That bastard Astha is probably preparing for a breakthrough.’
’The Power of the Fire Vein?’ Han Ning’s Spiritual Power stirred.
’Hm? You... You actually broke through the Burning Fire Race’s restraints?’ The Cyan Insect Master looked at Han Ning, quite surprised.
Han Ning didn’t want to draw attention to himself, so he immediately changed the subject, continuing to ask, ’What is the Power of the Fire Vein?’
’It’s the subterranean Fire Vein that provides the continent’s heat, the foundation of all life. Astha, the Clan Leader of the Burning Fire Race, wants to draw out the Fire Vein’s Power to help his Void Flame Fierce Lizard break free from the shackles of its bloodline and surpass the Lord Level.’
’Heh heh... The Burning Fire Race thinks they can escape the control of the Queen and the Five Great Holy Clans and leave this place? It’s pure fantasy. So what if a mere Lord Peak Void Flame Fierce Lizard breaks through...’
As his Spiritual Power message reached this point, the Cyan Insect Master suddenly let out a crazed, cold laugh.
’Leave this place?’
Han Ning immediately thought of the Taman Insect Master. Back then... it seemed he had also wanted to leave this place with Nia.
’The Yinsaike Race... the Burning Fire Race here... why do they all want to leave the Insect Continent? The Queen, the Five Ancestor Families... just how terrifying are they?’
’No wonder that Burning Fire Race Insect Master’s Soul Beast isn’t an insect, but a lizard. They probably want to escape the bloodline suppression of the Ancestor Families, so they changed their Contracted Soul Beasts?’
Considering he was now playing the part of a young man from an Ancestor Family, Han Ning simulated the appropriate emotions, putting on an angry expression as he sent his message: ’How do we stop them?’
In reality, he wanted to use the other’s power to see if he could find a chance to escape.
’My insects... Astha killed them all. There’s no chance of escape. At least, *we’ll* die... Heh heh... heh heh!’
Hearing this, the Cyan Insect Master once again burst into crazed laughter.
’Astha killed all his insects... no wonder he’s not mentally stable...’
Han Ning thought this to himself, but his brow furrowed as he transmitted, ’At the very least, we have to send a message to the Queen and our families so they can come and stop Astha’s actions.’
’Don’t worry. As soon as Astha draws upon the power of the earth’s veins and injects it into the Void Flame Fierce Lizard, it will attract the attention of the Holy Race. They absolutely won’t be able to escape.’
He gave a cold smile. ’Why do you think they’re keeping us alive? Escaping this place requires the bloodlines of the Five Great Holy Clans’ Insect Masters to unlock the seal. We... are just their sacrificial offerings.’
Hearing this, Han Ning fell silent.
’I put on this act, hoping to use the Ancestor Families’ name as a shield to make them hesitate... but I never thought that Insect Masters from the Ancestor Families had this kind of use...’
’Now that he mentions it, there really is no hope of survival.’
Whether it was the Insect Masters from the Ancestor Families or those of the Burning Fire Race, they were all behemoths he couldn’t hope to match.
Just as Han Ning’s heart was sinking to rock bottom, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the entrance.
The tall, red Insect-man who had disappeared earlier reappeared in the cave.
’He is the Vice Clan Leader of the Burning Fire Race, Xiu Lin.’
The Cyan Insect Master’s Spiritual Power flashed through his mind, and then there was nothing more.
Xiu Lin scanned the two "Ancestor" Insect Masters in the cave. With a cold expression, he walked right up to them, grabbed them by the neck like he was grabbing chicks, and lifted them up before heading out of the cave.
A surging heat wave rolled endlessly toward them from ahead.
Han Ning forced his eyes open and saw an upward-sloping passage appear before him.
From time to time, ugly-faced Insect-men passed by.
They continued upward until, finally, a bright light appeared ahead.
Passing through a dazzling opening, a vast volcanic crater appeared before his eyes.
Thick white steam swirled above the crater.
The incessant sound of crackling and popping rock filled the air.
Han Ning looked down.
About fifty meters below, dark-red magma slowly roiled and flowed.
Bathing in the magma was a strange Soul Beast over fifty meters long. Its body was covered in crimson scales, its head was like a lizard’s, and its long, narrow tail was covered in sharp bone spikes. Sprouting from its back were four pairs of moth-like wings.
Dark-red, magma-like patterns flowed across the surface of its crimson scales, pulsing faintly with light as if they were alive, absorbing the abundant Energy within the magma.
With every breath the Giant Beast took, powerful blasts of white air shot out from its skull, sending showers of shattered rock splashing down.
The Void Flame Fierce Lizard, a terrifying existence at the peak of the Lord Level.
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Just a disclaimer, this isn’t an MC abuse story. The protagonist getting a little hurt shouldn’t count as abuse, right?
