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"Rumble!"
With Lin Feng's push, the crimson stone gates let out a thunderous rumble, shattering the silence that had lingered here for tens of thousands of years.
As one of the giant stone doors slowly opened, the pitch-black passage hidden behind it finally appeared before them. Lin Feng gazed at the darkness for a moment, then brushed his storage ring and took out a Sky Demon Puppet.
He ordered, "Go scout the path."
"Swish!"
The Sky Demon Puppet obeyed instantly, turning into a streak of golden light as it shot into the black passage. In the blink of an eye, it vanished from sight.
"Let's go!"
After waiting for a while and seeing no movement from within the darkness, Zi Yan's eyes brightened. She immediately prepared to rush forward.
"Wait, don't be so hasty. This is the ruin of a Dou Sheng. We still don't know what dangers might be inside."
Cao Ying hurriedly extended an arm to block the reckless girl.
Zi Yan frowned slightly, staring toward the dark passage. Seeing no abnormalities, she waved dismissively and muttered, "That puppet's been in there so long and nothing happened. I think this Dou Sheng was pretty kind. He probably didn't set up anything dangerous. Let's hurry u—"
"Rumble!"
Before she finished speaking, the pitch-black passage suddenly lit up in a burning red glow.
The floor beneath it slowly split open, and scorching red lava surged upward in violent bursts. At the same time, dazzling blue fire pillars erupted all at once from the walls and ceiling of the spacious corridor.
The sudden change caused Lin Feng and the others to tense instantly. Judging from the dangerous aura coming from those blue fire pillars, if they had entered themselves and been struck by them, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Especially for the weaker Ye Xin Lan and Cao Ying—surviving would have been nearly impossible.
"Damn it, what kind of Saint Zhao Hua is this? Too insidious! Nothing happened at first, but once you walk deeper, it suddenly tries to kill you off guard!"
Zi Yan exploded in frustration, feeling completely slapped in the face. Her impression of Saint Zhao Hua instantly dropped to negative one hundred. If they found that Dou Sheng's skeleton later, she was definitely going to give it a few slaps.
"Let's move."
At the entrance, Lin Feng called out once danger appeared.
"Right, coming."
The girls immediately nodded, lightly rising into the air and flying toward him. Zi Yan threw a few punches at the air in irritation before huffing and following along.
Once Ye Xin Lan and Cao Ying reached his side, Lin Feng instantly wrapped an arm around each girl, pulling them into his embrace. Cao Ying showed no shyness, instead nestling herself comfortably and looping her jade-like arms around his neck.
After all, they had already done everything—there was nothing to be shy about.
Holding the two, Lin Feng looked at the remaining girls and said, "These blue fire pillars shouldn't pose much threat to you, so I won't carry you. Let's move."
With that, he took the lead and flew straight into the blazing passage.
At the same moment, black flames surged out from his body, enveloping him and the two girls protectively. Dan Chen saw this as well and summoned her own flames to shield herself before entering the corridor.
As for Feng Qing'er, who had already reached the peak of Eight-Star Dou Zun with the help of a large amount of pills, she naturally had no fear of the fire pillars. Her elegant figure rose gracefully with the wind, closely following behind Lin Feng.
Zi Yan, who was the last to catch up, didn't pause either and shot forward as well.
"Hiss!"
The moment Lin Feng rushed into the fire passage, he instantly sensed the surrounding temperature surge dozens of times higher.
The scorching lava below spurted upward like boiling springs. Hidden within the lava were blazing stone fragments, and under the force of the flames, each fragment carried extremely lethal power.
If a person below the level of Dou Zun entered this place, a single careless moment could leave them pierced through the gut by the flying stones. The surrounding blue flames seemed to possess a strange effect capable of melting one's Dou Qi.
Moving through here, the rate at which one's Dou Qi was consumed was shockingly fast. With such a terrifying consumption rate, even a Dou Zong entering this passage wouldn't last for a full hour!
But these methods were no challenge at all for Lin Feng and his group. After all, everyone here either possessed a special flame or overwhelming strength. This first trial naturally couldn't stop them.
"Everyone, head downward."
Seeing that the girls behind him had all entered the passage, Lin Feng called out.
Then, with a splash, he brought Cao Ying and Ye Xin Lan with him as he plunged straight into the scorching red lava below. Based on his memories, the true exit of this passage wasn't located ahead.
Instead, it lay beneath them—one of the sources of the attacks.
"Huh?"
Zi Yan stared blankly at the sight.
There was a perfectly normal passage in front of them, yet he chose to dive straight into the lava below?
Dan Chen and Feng Qing'er exchanged bewildered looks as well.
But because they trusted Lin Feng, they abandoned the idea of flying forward through the corridor and followed him instead, diving with a splash into the lava.
Once submerged in the lava, Lin Feng encountered no hindrance at all thanks to the protection of his Heavenly Flame. His figure began rapidly descending.
As for the two girls in his arms, they were startled at first. But after about a minute of descending, the three heard a dull, muffled sound. Suddenly, the ground beneath their feet vanished, and they felt themselves leave behind the scalding lava.
The next moment, the three of them felt their feet hit something solid again—cold, unmoving floor. Feeling the icy surface beneath their soles, Cao Ying and Ye Xin Lan quickly lifted their heads. Instantly, shock spread across each of their beautiful faces.
Dozens of meters above their heads, the crimson lava had formed a perfectly straight, massive serpentine shape, hanging in midair like a suspended giant beast. It was clear that this seemingly endless river of lava was the same passage they had been in moments ago.
If they had really followed common sense and continued forward through that fire path like fools, who knew how many years it would have taken to reach the end.
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