As time slowly passed, Yuan Ming continued onward in silence. Then, all of a sudden, he noticed that the temperature around him no longer fluctuated greatly, while the power of the spiritual veins ahead had grown abundant to the extreme.
It seems I've finally reached the core region of the Crimson Mountain Range. Delighted, he immediately extended his Spiritual Sense and looked ahead.
Before him lay an exceptionally long, steep gorge whose depths could not be seen. It was filled with blazing white flames, far more dazzling and scorching than Earth Core Pure Fire by several times over. Merely glancing at them from afar made his eyes burn with pain, as though all moisture had been baked dry from them.
Yuan Ming raised a protective barrier and flew to the edge of the gorge. Yet the white flames within blazed fiercely, carpeting the entire gorge and blocking his path.
After a brief moment of thought, he summoned the Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel, intending to disperse the white flames in his way.
However, when the Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel's power struck the blazing white flames, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, vanishing without a trace or response.
"What kind of flames are these? Even the Zhurong Heart Art and the Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel cannot disperse them!" Yuan Ming was greatly astonished. After pondering for a moment, he used the Round Light Technique to investigate the gorge.
Yet the sphere of light he summoned remained a vast expanse of whiteness. Only the flames burned quietly within it; even the Round Light Technique could not probe it.
This left Yuan Ming in a difficult position. He stared fixedly at the flames before him, thoughts churning in his mind as he racked his brains for a solution.
Just then, a