"Dragon Controlling Skill?"
Wu Qing thought. Emperor Zi's skills were well-known. Lu Li could not have mastered an immortal body or else how could someone at the peak of the fourth tribulation hurt him?
There could only be one explanation that Lu Li could survive such strong flames. He had learned Dragon Controlling Skill.
Lu Li was the successor of the Master of Thousand Transformations and the Master of Thousand Transformations worked for Emperor Zi. In that case, Lu Li could be a descendant of the Yin Family. It was understandable that he had learned Emperor Zi's Dragon Controlling Skill.
"Hmm, Dragon Controlling Skill has a time limit, right?"
Wu Qing murmured and said coldly, "We will wait outside. I want to see how long he can stay in the purple flames."
The patriarchs nodded. They had no other choice but to stay in the area of red flames. They dared not to go into the area of purple flames.
"Spread out. Everyone, take a direction. Do not let him escape from other directions!"
Wu Qing waved his hand. They could survive the area of red flames. It was a bit painful but compared to killing Lu Li, it was nothing.
The island was large. But this was the third layer of flames. It was not a large area. The patriarchs had strong psychic power. If they spread out and patrolled, Lu Li would not be able to escape.
The patriarchs spread out and wandered around. Lu Li sensed this and complained to himself.
His Petrifying Dragon Art could only last for an hour. Once the Petrifying Dragon Art's duration was up, he would become extremely weak and would definitely be burned to death by the flames.
"Whoosh!"
Lu Li wandered around, trying to figure out a way.
However, he could not enter interspatial artifacts or fly. The outside was locked down and he could not escape. What could he do?
"Blood Fairy, do you have any way to build fire-repelling runes?"
Lu Li asked. Blood Fairy answered, "Regular flames can work. But the flames here are horrifying. I do not have the ability yet."
"What about the ancient artifacts?"
Lu Li thought about it and tried to take out the ancient treasures. However, he could not take out any of them. He could not even use his interspatial ring here, let alone an interspatial artifact.
Lu Li had no other choice. He had to move on and explore to see if there was a strange area where he could hide from the flames.
"What?"
All of a sudden, Lu Li was taken aback. He saw a group of ants crawling in and out of a tree stump.
"There are ants here?"
Lu Li was amazed. How come the stump was not burned down?
Even a fifth tribulation expert couldn't withstand such a domineering flame, so how could this tree stump withstand it?
Lu Li ran over and grabbed an ant. The ant was only as thick as a pinky finger. When Lu Li grabbed it, the ant opened its mouth and bit Lu Li's palm.
"What a strong ant!"
Lu Li was secretly amazed. He activated his Great Dao Trace and found that the ants' bodies were filled with surging fire-elemental energy. When they opened their mouths just now, flames came out.
"Hmm?"
A bold idea came to Lu Li's mind. There was so much fire energy in the ant. Would eating it directly make him more resistant to fire?
This ant could actually survive in the purple fire?
If he ate some ants, would he be able to resist the flames?
Ruthlessness appeared in Lu Li's eyes. He grabbed the ant, smashed it to death and threw it into his mouth. Then he closed his eyes and chewed hard.
The ant's defense was not strong. Lu Li bit it and swallowed it.
"Ah ~"
Soon, Lu Li screamed. He grabbed his neck and rolled on the ground. He felt like he was thrown into a pot of boiling oil. His internal organs were being burned by a powerful flame.
"Bang!" "Bang!"
He kept rolling on the ground, screaming and roaring. It was a tragic sight.
Wu Qing and the others outside could not see what was going on inside — psychic power was restricted in the purple fire area.
They were overjoyed to hear Lu Li's roars. So, Lu Li could not stand the purple fire?
Was he going to be burned to death?
Lu Li rolled on the ground for the time for half an incense stick to burn before he finally lay on his stomach and gasped for air. Fear still lingered in his eyes.
If he hadn't released the Dragon Skill, he would have been burned to death by that domineering fire-elemental energy.
"What?"
Lu Li suddenly reached out his hand. The burnt flesh on his hand was recovering. The energy in the Fire Ants had healing effects.
"Eat!"
He was overjoyed as if he had fallen off a cliff and saw a rope.
He grabbed two ants, smashed them to death and swallowed them. Then he rolled on the ground again, screaming.
"What?"
Wu Qing and the others heard Lu Li's screams again. They were surprised. Just now, when Lu Li's screams died down, they all thought he was dead. Little did they expect that he would scream again …
This time, after the time for half an incense stick to burn, Lu Li stopped breathing again. After a while, Lu Li screamed again.
Wu Qing and the others looked at each other in confusion. What was Lu Li doing in there?
He could scream so many times, but he was still alive. Everyone had a bad feeling. Could Lu Li stand the flames in there?
Time moved on. Lu Li had eaten 10 ants at one time. As more ants were eaten, Lu Li's pain was not so severe.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that his body that was burned by the flames was recovering. The Fire Ants did not have powerful energy that could heal his wounds.
Lu Li began to eat Fire Ants desperately after he realized this. He ate dozens of them at one time.
Luckily, Fire Ants kept crawling out from the tree stump. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many Fire Ants for him to eat.
After eating more than 100 Fire Ants, Lu Li found that his internal organs were more resistant to the Fire Ants. His physical body seemed to be stronger as well. Seeing that the time limit of the Dragon Entanglement was about to run out, Lu Li was getting anxious.
Even though he had eaten many Fire Ants, he felt he could not stand the purple flames yet.
His Dragon Skill had strengthened his body by dozens of times. When the weakened period of the Dragon Skill was over, his body would be dozens of times weaker. How could he stand the purple flames?
Lu Li turned his eyes to the tree stump. This tree stump seemed to be the nest of the Fire Ants.
Perhaps the Fire Ants had eaten the tree stumps to survive in there?
"Whoosh!"
Lu Li flew over and arrived at the tree stump. His hands turned into claws and he scratched at the tree stump.
A muffled sound came out. Lu Li felt he had grabbed onto cold iron. If it were a regular tree, Lu Li would have crushed it. How could this tree stump be so hard?
"Hoy ~"
Lu Li clenched his fists. Energy surged out from the 720 acupoints in his body. Lu Li smashed at a corner of the tree stump.
"Boom!"
This time, a corner of the tree stump was knocked off. Lu Li grabbed it at once and tried to bite it. However, two of his teeth fell out. The wood was too hard for him to bite through.
Lu Li took it out and tried to melt it down with divine energy.
This time, it worked. He used divine energy and the wood melted down. It turned into strands of energy that entered Lu Li's body.
"Ah ~"
This time, Lu Li was in a worse state. He felt a surge of overbearing energy entering his body and rampaging around inside. It was more like a ball of fire was trying to burn Lu Li.
"Eh ~"