120: Two-headed Fire Snake

Hot! Unimaginably hot.

Mo Yuhan’s Dou Qi veil instantly hissed violently, and sweat was evaporated as soon as it seeped from his pores.

He felt as if he had been thrown into a giant furnace.

Instructor Ruo Lin’s figure also lightly landed beside him, her light blue water vapor shield now glowing and radiating a cool aura, isolating most of the terrifying high temperature.

She surveyed the boiling hellish scene, her eyes filled with shock and vigilance.

“What terrifying Earth Fire power…”

Instructor Ruo Lin’s voice was grave. She looked at Mo Yuhan, and her water vapor shield expanded slightly, partially enveloping him. Immediately, Mo Yuhan felt the pressure around him lighten, and most of the heat that almost roasted people dry was isolated.

“Thank you, Teacher.”

Mo Yuhan nodded gratefully, his gaze as sharp as the keenest eagle, swiftly scanning this boiling lava World.

His soul perception, like invisible tentacles, stretched out as far as possible, searching for the legendary Azure Lotus, while also being wary of the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake from the original story.

Suddenly, his gaze fixed intently on the central area of the lava lake.

There, about several hundred feet away from their rock platform, the surging lava seemed to form a relatively calm vortex.

And in the center of that vortex, above a viscous, crimson lava, a gigantic azure lotus was impressively growing!

The lotus was entirely a warm, jade-like, and infinitely vibrant azure-green, as if carved from the finest emerald, forming an extremely strong visual contrast with the surrounding destructive crimson.

The enormous lotus had eight petals, each like a giant fan, verdant and dripping, with intricate, mysterious natural patterns on them, subtly swirling with intermingled azure and crimson light, emitting a majestic and pure fire-attribute energy.

At the lotus heart, there were no lotus seeds, but an empty space about a zhang (roughly 3.3 meters) in circumference, which seemed to have once held something, but was now empty.

The lotus seat of the Azure Lotus Core Flame.

The lotus seat was still there, but the cluster of leaping azure flames—the Azure Lotus Core Flame—that should have been in the lotus heart had vanished without a trace.

The faint trace of exotic flame aura remaining in the air was also rapidly dissipating.

Indeed, Queen Medusa had already taken the exotic flame.

Mo Yuhan was not too disappointed; after all, even with his Xuan Huang Flame, he might not necessarily be able to absorb the Azure Lotus Core Flame, which was not yet mature.

His gaze was drawn to the deep azure lotus platform beneath the lotus seat, which supported the entire Azure Lotus.

What made his heart beat even faster was that at the connection point between the lotus platform and the base of the large lotus petals, there were more than a dozen peculiar lotus seeds, about the size of longans, perfectly round, with a surface that shimmered like liquid flames.

Earth Fire Lotus Seeds, the essence of fire spirits.

A rare treasure of heaven and earth that takes a hundred years to condense into one.

Just as Mo Yuhan’s eyes were intently fixed on the Azure Lotus platform and the lotus seeds—

Boom!!!

The lava lake surface not far ahead suddenly exploded.

Crimson magma, like blooming blood-colored fireworks, shot straight up to the cave ceiling!

A violent, savage, and terrifying pressure, carrying an endless scorching aura, swept through the entirecave like a tangible tsunami.

The lava surged, and an enormous shadow slowly rose from the boiling crimson-gold magma.

It was a snake.

A giant snake so massive it was suffocating.

Its body diameter exceeded two meters, covered in a thick layer of scales as crimson as a branding iron, with edges as sharp as knives.

Most horrifyingly, it did not have one head, but two.

Two ferocious snake heads proudly raised from its thick neck, like two erupting miniature volcanoes.

The snake heads were triangular, covered in even thicker, metallic-lustrous dark red scales.

Four gigantic vertical pupils, like four lanterns burning with hellfire, locked onto Mo Yuhan and Instructor Ruo Lin on the rock platform.

There was no rationality of a living creature in the vertical pupils, only the most primitive, most brutal desire for slaughter and guardianship.

Crimson snake tongues, like two giant whips of flame, flickered in and out, emitting a chilling “hissing” sound, each flicker bringing forth large sparks and scorching airwaves.

A terrifying pressure belonging to a peak fifth-rank magical beast, equivalent to a human Dou Ling peak, mixed with the sulfurous scent of magma, slammed heavily into Mo Yuhan’s chest like a sledgehammer.

The Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, the symbiotic guardian magical beast of the Azure Lotus Core Flame.

“Hiss—roar—!!!”

Both snake heads simultaneously let out deafening roars, full of warning and fury.

The violent sound waves, mixed with scorching airwaves, shook the loose rocks at the edge of the platform, causing them to tumble into the lava.

Clearly, Mo Yuhan and Instructor Ruo Lin, these two intruders, especially Mo Yuhan’s undisguised covetous gaze at the lotus platform, had thoroughly enraged this fierce beast guarding the last “treasure.”

“Yu Han, be careful!”

Instructor Ruo Lin let out a clear shout and stepped forward, instantly blocking Mo Yuhan behind her.

The light blue Dou Qi halo around her suddenly surged, spreading out like a surging tide. A cool, moist aura instantly neutralized most of the scorching pressure emitted by the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.

Facing a peak fifth-rank fierce beast, Instructor Ruo Lin held nothing back.

A majestic aura belonging to a Dou Ling powerhouse erupted, blue Dou Qi flowing around her like tangible waves, subtly emitting the sound of rushing tides.

Her eyes were sharp as ice, devoid of any gentleness, leaving only the calmness and fighting spirit of a strong practitioner.

In the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake’s four burning vertical pupils, the savagery intensified. It felt the threat posed by the human female in front of it.

But this did not make it retreat; instead, it thoroughly ignited its ferocity. This was its territory! The lava was its home ground.

Boom! Boom!

Without any warning, the two ferocious snake heads suddenly opened their gaping mouths.

From the left snake mouth, crimson light condensed frantically, instantly forming a rapidly rotating, destructive, giant fireball.

From the right snake mouth, a crimson fire pillar, condensed like a solid and hot enough to ignite the surrounding air, shot out.

The fireball and the fire pillar, one left and one right, with an aura of incinerating all things, tore through the air, instantly crossing hundreds of feet of distance, and furiously bombarded the two people on the rock platform.

Before the attack even arrived, the terrifying high temperature had already caused Mo Yuhan’s Dou Qi veil to fluctuate violently, and his skin felt a strong burning pain.

The rock platform beneath his feet began to heat up.

“Condense!”

Instructor Ruo Lin’s clear, cold voice rang out, carrying a strange rhythm.

The surging blue Dou Qi around her, as if guided by an invisible hand, instantly condensed and compressed in front of her.

Whoosh—!

A gigantic, several-feet-thick, deep blue water shield, entirely composed of pure water-attribute energy, appeared out of thin air.

The water shield’s surface surged with waves, emitting vast and majestic water vapor, instantly transforming the area in front of the platform into a watery realm.

Boom!!!

The giant crimson fireball was the first to violently smash into the water shield.

The violent flame energy exploded wildly, and the crimson and deep blue energies fiercely collided and annihilated each other.

The water shield vibrated violently, a huge concave dent blasted into its surface, and countless water vapor was instantly evaporated, emitting hissing explosions!

Immediately after, the condensed crimson fire pillar, like a red-hot drill, fiercely pierced the center of the water shield.

Hiss—!!!

An extremely sharp sound rang out.

The fire pillar and the water shield fiercely wrestled!

The point of contact erupted with dazzling white light and dense, impenetrable steam.

The water shield was burned and penetrated at a visible rate.

But Instructor Ruo Lin’s expression remained unchanged. Dou Qi continuously poured in, and the water shield vibrated violently, yet it remained resiliently resisting, firmly blocking the destructive fire pillar outside the platform.

The terrifying explosion shockwave and the energy turbulence generated by the collision of water and fire swept across the platform like countless sharp knives.

Mo Yuhan’s eyes were as sharp as an eagle’s, staring intently at the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which was temporarily blocked by the water shield.

He knew that although Teacher’s water shield defense was strong, in this scorching underground World, it consumed a great deal of water-attribute Dou Qi, and passive defense was by no means a long-term solution.