Ruins Passage

Sizzle!

Dark Purple Flame, like a living creature, agile yet domineering, enveloped Lin Ming and the core members of the Five Elements Sect. It transformed into a majestic dark purple fire dragon and violently burst through the crowd packed at the passage entrance, who were still hesitating or struggling to hold on.

Wherever it passed, the burning heat and the occasional splashes of blue flames were silently annihilated by the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame. Only a distorted trail remained in the air, sparking panicked cries, while Lin Ming and the others had already swept straight into the depths of the unusually scorching and perilous Fire Passage.

The moment they charged into the Fire Passage, the harshness of their surroundings rose by several levels.

The temperature was dozens of times higher than outside, as though they had entered an enormous furnace. The once bone-white rock walls around them had been scorched scarlet, and some areas had even turned into semi-molten, glasslike matter.

Beneath their feet, burning, viscous lava writhed like restless red pythons. It constantly bubbled with a gurgle before violently erupting upward in streams of scorching magma.

Even more terrifying, the lava was mixed with countless fragments of rock that had been heated red-hot and hardened beyond compare. Like cannonballs fired from their barrels, they possessed tremendous destructive power.

If an expert's Dou Qi barrier was not solid enough and was pierced by those fragments, he would likely be blasted open in an instant, his guts spilling out before he was buried in the Sea of Fire.

Yet this deadly situation, enough to leave even Dou Zong experts scrambling in terror, was as easy as walking on level ground for Lin Ming's group, who were perfectly protected by the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame. There was not the slightest