"I'll have to trouble Sect Master Yun later."
"No need to be so polite." Yun Yun's lovely brows lifted slightly. "But how did you know there would be a magical beast inside...?"
"My Master told me. Among Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, there will always be a magical beast guarding them."
Gu He had long prepared this explanation.
Yun Yun's eyes were filled with suspicion. "Did your Master also tell you Hai Bodong was here?"
"Uh, some bits of unofficial information."
Gu He knew Yun Yun would definitely suspect him, but he could not confess to Yun Yun like Ace had confessed to Whitebeard, or Thor to Hong.
What if confessing made Yun Yun curious about Xiao Yan?
He had no one he could tell.
Yun Yun muttered a few words. "So mysterious. Let's go. We'll head down, finish this quickly, and leave!"
"Alright!"
Gu He looked at the others and said, "Just stay here."
After saying that, Gu He and Yun Yun descended through the cave entrance. Before long, a maze of crisscrossing passages appeared before them. Gu He spread out his spiritual power and judged the correct path by the temperature.
That was where the magma beneath the Tagongan Great Desert lay.
Soon, the two saw a faintly visible fiery-red world ahead and reached the end of the passage.
Within the enormous underground cavern, fiery-red magma flowed slowly. The terrifying heat waves warped the air.
"The Green Lotus Core Flame is down there," Gu He said.
A trace of relief flashed through his eyes. He had finally found it.
"So we're going down?" Yun Yun looked at the magma radiating terrifying heat. A Strange Fire truly could be born in a place like this.
"Mhm."
Gu He covered himself in Dou Qi, then leaped toward the fiery-red magma.