With a gloomy look on his face, Wang Lin rapidly raced away along the passageway. Suddenly he stopped, as countless flames quickly gathered before him to form a beast with a pair of triangularly-shaped eyes and a flame-emitting body. It stared at Wang Lin, revealing its killing intent.
Without any hesitation, Wang Lin immediately attacked it with his Ji Realm Divine Consciousness. A bolt of red lightning emerged from Wang Lin’s eyes and shot out to drill into the fire beast. The creature’s gaze flickered. Its flames weakened a bit but then immediately returned to normal. A vertical crack emerged from between its eyes, and as it spread, a roar emerged from the beast as it came towards Wang Lin to swallow him.
Wang Lin’s face darkened as he turned to retreat, but then his pupils narrowed. To his surprise, there was another fire beast behind him.
At this moment there were two fire beasts within this narrow passageway. Wang Lin clenched his teeth as the iron sheet began spinning once more to dig another passageway.
But then all of a sudden, the two fire beasts roared in unison. The surrounding soil suddenly started turning red, and Wang Lin’s heart thumped as the soil rapidly wrapped around him and hardened, forming a spherical cage.
The cage continued to tighten up, and with a bang it was completely sealed.
At this moment, layer after layer of earth appeared to rise and crack aboveground. The layers gradually collapsed from the inside, quickly forming a very large basin with a black-colored earthen sphere in the middle.
Eight fire beasts with triangular eyes surrounded the earthen sphere, spraying it continuously with fiery liquid. The ball slowly shrank, becoming smaller and smaller. When a diameter of only a half meter remained, the fire beasts stopped spraying the fiery liquid.
One of the fire beasts picked up the earthen sphere and quickly drilled underground, followed by the rest of the fire beasts. They burrowed through the ground incredibly rapidly, reaching the inside of the volcanic cave in the blink of an eye.
The fire beast that had been holding the earthen sphere tossed it down and jumped immediately after it. Caught in the magma, the ball disappeared into the lava pool along with the beasts. A few bubbles appeared on the surface of lava pool as it slowly returned to its previous calm state.
The black mist surrounding the volcano slowly dissipated, and the cracks on the ground gradually resumed their normal appearance. Apart from the huge basin above ground, no evidence remained that the fire beasts had ever appeared.
In fact, this type of basin was very common in Huo Fen Country. Almost all the volcanoes in the region had similar basins of varying sizes around them.
Wang Lin held himself, resisting the bursts of high temperature. As he wrapped his entire body with the Ji Realm Consciousness, his divine sense slowly disintegrated the earthen sphere.
He could clearly feel himself sinking. After a long time, the earthen sphere shook as his divine sense finally broke through the last restrictive layer. He could finally see everything around him.
Seemingly limitless amounts of magma flowed like countless rivers through numerous channels, each fusing harmoniously with the others.
The earthen sphere that he was in was floating on the magma. Seven or eight other earthen spheres of approximately the same size were scattered beside him. Atop each sphere lay a fire beast.
In the surrounding magma, countless densely packed pairs of triangular eyes appeared. A fire beast leapt out from the magma onto Wang Lin’s earthen sphere. It did not notice Wang Lin’s Divine Consciousness as it slowly lay down.
As time wore on, several more fire beasts appeared from the passageways above, each without exception carrying an earthen sphere.
Suddenly, the magma shook, and one by one the fire beasts began to spread out in the magma. In the resulting empty space, an enormous fire beast emerged from the magma. Wang Lin quickly retracted his divine consciousness, cautiously opting to watch and wait.
Ordinary fire beasts were only three feet tall, but this fire beast’s head alone was taller than five feet. As its appearance was slowly revealed, an intense pressure emerged, and all of the surrounding fire beasts stood still.
Wang Lin was startled. This fire beast’s strength was in no way inferior to the YuanYing stage and was likely even stronger. In the end Wang Lin could not judge its true strength, since he had never seen Spirit Forming cultivators in action.
As the huge fire beast’s eyes swept around, he casually swam to the left, and another fire beast of the same size emerged. More appeared one after the other, until a total of sixteen had appeared.
These sixteen fire beasts began swimming in a circle. Within the circle, a translucent ring of fire slowly emerged from the magma, from which shone seven coloured lights.
Wang Lin concentrated on that sight. Under the ring of fire, an illusory figure s