Deep within Lava Rift Valley, the light was dim, and the air was thick with a pungent sulfur stench and a scorching metallic tang.
The dark-red rock walls were jagged and grotesque, like the fangs of some colossal beast. Dark-red magma occasionally flowed slowly through the crisscrossing fissures in the ground, gurgling as it cast an eerie glow over the surroundings.
Mo Lin and Li Qingchan had been cautiously making their way through this dangerous region for two days, one after the other. With Mo Lin's Immortal Eye, practically a cheat, they had avoided several naturally formed poisonous miasma traps and bursts of violent earthfire. They had even casually picked several rare Fire Attribute Spirit Grasses seldom seen outside.
Not long ago, Mo Lin had successfully found a Dragon Blood Peach growing by a river of magma. It was around five hundred years old, and the blazing vitality it contained was already extraordinary, leaving Li Qingchan secretly amazed by his treasure-hunting ability.
It was now noon on their third day in the rift valley. The two of them were moving along a relatively broad, dried-up riverbed, flanked by towering crimson rock walls.
Suddenly, Mo Lin halted, and the faint glow in his Immortal Eye flickered rapidly.
"Hm?" He gave a soft cry, his sharp gaze shooting toward an inconspicuous bend at the end of the riverbed.
An extremely subtle yet incomparably pure and gentle fluctuation was faintly emanating from there. It matched the description of the Soul Infant Spring in his spiritual sense perfectly!
What alarmed him even more was that the fluctuation was far stronger than the ordinary spring source he had previously expected.
"Did you find something?" Li Qingchan immediately noticed his abnormality and asked in a low voice. Her cool eyes followed his gaze as she became