Dual cultivation makes you stronger, everyone else is a prodigy, and I'm the only one slacking

They remained silent the whole way, and soon arrived near the mine that the little fire demon had mentioned.

They hid in a cave in the side of the mountain wall, the narrow entrance of which was conveniently hidden by rocks.

The two remained hidden, only their eyes visible, intently watching every move within the Flame Valley below.

At this moment, many lesser demons were pushing cart after cart of fire crystals toward the cave entrance.

At the entrance of the cave stood a giant demon, twice the height of a person, with a pair of red fleshy wings resembling bats on its back. Its body was hunched over, and it was counting the fire crystals that had been delivered.

After confirming that everything was accounted for, he ordered his junior officer to pour all the Fire Crystals into a slightly larger mine cart.

Before long, the mine cart was fully loaded and slowly drove along the ground track into the deep mine.

Yu Luoning transmitted his voice: "According to what the little fire demon just said, this cave leads directly to the core of the forging grounds, and that great demon should be inside."

Bai Rongling nodded, her gaze falling on a wooden cart about to drive into the mine. "I'll go and find out what's going on. You stay here and keep watch."

"How are you going to get in?" Yu Luoning glanced at him sideways.

"Use your spatial magic to send me into the minecart."

Yu Luoning: "But how will you get out after you go in? What if that great demon is really down there?"

Bai Rongling suddenly chuckled, though it was unclear which of her words had pleased him.

"Don't worry, I have a teleportation talisman. If I can't win, I'll just run away."

"No, I want to go with you," Yu Luoning said firmly.

She actually cares about me this much?

Bai Rongling couldn't help but smile slightly. "Okay."

The displeasure that had been caused by Yu Luoning's outrageous words about how he would let her sleep with him seemed to have inexplicably dissipated quite a bit.

Perhaps she wasn't entirely swayed by her own appearance when she made that request.

Bai Rongling found it somewhat absurd and turned her attention back to what was below.

The mine cart was large enough to fit two people.

The problem is that if they teleport directly using the teleportation technique, the fire crystals filling the minecart will overflow, and the resulting commotion will definitely be noticed.

Yu Luoning was pondering how to make room without anyone noticing.

Bai Rongling blinked, her gaze carrying a hint of composure.

He formed a hand seal, his fingertips lightly creating a thin purple halo. The next moment, the purple halo, like smoke and mist, flew down to the canyon below.

Hundreds of lesser demons were instantly enveloped in a purple halo, and before long, they all collapsed to the ground, falling into a deep sleep.

Yu Luoning's eyes widened in surprise, "What kind of magic is this?"

Bai Rongling: "Hypnosis."

"You had such a good thing, why didn't you bring it out sooner?"

Bai Rongling: "It can only deal with low-level demons. The time required to prepare this spell is too long, and there is simply not enough time to cast it at the crucial moment."

Yu Luoning nodded thoughtfully, but her divine sense couldn't wait to delve into the "Handsome Men's Compendium" to find the hypnotic technique that Bai Rongling had just used.

Upon seeing this, her eyes immediately lit up.

Ordinary hypnosis isn't that powerful, but the advanced version shown in the encyclopedia is completely different.

After cultivating to a certain level, one can even create illusions and alter fragments of memory.

want to!

Yu Luoning silently withdrew his divine sense, his Adam's apple bobbing quietly as he looked at Bai Rongling with a fervent light in his eyes.

The art of grafting flowers onto trees, the Heaven-Concealing Technique, the Water of Oblivion, and now a hypnotic technique...

Every part of it is a treasure!

Bai Rongling felt a strange sense of being watched by prey. Seeing Yu Luoning's fixed gaze, he turned his head and urged, "There's no time, let's go in quickly."

Yu Luoning reluctantly withdrew his gaze and immediately used his teleportation technique to bring the two of them to the front of the chariot.

She used her magic to store half of the spirit stone fire crystal into her spatial jade bracelet, and the two of them hid in the bottom of the fire crystal, creating a separate space between them.

A moment later, the hypnotized little demon slowly woke up, completely unaware of what had happened.

Adhering to the principle of "better to avoid trouble than to cause it," the little demons continued their work.

The mine cart started moving very quickly.

After an unknown amount of time, the minecart finally came to a stop in a huge, deep pit.

This place is a hidden world, with a huge blacksmith's platform floating in the center of a vast ocean of lava.

A fiery beast, its body entirely crimson, stood there, its form majestic, like a mountain.

The beast held a giant hammer in one hand and iron pincers in the other.

He hammered away forcefully, one strike after another, seemingly forging some kind of weapon.

He overturned the cartload of fire crystals and threw it directly onto the iron felt.

As he exhaled flames, the fire crystals instantly melted, turning into fluorescent light that flowed into the weapon.

Inside the truck bed, Yu Luoning and Bai Rongling huddled close together.

All they heard was the clanging sound of the giant hammer falling.

Soon, the fire beast swung its giant hand at the mine cart where Yu Luoning was. Without checking, it flipped the cart and hurled all the fire crystals onto the red-hot anvil.

Yu Luoning and Bai Rongling moved at the same time. The moment the Fire Crystal was poured out, the two figures transformed into streaks of light and streaked away.

The giant hammer in the fire beast's hand slowly stopped. He looked up and bared his fangs at the two of them.

"Hehe, this little bug is quite good at burrowing; it actually managed to get here."

Yu Luoning looked up at the colossal beast, which resembled a mountain.

He believed the little fire demon's words to a great extent; judging from the oppressive aura, the guy in front of him was definitely not weak.

The aura emanating from the fire beast was terrifying!

This is definitely an ancient behemoth, with a cultivation level of at least the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

Bai Rongling's expression was tense, ready to evacuate with Yu Luoning at any moment. He held two escape talismans in his hands and carried them on his back.

At this moment, Yu Luoning infused her spiritual power into her voice and said, "Senior, we two did not intend to trespass into your territory. Since falling here, we have been unable to find a way out. If you are willing to show us the way out, we will leave immediately and will not disturb you."

The fire beast stared at them for a while, then suddenly burst out laughing.

"exit?"

"Those who enter the Forging Abyss have no reason to leave. Stay here, for I happen to need some miners."

Yu Luoning, "..."

Mining? What a heartless mine owner!

So that's how those little fire demons came to be.

Just as the fire beast was about to make a move, its nostrils twitched slightly, the smile on its face vanished, and its two large, round eyes were fixed on Yu Luoning.

He snorted coldly, "Why do you have a smell that I find repulsive?"