Chapter 178: Purple Sea (1/2)
Ye Wuchen saw the changes in his expressions so he slightly smiled and said, “Thanks for your concern, brother Nangong, but I have a very important task to complete that involves a trip to the Heavenly Fire Volcano.” He took a glimpse at Ning Xue whose face was very red and did not want to delay longer, “We shall leave now.”
Nodding his head towards Nangong Zhen, Ye Wuchen and Tong Xin walked quickly as they left. Nangong Zhen turned around, somehow baffled while looking at their figures from behind, “Will they be going to get the Heavenly Fire Dragon Fruit?”
Aside from the Heavenly Fire Dragon Fruit, he could not think of any other reason that would make them want to go to the Heavenly Fire Volcano regardless of any warnings.
“The Heavenly Fire Dragon Fruit is the legendary object from the brightest and hottest place under the heaven and earth. Eating it can greatly increase one’s power to control of the element of fire. But this legend might possibly a fake. No person had been able to get it, so how would people know it’s efficacy?” Looking at the direction they left in, Nangong Zhen talked to himself. After shaking his head, he headed towards the direction of the Nangong Residence. In the Nangong Family, he was the youngest son also the most industrious one. The magical martial influential families were unlike those families within the army and government whose members fought and schemed against each other. Each one of them became martial and magical experts being influenced by their elders and environment, they would fight for the highest position in the family for fear of falling short.
Away from Nangong Zhen’s sight, Ye Wuchen used his eyes to hint to Tong Xin and they accelerated to their fastest speed. Within this torrid environment, his physical strength should quickly decrease, but he felt that his powers were automatically recovering much faster than normal. His relaxed his mind and finally the slightest bit of nervousness had also disappeared. Heavenly Fire Volcano, he had came to the right place. Everything was according to what he had expected.
As he form of the mountain grew nearer and nearer, the temperature became higher and higher. After ten minutes, Ye Wuchen finally stopped, Tong Xin followed him as he stopped and used inquiring eyes looking at him. Their distance from the Heavenly Fire Volcano was still a considerable.
Ning Xue was gasping and the air she breathed out was so frighteningly hot. Ye Wuchen’s heart clenched with pain, increasingly regretting allowing her to come here. He grabbed Ning Xue tightly in his arms, plucked a finger on his left hand where a white light flickered, and a very huge piece of ice appeared before their eyes. It was the ice that he had asked Tong Xin to cut off from the South Heaven River.
“Tong Xin, cut it apart.” Ye Wuchen yelled out while was touching Ning Xue’s face.
Tong Xin acknowledged him and stood there without moving, she stretched out her right hand, slashed through the empty air from top to bottom. An ash black light emitted, noiselessly cutting the huge ice into two equal sized pieces. At the same time, she separated the two halves a meter apart.
Two pieces of huge ice started to melt, reducing the temperature of their surroundings, releasing the cool air. Ye Wuchen carried Ning Xue over to the middle of these two ice pieces, and suddenly fresh and cool air came, immediately clearing her mind. Her rapacious breath was cooler than a while ago, and two small hands pressed onto the ice wall, enjoying the coldness.
The reason Ye Wuchen had brought this large piece of ice from the South Heaven River was as a precaution for this situation. He briefly sighed in relief, bent his body and said, “Xue-er, you and Tong Xin just wait here, I’ll go ahead and take a look.”
“Ah? But…” Hearing that he would leave was almost like a conditioned reflex as Ning Xue tensed up.
“Don’t worry, it’s unlikely that something will happen. Did you forget that I am not afraid of fire and heat? Xue-er, this is the farthest that you can take, if I take you along, I wouldn’t be able to go up.” Ye Wuchen said.
Hearing that she would slow him down, Ning Xue gave up her insistence and anxiously said, “Then brother you must return soon.”
Ye Wuchen nodded with a smile, firmly agreed, then said to Tong Xin, “Protect Ning Xue well, if the ice dissolves faster, then you must take her away.”
After speaking, he did not delay and rushed ahead using his fastest speed. Without Ning Xue, his speed was faster. The main reason he permitted Ning Xue to come with him to such dangerous place was that he was worried that some unknown accident might occur at home. If he needed Tong Xin’s protection, bringing along Tong Xin meant that he must also bring Ning Xue, because he was more scared that Ning Xue might meet some accidents.
If everything was just as he had expected without any hindrance or changes, after exploring the Heavenly Fire Volcano, he would immediately leave and return to Yan Long City with Ning Xue and Tong Xin, then make necessary arrangements to head back here all by himself.
After a minute, he was dragging along his long shadow when he arrived at the foot of the Heavenly Fire Volcano. Glancing at the mountain top, then he incessantly strode to climb up the precipitous mountain. Vaguely, he felt a pair of eyes watching him. They were likely Tong Xin’s eyes, since only she had the ability to look this far a distance.
The Heavenly Fire Volcano was not that high, within a hundred meters, but the area it occupied was very large. The bare mountain was red through and through, with no weeds and even more unlikely to have any other living things. Only flames covered up almost the entire body of the volcano. Ye Wuchen stepped onto the flames as he proceeded upward, but he was not injured in any way.
After a short while, he finally arrived at the top. He bent down to look and suddenly, his heart was overwhelmed with shock. Although there were a lot of powerful people in the Heavenly Star Continent, those with the power to protect themselves enough to reach this point was not few. He believed that, whoever it will be, the first feeling the person will have after arriving here would be astonishment.
Before his eyes was a sinister purple color. The concentrated purple liquid was widespread up to a few hundred meters ahead, like a deep purple sea that shockingly appeared before his eyes.
The color of flames had corresponding intensity of heat. The most common fire was yellow, a little bit stronger and it would be yellow orange, then red. Flame more powerful than red flames was blue, then one more powerful than blue was purple. Based on the legends, there was a kind white flame which was more dreadful than purple flames.
The purple colored lava was a dreadful level beyond words. When a piece of metal was thrown inside, it would instantly melt away and became a part of the sea, what more if it was a person who stepped inside? The purple colored lava should not have existed, because reaching such high temperature, will not create lava, but directly vaporize everything, transforming them into floating ash as they disappeared without a trace. During the time when Lin Yan had exerted his full strength to produce purple flames that caused the competition stage made of marble to disintegrate, even the ground had greatly receded. It may be assumed that there must be some mysterious power that created this purple sea, causing the mountain not to evaporate under such high temperatures.