Amid the explosive flames from the shattered Swallowing Sky Python Manifestation, Zhang Tie broke free in an instant, regaining his freedom...
The instant he escaped, Zhang Tie's Thor's Hammer was freed as well. Two Silver Secret Treasure-grade longswords were instantly summoned from the Castle of Black Iron, ready to deliver Gao Tianzhao a devastating blow—to strike him while he was down and take his life. Yet what Zhang Tie saw before him made him abruptly stop.
This was a hidden mountain cave. The magma in the dark-red lava pool cast the entire cave in a crimson glow. The cave was sealed on all sides, a closed space, with only the magma in the lava pool providing a route outside. Near the edge of the lava pool, close to the cave floor, scattered pools of magma lay about. Judging from the scene, Gao Tianzhao's Swallowing Sky Python must have entered this place through the lava pool. Zhang Tie had no idea how Gao Tianzhao had found such a place, but hiding here truly meant never fearing discovery. Outside the lava pool in the cave lay either magma rivers or magma lakes; finding such a concealed space underground was like fishing a needle from the sea.
Because of the lava pool, the cave was scorching hot, nearly fifty or sixty degrees. The air within was thin amid the suffocating heat. Ordinary people naturally could not survive or remain long in such a place, but for knights—especially Phantom Knights and Earth Knights—such an environment was child's play.
Gao Tianzhao was lying on the ground at this moment, stark naked, his entire body charred black, smoke still rising from his skin. He looked like a roasted duck that had been tossed into a furnace, had every feather burned off, and then leapt back out.