Chapter 215: Fury of Flame and Frost (Eight)

“Baleful Yin Qi? This level of Baleful Yin Qi…”

Jie Ming stroked his chin, lost in thought.

It seemed…

The key to breaking the deadlock had appeared!

But before that, he still needed to confirm certain matters…

“Senior Sister.”

After a moment of contemplation, Jie Ming suddenly posed a question to Viola that had always struck him as peculiar: “Why did the kings of the lava giants and the frost monsters so decisively reach a cooperation agreement with the wizards the moment they invaded?”

In Jie Ming’s view, this was indeed quite strange.

After all, wizards were notorious for their unyielding stance toward outsiders; they never accepted “cooperation” from other races.

Even if the two kings of the monster hordes surrendered on the spot, their ultimate fate would only be to exist as vassal races under the wizards.

Although the wizards wouldn’t mistreat vassal races in terms of living conditions—their basic needs were met and secured, and life wasn’t too harsh.

But when the wizards required it, the vassal races had to serve as cannon fodder, fighting to the death!

This kind of deal, no matter how one looked at it, seemed overly humiliating and disadvantageous to the two major monster hordes.

Viola was slightly taken aback by Jie Ming’s sudden question.

However, considering that she was now just waiting here for the potion’s effects to wear off, she decided to chat with him about it.

“Oh? You’re asking about that…” Viola chuckled lightly, then slowly explained to Jie Ming: “The reason those two kings of the monster hordes made such a decisive choice is that even becoming cannon fodder for the wizards is better than continuing to exist as ‘toys’ for the living plane.”

“After all, this plane hasn’t undergone any… ‘education.'”

Viola’s words instantly enlightened Jie Ming to her meaning.

A being like the living plane was born as the embodiment of rules, coexisting with the plane itself.

Naturally, no one had taught it any principles, for it innately possessed extremely high rationality and intelligence.

It could learn on its own and make judgments independently, but in terms of moral concepts, it was a complete blank slate.

For this reason, it lacked the moral values upheld by human society and had no sense of good or evil.

It acted solely on its most primal “preferences”—much like a young child who hadn’t yet started school.

They might, out of curiosity, stare at an ant all day, or on a whim, crush it to death, or two, or all the ants passing by!

And for the living plane, the “ants” it could see were naturally the countless billions of lives it had nurtured upon its body!

Viola continued to inform Jie Ming that, according to intelligence from the two monster kings, the Flame-Frost Plane possessed the ability to independently create intelligent races.

But it created intelligent races not for development, not for civilization, but purely for its own amusement!

Thus, the lava giants and frost monsters were forced to launch large-scale racial wars at regular intervals.

Contending for territory and such were merely superficial reasons; in truth, it was simply to entertain the Flame-Frost Plane!

The so-called victors expanding their living domains was purely a rule whimsically set by this living plane.

But like any ordinary child, when it was pleased, it might quietly watch two ants battle, even granting them small favors for it.

But when it grew “bored,” it would casually crush both sides and perform a “reset”!

In fact, through research on samples brought back by Master Elvin, the wizards had discovered that the souls of the two monster kings were “manufactured” from the souls of intelligent races previously annihilated by the Flame-Frost Plane, using them as raw materials.

They couldn’t even be considered independent entities; they were merely “toys” conjured by this living plane in its boredom.

Although the living plane’s craftsmanship was impressive, successfully producing new souls capable of bearing consciousness, it couldn’t be expected to make finer adjustments to those souls.

Therefore, fragments of memories from the previously annihilated beings often lingered, merging into the new souls.

Precisely because of this, the two leaders of the monster hordes had always lived under an immense, endless shadow of fear!

For from the scattered memory remnants in their souls, it was evident that this act of annihilating races out of “boredom” had been repeated by this living plane for hundreds of times!

They were not the first victims, nor would they be the last.

Although King Karmos of the lava giants and King Aglon of the frost monsters had racked their brains, fighting and performing in every way possible to please this “master,” in hopes of delaying the doom of their races.

But deep down, they knew that it wouldn’t be long before this living plane felt “bored” once more.

And when that time came, it would be the final day of annihilation for both races!

Of course, by the living plane’s sense of time, this “not long” was still an exceedingly protracted period.

But regardless, the two races teetered perpetually on the brink of destruction.

It was for the sake of their races’ survival that, the moment the wizards invaded this world and opportunity arose, the two monster kings eagerly forged a cooperation treaty with them.

If only, under the wizards’ protection, even as vassals, they could truly escape that fate of being wantonly toyed with!

“Why are you asking about this?” Viola glanced at Jie Ming, a hint of puzzlement in her eyes.

Jie Ming shook his head, his gaze profound: “Just… a bit curious, that’s all…”

As he spoke, following the renewed resonance of the curse that he sensed, Jie Ming secretly activated his incantation.

What Jie Ming intended to do was simple: reverse the “Baleful Prohibition Curse” he had previously placed on the “Baleful Yin Sea.”

Transforming it into a “Baleful Attraction Curse”!

Of course, at such a vast distance, with immense energy interference from the outside, smoothly mobilizing and drawing forth this “Baleful Yin Sea” was nearly impossible.

But the “Baleful Attraction Curse” could accomplish something else—fully activating this Baleful Yin Qi deep within the Flame-Frost Plane’s core!

“It seems my speculation was correct…” Jie Ming stroked his chin, a contemplative glint in his eyes. “The generation of this Baleful Yin Qi stems largely from those races that perished at the living plane’s hands. This means that Baleful Yin Sea contains the resentment of countless beings toyed with and annihilated, along with the remnants of forcibly disintegrated souls in their final moments!”

After confirming that this Baleful Yin Qi originated primarily from the countless victims created by the living plane.

Then, as long as he stirred this Baleful Yin Qi into motion, the rest wouldn’t require his intervention.

The hatred and despair accumulated over millions, even billions of years, would become the deadliest weapon, turning against its creator.

With Jie Ming’s adept and covert incantation, on the light screen, that unassuming black “Baleful Yin Sea” in the Flame-Frost Plane’s core region—which the wizards had overlooked—suddenly erupted into violent activity!

This dark power, like a roaring abyss, abruptly shifted from its dormant state to a seething boil.

It didn’t spread outward; instead, with a clear target as if finding its “home,” it directly ignored the energy barriers and tough outer skin of the core periphery, phasing through like an illusion and plunging straight into the deepest recesses of the Flame-Frost Plane’s core!

“Hm?!”

Viola, who had been focused on imposing her “Rule of Pain,” suddenly widened her silver-gray eyes.

She could clearly feel that the Flame-Frost Plane had abruptly become extraordinarily agonized!

From the feedback of the rules, that pain spread like ignited wildfire across the entire living plane in an instant.

Purer, more intense, and utterly uncontainable than anything her rule could impose!

And it wasn’t just pain!

Augustine, who had been commanding the ship-plane in the battle, was even more horrified to discover that the enemy’s colossal power was rapidly waning.

The despair and resentment from countless beings cruelly destroyed now transformed into the sharpest blades, annihilating the Flame-Frost Plane’s soul from within!

This was precisely the killing blow the wizards had long awaited!

“Now!”

From afar, the quickly recovered Augustine let out a low, furious roar, transmitting his command through the mental link to every wizard’s soul in an instant!

The ship-plane’s super main cannons, dozens of kilometers in diameter, completed an over-limit charge in mere seconds.

All other attack methods ceased cleanly in that moment.

The entire plane’s energy converged to a single point in a short burst.

“Fire!”

A beam of destruction capable of piercing the starry void tore through space, slamming instantly into the Flame-Frost Plane’s core, exposed and ravaged by the “Baleful Yin Qi.”

Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!!!

Accompanying the beam’s descent was a soul fluctuation that shook the void, yet carried a sense of ultimate release.

Under the onslaught of the destructive light and the furious howls of countless vengeful spirits, the Flame-Frost Plane’s enormous body began to tremble and fracture violently.

Its “Magma Maw” shriveled in an instant, and those “red-blue eyes” formed of gaseous masses swiftly dimmed, soon dissipating into streams of air.

The entire living plane, under this strike, was utterly reduced to the brink of death.

Its aura flickered like a candle in the wind, liable to extinguish at any moment.

Subsequently, vast ultra-large spell formations, long prepared, drifted forth from the ship-plane.

These formations, woven of energy beams like countless nets of potent restraint, swiftly adhered to the Flame-Frost Plane’s massive, gasping core under Wizard Augustine’s precise control!

Chains of intricate runes extended from the formations, rooting deeply into the living plane’s energy core like living tendrils.

In a flash of radiance, powerful sealing energies surged from all directions, swiftly and thoroughly binding it!

In the blink of an eye, the once-invincibly powerful living plane that had tormented countless lives had its resistance utterly dismantled and deeply sealed away!

The war concluded with a speed that astonished everyone present.