Thick smoke billowed and rushed into the nose, the scene was devastated, as if entering the eighteenth level of hell.

Lu Zhaozhao held the sword in his hand and walked in the winding corridor that looked like a honeycomb.

Just when she was leaving the border of the third layer, she heard Jiu Fengruo using the Nine Heavenly Fire that she needed for body refining. At that moment, countless thoughts surged in her mind, and in the end, they were all defeated by this one thought, which was to turn around and go back, even if there was a bottomless abyss ahead.

The moment she turned around, Lu Zhaozhao was certain Jiufeng had spotted her and was clearly looking at her, but she hadn't attacked. Throughout her journey, she'd felt someone watching her from behind, but when she turned around, there was nothing. Being in someone else's territory, she was afraid of alerting them by using her spiritual power to investigate.

After turning around again and again, she came to a mountain where the fire was the most intense. This should have been the residence of a monster in the past. The roads were well-connected and built in an orderly manner. Unfortunately, it was now filled with flames. She didn't know whether the original owner had escaped or was swallowed by the black hole in space.

The air grew thinner the further she walked, the more stuffy her chest felt. Even as she kept a vigilant eye on her surroundings, a sudden thought occurred to her: Could it be carbon monoxide poisoning? The moment this thought occurred to her, even Lu Zhaozhao herself was stunned. Having been in the book for so long, constantly on high alert, it seemed like she hadn't thought about things the way she used to.

"Is this considered... adapting to local customs?"

Lu Zhaozhao sneered, squinted his eyes and exhaled, feeling that he seemed to be much more sober than before.

I don't know how long I walked, but I finally reached the center of the passage. A heat wave hit me in the face, even hotter than the fire outside that razed the forest to the ground.

Ahead was the rolling lava, like a long red river. Under the high temperature, magma splashed out from time to time, making a cracking sound and burning grooves in the surrounding thick stone walls.

"I just touched the fire, but it doesn't seem to be of any use. Do I have to enter this magma?"

Lu Zhaozhao squatted beside the lava and muttered to herself. Lava splashed beside her from time to time, making her a little confused.

"Ah - why isn't this book written in more detail!" Lu Zhaozhao shouted loudly, then frowned and kept his eyes fixed on the flowing magma.

She had already practiced the first level of body refining, so the ordinary fire outside could not harm her. Before entering the back mountain, she drank the ice vine bamboo juice and completely integrated it into her bone marrow. If it was just ordinary magma, it would be no different from a hot spring to her. If it was not an ordinary thing, then wouldn't it be just what she wanted?

Thinking of this, Lu Zhaozhao closed his eyes, made up his mind, gritted his teeth and jumped into the lava in front of him.

The moment I leaped, a burning sensation surged over me like a heat wave, instantly sweeping across my body and suffocating me. My skin felt scorching, as if licked by flames, and every inch of it groaned in agony.

The burning sensation was like a needle piercing through the skin, penetrating all the way to the bone marrow, making it impossible to ignore. The heat of the flame penetrated the skin and drilled into the bone marrow, causing intense pain.

"hiss."

Lu Zhaozhao was gasping for breath, the hot and sharp breath of the flames filling her lungs from her nostrils. Although she had tried her best to use her spiritual power to support the barrier to isolate the magma, the lava still broke through and tortured her body and mind.

"Hu, hu, hu..."

The air inhaled into the lungs became hotter and thinner, and the protective shield condensed by the true qi became thinner layer by layer under the erosion of the lava. The deeper it went, the higher the temperature became, and the faster the protective shield was worn out.

"It seems I've found the right place." Lu Zhaozhao muttered to himself. The ice vine bamboo juice he had taken earlier began to take effect. The cold air radiated from the inside out, forming a thin layer of frost on his skin.

With a crack, the protective shield condensed by true energy was finally burned. At the moment it shattered and melted, the skin and lava officially collided.

The fire burned my skin, and it felt like a sharp blade slicing, its scorching heat piercing my heart. The initial touch was a gentle lick from the flames, bringing a stinging pain. Then, the flames spread rapidly, as if countless tiny needles were dancing wildly across my skin, and the pain spread throughout my body like an electric current.

The frost brought by the ice vines and bamboo juice is continuously playing a role, constantly resisting the external burning, but it seems to be a drop in the bucket in front of the vast expanses of lava.

Her skin began to burn, as if placed in a frying pan of boiling oil, every inch of it being tortured by the flames. Endless molten lava rolled over her skin, like being pierced by an endless rain of fiery needles. These needles were like thin, sharp arrows, carrying a scorching heat, shooting towards her from all directions. Each piercing inflicted a burning sensation on her skin, causing it to feel like it was being roasted on a fire, causing unbearable pain.

The bones and flesh that had been forged through the first level were incredibly tough. Even though they were scorched and covered in black, they only looked scary. Just as Lu Zhaozhao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she could just hold on and get through it, something terrifying happened.

The magma fire spirit that silently penetrated through the skin and entered the body attempted to attack from the inside. It rushed towards the internal organs. Under this stimulation, the ice vine bamboo juice that scattered throughout the internal organs after being taken was completely activated, and it seemed as if it was wound up and began to fight against the invader with great enthusiasm.

It would be fine if it was just an ordinary confrontation, but they seemed to be evenly matched, fighting more and more fiercely inside Lu Zhaozhao's body, making her feel like she was being torn apart.

"Ahhhh-"

Lu Zhaozhao clutched her coat tightly in front of her chest. The intense pain was extremely obvious in her heart. The severe pain distracted her, allowing more fire spirits in the magma to take advantage of the opportunity to penetrate into her body, but this made Bingteng Zhuli even more excited.

In a trance, Lu Zhaozhao suddenly remembered the origin of Ice Vine Bamboo Juice.

Ice Vine Bamboo Juice is a renowned treasure in the world of cultivation. Legend has it that it is a precious treasure condensed from the vines and bamboos that grow beneath the thousand-foot ice in the far north, yielding only a few drops in ten years. It is said that a cultivator in the Out-of-Body Stage once accidentally fell into the Polar Region. Although rescued in time, his meridians were severed, his internal organs were largely burned, and his breath was weak, with only inhalation and no exhalation.

Everyone thought he was doomed, but his father, unconvinced, spent all his family fortune to find two drops of ice vine bamboo juice. After the monk took them, the poisonous fire in his body dissipated, and his meridians began to reshape. However, the ice vine bamboo juice was potent, and the collision with the poisonous fire damaged the monk's body. Although he survived, he could no longer cultivate, and his body was even weaker than that of an ordinary person.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhaozhao began to calculate in her mind. The cultivator had entered the Extreme Realm. No one could yet understand what it looked like inside, but what was known was that the poisonous fire covering it was extremely overbearing. However, she was currently surrounded by the heavenly fire brought by the Nine Phoenix. The Nine Phoenix was an ancient beast. Although it was only a remnant soul, its strength should not be underestimated. Moreover, she still had some strength left and was conscious. Even in danger, she might not be afraid to give it a try.

In that case, let’s give it a try!

Lu Zhaozhao made up her mind and gathered all her Qi, allowing it to cover her internal organs. At this point, she completely withdrew the Qi that was resisting her skin. She exhaled and laughed out loud at the sea of ​​molten lava before her.

"In that case, let's see whether I can survive this or you can swallow me up!"

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