Blazing Hot Pool, Swordsman by the Water's Edge

At the bottom of the passage, Lin Yu climbed out of the bubbling, boiling pool onto a protruding rock, then wiped his face.

"Aren't pools in places like this usually cold pools in martial arts novels? How did this one turn into a hot spring?"

Lin Yu spoke with some helplessness.

Calling it a "hot spring" was even a stretch. This was basically a pot of boiling water.

When he had first fallen into the water and felt something churning beneath him, Lin Yu had assumed it was an underground spring or something similar—until he noticed the talisman on his head rapidly depleting and realized something was wrong.

There was no spring here at all. The water was churning because the temperature was so high that it had boiled.

There was probably a magma vein running beneath this place.

The Fire Hell was hot not only because of the Three Days in the Sky above; even the ground below was scorching!

So the airflow through the cracks in the stone slabs earlier had not been circulating air at all. It had mostly been steam from boiling water...

No wonder this house had slightly worse insulation than the others—on a sweltering day, it actually had a heater inside.

Chen Yongde's nephew was quite a ruthless man too. He had slept for years in Fire Hell on a bed with a heating function—Lin Yu could not help guessing that this might be why the man had not returned for several years.

"The Prison Mountain Realm really is full of surprises!"

Lin Yu used the Water Prayer Necklace to draw away the moisture clinging to his clothes and the water droplets on his skin, then sighed.

Although the pool of boiling water had not been enough to injure Lin Yu, with the Water