Chapter 97: Mysterious Lotus of the Abyss

  After Luo Cheng rushed into the cave passage, the earth fire that was about to erupt also entered the cave passage. Luo Cheng ran out of the passage frantically.

  Wow!

  On the halfway up this nameless mountain, Luo Cheng suddenly rushed out and flew away to a distant place, far from this cave entrance.

  Rumble... Rumble!

  After Luo Cheng left for a while, a burst of flames suddenly spewed out from the entrance of the cave on the mountain slope, burning everything around the entrance to ashes. After the flames disappeared, the entrance was eerily quiet, with only scorching hot rocks remaining.

  Whoosh!

  A loud noise echoed, and Luo Cheng rushed back to the cave entrance on the mountain waist again. He gently touched the still scorching hot rocks at the entrance of the cave, his face filled with sorrow.

  "Ah! Ah! Ah!"

  Quietly gazing at the cave entrance for a moment, Luo Cheng suddenly let out a long, mournful howl towards the sky. The eerie sound, mixed with a hint of ferocity, echoed in all directions. Although there were no longer any demonic beasts in the vicinity of this mountain slope, his howl was bound to startle the myriad of demons!

  After a long whistle, Luo Cheng raised his head to gaze at the sky, and a cold voice came out of his mouth, "Wu Ding! Wait for my revenge! Young master, you will not die in vain! Absolutely not!"

  He took another look at the dark cave entrance, and there was no spark in Luo Cheng's eyes. He finally dragged his tired body away from this sorrowful place!

  Inside the unnamed mountain, the earth's fierce fire was rampant. Perhaps it was because of this war that the location where the ancient ruins were located inside the mountain was completely destroyed, which led to the sudden eruption of the fierce fire deep within the earth. However, this fierce fire only erupted once and soon began to slowly recede.

  The originally empty platform inside the unnamed mountain has completely disappeared, collapsing into the earth fire, and the entire interior is dyed red by the light of the earth fire.

  The ruins of the cave that was filled with fighting sounds just now have become extremely quiet, and only the sound of the earth fire burning can be heard.

  "Ah......!"

  Suddenly, a shrill voice broke the original tranquility, and that shrill voice echoed many times in the cave!

  Through the thick yellow flames, in the depths of the fire, a figure was constantly rolling on the ground, it was Xu Hua! At this moment, he was in the midst of the fierce flames and had not died, but was extremely painful. His black hair was burned clean in an instant. The raging flames were scorching his body at all times, making him understand the extreme pain of the world!

  Compared to ordinary people, the abnormally strong physique was of no use in this raging fire. Under the scorching flames of the earth's fierce fire, vitality quickly drained away, but fortunately, Xu Hua's body had a life crystal that constantly emitted a large amount of life energy into his limbs and hundreds of acupuncture points.

  With the nourishment of life energy, Xu Hua's body did not immediately burn into nothingness. However, Xu Hua, who was invaded by the double feeling of destruction and nourishment in his brain, could only roll around in the earth fire to vent the pain he suffered.

  At this time, Xu Hua only felt extreme pain and had no time to observe where he was, otherwise it would be another feeling.

  At present, on this continent, except for the strong Emperor Wu, few people can penetrate so deeply into the fire of slaughter. Even the most ordinary low-grade earth slaughter fire vein's earth slaughter fire is not something that an ordinary martial artist can resist.

  The Earthly Fire is nothing but the overflow of the Earth's core fire, slowly forming a flame. According to the power of the Earthly Fire, it can be divided into four levels: lower grade, middle grade, upper grade and extreme grade. The lower grade is the weakest, while the extreme grade is the strongest. The power of the extreme grade Earthly Fire is almost comparable to that of the Earth's core fire, even a strong martial saint would hardly survive if they entered it!

  This place's earth fire, although seemingly powerful, is actually just the most ordinary low-grade earth fire. If it were a mid-grade earth fire, even with Xu Hua having a large amount of life crystals supplementing his life energy, he wouldn't be able to recover in time!

  In the depths of the earth, where the flames of the underworld burn fiercely, a hundred feet underground. This is a space entirely filled with flames, and the raging fires are the most basic element here. Although the fires are extremely tyrannical, few living things can survive within them, but in this vast world, there is nothing strange that does not exist, and all things have their own strengths and weaknesses. In the depths of these flames, a single stem of the mystical lotus has taken root, its broad leaves emitting a chill in the face of the scorching heat, truly a wondrous sight to behold.

  Xuán Míng Yōu Lián is a type of heavenly material that grows by absorbing the energy of flames. It is born in the midst of raging fires, blooming with a beauty that ordinary people cannot see. It absorbs the fire and comes to life, yet it carries an icy coldness that is completely opposite. Like a fairy maiden from the moon palace, it dwells alone in desolate places, solitary and ethereal, exuding an air of mystery that is not to be profaned.

  Of course, powerful warriors can still discover these spirits born in the extreme flames. For warriors who cultivate water attribute methods and variant methods of ice law, it is a very precious natural treasure that helps them understand the law.

  This stem of the Mystic Lotus was in full bloom, its leaves spread out to occupy an area of about ten feet in diameter. The crystal-like leaves emitted a faint, ethereal glow that completely engulfed the nearby Earthfire. In the center of the leaves, a large lotus pod lay with over a dozen lotus seeds inside, each possessing extraordinary effects that defied the heavens.

  At this time, Xu Hua was less than fifty feet away from the mysterious lotus, but at this moment, Xu Hua didn't see it at all. It seemed that his throat had become hoarse from shouting, and now Xu Hua's mouth could only make "eh, eh" sounds. As he rolled around on the ground, Xu Hua's body suddenly bumped into something, and in that instant, Xu Hua felt a cool sensation, extremely comfortable, and immediately grabbed onto the object with one hand.

  What he got was a circular object, and as soon as he held it in his hand, Xu Hua suddenly felt a cool sensation spreading throughout his limbs and meridians, making him tremble with comfort. He slightly opened his eyes to find himself in a world of fiery red color, then lowered his head to take another look at the object in his right hand.

  "Ah!"

  What entered his eyes was a skull as white as jade, Xu Hua subconsciously wanted to throw it away, but thinking of the extremely comfortable feeling that had been transmitted into his body, he still grasped this skull tightly. Due to the coolness transmitted by this jade-like skull, Xu Hua felt much better and immediately stood up, at which point he saw the remains of the corpse under his feet, this corpse was crystal clear all over like jade.

  "Another powerful predecessor, yet died alone in this desolate place!" Xu Hua sighed faintly, and at this moment his eyes suddenly caught sight of that stem of Xuanming Youlian. "In the depths of this earth's fierce fire, there is actually such a spiritual material!"

  Xu Hua held the jade skull in one hand and walked towards Xuan Ming Youlian. After advancing a hundred feet, Xu Hua was less than ten feet away from Xuan Ming Youlian. When he took another step forward, he immediately retreated back.

  "It's so cold!" Xu Hua exclaimed, just now only a step away, but Xu Hua felt the chill to his bones. Feeling the chill to his bones in this raging fire made Xu Hua very curious about the Xuan Ming Youlian in front of him. He tried hard to search for memories in his mind, wanting to know more information about this lotus flower, but he couldn't find anything.

  "Being able to survive in the Earthly Fire, and yet emitting such a bone-piercing chill, this lotus is no ordinary spiritual material!" Xu Hua's eyes shone with excitement, clearly this one stalk of Profound Frost Lotus had moved him. However, he didn't make any move. Although he really wanted to obtain this lotus, at the moment he didn't have the ability to do so. Moreover, in this Earthly Fire, there was only him alone, and he wasn't worried that this extraordinary lotus would suddenly disappear.

  Xu Hua gazed quietly at the mysterious lotus for a long time before speaking softly, "I didn't think I'd survive entering the Earthly Fire. As they say, 'great difficulties will not kill one if there is good fortune to come', this lotus flower is my great luck."

  However, being trapped in this earthly fire, he couldn't get out and could only cultivate diligently, waiting for the day when he would break through the Heavenly Gate and become a Martial King to control his breath and fly away from this place! Xu Hua returned to the side of that jade bone once again, observing it carefully. "Why does this senior's bones emit a coolness? Logically speaking, even if one is a powerful Martial Emperor, they shouldn't be able to stay for too long in the depths of the earthly fire! This senior has obviously been dead for a very long time, but his corpse hasn't been burned into nothingness by the earthly fire; instead, it's always emitting a cool aura!"

  Xu Hua thought for a long time but couldn't understand, although he didn't know much about the cultivation principles of the strong above Wu Huang, but he didn't think that a martial artist who cultivated the Frost Ice Principle could be so powerful! After all, it's been so many years since the person died, and this senior's cultivation principle should have dissipated long ago.

  "Huh?"

  After thinking for a long time and still not understanding, Xu Hua simply stopped thinking. At this moment, Xu Hua, who had been staring at the withered bones on the ground, discovered a small object.

  Xu Hua bent down, prying open the fingers that were tightly grasping his right hand, and picked up a very small object lying in the palm of his hand, which was almost the same color as the bone.

  "This is just an ordinary jade, right!" He held it in his hand and observed it carefully for a while, but didn't find anything special. However, Xu Hua thought about it again and felt that it wasn't right. Although he didn't know what level this senior was at when he was alive, in his opinion, he was at least a strong Martial Emperor, so how could something that a strong Martial Emperor guarded with his life until death be ordinary?

  Xu Hua poured true energy into the jade in his hand, but it seemed to have no reaction at all. The jade didn't absorb any of the true energy, causing Xu Hua's input to disperse into the surroundings. He then started bleeding again, but before a single drop of blood could fall, it was incinerated by the Earthly Fiery Furnace.

  Xu Hua was shocked and only then realized that he was in a place where the fire was deep, and his blood couldn't come out. So he directly stuck the cut finger onto this jade stone.

  Buzz buzz!

  After a while, it was indeed effective. The jade stone absorbed the blood. After absorbing Xu Hua's fresh blood, the jade stone began to reveal a shallow red color and produced a faint sound, which made Xu Hua overjoyed. "The Blood Drop is useful after all! It seems that this is indeed a treasure!!!"

  Xu Hua continued to watch the changes in the jade stone in his hand. Slowly, the jade stone seemed to have absorbed enough fresh blood and emitted a faint golden light. At this moment, on the surface of the jade stone, a shallow, blood-colored "death" character was blooming with increasingly vibrant golden light.