Battle Through the Heavens: Reap the Red Lotus Karmic Flame at the Start

As the four guardians formed a formation to surround Xiao Yan and his companions, they continuously extracted the souls of powerful individuals and swallowed them whole.

Yao Lao once mentioned to Xiao Yan that the people in the Soul Palace coveted powerful souls beyond measure, which is why powerful alchemists like Yao Lao were constantly hunted down by them.

The people in the Soul Palace not only have extraordinary methods for capturing souls, but they can also directly use souls to enhance their own energy through forced absorption. This is the first time Xiao Yan has seen such a bizarre method.

As one soul after another was devoured, the three guardians, including Chen Xiao, felt a pang of pain. The Soul Palace guardians also had the task of collecting souls, and now they were recklessly consuming the souls of powerful individuals they had painstakingly gathered.

The second-ranked of the four guardians tentatively asked Chen Xiao, "Brother, now that they're trapped, can we stop constantly devouring souls?"

Chen Xiao replied firmly, "No! We can't give them even the slightest chance. This operation not only has Venerables and Heavenly Venerables, but also a Saintly Monarch in command. Don't you know how important that is? Don't hold back at all, capture them with all your might!"

After saying that, he swallowed several more wisps of souls. Under Chen Xiao's urging, the chains binding Xiao Yan and the other two became increasingly dense and stable.

However, the resistance from Xiao Yan and the other two inside the chains was equally fierce.

At this moment, Zi Yan had transformed back into a human form. Her exaggerated figure, combined with the purple scale armor covering her, made her a uniquely charming beauty.

However, Zi Yan looked at the tangled chains with resentment, as she had failed to break through their blockade even with her full power.

With a single punch, Zi Yan shattered the black chains into dust with her terrifying strength. However, just as a small gap appeared, the chains, imbued with a gray soul aura, sealed the gap again.

Airtight!

On the other side, whether it was Xiao Yan's Heavenly Desolation Ruler or Huo Zhi's barrage of Red Lotus Karmic Flames, they could only create a brief opening. The four guardians guarded the four directions respectively, and once a large gap appeared, a layer of gray soul impact would immediately prevent Xiao Yan and the others from finding an opportunity to slip away.

Moreover, Xiao Yan could sense that the chains had become more secure over time!

Huo Zhi was also panting heavily, her body covered in sweat, and her eyes unconsciously revealed panic.

No matter how severe the trials the Yan Clan puts on her, they are just trials, and they will all be set within the scope of what she can handle with all her might. Moreover, Huo Zhi has been exceptionally talented since childhood, and in the second year after her battle qi awakened, she was already chosen as the next master of the Yan Clan's inherited strange fire, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

Therefore, most of the trials within the family were not difficult for her. But at this moment, when Yan Di was unable to take care of her and she could not solve the problem at hand despite her best efforts, a sense of powerlessness beyond her control spread in Huo Zhi's heart.

"What should I do?" Huo Zhi subconsciously looked at Xiao Yan beside her.

For some reason, Huo Zhi suddenly had a feeling that the boy beside her, whose strength was far inferior to hers, could find a way to solve the current predicament!

At this moment, Xiao Yan took out two pills from his storage ring and casually put them into his mouth to restore his constantly depleted fighting spirit.

The cage in front of them could be said to have gathered the power of four Soul Palace protectors, and it was clear from this formation that they did not intend to kill them, but only to trap the three of them.

Once they are unable to act, Yan Di's operations outside will certainly be hampered and affected!

The real focus today is the battle between Yan Di and the two Dou Zun of the Soul Palace. With a Dou Sheng waiting in the shadows in the Soul Palace, any chance they have of escaping rests entirely on Yan Di's shoulders!

Xiao Yan bit his tongue, forcing himself to calm down from the complicated situation. The domineering fighting spirit brought by the Three Transformations of Heavenly Flame had already made him somewhat agitated.

We must get out of this predicament!

For now, Xiao Yan can only take out the Sea Heart Flame and try to find an opportunity with the Fire Lotus.

Although releasing the Fire Lotus under these circumstances would mean that Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi Zi Yan would suffer its most terrifying direct impact, Xiao Yan could only hope that since both he and Huo Zhi Zi Yan were possessors of different flames, they could withstand this attack by relying on their affinity with the Red Lotus Karmic Flame.

This was an attack that would inflict heavy damage on the enemy but also destroy everything of its own!

Just as Xiao Yan was about to take out the Sea Heart Flame from his storage ring, something else in the ring caught his attention.

Xiao Yan pondered for a moment. Time was extremely precious. He could feel the encirclement around him shrinking, and the four people from the Soul Palace were already taking action!

Xiao Yan gritted his teeth and made up his mind to fight!

"Zi Yan, Huo Zhi, focus all your strength on defense!" Xiao Yan roared.

Xiao Yan then took out an ice coffin from his storage ring, inside which was sealed a white-haired girl, Little Fairy Doctor with the Calamity Poison Body!

Xiao Yan clearly remembered that even when the five guardians joined forces, they couldn't defeat Little Fairy Doctor. Now, Xiao Yan was ready to release Little Fairy Doctor and give it a desperate try!

At this moment, with the Calamity Poison Body fully unleashed and Little Fairy Doctor's mind already deranged, once released, she would be indiscriminate in her dealings with friend and foe, which is extremely dangerous. However, it's still better than enduring the Buddha's Wrathful Lotus in such a small space!

At this moment, Xiao Yan could only pray that Little Fairy Doctor could use her poison gas to break the blockade. Outside the Black Mountain Fortress, Xiao Yan had already tried and learned that the strange fire had an unusual restraint on the poisonous fog.

Upon seeing Xiao Yan's actions, the Soul Hall protectors outside immediately dispatched several chains. Although they didn't know what Xiao Yan was planning to do, they still wanted to disrupt his plans as much as possible.

To everyone's surprise, the moment Xiao Yan saw the chains, he immediately pushed the ice coffin toward them.

Under the influence of Xiao Yan's hidden force, the ice coffin shattered the moment the chains touched it. The two chains pierced directly into Little Fairy Doctor's body.

Little Fairy Doctor had just emerged from the ice coffin, her eyes filled with an eerie blackish-purple hue.

Although Little Fairy Doctor had lost her mind, her movements were anything but slow; she grabbed both chains in one swift motion. Little Fairy Doctor appeared unusually thin, and her wrists looked frail. Yet, she gripped the gray chains tightly, rendering them completely immobile.