(First update)
"Rumble!!!!" The ground shook even more violently, beginning to shudder madly. Crack, crack, crack!!! Fissures opened across it. Li Xiaoya had clearly guessed right-the volcano really was about to erupt.
"Aaargh!!!!" Li Xiaoya suddenly felt as though his head would split apart and nearly dropped to his knees.
"Crash!!!" The entire ceiling began to crack apart as well, and great slabs of stone came tumbling down.
"Damn it!! They're still up there!!" Li Xiaoya suddenly remembered that Zhang Hong and the others were still unconscious upstairs and cried out in alarm. The thought sent another skull-splitting pain through his head, nearly forcing him to his knees again.
"Rumble!!!!!" The ground shook even more fiercely, as though the entire mountain were about to collapse. Li Xiaoya had no time to wonder why the volcano was erupting, but it had to have something to do with that tremendous explosion.
"Crack, crack, crack!" Suddenly, the fissures in the ground burst open, spewing fiery red gas. The hall instantly grew scorching hot.
"Hah!!!" Li Xiaoya knew there was no time to think. With a furious roar, golden light erupted all over him, and the Heavenly Feather Wings flashed into being behind his back. One mighty flap sent him shooting upward, straight through the great hole in the ceiling.
"Urgh!!!" His head throbbed with splitting pain in midair, and he nearly failed to muster his magic power. With a muffled groan, he managed to fly out through the ceiling, only to slam into the corridor's roof tiles with a boom.
"Thud!!" Li Xiaoya fell onto the corridor again. Seeing the others still lying there unconscious, he grew frantic and hurried to stand. Then he suddenly noticed the Purple Jade Drunken Butterflies, and his heart lurched. He clapped his hands together. Whoosh!! Several streams