The great fire burned.
The flames were a blazing crimson-white. Trees, animals, even mountain rocks—all warped directly beneath the terrible blaze.
Temperatures exceeding 1,700 degrees Celsius might have been nothing to cultivators, but in this world where the extraordinary had been extinguished, their destructive power was immense.
For a time, countless dinosaurs screeched as they fled, but before they could take more than a few steps, the flesh was seared clean from their bodies. Their bones collapsed stiffly apart, already charred black before they could hit the ground. When they landed, they shattered into powder like glass.
Facing the raging inferno, the ten-thousand-man force that had withdrawn outside could not help but draw sharp breaths.
Such heat was clearly beyond imagination.
Even in their armor, from over a hundred meters away, they were still sweating all over. The thermostats inside their armor had failed, utterly incapable of regulating the temperature beneath such intense heat.
He was burned to death already, wasn't he?
Watching the towering blaze, quite a few people inhaled sharply, clearly not believing the target could survive in such a terrifyingly hot environment.
"Report: no lifeforms have emerged from the first passage."
"Report: lifeforms have appeared in the second passage. All were captured and killed. No abnormalities were found."
"Report: the third passage!"
As reports came in one after another from the various passages, there was still no sign of the target.
Inside the base, old man Qi said nothing, merely watching in silence.
Only after a full quarter of an hour did he say lightly, "Drone swarm, release coolant. Lower the temperature."
In less than a few breaths, the astonishing sea of flames was rapidly extinguished, and a vast amount of frost began to form, freezing the area where Li Su was located into a sheet of