It was already afternoon by the time Xiao Yan's group finished dealing with the Sand Merary pany and arrived at the loarked on the map.

  "Big Brother, how's it going?" Xiao Yan walked into a tent where Xiao Ding was calg something with a pen.

  Xiao Ding khat everything had gone smoothly when he saw Xiao Yan and Xiao Li return. He had more fiden this genius younger brother of his than anyone else.

  He shook his head with a smile and said, "Not yet. The desert terrain is easily ged. Back then, we only had a few experienced hands scout the area while keeping it secret from the Sand Merary pany. We didn't iigate too thhly."

  Xiao Yan heard this and could only sit ient and wait for news while sipping the iced fruit tea that Qing Lin had carefully prepared.

  Just as he was cultivating the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique for a while, a figure suddenly ran over from the distand excitedly shouted, "pany Leader! The third squad seems to have found something!"

  "Found something?" The three of them heard this and were immediately eted. Xiao Yan quickly withdrew from his cultivation state.

  "Did they find the passage?"

  "Hehe, it seems they found some traces. Based on our experiehere's a high possibility it leads to an underground passage." The merary who ran rinned.

  "Great! Regardless, your squad will be rewarded when you return!" Xiao Yan ughed heartily and eagerly followed the merary.

  "Thank you, Third pany Leader!" The merary was overjoyed to hear this, and his enthusiasm soared as he led Xiao Yan and the others at a brisk pace.

  "Make way, make way!" The leading merary cleared a path with his loud voice. Xiao Yan followed and looked over, pleasantly surprised to see that the meraries had already dug a hole about half a meter wide in this sunke area. Peering into the hole, he saw only darkness, with a fai rising from the inside.

  Meow~!

  The sound of Mao Wu came from his Acceptance Soul, telling him there was a hint of a Heavenly Fme inside.

  However, Xiao Yan was not overly delighted at this moment because when he used his Spiritual Strength to sehe situation below, he discovered there were many intricate underground passages.

  It was very simir to the underground passages in the Magic Beast Mountain Range's Beast Tomb, which meant these underground passages were not naturally formed but created by magical beasts.

  'To create passages of this size, it's likely the work of sype magical beasts.'

  This was not good news. Although snakes were naturally cold-blooded and feared the Heavenly Fme, there were exceptions, such as fire-attribute snake races.

  "Should I send someone down to explore carefully befoing in?" Xiao Ding looked at the pitch-bck passage underground and frowned with worry.

  Xiao Yan slightly shook his head. "No need, Big Brother. If my strength isn't enough to ensure safety down there, then bringing others along will only lead them to their deaths."

  "Third pany Leader, you gave us pills and took good care of us. If we retreat when you need us, wouldn't that make us ungrateful cowards whet favors?"

  "That's right. If the Third pany Leader needs us, we will charge through fire and water without hesitation!"

  "Through fire and water without hesitation!" the meraries echoed in unison.

  Xiao Yan rubbed his nose and said, "It seems that I was being overly cautious. Regardless of whether we gain anything this time, everyone will be rewarded with pills wheurn! I'll be ting on all of you!"

  In the end, Xiao Died a few team members experienced in underground exploration to apany them. In addition to the three Xiao brothers, Qing Lin, who had first discovered the traces, also joihem to desd into the passage.

  'Let's hope the Heavenly Fme is still there.'

  'Qing Lin, hold onto me tight.' Xiao Yan ed an arm around Qing Lin's willowy waist and took the lead in sliding into the underground passage.

  As they desded, he used his Spiritual Strength to seheir surroundings, all the while feeling the soft, gentle pressure against his body.

  Relying on Qing Lin's special sensory ability and the merary team's experience, Xiao Yan's group tinuously explored and found the correct passages to advance.

  'Hmm? Why has the fire-attribute energy suddenly bee so much stronger here?'

  Xiao Yan's expression grew increasingly serious as they delved deeper. He could feel that the fire-attribute energy had suddenly strengthened a lot, to the point that his Qi Method automatically circuted and refined Dou Qi without any scious effort on his part.

  "Third pany Leader, there's a discovery up ahead!" The merary in charge of scoutiedly shouted after turning another er.

  Xiao Yan's body trembled with excitement as he wiped the sweat from his face. The group quied their pad swiftly covered the short distance before arriving at the end of the passage.

  Standing at the end of the passage, everyone looked at the fiery red world that appeared before their eyes with shocked expressions.

  Fiery red magma flowed slowly in the vast cavern. Occasionally, huge bubbles would emerge from the magma and burst open with a light pop after a short while, spewing out scorg magma like a magnifit, fiery red firework.

  This was a plete magma flow!! Simply put, it was equivalent to a volo buried beh the desert!

  If stimuted, it would erupt and form a brand new volic crater!

  "What do we do now? There's no way forward." Xiao Li looked at the flowing magma world in front of them. This was not a pce humans could venture. Let alone Dou Masters like them, even Dou Grandmasters would be c death in a pce like this!

  Xiao Yan slowly closed his eyes and activated the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique. A powerful surge of Spiritual Strength spread out in all dires. Suddenly, a cluster of emerald-green fire attribute energy appeared in his spiritual perception.

  He slowly opened his eyes a Qing Lin down. Theook out a bottle of Ice Spirit Cold Fountain from his ste ring and ha to Xiao Ding as he said, "Big Brother, I'm going in. This is a cold fountain that be used to cool down and save lives if necessary."

  "Go in? Into the magma? There's no path here! Don't tell me you pn to swim across?" Xiao Ding's expression ged slightly as he softly rebuked.

  Xiao Yan only smiled faintly. His body suddenly began to float upwards as the Eagle Wings appeared on his back.

  "Dou Qi Wings?!!! Xiao-Yan-Zi, you're a Dou King?!" Xiao Li excimed in shock. Wasn't he supposed to be a Dou Grandmaster? How did he bee a Dou King?!

  "This is a flying-type Dou Teique. Big Brother, Sed Brother, I'll be right back!"

  Just as he was about to turn and fly toward the depths of the magma, a cold little hand suddenly grabbed him.

  "Young Master, there seems to be something hidden in the magma!" Qing Lin tightly held onto him. At this moment, her eyes emitted a faint emerald-green light, and vague patterns seemed to appear in her pupils.

  Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes. He naturally sensed a Rank 4 magical beast existih the magma with his 5th-tier alchemist Spiritual Strength. But Qing Lin wasn't even a Dou Practitioner, yet she had se too!

  'This girl Qing Lin is extraordinary.'

  He patted the back of her hand lightly and said, "Don't worry. Your Young Master isn't stupid enough to not notice there's a magical beast underh the magma."

  The Eagle Wings soared above the magma with a whoosh. The sed, a huge bck shadow suddenly appeared in the inally crimson magma, as if something was about to burst out from underh.

  Xiao Yan smiled coldly, took out a bottle of Ice Spirit Cold Fountain from his ste ring, and directly threw it down like a grehe terrifying freezing power actually froze the magma with a rumble. The inally flowing magma instantly turned into bck rock, trapping the mysterious creature underh.

  He had no time to deal with this magical beast right now. He wao see if the thing at the ter of this magma world was really a Heavenly Fme!

  His powerful Spiritual Strength spread out as he flew. After an ierminate amount of time, a green lotus suddenly appeared not far away, gracefully standing in the middle of the magma.

  "Green lotus? Could it be the Green Lotus Core Fme?!"