Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 2018 - 2019: The Mechanism Blocking the Path

Chapter 2018: Chapter 2019: The Mechanism Blocking the Path

The Fluffy Fire Wolfhound’s flames burned forward, following Xiao Ji’s black mist. The black mist was instantly ignited, and raging flames appeared out of nowhere in this water region. Agunas flicked his tail and said,

"This combination move is not bad."

The reason the flames could burn unaffected by the water was entirely because the fire used by the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound was quite special. Compared to natural flames, the burning conditions of this flame, which expels and scorches the Breath of the Netherworld, were much lower. It only needed the presence of Netherworld breath to burn along with it.

Of course, correspondingly, the power of this flame wasn’t particularly strong, except against the Death Series and Ghost Series. Its damage to other types was far less than ordinary fire.

However, this only meant the damage was lower, not nonexistent, and what they were trying to do was to disrupt the initiation of the cold wave, not target a specific life form.

The fiery red flames formed a beautiful flame tunnel in the water. In contrast to the previous flames surrounding the bubbles and vine ball, this flame that scorched the Netherworld breath didn’t vaporize the running water, which meant that there was no separation between the flames and the water.

Veronia looked at the ice crystal cave walls, shimmering because of the fire’s illumination, and said,

"It looks quite beautiful."

"I hope they will succeed."

Feng Yuan glanced at Xiao Ji and the others and said, although Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound’s combination ultimate move formed this continuously extending fire dragon, the power of this ultimate move was not strong. Feng Yuan didn’t think the presence gathering strong power ahead would be a Spirit Beast from the Death or Ghost Series.

Whether it was a special device or an ordinary Spirit Beast, due to the nature of this fire dragon’s flames, its lethality was entirely insufficient.

Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound weren’t thinking that much. They were working hard to let the flames spread towards the energy-gathering place, where an Ice Crystal Orb was firmly stuck in the center of a crown made of ice.

Even though the Fire Dragon reached the Frost Ice Crown, due to its lack of destructive power, it could only coil around the Frost Ice Crown as if it were guarding it.

However, as the Fire Dragon coiled larger and larger, the flames suddenly changed. The originally non-interfering flames and water clashed violently; the scorching flames vaporized the frigid water near the Frost Ice Crown. The high temperature even started to melt the Frost Ice Crown.

Seeing the waterless pathway formed because of the vaporization, Qi Chen couldn’t help but turn his head towards Feng Yuan, only to see Feng Yuan touching his chin, seemingly surprised as well.

Wasn’t it taught by Feng Yuan?

Qi Chen was somewhat surprised. He thought Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound’s move was guided by Feng Yuan, yet it didn’t seem to be the case?

Xiao Ji excitedly cried out because it sensed the gathered energy starting to collapse. After all, such a sudden and strong flame impact made the stable environment needed for energy storage no longer satisfy.

However, this did not mean the opponent’s attack disappeared. The Frost Ice Crown couldn’t suppress the gathered power, and extremely cold breath exploded in an instant. The bubbles originally pushed by the water flow suddenly stalled. The group saw the water ahead rapidly freezing. Initially, chunks of floating ice condensed in the water, then those ice chunks quickly expanded until they completely sealed the water tunnel.

The freezing speed was so fast that before everyone could react, the frozen region had already covered the bubble, solidly freezing it within the frozen waterflow, causing Qi Chen to feel somewhat anxious.

Although the bubble could maintain the oxygen necessary for their breathing, this didn’t mean it could prevent the invading cold air from spreading.

The Fluffy Fire Wolfhound released fires again, but this time even the flames were mercilessly frozen by the cold air. Xiao Ji screeched, trying to break the ice with its ultimate move.

Unfortunately, even Xiao Ji’s ultimate move couldn’t break through the solidly frozen ice block.

Cotton meowed, slamming its paw, and a melodious tune sounded. White halos spread from under Cotton’s paw, and within the spreading range of the white halos, all the solid ice instantly shattered; not just the solid ice, even Ah Mu’s vines were also wiped out.

The white halos initially only stopped expanding after reaching the cave walls near everyone, waiting for subsequent halos to reach the same position. As the solid ice and other ultimate moves disappeared within the range, the paused halo once again expanded outward.

"Is this... the Holy Purification Zone?"

Veronia looked at Cotton in surprise. She really didn’t expect the other to mythically transform into this ultimate move. Agunas wagged his tail, looking towards Tamur and asked,

"This ultimate move shouldn’t have a corresponding lower-level ultimate move, should it?"

At this moment, Agunas couldn’t help but doubt the authenticity of Tamur’s information; however, Tamur glanced at Agunas with a calm expression and said,

"Purification." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Can this be considered? Other than both having an expulsion effect, there doesn’t seem to be much overlap?"

Veronia wasn’t concerned initially. Hearing Tamur’s answer made her look at him doubtfully, and Feng Yuan, touching his chin, said,

"No, if you consider the activation method, purification indeed could be regarded as part of the Holy Purification Zone, but it’s heavily lacking... "

For a moment, Feng Yuan couldn’t quite understand what was the situation with Tamur’s mythological ultimate move. The effect of purification was to dispel the abnormal state on a single Spirit Beast. Beyond that, there was group purification, but this and the overbearing Holy Purification Zone were vastly different.

The Holy Purification Zone is a special ultimate move from the Mythical Era, whose effect is to forcefully dispel all ultimate move remnants within a certain range, regardless of the enemy or ally.

This means that as long as it’s not an ultimate move used by the Spirit Beast invoking the Holy Purification Zone, it will be forcefully removed, no matter who used it or whatever the effect, and it clears an entire area.

This is also why Ah Mu’s vine ball was instantly removed because the vines weren’t released by Cotton, so they were within the range of the Holy Purification Zone’s elimination.

Even the water flow that froze due to the cold air was the same; the Holy Purification Zone forcefully expelled the cold air, eliminating the effects brought by the cold air simultaneously.

The ice didn’t undergo breaking and melting but directly transitioned from solid back to liquid. If it wasn’t for the cave still being blocked by ice, once the Holy Purification Zone expanded, it would’ve possibly restored the waterflow’s original speed instantly.

After all, the effect of the Holy Purification Zone itself can’t be simply called expulsion, or rather, it’s a kind of special rule that denies all "miracles" that can be denied. Except for the miracles generated by the caster, everything else is canceled by the Holy Purification Zone.

And it’s precisely because of this powerful effect, Feng Yuan suspected that Cotton probably couldn’t sustain a too expansive Holy Purification Zone, as its power wasn’t strong enough.

The result wasn’t unexpected for Feng Yuan. Even though it was a mythological ultimate move, most of the consumption wasn’t borne by Cotton, and the Holy Purification Zone collapsed after only three expansions.

However, the frozen cave wasn’t broken through. At this point, besides maintaining the bubble, Cotton had no energy left for other actions. Ah Mu used its vines to weave the vine ball again to surround the bubble, and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound was diligently melting the frozen solid ice blocking the water flow with flames.

Unfortunately, the ice block was so solidly frozen that cold air occasionally emerged to counter the flames, which caused no small trouble for the group.

But seeing Qi Chen and the others still able to handle it, Feng Yuan had no intention of helping out, since this was a good combat training for them.

After all, although such an icy environment wasn’t common, it was an obstacle that appeared in many relic mechanisms. Of course, if not for time constraints, Cotton probably wouldn’t have used the mythological ultimate move.

As the passage was breached, the bubble drifted forward again, just because the road behind was still frozen, the bubble wasn’t pushed forward by the water flow, so the forward speed of the bubble slowed considerably.

However, this just gave them more time to deal with the traps along the way, especially the Frost Ice Crown, as this type of thing clearly couldn’t exist only in one place, but except for the first setback, as long as they detected it later, before the Frost Ice Crown gathered a large amount of energy, Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound destroyed it from afar with their combined ultimate move.

Following the waterway forward, suddenly the front opened up, and the group understood that they had reached their destination.