At this moment, Xiao Baidao and Hu Wankui also noticed the abnormality.
The two of them almost simultaneously jumped down.
Then… they fell flat on their faces.
Because the fissure had already closed.
Xiao Baidao's eyes immediately turned red!
Below this was earth fire!
If a person fell down, death was certain!
Xiao Baidao looked crazed and struck a palm toward Hu Wankui.
Hu Wankui didn't dare receive it head-on. One reason was that his cultivation was lower than Xiao Baidao's, another was that he was in the wrong.
No matter the reason, Feng Xi and Jun Wen had indeed met with an accident in Beast-Taming Sect.
Thinking of Xing Wu, his eyes also reddened.
No matter how annoyed he usually was with that little disciple, he was still the flesh of his heart, and in the blink of an eye he had turned to ashes.
His heart hurt to death.
Aside from that, there was confusion.
It was true that Beast-Taming Sect had earth fire, but it had been collected from Chiyan Mountain using special containers.
How could there suddenly be earth fire right under their feet?
Good grief!
Their Beast-Taming Sect was being roasted over a fire!
At least they had discovered it today. If they hadn't discovered it, one day when the earth fire erupted…
At this moment, the other high-level members of Beast-Taming Sect also descended to the ground and together restrained Xiao Baidao.
Xiao Baidao pointed at Hu Wankui, his lips trembling but unable to say a word. Finally, due to excessive grief, he fainted.
Hu Wankui hurriedly fed him a pill and called out to him repeatedly, finally waking Xiao Baidao.
At this moment, an elder of Beast-Taming Sect said, "Sect Master Xiao, do not be sad yet. I just went to check, Xing Wu's soul lamp is still lit.
Presumably Feng Xi and Jun Wen are also fine."
Xiao Baidao abruptly grabbed the elder's clothes, "Is what you said true?"
The elder hurriedly nodded, "True, absolutely true!"
Xiao Baidao released him, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath before sending a message to the sect.
Hearing that Feng Xi and Jun Wen's soul lamps were also lit, he spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted again.
Hu Wankui and the others were deeply moved.
They say cultivators are indifferent, but Xiao Baidao was clearly not among them.
Actually, Hu Wankui wasn't much better. His heart ached in waves.
It's just that he was the head of a sect, and now Beast-Taming Sect was in troubled times, he must hold on.
After personally settling down Xiao Baidao, the truth of the matter also surfaced.
It's all the doing of the guardian divine beast, the Sky-Covering Kuanghou!
It had instructed that Long-Feathered Crane to act that way!
The Long-Feathered Crane hadn't fallen down, because after Jun Wen pulled Feng Xi onto the flying sword, it feared punishment and flew far away.
Hu Wankui was about to explode with anger!
He had always thought the Sky-Covering Kuanghou was more reliable than the Golden Maned Suanni of Xuantian Sect, and yet it had directly caused an earth-shattering disaster for him!
He went to Xiao Baidao and said, "Old Xiao, this matter was caused by the Sky-Covering Kuanghou and I will absolutely not shield it.
Even if it is the guardian divine beast, it will be handled as it should.
However, the urgent matter now is to find a way to save them. Once the children are safely rescued, it won't be too late to deal with it."
Xiao Baidao also knew that now wasn't the time to argue about this, but how to save them?
Hu Wankui was also at a loss.
To speak from the bottom of his heart, he still couldn't understand how Feng Xi and the others had survived.
That was earth fire!
Even a Soul Transformation Stage cultivator could at most endure for a quarter of an hour.
At this moment, the three people they were worried about were eating roasted meat.
Roasted over earth fire.
Very Fragrant.
Xing Wu wiped the grease from his mouth with his sleeve and said indistinctly, "Little Junior Sister, this roasted meat is really fragrant!"
Jun Wen looked disgusted, "If we skewer you and roast you, it would be even more fragrant!"
Xing Wu rolled his eyes and looked at the little fat bird lying stiff beside Feng Xi, "Little Junior Sister, I didn't expect this little thing to be that little phoenix. This time it's thanks to it, otherwise we would definitely be dead."
That's right. The reason Feng Xi and the others survived this calamity was thanks to the little fat bird.
The little fat bird was a phoenix and fed on fire marrow, so naturally it could also swallow earth fire.
It just disliked it, that's all.
Because it didn't taste good.
At the moment Feng Xi and the others fell, the little fat bird swallowed part of the earth fire.
At the same time, Feng Xi also threw out many of the ice blocks she had collected in the Extreme Cold Ice Plains, which preserved their lives.
At this moment, they were crouching atop a mountain of piled ice blocks.
The ice blocks were melting rapidly and likely wouldn't last long.
And the little fat bird had swollen into a little fat ball, unable to swallow more earth fire for the time being.
Feng Xi felt somewhat regretful. Had she known, she would've packed more ice blocks.
This experience taught her that in the future she must stockpile more things!
You never know when they might be useful.
But what's more urgent now is how to leave this place.
Aside from this small area where they stood, all other places were covered with earth fire. It was impossible to move an inch.
If they didn't think of a solution quickly, once this bit of ice melted, they would only be… cremated.
Xing Wu finished the last skewer of roasted meat and said, "Little Junior Sister, if we really cannot think of a solution, then forget it. If we die, we die. Being able to die together with you, I can be considered to have died without regret."
Jun Wen glanced at him, "But I won't rest in peace dying together with you."
Xing Wu: "..."
Feng Xi frowned and asked Xing Wu, "Didn't you say your alchemy room's earth fire was transported from outside? Why is there earth fire here?"
Xing Wu gave a bitter smile, "I only just found out as well. I guess my master and the others didn't know either.
If they had known, our Beast-Taming Sect would've moved long ago!
I was wondering why it has been getting hotter these past few years. So that's the reason!"
Feng Xi couldn't understand it no matter how much she thought about it. How could earth fire suddenly appear beneath Beast-Taming Sect?
In recent years, there have been no earthquakes or other upheavals. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be like this.
At this moment, Jun Wen sighed, "If only we had a Fire-Avoiding Pearl, then we could move freely within the earth fire."
"Fifth Senior Brother, what is the Fire-Avoiding Pearl you're talking about?"
Jun Wen sighed again, "I read about it in a miscellaneous book. It is said that within earth fire there is a demon beast called Fire-Swallowing Qiu, which normally feeds on magma.
Each time it eats magma, blood-red tears flow from it. A very small number of these tears will turn into Fire-Avoiding Pearls.
It is rumored that as long as you carry a Fire-Avoiding Pearl with you, you need not fear earth fire, and can even grab fire marrow with your bare hands without harm.
However, such miscellaneous books are mostly fabricated and cannot be taken seriously."
Xing Wu said at the side, "I've read about it too. My master said it was pure nonsense… right?"
Xing Wu added the "right" because in the earth fire in the distance, a fiery red demon beast suddenly emerged.
It was swallowing magma.
While eating, it shed red tears.
This must be the legendary… so delicious it brings tears?!