Chapter 61: Night Exploration of the Fire-type Simulation Environment

As Li Xuan clicks "Confirm" on the Light Screen of the Treasure-seeking Compass, a golden ray flashes, and the next moment a palm‑sized black compass materializes in Li Xuan's hand.

Li Xuan carefully holds the compass in his palm and begins to examine it closely.

The compass is only palm‑sized and divided into three rings: the outermost bears King Wen's Sixty‑four Hexagrams and the Twelve Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the middle ring shows the Eight Trigrams and the Five Elements, and the innermost contains the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man and the Yin‑Yang Taiji Fish.

Li Xuan extends his hand to test it; all three rings of the Treasure-seeking Compass rotate, and the base can be grasped.

The compass is entirely jet‑black, heavy to the touch, apparently metal, though Li Xuan is unsure of the exact material.

Li Xuan takes a deep breath and slowly channels his soul power from his body into the Treasure-seeking Compass.

As Li Xuan's soul power flows into the compass, the runes on its surface gradually light up, and at the instant all runes are illuminated—

Creak…

The three circles inside the Treasure-seeking Compass each begin to turn, and the very center of the compass projects a golden circular Light Screen.

The golden Light Screen, aside from a cyan light dot at its center, is otherwise empty; it seems the Treasure-seeking Compass has no target to search yet.

Looking at the compass in his hand, Li Xuan furrows his brows.

The Treasure-seeking Compass's cooldown period is a full hundred days—three months!

Therefore Li Xuan must still use the Treasure-seeking Compass with great caution.

Lowering his head and frowning, Li Xuan begins to contemplate what he wants the compass to find.

What Li Xuan wants most now is a cultivation technique; with a technique he could cultivate normally, instead of the foolish and time‑wasting method of relying on Alchemy to boost his level! Yet the introduction says the Treasure-seeking Compass can only locate things that exist on Douluo Continent, and there are no techniques on Douluo Continent.

Li Xuan also worries that after entering a cultivation technique, the result might be Mystic Heaven Art, which would waste the compass's three‑month cooldown.

After all, the only proper cultivation technique on Douluo Continent is Mystic Heaven Art.

"Then there's only one thing left: a Fire-attribute Immortal Grade!" Li Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said firmly to the compass.

Li Xuan is about to break through to level 20, so he needs an Immortal Grade spirit plant as his Second Soul Ring, but he truly cannot find a second Fire-attribute Immortal Grade spirit plant.

Moreover, Li Xuan is certain that entering a Fire-attribute Immortal Grade spirit plant has its own reason.

First, Li Xuan is not sure whether, besides Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan, any other Fire-attribute Immortal Grades exist; after all, Immortal Grades are not common vegetables, they are extremely rare and not everywhere.

If no other place has a Fire-attribute Immortal Grade spirit plant,

then the closest one would be the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower that grows inside Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan!

When the compass later searches, it would reveal not only the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower but also the location of Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan; as long as Dugu Bo is absent, Li Xuan could quietly strip Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan empty! But doing so would be far too dangerous!

That would be no different from snakelike plunder, and even Dugu Bo would issue a warrant for Li Xuan.

Li Xuan will not steal from Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan unless absolutely necessary.

However, if the compass does not locate the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, Li Xuan could still obtain another Immortal Grade spirit plant for his soul ring, and it would buy him time to continue dealing with Dugu Bo; once the path to Dugu Bo is cleared, entering Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan becomes reasonable and no longer dangerous.

As Li Xuan finishes speaking, the Treasure-seeking Compass levitates, its three circular rings spin at high speed, and various colored light dots begin to appear on the golden Light Screen.

After a short while, the compass slowly comes to a halt, returns to Li Xuan's hand, and a dark‑red light dot appears on the radar Light Screen.

Seeing the newly appeared dark‑red dot on the compass and checking the distance the compass marks between himself and the spirit plant,

"Two kilometers? It's only two kilometers away from me?" Li Xuan gapes in shocked amazement; he never expected the Immortal Grade spirit plant to be this close! It's unbelievably near!

Li Xuan double‑checks the direction indicated by the compass.

"This place… should I go? Isn't this a Fire-type Simulation Environment?" Li Xuan no longer knows what to say.

A Fire-type Simulation Environment actually harbors an Immortal Grade spirit plant, and he spent an afternoon cultivating there without sensing it!

"Seems I underestimated this place; I'll have to explore the Mimetic Cultivation Environment tomorrow," Li Xuan frowns, looks at the compass, rubs his smooth chin, and mutters.

Glancing at the night outside, Li Xuan suddenly gets a bold idea: at night the Fire-type Simulation Environment should have few, if any, people.

It's a perfect chance for him to explore.

Li Xuan is also an action type; he acts immediately, swaps into a pure black night‑cloaked outfit, gathers the Starfire Fruit from the room, ensures the hallway is empty, then tiptoes out, closes the door, and leaves the dormitory holding the compass.

Tonight the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, making the ground especially clear, so Li Xuan carefully follows the moonlight, weaving through the academy.

Lanba Academy has its own patrol team, but the academy's area is vast and the surrounding woods are many, making it easy for Li Xuan to evade the patrols.

Li Xuan proceeds cautiously toward the Fire-type Simulation Environment, encountering a few patrols along the way, yet he slips past them without incident.

Soon he reaches the entrance to the Fire-type Simulation Environment; Zhou Miao has already left, and the gates are locked.

Although Li Xuan is young and slight, he can just squeeze through the doorway crack.

Having reached the doorway, Li Xuan hesitates no longer and pushes himself inside.

Inside the Fire-type Simulation Environment, Li Xuan pulls the compass from his chest, feeds it soul power, and the golden thunder map reappears.

Sure enough, the Fire-attribute Immortal Grade spirit plant is within the Fire-type Simulation Environment, and he is now only a few hundred meters from it.

Li Xuan carefully observes the surrounding area and precisely identifies the direction of the spirit plant.

He finally confirms the spirit plant is at the very top of Huoyan Peak! "Even a Soul Saint‑level being can't get in; can I?" Li Xuan mutters, his voice full of doubt.

But since he's already here, Li Xuan isn't a coward; he must try anyway! "Then… let's storm Huoyan Peak!" Li Xuan says, springs into motion, and rushes toward the summit.

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