As Li Xuan continued charging up Huoyan Peak, he felt the temperature around him growing higher and higher!
With a light pinch of his fingers, Li Xuan could sense that the air was filled with scorching energy. This was the same energy he had analyzed in the Cultivation Room before, though he still had no idea what it actually was.
However, Li Xuan could tell that the high temperature here was probably related to this energy.
After walking for who knew how long, Li Xuan suddenly stopped and looked upward. He had roughly one-quarter of the mountain path left before reaching the summit of Huoyan Peak.
"This definitely isn't the temperature of a normal volcanic crater! Why is it so hot here?" Li Xuan panted heavily, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and spoke with some discomfort.
Li Xuan had stopped not because the surrounding temperature was making him uncomfortable, but because his clothes had already begun giving off a faint scorched smell.
In other words, the clothes on Li Xuan's body could spontaneously combust at any moment.
After thinking it over, Li Xuan could only take off his clothes to keep them from burning to ashes. He put them into the Void Pearl, then continued climbing Huoyan Peak wearing only a pair of shorts.
As Li Xuan drew closer and closer to the summit of Huoyan Peak, the temperature around him kept rising. By the time he was only two hundred meters from the peak, he could no longer endure such extreme heat.
Li Xuan stopped, took out a bottle of cold water, and poured it over himself. After remaining in the high-temperature environment for so long, his entire body had turned flushed red, making for a truly frightening sight!
"No choice. I can only use this method!" Li