52: Enter

Gray Harrier roared, his scimitar suddenly erupting with a gray Saber Gang, forcing Sikong Xuan to temporarily retreat. He took the opportunity to slash a fierce blade of Saber Qi toward the stone bridge!

The Saber Qi spanned dozens of feet, carrying a piercing whistle as it slashed toward the middle of the stone bridge!

"Watch out!" Liu Qingli cried out in alarm.

Without even turning his head, Lin Mo struck backward with a backhand sword strike!

A condensed, pale-golden Sword Qi flew from the sword. Instead of meeting it head-on, it precisely struck the weak side of Gray Harrier's Saber Qi!

"Sshhhla!"

The Saber Qi was deflected slightly, grazing the edge of the stone bridge and slicing off a large chunk of the bridge body, which fell into the lava.

Lin Mo's body swayed, and he used the momentum to charge forward even faster!

In the blink of an eye, he had reached the edge of the breach.

Below was a churning lava lake, the heat waves scorching. Across the breach was another section of the stone bridge's remains, hanging precariously over the lava lake.

And on the side of the bridge body about five feet below the breach, a dark, pitch-black cave entrance could be seen, half-hidden by collapsed rocks!

At the edge of the cave entrance, there was a faint sense of spatial distortion and an even clearer Seal fluctuation originating from the same source as the rusted sword!

"The entrance!" Lin Mo's gaze narrowed.

He glanced at Fang Han, then at Liu Qingli and the other two who had caught up, as well as Gray Harrier, who was once again entangled by Sikong Xuan in the increasingly chaotic battlefield behind them.

"I'm going down to scout the way. Senior Sister Liu, Senior Brother Chen, Senior Brother Lei, you all stay here and hold the bridgehead to block any pursuers. Fang Han, stay with Senior Sister Liu," Lin Mo ordered quickly.

"Young Master! Let me go down with you!" Fang Han said urgently.

"The situation below is unclear, and your cultivation is insufficient; it's safer for you to stay up here," Lin Mo said unquestionably. "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

With that, he no longer hesitated. Aiming for the cave entrance, he leaped down the breach!

"Lin Mo!" Liu Qingli exclaimed.

As Lin Mo fell, he slammed the rusted sword into the side of the bridge. Sparks flew, slowing his descent. At the same time, he used the momentum to swing his body, landing precisely at the rock-covered cave entrance.

Just as he was about to land in the cave entrance—

"Roar!!!"

In the center of the lava lake, the Earth Fire Demon Puppet that was fighting the Black Iron Guards seemed to sense something. It snapped its head around, its two crimson flame eye sockets staring fixedly at Lin Mo!

It actually abandoned the enemies in front of it and gave a wild roar. Its massive body crashed through the Black Iron Guards blocking its way as it strode toward the stone bridge! Every step sent lava splashing and made the ground shake!

It seemed to have an instinctive and extreme hatred and desire for Lin Mo, or rather, for the rusted sword in Lin Mo's hand!

To make matters worse, seeing this, a look of ruthlessness flashed in Gray Harrier's eyes. Ignoring Sikong Xuan's attack and enduring a palm strike that made him cough up blood, he threw several sickly green Bone Nails toward the stone bridge, aiming straight for Lin Mo's back!

At the same time, he shouted fiercely, "Stop him! Don't let him go in!"

Several Grassland Warriors threw themselves at the bridgehead, disregarding their lives in an attempt to break through the defensive line of Liu Qingli and the other two.

With the demon puppet charging in front, a sneak attack from behind, the searing lava below, and powerful enemies surrounding him above...

Lin Mo was suspended in mid-air, his old momentum exhausted and no new strength yet generated. He seemed to be in a desperate situation!

Liu Qingli, Chen Feng, and Lei Meng were filled with grief and rage, desperately trying to help, but they were pinned down by the swarming Grassland Warriors.

Sikong Xuan's expression also changed. He wanted to help, but he was held back by Gray Harrier and two other Grassland experts who were fighting to the death.

At this critical moment—

A brilliant light suddenly erupted from Lin Mo's eyes!

His Qi Sea Acupoint began to spin frantically at an unprecedented speed!

The majestic blood-qi within his body, which had been superimposed over a hundred times and tempered a thousand times, far exceeding ordinary understanding, exploded outward!

His pale-golden internal qi was no longer hidden, surging through his entire body like a river breaking a dam!

While in mid-air, he twisted his body violently in a manner that defied common logic!

His left hand shot out like a Dragon, his fingers curving into a claw. internal qi condensed in his palm, creating a small vortex as he snatched at the incoming sickly green Bone Nails!

"Come to me!"

A powerful suction force was generated out of thin air. Those menacing Bone Nails were actually pulled off course and gathered into his palm like swallows returning to their nest!

The sinister, corrosive energy attached to the Bone Nails erupted instantly, trying to corrode his palm!

However, pale-golden light flowed beneath the skin of Lin Mo's palm, and his muscles vibrated at high speed, forcibly shattering and annihilating that sinister energy! Only a few scorched marks remained.

Simultaneously, he pushed off the bridge body with the rusted sword in his right hand, using the force to lift himself another half-foot, narrowly avoiding a wave of blazing lava swung from a distance by the Earth Fire Demon Puppet!

The wave of fire grazed the soles of his feet, melting deep grooves into the rocks below.

"Going down!"

Lin Mo gave a low shout, and his body plummeted like a thousand-pound weight toward the dark cave entrance.

At the very last moment before entering the cave, he backhandedly threw those sickly green Bone Nails—which he had temporarily sealed with his internal qi—back the way they came using a special technique!

The targets were the Earth Fire Demon Puppet charging desperately toward him and the grimacing Gray Harrier not far behind it!

The Bone Nails pierced the air, traveling even faster than when they arrived! And with the enhancement of Lin Mo's internal qi, they carried a faint sound of wind and thunder!

"What?!" Gray Harrier was greatly shocked. He wanted to dodge, but he was a beat too slow due to his injuries and exhausted momentum.

Puff, puff, puff!

Most of the Bone Nails sank into the back of the Earth Fire Demon Puppet, while a few grazed Gray Harrier's body, drawing a trail of blood.

The sinister energy on the Bone Nails that originally belonged to Gray Harrier, mixed with Lin Mo's pale-golden internal qi, exploded violently inside the Earth Fire Demon Puppet!

"Roar—!!!"

The Earth Fire Demon Puppet let out an earth-shattering roar of pain. Its massive body trembled violently, and large patches of lava and rock crumbled from its surface.

Its aura instantly became withered and chaotic, its forward momentum came to a dead stop, and it even stumbled backward, crushing two Grassland Warriors who couldn't dodge in time into meat paste.

Gray Harrier was also injured by the Bone Nails that grazed him. A strange itching and piercing pain came from the wounds, leaving him both shocked and furious.

As for Lin Mo, he had already used the counter-force to flash like a homing swallow, completely disappearing into the dark cave entrance.

"Bastard!!!" Gray Harrier's roar and the Earth Fire Demon Puppet's howl mixed together, echoing through the Circular Depression.

Seeing this, Liu Qingli and the other two felt somewhat relieved. they fought even harder to hold the bridgehead, not letting any enemy near the cave entrance.

A strange light flickered in Sikong Xuan's eyes as he thought to himself, 'This boy... what amazing adaptability, and such a profound and strange Foundation! Sun Changqing has certainly taken in an extraordinary Disciple!'

The battle entered a new, more intense, and chaotic phase due to Lin Mo's intrusion and the wounding of the Earth Fire Demon Puppet.

Inside the cave, after experiencing a brief moment of weightlessness and darkness, Lin Mo's feet finally landed on solid but scorching ground.

Before him was a passage sloping downward, with obvious signs of manual excavation.

Dull crystals that had long lost their luster were embedded in the rock walls on both sides of the corridor, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of sulfur.

There was also an extremely faint but peculiar aura that made the rusted sword vibrate violently and caused the Aperture Condensation Method in his body to spontaneously accelerate.

It was Spiritual Qi, more concentrated and pure than that of the outside world.

Lin Mo gripped the rusted sword tightly. The 'seven stars of the mountain peak' mark on the blade emitted a steady warmth, guiding his way.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his surging blood-qi, and with eyes as sharp as a blade, strode into the depths of the corridor.