Chapter 39: Traces of Anomalous Fire

When bathed in this somewhat eerie dim light, its massive body suddenly stiffened.

A pair of huge snake eyes, showing a hint of terror, stared tightly at the little girl before them...

Soon after, a green flower-shaped mark was swiftly etched onto the Horned Viper King's snake brain.

The Horned Viper King, who had been struggling, also ceased moving, and its fear vanished.

In its place came a demeanor of docility.

Seeing the Horned Viper King successfully controlled, Lin Feng hurriedly looked at Qinglin in his arms.

However, he found that now she, aside from a slightly pallid complexion due to excessive stamina loss, did not faint as she had last time.

Seeing this, Lin Feng felt a slight stir in his heart; it seemed that with Qinglin's adept use, the consumption of the Azure Serpent Triple‑Bloom Eyes would gradually lessen.

But, upon seeing the desert Horned Viper tribe still rioting below, Lin Feng gave Qinglin another healing medicine.

He then said, "Qinglin, have the Horned Viper King order the rest of its tribe to quiet down."

Qinglin, knowing Lin Feng could not use Purple Cloud Wings for long, immediately contacted the Horned Viper King below and issued the command.

Hearing Qinglin's order, the Horned Viper King let out a roar.

At once, the previously chaotic snake swarm below fell silent, no longer paying attention to Lin Feng and Qinglin.

After landing, once Qinglin regained some stamina, she began to question the Horned Viper King.

Whether it had discovered any place nearby with abnormally high temperature.

After receiving a negative answer, Qinglin immediately shook her head at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng furrowed his brows, then scanned the desert Horned Viper habitat with his gaze.

He found that the desert Horned Vipers living here were conservatively estimated at around two hundred.

He quickly turned and said to Qinglin, who was soothing the Horned Viper King, "Qinglin, have the Horned Viper King dispatch all these desert Horned Vipers to search for places with abnormal temperature."

Upon hearing this, Qinglin thought the plan excellent and conveyed Lin Feng's order to the Horned Viper King.

Soon, with a few deep roars, the surrounding desert Horned Vipers sprang into action, moving in orderly fashion toward all directions.

"Young master, it seems we've found it this time!"

On a sand dune, the girl's small face radiated excitement, her crisp voice calling out to Lin Feng beside her.

"Alright, I'm coming."

He had heard that sentence countless times over the past half month, and replied weakly.

Then, with a vacant stare, he glanced once before slowly walking that way.

However, Qinglin was full of vigor; seeing Lin Feng's condition, she hurried forward, grabbed him, and ran toward the earth hole.

Reaching the entrance, she looked at the cavern over half a meter wide and deep.

She extended her arm, placed it inside, then activated her technique to absorb the Dou Qi within.

"Hm?"

Originally, the fire-attribute Dou Qi of the Tagor Great Desert was already dense, but after the technique pulled the cave's Dou Qi into the meridians.

Lin Feng suddenly realized that the Dou Qi inside was several points denser than that of the outside desert.

His previously vacant eyes instantly became animated.

After feeling it carefully again, he immediately turned to the side and urged, "Qinglin, quickly have those beasts enlarge the cave to a size we can enter."

Seeing Lin Feng's anxious demeanor, Qinglin instantly understood that this time they had truly found the right spot.

She promptly ordered those beasts to carve out the cave so they could go down...

The next day.

Lin Feng stood atop a sand dune, gazing at the passage over a meter wide before him.

It was the tunnel carved out last night by hundreds of snake beasts working overtime.

Lin Feng again instructed Qinglin to select from the desert Horned Vipers two third-tier, ten second-tier, and twenty first-tier peak ones.

"Qinglin, have them go ahead."

"Hmm." Qinglin nodded, and at her command, each desert Horned Viper promptly crawled into the passage.

Looking into the dark depths of the passage, Lin Feng cradled the petite Qinglin in his arms.

Then, he took out a Moonlight Stone, handed it to her, inhaled deeply, and leapt down as well...

Within the black passage, Lin Feng tightly held Qinglin, and their bodies slid down continuously aided by the passage's slope.

In Qinglin's small hand she held a Moonlight Stone.

A faint, gentle light emanated from it.

Thus allowing Lin Feng to discern whether the road ahead was obstructed.

In the narrow passage, only the swish of clothing against sand grains echoed slowly.

After sliding for over ten minutes, Lin Feng could feel the fire-attribute energy in the passage was intensely overwhelming.

One could even say that now ninety percent of the Dou Qi in the air is fire-attribute.

As they went deeper, Lin Feng's complexion grew increasingly grave.

Because he sensed that the internal flow of his technique's pathways began rapid operation on its own, without any deliberate prompting.

This was the first time such a thing had happened since he began cultivation.

It also indicated that beneath the passage lay the 19th-ranked anomalous fire, the Azure Lotus Earth-Core Fire!

Thinking of this, Lin Feng involuntarily swallowed, his face instantly aflame with fervor.

It should be noted that although the Azure Lotus Earth-Core Fire ranks only fifth from the bottom on the anomalous fire list, if obtained at a suitable auction—

—even if priced as an Earth Tier high-level technique or combat skill, countless alchemists would still scramble to buy it.

Moreover, resolving Xiao Yixian's toxic condition also requires anomalous fire.

Although he still lacks a poison pill method, who knows.

Tomorrow, will he just have gotten it...?

"It's coming."

Gazing at the fiery red hue appearing ahead, Lin Feng spoke with a slightly hoarse voice.

Gradually, the fiery red reflected on the passage walls grew thicker and thicker.

Finally, Lin Feng, holding Qing Lin, carved a passage out.

In an instant, the two realized they seemed to have come to a fiery red world!

Within the huge cavern, the fiery magma slowly flowed, occasionally huge bubbles surfacing from within it.

But after a moment, with a slight sound, a bang, it burst open.

The scorching magma shot out violently, as splendid as a fiery red firework.

Standing at the end of the small passage, the two stared blankly at the magma world before them that seemed boundless, both shocked into speechlessness.

After a long while, Lin Feng said to Qing Lin: "In this environment, there should be a double-headed fire spirit snake inside. First release the Horned Viper King; then I will try to lure it out, and you seize the opportunity to control it, otherwise..."

Lin Feng paused for a moment, then solemnly said: "We can only flee back in embarrassment, for if that fellow goes berserk here, the splashing molten lava everywhere is more than we two can withstand."