"Could the seawater getting hotter the deeper we go be because the Flame-Spark Fire Vein lies beneath us?" Shen Luo asked.
"That's right. Beneath Fire Zhuo Sea lies Purgatory Sea, and on the seabed of Purgatory Sea is the Flame-Spark Fire Vein," Zhu Mangqi replied.
After hearing this, Shen Luo said no more and simply followed Zhu Mangqi downward.
As they descended deeper toward the seafloor, more and more holes appeared in the rocks of the sloping seabed continent. From time to time, strings of scorching bubbles rose from within them with a "gurgle, gurgle."
The surrounding water grew hotter and hotter, nearly as hot as boiling water.
Shen Luo then saw that the seawater ahead had shifted from light blue to a faintly reddish orange-yellow, forming a distinct layer from the waters above.
He guessed that this was the Fire Zhuo Sea Zhu Mangqi had mentioned.
After arriving in this stretch of sea, Zhu Mangqi's descent noticeably slowed. Like the pearl divers, he began to search carefully among the rocks on the seabed.
There were countless holes in the rocks, while the crisscrossing crevices were even more complicated and utterly irregular. Searching for tiny Water-Fire Resonance Pills here was truly like looking for a needle in the ocean.
Shen Luo prided himself on his sharp eyesight, yet after searching the seabed for a long time, he found nothing. Zhu Mangqi, on the other hand, had some success and actually found one.
"Fellow Daoist Zhu, do you have some secret technique you could teach me? Searching like this is far too difficult," Shen Luo sent by voice transmission.
"There is no other method. Practice makes perfect," Zhu Mangqi replied without even looking at him.
Speechless, Shen Luo could only continue searching the seabed.
Time trickled by. Shen Luo gradually settled