Ronghua had slept for a long time and couldn’t open her eyes, only hearing Zhou Dong’s words saying, “Fire God, congratulations! This woman’s fire is so powerful. You will succeed if you possess it.”

“Ha! I didn’t expect that this woman was pretty powerful!”

“How should we deal with this woman?”

“Drag her out and kill her to feed the monsters!”

Ronghua couldn’t distinguish it was reality or illusion. She only knew she was dying!

A stream of black mist rushed up before Zhou Dong pulled Ronghua, surrounding her. Zhou Dong didn’t step back, so his feet touched a little mist and then were eroded, and he jumped back painfully.

Then the black mist flowed up and turned into a person. They saw a man in a black robe, standing in the darkness with a strong sense of hostility.

Zhou Dong had never been so scared before! It must be the horror of this man!

He was looking at injured Ronghua in his arms, with his head lowered. His face was covered so that no one could see his expression. But he must be furious now and might even kill them!

The man in a black robe wanted to touch her but was afraid of hurting her, so he just murmured, “Dear Ronghua, wake up!”

Zhou Dong was astounded and couldn’t move at all. He finally turned around and looked at the Fire God, but the Fire God had been trapped, with his whole body twisted and his hand lengthened. Coincidentally, this hand absorbed Ronghua’s fire just now. When did he hit the Fire God? He had made no sound at all!

Zhou Dong opened his mouth but couldn’t say a word!

The man in black still called Ronghua in a low and gentle voice, “Dear Ronghua, wake up. I’m here!”

Ronghua closed her eyes. Although she had heard someone calling her, she didn’t open her eyes, for she was too tired and sleepy. She didn’t want to open her eyes at all!

Her head unconsciously moved but hurt very much.

“Who are you?” She wanted to know who he was, even though she was about to faint.

This man saw Ronghua faint. The hostility in his eyes became heavier. He wanted to hold her tightly but released her immediately at the thought of her pain.

“You both must die today!” he said word by word and ignored their fear.

Zhou Dong wanted to beg for mercy, but somehow, he couldn’t say a word. His whole body seemed to be suppressed by this man and couldn’t move at all. He might die today!

But he wished this man could let him off! Because it had nothing to do with him that this woman became like that!

The man in a black robe said coldly, “I have never hurt her. You both dare humiliate her.”

Zhou Dong found that he could speak now, so he was ecstatic. He begged for mercy at once, “Your Excellency, please forgive me! I didn’t do it!”

The man in a black robe sneered, “Of course. You didn’t do it!”

Zhou Dong was choked before he finished breathing a sigh of relief, for he was scared by the man’s words, “You both did it!”

Zhou Dong was stunned. How long had he been here? How could he know it?

Zhou Dong begged, “Your Excellency, we didn’t mean any offense. Please forgive us!”

The man in a black robe looked at injured Ronghua and didn’t want to hear any excuse, “Do you think I don’t know what you have done to Ronghua?”

Zhou Dong flurried now. The scheme he had designed for many years couldn’t fail! Thus, he said, “Your Excellency, the Fire God hurt her. It’s all his fault!” He passed the buck to the Fire God. Only in this way would there be a better chance for him to live!

But the man didn’t handle affairs as he thought, for he said, “Do you think it is easy to lie to me?”

Zhou Dong’s hand shivered. He knew it was challenging to cheat this man, but he didn’t expect it was so hard!

“Do you dare to say that the knife around your waist didn’t hurt Ronghua’s hand?”

Knife? Zhou Dong lowered his hand and looked at the knife around his waist. He was so careless that he had forgotten the knife. Now this man wouldn’t believe his words anymore!

The man in a black robe continued, “Didn’t you injure her hand thanks to your sneak attack?”

Zhou Dong was confused again. Did the man stand next to them just now? How could he know it?

The man said, “You don’t have to lie to me. I know everything!”

“Ronghua was just arguing with you. But you, such a villain, dare hurt her! Damn it!”

Zhou Dong had a sense of foreboding. Sure enough, the air surrounding the man in black had changed!

The man in black looked at him insidiously. All of a sudden, Zhou Dong shouted painfully, for he had become the same as the Fire God, with his whole body distorted and his arms twisted into a knot. His arms lengthened by half, and his skin couldn’t wrap his flesh and blood, so his flesh and blood burst out and dripped onto the ground. The scene was so familiar, in which they attacked Ronghua and cut her arms.

Was he seeking justice for Ronghua? Or did he want to let them suffer the pain that Ronghua had suffered?

The man in a black robe continued, “Ronghua had never intended to kill people. But you forced her to make this choice. Now it’s time for you to feel her pain!”

Then Zhou Dong’s head seemed to be swirled by someone and turned over backward. Now, he was dead. Finally, the black mist extended upward from his feet and slowly entered his body.

After a while, Zhou Dong’s head was twisted back. His face turned pale, and his eyes also became greyish white. He had already become a ghost. Although he had his soul in his body, he would be like this forever. He could do nothing about it unless his owner was willing to let him reincarnate!

Ronghua moved a little. The man in a black robe lowered his voice at once, for he thought he was so loud that he might wake her up. He threw Zhou Dong and the Fire God down. It was the Fire God’s domain, so nobody would come here. No one knew how it was at the bottom. The Fire God had absorbed too much fire from those who had a great talent for controlling the flame and then killed them to feed the monsters, so the surrounding was enveloped by dense Yin qi. Those dead people full of resentment refused to reincarnate or leave, and they were just waiting here day by day, year after year. If the Fire God fell, they would kill him for their revenge!

After he fell, all the spiritual power of the Fire God’s fire was sealed. He couldn’t fly, only falling. Fortunately, he was caught by a tree and survived, but he was full of resentment. If his spiritual power restored, he would go up and kill the man to avenge himself. The man was seeking death, for he dared treat him like that!

However, the Fire God felt the surrounding Yin qi thickened before he could relieve himself, which implied a sense of foreboding. People murdered by him in the past hundreds of years had all been thrown beneath. Would they come to take revenge?

It confirmed his guess the next second. Rime fog was approaching him. More terribly, many familiar but strange faces appeared in the mist, which couldn’t be regarded as true faces, for they were malformed. Some of the faces were sunken. Some of the bodies didn’t have arms, with a long wound on the belly, from which he could see the viscera.

It suddenly occurred to him that he had thrown them down in this way in the past, so they didn’t die naturally. Instead, they fell on the tree, or the monsters ate them, neither of which could lead to a good end.

He was so scared that he hid everywhere. However, there was no place for him to hide. Except for the tree, there was even no land for him to stay. Unfortunately, he had no spiritual power, for he had made a sealing spell around the mountain to prevent others from attacking him when he was cultivating. He couldn’t use any spiritual power here, which explained why the people thrown down had no chance to live.

Now he got his retribution. His fingers tightly grabbed the cliff, bleeding. He had no time to care for his fingers. However, the blood was a nutrient for ghosts, so they all rushed over to him and seemed to forget that he was the Fire God. Now they only focused on his flesh and blood.

The Fire God shouted to let them go away, which was useless. He didn’t notice that the root of the tree was stretching out of the seam of the cliff and slowly came to his back and wrapped his neck. It frightened him so that he couldn’t say anything. His hands were still struggling to unwind it, which couldn’t help at all.

The other ghosts realized that he had no spiritual power, so they didn’t scruple anymore. They opened their bloody mouths and bit the Fire God. The Fire God screamed, with his mouth widely opened. One ghost seized the opportunity to enter his body and eat inside, which made him bleed and attracted more ghosts. They found the living person and rushed to the fore to bite him. Now, he couldn’t even scream.

The man in black on the cliff saw Ronghua was severely injured, but he didn’t say anything to console her, “Why did you overestimate and parade your ability? Don’t you know your actual strength?”

The man was holding her head, but Ronghua was too weak to say anything. She just listened to his words, with her eyes closed. Somehow, she seemed to have heard his voice somewhere before!

The man in a black robe slowly transmitted the spiritual power from his hand to her body. Ronghua had a unique physique and couldn’t absorb the thin spiritual power, so she usually used the fire of nothingness to burn the surrounding nimbus and then absorbed it. However, there was less nimbus in the Realm of Humans. The nimbus obtained in this way was useless and couldn’t help her much.

But she had to do it. The human race needed her. She would help them as long as she didn’t violate a principle.

He transmitted the spiritual power from his palm to Ronghua continuously. Perhaps because she hadn’t gained so much spiritual power for a long time, she smiled and became quiet.

But she still wriggled a little, with her hand unconsciously placed on his lower abdomen. She slept sideways and seemed comfortable. Ronghua felt good now but ignored his feeling!

In the past, her left hand could make the ice of the Ninth Heaven, and her right hand could make the fire of nothingness. She only had these two weapons for self-protection, which was the only way for her to survive now. But it would be all in vain if she had no spiritual power.

She could only absorb little spiritual power but might consume a lot.

It would work if he could help her absorb a bit of spiritual power, so he helped her sit up, his hands holding her hand. Unlike ordinary people, he was as cold as ice. No wonder he always looked at Ronghua coldly, for his whole body was so cold.