Lin Qiao and Ming Fang's encounter had been relatively peaceful.
Unlike in the Gold Dao Secret Realm, where three young cultivators from Lingxiao Dao Academy, Kudhan Temple, and Meishan had already come to blows over the ownership of a descending gold intent.
Those who cultivated the Gold Dao were naturally inclined toward bluntness and hardness of temperament. With these three, there were also the accumulated grudges of their respective factions mixed in. When words failed to find common ground, there was no need for another half-sentence; they simply settled it with their hands.
Fortunately, no one from the Yang Clan had entered this Secret Realm. Otherwise, encountering any one of those three would likely have been troublesome.
As for the Yang Clan's other three members, Chen Huai'an and Yang Yuanling were still on their way to their destined opportunities.
Yang Yuanzhao, however, had been progressing exceptionally smoothly and quickly.
While the others were either still searching or still fighting over their opportunities, he had already successfully entered a place where underground fire crisscrossed the land. He had overcome the burning calamity blocking his path and was only one step away from obtaining this exceptionally high-quality essence of earthfire.
Yet at this crucial juncture, his excitement at being about to obtain the treasure made him careless. He accidentally triggered a killing-calming mechanism within this place of opportunity.
Just how dangerous was this killing calamity?
Put it this way: Yang Yuanzhao had used two of the five activations of the True Fire Talisman that the Lord of Xiyan Manor had given the four of them just to withstand this danger.
What was worse, by the time he escaped the peril, that essence of earthfire had long since fled elsewhere along the underground Fire Vein. Finding it again would be exceedingly difficult.
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