Fire Spirit Child emerged from the Netherfire Refining Furnace and gazed at the brocade handkerchief, his expression unusually grave. For a long while, he said nothing.
"Have you figured out where this thing came from?" Shen Luo waited a moment before asking through voice transmission.
Fire Spirit Child stared fixedly at the square brocade handkerchief, ignoring Shen Luo, and reached out to grasp at empty air.
A mass of purple flame appeared out of thin air and enveloped the handkerchief, burning it. It was the Purple-Heart Earth Fire from within the Netherfire Refining Furnace.
Wisps of black smoke rose from the square handkerchief. It seemed to contain a great many impurities, which the Purple-Heart Earth Fire steadily refined away.
The originally grayish-white handkerchief gradually brightened, turning pure white.
Shen Luo looked slightly surprised at the sight, but soon turned his attention away and continued examining the rest of the hall. At the same time, he flicked his sleeve, releasing a ball of blue light with the blue-green young fish inside.
The blue light flashed and dispersed. Freed, the young fish immediately flew toward a wall deep within the hall.
Shen Luo paused in surprise and immediately probed that wall with his divine sense. Extremely faint fluctuations of magic power flickered across it. Had his divine sense not been powerful enough, and had the young fish not darted toward this particular wall, he would certainly have missed them.
He had released the Azure Sea Young Fish precisely to use its sensing ability to find the next clue. He had not expected to find one so easily.
Shen Luo did not stop the Azure Sea Young Fish, allowing it to dart toward the wall. Then something strange happened: the moment the fish touched the wall, it vanished into thin air.
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