"Active."
Huang Laosan answered.
Cheng Xinzhan's heart sank. Earthfire was yin relative to heavenly fire, making it Ding Fire. Yet this was also a fire vein beneath the sea, fire within water, making it yang relative to the ocean.
A fire cavern like this, with yang within yin and solitary yang surrounded by yin, was precisely the right resting place for a Ding Fire corpse, which gave birth to yang at the extreme of yin. If this fire cavern was large enough, it could absolutely serve as a place for the Red Corpse to achieve Union with the Dao.
Undersea fire veins were ordinarily extremely difficult to discover because of the ocean's suppressive weight and obstruction, unless they were underground volcanoes that even the ocean could not hold down. But an underground volcanic eruption meant a place rich in earth qi, where water and fire mingled and yin and yang worked in harmony. Such places were often occupied by overlords.
The site of the Yellow Sea Dragon Palace was one example.
And to think an active undersea fire cavern lay hidden beneath Yellow Sulfur Island. This truly was news that could not have been worse.
"Has the interior of the fire vein been thoroughly explored?"
He asked.
Huang Laosan could guess what Cheng Xinzhan was thinking, so he answered,
"Yin corpses fear heat, so most of the miners were original residents of Yellow Sulfur Island. They notified me immediately after digging into the earth vein. But once the fiery energy leaked out, the Red Corpse noticed at once, came straight to the site, then flew down into the sea of fire.
"My men said the Red Corpse was delighted after emerging, and everyone present received a reward. But the Red Corpse also sealed off the site. No one was permitted