The moment he entered the Death Cemetery, the call from deep within his soul immediately grew more than five times stronger. It seemed that, with the distance between them reduced, the Fire Armored Corpse had also sensed Han Shuo's presence.
Without lingering in the Death Cemetery, Han Shuo flew straight toward the depths of the Dark Forest using the Nine Heavens Demon Art. Familiar with the route, he reached the Fire-Extreme Land in little time.
His strength was now far beyond what it had once been. As soon as Han Shuo reached the area, he sensed the Flame Lord's immense presence. The Fire Armored Corpse was in the Flame Kingdom where the Flame Lord resided. Entering the Fire-Extreme Land and freeing the Fire Armored Corpse from the Magic Array's restraints under the Flame Lord's watchful gaze remained a thorny problem.
All Five Elements Corpses were linked to arrays through a Secret Technique, using those arrays to gather the natural essence of the entire area. Only then could a Five Elements Corpse be created. Yet even after an armored corpse took shape, it still needed to be freed from the array's restraints before it could truly emerge. Otherwise, the Fire Armored Corpse would not have been calling Han Shuo so urgently.
After the previous battle, all the rocks in the valley had turned reddish-brown. The valley was pleasantly warm, with several warm springs bubbling away.
Pacing through the valley, Han Shuo frowned as he considered how to venture deep into the Fire-Extreme Land and release the Fire Armored Corpse from the array's restraints. With the Flame Lord there, it was practically impossible for Han Shuo to enter the Fire-Extreme Land unharmed and free the Fire Armored Corpse.
Thus, as Han Shuo frowned in thought, he could not come up with a