"Ah, so this... is what they call a 'marsh'?" At the sight of the magma, Xiao Hua suddenly understood!
"Fellow Daoist Xiao is perceptive. This is precisely a fire marsh!" Cai Zhuoxia said with a smile.
"Alas, reading ten thousand volumes is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles!" Xiao Hua gazed at the magma carpeting the ground and sighed. "It was not as though I had never known of magma before, but... I had never imagined that magma could form a fire marsh! The craftsmanship of nature truly held wonders beyond count!"
"Fellow Daoist Xiao, it does not end there!" Cai Zhuoxia glanced toward the basin and pointed to where the formation had just been. The formation had already been torn apart by the fire ape, exposing a large hole about ten feet across. Wisps of white vapor rose from it from time to time!
"This is..." Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia carefully flew above the hole on the ground and peered inside. The interior was pitch-black, with only a faint hint of red visible far, far below!
"Could there also be magma inside this hole? How could this magma surge up from such a deep place?" Xiao Hua was puzzled.
Excitement appeared on Cai Zhuoxia's face as she said in a low voice, "There must be treasure inside this cave. The Pu family of Flying Phoenix Ridge must have come for the treasure within! If not for some treasure, how could all this magma have surged out of the ground?"
"But there is no sign of anyone from the Pu family here! Could they have already taken the treasure?" Xiao Hua was somewhat disappointed as well. After inspecting it carefully once more, he said, "This does not match what the records described! There may not be any