Deep within the underground cavern.
Unlike the winding passageways where Lin Qiye and the others were, this was a vast subterranean hollow. As far as the eye could see, it was nearly the size of three stadiums. Scorching magma filled half the space, its fiery red glow illuminating the entire dark cavern.
If those intricate, twisting caverns were compared to blood vessels, then this place was the underground heart of all Jinnan Mountain.
Jinnan Mountain was not a volcano. By all human surveys, magma should not have existed here at all. Yet in truth, beneath it lay magma reserves comparable to those of a real volcano.
Anything unscientific and beyond convention was called "Mystery."
Within the scorching world of magma, a massive gray earth dragon slowly raised itself. It stood roughly seventeen or eighteen stories tall, its body covered in fiery red patterns like flowing lava. Though irregularly distributed, they possessed a strange beauty.
Hiss—!!
Scorching air blasted from its arms. The earth dragon held its neck high, its crimson eyes glaring furiously at the figure before it. The magma around its body seemed to boil, surging violently!
Before it, a man with half his body burned black stood awkwardly in midair. His eyes were fixed on the earth dragon, fear mixed with a trace of excitement.
"Blazing Vein Earth Dragon... so this is a Blazing Vein Earth Dragon! We're both at the 'Sea' realm, yet it's actually this strong..."
His name was Ma Tianyi, the Fourteenth Seat among the believers and the person in charge of this operation to hunt Lin Qiye. He was also the "Sea" realm powerhouse Lin Qiye had previously observed standing completely still.
"Earth dragons are the kings of the underground world. Not only can they move through the earth as if walking on flat