Free Web NovelChapter 356: Chapter 178: Let Me Help You
The moment Lin Ye and his puppet army appeared, Balan’s monstrous dragon head slowly turned toward them. Its eyes, made of pure magma, radiated endless fury and hatred.
The next moment, it opened its massive maw, large enough to swallow a truck.
’Not good!’
Alarms blared wildly in Lin Ye’s mind.
The next instant, a massive fireball over ten meters in diameter, so incandescent it made the entire Magma Space pale in comparison, came screaming toward his position.
Lin Ye was about to dodge, but he saw the fireball suddenly disintegrate and explode in mid-air!
From the very beginning, Balan’s goal wasn’t a precision strike. It was to burn him alive, along with all the puppets behind him!
BOOM—!
A terrifying wave of fire swept over them with unstoppable force, instantly engulfing the entire high platform where Lin Ye stood.
The puppets walking ahead of Lin Ye to clear his path didn’t last a single breath against this power before being completely melted.
They turned into pools of black goo, only to be completely vaporized the next second.
The wave of fire lasted for more than ten seconds before slowly dissipating.
The high platform was a wreck, with nothing left but scorched, red-hot rock.
A hint of human-like contempt appeared on Balan’s monstrous dragon head.
However, in the next moment, its contempt froze.
At the center of the fiery blast, a figure slowly emerged.
That tiny human was completely unharmed!
Balan could see clearly that a layer of black scales, shimmering with shadows, covered the human’s body, completely blocking out the scorching flames it had spewed.
Lin Ye flicked the lingering embers from his arm, his own heart stirring with surprise.
The Shadow Scale’s Flame Resistance had always seemed like a minor bonus; he’d never counted on it.
He was certain that the exploding fireball would have instantly roasted even a Shadow Scale Race leader like Galasha into a dried lizard.
And yet, he had only felt a slight searing heat.
"ROAR!"
Balan let out a furious roar, seemingly unable to accept that its attack had been so easily nullified.
But Lin Ye wasted no time on words.
He bent his knees slightly, then shot forward like an arrow from a bow, charging straight for Balan in the center of the Magma Lake.
A chasm hundreds of meters wide separated the high platform from the Magma Lake.
As Lin Ye flew through the air, a purple crystal platform materialized beneath his feet. He tapped his toes on it, accelerating a second time and launching himself forward again.
He used his Crystallization ability to build himself a high-speed aerial corridor over the Magma Lake, where there was no other foothold.
His objective was clear: Balan was sealed by the stone pillar, which meant there had to be a blind spot and an attack dead angle behind it.
Balan obviously realized his intention. Its eight enormous magma tentacles thrashed wildly, churning the entire Magma Lake.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Thick pillars of magma and fire erupted from the lake’s surface, precisely anticipating Lin Ye’s landing spots in an attempt to blast him into the magma below.
Lin Ye constantly swerved and changed direction in mid-air like a dancer weaving through a storm of blades, narrowly evading the deadly attacks each time.
Soon, he successfully made it behind Balan.
The Star-Piercing Spear flared with brilliant golden light. He launched a strike infused with immense Gang Sha, stabbing viciously toward the back of the bound Balan’s head.
However, before Lin Ye’s attack could land, he heard a roar that shook the heavens and the earth!
BOOM!
It was followed by an overwhelming wave of Spirit!
Lin Ye felt his Sea of Consciousness become like a small boat in a raging storm. He had to focus his mind completely to avoid being overwhelmed and knocked unconscious!
The next second, the entire Magma Lake began to boil violently.
The lake’s surface surged upward, forming a colossal wave of magma that blotted out the sky as it crashed down toward Lin Ye.
Lin Ye’s pupils constricted. Enormous purple crystal walls rapidly solidified in front of him in an attempt to block the world-ending blow.
However, the instant the crystal walls touched the magma wave, they began to melt and shatter.
But the momentary block from the crystal walls bought Lin Ye time. He condensed another one, kicked off it with his right leg, and shot like an arrow back to the platform beside the Magma Lake.
Lin Ye lamented once again, ’If [Taotie] could be upgraded to let me have more temporary skills at once, my combat style would be countless times more flexible.’
’I wouldn’t have to constantly switch between Crystallization and Shadow Scale, either.’
Just as Lin Ye was contemplating how to break the stalemate, Balan launched an even more frenzied assault.
Its eight tentacles plunged violently into the Magma Lake below. When they reemerged, each was holding a weapon forged from magma—
a great axe burning with crimson flames, a magma spear so incredibly sharp it was in no way inferior to his own Star-Piercing Spear...
’It can actually forge weapons out of magma!’
A memory of something Su Yunjin had taught in class flashed through Lin Ye’s mind.
The superior race to the Molten Demon Race is the Star Ash Race, one of the races at the very apex of the entire Celestial Abyss.
This race was born from the creation forge of the Celestial Abyss Second World, and they are natural-born master blacksmiths. To this day, many of the infamous demonic weapons wielded by other races—as well as the few Divine Weapons plundered by human Martial Saints and Martial Gods—were all forged by their hands.
And the Molten Demon Race, being a secondary, inferior race born from the interbreeding of the Star Ash Race with other lesser races, had inherited a sliver of that innate forging ability.
The next moment, the eight magma weapons of varying forms, along with the sky-blotting wave of magma, converged on Lin Ye on the high platform, forming a combined, inescapable killing blow.
