Refining the Burning Heart! Nine Yang's Anomaly!

Li Bufan moved like lightning, reaching the spot his Spiritual Sense had detected in less than half a breath. Yet after coming to a stop and sweeping his gaze around, his brow furrowed slightly.

This was a flat meadow, lush with green grass and dotted with wildflowers, no different from the surrounding scenery.

He spread out his Spiritual Sense again. This time, rather than merely skimming the surface, he sent it probing underground.

His Spiritual Sense passed through soil and gravel. Soon, roughly five hundred meters below ground, he caught that familiar fluctuation once more.

The fluctuation was scorching and lively, like a beating heart—thump after thump, steady and powerful.

Li Bufan circulated his true qi and struck the ground with his palm.

Earth flew and turf rolled back as he blasted a huge pit into the ground by sheer force. He leaped into it, his hands alternating as true qi became blades, stripping away layer after layer of soil and stone.

In no time, he had descended several hundred meters underground. All around was pitch-black, with only the Crimson Fire Flowing Paste in his palm casting a dim crimson glow over the surrounding rocky walls.

The rocky walls were coarse and covered in cracks. Occasionally, droplets seeped from the fissures and fell to the ground with crisp plinks.

The temperature grew higher and higher, the air more and more stifling, as though he were inside an enormous furnace.

At last, his fingers touched something hard. Its surface was smooth and faintly warm, utterly unlike the surrounding stone.

He cleared away the dirt around it, revealing an object that seemed neither metal nor stone. It was entirely purplish-red, its surface covered in a faint sheen, like metal scorched by flames.

It lay quietly in the earth, giving off a warm