The Eerie Demons!

(The second update is here! Thanks to longtime reader Zombie Turtle Immortal and reader 1402121824 for their tips, and thanks to everyone for the support! The story will probably go on sale soon, and I have no idea how it'll do. Sixue rolls around begging for someone to take me in and support me! A thousand thanks!)

In truth, Er Dongsheng's party had come to the Flame Layer not only to explore and search for treasures that could consolidate their bloodlines. Their chief aim was to pass through it and reach the innermost Destruction Layer. Something there seemed to beckon him from the shadows of fate!

Besides, if they wanted to leave this strange place and enter the Abyssal Great World they truly longed for, their only option was to keep exploring until they found a possible exit!

But for now...

Putting that elusive exit aside, the tangible rewards before them mattered most. The Flame Layer's most famous treasures were its refined fire Elemental Crystals—Fiendstone. They were no longer much use to Er Dongsheng, but they were exceptionally important to his subordinates, and to Little Bei'er, Lulu, and the others!

So...

Boom!

Spear of Destruction in hand, Er Dongsheng picked his target and plunged it down!

"Awooo!"

With an angry roar, a fire "fish" three or four meters long lashed its enormous tail, splashing up a broad sheet of lava. Then it swam away without a care!

Er Dongsheng's attempt to seize the monster's crystal core had failed!

By now, most of the party were using their abilities to hunt the monsters in the lava. Compared with digging for naturally formed Fiendstone, the crystal cores produced inside these creatures were a more reliable bet!

They worked just as well and were easier to obtain!

Of course, hunting fire monsters in