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Chapter 2659: Gray Flame
"Now, with City Lord Willow’s reminder, finding the location of the ’immortal flame’ is not difficult."
Wyatt Barnes’s eyes flickered and immediately locked onto a certain spot.
As his gaze abruptly intensified, a hint of excitement flashed deep within his eyes, particularly conspicuous.
"Right there!"
Following the position Manuel Willow told him, Wyatt Barnes made a swift move and arrived near the foot of an inconspicuous mountain peak, hovering mid-air and flying around the base of the mountain before stopping at the eastern part.
"City Lord Willow’s concealment formation is still intact... which means no one has come here since he discovered this place."
Wyatt extended his Divine Sense while overlooking a dense forest on one side of the mountain base, whispering softly.
Swoosh!
Almost at the moment his voice fell, Wyatt’s figure moved, like turning into a gust of wind, blowing towards the dense forest his gaze had locked onto.
As his body touched the dense forest, it encountered no obstruction, as if he had mastered the ’wall-piercing technique,’ seamlessly entering the thick woods without leaving any trace.
It was as if the dense forest had swallowed him whole.
The forest remained unchanged, showing no signs of disturbance when viewed from outside.
This dense forest was the manifestation of the concealment formation City Lord Manuel Willow had left here. Once Wyatt saw through the formation, he passed through it as if it were air.
After passing through the concealment formation’s dense forest, Wyatt entered a cave at the mountain base, greeted by pitch-black darkness and uneven ground, with quite a few puddles of foul-smelling water.
Crash!
As Wyatt mobilized his Immortal Origin Force, it burst forth from him, turning him into a sun emitting blinding white light, illuminating the entire cave.
Bang!
With a lift of his hand, an imprint condensed from Immortal Origin Force shot forth, striking a wall on one side of the cave.
Suddenly.
Boom!!
Rumble!!
...
As Wyatt’s imprint hit the cave wall, it collapsed with a thunderous roar, revealing a deep passage leading to unknown depths, like a mysterious giant beast opening its deep maw, waiting for prey.
"According to City Lord Willow... this passage leads to the depths underground. And in those depths, the ’immortal flame’ can be seen."
With a flicker of his gaze, Wyatt moved into the passage ahead.
Suddenly, the once dark passage became bright.
Now, Wyatt was like a giant Night Pearl, illuminating all darkness...
Following the passage deeper underground, there were no obstacles along the way.
After all, the ’immortal flame’ wasn’t placed there by human hands, so there were no human-set challenges on the way. Wyatt walked down the passage for about half an hour before arriving at its end.
"I’m here!"
Gazing at the end of the passage where a hazy gray light appeared, Wyatt’s eyes sparkled like two dazzling stars in the night sky, extraordinarily brilliant.
Before coming here, Wyatt had heard from City Lord Manuel Willow:
The ’immortal flame’ here was gray.
As for whether it was a flame for alchemy or for forging, he couldn’t be sure.
Bang!
Seeing the gray firelight at the end of the passage and realizing he had reached the ’destination,’ Wyatt pushed off with his legs forcefully, moving rapidly to leave the passage beneath his feet.
After leaving the passage, Wyatt found himself in a giant cavern.
In this vast cavern, all was surrounded by a mysterious force, causing ’broken stones’ to float in the void. These broken stones varied in size, some as small as a grain of rice and others as large as a typical bed.
Broken stones the size of a grain of rice appeared more like dust particles, and they were the most numerous.
Whirling stones and sand.
This was the first thought that popped into Wyatt’s head upon entering the cavern.
It felt like a world of whirling stones and sand.
"Is that... the immortal flame?"
At the same time, Wyatt’s gaze penetrated the whirling stones and sand in the cavern and fell upon the ’gray flame’ floating in the center, unable to look away.
It was the first time Wyatt had seen a flame of this color.
The gray flame floated in the void, like the ’core’ of the entire cavern. All the whirling stones and sand inside the cavern revolved around it, forming detectable circuits.
Furthermore, at that moment, as Wyatt focused on the gray flame, it was as if he had sunk into a quagmire.
Above the gray flame, it seemed to possess a mysterious attraction, causing Wyatt Barnes’ consciousness to become entrapped within it, unable to extricate himself...
"Hmm?"
It wasn’t until the ’fragmented iron piece’ on one side of Wyatt Barnes’ soul emitted a brilliant mysterious light, enveloping his soul, that he shockingly came back to his senses, his gaze leaving the cluster of gray flame.
"This celestial fire... is truly bizarre."
After his gaze left the gray flame, Wyatt couldn’t help but gasp in surprise.
Earlier, if it weren’t for the ’fragmented iron piece’ beside his soul emitting a brilliant mysterious light and enveloping his soul, shocking him awake like a cold splash of water,
his consciousness might never have been able to extricate itself from that cluster of gray flame.
"Before I came, City Lord Willow didn’t mention that this celestial fire could entrap consciousness..."
Wyatt mused.
Precisely because Manuel Willow hadn’t mentioned this point to him, he looked towards that cluster of celestial fire unguardedly, leading his consciousness to become highly entrapped, unable to pull away.
"City Lord Willow probably didn’t know this would happen either."
"Perhaps it’s because my soul level is insufficient, which led to the dangerous encroachment of consciousness into this celestial fire... After all, my soul is merely at the ’Yellow Sun Golden Immortal’ level, far inferior compared to City Lord Willow when he discovered this celestial fire."
Wyatt still trusted Manuel Willow’s character.
Hence, he didn’t suspect Manuel Willow of intentionally concealing this matter but rather guessed that his experience was due to his own soul level.
In fact, Wyatt guessed correctly.
The situation he encountered was indeed due to his soul level being too low.
"According to City Lord Willow... if you want to approach this celestial fire, you must endure the attacks from the flying sand and stones within this cave. And, since he couldn’t bypass these flying sand and stones at that time, he had to return empty-handed."
Unconsciously, Wyatt’s gaze fell upon the flying sand and stones surrounding the gray ’celestial fire’.
These flying sand and stones revolved around the celestial fire in a very consistent pattern, forming several discernible cycles, like a ’Guardian Deity’, faithfully protecting the celestial fire with unwavering loyalty.
Suddenly.
Without any warning, Wyatt’s gaze abruptly turned cold.
Immediately.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
...
Amidst the sound of sword wails, Wyatt instantly unleashed all the techniques he could muster, simultaneously invoking the Heavenly Artifact ’Seven Apertures Exquisite Sword’ within him, exerting full power to conjure a dazzling seven-colored sword array.
As soon as the seven-colored sword array appeared, it immediately enveloped him, carrying him with great speed towards the cluster of gray ’celestial fire’.
Faced with the celestial fire, Wyatt wasted no time and exerted all his efforts in a bid to seize the celestial fire in one fell swoop.
As for the method of seizing the celestial fire, he had consulted Manuel Willow before leaving Bloodshade City this time.
For this purpose, Manuel Willow specifically provided him with an Immortal Talisman imprinted with memory, which contained information on the method to seize the celestial fire.
"To seize the celestial fire, apart from using aggressive tactics to suppress it, one must also use Divine Sense to communicate with it... As soon as the celestial fire is fully suppressed and Divine Sense communicates with it, it generally submits. After all, it doesn’t possess complete intelligence, belonging to an unawakened existence."
When Wyatt manipulated the seven-colored sword array to fly out, his entire being seemed to transform into a specter, as he followed the array toward the cluster of gray flame, which was the objective of his trip—’celestial fire’.
Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!
...
As Wyatt followed the seven-colored sword array and sped forward, those previously uniformly revolving flying sand and stones, moving in cycles around the celestial fire, suddenly became agitated.
The streaming sand was the first to strike, forming a sandstorm that swept towards Wyatt Barnes!
The sandstorm roared forward, obstructing Wyatt Barnes’ vision, leaving his eyes filled only with overwhelming flying sand.
Moreover, as the sandstorm surged in, Wyatt could clearly sense:
A powerful offensive was surging toward him, its strength comparable to Tony Campbell’s full-force attack from the County Governor’s Mansion in Nine Nether County.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
...
Just as Wyatt faced the invasion of the sandstorm, rapid and piercing whistling sounds rang out.
Initially, Wyatt could only hear the sound.
A moment later, he could clearly see:
Amidst the sandstorm surrounding him, faintly visible were stones of various sizes, akin to meteors falling from space, sweeping towards him along with the sandstorm.
Their speed surpassed that of the sandstorm by several degrees!
"Such an offensive... It’s already stronger than Tony Campbell’s full-force strike!"
Upon sensing the powerful offensive contained within these meteoric stones hurtling towards him, Wyatt Barnes’ expression immediately turned solemn, his pupils shrinking fiercely.