Underground Cavity.
"I'll notify the captain right away."
"Luo Yan, don't push yourself. If we can't beat it, we'll run!"
Bai's anxious voice came through the communications channel. Luo Yan smiled and said, "Don't worry. I know what I'm doing."
With that, he focused his mind.
Insightful Silver Eyes activated. Rings of silver radiance appeared in his scarlet eyes, laying bare the surface meridians of Wu Zhiqi. Luo Yan began analyzing the "Dao" of Wu Zhiqi's existence.
He then circulated his cultivation method. The Mystic Qi within his body immediately rumbled, and with the amplification of his mecha, the small rift first bloomed with vermilion light. Then wisps of illusory flame rose up.
In an instant, the Heavenly Fire spread into one continuous blaze, illuminating the entire rift in red.
The soaring flames stabbed at Wu Zhiqi's eyes.
The monkey saw only vermilion flames gushing from the rift like a volcanic eruption.
The entire Underground Cavity trembled from the eruption of the Heavenly Fire. Countless bubbles appeared in the waters near the rift, gurgling as they boiled upward.
Then came a thunderous boom.
Yao Yuan burst out of the rift and the flames as if emerging from a fiery bath.
The mecha's wings spread wide. A faint glow radiated from every line across its body. Vermilion Heavenly Fire seethed all around it, boiling the sea and burning the heavens, flames flowing as heat billowed upward.
The Heavenly Fire's might raged fiercely, its light too dazzling to look at. Yao Yuan seemed like a fire god descending upon the world, and the figure within the flames was branded deeply into Wu Zhiqi's eyes.
The monkey bared its teeth and let out a long, shrill roar.
It had barely finished displaying its might when it felt the surrounding waters shake.
A blood-red