Chapter 258: This Time, the Trap Is Huge

Lin Fan quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead. Was this world too dangerous? This forbidden land was such a trap, yet why did people keep coming to explore it in an endless stream?

At this moment, Zeng Hailong let out a ferocious roar.

"Pfft..."

In an instant, a blaze of flames suddenly ignited on Zeng Hailong's body. The originally red flames turned black in the blink of an eye, like flames from hell.

"Whoa, could he become a Flame Superman?" Lin Fan stared dumbfounded at the scene. This was all too hard to imagine.

But things weren't over yet. Something inside Zeng Hailong's body seemed about to burst out, making a banging sound.

His back arched high, and with a pfft, a bone wing burning with black flames violently pierced through his back and grew out.

Then his scalp gradually turned outward, and a hideous, terrifying skull broke through.

...

Gradually, Lin Fan was left speechless.

A flame giant covered in sharp bony spurs appeared.

"Roar..."

The roar was filled with infinite rage. Within the black flames, it seemed as if vengeful spirits were howling ferociously.

Middle stage of the Small Heavenly Rank.

Lin Fan was stunned at a glance. This power jump was too outrageous—from the Great Perfection of the Entering God Realm to the middle stage of the Small Heavenly Rank in an instant.

Lin Fan even felt sympathy for Zeng Hailong. Sigh, why did you have to go around popping pills recklessly?

Look, now you've got problems from popping pills. What can be done?

However, Lin Fan had no intention of killing the flame giant that Zeng Hailong had become. He wanted to follow behind and see where this guy was headed.

Now the flame giant began to walk. With its towering body, each step covered several zhang, and the footprints left on the ground still burned with black flames.

Following behind, Lin Fan looked at the flames on those footprints and wanted to see just how powerful this flame was.

Although the flame giant's strength was at the middle stage of the Small Heavenly Rank, the flames it carried seemed to Lin Fan to have something special about them.

When Lin Fan touched the flame with his hand, the system's voice chimed in.

"Ding, congratulations, 'Indestructible Demon Body' experience increased by ten thousand."

...

"Not that impressive either." Lin Fan was a bit disappointed. He had thought the flame would be much stronger, but it only added ten thousand experience—pitifully little.

"Sizzle..."

At that moment, the walking flame giant suddenly stopped, turned its hideous face to look at the footprints it had left, and then roared.

Lin Fan fanned the air. The gas exhaled by the flame giant had a foul stench. Compared to Yao Wuxie's smell, it was like a minor case next to a major one, but still very unpleasant.

"Roar..."

Within the flame giant's hollow eyes, flames flickered as if it had sensed something, but it couldn't see Lin Fan's figure.

After roaring a few times, the flame giant turned its head and continued forward.

Lin Fan followed behind but no longer touched those flames. Perhaps to the flame giant, the flames left on the ground were its eyes; whenever someone touched them, it could sense it.

He had been following the flame giant for a while, and it kept moving straight ahead.

Along the way, Lin Fan saw quite a few people, but the flame giant was very tall and its aura strong, so no one dared to confront it head-on; they all hid in various places.

Then something even more shocking happened. The flame giant seemed to have intelligence, as it took a treasure chest from a certain place and held it in its hand.

The chest was radiant with jewels and looked extraordinary. Lin Fan was startled. Could it be that this flame giant was planning to use treasures to lure the sect disciples?

At that moment, in the shadows, disciples from the three sects—Immortal Spirit Sect, Tongtian Island, and Putian Sect—who had been scattered, gathered together.

They had already lost many fellow disciples; some they hadn't found, but it was likely they had met with misfortune.

Since coming down here, they hadn't encountered any treasures at all—not even a single hair.

In their view, perhaps the sect had been wrong this time. They had experienced forbidden lands before, but in those places, treasures were easy to obtain, nothing like the difficulty now.

"Senior Brother Yang, look at the treasure chest in that flame giant's hand." At this, a disciple's eyes showed delight.

"There must be treasures in that chest."

"Right, this Burial Sea Demon Land is strange; we can't find any treasures. Probably all the treasures are in that chest."

"Middle stage of the Small Heavenly Rank. If we coordinate well, we should be able to handle it."

"Alright, once we form the Reversal Grand Array, you take the chance to kill it. We'll split the treasure evenly."

"Move out."

...

Just as Lin Fan was about to kill the flame giant, a commotion broke out ahead.

"Form the array!"

"Kill!"

In that instant, the disciples of the three sects appeared and surrounded the flame giant.

Lin Fan watched the situation. Although the flame giant was at the middle stage of the Small Heavenly Rank, it was in grave danger; among the three sects' disciples, there were no lack of strong fighters.

But just then, something strange happened, leaving Lin Fan in disbelief.

The flame giant suddenly tossed the treasure chest into the air above the three sects' disciples.

One of the disciples leaped up, caught the chest, and eagerly opened it.

In an instant, a black light flashed from the chest.

"Pfft, pfft..."

"Senior Brother!"

"Junior Brother!"

A series of screams erupted.

Lin Fan was dumbfounded. How was this possible?

The moment the chest opened, the black light split into countless beams, then pierced through all those sect disciples like sharp swords.

Some were pierced through the top of the head, their entire bodies pinned to the ground; others were sliced in half by the black light, blood and flesh spraying everywhere—a gruesome sight.

Except for a few with higher cultivation who barely dodged, none survived.

The ground seemed to have a suction force, drawing the blood into the earth, while the corpses gradually dried up, eventually becoming mummies.

Looking at the condition of the corpses, Lin Fan's mind tightened.

This scene was familiar—it resembled the situation at the Tuodi Temple.

"You Xie?"

At this moment, Lin Fan's expression turned serious, and he dropped his attitude of watching the show. If that were the case, things were really bad.

Could it be that the black light pillar wasn't a sign of a precious treasure emerging, but rather an illusion deliberately created by the entity hidden in the Burial Sea Demon Land to lure people in?

Thinking back, the entrance had been guarded by several major sects, preventing independent cultivators from entering, but coincidentally, many cracks had opened in the ground, giving them a chance to get in.

Could all of this have been premeditated?

The disciples who had narrowly escaped panicked. "Run!"

But in that instant, the flame giant, which hadn't moved very fast, suddenly vanished into the void.

When it reappeared, its sharp, slender fingernails had already pierced through a disciple, lifting him on its nail.

"Pfft, pfft..."

The few disciples trying to flee all died at the hands of the flame giant.

The flame giant stood there, a semblance of a smile appearing on its terrifying face. Then it raised its finger and stuffed the corpses impaled on its nails into its mouth.

"So strong..."

At this moment, Lin Fan's heart pounded. The flame giant's strength was definitely higher than the middle stage of the Small Heavenly Rank.

After swallowing the corpses, the flame giant closed the treasure chest and continued walking forward stupidly. To those unaware, the flame giant was just a moving treasure chest.

But in Lin Fan's eyes, this flame giant was nothing less than a moving death god.