“Stay!”

Just as the Flame Dragon Armor was about to fly away from him, Nie Tian held it down with a swift move.

“Master, the fiery spell formations that are carved into the armor are interacting with the ones in the volcano!” Agaz’s urgent soul whisper echoed in Nie Tian’s mind.

Nie Tian looked down with rapt attention, and noticed that the suit of armor was covered in spell formations that were very similar to those carved on the inside of the volcano.

The Flame Dragon Armor had been forged by Shao Tianyang. Pang Bo was Shao Tianyang’s master.

It made sense that the fiery spell formations Pang Bo had left here to protect that underground palace could trigger great changes in the spell formations on the Flame Dragon Armor, and force it to move towards Pang Chicheng.

“So this is because of those fiery spell formations!” Nie Tian muttered. “If that’s the case, why don’t you return to my ring of holding.”

As a thought entered his mind, the Flame Dragon Armor vanished from underneath his hand.

After it returned to his ring of holding, he sent in a wisp of soul awareness to examine it, and discovered that the fiery spell formations on the Flame Dragon Armor quieted down as soon as it entered the space inside the ring.

The inside of the ring of holding was an isolated space.

Even the fiery spell formations Pang Bo had left couldn’t go beyond the spatial barrier to affect the Flame Dragon Armor inside under Pang Chicheng’s control.

Seeing the unfavorable turn of events, Huang Jinnan no longer hesitated. “Let’s split up and get out of here!”

With these words, he morphed into a streak of golden lightning that shot towards the realm barrier of the Realm of Fire Spirit.

Hou Chulan and the other Divine Sons and Daughters also shot into the heavens after giving Nie Tian meaningful looks.

“Nie Tian!” Hou Chulan’s soul message entered Nie Tian’s mind. “All of the teleportation portals in the Realm of Fire Spirit must have been destroyed. We can only rely on our own strength to leave the Realm of Fire Spirit now. The grand spell formation protecting the Realm of Fire Spirit won’t stop us Divine Sons and Daughters from leaving.

“As for you, perhaps you can return to that underground palace.

“We’ve got to inform the other sects of the upheaval in our sect. Only if our experts from the wood element sect, metal element sect, earth element sect, and water element sect come here together will we be able to put an end to this.”

Hou Chulan shot into the heavens as wisps of her soul messages lingered in Nie Tian’s mind.

All of a sudden, Peng Yan was the only expert left.

“They’re for you to capture!” Pang Chicheng said loudly.

Upon hearing his words, the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society, Ren Yuanji, and the Thunder Devil Yuan Jiuchuan flew after the five Divine Sons and Daughters, along with the experts from other evil human sects and the fire element sect experts who had turned traitor.

Peng Yan, however, stood in place, completely motionless.

“The Flame Dragon Armor is mine. Since you refuse to return it, I have to kill you!”

Pang Chicheng’s flame domain unfolded with a loud rumble. The might of his domain, which now looked like a boiling lava lake, seemed to rise to a whole new level.

“Those fiery spell formations, lava essence, and the divine symbols Pang Bo left here...”

Nie Tian instantly realized that the might of Pang Chicheng’s flame domain had only been boosted because it had benefited a great deal from its merging with the lava lake of this volcano.

This was exactly what his father, Pang Bo, had intended.

“Earthflame Spell Formation!” As he exclaimed, the sprinkling rain of fire suddenly turned into a storm. At the same time, the Heavenly Lava Rivers floating over Nie Tian experienced new changes.

One by one, they seemed to morph into huge burning whips that slammed towards Nie Tian.

“Domain!”

Nie Tian let out a snort as his flame, star, and wood power burst forth simultaneously, his unique void domain forming in an instant.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The long burning whips slammed into Nie Tian’s domain, causing numerous stars in his star domain, which formed the outermost part of his void domain, to go dim.

Then, the power of the burning whips spread to the second defense, his flame domain, which was a combination of his flame power and the flame spark’s power. As soon as that happened, the orange-red flame spark lit up.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

For some reason, the might of the long whips that had transformed from the Heavenly Lava Rivers was greatly reduced the moment they entered Nie Tian’s flame domain.

The orange-red flame spark flew around swiftly in his flame domain, as if to capture and devour fiery strings that Nie Tian couldn’t see with his eyes, but could sense with his soul.

Nie Tian was taken aback. “The earthflame crystal strings that have been fused into the lava river!”

“What the hell is that?” Pang Chicheng’s expression flickered with astonishment as he took a deep look at Nie Tian’s flame domain and the dashing orange-red flame spark within it. “That aura... It’s the aura of the Divine Flame that burned down the Domain of Flame’s End!”

He somehow managed to determine the origin of the flame spark upon seeing it.

“Hmm?”

Nie Tian suddenly jerked his head up.

High in the heavens, a ghostly talisman that looked like the face of an evil spirit rapidly expanded, conjuring a frightening spell.

“Domain Shatter!” Ren Yuanji cried out.

Peculiar magical symbols spread out to enter the domains of Huang Jinnan, Hou Chulan, and the other Divine Sons and Daughters like countless tadpoles.

As soon as the tadpole-like magical symbols appeared in their domains, their domains shattered into pieces with a boom, and couldn’t come back together again.

Unable to reform their domains, the Divine Sons and Daughters were dumbstruck high in the sky, and didn’t dare to fly towards the realm barrier anymore. They could only stay there while the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society and the Thunder Devil Yuan Jiuchuan came to capture them.

Human cultivators had to reach the Void domain or higher if they wanted to travel in the starry river.

Without domains, they would be exposed to the deadly toxins and impurities in the starry river. If that happened, their fleshly bodies would perish within a short time. They would die soon even though they weren’t facing any enemies.

Now, since they couldn’t reform their domains, the five Divine Sons and Daughters didn’t dare to enter the starry river.

With a gruesome smile, the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society cast a secret soul-capturing magic. “Come down now.”

At the same time, his dharma idol morphed into a huge soul shadow that took up a large portion of the sky.

As soon as this happened, thousands of ear-piercing screeches echoed through the seas of awareness of the five Divine Sons and Daughters.

They hastily covered their ears, but it didn’t help. Countless nether spirits seemed to have swarmed into their heads to capture and pull their true souls out of their seas of awareness.

“Nie Tian!” Huang Jinnan cried for help. “Help us! I know you can!”

Lin Yaoyao from the water element sect screamed in pain. Numerous nether souls could be seen swarming in the depths of her pupils.

It appeared that her true soul had been captured, and was about to be pulled out of her sea of awareness.

“C-can Nie Tian really help us?” she thought to herself in a half-muddled state. “How can he possibly break this secret soul magic of the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society?”

“The Nether Spirit Society?” Nie Tian’s face split into a grin as he released the Spirit Pearl before Pang Chicheng could launch another attack.

WHOOSH!

The Spirit Pearl dashed off from over his head. As it was about to reach Huang Jinnan, strong hope filled his wide eyes.

“That’s it!” Huang Jinnan exclaimed.

Lou Hongyan and Hou Chulan were struggling to stay afloat. However, their eyes also lit up as soon as they saw the incoming Spirit Pearl.

Clearly, all three of them were convinced that the Spirit Pearl would set them free from the soul-capturing magic of the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society.

Pu Yangbai and Lin Yaoyao, however, didn’t understand why those three looked as if they had seen a life-saver upon seeing the Spirit Pearl.

The sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society gasped. “Spirit Pearl!”

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The five evil gods flew out of the pearl, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws.

As soon as they did, the countless nether spirits the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society had released let out panicked screeches that only he could hear, even though some of them couldn’t even see.

This was a kind of fear towards a natural bane!

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The five evil gods opened their huge mouths and forcefully sucked in air towards the five Divine Sons and Daughters.

Then, all of the nether spirits swarming in their seas of awareness flew out into the five evil gods’ mouths, as if they were pieces of metal attracted to magnets.

Not one of them escaped.

However, the five evil gods seemed unsatisfied after devouring all of those nether spirits. Laying their eyes on the dharma idol of the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society simultaneously, they flew into the dark soul shadow, letting out bloodcurdling screeches as they did.

The sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society started wailing in agony right away.