Greem was on a wild run!


    For some reason, the Third Grade ming Tiger had been pursuing Greem closely ever since it hadid eyes on him. If it weren’t for some special tricks by Greem, it would probably have caught up.


    He had used a fire clone to misdirect the ming tigerst time, but he didn’t make it a hundred kilometers away before the ming tiger appeared on his tail again. Of course, the ming tiger only discovered a temporary camp that Greem had set up to rest in. With the fire rune he left behind, Greem instantly knew that it was the tiger that had found his camp.


    A Third Grade ming tiger was not a target he could defeat!


    Thus, Greem had no choice but to start running with everything he had again.


    In all honesty, the Fire Elementium ne was an excellent ce to train and cultivate, but it was definitely not suited for a vacation.


    The scenery here was so repetitive that it was miserable!


    There were either stretches of magma pools, an endless sea of fire, or some strange ins, hills, and volcanoes shrouded in smoke.


    The scenery was repetitive, dry, and the creatures were dull and stiff. The powerful fire elementium creatures might be intelligent, but they didn’t seem to have anything resembling entertainment. Four seasons a year, year after year, the only thing that the fire elementium creatures seemed to do was endlessly wander the ne until they found a ce with sufficient me energy for them to settle in.


    Even Greem couldn’t help but feel as if he was turning into a dull person after living for so long in this world. All the conspiring and deceiving in the past was like a dream from a past life. The memories of those times had been shattered by the monotonous life that he was currently leading.


    However, Greem’s understanding of the fire elementium creatures had deepened after spending so long in this world.


    Throughout his endless wandering in the Fire Elementium ne, Greem had witnessed the process of a fire elemental’s birth more than once.


    In all honesty, fire elementium creatures were born in the manner described in books– born of fire, die in fire!


    A strange fire flux would appear in an empty ce. Then, a bright-red fist-sized me would emerge. After absorbing some of the wandering fire elementium, the fire would form a vague face.


    It was the mostmonly seen low-grade elementium creature of the Fire Elementium ne– a Fire Spirit.


    Fire spirits possessed the strength of a beginner apprentice the moment they were born. They could spit low-intensity elementium fireballs with an offensive power of between five to ten points.


    If these low-grade fire spirits were allowed to absorb fire energy freely, they could grow into powerful fire elementals and me spirits within a hundred years. Their power then would be approximately equal to an advanced apprentice!


    After bing a fire elemental or a me spirit, it meant that they had started to possess aplete body and soul consciousness. Though this soul consciousness was fragile, it was enough for them to use explosive fireballs and area-of-effect fire spells with offensive power of up to thirty points.


    If the Fire Kings ever waged war against another ne, they could be considered the most fundamental fighting forces of the Fire Elementium ne!


    They might not amount to much in the Fire Elementium ne, but in any other ne, an individual that could casually toss out massive fireballs of thirty points could easily be considered a decent spellcaster. Yet, there were just so many such individuals in the Fire Elementium ne. The Fire Kings could go to any random spot and immediately recruit a whole army of them. There was no need to cultivate or train them specially.


    It was this peculiar trait of the Fire Elementium ne that caused this ce never tock soldiers.


    If it wasn’t because most other nes were not suited for fire creatures to reside in, and because most Fire Kings had no interest in taking trips to other worlds, even arge ne like the World of Adepts would not have much chance of winning against the Fire Elementium ne.


    After all, the massive group of fire creatures born and nurtured in the Fire Elementium ne was not something that other material nes could hope to emte.


    Out of curiosity, Greem had also caught some newly born fire spirits and thoroughly dissected them. Though he did not have a well-equippedboratory, the Chip’s detailed scans and x-ray vision allowed Greem to discover some things.


    Fire spirits could entirely be said to be thebination of fire energy and a consciousness brand. The fire energy of a newly born fire spirit naturally came from the ubiquitous energy field all over the Fire Elementium ne. However, where did the consciousness brande from?


    Greem had checked the fire spirits. Most of their consciousness brands were pure, but fragile, and there were no memories or consciousness shards within them. That was why newly born fire spirits were so dull and stiff. However, the attention-oriented Greem still discovered some soul shard remnants on individual consciousness brands.


    Most fire spirits were a bundle of shapeless mes with no consciousness at birth. However, those fire spirits that preserved pieces of consciousness would shape the mes that formed their bodies into weird shapes based on the memory fragments in their consciousness brands.


    These could be beasts, humans, things, or even wind.


    At any rate, the broken past consciousness in the soul shards, as well as the memories in them, drove the actions of the newly born fire spirits, causing them to simte their forms from their ’previous lives.’ As such, it could be deduced that the ming tiger that was tracking Greem belonged to such a situation.


    As it possessed parts of its memory and experience from its previous life, it walked on a roadpletely different from native fire creatures in their own process of growth. At the very least, the ming tiger was vastly superior to the other fire creatures Greem had met in terms of soul activity and curiosity.


    If he had the chance, Greem would naturally want to capture the ming tiger and dissect its body to thoroughly understand the birth process of an elementium creature’s soul consciousness. However, considering the difference in their power, Greem could only avoid the tiger and find ways to evade its relentless pursuit.


    In all seriousness, this ming tiger was really entirely different from the other fire creatures that Greem had encountered.


    The zefire mespirits that Greem had first encountered gave up on pursuing him after five hundred kilometers, even though he had killed so many of their people. Yet, this Third Grade ming tiger had chased him for over five thousand kilometers. It was almost as if it wouldn’t stop until it had caught Greem.


    This...this was the part that made Greem helpless, but also the part that surprised him the most!


    Greem had a feeling that the reason it was pursuing him so fervently wasn’t to devour him. It seemed there was something more to it. However, Greem had no confidence to test this theory of his when faced with the threat of a Third Grade fire creature. He could only run as fast as possible and as far as he could.


    Greem’s current form was that of a three-meter tall fire elemental, and his entire body was d in ayer of bright red mes. To avoid trouble, Greem had concealed his humanoid body and turned it into a vague cluster of me.


    After all, a stable and defined body of me was a mark of a high-grade fire creature. Individuals like those drew the attention of local creatures wherever they went. To avoid unnecessary attention, Greem disguised himself as a First Grade fire elemental that had yet to obtain a solid form.


    These were undoubtedly the most numerous kind in the Fire Elementium ne, as well as the most inconspicuous.


    While Greem was making his challenging hike through the ne, a fire rune he had left behind him was once again triggered. Greem’s face turned green when he sensed the vague image transmitted by the fire rune.


    Dammit, it was still that tiger!


    It’d already been ten thousand kilometers, why was it still tracking him?


    The fire rune was triggered fifty kilometers away. That meant that the tiger was getting closer and closer.


    Greem sighed. He had no choice but to run while teleporting and searching.


    As expected, Greem sessfully found arge sea of fire stretching for several dozens of kilometers at a ce fifteen kilometers away. A fire field with no substance and no solid form like this was one of the mostmon scenes in the Fire Elementium ne. They were a bit like the rivers andkes of material nes.


    After a bit of hesitation, Greem gritted his teeth and dove into the field, instantly vanishing without a trace.


    Even with his fire immunity, Greem could not ensure that he would not take damage in such a pure field of fire. Though his body might be immune to the fire damage, the soul brand and spirit consciousness attached to it still had to endure the immense pressure of being burned by fire.


    Fortunately, he had alreadypleted the process of elementiumizing his Spirit. He didn’t need to worry that his soul brand and consciousness would be assimted by the fire as long as he did not stay within the field for more than an hour.


    As such, choosing to travel through the fire field was the simplest way to wash away the tracks he left behind!


    Fifteen minutes after Greem disappeared into the fire field, the edge of the area zed with mes. A strange creature engulfed in violent fires suddenly appeared here.


    It was a violent ming tiger whose body flowed with static mes. Its body wasn’t toorge at only three meters long, but it was full of powerful and overwhelming fire energy.


    At the very least, three meters was too small for Third Grade fire creatures.


    The strength of every fire creature in the Fire Elementium ne directly corrted with the power of the fire energy stored within their bodies. Therger their bodies, the more fire energy they could store, and the more powerful the being would be. How were they supposed to save arge amount of fire energy if they didn’t have arge body?


    It was a humble and straightforward truth!


    At least, most elementium creatures obeyed thisw.


    However, this strange ming tiger had forcefully broken thisw. It was very likely that it had mastered some method orw topress fire energy.


    And this was a sign of a high-grade fire creature!


    The ming tiger lifted its nose and sniffed about when it appeared. It then slowly walked toward where Greem had entered the field. Its deep yet colorful eyes of me stared into the field as if it was thinking about something.


    If Greem were still here, he would most definitely be shocked by the human expression on the tiger’s face and eyes. Much like a stroke of color in an ink wash painting, this ming tiger betrayed a vor and style that was entirely alien in this repetitive and dull world.