True Person Yuan Yong slowed himself with all his might, but his palm still struck into the magma. His violent Spirit Power crashed down like a boulder falling into water, sending up a thousand layers of spray.
After the crimson magma splashed for a moment, the fissure in the ground widened further.
The trees around the fissure fell into it one after another, turning into roaring flames in an instant.
"Hiss-hiss-"
Amid billowing white smoke.
The scalding liquid instantly clung to True Person Yuan Yong's body, engulfing him like red pythons endowed with spirituality.
Those golden vines were also formed from magma. They rapidly grew, wove together, and threaded through one another, trapping True Person Yuan Yong firmly within the fissure.
Like red-hot iron chains, the golden vines bound him coil after coil, biting deep into his flesh. As he struggled, they rapidly spread through his flesh and blood, like the reddening veins on autumn leaves.
"Ugh-aaagh!" True Person Yuan Yong let out an agonized howl. Although a Nascent Soul cultivator's body kept him from being swiftly consumed by the magma, the pain was still excruciating.
As those fine threads of magma penetrated his blood vessels, the pain grew even deeper and sharper.
"You wretch! You little bastard! What kind of ability is scheming against me?"
His eyes nearly burst from their sockets as he frantically searched for Lin Ke.
"Tell me, what spell art is this?"
"Why have the rocks all turned into scalding magma?"
Lin Ke stood quietly atop a tree canopy several meters away, his gaze indifferent and his expression cold.
He had merely used Heaven-Supporting and Firmament-Commanding to summon the power of lightning, then used Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning to manipulate rocks and enclose the lightning within them. After a short while, he obtained some magma he