After the huge stone gate opened, the Yan Huo Tribe grew busy.
Luo Yan saw the other races deep within the camp pushing cart after cart of wood, piling large amounts of carbon stones outside the stone gate.
Soon, the carbon stones formed a small mountain. At that point, the Yan Huo Tribe began spraying flames at it.
Streams of fire landed on the carbon mountain. Gradually, under the flames, the carbon stones inside began to glow red.
Crackling explosions rang out continuously from within the carbon mountain, like firecrackers, while sparks flew into the air in clusters.
The Yan Huo Tribe stopped spraying flames and began to retreat, but they did not leave.
Instead, they formed a large circle around the carbon mountain, then danced and waved their hands while squeaking.
They moved around the carbon mountain as if performing a ritual or conducting a sacrifice.
Suddenly, the airflow surging from the stone gate intensified. A fierce wind blew out of the gate, making the flames atop the carbon mountain dance wildly.
Then a deep roar came from within the stone gate.
The ground trembled lightly along with it, as if some enormous creature inside the gate was walking toward them.
"What's going on?"
"Is it a giant beast?"
"Bullshit. There are no giant beasts in the Ruins."
"I know. It's Huo Dou. Didn't the captain say before that the other race's murals depicted a Fire-eating Beast living inside a volcano? This must be that volcano."
Jing Yu and the others began discussing it noisily, but they were not overly nervous.
For one thing, the Exotic Beasts in the Ruins were not especially powerful, only around the level of mid- to upper-tier giant beasts.
For another, these people had all faced Nightmare Giant Beasts before. Even if they encountered