The mysterious abyss resembled a passage leading to hell. Scorching heat seeped out through the gaping fissure in the ground, blazing and oppressive.
The two men and two beasts stood beside the crack, looking down into the abyss at their feet. It was utterly black, and no one knew what lay in its deepest depths. Perhaps when you stared into the abyss, the abyss stared back at you.
"Then forget it. But Da Ming, Er Ming, keep a close watch on any changes in Sunset Forest from now on. We don't know where this thing came from, and I can't put my mind at ease."
Zhao Xuan gave the abyss a long look, feeling inexplicably unsettled. Suppressing the unease in his heart, he spoke to the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape nodded to show they understood. After taking one last look at the abyss, they slowly departed.
Within the abyss.
Deep underground, at an unknown depth, lay a world of magma. Everywhere the eye could see was crimson, seething lava, like a vast sea of fire.
At the center of the crimson sea of magma, a speck of gold shone with particular brilliance. The temperature there was also the most intense. All the blazing heat in the magma sea emanated from that spot. The extreme heat had melted the surrounding rock, turning it into scalding, flowing magma.
Was that an egg? Or perhaps a heart? It beat with a steady rhythm. "Thump." "Thump." "Thump." With every beat, the surrounding magma expanded and contracted, while it itself grew increasingly full of life...
After returning from Sunset Forest, Zhao Xuan and Tang San immediately began organizing a group of reliable sect members to plant medicinal herbs in Sunset