Smoke and dust shrouded more than a hundred miles of Heaven-Burning Valley. The ground was an eerie dark red, with almost no wild grass or flowers in sight. Only a few withered trees stood scattered about, their leaves long since fallen.
"The Inner Valley is thirty miles ahead."
Above the valley entrance, Lü Di did not land his flying sword, but continued onward. "The fire poison here has little effect on me, but you... hmm?"
As he spoke, he instinctively glanced back at Lin Mo and suddenly realized that Lin Mo seemed largely unaffected by the fire poison in the outer valley.
This was far from normal!
He already knew that Lin Mo was only at the fifth layer of Qi Refining. The spiritual energy in his dantian had yet to begin turning into mist, leaving him with almost no resistance to fire poison.
Yet Lin Mo's expression had not changed at all. Clearly, the fire poison's effect on him was negligible!
"I practice five-system cultivation. The fire poison here isn't very concentrated, so I can still withstand it for now."
Lin Mo offered a casual explanation, but inwardly, his guard rose.
Ever since Ding Yan had made things difficult for him in the Scripture Pavilion, anger had ruled his emotions. He had even forgotten to conceal his strength.
Of course, what he needed to hide was not his cultivation at the middle fifth layer of Qi Refining, but his physique!
After consuming spirit spring water, advanced spirit rice, and Golden-Light Rice over a long period, his body was far stronger than that of an ordinary fifth-layer Qi Refining cultivator.
As a result, even after he inhaled the outer valley's fire poison into his organs, he felt only slight discomfort and nothing else.
Fortunately, he cultivated methods of all five