Zhao Yuanpu's guess soon became reality.
The clump of Red Lotus Earth Fire he had scooped up quickly transformed into a stream of pure fire-element spiritual energy and dispersed before the three of them.
The result left all three silent.
Clearly, since the Red Lotus Earth Fire had been condensed from the power of the formation, they would be unable to eliminate this pink sea of fire before them unless they broke the formation.
And to break the formation, they first had to enter it.
But the problem now was, even if they entered the formation, could they truly break it?
"Cough, cough. Please allow Zhao to say a few words first, Fellow Daoists."
Amid the silence, Zhao Yuanpu suddenly coughed twice, drawing both Zhou Yang's and True Person Huolong's attention to himself.
His gaze swept across their faces before he said solemnly, "Zhao knows both Fellow Daoists' concerns. However, wealth and honor are sought amid danger. At our level of cultivation, if we wish to advance any further, shutting ourselves away for bitter cultivation is merely the worst of all options."
"Take Zhao himself as an example. Back when my cultivation was stuck at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage bottleneck, I made no progress whatsoever for over two hundred years. To break through that bottleneck, Zhao risked his life to venture deep into the territory of a Savage Alien Race, where I seized a Sixth-tier Spiritual Medicine, a Nine-Leaf Immortal Orchid, which that alien race had cultivated and guarded. I nearly perished at the hands of two sixth-rank beings from that race because of it."
"Later, while Zhao was traveling through the Cultivation World of the Tiannan Continent, I happened upon the emergence of an ancient cultivator's cave estate belonging to a senior who had remained hidden from the