The bricks and stones overhead vanished in an instant. At that moment, an abundance of origin power, so dense it was nearly suffocating, flooded into the secret passage. Lu Yang controlled his clone and leaped out of the tunnel. When he looked around, his eyes widened involuntarily.
There was not a single creature on the ground. Thunderfire Trees over a hundred meters tall stood everywhere, their branches laden with countless blue-and-red glowing fruits. The smallest were like date pits, while the largest were the size of watermelons.
"Those are Thunderfire Fruits," the Blazing Demon God said.
Lu Yang sighed, his face full of frustration. "Isn't this just forcing people to kill themselves?"
Though he desperately wanted to leap a hundred meters into the air and pluck those Thunderfire Seeds that had ripened for who knew how many years, he still valued his life!
Before entering the Thunderfire Forbidden Zone, the Blazing Demon God had told him that flying above ten meters within the forbidden zone would trigger attacks from God King Tier spells. He could not withstand that!
"Go forward. There are shorter Thunderfire Trees there," the Blazing Demon God said with a chuckle. It reminded him of how he had felt when he first saw the treasure needed for his advancement.
Lu Yang shook his head and dismissed his clone. His true body transformed into a single fire element and drifted into the Thunderfire Forest. Between several towering Thunderfire Trees on the northern side stood a shorter one, its light blocked by the surrounding trees and with little Thunderfire Magma flowing across the ground beneath it.
Even so, this Thunderfire Tree was more than ten meters tall. Only one branch hung below the ten-meter mark, and several Thunderfire Fruits grew upon it.
Lu Yang slowly changed shape and rose