After a full day, I had already used up twenty percent of my spiritual power just to resist the fire spiritual energy. I was still holding a mid-grade ice-attribute spirit stone, constantly absorbing its energy to replenish what I had lost. But it was just a drop in the bucket, and my spiritual power was rapidly depleting.
The deeper I went into the Lava Canyon, the more violent the surrounding fire spiritual energy became. I had to divide my attention and use more spiritual power to resist it.
If this continued, in just over a day, most of my spiritual power would be gone. And there were still many fire-attribute wild beasts in this place. If I encountered a high-level wild beast, my weakened state might make me unable to defeat it, and I could even die here.
Shi Ming became troubled. The spiritual power recovery of high-level cultivators was not something that could be quickly restored by taking a few spiritual medicines.
And this Lava Canyon was filled with fire spiritual energy everywhere, making it unsuitable to stop and meditate to recover. Only by constantly moving forward and passing through this area could I be safe.
Thinking this in his heart, Shi Ming sped up his pace, hoping to quickly pass through this place.
Suddenly, with a loud bang, a black rock about ten feet in size was blown away by a white hot air current a dozen feet ahead. Sizzling sounds continued, and the hot air shot straight into the sky, turning into a white mist that merged into the fiery clouds above.
Shi Ming swayed and went around from the side, such underground hot air has no rules, he could only try to avoid it. But as soon as he moved a few feet to the side, the ground trembled, and with a series of popping sounds, more than a dozen scorching white air currents shot out from the ground in an instant.
Caught off guard, he was blown away. Fortunately, he was always covered by a layer of protective shield, so he only swayed a little before stabilizing himself.
Shi Ming couldn't help but curse inwardly, bad luck.
Then, as soon as he landed on the ground and before he could stand still, he felt another tremor, which made his face sink, thinking that it was another eruption of underground hot air.
But the ground instantly shattered, and a huge fiery red shadow shot out from it, wrapping him up like a huge whip.
Shi Ming didn't panic too much. He quickly waved his hand, and a huge ice pillar crashed into the shadow with a loud bang, directly knocking the thing away.
Only then did he see clearly that the thing that had attacked him was actually a giant snake twenty feet long. The monster was covered in black armored scales, with fiery red spirit patterns on it, like a fire python.
"Damn it, it's actually a high-level fire beast."
Shi Ming cursed inwardly and quickly waved his hand, and an ice blade floated in front of him, intending to fight the wild beast.
If it were in another place, he would immediately turn around and leave, but he could not fly in this place, so he could only fight.
He urged the magic formula in his hand, intending to first kill the fire python with a magic weapon, but then he heard another loud noise. A scan of his spiritual sense revealed that the ground within a hundred feet of where he was standing was shaking as if there was an earthquake, and all the rocks were cracking.
With a series of swishing sounds, four more identical fire pythons rushed out, all of them high-level wild beasts.
Seeing this scene, Shi Ming's face turned pale. He involuntarily soared into the air, instantly flying into the sky, and flashed forward, wanting to escape the encirclement of several wild beasts.
He had confidence against one wild beast, but with five coming at once, he could only flee in panic.
But he only flew a dozen feet when he heard rumbling thunder from the sky above. The fiery clouds rolled, instantly forming a sea of fire. Fireballs, large and small, fell from it, instantly covering the surrounding hundred feet.
With a few loud bangs, several fireballs hit Shi Ming, and his body faltered, and he fell back to the ground.
But before he could react, countless fireballs fell again, and at the same time, the fire pythons swept towards him.
After a few breaths, the sea of fire in the sky gradually thinned, turning back into slowly flowing fiery clouds.
And of the five high-level fire pythons, two were now dead. The remaining three raised their heads to the sky and hissed a few times, seemingly venting their dissatisfaction, and then they all burrowed back underground.
The place instantly returned to calm, but Shi Ming, who had the strength of a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, had disappeared, leaving only a broken ice blade on the ground.
In another place, a white-skirted female cultivator, also with the strength of a mid-stage Golden Core, was running at full speed, covered by a layer of flame shield.
Behind the woman, a flame worm covered in black armor was chasing closely.
The aura of this strange worm was actually that of a seventh-order wild beast. Wherever it passed, a deep gully was left on the ground. The monster was like a giant fireball, constantly chasing the female cultivator in front.
Soon after, a scream came from afar, and everything returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
In a certain black-red flame zone, a female cultivator covered in blue light was following beside a black-robed child. The strange pair was currently surrounded by a group of flame lizards that had emerged from the ground.
There were seven or eight lizards, each ten feet long, covered in black scales, and spitting flames from their mouths, looking ferocious. They were all high-level wild beasts.
But the two did not panic at all.
The woman did not move, but the black-robed child grinned, stretched out a small, jet-black hand, and shot out black gas between his finger movements, instantly turning into two huge blood claws.
With a flash of blood, two flame lizards were directly torn to pieces.
Although this group of flame lizards did not have the small amount of intelligence that demon beasts had, they did have instincts. When their kind were killed, they immediately sensed the danger and retreated a certain distance.
But the two blood claws did not let them go. With a left and right split, the high-level lizards were directly torn into pieces of flesh with a flash of blood.
Then, the two blood claws flashed and turned into two balls of blood gas, directly wrapping the lizard corpses in them, and refining them into a few blood beads in a short while.
The black-robed child grinned sinisterly, and with a wave of his hand, these blood beads were collected. "Let's go," the child called out to the female cultivator next to him, and walked forward.
And his voice was not as childish as a child, but like an old man, very dull and滄桑.
The female cultivator behind him seemed to be used to this scene, but her embroidered eyebrows were always slightly furrowed, wondering what she was thinking.
If there were other cultivators nearby, they would have discovered that the aura that the black-robed child had just erupted was actually that of a Nascent Soul old monster.
It was just that this person was very good at hiding his aura. With a wave of his hand, the child's aura instantly dropped to around the mid-stage of Golden Core, and it was impossible to see that he was originally a Nascent Soul cultivator.
