As soon as Han Li's feet set foot on the square, he couldn't help but frown. He immediately felt a burning sensation under his feet. Although he was wearing a pair of magic boots, he still felt as if he was walking barefoot on burning charcoal.
But after taking a few steps, he discovered that there was nothing unusual and quickly adapted to it.
He soon reached the end of the square that was hundreds of feet wide.
Han Li lifted his foot and stepped on the stone steps in front of the fiery red hall.
On the tall lintel of the door hung a horizontal board. On it were three large ancient characters, 'Fire Origin Palace'. Above the horizontal board, there was also a flaming bronze plate with a strange flame rune inscribed on it.
Han Li looked at it and his expression suddenly changed. He hurriedly dodged to the side as if he wanted to avoid something.
Immediately thereafter, the runes on the flaming copper badge abruptly flashed with light, following which a crimson line of fire that was as thick as a thumb suddenly shot down from the badge, heading directly toward Han Li's glabella.
Although Han Li was aware of it, he still couldn't completely dodge it and the line of fire hit his eyebrows.
A sharp burning pain suddenly came from between his eyebrows. Even with the toughness of Han Li's muscles, bones, and skin, the area between his eyebrows was split open in an instant, revealing the dense white bone.
"Uh …"
Han Li only felt that his forehead was on the verge of cracking, as if his skull was about to melt.
At the critical moment, a silver light suddenly shone from between his eyebrows. A silver flame emerged from it and collided with the scarlet red line of fire.
As soon as the Refined Flame Firebird appeared, Han Li felt the sharp pain on his forehead decrease sharply and his skin and flesh began to quickly recover.
His eyes suddenly focused and his mind, which had been a little unstable because of the burning, stabilized.
The Essence Flame Bird let loose a shrill screech, and silver flames surged in all directions, blooming like lotus petals. The silver flames surged upward to engulf the line of fire, then pounced onto the lintel of the hall and engulfed the flaming copper badge.
But after a few breaths, the Blazing Copper Plate melted under the heat of the silver flames. The flame power contained within it was completely devoured by the Essence Flame Firebird, and the remnants turned into a pool of copper liquid that flowed down the plaque.
Then, the Refined Flame Firebird flew back and circled around Han Li as if it was taking credit.
Han Li smiled and put it away with a wave of his hand.
He raised his hand and rubbed the space between his eyebrows. The flesh and skin there had already healed, but there was a thumb-sized red mark in the middle that had yet to completely disappear.
His gaze swept across the palace doors once more, and he raised his hand to push them open. The two thick and heavy crimson palace doors slowly opened inwards.
Han Li stepped over the threshold and walked into the main hall, his gaze sweeping around.
The furnishings in the hall were very simple. There were two rows of wooden racks on each side of the wall, and there were lotus lanterns on them. Each lantern was lit with a bean-like flame.
In the center of the hall was a circular altar. Its style was similar to the one in the golden hall, but it was crimson in color. It seemed to be built from some kind of red crystal, and there were two things on it.
On the top of the sacrificial altar, a white pearl the size of a dragon's eye floated in midair on the left. There weren't any talisman markings on it, yet it was enveloped by a layer of almost translucent white flames, and it emitted waves of incomparably dense Fire Attribute Laws.
Beside it, there was a ball of golden flames floating.
Han Li glanced around, and his heart stirred slightly. He activated the Great Five Elements Illusion Technique in his body. He raised his hand and waved, releasing a time spiritual field that shrouded the surroundings.
Fluctuations of the Law of Time emanated from his body as he raised his hand and beckoned at the golden flames on the altar.
The golden flame seemed to have sensed the summoning of the power of the same attribute. It shook slightly, but that was all. It quickly returned to its original state and did not move at all.
Seeing this, Han Li smiled self-deprecatingly.
"It seems that if I don't crack the altar's array, I won't be able to get anything …" He muttered to himself as he put away the spiritual field and the magical power.
After saying that, he circled around the altar and examined it carefully.
After a while, Han Li frowned and stopped. He touched his chin with one hand and fell into deep thought.
But soon, he seemed to have a conclusion. He turned his palm and took out formation flags and formation plates and set them around the altar.
Not long after, an octagonal array appeared around the altar.
Han Li's brows tightly furrowed as he carefully examined the spell formation. After making sure that there were no flaws, he made a hand seal and began to activate the spell formation before him.
With a buzzing sound, all the formation flags and formation plates on the ground lit up. The octagonal array projected a brilliant golden light, connecting each other with a layer of golden light curtain. It was like an octagonal golden city wall was built outside the altar, surrounding it in it.
As soon as the formation was activated, the altar suddenly trembled violently, and the white fire bead hanging above it suddenly flashed with light. The nearly transparent flames on the bead abruptly rose and seeped into the altar down below in wisps.
Countless flame runes on the altar suddenly lit up. With a whistling sound, a crimson flame surged out of it and surged toward Han Li.
However, as soon as the flame rose, it was blocked by the golden "city wall". The rolling waves could not break through and could only rise violently. It was like a huge fire pillar that went straight to the top of the hall. With a "boom", it was overturned.
Han Li looked at the huge gap that appeared above his head. His eyes flashed slightly, but his heart was calm.
As long as he used the array he had arranged to prevent the altar's power from overflowing, it would naturally weaken a lot after it was consumed in the void for a while. At that time, he could enter the array to take the treasure.
But at this moment, a strange change occurred!
He saw that the walls on both sides of the hall seemed to become red under the roasting of the flame. Circles of strange flame runes appeared on each of them, and there were bursts of strange aura fluctuations coming from them.
"Oh no, the enchantment here is not only on the altar …" Han Li saw this, raised his eyebrows and exclaimed.
As soon as his voice fell, the circles of runes flashed red light. Inside each circle, a ferocious head poked out. It had antlers on its head, and its face was like that of an ox. However, behind it was a long body like a python.
When these two monsters rushed out, they just happened to fly over the two rows of wooden shelves. The flames in the lotus lanterns on the wooden shelves flew up and attached to their bodies.
"Boom!" A strange sound was heard.
The bodies of the two ox-headed python suddenly soared with a blazing flame. It was as if they had turned into two clawless fire dragons. They opened their bloody mouths and rushed toward Han Li.
Seeing this, Han Li hurriedly dodged to the left and right, and barely passed through the middle of the two ox-headed fire pythons.
The two fire pythons saw that their attack had missed, and they circled around from both sides. They used their bodies to draw a circle, and they surrounded Han Li in the middle.
Han Li smiled bitterly. Just now, he had just built a high wall around the altar. At this moment, these two fire pythons did the same thing and built a high wall around him.
The two fire pythons raised their heads high, and two pairs of eyes condensed with flames stared at Han Li below. There should be no expression in their eyes, but there was a hint of coldness.
"Roar …"
There seemed to be a roar coming from the mouths of the two pythons at the same time. Rolling flames surged out from their bloody mouths.
But seeing the rolling flames spurting out, Han Li's entire body was instantly swallowed up. The incomparably hard ground under his feet could not withstand the extremely high temperature of the calcination, and it directly burst open with countless cracks like a spider web.
Immediately after, there was a "bang" sound, and it directly shattered.
The ground suddenly sank, and the rocks under his feet instantly turned into scarlet magma. It surged up and down, and splashed like waves. Han Li stood unsteadily on top of it. His entire body was covered with a layer of golden light curtain, and he was barely able to control himself from being trapped in it.
The surrounding flames were everywhere, and he felt as if he had been thrown into an alchemy furnace to be refined. He almost had a feeling of suffocation.
Han Li's mind was focused, and he endured the burning of the flames. He silently operated the Heavenly Fiend Prison Suppression Technique within his body. His hands changed from clenched fists to extended palms, and his body suddenly turned around. He raised his palms and waved them around.
His body kept turning, and his hands kept waving. Wherever the palm wind came, there would be a burst of Star Power, and the surrounding flames were pushed back a little.
And as his body turned faster and faster, his palms were like a continuous tide. Often, before one palm stopped, another palm arrived, and the power of the palms became more and more powerful under the superposition of the palms.
The superposition of his palms was very limited, and it was only a few feet away from his body. It did not expand too much, and the power of the palms did not spread out. Instead, it was suppressed by the surrounding flames in the center, and gradually condensed into a circular vacuum wall that enveloped Han Li.
At this time, Han Li secretly reversed the Mantra Treasure Wheel in his body. His body instantly became blurred, and the palms that he waved out became layer upon layer, and became more and more compact.
Finally, the curtain wall that enveloped Han Li broke out when it was suppressed to the extreme.
There was a loud "bang" sound!
The vacuum curtain wall suddenly burst open, and tens of thousands of densely-packed palms wrapped in the Star Power, and rushed in all directions.
It seemed as if a tornado had suddenly risen on the ground, and all the magma was the first to be engulfed. It turned into a torrent, and surged faster and faster. The blazing gas on the surface of the magma was also drawn into the tornado, and tore apart the fiery python that was wrapped around it.
First, the scarlet flame that was gushing out of its mouth was torn apart. Then, its body was drawn into the tornado, and it broke apart inch by inch under the attack of the palms. Then, it turned into a huge whirlpool of flames.
Han Li's figure flew out of the whirlpool, and he struck a punch on each side.
There was another "bang" sound, and two huge holes appeared on the walls on both sides of the main hall. The fiery charm patterns that had appeared on the walls had been thoroughly destroyed. Even the two rows of wooden racks that had been placed on the lotus lanterns had been destroyed.
Shi Mu stabilized his state of mind as soon as he got away. He saw that the flame on the altar was still rising, but it was already weaker than it had been in the beginning. It was obvious that the magic formation that he had arranged had taken effect.