During his escape, Zhao Sheng concealed his aura, his figure flashing like a ghost, leaving behind a series of afterimages.
Old Man He remained perfectly still, yet his speed was no less than Zhao Sheng's. The earth beneath his feet churned and surged around him as he moved swiftly.
Just as the two escaped from the tunnel entrance, a loud crash echoed behind them, and the entire tunnel collapsed. Cracks appeared everywhere on the ground and cave walls, like countless rapidly growing vines chasing after them.
At this moment, another earth-shaking tremor occurred. The underground city, unable to withstand the aftershocks of the live-action battle, began to collapse piece by piece.
In an instant, rocks flew everywhere in the underground palace, and smog and dust filled all vision.
Amidst the tumultuous clash of real cultivators, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged like boiling water. Zhao Sheng's eyes twitched slightly. No matter the realm, battles between Golden Core cultivators were extremely rare. He had actually encountered one this time; whether it was luck or misfortune remained to him.
The two fled back to the next level of the underground palace in one breath. This place was far from the center of the battle and was not greatly affected by the aftershocks. The surrounding buildings were mostly intact.
Old Man He suddenly stopped. Zhao Sheng calculated in his mind that it was exactly five li, no more, no less.
After sensing it again, I felt that the surrounding temperature had dropped significantly, and the rumbling from underground had become very faint.
Zhao Sheng turned to look at Old Man He and saw that his brows were furrowed.
"Wait a moment!"
After saying that, Old Man He lay down on the ground, his ears pressed to the ground, as if sensing something.
Gradually, Zhao Sheng discerned something and his expression changed immediately: as a Foundation Establishment cultivator specializing in water element, he was most sensitive to water element spiritual energy.
At this moment, he could clearly sense that the water elemental energy around him was becoming increasingly active.
It should be noted that beneath Boiling Spring Valley lies an underground volcanic cluster, making it the domain of fire elemental energy.
However, at this moment, the water elemental energy around them was even more active than the fire elemental energy, and what was even more terrifying was that the concentration was rising rapidly, increasing by one-third in just a short while.
This is no joke; it's clear that a powerful being has stirred up a region, causing the water elemental energy from an unknown radius to gather in Boiling Spring Valley.
Such methods, putting aside everything else, just the change of the home field environment alone left Zhao Sheng speechless.
Could a Golden Elixir Immortal really pull off such a grand gesture?
Just as Zhao Sheng was utterly shocked, He Ying suddenly leaped up from the ground, retreated warily to his side, looked at the dark tunnel ahead, and coldly shouted, "Who's there?!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Sheng was startled. He released his full divine sense and scanned the area three times, but he did not detect anything unusual.
"Fourth Master, where is the enemy?"
He Ying did not answer, but instead stomped her right foot on the ground, causing a two-foot-high wave of earth to rise up and rush into the depths of the tunnel.
At that moment, a bright red light shone in the darkness, and the surrounding temperature suddenly rose sharply, with a wave of heat hitting us.
Zhao Sheng narrowed his eyes and saw a twisted, fiery shadow rushing towards him from within the red light.
He Ying reacted quickly, waving his sleeve and scattering a yellow light that shot straight into the ground. The passageway immediately shook violently, and the underground soil and rocks suddenly bulged out, forming walls that connected to the top and bottom, isolating Yan Ying behind them.
However, immediately afterward, a scorching white claw flowing with lava forcefully pierced through the earthen wall, and twisted flames shot out several feet, the heat wave hitting Zhao Sheng's face and almost burning his clothes.
Zhao Sheng didn't move an inch, and said coldly, "It's a magma demon puppet."
"Idiot...kill!"
Through the earthen wall, the demonic puppet growled, its voice hoarse and unlike a human's, making it difficult to discern. After all, it was a puppet made of magma and a demonic soul, so speaking was indeed quite difficult.
However, this was enough to broaden Zhao Sheng's horizons. The Zhou family's Demon Flame Divine Control Technique was indeed well-deserved, as it allowed demon souls to control inanimate objects without losing their spirituality, and its power was astonishing.
At that moment, the magma demon claw that had pierced through the earthen wall twitched twice, as if it were withdrawing its hand.
At that moment, He Ying let out a strange laugh, and his pure spiritual energy swept over the earthen wall, turning it into ashes in an instant. The magma demon claws were also crushed.
The earthen wall, along with a section of the passageway, collapsed, and the heat wave from the opposite side rushed in again, only to be abruptly choked by the billowing dust.
Behind him, Master He silently charged forward, his spiritual power surging, and sand and stones coalesced into a fist, blasting the magma demon shadow back with a single punch. The scorching magma splashed out and hit the surrounding stone walls with a hissing sound.
cut!
Zhao Sheng let out a low roar, and the invisible sword moved as fast as teleportation, striking Yan Ying's head directly in a flash, splitting him in two.
The blue demonic soul hidden in the skull screamed miserably, and half of its soul was chopped into blue smoke.
Seeing this, He Ying poured his spiritual energy into Yan Hun's body.
As the alien spiritual energy entered his body, the magma covering his body rapidly cooled and dimmed, then shattered into countless scalding hot stones.
Although the magma demon puppet was formed primarily from second-tier demon souls, it was ultimately just a puppet with combat power at most at the Foundation Establishment level. Faced with the combined attack of two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, it was utterly vulnerable.
At this moment, Zhou Zhongyu seemed to realize that he was no match for him. Once the demon puppet shattered, he fell silent.
He Ying turned to Zhao Sheng and asked, "Fellow Daoist Zhao, what do you think?"
Zhao Sheng shook his head. "This puppet is controlled remotely using a secret method. The real person is probably dozens of miles away."
He Ying nodded slightly: "The Zhou family is indeed a bit..."
He was speaking halfway through when he exclaimed "Ah!" as a violent impact came down from the ground, crashing through layers of soil like a raging torrent.
In an instant, the surrounding temperature rose rapidly at an astonishing rate.
The air became incredibly hot and dry, as if a tiny spark could ignite it at any moment.
Boom!
Amidst a deafening roar, a gust of hot wind suddenly blew in from the depths, followed by a sound like a flood crashing against a table, or the rushing of water rapidly approaching.
A red light flashed in the darkness, and in the blink of an eye, a torrent of lava surged forth.
"Walk!"
Zhao Sheng made a quick decision, his figure flashed and he fled into the distance, and He Ying had a similar reaction.
The two escaped just in time; no sooner had they left than the area was flooded by the influx of lava.
Not only that, the roaring lava continued to surge to the surface at an unstoppable speed, and the underground volcano of Boiling Spring Valley finally erupted with the help of the Golden Core cultivator!
On the other side, Zhao Sheng fled quickly through the tunnel, but after running through several tunnels, he suddenly stopped because the tunnel ahead had collapsed and was completely blocked by rubble.
Looking back, they couldn't find Old Man He anywhere.
Zhao Sheng frowned slightly, his expression becoming very serious as he heard a faint whistling sound coming from behind him.
There was no way forward, and pursuers were closing in!
Facing a desperate situation, Zhao Sheng's mind raced, and he suddenly had an idea.
Boom!
With a deafening roar, dust and debris flew everywhere. The passageway behind Zhao Sheng collapsed section by section under the bombardment of numerous talismans.
Just as a firebreak needs to be built when a fire breaks out, Zhao Sheng also took the initiative to create a firebreak for the magma.