Dual Cultivation: A Carefree Journey Through Another World, the Empress Falls into My Hands

Cultivation transcends time, and in the cave, day and night are indistinguishable.

A month passed before Chu Yunfan even began refining the inner core of the Flaming Lion.

After a month, the fire in Chu Yunfan's dantian finally devoured all the crimson lion flames in his inner core, growing into a fifth-order fire.

Moreover, the color of this pill fire is quite similar to that of the Crimson Gold Lion Flame, being fiery red with a hint of gold, giving people a feeling that is both domineering and noble.

At the same time, by absorbing and refining the power of the Flaming Lion's inner core, Chu Yunfan's cultivation level has also increased to the peak of Martial Venerable.

However, although Chu Yunfan's cultivation level increased by one small level.

However, the inner core of the Flaming Lion only shrank by one size, and the changes were not very obvious.

This demonstrates just how powerful the energy within a Demon King realm expert is.

"It's time to go treasure hunting!"

Chu Yunfan stopped refining the inner core and got up to walk out of the Flame Lion's lair.

Following the route drawn on the treasure map, Chu Yunfan found a hidden passage in the volcano and went directly to the deepest part of the volcano, which was a little below the crater.

However, this hidden passage is not easy to traverse.

Because the so-called hidden passage is actually an underground passage pieced together by several lava rivers inside the volcano.

The temperature inside these lava rivers is at least five or six thousand degrees.

Moreover, the deeper you go into the volcano, the higher the temperature continues to rise.

"It seems that refining the Crimson Gold Lion Flame first before searching for treasure was indeed a wise move!"

Chu Yunfan glanced at the bubbling lava river beneath his feet, circulated his internal fire to form a layer of crimson-gold flame shield on his body, and then leaped into the lava river.

Protected by the elixir fire, Chu Yunfan felt as free and comfortable as a fish in water in the magma, swimming forward rapidly.

We swam for an unknown amount of time, traversing countless winding paths.

Finally, a huge underground space came into Chu Yunfan's view.

The entire underground space is occupied by a huge lava lake.

In the very center of the lake, a lotus flower blooms, with six petals, each shaped like a flame.

The lotus flower is the same color as lava, a reddish-gold color, but the gold is very light, while the red is incredibly rich, like the purest flame, glowing red, crystal clear red, giving people a sense of beauty.

This lotus, named the Earth Core Fire Lotus, is an extremely precious and rare fire-attribute natural treasure that can only be nurtured within the fire of the earth's veins.

However, before Chu Yunfan could even think about this Earth Core Fire Lotus...

The lava lake suddenly boiled, with large amounts of lava rising out of thin air, like the mouth of a giant beast, and devouring Chu Yunfan.

Even before the lava landed on him, and despite the protection of his fifth-order Dan Fire, Chu Yunfan still felt an extremely intense burning sensation. The air between his mouth and nose instantly became scalding hot and dry, like a burning flame.

Immediately, Chu Yunfan realized that the power of the magma was beyond his ability to withstand.

With his Wind Wings unfurling instantly, Chu Yunfan's figure flashed, reaching the top of the underground space and dodging the magma attack.

However, the magma seemed to be alive. Seeing that Chu Yunfan had dodged, it changed direction, shot into the sky, and continued to devour Chu Yunfan.

Moreover, this time, the lava in the entire lava lake was flowing upstream, completely blocking Chu Yunfan's retreat.

Seeing this, Chu Yunfan frowned slightly.

As the saying goes, "You can't cut water with a knife; the water will just keep flowing."

Lava, being a liquid substance, is least afraid of attacks like sword energy, which are primarily based on sharpness. Even if you shatter it into pieces, it can still return to its original state.

In a flash, Chu Yunfan drew the Snow Cold Sword and unleashed the move "Gale Falling Leaves".

In an instant, a large amount of icy sword energy shot out, covering the entire lava lake.

However, the Snow Cold Sword, which was usually invincible, couldn't even make a ripple when faced with the magma before it.

All the icy sword energy melted before it even touched the surface of the magma, due to the terrifying temperature emanating from it.

Then, before Chu Yunfan could retaliate, a large amount of magma engulfed him.

In an instant, Chu Yunfan felt his skin begin to crack and bleed, even with the fifth-order Danhuo protecting him.

If it weren't for the fifth-order pill fire, he would have melted instantly.

Faced with such terrifying magma temperatures, Chu Yunfan didn't have time to think. He quickly swam back towards the magma river he had come from, intending to escape first and then make other plans.

However, the magma seemed to have seen through Chu Yunfan's plan. A huge force came from the magma river at the entrance, pushing Chu Yunfan's body deeper into the magma lake, preventing him from leaving.

Chu Yunfan originally wanted to resist the force and rush out.

But he found that under this enormous force, he was like a lone boat in a huge wave, completely unable to resist and could only drift with the tide.

At this moment, under the terrifying temperature of the magma, Chu Yunfan's body surface had cracked in many places, and even his face was covered with dense cracks, which was shocking to see.

At this critical moment, Chu Yunfan finally summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell to protect himself.

Then, Chu Yunfan's mind raced as he considered how to respond.

Suddenly, Chu Yunfan caught a glimpse of something unusual out of the corner of his eye.

So, Chu Yunfan used the thrust of the magma to reach this unusual place.

"There's a passage!"

Chu Yunfan was surprised and, without thinking too much, went straight into the passage.

However, to Chu Yunfan's surprise, this passage was not the same as the outside world, but rather pitifully short.

In just a short while, Chu Yunfan arrived at the end of the passage.

Sensing something was wrong, Chu Yunfan quickly turned around, preparing to find another way out.

However, upon turning around, Chu Yunfan was pleasantly surprised to find that the lava in the lava lake had not followed him into the passage.

Surprised, Chu Yunfan took a closer look and discovered that there was a transparent shield at the entrance of the passage, keeping the lava out.

"So that's how it is. But why didn't the shield stop me from coming in just now?"

And where did this shield come from?

With these questions in mind, Chu Yunfan began searching through the passage.

Based on his intuition, he guessed that the answers to these two questions should lie within this passage.

Sure enough, when Chu Yunfan reached the end of the passage again, he discovered that there was a skeleton lying in a corner at the end of the passage.

Upon seeing this, Chu Yunfan immediately went to the skeleton.

At this moment, Chu Yunfan noticed that the skeleton was holding a jade slip in its hand.

Based on normal reasoning, the secrets about this passage and this skeleton should be contained in the jade slip in the skeleton's hand.

However, Chu Yunfan was unsure whether the jade slip contained the information he wanted to know or an unknown danger.

For a moment, Chu Yunfan hesitated.