Chapter 494: Chapter 494 I Only Wanted to Roast a Divine Chicken, Why is the Sacred Mountain on Fire?

"I guess I’ll have to do something drastic." Lin Feng mused quietly to himself.

He did not head toward his classroom immediately.

Instead, he changed direction and walked toward the deepest part of his residence where his private study was located.

His footsteps were calm and unhurried, yet every servant and disciple who crossed paths with him instinctively lowered their heads.

Nobody dared to disturb him.

The atmosphere around Lin Feng was simply too strange today.

Once he stepped inside, the doors shut behind him automatically.

Clang!

At the same time, dozens of sealing formations activated one after another.

Layers of barriers wrapped around the chamber like invisible fortresses.

Sound isolation formations, spatial lockdown arrays, soul protection barriers, heavenly concealment runes... every single defense imaginable instantly came alive.

Even if an ancient expert attacked from outside with full force, the disturbance would never reach this room.

Lin Feng exhaled softly and looked around the silent chamber.

"Good. Now nobody will interrupt me."

His gaze slowly lowered toward his right hand. Beneath the sleeve of his robe, the strange snake mark seemed unusually restless today.

It faintly wriggled beneath his skin as though it could sense danger approaching.

"Now then... let’s examine this thing one last time."

Lin Feng sat down cross-legged in the middle of the room.

His expression gradually became serious as he closed his eyes.

A moment later, his divine sense surged out like a boundless ocean.

Invisible divine energy flooded into the snake mark, carefully probing every inch of it.

Lin Feng did not dare to act carelessly. This thing was far too bizarre.

Ever since it attached itself to him, he had never truly understood what it was.

It was not a curse. Not poison. Not a spiritual contract either.

In fact, the structure of the mark completely surpassed the knowledge of this world.

Its aura felt foreign... ancient... absolutely alien in nature.

Lin Feng spent an entire minute inspecting it with absolute focus.

His divine sense moved layer after layer through the mark’s structure, attempting to uncover hidden runes or spiritual signatures.

Yet the deeper he looked, the more abnormal it became.

The snake mark resembled a bottomless abyss.

His divine sense disappeared into it without finding any end at all. There was no core. No origin.

No weakness. It was as though the mark itself should not exist within the laws of this world.

Finally, Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes again.

"A pity." He sighed faintly. "It would’ve been interesting if I could’ve studied and collected alien artifacts."

His fingers tapped lightly against the armrest beside him.

"For something capable of bypassing even my perception at first... your value should’ve been extraordinary."

The snake mark suddenly squirmed violently after hearing those words.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes.

"Oh?"

For the very first time, he sensed something resembling fear from the mark.

A faint smile appeared on his handsome face.

"So you do understand me after all."

The room became silent for several breaths. Then Lin Feng slowly raised his right arm.

"I suppose I have no choice but to destroy you instead."

BOOM!

The instant those words fell, terrifying flames exploded around his entire arm.

The fire was golden at first glance, yet hidden within it were streaks of crimson, black, and silver lightning.

The temperature rose so high that space itself began twisting violently.

This was no ordinary flame.

It was a divine fire capable of refining heaven and earth themselves.

The walls of the chamber trembled under its presence.

Ancient runes lit up frantically as the formations automatically strengthened themselves to endure the heat.

"ROOOAAARRR!!!"

A horrifying scream suddenly erupted from the snake mark.

The sound was deafening, like the roar of an ancient dragon suffering unbearable agony.

The mark violently peeled itself away from Lin Feng’s skin and transformed into a black serpent-shaped shadow.

Its body was only several inches long, yet the aura it emitted was sinister beyond belief.

Its scarlet eyes glared at Lin Feng with madness and hatred before it instantly shot away at terrifying speed.

Whoosh!

The little snake turned into a streak of darkness and rushed toward the edge of the chamber, desperately trying to escape from the flames.

But Lin Feng merely sneered.

"You think you can run?"

Bang!

He flicked a finger casually.

Immediately, countless ancient primordial runes burst into existence throughout the chamber.

The glowing symbols spun through the air like stars before locking onto the black serpent from every direction.

Chains of light formed instantly.

The little snake slammed into the invisible barriers repeatedly.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Each collision shook the chamber violently, but escape was impossible.

The primordial runes completely sealed the surrounding space itself.

The serpent shrieked in panic as its body began releasing strange black mist.

The mist corroded the air and even caused tiny spatial cracks to appear wherever it passed.

Lin Feng’s eyes narrowed slightly after seeing that.

"So even your energy can damage space itself..."

The more abnormal the snake appeared, the more dangerous he realized it truly was.

Fortunately, he had chosen to deal with it now.

If this thing matured further in the future, even he might have trouble suppressing it completely.

"Enough."

Lin Feng extended his palm forward.

The divine flames exploded outward like a raging tidal wave.

BOOOOM!

The entire chamber became a sea of fire.

The black serpent screamed miserably as the flames engulfed it completely.

Its shadow-like body twisted violently within the inferno while the primordial runes tightened around it relentlessly.

The room shook nonstop. Ancient formations lit up brighter and brighter to stabilize the space.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng remained standing calmly in the center of the storm, his expression cold and indifferent like an immortal judge passing sentence upon a condemned creature.

"..."

Lin Feng no longer had anything else to say.

His expression remained calm and indifferent as he watched the black serpent struggle helplessly within the raging divine flames.

To him, the creature was already dead the moment it failed to escape his grasp.

The terrifying fire continued to burn relentlessly. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"ROOOAAARRR!!!"

The snake let out an ear-piercing roar filled with agony and fury.

Its shadowy body twisted violently as it desperately tried to resist the flames consuming it.

Black mist erupted from its body in waves, corroding the surrounding space and causing tiny cracks to appear in the chamber.

Unfortunately for it, all resistance was meaningless.

The primordial runes surrounding the chamber tightened further and further like heavenly chains.

Every path of escape was completely sealed.

The snake rammed itself against the barriers repeatedly.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Each impact shook the room violently, yet the barriers did not even crack.

The divine flames only grew fiercer with every passing second.

Slowly, the black serpent’s body began to crumble apart.

Its scales turned into particles of ash.

Its shadow-like flesh dissolved under the terrifying heat.

Even the sinister aura surrounding it was forcibly purified by Lin Feng’s flames.

"ROAR!"

Its final scream echoed throughout the chamber before abruptly stopping.

A moment later, silence returned.

The snake mark that once carried such a mysterious and terrifying aura had completely disappeared.

Only a small pile of black ashes remained on the floor.

The flames gradually dispersed.

Lin Feng stared at the ashes quietly for several breaths before slowly raising his head toward the ceiling, his golden eyes seemingly piercing through countless layers of reality itself.

He waited.

If someone truly controlled the snake mark from behind the scenes, then its destruction should have provoked some kind of reaction.

Anger. Divine sense. Heavenly pressure.

Even the slightest disturbance across the laws of the multiverse would have been enough for Lin Feng to notice.

Yet... nothing happened.

The room remained completely silent.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes faintly.

The only thing he managed to sense was an incredibly weak and distant connection left behind when the snake mark was destroyed.

It was like a nearly severed thread stretching across an immeasurable distance beyond worlds and dimensions.

That weak link led toward the one who originally gave the snake mark to Ming Ye.

But even that connection disappeared almost instantly afterward.

Lin Feng fell silent for a moment.

The Ming Clan was clearly nothing more than a pawn.

There was no way a mere clan from a lower world could create something as abnormal as that snake mark.

No... whoever created it was something far more terrifying.

Someone capable of transcending worlds.

Someone who possessed authority over an entire multiverse.

A being on the same level as Lin Feng himself.

That realization did not frighten him. Instead, the corners of his lips slowly curved upward into a faint smile.

"Interesting..." Lin Feng muttered softly.

He continued looking upward for several more minutes, patiently waiting for any reaction from the mysterious existence beyond the connection.

But there was still nothing.

It was as though the owner of the snake mark either did not care... or simply had not noticed yet.

Eventually, Lin Feng shrugged lightly.

"Well, whatever."

With a casual wave of his sleeve, the ashes on the floor disappeared completely.

The chamber returned to normal as if nothing had ever happened there.

The ancient formations slowly deactivated one after another.

Rumble...

The heavy doors of the study opened once more.

Lin Feng stepped out calmly with his hands behind his back, his expression relaxed and unbothered, as though he had merely finished dealing with a trivial matter.