Qin Yanxing's words instantly covered Zhang Yunxi's pretty face with frost.
Chen Jing was rather surprised as well.
He had never expected Qin Yanxing, with those thick brows and honest-looking eyes, to come to his senses at a time like this.
This series of upheavals took a long time to describe, but only a few breaths had passed between Chen Jing obtaining the legacy and exchanging a palm strike with Master Xuanyang.
Now Master Xuanyang had his sights set on him.
More than a dozen crossbows from the Grand Commandant's Residence were also aimed at him.
On top of that, activating the Great Threefold Union twice earlier had placed an immense burden on his essence, qi, and spirit.
Chen Jing had already begun considering a retreat.
Yet amid the chaos and clamor inside the hall, Chen Jing's ears twitched. He faintly heard a series of mechanical clicks coming from beneath the raised platform.
Then, from beneath the entire Red Gold Main Hall-
A deafening explosion suddenly thundered out.
In an instant.
Flames blasted skyward from the stone pits outside the Red Gold Main Hall!
The stone island shook violently amid the earth-shattering explosion. Everyone inside the Red Gold Main Hall was thrown off balance, tumbling to the floor in heaps.
The surrounding piles of gold, silver, and treasure rolled everywhere, filling the air with a dense, chaotic clatter.
Inside and outside the hall, everyone stared at the flames soaring into the air, frozen in shock.
An explosion? What was going on?!
Chen Jing immediately thought of scarlet fire crystals!
If, as Sha Lifeng had said, geothermal magma flowed deep beneath this place, it would certainly have produced a vast quantity of scarlet fire crystals. This ore was highly flammable and explosive.
A mechanism only needed to detonate one deposit to