First Encounter with Nine Nether, Signing a Contract, with Taiqing Dao De Tianzun as Witness... (Fourth update)

The thick, dark-red scales covering its body and its scarlet eyes all proclaimed its identity.

"He escaped, but he hasn't gone far..."

The Dou Zun actually spoke human language. Its slit pupils slowly turned toward the direction Xiao Yan had fled, then it told the two Peak Dou Zong Fire Salamanders behind it, "After him."

Yet the three Fire Salamanders did not tear straight through space like the Dou Zun outside would have. Instead, they plunged into the magma and swam swiftly through it...

It looked exceedingly strange.

"So this is a Dou Zun expert..."

Xiao Yan was pale with exhaustion. He slumped to the ground, panting heavily.

He glanced at the Fire Salamanders standing motionless beyond the thin membrane of energy.

Although he did not know why this place could keep all those Fire Salamanders outside, it clearly was no ordinary place. Still, he had no other choice. If that old dragon refused to come out and acknowledge his daughter, there was nothing Xiao Yan could do.

He gently exhaled a stale breath and looked around.

This place seemed to contain a world of its own-a cavern within the world of magma, which itself also contained a world of magma. Only here, its color was pitch-black, as dark as ink, and the energy fluctuations it gave off were exceptionally strange... "Was this what called to me earlier?"

Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes.

He headed straight ahead, encountering quite a few skeletons along the way, all left behind by those Fire Salamanders. Judging by their remains, their cultivation had not been low. Among the strongest was even the skeleton of a Dou Zun.

Zi Yan followed behind, looking back three times with every step.

She made faces at the Fire Salamanders, infuriating the creatures into hopping about, though they