Within the crimson Magma World.
Flame Lizardmen converged from every direction in dense swarms, their numbers seemingly endless.
Queen Medusa wielded a longsword as she darted and weaved through the lizardmen. Every sweep of her blade precisely plucked out a Fire Core.
Her efficiency and practiced movements were enough to make anyone's scalp prickle.
By comparison, Chen Cang's harvesting speed a short distance away was much slower.
As a Flame Lizardman attacked, brilliant light surged over Chen Cang's palm. He thrust his hand forward, stamping a dazzling Hand Seal squarely onto the attacking lizardman's chest.
Overwhelming force erupted instantly. The Flame Lizardman before him vanished into nothingness, leaving a hollow more than a dozen yards across in the crimson magma that took a long time to fill again.
With even the magma suffering such a fate, the Fire Core inside the lizardman naturally had no chance of remaining intact. It had already been utterly destroyed.
Too much power was not necessarily a good thing...
Since returning to the Inner Academy, Chen Cang and Queen Medusa had spent nearly half a month in this underground world.
Queen Medusa was responsible for frantically harvesting Fire Cores to stockpile food for the Little Sky Swallowing Python, while Chen Cang focused on practicing the Mountain Splitting Seal.
With no one else's experience to draw upon, and with this Dou Technique being of a considerable grade, it was the most difficult of all Chen Cang's Dou Techniques to cultivate. It had taken him a full half month to master it.
Feeling the enormous drain on his Dou Qi, Chen Cang swallowed the Qi Recovery Pill he had prepared in his mouth, his expression complicated.
As his mastery of the Mountain Splitting Seal grew, so did the power he could unleash. Yet its consumption of Dou