This was a clash between hellfire and the heavens, and all of the netherdark was their battlefield.

Lu Yun stood in front of the torch dragon, deploying the nascent spirit observation method and borrowing the might of the hellfire giant to contend against heaven’s frenzied wrath.

The nascent spirit observation method was a creation under the immortal dao. Though it didn’t currently exist in the great wilderness, Lu Yun had been able to forcefully deploy it after he reclaimed his Xing Chen replica and combined the world with it.

A titanic inferno of hellfire transformed into a torso and unfurled an arm to furiously smash against the thick crimson pillar. The entire sea of flames had become Lu Yun’s replica and stood before him as an enormous protective barrier.

“The Sal Tree of Life and Death! It really does grow beneath the Sea of Hellfire!” His expression shifted slightly when he suddenly felt a consciousness float up through the fiery ocean—it was the Sal Tree’s consciousness.

“The Sal Tree...