CHAPTER 556: CHAPTER 343: ENDLESS POLE, DEATH TO COME

A wave of heat swirled forward, brushing against his cheeks, causing Gu Qiye’s jet-black hair to rise dramatically.

He paused for a fraction of a second, then slowly lifted his head to look at this gloomy world.

The sky above was covered in haze, volcanoes rising one after another, erupting in succession. The lava-covered earth cracked layer by layer, magma gushing from the crevices, transforming into dazzling pillars of flame that soared into the heavens.

A single misstep could mean death; the view before him was a hellish landscape.

And here, was Kalina’s "Polar Domain."

Looking further ahead, this scholar donned his goggles, hands in the pockets of his white coat, gazing at Gu Qiye from the lone extinct volcano in the distance.

The air was suffused with the scent of charcoal and gunpowder, fire-forged gigantic hands reaching towards the sky from all directions, and Gu Qiye realized he might have only a few seconds left.

The magma from the volcanic eruptions could cover vast expanses of land in seconds, infinitely compressing his survival space.

In these crucial seconds, he had to seize the sole gap, the path, to reach that extinct volcano and take Kalina’s head.

Otherwise, all that awaited him was death. As he thought of this, Gu Qiye leaned forward, bending his knees, stomping the ground, transforming into a rumbling black lightning that dashed forward.

He raced through a world of red and black, as if swimming within a painting depicting the apocalypse.

Volcanoes erupted continuously, flame pillars piercing through the clouds. In front of Gu Qiye lay a blazing world so bright it seemed to pierce his soul, even his pupils illuminated by the infernal sky.

Unceasing tremors roared in his ears, magma poured from volcanic craters covering the pitch-black mountain, while the air shimmered with flickering flame serpents.

Looking ahead, the regions of earth that could be tread upon were rapidly diminishing, leaving only a narrow, winding path that was shrinking.

Yet Gu Qiye did not halt his steps; in fact, he could not afford to pause — a few extra seconds in this environment would see him surrounded by ocean-like magma, its scorching heat annihilating his body.

He realized the only way to leave here was to kill the master of the Superpower Domain—"Kalina."

Arcs of electricity danced in Gu Qiye’s pupils, his eyes fixed intensely on that extinct volcano.

Soon, the volcano ahead suddenly erupted, the fiery curtain showering down, but he leaped, navigating through a gap in the flaming curtain, landing once more, and surged through countless volcanoes, traversing numerous lava rivers.

A thousand meters!

Five hundred meters!

A hundred meters!

The extinct volcano drew ever nearer, Kalina’s figure swelling in his pupils as Gu Qiye crossed half of a hellish landscape, finally approaching the extinct volcano, while a violent electric light gathered in his right hand.

His five fingers slightly curled, pinched together, finally raising his palm forward, aiming towards Kalina’s body.

In an instant, a beam of lightning shot forward like a sword, aimed directly at Kalina’s chest.

Yet at that moment, a glacier inexplicably rose, the volcano vanished, the magma disappeared, and the world was engulfed by howling cold currents, the sight above was a snowy expanse, an avalanche crashing down.

The glacier crumbled with a crackling sound, but in the next second, a flood surged forward, Gu Qiye was engulfed, and suddenly the world transformed once again, becoming a tropical rainforest, and Gu Qiye found himself in an expansive swamp.

Before he sank, a magnetic field made of black lightning erupted from his body, violent lightning transformed into countless frenzied serpents, scorching through the swamp beneath him.

Devouring every tree and thicket within dozens of meters.

Gu Qiye emerged from the swamp, shooting forward some distance, kneeling on the rainforest floor and gasping for breath, the rain pouring down, soaking his hair.

Finally, when he lifted his eyes, the world had changed yet again, before him lay an endless desert, the sun was high, the earth twisted by heat and humidity into a mirage.

Suddenly a loud sound emerged from a corner of the horizon, followed by a sandstorm surging forth, Gu Qiye raised his arm to shield himself, only to see a blanket of dust engulfing everything, turning the world gray, obscuring all sight.

But Gu Qiye knew well that Kalina was hidden behind the storm.

In that moment, his figure vanished.

Gu Qiye became a frenzied lightning bolt, coursing through the heart of the sandstorm, ignoring the resistance of the wind, but after running for over ten seconds, he still saw no end, as if lost within a maze.

He was nearing exhaustion when he leapt upwards, his form enveloped in fierce wind and thunder, treading upon the rolling sands within the storm, climbing upwards in a spiral path, finally reaching the storm’s summit.

At this moment, the Polar Domain changed once more, returning to its original landscape, the world of volcanic eruptions, where that sole extinct volcano stood still and silent upon the earth.