Previously, although Lin Chen wanted to kill Shi An, he was only weakly motivated since he had revealed many of his trump cards before Shi An.
However, at this moment, Shi An actually used the Eastern Domain and Jade Cauldron Sect to threaten Lin Chen, causing Lin Chen's intent to kill Shi An to become extremely strong.
Today, Shi An desires to annihilate Lin Chen, how could Lin Chen not want Shi An to completely fall right here?
Not only Shi An, but also that guy Lei Hao, he was the key to revealing Lin Chen's background and relations.
As Lin Chen's resolve to kill became even more firm and fierce, he raised his hand to summon a dark lotus flame that appeared in his palm. As the flame emerged, the surrounding ten miles instantly burst into a sea of fire, encompassing Shi An within, scorching him with its blazing flame aura.
Upon seeing that Lin Chen possessed Divine Fire, and of not low quality grade, Shi An's heart grew fearful again, secretly pondering whether Lin Chen acquired the Divine Fire from the underground fire sea.
But upon reflection, it seemed unlikely, for such a powerful entity as Divine Fire wouldn't simply be subdued and refined by Lin Chen. Yet if it weren't so, then where did Lin Chen's Divine Fire originate?
No time to think further, Shi An hastily poured all his spiritual power madly into the defensive vestment robe he wore, transforming it into a shield, attempting to fend off the scorching flames.
However, under Lin Chen's fierce sword intent and the dual assault of the scorching flames, Shi An's spiritual power was depleting at an astonishing speed. For origınal chapters go to novel⸺fire.net
If this continues, once Shi An's spiritual power is exhausted, he will surely be burned alive by Lin Chen's flames or be shattered by the sword intent within the powerful sword array.
After Lin Chen cultivated the Fire Control Technique, his mastery over flames advanced further. At this moment, he controlled the advanced Fourth Grade Blue Lotus Divine Flame, rendering Shi An powerless to resist.
"As expected, a strong cultivator from the Heaven Hall, that you can barely hold out under such a dual assault. But if I add another attack, let's see if you can still survive."
Seeing that he hadn't yet subdued Shi An, Lin Chen contemplated continuing his assault on Shi An, since Shi An in his heart was already a doomed man. Even revealing another trump card wouldn't matter, Shi An must die today, Lin Chen would show no mercy.
Hence, in an instant, nine mountain-like stone seals appeared on Lin Chen's palm, after which Lin Chen furiously injected spiritual power into them, then slammed a palm against the stone seal.
"Mountain Splitter Seal!"
With the injection of spiritual power, Lin Chen threw it out, and the stone seal hovered above Shi An's head, instantly transforming into a giant mountain shadow, falling straight down.
After Lin Chen's cultivation broke through to the Eighth Layer of the Nirvana Realm, he handled the Mountain Splitter Seal with increasing ease, no longer as unable to command it as before.
After all, compared to the Seventh Level of Nirvana Realm, the spiritual power at the Eighth Layer is deeper.
And this Mountain Splitter Seal had been enhanced to a half-step Seventh Rank magic treasure's level after Lin Chen nurtured it with countless Heavenly and Earthly Treasures within the Wine Curse Lotus for a long time.
If continued nurturing, it was only a matter of time before ascending to a true Seventh Rank magic treasure.
Regarding this, Lin Chen wasn't eager, for this is a slow process, and Lin Chen had refined this Mountain Splitter Seal into a Life-bound Magic Treasure, intending to raise it to an even higher Grade in the future.
Thus, Lin Chen wouldn't rush to improve its quality for the sake of quick advancement, preferring to advance steadily using the most suitable Heavenly and Earthly Treasures that match the Mountain Splitter Seal's energy attribute.
The Mountain Splitter Seal favors earth and metal elemental powers, naturally guiding Lin Chen to use such types of magic treasures to nurture it.
What Lin Chen seeks is that once the Mountain Splitter Seal is unleashed, no matter what beast or fiend, it would all be suppressed in its wake.
At present, the Mountain Splitter Seal is at a half-step Seventh Rank, perfectly matching Lin Chen's current cultivation to wield it. If its grade were increased too much, Lin Chen wouldn't be able to unleash its full power, and the consumption of Lin Chen's spiritual power would become a burden.
As the Mountain Splitter Seal fell from above, Shi An's expression changed drastically, he immediately diverted part of his power to defend, directly bearing its oppressive might, falling from mid-air to the ground.
With the sword array and Divine Fire flames surrounding him, and the Mountain Splitter Seal overhead, Shi An was totally horrified, having nowhere to escape.
At this moment, Shi An was utterly shocked by Lin Chen's power, considering they had previously chased Lin Chen down to the underground fire sea.
Turned out Lin Chen had always hidden his strength, no wonder only Yun Kaige, relying on a life-saving magic treasure, followed Lin Chen into the depths of the subterranean fire sea, could ultimately retreat alone, unable to do anything to Lin Chen, because of face he hadn't revealed the truth.
"Lin Chen, if you dare kill me, the Heaven Hall won't spare you, the Yunlong Heavenly Palace won't spare you, and my Shi Family wouldn't spare you either, you better reconsider."
At this moment, Shi An was completely terrified of Lin Chen's strength and had no power to resist Lin Chen's offensive, only able to continue threatening verbally.
Given Shi An's character, it was absolutely impossible for him to plead for mercy from Lin Chen, unable to swallow his pride, he would rather die.
Upon hearing Shi An's words, Lin Chen's eyes brimmed with intense killing intent.
Lin Chen didn't pay heed to Shi An's words of threat.
What worth is the Shi Family, Lin Chen didn't take them seriously at all.
Though the Shi Family had certain influence in Yunlong City, compared to the Eight Great Noble Families like the Liu Family, Tong Family, Tan Family, they still had a gap, whereas Lin Chen feared not even those Eight Great Families, how would he be afraid of the Shi Family.
Even the Royal Family of Cloud Dragon Kingdom, Lin Chen dared to offend Yun Kaige just the same.
Lin Chen originally didn't intend to feud with these people, yet these guys kept actively picking fights with Lin Chen; when they'd put a sword to his neck, how could Lin Chen not retaliate?
Thus, Shi An using Shi Family as a threat against Lin Chen was utterly ineffective.
As for the Yunlong Heavenly Palace and Heaven Hall, Lin Chen killing Shi An here was known to none but them, how would they know Lin Chen killed Shi An.
Moreover, it was Shi An who provoked first in this battle, Lin Chen was simply retaliating.
Right as Shi An's threat to Lin Chen was spoken, Lin Chen's sword light grazed across Shi An's throat.
This sword light struck with blinding speed, facing Lin Chen's triple attack and his depleted spiritual power, Shi An had no time to react.
He merely felt himself plunge into endless darkness, his last words "No" yet to be cried out, life was already cut short.