Translator: Cinder Translations
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Cui Yan's eyes locked onto the purple crystal, a hint of barely concealed joy flashing in his gaze.
He took out a small knife and pried the purple crystal free.
As soon as the crystal landed in his hand, a pure surge of yin energy rushed into Cui Yan's body.
His eyes brightened, and he muttered softly, "My guess was correct; there really is Yin Spring Stone here."
TL/N: Yin Spring Stone. Previously once ntioned in Chapter 49.
He put the crystal away and continued, "Split up and search. There must be more Yin Spring Stones in this lava lake."
As soon as his words fell, Chu Lingyun began to move sideways along the rock wall.
Song Wen glanced at Chu Lingyun's back and flew in the opposite direction.
"Ji Yin, search well. If you can find even one Yin Spring Stone, I will reward you generously," Cui Yan's voice suddenly rang in Song Wen's ear.
Song Wen stopped, turned, and replied, "Yes, Senior."
Cui Yan nodded and dove deeper into the cavern.
The deeper they went, the stronger the yin qi, and the greater the chances of finding Yin Spring Stones.
With Cui Yan's higher cultivation, it was natural for him to go deeper in search of the stones. The shallower areas were left to Song Wen and Chu Lingyun.
Though the surface of the lava appeared to flow freely, its viscosity was extrely high. Moving through it was t with imnse resistance.
Song Wen extended his magical shield to keep the lava at bay.
The ghostly blue lava swirled across the shield, obscuring Song Wen's vision.
As a result, Song Wen had to rely on his spiritual sense to detect his surroundings.
However, the sinister energy from the lava strongly suppressed his spiritual sense, limiting his perception to about a hundred feet around him.
This forced Song Wen to be extrely cautious, fearing he might disturb the spirits living in the lava.
After a stick of incense had burned, Song Wen had only traveled about two miles.
He estimated that he must have already moved out of Cui Yan's sensing range.
Suddenly, green flas flared up on his magical shield.
Song Wen imdiately felt his magical energy consumption decrease significantly.
The Nether Corpse Fire, a Yin-based spirit fla, easily resisted the oppressive energy from the lava.
Song Wen changed direction and began to ascend.
In his guess, Cui Yan and Chu Lingyun must have turned hostile toward him. However, for the mont, he still held so value, so they hadn't attacked yet.
He planned to quietly escape from Misty Island and, until his transformation was complete, refrain from using the "Ji Yin" identity.
After rising several dozen feet, the lava above suddenly surged violently, and a strong sense of pressure descended.
Seeing this, Song Wen quickly dodged, pressing his body tightly against the black rock wall.
A massive foot, several feet in diater, stomped down from above, passing within a foot of Song Wen. The lava began to boil violently, creating swirling undercurrents. These undercurrents tried to push Song Wen toward the direction the giant foot had moved.
At so point, the Nether Cal Turtle had appeared above Song Wen, seemingly drawn by sothing. It was moving through the lava.
Song Wen, quick to react, turned his hands into withered claws and plunged them into the black rock wall, stabilizing his position to avoid being swept away by the lava.
He alternated his hands, continuously stabbing into the wall, climbing deeper into the lava.
With the Nether Cal Turtle present, fleeing was no longer an option. Song Wen decided to wait until it moved away before attempting to surface.
When he dove back down to a depth of about a hundred feet, the influence of the lava's undercurrents had lessened considerably.
Song Wen withdrew his hands from the rock wall, feeling the lava continue to surge above.
It seed the Nether Cal Turtle had no intention of leaving; it was still searching for sothing.
Without hesitation, Song Wen began to move sideways.
As the Nether Cal Turtle showed no signs of leaving, Song Wen decided to take the initiative to move away from it.
To avoid attracting the Nether Cal Turtle's attention, Song Wen carefully suppressed his aura and moved at a slow pace, hugging the rock wall as he advanced.
After about a quarter of an hour, he had traveled roughly ten zhang (33.3m).
Song Wen planned to continue moving forward for a while longer, ensuring enough distance from the Nether Cal Turtle before surfacing from the lava.
Suddenly, a cave entrance appeared on the rock wall ahead of him.
The entrance was about two zhang tall, filled with ghostly blue lava.
Due to the tremors caused by the Nether Cal Turtle, the lava ebbed and flowed within the cave, surging in and out.
Following the principle of "never enter strange caves," Song Wen bypassed the opening and continued on his way.
Unexpectedly, the surrounding lava began to churn violently again.
Song Wen's body was caught in the flowing lava, sweeping him deeper into its depths.
With no other choice, Song Wen grabbed onto a protruding rock near the cave's entrance, barely managing to steady himself.
It was as if a massive creature had entered the lava, its movents causing turbulent currents everywhere.
"It's the Nether Cal Turtle. It's coming this way!"
The thought flashed through Song Wen's mind.
Without ti to consider the potential dangers of the cave, he quickly darted inside to avoid the creature.
To distance himself further from the Nether Cal Turtle, Song Wen could only retreat deeper into the cave.
"Why does it feel like this Nether Cal Turtle is chasing ?" he wondered while fleeing.
"Could it be that sothing on is attracting it?"
His gaze fell on the Nether Corpse Fire forming his protective shield.
"Could it be the Nether Corpse Fire? Nether Cal Turtles feed on yin flas, and the Nether Corpse Fire is a yin-attributed spiritual fla..."
Song Wen's eyes widened in realization. He quickly extinguished the Nether Corpse Fire and replaced it with a shield ford purely from his magical energy.
His guess was correct—the Nether Cal Turtle had indeed been pursuing him.
By now, it had arrived at the cave's entrance.
Compared to the creature's enormous body, the cave was too narrow for it to enter, which seed to agitate the Nether Cal Turtle.
It opened its massive maw wide and inhaled sharply, like a whale drinking seawater. Lava flowed rapidly into its mouth.
Then, with a sudden exhale, the turtle unleashed the swallowed lava like a volcanic eruption, hurling it into the cave.
The lava surged with overwhelming force, blasting deep into the cavern.
As it struck the walls, deafening roars echoed, and the entire cave trembled violently.
Song Wen was caught in the torrent, swept further into the cave's depths.
During his descent, he crashed into the hard rock walls multiple tis. His blood churned, and his vision blurred with dizziness.
Fortunately, the cave's interior was winding. The lava, after repeatedly colliding with the rocks, gradually lost montum and eventually cald.
Shaking his head, Song Wen slowly regained clarity from the severe dizziness.
Using his spiritual sense to survey the surroundings, he discovered sothing extraordinary.
Ahead of him was a ghostly blue lotus, blooming radiantly and with unmatched elegance.
The lotus stood proudly on a slender stalk growing from a crack in the rock, seemingly defying gravity as it held itself upright.
The flower's location was at the cave's deepest point, where the space opened up significantly compared to the narrow passage. The area was about an acre in size.
What was even more astonishing was that this part of the cave was devoid of lava. It seed as though an invisible force was keeping the molten liquid at bay.
"Falling World Lotus!"
Song Wen's voice trembled slightly, a hint of excitent breaking through.
(End of the Chapter)
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