79: Traversing the void, a first exploration of the fiery realm

The Trial of the Heavens' passage was filled with bizarre lights and chaotic spatial-temporal forces. Ordinary flying Magical Artifacts had to traverse it cautiously, fearing being swept into unknown spatial turbulence. However, the Chaos starship moved like a fish in water. The star patterns on its hull flowed, easily smoothing the surrounding violent energy, making its journey exceptionally stable.

In the main control room, Lin Yang stood with his hands behind his back before the light screen, his gaze deep as he watched the rapidly fleeting starlight outside the window. Bai Wanqing, Su Qingyue, and the newly joined Chu Yunxi and Chu Yuning, the Chu Sisters, curiously observed everything inside the starship. Even the Chu Sisters, who hailed from the Xuantian Sword Sect, had never seen such a miraculous and powerful creation, and their beautiful eyes sparkled with wonder.

"This starship can actually travel like this in the Trial of the Heavens' passage; it's simply unheard of," Chu Yunxi murmured, her usually cool face unable to hide her shock.

"Of course! Big Brother Lin Yang's treasure is naturally amazing!" Chu Yuning felt a sense of pride, as if the starship belonged to her family. She playfully ran to the control panel, touching here and looking there.

Lin Yang smiled slightly and explained, "The starship's core shares the same Origin as the chaos star core, allowing it to draw Chaos energy to replenish its consumption and giving it a natural affinity and control over spatial forces. For it, the Trial of the Heavens' passage is not much different from ordinary starry space."

With a thought, a three-dimensional star map, condensed from starlight, appeared in the center of the main control room. On the star map, a light point was moving in a bright passage, and in the distance, a particularly striking light point glowed with a scorching red light.

"According to the star core's sensing, the closest Small World with the most active Origin energy is called the 'Blazing Fire Realm'," Lin Yang pointed to the red light point. "This realm is extremely rich in fire-elemental energy, making it suitable as the first stop for our trial. It can also allow the star core to devour its Origin, further repairing and strengthening the ship's hull."

"We'll leave it to Young Lord (Senior Brother)," The Four Women had no objections. Su Qingyue meticulously began to retrieve the faint information fragments about the Blazing Fire Realm detected by the starship: "Detection shows that this realm is vast, with an extreme environment, many volcanoes and lava. The fire-elemental creatures living here generally have strong energy reactions and require cautious handling."

The starship was extremely fast, and before long, a huge fiery vortex exit appeared at the end of the passage ahead.

"Hold on tight, prepare to descend into the Blazing Fire Realm!" Lin Yang gave the command, and the starship's bow turned, plunging into the fiery vortex without hesitation.

A violent tremor came, as if passing through a scorching thin membrane. The next moment, the scene before them suddenly opened up.

A crimson sky came into view, the air filled with a strong smell of sulfur and suffocating heat. The earth was cracked, covered in dark red rocks and winding rivers of lava. In the distance, several massive volcanoes were erupting smoke and flames, painting the sky a fiery red. The entire world seemed like a giant furnace.

"So... so hot!" Chu Yuning couldn't help but exclaim, quickly circulating her true essence to resist the high temperature. The other women also did the same.

Lin Yang, however, felt the chaos star core in his body tremble slightly, conveying a joyful and excited emotion, as if a hungry person had seen delicious food. The abundant fire-elemental Origin energy of this world was a great tonic for the star core.

"starship hover, activate environmental adaptation and energy shield," Lin Yang calmly ordered. "We'll conduct a preliminary scan first to find the most core energy region."

The starship silently hovered high in the sky, its light golden energy shield isolating the external high temperature. Various detection runes lit up, beginning to scan the entire Blazing Fire Realm.

Soon, the results came back. The strongest energy reaction was located at the bottom of the largest active volcano in the west.

"It seems the realm's core is there," Lin Yang's gaze locked onto the continuously erupting giant mountain. "Prepare to descend, we..."

Before he could finish, the starship's alarm System suddenly blared!

Whoosh—whoosh—!

"Detecting a large number of high-energy life forms rapidly approaching from the ground and lava!" Su Qingyue immediately reported the data displayed on the light screen.

Below, on the crimson earth, countless creatures, their bodies burning with flames, resembling lizards, giant wolves, and even humanoids, emerged from behind rocks and from lava rivers. They roared silently at the sky (sound cannot travel in a vacuum or special medium, but energy fluctuations can be felt), their crimson eyes fixed on the starship in the sky, filled with hostility.

Immediately after, dozens of scorching fire pillars erupted from the ground, like reverse waterfalls of flame, fiercely striking the starship!

Boom, boom, boom!

Violent ripples spread across the energy shield, and the entire ship's hull shook slightly.

"They've taken the starship for an invader!" Bai Wanqing frowned.

"It seems peaceful acquisition of the Origin is impossible," Lin Yang's eyes showed no fear; instead, his Battle Intent surged. "Perfect, let's use them to test the starship's weapon System and stretch our muscles!"

"Lock onto targets below, prepare secondary cannons, open fire!"

As Lin Yang's command was given, dozens of muzzles slowly extended from the sides and bottom of the starship, condensing dazzling white light.

The next moment, countless scorching energy beams poured down like a violent storm, accurately striking the flame-spitting creatures!

The first battle of the Trial of the Heavens erupted instantly in this scorching world of flames!