Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 322 Gray Robe
The deeper you go, the scorching air feels like knives cutting into your face.

A slight breeze would activate Pei Xia's protective aura.

In order to cope with unforeseen circumstances, he must preserve his condition as much as possible.

Fortunately, there is white tea.

She walked ahead of Pei Xia, and without needing to use her spiritual power, she let the hot wind blow on her. In just a few days, her face began to dry up and wrinkle, and she didn't care about the occasional cracks.

There are fewer and fewer places to settle down.

Scattered on the lava, and occasionally protruding from the fiery river, are often dazzling crystals.

There are red crystals, sulfur stones, and occasionally you can see towering pieces of blazing sun gold, swirling with terrifying fire energy as they drift through the lava river.

Ye Baicha was walking ahead when she suddenly heard a faint sound under her feet.

She stopped and looked down.

Tiny cracks appeared on the smooth crystal surface, and a slender red plant with graceful stems and leaves stretched out and grew rapidly.

Pei Xia glanced at it: "Flame Marrow".

A rare spiritual plant that can only grow by absorbing firepower.

They are usually only occasionally found in places like volcanoes, growing slowly in the intense heat, taking twenty years to grow a single leaf and fifty years to mature.

However, in the core area of ​​the Liancheng Fire Vein, it swayed its body and stretched out bright red leaves in almost a few breaths.

Before Pei Xia could examine it closely, the plump red leaves began to ooze sap. The sap dripped onto the red crystal, and most of it evaporated with a sizzling sound, leaving only a very small amount to seep in.

The Flame Marrow Grass then withered away rapidly.

It broke through the soil in a few breaths, and withered away in an instant.

Even the most spiritual plants of heaven and earth, whose source is fire, cannot survive here for long.

Pei Xia exhaled, pressed down on Ye Baicha's shoulders, buried her face in the back of her neck, and said, "Activate your inner energy; we should be arriving at the ancestral land soon."

The lava rivers that spread throughout the volcanic vein gradually began to converge, forming a boundless, crimson lake.

Because she was carrying Ye Baicha, Pei Xia did not directly use the magic weapon, Wave-Treading.

When they needed to leap forward to find a foothold, Ye Baicha would flick out her Flaming Eyebrows to grab onto the next foothold from a distance, and then grab Pei Xiafei and fly over.

As they ventured deeper, the lava flowed faster and faster, suggesting that there was some kind of turbulent flow ahead.

Pei Xia had been to the Fire Vein before; the spiritual fire seed for cultivating the Fire Virtue Body was found here.

Even during that perilous time, Pei Xia and Fu Hongshuang did not venture deep into the true ancestral land of the Fire Vein.

Pei Xia couldn't say for sure what the situation ahead was like.

“Master,” Ye Baicha’s voice came from ahead, “there seems to be land over there.”

Pei Xia looked up and saw that there really was a thick barrier standing in the distance of the lava lake.

It wasn't very tall, protruding about ten feet above the magma, with an uneven surface, making it impossible to discern the material at first glance.

However, since the scorched earth has been refined near the ancestral land of the fire vein, anything that can still maintain this scale must be something extraordinary.

Pei Xia narrowed her eyes and saw what appeared to be a figure on the barrier.

No, there were two. One was squatting, and the other was sitting. The one squatting was wearing a gray robe and had his head down, seemingly fiddling with something. The one sitting, on the other hand, was completely still and unusually quiet.

If you get closer, you can see the gray-robed man stand up and slowly walk away.

Are they other cultivators participating in the Liancheng Illusionary Realm?
To dare to venture deep into ancestral lands, that takes some courage.

With his cultivation at the Opening Mansion Realm and the protective aura around him, he could endure the harsh environment.

However, the risks involved remain enormous.

Leaving aside the powerful demonic beasts that might appear along the way, if a fight breaks out with other cultivators, it would be almost impossible to heal and recover in such a place.

Getting in is easy, but whether you can leave unscathed depends on fate.

“Let’s go up and take a look too,” Pei Xia instructed.

Ye Baicha brandished her long whip, grabbed Pei Xia with one hand, and leaped onto the thick barrier. The ground beneath their feet felt unexpectedly hard; these dark brown objects were definitely not ordinary stones, but apart from a few scattered white spots, there was nothing else unusual about them.

"There's a strange sound." Ye Baicha looked at Pei Xia.

Pei Xia also heard it; it was a low-frequency, muffled, continuous booming sound. It didn't seem to be something purely perceived through hearing, but rather a vibration that could be felt in the chest.

Ye Baicha looked at Pei Xia, her eyes sparkling but her expression blank: "It feels like something is rubbing against something."

Pei Xia nodded and walked towards the other side of the barrier.

This strange plateau protrudes from the lava only a foot high, but it is very wide. It takes nearly fifty steps to see the other side.

Pei Xia stood at the edge and sighed as expected: "It's the sound of lava rolling down."

The scene that unfolded before Pei Xia's eyes on the other side was like a huge void leading straight to hell.

Similar barriers, divided into four arcs, formed a huge embankment on the surface of the lava lake. The rolling lava slid down into the central cavity through the gaps between the embankments.

The crimson, viscous lava clearly emitted a blinding flame, but as it continuously fell into the cavity, it failed to illuminate its depths.

This enormous, pitch-black hole seemed to connect to an abyss.

Pei Xia really didn't want to face this reality.

Judging from the current situation, the calamity-inducing peach he was desperately searching for should be sealed in this deep, bottomless cave.

Ye Baicha tried to reach into the hollow.

However, as her fingertips approached, the flesh on her middle finger was almost instantly burned away, revealing a small section of pale finger bone.

It wasn't until she channeled her inner energy that she was able to slightly slow down the melting process.

Withdrawing her hand, she turned to look at Pei Xia: "Master, the Qi of the Opening Mansion Realm can barely withstand it, but judging from the condition of the Spirit Mansion, the consumption is enormous."

That's for sure. The ancestral land of the fire veins, sealed off by the Calamity Pig, couldn't possibly be blocked by magma alone. There must be an even greater power within this deep cave.

Jumping directly won't work.

Pei Xia's inner cauldron spiritual power naturally far surpasses Ye Baicha's, but facing the thousand-year-old Calamity Pig's seal, it is just a drop in the ocean. It would be extremely difficult for him to cross the deep lava cave by consuming spiritual power.

We need to think of other solutions.

Pei Xia raised her head and looked into the distance at the long dike at the other end of the hollow.

Because it's so far away, it's hard to see the details on the other side of the embankment.

However, judging from the curvature, these four sections of the embankment should form a circle.

Such a well-organized layout is unlikely to have been formed naturally.

Moreover, even without the protection of spiritual energy, the Kaifu Realm can be melted in an instant, yet these four dikes remain as solid as a rock, perhaps because they were originally part of the sealing off of the area.

Can't we think of a way to make use of this...?

Pei Xia turned her gaze to the figure sitting quietly on the other side.

It was not noticeable from a distance, but once on the embankment, Pei Xia's senses naturally revealed the anomaly.

As they approached Ye Baicha, they found it to be a shriveled and blackened corpse.

The fact that the body did not turn to ash indicates that the person was extremely skilled in cultivation during their lifetime, and that their physical training must have reached a state of perfection.

Looking him up and down, there was nothing else on the body, suggesting it had been thoroughly searched over the years.

Judging from this, the gray-robed cultivator who was squatting here just now was probably one of the people who entered the illusionary realm with Pei Xia this time. He lingered for a long time because he was looking for any remaining usable items.

“…” Pei Xia pondered for a moment, “If only we could find some clues about the town’s closure.”

A hot wind swept in.

Pei Xia tightened her dusty gray robe and reached into her bosom.

Fortunately, we found a white stone fragment on this ancient corpse, which may help us unravel the mystery.

(End of this chapter)