An Unexpected Life-Devouring Pill, Returning Fully Loaded

Demon Flame Valley had operated here for so many years; it could not possibly have had only one ambush site.

Besides, since he was already here.

Lu Heng sprang forward and leaped into the fissure once more.

This time, he did not rush downward.

The Five Elements Roulette slowly turned behind him, steadily suppressing the miasma within a radius of two hundred feet and creating a moving purified zone. Soul power spread out from between his brows, sweeping inch by inch along the rock walls.

There were quite a few traces of artificial excavation on the cliff face.

Horizontal passages, hidden weapon caches, concealed storage compartments—most had already been looted clean, leaving only traces of residual poisonous fire Dou Qi. These were probably outposts Demon Flame Valley used for its regular garrisons.

Lu Heng did not linger in those places. What good things could Demon Flame Valley's scum possibly leave behind? Nothing more than low-grade poisons and scrap metal.

What interested him was deeper below.

His soul power continued extending downward.

Past the stone platform where they had fought earlier, the terrain grew increasingly complex.

The cliff walls narrowed until only one person could pass through at a time, while the temperature rose rapidly.

An underground river converged somewhere below, and the water vapor mixed with toxic miasma. An ordinary Dou Ling would die within ten minutes of entering this place.

But to a Five-Star Dou Emperor, it was merely somewhat irritating.

After descending another several hundred feet, his soul power suddenly detected something unusual.

Deep within the left cliff wall, behind a rock layer roughly thirty feet thick, was a hollow space. Its shape was regular, not a natural cave.

Lu Heng stopped and concentrated his soul power in that direction, sensing it carefully.

The space was not large,