Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Seeing everyone's silence, Senior Brother Cao nodded in satisfaction. Then, he looked at Chen Tian and sighed inwardly, "Don't blame me for being heartless. You brought this upon yourself. I hope those villains, after venting their anger on you, won't come looking for trouble with us again. Consider this a good deed you've done for us."

Senior Brother Cao was worried about finding something to ease the conflict, but Chen Tian had unexpectedly delivered himself to their doorstep.

Perfect. He would use Chen Tian to fight the Ferocious Eight Fiends while he watched from the sidelines.

Senior Brother Cao imagined that with Chen Tian attracting the hatred and easing the conflict, the Ferocious Eight Fiends would probably no longer target them, right?

Although he knew this was an extremely despicable and shameless tactic, he would do anything to protect the reputation of the Sea Blue Sect and his own future.

Besides, Chen Tian had already stated that he was only acting to earn the reward and had nothing to do with the Sea Blue Sect. Such a perfect excuse—how could he not take advantage of it?

Thinking this, Senior Brother Cao remained silent, standing in place with the other Sea Blue Sect disciples like spectators.

In just a brief moment, the situation on the scene underwent a tremendous change. The originally innocent Chen Tian had suddenly become the focal point of all the conflicts!

At this moment, everyone on the Ascension Platform focused their attention on him.

However, these gazes all flickered with a hint of sympathy or mockery, ridiculing Chen Tian for overestimating himself and bringing trouble upon himself.

Chen Tian naturally saw all of this, but he didn't reveal any expression. He simply lowered his head and played with the execution order in his hand.

Seeing Chen Tian's provocative actions, the eight red-clothed burly men were enraged. After exchanging glances, they charged forward together.

Logically, facing a cultivator at the early stage of the凝海 (Ninghai) Realm like Chen Tian, any one or two of them could easily win. Moreover, this would be more in line with the etiquette of the cultivation world of 'not bullying the weak'.

However, since falling into the evil path, these eight had long abandoned all sense of propriety and shame. What they sought was a swift kill. Furthermore, they had endured for three years, and the accumulated resentment in their hearts was driving them to lose their minds, wanting only to taste the flavor of fresh blood.

Faced with the myriad expressions of the crowd, Chen Tian paused his movements. A strange smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. After putting away the execution order, he waved his right hand, and a huge fire dragon roared out from his sleeve.

This fire dragon was hundreds of feet long, its entire body burning with strange crimson flames. As soon as it appeared, the surrounding temperature rapidly increased, reaching thousands of degrees.

Upon seeing this fire dragon, the expressions of the crowd instantly became terrified. Several people who recognized it exclaimed, "Essence Earth Fire Vein!"

That's right, this fire dragon burning with scorching flames was the Essence Earth Fire Vein that Chen Tian had subdued in the Brahma Sect.

After hundreds of years of conditioning, the Essence Earth Fire Vein, whose power had been emptied by Chen Tian, had recovered to eighty percent of its previous strength. As soon as it appeared, it looked down upon the heroes with the aura of a king.

At the same time, the spiritual power within the bodies of the cultivators nearby who practiced fire-based divine abilities became strangely restless after the fire dragon appeared. A sense of unease overflowed in their hearts.

As for those cultivators who specialized in alchemy, their eyes couldn't help but flash with greedy gazes when they saw this fire dragon appear.

This Essence Earth Fire Vein was formed by the power of heaven and earth and often appeared in some extremely large fire veins. It was an essential furnace fire for refining Mysterious-grade elixirs, and even Immortal-grade elixirs.

However, because of its scarcity and the fact that it was mostly monopolized by several super-large sects, it rarely appeared in the world.

Looking at the Essence Earth Fire Vein that Chen Tian had taken out at this time, its size and power were both extremely rare, resembling the three fire veins that the Brahma Sect had previously found.

As the former overlord of the cultivation world, the Brahma Sect had collected many natural treasures that were difficult for ordinary people to imagine and would drive them crazy upon seeing them. Among them, the most famous were the three Essence Earth Fire Veins that they had cultivated over ten thousand years through the efforts of several generations.

These three fire veins were accumulated by the Brahma Sect using all its resources. Using them to refine elixirs increased the success rate by a full thirty percent compared to other fire veins.

Don't underestimate this thirty percent success rate. It was enough to make all cultivators on the乾元 (Qianyuan) Continent extremely jealous.

Until later, the Immortal Cultivation Alliance occupied the Brahma Sect and plundered all the treasures in its treasury, including the three Essence Earth Fire Veins.

However, there were rumors that the most powerful Essence Earth Fire Vein had been extinguished before the Immortal Cultivation Alliance captured it, and its whereabouts were still unknown.

So, at this time, after seeing Chen Tian take out such a powerful Essence Earth Fire Vein, some interested people seemed to have thought of something, and the gazes they cast at Chen Tian no longer contained the previous mockery but became solemn.

Chen Tian didn't pay attention to these people's changes. At this time, he was just focused on the eight red-clothed burly men in front of him.

In fact, after Chen Tian released the fire dragon, the figures of the Ferocious Eight Fiends suddenly stopped, and they pondered with some restraint.

However, soon, a hint of sinister coldness reappeared in their eyes. They dispersed and attacked Chen Tian and the fire dragon from eight different angles.

Seeing this situation, Chen Tian not only didn't show any fear but the strange smile hanging on the corner of his mouth became even more wicked.

The cultivation of these eight people was all above the Ninghai Realm, and three of them had even cultivated to the middle stage of the Ninghai Realm.

In terms of strength, they were an extremely powerful existence.

However, Chen Tian didn't seem flustered at this time. He just slightly opened and closed his lips, silently issuing an order to the fire dragon.

Immediately, the fire dragon raised its head and let out a loud dragon roar, and then it shook its head and wagged its tail, rushing towards the three red-clothed burly men in the middle stage of the Ninghai Realm among the eight.

When the three saw the red dragon rushing towards them, their hearts suddenly trembled, and then they hurriedly flew into the sky, barely dodging this attack.

At the same time, the other five red-clothed burly men in the early stage of the Ninghai Realm had already sped all the way and were about to fly in front of Chen Tian!