Traces of a Heavenly Flame

As it was bathed in that somewhat eerie glow, its enormous body suddenly stiffened.

Its massive snake eyes brimmed with terror as they stared fixedly at the little girl before it.

Soon after, a green flower-shaped mark was swiftly branded onto the Horned Viper King's head.

The Horned Viper King, which had been struggling incessantly, stopped moving, and the fear in its eyes vanished.

In its place was a docile expression.

Seeing that the Horned Viper King had been successfully controlled, Lin Feng hurriedly looked at Qing Lin in his arms.

However, he discovered that aside from her slightly pale face caused by excessive exhaustion, she had not fainted like last time.

Seeing this, Lin Feng's heart stirred slightly. It seemed that as Qing Lin became more proficient in using the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, the consumption would gradually decrease.

However, when he saw the Desert Horned Viper tribe below still in an uproar, Lin Feng gave Qing Lin another Healing Pill.

Then he said, "Qing Lin, have the Horned Viper King order the other members of its tribe to calm down."

Knowing that Lin Feng could not use the Purple Cloud Wings for long, Qing Lin immediately contacted the Horned Viper King below and issued the command.

Upon hearing Qing Lin's order, the Horned Viper King let out a hiss.

At once, the chaotic snake swarm below settled down and no longer paid any attention to Lin Feng and Qing Lin.

After landing, Qing Lin waited until she had recovered a little strength before questioning the Horned Viper King.

She asked whether it had discovered any place nearby with abnormally high temperatures.

After receiving a negative answer, Qing Lin immediately shook her head slightly at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng frowned and swept his gaze around the Desert Horned Vipers' habitat.

He found that there were conservatively estimated to be more than two hundred Desert Horned Vipers living here.

He quickly turned to Qing Lin, who was soothing the Horned Viper King, and said, "Qing Lin, have the Horned Viper King send all these Desert Horned Vipers out to search for places with abnormal temperatures."

Qing Lin also thought this was an excellent idea, so she relayed Lin Feng's command to the Horned Viper King.

Before long, accompanied by several deep hisses, the surrounding Desert Horned Vipers sprang into action, slithering in an orderly fashion in every direction.

"Young Master, I think we found it this time!"

On top of a sand dune, the young girl's little face was filled with excitement as her clear voice called out to Lin Feng beside her.

"Fine, I'm coming."

Lin Feng had heard those words far too many times over the past half month. He gave a listless reply.

Then, after casting a vacant glance in that direction, he slowly made his way over.

Qing Lin, however, was full of energy. Seeing Lin Feng like this, she hurried forward, grabbed him, and ran toward the burrow.

Arriving at the entrance, Lin Feng looked at the deep hole, which was over half a meter wide.

He stretched his arm inside, then circulated his Cultivation Method and began absorbing the Dou Qi within.

"Hmm?"

The Fire Attribute Dou Qi in the Tagor Desert had already been extremely dense, but after the Dou Qi within the hole was drawn into his Meridians by his Cultivation Method—

Lin Feng suddenly discovered that the Dou Qi inside was even denser than that of the desert outside.

His previously vacant eyes instantly became excited.

After carefully sensing it once more, he immediately turned toward Qing Lin and urged, "Qing Lin, quickly! Have those magical beasts widen the hole until it's large enough for us to enter."

Seeing Lin Feng's anxious expression, Qing Lin instantly understood that they had truly found the right place this time.

She quickly had the magical beasts expand the hole so they could go down below.

The next day.

Lin Feng stood atop a sand dune, looking at the passage before him, which was more than a meter wide.

It had been excavated overnight by several hundred snake-type magical beasts working tirelessly.

Lin Feng then had Qing Lin select two third-tier, ten second-tier, and twenty peak first-tier Desert Horned Vipers.

"Qing Lin, have them go ahead."

"Mm." Qing Lin nodded. At her command, the Desert Horned Vipers crawled into the passage one after another.

Staring into the depths of the pitch-black passage, Lin Feng held the petite Qing Lin in his arms.

Then, he took out a Moonlight Stone and placed it in her hand. After taking a deep breath, he jumped down after them.

Within the dark passage, Lin Feng held Qing Lin tightly in his arms as their bodies continuously slid downward along the passage's slope.

In Qing Lin's little hand, she held up a Moonlight Stone.

A faint, gentle glow radiated from it.

It allowed Lin Feng to see clearly whether there were any obstructions along the path ahead.

Within the narrow passage, only the soft scraping of their clothes against the sand slowly echoed through the tunnel.

After sliding like this for more than ten minutes, Lin Feng could feel that the Fire Attribute energy within the passage had become outrageously dense.

It could even be said that ninety percent of the Dou Qi in the air was now Fire Attribute.

As they went deeper, Lin Feng's expression grew increasingly solemn.

Because he could feel that the circulation route of the Cultivation Method within his body had actually begun revolving at high speed on its own, without any prompting from him.

This was the first time such a thing had happened since he began cultivating.

But it also proved from another angle that below this passage was the Green Lotus Core Flame, ranked nineteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking!

At that thought, Lin Feng uncontrollably swallowed, and his face was instantly filled with fervor.

Although the Green Lotus Core Flame was only fifth from the bottom on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, if it were brought to the right auction house—

Even if the asking price were an Earth Tier Advanced Cultivation Method or Fighting Skill, countless Alchemists would still scramble to buy it.

What was more, Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body also required a Heavenly Flame to resolve.

Though he did not yet possess the Poison Pill Method, who knew?

Perhaps he would obtain it tomorrow.

"We're almost there."

Seeing a fiery red glow appear ahead, Lin Feng said in a somewhat hoarse voice.

Gradually, the fiery red light reflecting off the passage walls grew richer and richer.

Finally, when Lin Feng slid out of the passage while holding Qing Lin—

The two of them instantly discovered that they seemed to have arrived in a fiery red world!

Within the enormous cavern, crimson magma flowed slowly, with huge bubbles occasionally rising from its surface.

But moments later, accompanied by a faint sound, they burst apart with a bang.

Scorching magma shot out like a brilliant crimson firework.

Standing at the end of the tiny passage, the two stared blankly at the seemingly boundless world of magma before them, both too stunned to speak.

After a long while, Lin Feng said to Qing Lin, "In an environment like this, there should be a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake inside. Release the Horned Viper King first. Later, I'll try to lure it out, and you must seize the opportunity to control it. Otherwise..."

Lin Feng paused for a moment before saying solemnly, "We'll have no choice but to flee back in disgrace. If that thing goes berserk here, the splattering magma isn't something the two of us can withstand."