Heart Scorching Fire

The outcome was somewhat beyond Ronan's expectations.

At the very bottom of the Abyss Zone Blood Soul Temple lay another stone forest and lava lake, likewise a place for digesting and smelting foreign energies. Unlike the other two Blood Soul Temples, however, this place received tens of thousands of believers every moment, pouring negative, violent, and extreme emotions and stray thoughts through channels of Thought Power.

The aberrant power injected through Yin Le had bypassed this stage at first, but after circulating through the Abyss Zone Blood Soul Temple, it ultimately still had to pass through the lava lake.

This gave Ronan an opportunity for "close-range" contact. The instant he approached, it felt as though he had been shoved into a roaring Processing Plant or swept into a surging river and waterfall. His ears and mind filled with hysterical screams and roars, and he nearly covered his ears.

Ronan frowned and bared his teeth, switching through several sensory layers in succession before filtering out most of the negative information. It was then that he vaguely sensed Madam Harold's consciousness within this lava lake as well.

As for her exact location... the surging, flowing extreme negative emotions here were simply too noisy. Their furnace-like ability to smelt and alter foreign energies also interfered with perception. Ronan could not pin it down for the moment.

But as his detection grew more precise, Ronan became certain that Madam Harold, the leader of the Blood Flame Order, had kept her consciousness deep within the stone forest lava lake, at the very bottom of this chaos and violence.

In a sense, she was leading from the front.

After all, this was the foundation of the Blood Soul Temple. Not only was the Abyss Zone Configuration built this way, but whether it was the construction and