I will burn books and slay gods.

A powerful dark purple energy manifested around the Nightmare Beast, and the pressure it released was simultaneously noticed by Chen Ye and the other two in the distance.

"What kind of power is that?"

Lin Su stared at the Nightmare Beast in the distance. Looking in its direction, an energy that was distorting space was appearing!

Just then, a dark purple ripple emanated from the Nightmare Beast. Chen Ye immediately sensed something was wrong, grabbed Lin Su and Wang Xiaoming, and leaped into the air, hovering in mid-air.

The dark purple ripples spread across almost the entire city and even beyond.

As the strange ripples spread, before they could even realize something was wrong, they heard screams echoing throughout the city.

Residents almost immediately affected by the ripples turned into a blood mist the moment they touched it, with almost no time to react.

A massive cloud of blood mist, like tentacles, converged from all directions toward the Nightmare Beast!

The vast blood mist caused the Nightmare Beast's body to change. Its original silver-white body turned crimson due to the fusion with the blood mist.

But the original silvery-white color seemed to make way and condense into the wings of the Nightmare Beast. As more blood mist gathered, the Nightmare Beast's body underwent a complete transformation.

After the Nightmare Beast completed its final stage of evolution, its entire body became enormous, and Chen Ye and the other two began to appear tiny in its presence.

Suddenly, a dragon's roar resounded throughout the entire city.

The moment he heard the dragon's roar, Chen Ye immediately enveloped Lin Su and Wang Xiaoming in a bubble-like barrier to prevent them from getting hurt in the upcoming battle and also to avoid being touched by the ripples.

Just as Lin Su and Chen Ye settled them not far away, the Nightmare Beast suddenly flapped its wings and took flight into the sky.

Chen Ye followed the Nightmare Beast upwards. As he ascended, a familiar voice reached his ears, saying, "My lord, I'm here to help you!"

As a series of messages entered Chen Ye's mind, he couldn't help but smile.

Once the Nightmare Beast was hovering in the air, Chen Ye stopped in front of it, and the Nightmare Beast immediately let out another dragon roar at Chen Ye.

Just then, the dark purple energy ball that had been gathering power in the Nightmare Beast's mouth was released towards Chen Ye after it had finished charging!

The dark purple energy ball spun in the air, and the pressure it released even distorted and deformed the air it passed through.

Chen Ye stared at the energy ball, then enveloped his body in a layer of dark red flames. He strode through the air and gathered power in his fist.

When the ball of light was only a few meters away from Chen Ye, Chen Ye unleashed his fully charged fist at the ball of light, and in an instant, a blinding light flashed across the sky.

After the light dissipated, the ball of light in front of Chen Ye disappeared, and Chen Ye shook his arm again.

Chen Ye couldn't help but think that the Nightmare Beast's strength had indeed increased considerably.

Immediately afterward, Chen Ye began to follow the instructions given by the Three Flowers. He condensed the dark red aura around his body once again, and as he rapidly condensed it, he felt it was almost done.

He then used his finger to cut through the air, and a crack appeared in front of Chen Ye. Before he could react, Chen Ye inserted his hand into the crack, as if he had grabbed something, and with his strength, he pulled it out.

When the object pulled out of the crack was taken out intact, its true form was the Starry Book that Chen Ye had contracted. Chen Ye then unfolded it and turned to the page with the cyan rune array.

When Chen Ye released his hand, the Starry Book floated in front of him, open.

Immediately afterward, Chen Ye formed hand seals, and as soon as the seals were completed, numerous cyan rune arrays appeared around Chen Ye's body.

Just then, two cyan rune arrays, each half a meter in diameter, appeared on either side of Chen Ye's body. The instant Chen Ye put his hands inside, a burst of cyan lightning was released from the rune arrays!

The two cyan rune arrays began to slowly shrink towards Chen Ye until they completely engulfed his arms, but Chen Ye showed no sign of panic.

As soon as the rune array appeared, Chen Ye brought his arms together and stopped at the edge of his body. Then the rune array began to move horizontally and to the sides. With this slow movement, Chen Ye's arms changed shape.

As if covered in cyan armor, until the moment the hands appeared, each hand tightly gripped a cyan dagger about half a meter long.

The dagger had a blade that transitioned from bluish-green to dark green, carved with several blooming flower stamens. The handle was dark green, and it was about half a meter long and shaped like a curved blade.

Almost the instant the item was presented completely to Chen Ye, he heard Sanhua's words.

"Master, you have now reached the first realm: the Ignition Realm."

"Thus, I can use my real name avatar—Qingrui."

"Sanhua is just my nickname, given to me by Grandpa Tree. My real name is Qingrui."

"Master, please swing it as you please!"

Then Chen Ye looked at the cyan dagger he was holding tightly in his hands—Qingrui—and immediately assumed a fighting stance, his eyes shining brightly as he stared directly at the Nightmare Beast in front of him.

Lin Su and the other person inside the spherical barrier were excited when they saw Chen Ye in his new form.

"Although I don't know what Chen Ye went through, his current form is fucking awesome!"

Upon seeing the Nightmare Beast in its new form, it became even angrier and once again spat out a dark purple ball of light at Chen Ye, attacking him!

This time, however, Chen Ye did not stand still. Instead, he rushed directly toward the ball of light. Almost the instant he touched the ball of light, the dark purple ball of light was split into four pieces, with the cuts forming an "X" shape.

The sphere of light, which had been cut open, exploded on the spot the instant Chen Ye sliced ​​it.

Almost simultaneously, Chen Ye, wielding two misty weapons, charged straight at the Nightmare Beast. The moment the Nightmare Beast saw Chen Ye, it immediately flapped its wings and ascended vertically into the air at a terrifying speed!

Not to be outdone, Chen Ye's cyan rune array, which had moved behind him, transformed into cyan-white gradient wings, soaring into the sky like an angel!

Perhaps due to the excessive speed, in Lin Su and Wang Xiaoming's view, all they saw was a purple sphere and a cyan sphere colliding with each other and drawing arcs in the sky.

Each collision generates powerful aftershocks that continuously create a booming sound in the air!

Chen Ye cleaved almost all the orbs of light released by the Nightmare Beasts in two to prevent them from falling to the ground and endangering the people.

Perhaps Chen Ye thought the time was about right, so he flapped his wings and accelerated suddenly, at an extremely fast speed that even the Nightmare Beast couldn't react to.

In an instant, Chen Ye unleashed Qingrui, and two swift slashes severed the Nightmare Beast's two pairs of wings.

The moment the Nightmare Beast lost its wings, it plummeted vertically downwards as if in freefall.

Until the Nightmare Beast crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.