40: Yan Yuyuan, the disciple has fallen!

Flying over the strait, Su Ling saw vaguely visible super sea beasts below.

Su Ling couldn't help but wonder if he had Transmigrated to another Universe.

Or, if he had only Transmigrated to another distant planet.

But he quickly felt relieved.

All of this no longer mattered.

The former Dark Walker was dead.

The current Su Ling was a Middle Foundation Establishment Stage immortal cultivator not yet twenty years old.

This world, or rather this Universe, had too many unknowns waiting for him to explore and discover.

This life would definitely be more exciting than the last!

Yun Qingluan, who had been secretly observing Su Ling, showed a look of confusion in her eyes.

In just a few breaths, she saw a series of expressions on Su Ling's face: amazement, bewilderment, loss, relief, excitement, and longing.

Yun Qingluan truly couldn't understand how one person's expression could change so much.

...

More than an hour later, the two finally arrived at the edge of the Blazing Hell Abyss.

As the Nether Sparrow flew through the air, Su Ling excitedly surveyed the front.

A Formation Plate silently slipped from Yun Qingluan's sleeve and, guided by the Nether Sparrow's Divine Soul, descended directly downwards.

It finally embedded itself in the crimson cliff face of the Blazing Hell Abyss.

Five crystal-clear Top-Grade Spirit Stones began to release spiritual power.

A round bead in the center of the Formation Plate slowly began to turn.

"Senior Sister, the fire Qi in this Blazing Hell Abyss is very strong; the ground is hot."

The Nether Sparrow flew dozens of miles into the Blazing Hell Abyss continent before slowly landing. Su Ling touched the ground with his hand, surprised.

Yun Qingluan nodded slightly, waved her hand to release the human puppet, and walked forward.

Su Ling stood up and clapped his hands, summoning his golden bone sword and crocodile scale armor.

The terrain of the Blazing Hell Abyss was mainly composed of volcanoes, plains, and crisscrossing canyons.

The overall environment was extremely hot, with magma veins rupturing the continent and lava spreading like blood across it.

The Yao Beasts here were mostly fire or earth element.

After traveling only a few miles, the two encountered three waves of First-Tier worm-like Yao Beasts that emerged from the lava.

Su Ling threw out more than a dozen Ice Flame Crows, annihilating them all.

He then secretly appraised them.

[Earth Fire Worm, First-Tier Middle Stage Yao Beast]

Although their strength was not impressive, Su Ling's vigilance did not decrease in the slightest.

The frequency of Yao Beasts appearing in the Blazing Hell Abyss was even higher than in the Yuanze Mountain Range.

Moreover, they appeared in groups.

Previously in the Yuanze Mountain Range, groups of Yao Beasts occasionally appeared, but their numbers were at most a dozen.

Unlike here, where in just a few miles, three waves appeared, with each wave of Earth Fire Worms having at least ten.

Su Ling couldn't help but wonder if these Earth Fire Worms belonged to the same group.

Perhaps they just emerged through different lava channels.

With this question in mind, the two simply rode the Nether Sparrow again, quickly traveling five hundred miles.

Along the way, they also passed a lava pool several miles wide.

Out of curiosity, Su Ling swept it with his Divine Sense.

There was actually an extremely massive rock at the bottom of the lava pool.

Upon this discovery, Su Ling couldn't help but look up at the remnant star in the night sky.

He began to suspect that the reason the Cuiye Plane, or Cuiye Star, split into so many continents might be due to impact from fragments of that remnant star.

Just as they were about to encounter a group of dozens of fire-element flying Yao Beasts, the Nether Sparrow swiftly descended into a mountain hollow.

"Second-Tier flying Yao Beasts, there are too many of them."

Su Ling peered out from the lava cave entrance, looking at the flock of birds with some solemnity.

With the Nether Sparrow's speed, they weren't afraid of these Yao Beasts.

But they couldn't just run away every time they encountered a wave.

The main purpose of coming to the Blazing Hell Abyss was to find blazing sun flower stamen or ten thousand year jade marrow.

"Let's go."

Yun Qingluan led the human puppet forward, then turned and stepped into the cave.

The cave was hotter than outside; after traveling less than a hundred zhang, they saw a lava river slowly flowing.

Both of their magical powers were yin in nature, so they didn't feel the intense heat.

Su Ling took out a bone-spiked Magical Artifact bow and held it in his hand, and an Ice Flame Arrow slowly formed.

During their journey, Yun Qingluan had again taken action, using the sinews and bones of a Wind Roar Tiger to re-refine a Medium Grade Magical Artifact bow for him.

Because of the Wind Roar Tiger's wind attribute, this Magical Artifact bow also had a certain speed bonus for the arrows shot.

When fully unleashed, the magical power arrows were like a torrential rain.

It was much better than the previous white bone bow.

As the two and one corpse delved deeper, fire-element Yao Beasts gradually appeared.

Lava Fire Snakes that spat lava, Earth Fire Bats that scattered fireballs, Dark Fire Spiders that manipulated fiery spider silk to weave large nets, and Profound Fire Tortoises that wielded lava arrows...

They even encountered a Fire Crystal Monster that was born from a molten fire crystal mine, with extremely strong defenses and strength approaching Peak Foundation Establishment.

The sheer variety truly opened Su Ling and Yun Qingluan's eyes.

In the Underground World, there were also lava-type fire-element creatures.

But they were definitely not this abundant.

It was a pity that the Divine Souls of these Yao Beasts were exceptionally weak.

Even the Fire Crystal Monster was dispatched by Su Ling with a single Ghost Soul Arrow, yielding a large pile of extremely rare refining materials.

As for other fire-element Yao Beasts below Peak Foundation Establishment.

The ice attribute of the Nether Abyss Ice Flame showed extremely strong suppressive power.

Su Ling solved them without Yun Qingluan having to do much.

The lava cave was intricate and vast, with an exceptionally large space.

However, perhaps because this place was still on the outskirts of the Blazing Hell Abyss, resources were not abundant.

The two searched the convoluted caves for half a month, only harvesting a few decent fire-element Spiritual Plants and many fire-element Ores.

There was no trace of ten thousand year jade marrow or blazing sun flower stamen.

Helplessly, Su Ling could only take Yun Qingluan with him, following the pre-made markers to return to the surface.

They then headed towards the deeper center of the Blazing Hell Abyss.

...

It had been nearly a year since the Xuanming Sect activated the teleportation array to send Disciples below the Foundation Establishment Stage into the Cuiye Secret Realm.

In the main hall, more than a dozen Nascent Soul Elders looked at the Soul Lamps in the center of the hall, their expressions calm.

Of the tens of thousands of Soul Lamps, only three or four hundred were still lit.

However, the Soul Lamps of several Personal Disciples were exceptionally bright.

"Good, they have all advanced to Core Formation."

Sect Head Huo Qinggu nodded in satisfaction.

Vice Sect Master Ren Fengyu and the various hall masters all smiled.

Not long ago, Li Xinghe, Wu Tiehun, Feng Xingyun, Li Lingzhi, and the Personal Disciples of several Nascent Soul Elders all successfully advanced to Core Formation.

The brightness of their Soul Lamps increased significantly.

With Magic Treasures in hand, numerous High Grade and supreme grade Magical Artifacts by their side, and a soul imprint as a backup plan.

The life-saving abilities of these Personal Disciples were much stronger than those of ordinary Foundation Establishment Disciples.

However, among the dozen or so Nascent Soul Elders, two still had rather unpleasant expressions.

Inner Sect Elder Zhao Qiyan and Elder of Artifact Hall Liu Zhe.

Their Personal Disciples had fallen in the fourth and seventh months after entering the Cuiye Secret Realm, respectively.

One was extremely unlucky; while entangled with a Third-tier Demon Beast in the Cloud Miasma Marsh, he was targeted by a passing Fourth-Tier Demonic Beast.

Even at the moment of crisis, activating Zhao Qiyan's soul imprint.

He still couldn't escape the fate of being killed by the Fourth-Tier Demonic Beast.

The other was purely seeking death; in the Corrupted Forest, he luckily discovered a Ghost-Faced Yin Hibiscus that was greatly useful even for Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, and actually dared to try to snatch it from the mouth of a Middle Fourth-Tier Weeping Soul Crow with only a Magical Artifact that could conceal his aura.

The result was predictable: the moment he touched the Ghost-Faced Yin Hibiscus.

He was shaken out of Liu Zhe's soul imprint by a cry from the Weeping Soul Crow.

Liu Zhe himself was only in the Nascent Soul Early Stage; how could a mere soul imprint be a match for the Weeping Soul Crow?

Moments later, that Personal Disciple's Divine Soul was completely devoured.