Lady Miaoyin, the successor of the Hehuan lineage?

Lin Yuan, however, turned a deaf ear to her determination and slapped the Storage Pouch at his waist.

A golden, radiant Talisman covered in mysterious runes appeared in his hand.

It was the Heaven-Turning Seal Talisman Treasure!

This treasure possessed peerless power, but activating it required pouring in a vast amount of mana. With a powerful enemy before him and every breath being a matter of life and death, he had no other choice.

"Use this shield to protect yourself!"

Lin Yuan backhanded the azure profound shield into Su Qingyan's hands.

Following this, he hesitated no longer. His eyes narrowed as he mobilized all the Spiritual Qi within his Dantian, madly pouring it into the Heaven-Turning Seal Talisman Treasure in his hand.

Just at this moment, the Magma Giant Crocodile had already closed in.

Its massive crocodile tail, thicker than a water bucket, carried a scorching gale capable of tearing through the air as it fiercely swept over!

Its momentum could cleave mountains!

Su Qingyan bit her red lips with her pearly teeth, a flash of poignant determination in her eyes. Without hesitation, she poured all her mana into the azure profound shield, standing firmly in front of Lin Yuan—who was currently activating the Talisman Treasure—like a moth flying into a flame.

"Bang!"

A deafening roar erupted, as if the mountains were collapsing and the earth splitting.

The crocodile tail struck the azure profound shield solidly.

Su Qingyan felt an irresistible, terrifying brute force surge towards her. The azure profound shield's light was instantly suppressed to its limit, emitting a groan of being overwhelmed.

She, along with the shield, was sent flying by this immense force.

A streak of bright red blood traced a poignant arc in mid-air.

Her body fell uncontrollably towards the churning magma lake below.

Just at the moment she was about to fall into the magma, the jade hairpin in her hair bun suddenly erupted with spiritual light, and a soft, cyan-green halo enveloped her entire body.

With a "splash," she sank into the crimson magma lake and disappeared from sight.

"Beast, die for this old man!"

Lin Yuan's eyes were splitting with rage. At this very moment, the Heaven-Turning Seal Talisman in his hand had finally absorbed enough mana and was thoroughly activated!

Merely activating this Talisman Treasure had drained nearly half of the mana in his body.

A dazzling spiritual light shot up into the sky.

A massive, ancient, and heavy square seal, engraved with mysterious runes, hovered in mid-air, emitting a terrifying Aura that seemed capable of suppressing the eight wildernesses.

In the fiery red vertical pupils of that Magma Giant Crocodile, a trace of an emotion called fear appeared for the first time, and it actually wanted to turn and flee.

"Descend!"

Lin Yuan used all his strength and let out a roar.

"Boom!"

The Heaven-Turning Seal suspended high in the sky, carrying peerless Aura, smashed down with a boom, as if the heavens were collapsing.

It slammed heavily onto the body of the Magma Giant Crocodile.

The terrifying pressure instantly caused the magma lake below to cave in by several zhang, and the magma splashed outwards like a tsunami.

The Magma Giant Crocodile's indestructible head was like fragile rubble beneath the Heaven-Turning Seal.

Half of its head, along with the magma-like keratin layer on top, was smashed to pieces.

Flesh, blood, and brains splattered and scattered.

However, the vitality of this level-two Yao Beast was stronger than imaginable.

Suffering such heavy injuries, it still hadn't completely died. Its massive body rolled and struggled frantically in the magma, kicking up monstrous waves, its remaining eye filled with endless violence and madness.

Lin Yuan's Face turned pale. He flipped his palm, and the frost sword was already in his hand, emitting a clear sword hum.

Strike while the enemy is down!

"Pfft!"

His figure was like lightning, turning into a cold light as he dodged and wove between the giant crocodile's frantically twisting body, precisely stabbing the long sword deep into the wound of its shattered skull!

Sword Qi erupted, churning wildly!

After a moment, the Magma Giant Crocodile's mountain-like body shuddered violently, then slowly stopped twisting, and completely ceased all movement.

Lin Yuan gasped for breath, landing on the corpse of the giant crocodile. He looked at the deathly silent magma lake below; the azure profound shield was still floating on the magma, but both Su Qingyan and Wei He had disappeared.

That wisp of Earth Core Nether Fire had also vanished to who knows where.

He swept his Divine Sense out, but this magma lake was vast and bottomless. The chaotic fire Spiritual Qi within the magma severely hindered his Divine Sense's investigation, and Lin Yuan did not discover any signs of life.

He leaped and landed on the back of the mountain-like Magma Giant Crocodile, took out the frost sword, and began skillfully dismembering it.

It was indeed a level-two Yao Beast; its crocodile skin was extremely tough and was an excellent Material for refining defensive Magical Artifacts. Besides this, Lin Yuan also dug out a thumb-sized, completely crimson pill from its shattered skull—this was the beast's Yao core.

The level-two Yao core contained massive amounts of Spiritual Qi and was a supreme grade Material for refining Medicinal Pills, worth a fortune.

He did not waste the Yao Beast's flesh and blood either, collecting it all.

After finishing all this, Lin Yuan's gaze turned once again towards the vast magma lake. Reason told him that for an ordinary Cultivator to fall into this place, there was absolutely no possibility of survival.

But that figure, who had shielded him without hesitation at the final moment, lingered in his mind, unable to be cast away.

That was the first time in his two lifetimes that someone had risked their life for him.

But the temperature of the magma lake below was extremely high; even if one supported a defensive shield, it probably wouldn't last long.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan seemed to think of something and rummaged through the Storage Pouch at his waist.

A moment later, a flowing, radiant long dress appeared in his hand. The dress shimmered with spiritual light, and at a glance, it was clearly no ordinary item.

This item was the spoils of war he had obtained from Su Qinghan, a rare supreme grade defensive Magical Artifact capable of repelling water and fire.

Looking at the women's long dress in his hand, Lin Yuan's old Face couldn't help but twitch.

"Forget it, Face is for the living; the dead don't need it."

Lin Yuan consoled himself with this thought and put the long dress on his body.

An old man with white hair and beard wearing a gorgeous long dress—the scene was somewhat bizarre, but at this moment, he could not care about such things.

Following this, Lin Yuan leaped and jumped straight into the magma lake.

The moment he entered the magma lake, the scalding magma was pushed away by an invisible force, isolated by the long dress, and not a single trace of high temperature penetrated inside.

"Good treasure, from now on I will call you the Glazed Dress."

Lin Yuan praised it, then controlled his body and continued to sink down along the magma lake.

This magma lake was deeper than imaginable. Lin Yuan dived for a full hour before finally reaching the bottom.

He did not find Su Qingyan or Wei He, but in a crevice of the rocks at the bottom of the lake, Lin Yuan found that wisp of dim blue Earth Core Nether Fire, which had become calm again.

Lin Yuan pinched a spell gesture, and the Fire Control Technique was cast once again.

...

Meanwhile.

In another abyss of the magma lake.

The jade hairpin inserted into Su Qingyan's hair bun was emitting a faint fluorescent light, and wisps of cyan-green light curtains completely enveloped her, separating her from the scalding magma all around.

By her ear, an ethereal and melodious woman's voice drifted over.

"I am Lady Miaoyin. Little girl, are you willing to accept my Joyous Union Secret Technique Legacy..."

Su Qingyan slowly opened her beautiful eyes, feeling as if an invisible hand was guiding her to drift forward.

Finally, the scenery before her eyes changed abruptly. The endless crimson magma disappeared, and in its place was a clean and tidy Immortal Cave emitting a soft pink glow.

A beautiful woman dressed in palace attire, with unparalleled elegance, was looking at her with a smile, standing quietly in the middle of the Immortal Cave.

The woman not only had an exquisite appearance, but every smile and gesture of hers exuded endless charm.

Even though Su Qingyan was a woman herself, seeing this, she couldn't help but feel her heart flutter, giving rise to a sense of feeling inferior.