Time to Go Up

The vines recoiled swiftly in pain.

But Gu Sheng stared at his palm, his brows tightly furrowed—despite his newly tempered body, he had only left a few white marks on the vines.

"Master, this is bad!"

The Spirit Embryo Incarnation finally broke through the magma's obstruction and arrived, its voice carrying rare panic.

"There are hundreds of these demonic plants rising from the bottom of the lake!"

Gu Sheng extended his spiritual sense downward and indeed detected densely packed blood-red vines surging upward. Wherever they passed, the life force within the magma was frantically devoured.

"Go!"

The Spirit Embryo Incarnation grabbed Gu Sheng and tried to rise to the surface.

"Our movements are restricted in the magma. We're no match for them here!"

Yet Gu Sheng did not move at all, his gaze fixed on several vines attacking again.

In the viscous magma, his movement speed was indeed much slower than it was outside, while these demonic plants were astonishingly fast.

"Wait."

Gu Sheng dodged while observing them.

"I think I've seen this method of attack somewhere before."

Within the Magma Lake, crimson magma flowed slowly, bathing the entire lakebed in scarlet light.

Gu Sheng floated in the middle layer of this lake of death. Dense vines twisted and swam through the water around him, emitting chilling hissing sounds.

"Whoosh—"

A black shadow shot through the water, so fast it nearly tore apart the current.

From the corner of his eye, Gu Sheng caught sight of the vine hurtling toward his chest with thunderous force, accompanied by a sonic boom.

"Good!"

Gu Sheng neither dodged nor retreated. He raised his right hand, and astral energy condensed in his palm, instantly forming a three-foot energy sword.

The blade gleamed with a cold edge as it slashed toward the vine.

"Clang!"

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