At once, Lin Mo brought himself and Xue Qingcheng into the Gourd Space.
Inside the Gourd Space, Feng Xu and Mo Qing had already grown restless. Frowning, they asked, "Fellow Daoist Lin, what happened?"
"We were cultivating just now when the temperature suddenly shot up. It felt as though we were inside a furnace."
Lin Mo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said gravely, "There really is something fishy about this Ascension Ceremony."
"Miss Qingcheng and I fought our way through every obstacle and finally reached the last level of the Heavenly Road Steps."
"But the instant the man traveling with us touched the Divine Flame Evil Fruit, it transformed into a Furnace Cauldron, swallowing everything around it to burn and refine."
"I'm afraid the gourd we're inside has already been sucked into that Furnace Cauldron too."
Feng Xu and Mo Qing listened in stunned disbelief. "What exactly is this Saint King trying to do?"
"Over ten thousand soul slaves and evil beasts died in a single Heaven-Connecting Ceremony, and in the end, it turned out to be nothing but a trap."
"Could this so-called Heaven-Connecting Ceremony be meant not to select powerful soul slaves, but to sift through and purge the soul slaves of the Dry Jade Continent?"
While they were still reeling in shock, the temperature around them suddenly soared again.
The once pristine white world was bathed in crimson, as though the end of days were approaching.
Chen Li frowned. "The temperature outside has already reached the level of molten lava."
"If this continues, all the spirit plants in the spirit field will wither and die."
Lin Mo made a swift decision and said gravely, "Qingcheng, Senior Feng, Senior Mo, come into the spirit field with me!"
Without hesitation, they immediately gathered in the spirit