Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake

"Brother Jun, what are you looking for?" Seeing Jia Lie Jun stop and start the whole way, as if searching for something, Qing Lin could not help asking curiously.

"I'm looking for a kind of flame, something every alchemist dreams of." Jia Lie Jun sighed. After searching for several days and finding nothing, he was rather discouraged. "All right, let's keep going." Jia Lie Jun forced himself to rally.

After they had advanced for about two hours, Jia Lie Jun finally discovered something. With his keen Spiritual Power, he sensed that the temperature here was much higher than elsewhere. Immediately, Jia Lie Jun closed his eyes. With a thought, the Spiritual Power in his Mud Pill Palace surged out like a tide.

Qing Lin stood quietly to the side and watched. Suddenly, she felt as though a power were spreading through the air. Involuntarily, she reached out and grabbed at it, but she caught nothing. At this moment, however, her originally pitch-black pupils had faintly taken on a green tint. Looking closely, three extremely tiny jade-green dots could be seen flickering faintly deep within her pupils.

Jia Lie Jun focused completely on controlling his Spiritual Power. It passed through the ground and spread underground, mapping every scene within a ten-li radius perfectly in his mind, even the movement of every grain of sand. "Found it." Jia Lie Jun abruptly opened his eyes, his face filled with joy. "This Spiritual Power really is something. Otherwise, who knows when I would've found it."

"Brother Jun, you found it? That's wonderful." Qing Lin's face was also full of excitement.

Jia Lie Jun nodded, then pulled Qing Lin to an extremely secluded place. He crouched down and slammed a heavy punch into the ground. At once, the surface of the sand layer shook, fine cracks appeared, and in the end it actually collapsed. Immediately afterward, a cave entrance appeared before the two of them. Red light glowed from the opening, and when they looked down through it, they saw a stream of magma slowly flowing below.

Jia Lie Jun took a longsword from his Storage Ring. The sword floated in the air. He wrapped an arm around Qing Lin's slender waist, jumped onto the longsword, and gave a soft shout. "Descend." The longsword carried the two of them slowly downward.

Within the huge underground cavern, fiery-red magma flowed slowly. From time to time, bubbles swelled up, and a moment later, with a faint sound, they burst apart with a bang. Scalding magma shot out from within, like fireworks exploding in the night, an incomparably magnificent and beautiful sight.

Standing at the edge and looking at this spectacular scene, Jia Lie Jun could not help swallowing. He wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Brother Jun, is the flame you're looking for beneath this magma?" Qing Lin pointed at the magma and asked in surprise. Jia Lie Jun nodded.

Looking at the fiery-red, scorching magma, Jia Lie Jun frowned tightly, his expression troubled. He had used Spiritual Power to probe just now. Beneath the magma lurked a Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake. Although he knew Qing Lin possessed the Jade-Green Snake Three-Flower Pupils and could control the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, he did not know how to awaken them.

If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the cub? Damn it, I'll risk it. Jia Lie Jun hardened his heart and told Qing Lin to step back. Then he picked up several huge rocks from the bank and hurled them viciously into the magma. With a tremendous boom, the boulders sent up a great splash of magma, but after a moment, the magma calmed down and the rocks gradually turned to stone-like slag.

Jia Lie Jun raised his vigilance to the highest level, his eyes fixed on the magma. Suddenly, the surface of the magma began to churn. With a boom, magma shot into the sky, and a huge snake dozens of meters long appeared in the molten flow. Jia Lie Jun looked over and saw that the great snake actually had two heads. Its heads were covered with a thick layer of fiery-red scales, and four vertical pupils stared fixedly at Jia Lie Jun. Its tongues flicked from its mouths, and its gaping maws made it look quite savage and terrifying.

All at once, the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake lashed its tail, striking heavily against the magma and sending up a huge splash that shot toward Jia Lie Jun. Jia Lie Jun snorted coldly. Purple Fire burst from his body and spread out before him, forming a giant net that caught all the incoming magma.

The giant Purple Fire net wrapped around the magma and smashed fiercely onto the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake's back, yet it caused not the slightest damage. Jia Lie Jun lightly tapped the ground with the tip of his foot, leaped up, and in the next instant appeared above one of the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake's heads. Bang, bang sounded continuously as his fists fell like rain, pounding hard against the Fire Spirit Snake's head.

The Fire Spirit Snake constantly rolled its body in the magma, trying to throw Jia Lie Jun off. Being in such close contact with the magma made Jia Lie Jun's heart pound wildly as well. If not for the three layers of protection around him—the innermost layer being Dou Qi Gauze, the second being a Spiritual Power Barrier, and the outermost layer armor formed from Purple Fire—he would likely have melted the instant he touched the scorching magma.

Seeing that it could not shake Jia Lie Jun off, the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake actually swung its head and smashed it viciously toward the stone wall. Jia Lie Jun hurriedly leaped down. With a tremendous boom, the stone wall was shattered, sending up a huge splash of magma. To the side, Qing Lin's pretty face turned pale, her eyes full of worry, while three jade-green dots flickered faintly in her pupils.

Seeing its attacks fail again and again, the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake flew into a rage. Its body rolled in the magma, and in an instant, a pillar of fire as thick as a bucket, wrapped in magma, attacked Jia Lie Jun. Since Qing Lin was not far away, Jia Lie Jun had no choice but to grit his teeth and take this move head-on. His hands formed seals at high speed. "Life Transformation Rune Array, rise." At once, dozens of layers of Spiritual Power Barriers rose from the ground, wrapped in purple flames.

A tremendous rumble rang out like thunder. The pillar of fire struck the Spiritual Power Barriers, and a huge gale instantly swept out in every direction. With a crisp crack, a fissure appeared on the barrier. The crack then spread continuously, until at last, with a bang, it shattered completely. Immediately afterward, the sounds of dozens of barriers breaking rang out one after another.

Seeing this, Jia Lie Jun shouted angrily, "Spiral Wave." A rapidly spinning spiral cone appeared, giving off waves of humming sounds. Although the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake was a Magical Beast, its intelligence was extremely high. Sensing a powerful energy fluctuation stabbing toward its eyes, it hurriedly shrank back into the magma and dodged the attack.

"I didn't expect this beast to be so intelligent. I thought the sneak attack would succeed." Jia Lie Jun cursed inwardly. Although Spiritual Power was colorless and transparent, in essence it was still a kind of energy. Some experts could dodge Spiritual Power attacks by sensing energy fluctuations.

The Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake stared straight at Jia Lie Jun, its eyes filled with caution. It seemed the previous Spiritual Power attack had also made it extremely wary, and the man and snake faced off just like that. Suddenly, the Fire Spirit Snake flicked its tail, and dozens of chunks of molten rock leaped out of the magma. Its huge snake tail swept across them.

Looking at the molten rocks tearing through the air toward him, Jia Lie Jun smiled coldly and charged at them. He punched one hard, and with a bang, the molten rock shattered on impact. The Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake raised its head and let out a long hiss, then rammed its hard skull fiercely toward Jia Lie Jun. Jia Lie Jun lightly dodged aside. The Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake turned, and its tail swept across, the fierce wind pressure making one's scalp go numb.

"Damn it." Seeing the huge snake tail slash toward Qing Lin, Jia Lie Jun's expression changed drastically.