119: Green Lotus Earth Core Fire

“Qing Lin.”

Young Master Mo chuckled, “Can you take me to the place where you sensed that aura?”

Qing Lin nodded vigorously, her voice still very small: “No problem, Young Master…”

“Good!”

Mo Yuhan no longer hesitated, “Wait for me!”

He turned and walked quickly to the other end of the hall, where Instructor Ruo Lin was holding a cup of hot tea and conversing in low voices with Xiao Ding. Her sky-blue instructor’s robe appeared gentle and intellectual under the firelight.

Mo Yuhan walked to Ruo Lin’s side and spoke a few words in a concise, low voice.

The gentle smile on Instructor Ruo Lin’s face instantly vanished, replaced by shock and solemnity.

She abruptly put down her teacup, not even noticing a few drops of tea splashing out. Her eyes, which always held a smile, now showed some doubt, “It’s fine, a trip is no big deal, but will there really be some treasure there?”

Mo Yuhan nodded heavily, his gaze incredibly firm: “Instructor, Qing Lin can lead the way, and the sandstorm is excellent cover. I need your help!”

Ruo Lin’s ample bosom rose and fell slightly, and countless thoughts flashed through her eyes in an instant.

“Alright!”

Ruo Lin’s voice carried a moist strength, “Yu Han, your instructor will accompany you on this trip, Leader Xiao Ding.”

She turned to Xiao Ding, speaking rapidly but clearly, “Please immediately prepare the two best sand camels. We need to leave the city at once, heading east. This matter is of great importance, please ensure absolute secrecy. Tell everyone that my student and I have an urgent matter and must leave while the storm briefly subsides!”

Xiao Ding was also a decisive person. Although he didn’t understand what Mo Yuhan had said to Ruo Lin, he immediately understood that they had an important task to attend to upon seeing the serious expressions on Ruo Lin and Mo Yuhan’s faces.

He said in a deep voice: “Understood, I will personally go prepare them. Both of you, please be extra careful.”

He gave Mo Yuhan a deep look, then turned and strode quickly towards the back hall.

A moment later, in the darkest hour before dawn, when the sandstorm was at its most violent.

The sturdy back gate of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group quietly opened a crack.

Two strong sand camels, like ghosts in the desert, silently rushed into the sky-obscuring sandstorm.

On the hump of the leading camel sat the petite Qing Lin and Mo Yuhan.

Qing Lin was tightly wrapped in a thick windproof cloak, her small hands gripping the reins, her knuckles white from the effort.

Her bloodline sense, like an invisible thread, stubbornly extended through the raging natural power, guiding their direction.

Mo Yuhan was also heavily bundled, revealing only a pair of sharp, eagle-like dark eyes, vigilantly scanning his surroundings.

The fierce wind made his body sway slightly, but he remained as stable as if nailed to the sand camel’s back.

Finally, there was Instructor Ruo Lin. Her entire body was enveloped in a thin, almost invisible pale blue water vapor halo, like an invisible shield, isolating the violent wind and sand, demonstrating her powerful Dou Qi control.

Guided by Qing Lin’s peculiar bloodline, the three of them, as if possessing precise navigation, galloped arduously and steadily towards the eastern part of Stone Desert City in the deadly sandstorm where visibility was less than ten meters.

The heavy breathing of the sand camels, the roaring of the wind and sand, and the crackling sound of sand grains hitting the cloaks densely, intertwined to form a thrilling desert march.

After an unknown period of trudging through the sandstorm, the sky changed from extreme darkness to a oppressive dull yellow.

Just as Mo Yuhan felt his body becoming somewhat numb, Qing Lin, who was leading the way, suddenly said: “Young Master, we’ve arrived.”

Her voice carried a hint of unusual tremor, piercing through the sandstorm.

Mo Yuhan and Ruo Lin immediately controlled their sand camels, cautiously drawing close to each other.

Ahead, against the dull yellow backdrop of the sandstorm, a massive, sunken area of sand appeared.

Its edges were extremely irregular, as if torn and swallowed by some terrifying force.

Quicksand was silently flowing down the steep slope, forming a funnel-shaped deep pit about half a meter in diameter, seemingly bottomless.

A faint dark red light emanated from the bottom of the pit, accompanied by an extremely faint but heart-pounding scorching aura, penetrating the raging dust and rushing towards them.

This aura also contained an extremely faint trace of violent fire-attribute energy that made Mo Yuhan’s soul tremble and even caused Xuan Huang Flame to shiver—it was the residual aura of a Heavenly Flame.

“It’s… it’s here…”

Qing Lin pointed to the bottomless quicksand funnel and confirmed, “That powerful aura… finally disappeared here… below… below is something very, very hot…”

Mo Yuhan’s eyes immediately showed a hint of solemnity and excitement.

Found it.

The birthplace of the Azure Lotus Core Flame.

“Instructor.” Mo Yuhan looked at Ruo Lin, “I’m going down!”

“Together!” Ruo Lin did not hesitate at all, her tone leaving no room for doubt.

She knew the dangers of the underground well and would never let her student venture alone.

“Qing Lin, you stay here, watch the sand camels. If anything happens, immediately send a signal!”

She placed a small signal jade token, which could emit a sharp whistle when Dou Qi was injected into it, into Qing Lin’s cold little hand.

Qing Lin tightly gripped the jade token, her emerald green eyes looking at Mo Yuhan with worry. Her lips moved, but in the end, she nodded vigorously: “Young Master Mo… Instructor Ruo Lin… please… be extremely careful…”

Mo Yuhan gave her a reassuring look: “Don’t worry, we’ll be back soon.”

With that, he no longer hesitated. Taking a deep breath, he circulated Dou Qi to protect his entire body, then leaped, like an arrow released from a bowstring, diving towards the center of the quicksand vortex.

His body was instantly swallowed by the flowing yellow sand.

Ruo Lin followed closely, a pale blue water vapor halo circulating around her, forming a more solidified protective shield, and she also plunged into the quicksand without hesitation.

Falling!

Endless falling.

All around was thick, heavy, constantly pressing quicksand, bringing a suffocating sense of oppression.

Mo Yuhan held his breath, circulating his five-star Dou Master Dou Qi to its extreme, forming a tough Dou Qi veil on his body surface. He swam downwards with all his might, like a fish.

The resistance of the quicksand was immense, carrying an abrasive force, and the Dou Qi veil emitted faint hissing sounds.

In the darkness, time became blurred. After an unknown period, the pressure around his body suddenly lightened.

Immediately after, an indescribable, terrifying heatwave, enough to instantly dry a person, surged like a tangible entity!

Mo Yuhan suddenly broke through a layer of sand and rock obstruction, his body executing a nimble flip in the air, landing steadily on a solid rock platform.

Before his eyes, it suddenly opened up! No, it was suddenly scorching hot!

This was an unimaginably vast underground cavern.

The dome was high, and strange rocks jutted out. And more than two-thirds of the entire cavern’s area was actually a crimson, viscous, churning sea of magma.

The dark red magma flowed slowly like the blood of a giant beast, occasionally bubbling up large air bubbles that burst with a bang, splashing scorching plasma several feet high, emitting a pungent sulfurous smell and destructive high temperatures.

The entire space was illuminated in a fiery red, light distorted, and the air intensely fluctuated due to the high temperature.