"Certain death, no chance of survival."

Ji Wuyang glanced out at the Duel Platform through the window, a result that was almost a given. Although Li Feng had surprised everyone before, this time, it seemed unlikely that a miracle would occur.

Even though Li Feng seemed to have some secrets, with such a significant gap in strength, Ji Wuyang really couldn't think of how the other could break the situation.

The Red Lotus Fire was indeed one of the top ten Abnormal Fires, incredibly powerful.

What surprised him even more was the Zeng Family. The Zeng Family was just a third-rate family in Ancestor Dragon City, but after today's battle, they were likely to rise.

Despite losing the first two rounds, and even though two of the younger generation's outstanding individuals had died, this was not significant. The current generation in power in the Zeng Family was at its peak, both in strength and in prime age, and if Zeng Batian was this powerful, even those who were less gifted than him might push the Zeng Family further.

Compared to the despair of Ji Feixue, the Fang family mother and son were even more despairing. Ever since the Fang Family encountered an accident, and the Young Master took over, they had been in turmoil. Ancestor Dragon City is a place where the strong reign supreme, a place where the weak have no room to survive.

The third-rate Zeng Family's proposal was clearly an attempt to swallow up the Fang Family, and to do so in an extremely humiliating way.

The beautiful woman of the Fang family had thought that even if the Zeng Family used force, the Fang Family still had a chance to rise again. At worst, they would endure hardships, and she would protect her son no matter how much she had to compromise.

Li Feng's two victories, defeating the Zeng Family's Young Master and the young tiger, did stir some excitement, but the emergence of Zeng Batian made that fleeting hope vanish instantly.

Too strong.

A single Zeng Batian could plunge the current Fang Family into despair. Even though the Fang Family still had a little strength hidden, and at least some power to resist, there was now uncertainty.

She even saw the onset of a crisis.

This duel, the Zeng Family had already revealed their cards, just to deal with one Li Feng?

As a woman who supported a family alone after her husband's death, she wasn't someone naive. The Fang Family's persistence until now, even protecting her son to become the Family Head, proved her skill.

But faced with absolute power, she also felt hopeless.

Is there really no hope for the Fang Family?

The beautiful woman bit her lip.

In another box, Zi Yan and the other two women also clenched their fists, watching the Duel Platform below without blinking, worried to death but having no solution.

Ah.

Suddenly, a ground-shaking scream erupted from the sea of fire, accompanied by the grinding of bones.

The spectators all felt a chill run down their spines.

"This method of Zeng Lao Qi is too cruel, torturing the person to death slowly when they could have ended it swiftly."

"Hmph, the Zeng Family lost two people, a Young Master and the young tiger, both promising talents of the next generation, and both got taken down by this unknown Li Feng, leaving the Zeng Family fuming."

"Moreover, it's a whole family against one person. Despite that, they lost twice. How humiliating for the Zeng Family. They wanted to showcase their strength, but instead got slapped in the face."

"If the Zeng Family doesn't use thunderous means to intimidate, even killing Li Feng won't save face."

The nearby people nodded in agreement, seeing Zeng Family's actions as trying to restore the dignity they lost by making a spectacle out of killing.

Li Feng, amidst the sea of fire, was actually in a state of ecstatic excitement. It felt as if a pillow had been provided just when he needed it. Zeng Batian, self-assured, believed the Red Lotus Fire would consume him utterly, leaving not even bone fragments.

Yet, in truth, their Red Lotus Fire was a great tonic, constantly being devoured by Domineering Purple Flame, which then traveled through his meridians to his heart.

In his heart, the previously trapped drop of Vermilion Bird Blood seemed to adore the Red Lotus Fire, swallowing everything it could like a black hole, absorbing even more than Li Feng's Domineering Purple Flame.

At this moment.

Inside Li Feng's dantian, the Domineering Purple Flame formed a stellar vortex with the Thunder Pill as its core, endlessly drawing and swallowing the Fire Lotus Fire. Meanwhile, in the heart's Purple Mansion, the Vermilion Bird Blood also formed a vortex, continuously tearing at the external Red Lotus Fire. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

These two black holes were like hydraulic pumps, constantly suctioning the surrounding Red Lotus Fire.

And as he absorbed it, Li Feng began cultivating the recently mastered Burning Technique. This technique had a bit of the flavor of the Seven Injuries Fist, harming oneself first to harm the enemy, gaining greater battle prowess at the cost of burning his bloodline.

Li Feng controlled the Burning Technique to absorb strands of Red Lotus Fire into his bloodline. The pure yang attribute of the Red Lotus Fire directly brought his blood to a boil.

If it weren't for Li Feng protecting his bloodline with a layer of Domineering Purple Flame, the Red Lotus Fire in his blood alone would have been enough to burn through it, causing him to explode and die.

Though his body could withstand it, the Red Lotus Fire coursing through his bloodline, burning and boiling like countless insects running rampant inside, caused pain so pervasive that even his strong will couldn't silence him.

The bloodline was being vaporized, meanwhile causing some changes in the blood itself. Among the top ten Abnormal Fires, only the Red Lotus Fire comes from a plant, the Red Lotus absorbing millennia of molten energy, possessing the purest Flame Power.

Seemingly mighty, but not violent.

Moreover, in the hands of a Pill Master, the Red Lotus was a holy element of the Fire Element used to make the best Heavenly Pills, aiding vitality, and even purifying bloodlines. For those who had integrated other bloodlines to gain Bloodline Power, pills made from Red Lotus were priceless gems.

Even the first-rank Sikong family needed some fortune to obtain a Red Lotus. That Zeng Batian acquired one was truly lucky.

After all, the Red Lotus originates from the Molten Lava Forbidden Ground in the Southern lands, home to thousands of ravines and crevices leading directly to underground lava rivers, fraught with dangers.

Li Feng felt his entire body was being tempered, like performing alchemy, the impurities in his blood getting burned away entirely. As his Burning Technique progressed, even his blood seemed to undergo a qualitative change.

Blood transformed into fiery blood flowing through the bloodline.

Li Feng also felt waves of power rising within him, power from the bloodline itself, a curious sensation.

This Burning Technique, it's quite something.

Li Feng mused.

Even though the Burning Technique was practiced by the war slaves of the Ninth Ring's duel arena, it didn't mean it wasn't powerful.

On the contrary, if cultivated correctly, the Burning Technique can become overwhelmingly strong.