Elsewhere.
Bang!
His back slammed squarely into an invisible barrier, and Qing Chen's forward momentum was instantly stripped away.
The instant his feet touched the ground, searing heat pierced through the Black Demon Blood Armor into his soles. He instinctively pushed off with his toes, darting sideways more than a dozen zhang.
Then-
Whoosh!
A wave of heat rushed straight at him.
It came so suddenly that the hair on Qing Chen's face curled up with a sizzle.
He instinctively raised a hand in front of himself. The immortality true blood inside him instantly boiled, laying a layer of dark golden light over his skin that only just held off the invading heat.
But sweat had already appeared on his forehead.
"Hiss-"
Qing Chen sucked in a sharp breath. Even his body cultivator's physique at the Nascent Soul middle stage peak could feel such searing heat.
What kind of fire art was this?
He drew a deep breath, steadied his mind, and began surveying his surroundings.
Before him lay a scarlet world.
"Didn't I enter a tower?"
The sky was red, and so was the ground, cracked into countless gullies and ravines.
Even the air was red. Waves of heat warped his vision, making everything blurry and eerie.
Qing Chen tried taking a breath. A scalding current rushed into his lungs, as though he had swallowed a mouthful of burning coals.
"What the hell is this place..."
As far as he could see, there was nothing but scarlet wasteland.
The earth was cracked, molten rock flowed everywhere, and blackish-red smoke rose from the fissures, churning and intertwining in midair before some invisible force drew it away.
The tower had looked no more than a thousand zhang tall from outside, yet it actually contained a world of its own.
What