The two walked silently in the middle and rear of the team, heading east.

Soon they discovered two adjacent caves, so they had to split up again. Jin Ziming, Lin Xi, and four others followed Murong Fei into the first cave.

The temperature in the cave is extremely high, and it becomes even more so the further forward. After traveling about two hundred feet, there is no longer a road ahead, only a pool of flaming red magma.

The seven people probed into it with their spiritual consciousness and found that the distance they could cover was only 20% of the usual distance.

Jin Ziming was the person with the strongest soul among this group of people. In just a short moment, he discovered that there was a creature under the lava. It was not big and looked a bit like a loach in the field.

These loaches swim very fast in the lava and disappear in a flash.

Murong Fei pondered for a moment and then ordered:

"Let's dive down and take a look. I will lead two people, Lin Xi and Yaodao, and the remaining two will be in a group. After five hours, everyone must return here to meet up."

The last two female cultivators were from Phantom Island and were also a second-level sect affiliated with the Black Demon Sect, which made Murong Fei feel reassured.

The seven people were divided into three groups and began to dive and move forward.

Jin Ziming opened a protective air shield to cover the two of them, pushing the bubbles forward in the magma.

Lin Xi curiously looked at the strange world outside, with red, yellow, orange-red and gold lava of various colors, rising, floating or drifting.

There are also some rocks or soil wrapped in it, and from time to time there will be flashes of colorful flames. In addition, there are also the fleeting and unusually fast fire loaches.

"I can cover a distance of nearly sixty miles here. Let's not go too far, otherwise I'm worried that we will miss the meeting time." Jin Ziming said.

"The distance I can detect is less than seven miles, and you are almost ten times longer than me. Pervert, you control the direction."

The two of them were walking through this bizarre fire field. On a whim, Jin Ziming controlled the air mask and suddenly stopped a swimming loach.

Then he used spiritual energy to form a big hand outside the bubble and grabbed it in.

The soul was detected and found to be composed of extremely pure fire-attributed demonic energy, so he rolled it up to Lin Xi and said:

"You come and absorb it, I guess it will be useful to you."

Lin Xi tried it and couldn't help but be greatly surprised. The pure fire energy entered her body, making her feel extremely comfortable. After more than thirty breaths, the fire loach was completely sucked by her and disappeared.

"Gold, this thing is very helpful to me, let's grab some more."

The two began to explore forward while catching the loach.

Catching and sucking made Lin Xi enjoy this happy journey.

The further forward, the bigger the loach got, and the more evil energy it contained, the purer it became. After traveling about seventy miles, Jin Ziming caught a fat loach that was as long as an arm.

As soon as Lin Xi started to absorb it, Jin Ziming's expression suddenly changed and he shouted:

"Hurry up, a big guy is coming."

In his consciousness, two huge fire loaches appeared more than thirty feet in front of them, with a body size of about three feet.

Exploring his aura, it was similar to Wu Wei's, and he was probably at the mid-fourth level of strength.

Jin Ziming turned around and started running away towards the road he came from.

After running only a few dozen feet, the two beasts were already approaching. With Lin Xi's strength, it was absolutely impossible to resist.

Jin Ziming said hurriedly:

"Lin Xi, run back quickly. You can't help me here at all. You can only distract me.

Don't worry, I'm confident of escaping from this kind of mid-level fourth-order enemy."

"Okay, be careful."

Lin Xi immediately used her red light shield and retreated backwards, but firstly, speed was not her strong point, and secondly, she wanted to see the battle situation before deciding whether to stay or not.

There was a loud "bang" sound from behind, setting off a huge wave of magma, and the first fire loach had already collided with Jin Ziming's Leng Yue Dao.

The latter was knocked away and approached Lin Xi again. He had to urge:

"Lin Xi, run away as fast as you can, why are you wasting your time?"

Lin Xi had no choice but to retreat at full speed, but the two cunning loaches actually split into two groups, chasing one person each.

Jin Ziming was shocked and rushed over, rejoining Lin Xi in an air shield.

We can't run away now, we can only fight.

The opponent's demonic aura and power are too strong and cannot be defeated at all. The only way is to test whether their souls are also that powerful. This may be his only reliance.

Jin Ziming first put a distance between the air shield and the fire loach at full speed, and then instantly fired four hundred soul knives and attacked the two fire loaches separately.

The flying knives penetrated into the heads of the two beasts, and they fought fiercely for their souls.

Jin Ziming was immediately overjoyed. He tried it out, and found that the opponent was only a fourth-level Yuan Shen in the early stage.

His spiritual consciousness said:

"Xiao Fei, will the magma damage Shen Xing?"

"What is the quality of divine power? Even the Lengyue Sword can be used here, why can't it be done by magic? Feel free to use it."

"Very good."

He immediately sent out a heavy soul hammer to the fire loach on the left, causing the opponent to twist his body desperately in pain, and almost at the same time, a simplified version of "Escape" in the same space was also launched.

The divine line silently penetrated the brain of the right loach and wiped out its soul. The thing suddenly became motionless and began to sink.

The loach on the left was startled, swung its tail vigorously, and began to escape quickly.

Jin Ziming did not pursue, and immediately wrapped the sinking giant loach with his soul power, expanded the air shield, fished it in, and then said to Lin Xi:

"You absorb it quickly, like a dead loach, it will gradually decompose."

Lin Xi began to crazily absorb the pure fire-based demonic energy, while Jin Ziming controlled the air mask and slowly returned.

It took Lin Xi three full hours to finish sucking this mid-level fourth-level loach. She groaned in extreme comfort and said:

"Jin Zi, I have reached the peak level of the later stage, and I have touched the barrier leading to the perfection of the golden elixir."

"Well, this small world is most suitable for you. It is tailor-made for you. Maybe you can break through to the Great Consummation in the 'heart' space."

When the two returned to the starting point, they found that it was a stick of incense beyond the agreed time. Murong Fei and two other people were standing on the shore, and one of them was seriously injured.

Murong Fei looked at them with an unkind expression and asked:

"Why didn't you come back on time?"

"We encountered a large creature in the magma. We ran off the route when escaping, and it took us some time to find our way back." Lin Xi replied.

Murong Fei thought that the same was true for his own team, so he did not pursue further and asked casually:

"Any special findings?"

"The creatures in the magma are very similar to loaches. There are both second- and third-level creatures. They are composed of pure fire-attributed demonic energy."

Murong Fei nodded and said nothing more.

The five of them waited for two full hours, but still the third team did not return. Murong Fei looked gloomy and said helplessly:

"No wait, the two of them are probably in danger, so let's go."

The five people walked out of the cave in silence with heavy hearts, and found that Wang Zhiyao and four others were waiting at the entrance of the cave. They also lost two people.

The nine people continued to move forward, passing through a large volcanic rock forest, and after walking for more than sixty miles, they found a cave again. The entrance of the cave was large enough to accommodate seven or eight people walking side by side at the same time.

Murong Fei remained silent and walked in with eight people.

The light inside the cave is dim, but you can still see the road ahead clearly. On the cave wall, blue, green, and white stalactites appear alternately, reflecting on people's faces, which looks a bit weird.

An hour and a half later, water began to accumulate in the passage, making people feel damp and hot. After traveling for more than ten miles, they actually walked out of the cave.

The vision suddenly opened up, revealing a tropical jungle and a pool. The water was steaming with steam, and there were many brown aquatic plants floating there. There were also some small red fish swimming under the water.

After bypassing the pool, two paths appeared in front of them. Murong Fei and Fang Ming looked at each other and nodded silently.

Still grouping according to the last time, they each took a few people to explore the unknown world that the two roads led to.

Everyone agreed that after six hours, they would either return as a group or send at least one person back to exchange news.

Jin and Lin fell at the back of the team and followed Murong Fei and the other two people onto the dirt road on the left.

More than an hour later, a small path paved with stones appeared in front of us. It was not long, only about 300 feet. Looking around, we could see a large arched stone door at the end.

There are rows of ancient trees growing on both sides of the stone road, with golden leaves that are very dazzling.

Every once in a while, on both sides of the path, there is a pair of identical stone statues, either of ferocious beasts or military commanders. There are as many as nine pairs in total.

The road is covered with yellow and orange fallen leaves, and between the leaves, you can vaguely see the white bones.

There are strands of purple-red demonic energy floating in the air, like ribbons in the hands of palace dancers, dancing gracefully and erratically.

This stone road is terrifying and strange, with a hint of killing.

Murong Fei reminded everyone to be careful, and the five of them silently set foot on the path.

The purple-red demonic energy became excited, and colorful ribbons floated towards them quickly. Everyone began to absorb or resist the demonic energy with all their strength.

It's okay for Jin and Lin, after all, one can easily transform and absorb, and the other has a pure fire constitution.

Of the other three, only Murong Fei was relatively calm, while the remaining demon cultivator and casual cultivator seemed to be struggling, especially since the casual cultivator had been injured in the previous round of exploration.

In order to avoid being entangled by the purple demonic energy, the demon cultivator rushed forward to the first pair of stone apes. Suddenly, he was shocked. The two stone apes suddenly opened their eyes, jumped up, and attacked the man with fierce strength.

The demon cultivator was taken aback and hurriedly waved his halberd, keeping his body airtight. The black demonic energy formed a protective shield of Gangqi outside his body.

There was a loud "bang", and an ape arm smashed through his light shield, and then hit the big halberd, pressing the demon cultivator to stagger.

Before he could adjust, Shi Yuan made a deft roll in the air and kicked him to the ground.

Another stone ape arrived. He fell directly from the air and stomped on the demon cultivator's chest and head.

The violent force immediately trampled the halberd across his chest, and the two broken pieces of the halberd penetrated into the broken chest, and the head was already smashed to pieces.

The purple-red demonic energy in the air penetrated strangely into the headless corpse. The flesh and blood quickly disappeared, and the darker demonic energy floated up, leaving only a white skeleton on the ground.

Seeing that no one was approaching, the pair of stone apes slowly returned to their original positions and stood quietly again.
Chapter completed!