Crossing the Cultivation Realm: Two Souls Coexist

After saying this, he immediately closed his mouth, and his face seemed even more tired.

It was as if revealing this news itself touched upon some kind of taboo, which consumed a lot of his energy.

Hu Qing and Gu Yang were overjoyed when they heard this!

After searching for many days, I finally got a definite direction!

The two suppressed their excitement, looked at each other again, and had already made a decision.

Hu Qing said sternly, "Old Shu, Xiao Zi is currently sleeping and undergoing a breakthrough upstairs, so it's inconvenient for her to move.

Let him stay with you for a while and take good care of him.

Once we obtain the things, we will return to pick him up immediately and fulfill our oath!"

The old tree nodded slightly, a gentle look on his face. "That little dragon... is quite appealing to me. You can go without worry. Come back soon..."

Hu Qing and Gu Yang said no more and bowed deeply and solemnly to the weak old man in the wheelchair.

Then he turned around, strode onto the spiral staircase, and his figure quickly disappeared at the entrance of the passage.

The night lost the dampness of the rain, replaced by a thin, cool mist that permeated the area between the forest and the volcano.

Hu Qing and Gu Yang flew at full speed and had already left the lush border of Wanshu Kingdom behind.

The further west you go, the sparser the surrounding vegetation becomes, and the air begins to be mixed with a faint smell of sulfur.

After flying about three hundred miles, the scene in front of me suddenly changed dramatically!

They burst through the canopy of the last stubborn, heat-tolerant shrubs.

There was no longer endless green ahead, but a towering, lonely, and gray-black mountain range!

It is like a silent giant, crawling in the vast night, forming an extremely strong contrast with the vibrant forest stretching for hundreds of miles behind it, giving people a sense of desolation, dead silence and oppression.

The dust in the air has increased significantly, and when inhaled into the lungs it has a frosted texture, making flying a bit sluggish and difficult.

The two simply landed and walked towards the extinct volcano.

There was a thick layer of soft volcanic ash under my feet. Every step I took would sink to my ankles, making walking quite difficult.

Occasionally you can step on some sharp-edged black volcanic rocks half-covered by ash.

The closer you get to the mountain, the more pungent the smell of sulfur in the air becomes, even a little irritating to the eyes.

Soon, they reached the edge of the crater.

The huge crater is like a ferocious mouth of the earth, with broken edges.

It was covered with huge cracks and signs of collapse, as if it had been forcibly broken from the inside by some terrifying force.

Looking down, the cave was pitch black, with no bottom visible. One could only feel streams of warm air rising from below.

Hu Qing tried to extend his spiritual sense downwards, and the information fed back showed that the internal structure of the volcano was complex.

But it has indeed been dormant for who knows how many years, and no active magma source has been detected at the bottom, only some solidified lava and bottomless pits.

"Let's go down and take a look." Gu Yang was the first to jump into the crater.

Hu Qing followed closely behind.

The two of them used their strength several times in the air to slow down their descent, and finally landed steadily deep inside the volcano.

The light here almost completely disappears, with only the faint starlight shining through the cave entrance.

Hu Qing took out a lighting stone from the storage ring, and the soft white light immediately dispelled the surrounding darkness.

Wherever the light reaches, the sight is breathtaking.

The surrounding rock walls and the ground beneath their feet were mostly made of mirror-smooth and extremely hard black obsidian!

This was the product of the rapid cooling of magma. The light from the lighting stone fell on it, reflecting a cold luster.

They searched carefully, but found nothing but obsidian, and no objects resembling fragments of holy artifacts.

Instead, the surrounding rock walls were covered with numerous huge, disorganized scratches deeply carved into the stone walls.

It was as if it had been madly torn and scratched by the sharp claws of some huge creature, or as if it had been swept by an extremely powerful energy shock, leaving behind an indelible mark of time.

"Let's split up and look for other passages," Hu Qing suggested.

The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, carefully explored along the rock wall.

Soon, Gu Yang made a discovery behind a pile of collapsed rocks in the corner.

"A Qing! Over here!" he shouted.

Hu Qing rushed over upon hearing the sound, and saw that behind the rocks there was an extremely narrow gap on the rock wall that was barely wide enough for one person to pass through!

This crack extends inward, bottomless, and its edges present an irregular, glass-like texture, as if it had been melted at high temperature and then solidified again.

It's like a channel that was instantly melted out by some extremely high temperature!

"Something's strange!" Gu Yang's eyes flashed. "I'll lead the way, you follow closely!"

Without hesitation, he turned sideways and entered the narrow passage.

Hu Qing followed closely behind, observing the passage wall more carefully.

This is by no means a natural formation, but rather a path that was forcibly opened up by some force.

The passage was very narrow at first, but then it became passable. After walking a few dozen steps, the surrounding temperature began to rise significantly.

The air was filled with a strong, hot smell mixed with sulfur and ore.

The thin clothes on the two men were quickly soaked with sweat and stuck tightly to their skin.

The deeper you go, the higher the temperature.

The rock walls on both sides even began to heat up slightly, and bursts of dull "gurgling" sounds came from deep in the rock, as if huge bubbles of pulp were rolling and brewing below.

They walked in this dim and scorching passage for an unknown amount of time. Just when both of them felt a little suffocated, a different light finally appeared in front of them!

It was a dark red, constantly flickering light!

The two of them cheered up and quickened their pace. Soon, they walked out of the narrow passage and saw a bright and clear view in front of them!

What appeared before them was an extremely huge underground space!

In the center of the cavity is a dark red magma lake that stretches as far as the eye can see, slowly flowing and emitting a terrifyingly high temperature!

The scorching air distorted their vision, and the scorching air waves hit their faces, making the two people who had just escaped from the narrow passage feel their breath suddenly choked, as if their lungs were about to be ignited!

They were now standing on a protruding black obsidian platform on the edge of the lava lake.

The rocks underfoot were baked hot.

Trying to fly across?

Shortly after it took off, huge bubbles kept bursting on the surface of the magma lake below.

Every time there is a rupture, a column of yellow gas visible to the naked eye, carrying strong sulfur and unknown toxins, rises into the sky!

The poison was so strong that the two men's protective spiritual energy made a "sizzling" sound of corrosion, and they were so scared that they quickly fell back to the platform.

If you force yourself to fly across, you'll probably be knocked unconscious by the poisonous gas and fall into the lava before you reach the other side.

Just when they were feeling troubled by this dead-end lava lake—

hum!hum!

On the arms of the two men, the mark of the guiding holy artifact fragment left by Elder Xia suddenly became hotter and brighter than ever before!

The light even penetrated the sleeves and was clearly visible in the dim lava cave!

The direction is extremely clear - the fragment of the holy artifact is somewhere in this lava lake, or on the other side!