After passing through a narrow, dark passage, the view before them suddenly opened up.
A strange fragrance wafted toward them.
This was an inverted cone-shaped mountain hollow.
At the center of the hollow lay a strange spring.
The spring was not large, yet it was clearly divided into two distinct halves.
One side was milky white, radiating bone-piercing cold that froze even the air above it into frost; the other was vermilion, churning with scorching bubbles that made one's mouth go dry just from looking at it.
Extreme cold and extreme heat coexisted strangely within this spring, neither encroaching upon the other, yet nourishing each other.
Countless bizarre plants grew around the spring, every one of them emitting energy fluctuations that made one's heart tremble.
"Th-this is..."
Tang San froze completely, staring fixedly at the spring with both eyes as his entire body trembled in excitement.
"The Ice and Fire Two Forms Spring!"
"One of the three great treasure basins, the Ice and Fire Two Forms Spring! I never thought a place like this truly existed in the world!"
Tang San's voice shook. As a disciple of the Tang Sect, seeing such a legendary treasure land was practically more moving than seeing his own father.
Yet Han Yuchen was not looking at those rare immortal herbs.
He stood at the cliff's edge, his gaze passing over the flowers and plants and piercing straight into the depths of the red-and-white intertwined spring.
Within his Sea of Consciousness, the [Star Atlas] shook violently, issuing a string of urgent alerts.
But this was not a warning of danger. It was a celebration at the discovery of top-tier prey!
"Buzz—"
Han Yuchen's martial soul began to stir uncontrollably. An ancient pressure belonging to a superior being flickered in and out around him.
He sensed