After forcibly opening the Fire Passage, Xiao Wujiu saw the unclaimed ruin opening its gates to him, free for him to take whatever he pleased. He did not linger and entered the Fire Passage directly.
Once inside, the surrounding temperature immediately surged dozens of times higher. The path was also extremely narrow, greatly reducing the room to evade. Faced with the churning magma below, which occasionally erupted like a fountain, he could only look at the hard crimson rocks around him and use Battle Qi to protect himself.
The environment also affected one's state of mind. Combined with the fact that this Fire Passage appeared to offer no route except deeper in, it was easy for someone to get trapped here.
Then there were the blue flames that appeared without warning. Their ability to use Battle Qi as fuel further intensified one's Battle Qi consumption. One careless mistake, and death would come easily.
But he knew that everything before him was merely an illusion. Looking at the magma below, he was thoroughly familiar with this sort of thing. Southern Bright Spirit Fire emerged around him, spreading over his body to isolate the magma, and then he plunged fiercely downward, diving toward its depths.
As for the blue flames around him, which were quite effective at burning Battle Qi, all of them were devoured by the Southern Bright Spirit Fire covering his body. They became nourishment for its growth, and their ability to use Battle Qi as fuel was absorbed by the Southern Bright Spirit Fire for its own use.
He continued downward, his body descending at high speed through the magma. Whenever those eerie blue flames appeared, they were swallowed by the Southern Bright Spirit Fire. Then, after a muffled sound even deeper than breaking through water, white light flashed