"It's beyond saving." The God Emperor glanced at the Saber Emperor's corpse and spoke flatly.
Xu Zimo crouched slightly and examined the corpse.
The Saber Emperor's cause of death was bizarre. Just like those from the Huayuan Sect before, all his internal organs had been pulverized, yet there was not a single wound on the surface of his body.
His saber lay discarded beside him, broken cleanly in two, its blade chipped with countless small notches.
"This relic site seems rather dangerous. Even a Divine Meridian Realm expert had no time to escape," Xu Zimo said as he rose.
The two continued onward. After passing through the dim corridor, a clear light finally appeared ahead.
The view before them gradually widened.
Ahead lay a long river formed from molten lava. Its waters rushed endlessly onward, winding and twisting into the distance.
A bridge spanned the river, made from several logs laid across it, with a few planks placed on top. Stone railings stood on both sides.
Many fire-attributed plants grew along both banks of the fiery river.
What surprised Xu Zimo was that these fire-attributed plants came in countless varieties, yet he had never seen a single one of them.
It was as though these plants were species that had long since vanished into extinction.
Xu Zimo looked toward the God Emperor, who also shook his head, indicating that he had never seen them before.
The flames within this lava river were not ordinary flames. They were another kind of fire Xu Zimo had never seen, yet he could sense that they were anything but ordinary.
The viscous flames flowed slowly. Their exterior was fiery red, while their interior was blue-violet.
Xu Zimo had not touched the flames, but merely from the heat rising off them, he could already feel