All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 184 Exploration of Divine Fire Valley, Breakthrough and Blood Transformation (Part 2)

"Brother Su, what should we do now?" Lu Yan stood at the edge of the huge pit, feeling the terrifying heat emanating from it. He couldn't help but look at Su Wuhen beside him. As the leader of this operation, he had the right to decide the next step.

"That depends on Brother Zhou's opinion. We entered the valley this time to help him find fire-attribute spiritual items."

No one knows how this unknown pit was formed, or what dangers lie inside.

If Brother Zhou's goal is that Heavenly Fire Leopard's inner core, we can take a detour and spend more time to reach the other side.

Su Wuhen pointed to the area opposite the huge crater, seemingly lost in thought.

"I'm going down to take a look." Zhou Qing said without hesitation. It was worth taking a risk, as it concerned the hatching of the Heavenly Fire Centipede eggs and the refining of the Yuan Soul Golden Liquid.

"Since that's the case, then I have no choice but to accompany you, even at the cost of my life." Su Wuhen nodded.

Since he agreed to Han Wending's request to come and protect him, he must have some understanding of Zhou Qing's situation.

Moreover, he was quite interested in this suddenly appearing huge crater.

“Then I’ll go down with Brother Su. Brother Lu and Qingqing shouldn’t go down,” Zhou Qing said thoughtfully.

"How can that be?" Han Qingqing's expression changed.

"Now that we're here, we should naturally stick together," Lu Yan said solemnly.

"Then let's go together. With Brother Lu and Miss Qingqing's strength, they are more than capable of protecting themselves. Besides, I'm here too!" Su Wuhen smiled faintly, revealing strong confidence.

"Let's go together then." Seeing Su Wuhen's confidence, Zhou Qing thought to himself that he must have some powerful trump card.

"Let's go." Su Wuhen nodded to the three of them, peered at the edge of the huge pit, and then leaped down into the bottomless pit. His figure flashed along the protruding cliff edge of the pit and quickly disappeared from the three of them's sight.

Seeing this, Zhou Qing followed closely behind.

Han Qingqing and Lu Yan followed.

As he plummeted downwards, Zhou Qing suddenly realized that the huge crater was actually shaped like an hourglass.

At this moment, Zhou Qing, Su Wuhen, Han Qingqing, and Lu Yan fell to the bottom.

There were already more than twenty martial artists scattered around the bottom of the pit.

Dangdang Dangdang!
At this moment, in the eastern corner, a muscular warrior with a bare upper body was wielding a giant axe and constantly chopping at the stone wall, while two warriors behind him were collecting the fiery red stones he had carved out.

Meanwhile, in several other corners, martial artists were also carving.

"Fire crystal! Such high quality!"

Zhou Qing's gaze sharpened as he noticed that the upper part of the pit was wide at the entrance and narrow at the waist. After passing through the middle, one would fall to the bottom of the huge pit, which was a vast open space with a diameter of over a kilometer.

The surrounding area was filled with sparkling, fiery red crystals, and the powerful heat emanated from these crystals.

These crystals were clearly fire crystals, and of excellent quality.

These fire crystals alone are quite valuable.

The vertical distance from here to the ground is at least two hundred meters. Looking at the smooth, fiery red crystal walls all around, returning the way you came would probably not be an easy task for a martial artist who is not skilled in movement techniques.

However, the martial artists who dared to go down to the bottom of the pit were mostly at the Bone Refinement Realm; there were no weaklings among them.

Judging by their auras alone, there are as many as seven or eight Great Martial Masters at the Blood Exchange Realm here. Among them, two have exceptionally powerful auras, probably exceeding the third Blood Exchange Realm and being at the Blood Qi Smoke Realm.

"Buzz!"

At this moment, the crimson flames in Zhou Qingyuan's aperture trembled slightly, as if they were telling a story.

"South?" Zhou Qing looked towards the crystal wall to the south, where people were already mining fire crystals.

"Something feels off here; it doesn't seem like a naturally formed landscape," Su Wuhen frowned as he looked around.

“Indeed.” Lu Yan nodded.

"Brother Zhou, with so many fire crystals, this should be enough to meet your alchemy needs, right?" Han Qingqing was sweating profusely from the heat and just wanted to get started as soon as possible.

"That's enough. Let's go over there, there are fewer people there." Zhou Qing walked over there. The place was so open that the twenty-odd martial artists were divided into several groups to mine the fire crystal stones without interfering with each other.

Zhou Qing headed south and began excavating fire crystals a few dozen meters away from another team.

At this moment, the other three people saw Zhou Qing and the other three stop a few dozen meters away. They couldn't help but exchange glances and frown slightly.

Among the three, there was an old man and two young men, all dressed in red robes.

The old man in red robes exuded a powerful aura; he was none other than the Mad Lion Elder who had blocked the entrance to the valley earlier.

As Zhou Qing was chiseling the fire crystal, he glanced at the old man with the mad lion's eyes and found that the old man was also looking him up and down. When their eyes met, Zhou Qing felt a chill in his heart and his eyes felt a stinging sensation.

This old mad lion certainly has the right to be arrogant.

This person's soul-capturing sonic attack should be much more powerful than the one he demonstrated at the entrance of the valley.

More than twenty martial artists stood in the arena, standing around the perimeter, constantly chiseling at the fire crystals in the crystal wall. As time went by, tunnels were carved out in all directions.

About 15 minutes later, a violent tremor suddenly came from the southern part of the pit. The Mad Lion Elder and two other youths suddenly rushed out of the tunnel. The next moment, a red heat current that seemed to be real surged out of the tunnel and shot out like a huge beam of light.

"Look!"

"What happened over there?!"

The commotion immediately attracted the attention of martial artists from all directions, and everyone rushed out of the tunnel.

At this moment, the giant pillar of light rapidly dimmed, and the Mad Lion Elder and the two youths rushed into the tunnel without hesitation. Zhou Qing noticed the anomaly immediately and rushed out of the tunnel.

When he arrived outside the tunnel where the red beam of light appeared, he was suddenly surprised to find a deep, dark tunnel leading to an unknown destination.

As the old man with the mad lion and the two youths disappeared into the depths of the tunnel, the fire crystals around the tunnel seemed to come alive, rapidly shrinking away in all directions, and closing up again in just a few breaths.

"damn it!"

"It seems that the old man Mad Lion knows the secret of this place!"

Martial artists rushed to Zhou Qing's side from all directions, but the tunnel had already closed again, and there was no time to pass through.

Dangdang Dangdang!
The group arrived at the tunnel that the old man with the mad lion had dug earlier and began to dig again with their fists and weapons, trying to make the tunnel pass through.

Seeing this, Zhou Qing checked the crimson flame in his primordial aperture again, then nodded secretly.

"Brother Zhou, what should we do?" At this moment, Han Qingqing came out of another tunnel a few dozen meters away, ran to Zhou Qing's side, and asked about the situation.

"Keep digging." Zhou Qing returned to the other side. By this time, the crystal wall had been excavated by the four people, and a tunnel more than ten meters deep had been dug out.

As Zhou Qing dug a few more meters deeper, he suddenly felt a terrifying heat emanating from the crystal wall in front of him.

"It's connected! Unplug now!"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up, and he immediately called out to the three people beside him.

Su Wuhen, Han Qingqing, and Lu Yan all reacted quickly, disappearing from the tunnel at the same time.

boom!
The next moment, a fiery red beam of light shot out of the tunnel, but this time, the beam lasted only a very short time and disappeared in an instant.

"fast forward!"

When the beam of light disappeared, Zhou Qing was the first to enter. Sure enough, a deep tunnel leading to an unknown destination appeared inside.

Upon seeing this, the three people beside him also immediately entered the tunnel and disappeared with Zhou Qing.

"Look over there!"

This time, the martial artists nearby noticed the anomaly immediately. However, because the pillar of light lasted for a very short time, only a few of the fastest Blood Exchange Realm Grand Martial Masters arrived when Zhou Qing and the other three entered.

After several Blood Transformation Realm Grand Martial Masters entered the tunnel, the tunnel quickly began to close. Two Bone Refinement Realm Martial Masters who were halfway through were directly crushed to death by the tunnel, without even having time to scream.

After passing through the narrow and cramped tunnel, Zhou Qing ran for several hundred meters before the view suddenly opened up before him.

They found themselves in a vast underground canyon, with red mist drifting overhead, but the heat in the air was not as intense as before.

"here it is"

Before the canyon appeared a series of hundreds of white jade steps, and on top of the steps stood a huge palace made entirely of fire crystal, about several tens of feet high.

Above the palace gates, which resembled burning flames, was a plaque with the three large characters "Tianhuo Hall".

Around the entire palace stood eight crimson stone pillars, each carved with statues of various mythical beasts.

At this moment, seven of the stone pillars had become dull and lifeless, with only the pillar directly in front of the palace still emitting a faint light, upon which a cheetah, seemingly about to come to life, was coiled.

The old man with the mad lion and the two young men had already climbed hundreds of white jade steps and arrived at the main gate of the Heavenly Fire Palace.

From the faintly glowing stone pillar, a cheetah formed of flames leaps out, its head adorned with a dark red bead.

The cheetah lowered its body and growled at the old lion and the two young men.

The old lion showed no intention of fighting the cheetah; instead, he gestured wildly, seemingly explaining something.

Especially after seeing Zhou Qing and the other three appear in the canyon, he seemed even more anxious.

"The spiritual energy here is so active? Could this Heavenly Fire Palace be the Heavenly Fire Palace, the main hall for transmitting skills of the Divine Fire Sect?!" Su Wuhen stared at the huge palace in front of him in astonishment.

"The Divine Fire Sect?! The Divine Fire Sect, one of the ten major sects of the previous dynasty?!" Lu Yan couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"So, the eight stone pillars standing outside the hall are the transformed flames formed from the Eight Absolute Heavenly Flames?"

"The Ten Great Sects of the Former Dynasty?" Zhou Qing's gaze sharpened. The prestige of the Ten Great Sects of the Former Dynasty was already well-known. Zhou Qing had already experienced the power of the Yinshan Sect's Spirit Nourishing Technique, one of the Ten Great Sects. Moreover, the Spirit Nourishing Technique was a cultivation method that every true disciple of the Yinshan Sect had.

He never expected that his trip to the Divine Fire Valley in search of fire-attribute spiritual objects would lead him to the Heavenly Fire Hall, which was related to the ten major sects of the previous dynasty.

“I originally thought that the name of this place as Divine Fire Valley was just a coincidence. Now it seems that the Nascent Soul Realm expert who used fire-attribute divine power here back then must have been a senior of the Divine Fire Sect. Was it he who left the Heavenly Fire Hall here?” Su Wuhen was both surprised and delighted.

A martial arts technique that is of decent power and can be cultivated to the peak of the Blood Exchange Realm is already considered a first-rate technique.

As for the cultivation methods that can reach the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top and record detailed secrets of absorbing the primordial energy of heaven and earth, they are all top-tier supernatural secret manuals.

As the main hall for transmitting skills of the Divine Fire Sect, even though the Heavenly Fire Hall is abandoned here, the few fragments of cultivation techniques left inside are still of immense benefit to martial artists below the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top level.

Moreover, this place still retains a rich and pure fire-attribute elemental energy, which is most likely a contingency plan left behind by the Divine Fire Sect.

This place is practically a holy land for martial artists who cultivate fire-attribute techniques.

"Let's go in and take a look!" A fiery glint flashed in Su Wuhen's eyes. Although he did not cultivate fire-attribute techniques, someone in the Su family did. If they could obtain the divine secret manual of the Divine Fire Sect in the Heavenly Fire Hall, it would be a great opportunity for the Su family.

The Su family may be considered a powerful and influential family in Nanli County, but in the entire Great Jin Dynasty, only those with unparalleled powerhouses at the Yuan Shen realm can prosper for a thousand years and truly be called a powerful family.

Perhaps today marks the first step for the Su family towards becoming a prominent family.

(End of this chapter)