Vaguely, Xia Feng saw a glimmer of golden light in the beam.

That's right! It's the Golden Legend!

[Level 1 Luck Card consumed, successfully transformed into—Level 2 Item Card]

[Level 2 · Death Carnival]

Effect: Whenever a player is eliminated from the field, you can get 10 Ember Stones (can be upgraded to a Level 3 card)

Conditions for upgrading the card: *]

Oh, this is nice, Xia Feng thought with joy in his heart.

The expected return of this card is quite considerable; at Level 2, the highest return is 80.

Of course, that's only if that many people die.

If by the end, the Red King has amassed 1000 Ember Stones but everyone survives, then this 'Death Carnival' would instead be a waste card.

Xia Feng remembered that during the auction phase of the first round of settlement, a Death Carnival card appeared and was bought by Huang Zhaoyue for a high price of 50 Ember Stones.

If Xia Feng were to make the choice, he wouldn't dare buy it; five people must be eliminated to break even, six to gain anything — you'd have to be crazy to buy such a card.

Apparently, Huang Zhaoyue was that crazy.

While muttering to himself, Xia Feng glanced at the woman in the white robe ahead, just about to say something, when the surrounding mosaic light suddenly buzzed and trembled, flashing like the static on an old television screen.

Xia Feng turned back sharply; the four mad dogs were closing in, using some method to abruptly cut the space between them by tens of thousands of meters.

"Boom——!"

The spatial passage completely collapsed, the chain link between Xia Feng and Huang Zhaoyue shattering, causing him to plummet rapidly towards the sea of fire below.

The wind howled as Xia Feng lay back amid the thunderstorm that surged upstream. Looking upward, he saw a hint of divinity and an eerie meteor shower with countless golden points of light mixed with a dark green acid pouring down from the clouds above.

The acid was the poison liquid formed after the death of the giant turtle, while the golden light points were the shattered light from the pillar of light disappearing where Heng was.

For some reason, they hadn't completely dissipated.

[Red King Exposure Stage Countdown: 2 hours 28 minutes]

There was still a long time until the settlement phase began, and it was uncertain whether Huang Zhaoyue could still hold on.

A continuous sizzling burning sound reached Xia Feng, who glanced at the land below the misty clouds.

A half-heart-shaped continent emerged into view, its surface faintly showing bulging veins and blood vessels.

Heavenly God Half-dirty, didn't expect to return to this damned place.

The sulfuric acid poison liquid and golden light rain struck the Heavenly God Half-dirty, sizzling and releasing blood mist.

"Whiz——" A pitch-black chain re-entered Xia Feng's abdomen, tightened suddenly. The black and white female figure appeared further below, diving rapidly toward the ground.

Xia Feng arched his waist forward, overwhelmed by a strong sense of propulsion. Before he could react, he entered a high-speed state of temporal reverse flow again; wind knives cut at his face, almost making him unable to open his eyes.

He covered his face with his hands, seeing through his fingers the white-robed woman at the end of the chain, whose robe conformed tightly down her waist, accentuating a full moon arc of a hip.

It always felt like this chain was walking a dog, huh? Who's the dog?

Though he had no autonomy and was entirely being dragged by the end of the chain, when walking a dog, the owner is typically behind, and the dog is in front.

It was clear then!

Huang Zhaoyue is——

Bang! Xia Feng was jerked violently, headfirst into the ground, and instantly swallowed by the blood-colored heart-formed earth, vanishing without a trace.

Lady Mi and the four others halted, hovering in all directions.

Yophiel frowned, looking down at the ground, coldly saying, "Heavenly God Half-dirty, previously I was unexpectedly swallowed into it, the environment here has issues and will slowly absorb all the energies of life forms."

Jin Shiyin nodded, having also been swallowed by a Scarlet Storm of natural disaster upon first arriving at the Blood Thunder Sky Sea, falling into the Heavenly God Half-dirty, and took a long time to get out.

"Heh, even if it could engulf, the speed is slow, what to fear?" Zong Yue coldly chuckled, and without paying attention to the others, dove headfirst into the blood-colored ground.

The remaining three exchanged glances, reluctantly following suit.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly God Half-dirty was intertwined with veins and blood vessels; navigating through it felt no different than walking in a maze.

As Xia Feng and Huang Zhaoyue entered, they disappeared without a trace, as if an eel into the sea.

The veins of the Heavenly God were unimaginably tough, even a Sage couldn't destroy them.

Thus, the four wandered around for two hours, and each time they caught a glimpse of a Black Spade Man, Huang Zhaoyue swiftly led them away, leaving no trace.

Yophiel's expression was somber, pointing a finger to the throat, projecting a vast sound imbued with cold intent, "Her Imperial Highness, where do you think you can run to doing this? Sooner or later, we'll catch up with you!"

"As long as you hand over that little mouse, my Angel Army is willing to offer a Netherworld Flower as compensation, how about it?"

The vast sound snaked through the veins, quickly reaching thousands of miles away, entering the ears of the black and white female figure.

The black and white female figure didn't pause at all, instead accelerating in the maze.

"What is a Netherworld Flower?" the Black Spade Man beside her asked in confusion.

Huang Zhaoyue gave Xia Feng a sidelong glance with her fox-grey eyes, "This flower is a treasure for repairing Spiritual Artifacts, and happens to match my attributes, useful for me."

Xia Feng raised an eyebrow, "And you still won't hand me over?"

"You want to go out?"

"Naturally, I don't."

"Then stop the nonsense!"

"....." Xia Feng pursed his lips, pondering, "Indeed, since for you, escaping the shackles of that existence is more important than repairing a Spiritual Artifact."

Huang Zhaoyue ignored him, charging forward relentlessly.

[Red King Exposure Stage Countdown: 6 minutes]

Xia Feng frowned, the four Holy Realm experts behind were like hyenas, relentless in their hunt for his juicy meat.

But in fact, Xia Feng wasn't really panicking, as he was merely a convincingly disguised clone.

If worse comes to worst, he would just commit self-destruction and forsake this clone.

Although it would waste some spiritual power, it's better than having his soul body caught by the likes of Yophiel and subjected to soul searches and other troublesome methods.

However, with only a few minutes left until the settlement phase, he figured he'd see if any changes would occur once it opened.

After all, the spiritual power consumed by a clone was indeed significant, and since he already had one destroyed, there were likely tough battles ahead, better to save when possible.

But just at the 58-second mark of the countdown, Xia Feng and Huang Zhaoyue both paused for a moment.

The four pursuing them also froze, glancing around.

In the mixed space of scarlet and darkness, light gold lines emerged gradually, forming waves of ripples and joyous leaping characters.

It was as if the strings of time and space had been plucked by a higher-dimensional existence, sending ripples and musical notes dancing.

And the source of this ripple was in the east.

"This is...." Jin Shiyin squinted slightly while looking back in the direction of the ripple, "a natural phenomenon produced by Law Resonance?"