Inside the Fire Realm, one could see a hot gooeyva river moving in zig zags. If one wasn''t careful and greedy, they would mistake theva river for a river of gold. Through the bubblingva river, a boat was slowly moving. A girl who had a three-headed pet on herp sat on the opposite side of the young man who was rowing the boat. Obviously, it was Gaya, Vedora, and Noah on the boat as no one else would be crazy enough to choose this route instead of a safer and longer road.
"Are you absolutely sure there are no fishes in the river?" Ayag asked, giving Gaya a puppy look.
She instead just rolled her eyes,
"You just ate thest of my cookies"
Rather than minding Gaya and the hydra''s quarrel which was going on for days, Noah focused on the surroundings. There was nothing else except for destend as far as he could see. Few boulders here and there and that''s it. The sky was as usual red while the air was filled with ash particles. The red and graybination gave off an eerie feeling to the fire realm.
"Fuck how long it has been since we came here?" Ayag asked,
"94 days to be exact" A glimmer of sadness emerged in Gaya''s eyes. She looked at the distant horizon thinking about Ghost and Nightmare. She missed the two of them like crazy.
Noah could see the sadness in her eyes. In fact, he felt happy for Ghost to find a girl who loves him like Gaya. Although she killed innocents andmitted many crimes, Noah didn''t want the two of them to be separated because of him. He believed in second chances. This was Gaya''s second chance.
They had been in the river for five days. Unlike Gaya believed, there were indeed fishes in the river along with dangerous beasts. If it wasn''t for the solution Noah applied on the boat, they would have been inside some beast''s belly.
The solution was provided to him by the Alpha guardian of Hunter Guardians herself.? After rowing for another five continuous days, Noah''s hands started to ache. Fortunately, Noah turned back to see a couple of burned trees appear in his sight.
"Hey" Noah called out to Gaya to bring her back to reality.
"That''s the entrance" Gaya followed his gaze to see two lone trees that had no leaves whatsoever. Even the lightning-struck trees wouldn''t look as ck and lifeless as those two trees.
"We can beach the boat there," Gaya pointed at the ash shore. Noah nodded before rowing the boat towards the shore. After beaching the copper boat, Gaya ced Vedora inside her satchel safely. They didn''t rush but cautiously walked towards the lone trees.
"That''s the spot," Noah said.
Vedora craned their necks out to look at the spot Noah pointed at. However, they could only see two ordinary trees, and they didn''t find anything unusual.
"What the hell are you talking about? There''s nothing but burned trees there" Ayag said,
"Weird" Cain mumbled. He was suspicious of the two lone trees, they seemed out of ce.
"Try to sense the energy fluctuations brat. There''s a natural formation between the trees " Gaya flicked the head of Ayag,.
"What? What the heck is a natural formation?"
"It''s kind of an illusion array but very different from those made by humans. A natural formation is formed by nature after gathering condensed Arch energy for thousands of years. It''s a miraculous process, and many know very little about it. Anyone can easily be trapped by it if they don''t pay enough attention" Noah exined.
His exnation made Ayag frown deeper,
"If it''s a fucking illusion array, why are you two crazy heads heading towards it instead of running away from it?"
"I said it''s a kind of Illusion array. Natural formations also act as a portal to travel around the Fire realm"
"Oh, then we are gonna finally get the fuck out of this ce. Let''s go"
Ayag changed her opinion lightning quick. She now looked excited to go between the two trees unlike a few seconds ago.
Noah too couldn''t help but sigh in relief, as if he had just seen a light carrying hope. There were many invisible natural defense mechanisms and formations existing within the depths of Fire Realm, and they came to thisva river because of a natural formation. If they could find another natural formation, they would have a chance at the river. After all, the solution couldnt fend off the beast forever. When or if they came out of the river, they were good as dead.
"Let''s go!"
Swoosh!
Both Gaya and Noah immediately dashed towards the space between the two trees.
The aura of the natural defense mechanism in this valley was pretty obvious, even Ayag could sense it as they approached. Its aura was much more powerfulpared to the formations they happened to stumble upon.
When the three of them went through the space between the trees, they disappeared from the deste valley. The scene in front of them changed dramatically once again. It was a in gray world in front of them. The eerie and chilly energies within were so much strongerpared to the deste value they just came from.
A stinking smell filled up the air within the ce, extremely unpleasant and pungent. Besides this, ck whirlwinds appeared all over the ce, and the air blowing across the ce was cutting them to the marrow. It also carried a strong corrosive characteristic.
"Congrattions, we escaped from the frying pan into the fire" Ayag couldn''t help but curse.
"Be careful, there is poisonous vapor all over the ce. A deadly toxic gas merged with the freezing vapor, causing this poisonous vapor to be formed. It''s a deadly thing that can kill any cultivator." Noah reminded.
"Is that so?" Gaya snickered as she walked towards one of the ck whirlwinds.
"Bitch stop, are you trying to kill us?!" Ayag screamed trying to stop Gaya from walking towards the poison whirlwinds.
Gay reached out to touch the whirlwind. Noah was stunned to see nothing really happened to her. Although Naga''s were resistant to most poisons, they were not immune to the poison whirlwinds of Fire Realm. However, nothing happened to Gaya when she touched the poison whirlwind. It should have entered through the finger to her brain and killed her in a few seconds. Since that never happened, there was only one exnation for this. That was Ghost made her immune to the poisons using some Legendary potions. Noah heard about potions that could be brewed by 5-star Alchemists to make someonepletely resistant to the poisons known to man.
"Huh?" Ayag opened her eyes to see nothing had happened to her like she was expecting.? As Gaya was looking smug and feeling proud of Ghost for making them both poison resistant, Noah walked towards them with a calm smile.
When he came closer to the ck whirlwind, Noah unleashed a blue barrier of me, covering his entire body. Theyer of blue me covered his body as though it was a nket.
It was a barrier formed by One of the two primordial mes; heaven''s me, which repelled all poison known to mankind. Gaya was stunned by the blue me. She had never seen such a majestic me ever before in her life. She heard Ghost talk about primordial mes and she could guess that the blue me on Noah''s body was definitely one of the two primordial mes. However, she did not let what was in her mind show on her face. Although she could tell Noah wouldn''t easily tell her where he got the me, if she could find out, it would get Ghost one step closer to reaching 6-star Alchemist status.
"This ce should be an isted space, and it doesn''t look big. We just need to find the path to the five-headed serpent''sir"
Noah said. He could feel that they were getting closer to the five-headed serpent. This ce was fully filled with toxic vapor and could be considered a naturalnd of death. It would be really bad luck if anyone ordinary identally came to this space.
He was covered by a fire barrier, while Gaya just walked next to him like it was nothing. The duo began slowly walking forward. Since the toxicity in the air was too strong, there were no beasts or bandits anywhere nearby.
The entire space was extremely quiet, and nothing could be heard except for the tornadoes'' swishing sounds. It gave the space an eerie feeling, as if they had actuallye to the real hell.
Crack!
Suddenly, a cracking sound could be heard from underneath Gaya''s foot. It sounded really loud when in this quiet environment.
"Fuck! what was that?" Ayag cursed as she was spooked by the sound
They lowered their heads, looking at the ground. Then, they saw an entire skeleton lying where Gaya had just stepped. Her foot caused a hole to appear on the skeleton''s chest.
"This is a skeleton of a Soul Strengthening stage warrior, he must have been dead for a long time. Look, all the bone has be porous, you''ve shattered it."
Noah had eagle eyes. Although the skeleton was badly corroded by the poisonous air and had turnedpletely ck, he still found that this was a Core Strengthening stage warrior''s skeleton.
"This ce sucks"
A Core Strengthening stage warrior could still survive for quite some time in this space without any poison resistance using Arch energy to shield his or her body. The only exnation for his death would be that he depleted all his arch energy in order to resist the poisonous air. He was killed by the poisonous air once he couldn''t repel the deadly poison any longer.
"Why did hee here anyway?"
Gaya wondered why the cultivator came to the Fire Realm. Noah and she were here to hunt down the five-headed serpent so Noah could save Xanali''s stepfather while she was here to absorb the blood and start her metamorphosis. If it wasn''t for the five-headed serpent, Gaya would have never even thought ofing here.
"What next?" Sarba asked after looking around the ce.
"Move forward until we find the five header serpent''s trail"
Noah smiled. With a determined look in his eyes, he said, "Just keep moving forward, until we find the five header serpent''s trail"
The following journey waspletely eventless. They kept bumping into new skeletons along their way, and all these skeletons were once Core Strengthening stage warriors. Gaya really wondered why this many Core Strengthening stage warriors ventured into the Fire Realm. She even stumbled upon a skeleton of a Soul Refining Stage warrior. This meant they were looking for something here.
The duo had walked for nearly an hour, and they kept bumping into more and more skeletons. The ce seemed really deste. After spending almost two hours of walking, they suddenly saw a light blinking in the distance.
"Look, there is light blinking in front!" Ayag informed them. She almost shouted.
"Let''s go check it out!"
Noah saw the light as well. Although the rainbow color light seemed faded, it couldn''t escape their eyes. The duo immediately dashed forward, and soon, they arrived at the source of the light.
"A human"
Ayag''s eyes lit up as she saw a man with disheveled hair was sitting with both legs crossed, not moving at all, which made him look like a stone statue. But, the weak aura emitting from his body showed that this old man was still alive.
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