klisemfg Chapter 239 Crimson Fire Peak
Chapter 239 Crimson Fire Peak
What did Tao Li see in her past?
Crimson Fire Peak is located far to the east; after leaving the Demon Realm, it would take more than half a year to fly east to reach it.
As the time drew nearer, the final battle also drew closer, and the Yuanzhou Continent seemed to fall silent, like a harbinger of an impending storm.
Liu Jun doesn't have much time left.
half year later
The surrounding scenery became increasingly unfamiliar, a region she had never set foot in before. The temperature around her was also rising, indicating that she was getting closer and closer to the Fire Peak.
After traveling for several more days, they came to find that there was almost no living creature in sight, only endless scorching heat and a vast expanse of barren land, and the crimson rock peak before them.
It looks like a volcano that is constantly erupting, yet it is dozens of times larger than the largest volcano I have ever seen.
The crater was filled with scorching red lava, resembling a living, deep-space behemoth. The flowing lava was its pulse, exuding a powerful sense of oppression.
To reach the Hollow Cave, one must dive into its uppermost crater and find the precise underground entrance amidst the sea of rocks, essentially swimming in lava.
Moreover, the "magma" here is different from ordinary lava; it has existed since the original continent existed.
Furthermore, this is different from the "scraps" I saw the other two times before. Its origin lies here, and its scorching heat can even corrode protective magical artifacts.
Liu Jun has a lot of things, but she only has two magical artifacts that can protect her. The protective shield formed by casting spells is useless here. However, she still has one more... the jade pendant given to her by Yan Zhi. She doesn't know if it will still be useful here.
Liu Jun took out the jade pendant again and examined it a few times. It looked like a useless, lifeless object, revealing no aura whatsoever.
If it weren't for Yan Zhi's gift and his personal experience testing its abilities... Liu Jun gripped it tightly, looked up at the surging lava peak, and took out another protective immortal artifact as a backup plan.
No one knows what lies beneath the rocky seabed, or whether any unknown dangerous creatures exist there, but Liu Jun must go in now.
The Void Cave is not only home to the Nine Nether Glazed Fire. Back then, Yan Zhi insisted on dragging her here to retrieve this fire, but Liu Jun did not go down with him. Instead, she stood outside like this, waiting for him to return.
They pulled her over, but wouldn't let her go down, saying that with her current cultivation level, she couldn't withstand the scorching lava below.
Now it seems so, but that's not the only reason.
Staring at the surging molten flow below for a moment, Liu Jun released his strength and fell straight down.
Upon entering the sea of rocks, visibility was obstructed, so Liu Jun could only use his divine sense to see and search for the underground entrance.
The protective jade pendant was clearly struggling more than before, and the protective shield it created soon became less than satisfactory.
As Liu Jun continued to expand his spiritual sense and search downwards, the temperature gradually became scorching. He tried to inject spiritual power into the jade pendant to maintain it, and it seemed to be effective, so he continued to inject spiritual power into it.
It's unclear how much time has passed, but Liu Jun had already reached the very bottom, yet the search yielded nothing.
With the surrounding rocky sea blocking his way, Liu Jun was unable to absorb spiritual energy, and nearly two-thirds of the spiritual power in his dantian was depleted.
Seeing that he still couldn't find the entrance, he was about to go out to catch his breath and come back when he sensed a trace of spiritual energy fluctuations nearly a thousand meters away. Without thinking, he immediately swam towards it.
A kilometer away wasn't too far, and Liu Jun swam to that place in no time. He confirmed that it was an underground entrance. However, apart from confirming that it was an entrance, a hideous monster he had never seen before was leisurely strolling outside the entrance.
The thing had three heads, two claws, and a tail. It was as long as a snake, and its whole body was covered with dense, lumpy growths. Just looking at it made me feel disgusted.
The thing seemed not to have seen Liu Jun, and was just circling around the cave entrance, or perhaps it needed to enter a certain area before it would attract its attention.
With only one-third of his spiritual energy remaining in his dantian, Liu Jun estimated his strength and felt confident, but he still needed to finish the battle quickly.
Although she had never seen this thing before, she could tell from the aura it emitted that it wasn't very strong.
The only surprising thing was that the aura emanating from it was spiritual energy rather than demonic energy; the wisp of spiritual energy I had just sensed came from it.
Such an ugly thing, judging from its shape and behavior, can only be associated with a monster, so why does it have a spiritual aura instead of a demonic aura?
"do not care."
Liu Jun summoned a celestial sword, his expression solemn as he stared intently at the object, and slowly swam closer.
When it was about forty or fifty meters away, the thing suddenly stopped moving, its three heads suddenly looked fiercely at Liu Jun, and then let out a long howl.
"Roar!!!"
A long roar caused the surrounding lava to surge, and the thing then churned its body and charged towards Liu Jun. Liu Jun stood still, staring at it without dodging, as if in a provocation.
Upon seeing it, the creature roared again and charged even faster. Just as it was about to reach him, Liu Jun suddenly dodged and flew straight towards the cave entrance, not caring what happened to the creature behind him.
Although the thing was long, it wasn't particularly large, only about two or three meters wide. With that much power, it charged forward and went quite a distance.
When it tried to turn back and catch the person again, it realized it was too late. Liu Jun had already flown to the cave entrance, and even had the leisure to stand at the entrance, wave at it, and give it a smile before leaping into the cave.
Liu Jun dared to do this because he realized that it was just a thing guarding the entrance and wouldn't go into the cave. The entrance was so big that it could easily get in, or rather, it couldn't or dared to come in. Otherwise, why would it stay outside the lava if there was a comfortable place to go?
Sure enough, the inside and outside of the cave were completely different worlds, and the entrance seemed to have been separated by something.
Even though the surging lava outside could be clearly seen, with one part going up and the other down, not a single drop of lava flowed down. The thing outside was also staring fiercely at Liu Jun below the cave, but dared not cross the cave entrance even a fraction of an inch.
The cave is fairly spacious, and there is only one passage connecting it to the outside. The body begins to absorb spiritual energy on its own as soon as it enters, indicating that this place is not connected to the rocky sea above.
After lighting a talisman, Liu Jun calmly walked towards the passage, though he didn't know if it led to a series of empty caves.
After walking for a long time, Liu Jun finally emerged from the one-way street and arrived at a spacious underground chamber. This chamber connected to several passageways, but it was unclear where these paths led.
Liu Jun tried to use his divine sense to explore the path. Apart from the one he had just passed behind, there were six passages. Two of them were impassable, two still led to the sea of rocks, and the remaining two were all connected to the same underground chamber.
After thinking for a while, Liu Jun decided to use the most old-fashioned method of elimination and marked each intersection accordingly to avoid going the same way twice.
The expansion of divine sense is ultimately limited, and there should be some kind of restriction here, so divine sense cannot pass through the wall and can only go through the passage.
Liu Jun didn't know how many times she had wandered around underground. The underground passages seemed to have no end. If it weren't for her divine sense, she probably wouldn't even know where to go back.
She estimated that she had been searching for seventeen or eighteen days, maybe even longer, before she finally found a clue.
The Nine Nether Glazed Fire resonated with it, indicating that it had found the right place.
The passage leads to the underground chamber, and the underground chamber is connected to the passage. After so many days, we have finally found this legendary hollow cave.
The cave was very large and spacious. Although there was no sunlight, it was very bright. Moreover, the light did not come from the Nine Nether Glazed Fire that had been burning all year round around it, but rather from the natural sunlight that shone down from the cave ceiling.
If one didn't know that this place is almost tens of millions of miles above the ground, one would really think that sunlight can reach this far.
Such natural yet unnatural light—haven't those who have been here ever wondered where this light comes from?
Liu Jun looked up at the lights shining down from above and the passageways that had been carved upwards. He figured there were still people curious, but...
Liu Jun's gaze shifted downwards; what she was looking for wasn't up there, but down below.
Where the beam of light struck, Liu Jun grabbed a bunch of explosive talismans, paused for two seconds, and then threw them there.
Unsurprisingly, not even a single stone on the surface of that place was blasted up. Undeterred, Liu Jun began to think of other ways to break through it.