"Even those experts were defeated!"
"Quick, we have to get out of here! Otherwise, every last one of us will die here!"
Yan Chishan, Elder Huang, and Elder Yan were pale as death as they scrambled to leap along the winding, rugged underground Flame River.
Though scalding lava surrounded them, and the writhing Flame River steadily released terrifying heat like molten iron glowing red, they paid no heed to their burning soles. They pushed straight off its surface and bounded across in great strides rather than detouring around it.
All this was merely to gain a few dozen feet. Often, a few dozen feet alone could decide life or death.
Sure enough, just as they crossed the Flame River and turned into the passage leading upward, several agonized screams rang out behind them. Then a tremendous quake, as though heaven and earth were rocking, erupted from underground. Towering waves surged through the Flame River, and scalding lava flooded the entire tunnel.
Rumble!
Amid the tremendous shaking, crimson waves of flame roared out from within like a colossal dragon.
A moment later, an enormous monster wreathed in billowing flames emerged from the lava.
It was the Past King, pursuing them to kill them.
Intent only on escaping, Yan Chishan and the others naturally would not bring their slower accompanying guards. Even Feng Ma and his companions had been treated as expendable pawns to lure the enemy away, scattered among the branching passages along their original route.
But the Past King killed those guards even faster than expected. Instead of pursuing Feng Ma and the others, he lunged toward Yan Chishan's group.
"Aah!"
When the scorching wave surged up from behind, Elder Huang only had time to scream before it swept him away.
Yan Chishan looked back, only to discover with a