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Chapter 523 Terrifying Flames

"What terrifying flames!"

Zhu the Butcher's pupils contracted slightly, and a trace of crimson seemed to linger deep in his eyes.

The flames spewed out by Xiao Yuan were not only deeper in color than ordinary flames, but also incredibly lethal.

All twenty-five bodyguards at the eighth rank were burned to charred corpses in just two or three breaths... No!

Not charred corpses, but ashes!

The crimson flames burned for less than three breaths before more than a dozen royal guards were reduced to ashes, their armor plates burned into molten iron. Only a few guards were lucky enough to leave with intact bodies!

How terrible is this?

It should be noted that although martial artists who have reached the eighth rank do not possess internal strength, their physical bodies are extremely powerful, far surpassing those of ordinary people, and their reaction speed is much faster than that of ordinary people. If ordinary flames fall on the body of an eighth-rank martial artist, the eighth-rank martial artist can react in an instant and extinguish them, or throw away the burning clothes on their body.

But the flames that Xiaoyuan spewed out...

They didn't even give the guards of the royal palace time to react; before they could react, they had already burned them to ashes!

"This fire is no ordinary fire!"

Jiang Canghai looked at the seemingly harmless little beast with a face full of apprehension. The little beast looked adorable, but who would have thought... it was such a terrifying beast?

With just a spit, he instantly burned more than twenty eighth-rank martial artists to death. Even Jiang Canghai could never do something like that.

Even Jiang Canghai wasn't confident he could calmly face the blood-red flames. The flames were too strange. The only thing Jiang Canghai could think of was to avoid them. Otherwise, if they touched him, his fate would probably be no better than that of the royal guards.

This beast is indeed extraordinary.

A short distance away from Jiang Canghai and the others, Jiang Changye, who had been secretly observing the situation, was startled, and an expression of "I knew it" appeared on his face.

When he first met Chen Dao, he sensed that Xiao Yuan was unusual, and even felt a sense of danger.

At that time, he didn't know why he had this feeling.

Only now... did he realize how terrifying that seemingly harmless little beast was!

With just a few words, she took away more than twenty eighth-rank martial artists.

"Miss Zheng."

Jiang Changye couldn't help but turn to Zheng Qiuyan and ask, "You are acquainted with young friend Chen, have you ever seen this little beast make a move before?"

"I've seen it."

Zheng Qiuyan nodded, a hint of shock on her face: "However, Xiaoyuan did not display such terrifying power at that time."

Strictly speaking, Zheng Qiuyan did not witness Xiao Yuan's actions firsthand; her claim of seeing Xiao Yuan in action was based on Zheng Qing's description to her afterward.

According to Zheng Qing, Xiao Yuan is an incredibly fast and deadly beast.

However... what Xiaoyuan displayed at this moment was not only speed, but also extremely powerful destructive force.

A single burst of flame burned twenty-five eighth-rank martial artists to death; it was simply terrifying.

"Is it?"

Jiang Changye seemed to be deep in thought, and turned his gaze back to the battlefield.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yuan, who had killed twenty-five of the royal guards with a single burst of flame, had already turned her attention to another gathering place of the guards.

Because of the need to surround and kill Chen Cheng and Chen Dao, the guards of the Prince's Mansion were positioned very densely, which conveniently allowed Xiao Yuan to make her move.

"Hey."

With her small, round mouth slightly open, she tried to repeat her old trick and spew out red fire once more.

Upon seeing this, Xia Yuanying's expression changed drastically, and he roared, "Scatter immediately! Don't give this beast a chance!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the guards of the Prince's Palace reacted immediately, changing from their originally densely packed positions to scattered ones.

At that very moment, Xiaoyuan's second burst of crimson fire erupted.

The enormous fireball engulfed the three royal guards with lightning speed, and the next second, painful screams echoed from within the flames.

"what!"

The wailing lasted only a moment before disappearing. Then, the flames dissipated, revealing three empty suits of armor, or rather...

Two clumps of molten iron and a suit of armor were burned to ashes. As for their armor... two suits were burned to molten iron, and one suit barely retained its shape, but the iron plates on it were crooked and twisted, as if twisted into a pretzel by an invisible force.

"Damn it!"

Xia Yan's eyes widened in fury. That damned beast had burned twenty-eight royal guards to death with just two breaths of flame.

You should know that these guards were trained by the Green King and him with a lot of effort and resources!

Even the death of just one of his guards would be enough to make his heart bleed, let alone the loss of twenty-eight in one go!

"Hey."

A hint of human dissatisfaction flashed in Xiao Yuan's eyes when it saw that its crimson fire had only burned three of the royal guards to death. Although it could control the crimson fire, it was not without its price.

The release of Crimson Flame also consumes a lot of its own resources. Even at its peak, Xiao Yuan can only release Crimson Flame about 10 times in a short period of time.

At this moment, the formation of the Prince's guards was very sparse, and it was obviously impossible for it to replicate its previous operation of burning 25 Prince's guards to death in one go.

Then, Xiao Yuan's dark eyes turned to Xia Yan.

As a highly intelligent and superior beast, Xiao Yuan could naturally recognize that Xia Yan was the strongest among its enemies, and therefore it wanted to deal with Xia Yan first.

"Hey!"

The next moment, the little round mouth opened, and blood-red flames shot out at an extremely fast speed, sweeping towards Xia Yan.

"Humph!"

Xia Yan snorted coldly. Just because an eighth-rank royal guard couldn't deal with this strange flame didn't mean he, a peak fourth-rank guard, couldn't!

not to mention……

The prince never mistreats his own people; he immediately gave Xia Yan a batch of python blood grass and python bone grass as soon as he obtained them.

In other words, Xia Yan had already started consuming python blood grass and python bone grass for cultivation. Although he was not yet a third-grade martial artist, he was very close to the third grade. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a quasi-third-grade martial artist!

Even martial artists like Zhu Tu Fu, Jiang Cang Hai, Li Qing Song, and Qian Li Er, who have remained at the peak of the fourth rank for many years, are probably far from being a match for Xia Yan at this moment.

Therefore, Xia Yan was not afraid at all when faced with the flames spewed by Xiao Yuan!

Xia Yan used his knife as a fan and swung it hard at the air in front of him.

"Hoohoo!"

The invisible airflow was stirred by the blade, and the crimson flames that Xiao Yuan spewed out were actually forced to stop in mid-air by Xia Yan's fan.

Immediately afterwards, the crimson flames surged back, engulfing Xiaoyuan within them.

"Madoka."

Zheng Qiuyan, who was in the distance, couldn't help but call out anxiously.