The Unobtained

That was not melting.

It was vanishing.

Yu Xiaoheng stood at the edge of the great pit.

He looked down.

Below was a depth so dark he could not see the bottom.

But in the deepest place, a faint purplish-red light flickered.

The light was weak, yet it carried a destructive aura that made the soul tremble.

The Rainbow Dragon's skull, carrying Heavenly Punishment Fire even purer than the flames on his own body, had been melting downward nonstop over the years.

It was like an unquenchable furnace, forcibly burning a bottomless abyss deep into the earth.

Yu Xiaoheng did not hesitate in the slightest.

He leaped into the deep pit.

His body lost its weight and plunged straight toward that deep darkness.

The roar of wind beside his ears gradually turned deathly still.

As the depth of his fall increased, the surrounding temperature began to change in a strange way.

The cold of the Far North faded away.

What replaced it was an indescribable, scorching heat.

No, that was not ordinary physical heat.

It was a burning sensation that acted upon the soul and the Martial Soul.

The Martial Soul inside Yu Xiaoheng's body began to stir restlessly.

A wary glint flashed through the golden dragon eyes.

It was instinctively rejecting the power below.

Yu Xiaoheng's skin began to redden.

The Soul Power within him circulated on its own without his command, trying to resist that all-pervasive burning sensation.

He fell a full several thousand meters.

The scene below finally appeared clearly before his eyes.

It was a massive underground cavity.

Across the floor of the cavity flowed thick, dark-red magma.

But amid that magma, great swaths of purplish-red flame were burning.

These flames made no sound.

There was no smoke.

They spread silently across the earth, turning every