The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1377

Chapter 1377: Chapter 1373: Act Separately Chapter 1377: Chapter 1373: Act Separately “According to the intelligence I've obtained, the Earth Core Fire Lotuses are mainly concentrated in a central area of the Zhurong Basin, with a few spread throughout other parts of the basin. All of the locations are recorded in this jade slip, fellow Daoists may wish to take a look first.” Fu Gong paused for a moment and then took out several jade slips, distributing one to each person.

Shen Luo's Divine Sense entered one of them, and aside from the Central Region, the jade slip marked over a dozen other Fire Lotus locations, scattered throughout the Zhurong Basin.

“So many scattered Fire Lotuses, does friend Fu intend to have us split up and search separately?” asked Dragon Tooth, deep in thought.

“Exactly, my fellow Daoists must also feel that this is the safer approach, right?” Fu Gong said meaningfully.

The others looked at each other upon hearing this and remained silent. The Earth Core Fire Lotus was a treasure after all, and naturally, none of them wanted to share with others; indeed, they all preferred to act alone.

“Since none of you has objections, let's decide on this approach then. The scattered Earth Core Fire Lotuses will be searched for by you my fellow Daoists, while Daoist Hua and I will head directly to the center of the basin,” Fu Gong declared.

The likes of Dragon Tooth and Turtle Thousand Years were just about to nod in agreement when they heard the last statement, and their gazes flickered noticeably.

“My friends, please do not misunderstand; it is not that Daoist Hua and I wish to monopolize the treasure. Though many Fire Lotuses are indeed located at the basin's center, that area is also home to a large pack of Red Flame Beasts with formidable strength. To say nothing of one or two of us, even if all of us went together, we might not be able to handle them. Daoist Hua and I are going there to set up a Great Formation that will restrain the Red Flame Beasts, once the fellow Daoists have finished here, we can all activate the Formation together to tackle those beasts and divvy up the Central Region's Earth Core Fire Lotuses equally,” Hua Zhao finally spoke up to explain, her voice as gentle as water and magnetic, almost irresistibly persuasive.

After hearing this, the others exchanged glances and, without a word, tacitly accepted the arrangement.

“If that's the case, let's split up and take action,” said Fu Gong, seeing that there was no disagreement. He waved a flag in his right hand, shooting out a white crystalline light that wrapped around the young man beside him. In the blink of an eye, the youth's figure flickered and vanished into thin air.

Shen Luo uttered a soft exclamation. In that beam of white crystalline light, he sensed fluctuations of the Power of Space. The flag in Fu Gong's hand was evidently a treasure similar to the Free and Easy Mirror.

“A Spatial Treasure!” Turtle Thousand Years exclaimed in surprise too.

“This Eight Trigrams Flag of mine merely contains a small space; it hardly qualifies as a Spatial Treasure. Turtle Daoist friend, you flatter me,” laughed Fu Gong, and with a slight bow to the crowd, he and Hua Zhao transformed into a white light and shot forward.

The rest dispersed, each heading in different directions.

Shen Luo and the Black Bear Demon also separated, cautioning each other to be careful before setting off on their own, shooting toward the front left side of the basin.

As soon as he entered the Zhurong Basin, Shen Luo immediately felt an intense heat assaulting him. Even with his current physical strength, he found his lips drying and his facial muscles beginning to ache.

“Such terrifying heat!” he muttered to himself. A blue glow flashed across his body, forming a curtain of water-light around him. The azure glow enveloped his whole body, and the sensation of heat diminished considerably.

However, the surrounding heat was ferociously intense, mixed with strands of strange fire poison–it must be the Earth Sha Fire Poison that Fu Gong had mentioned. He had to channel the Light curtain at full force just to resist it.

Maintaining such an effort consumed a great deal of Mana.

“No wonder Fu Gong said that the most important thing upon entering this place was fire resistance and mana conservation,” Shen Luo raised an eyebrow, and with a flip of his hand, he took out a blue ruyi and a blue ring, wearing them on his body.

Both of these Magical Treasures were spoils of war he had obtained from the great battle at Mount Fangcun. Although they were not as good as the Cold Jiao Pearl, they were also fine treasures for fire resistance.

At times like this, even a sliver of Mana had to be conserved.

The rings and the Ruyi scepter lit up with two clumps of blue light, forming a crystal-clear blue shield around him, which replaced the previous blue light screen, shielding him from the searing heat and fire poison outside.

Shen Luo was quite satisfied with the effect of the shield and shot forward as a blue shadow.

Zhurong Basin was fraught with peril, so he dared not fly at full speed, cautiously weaving through the red light in the basin.

Now that Shen Luo's cultivation had already broken through to the level of a True Immortal, even with suppressed speed, in the blink of an eye, he had traveled nearly a thousand miles, almost reaching the deeper areas of Zhurong Basin.

As Fu Gong had said, the deeper into the Zhurong Basin one went, the higher the temperature. The heat here was almost double that of the outside, and the blue shield formed by the two fire-resistant treasures trembled incessantly, struggling to fend off the intense heat from outside, teetering on the brink of failure.

The ring, being of slightly inferior material, cracked with a snap under a fierce wave of heat, its blue light flickering wildly before disappearing completely.

Shen Luo's brows raised, and he took out the Cold Jiao Pearl and hung it at his waist.

A layer of white cold light shot out, filled with surging cold Qi, easily repelling the surrounding heat.

Shen Luo was quite satisfied with the effect of the Cold Jiao Pearl, nodded slightly, and was about to continue onward.

A patch of red clouds appeared ahead, seemingly alert to his presence, drifting over swiftly. A harsh, cackling sound came from within the clouds, accompanied by an extremely strong scent of fire that was far more intense than the original heat of the area, distorting the surrounding air with its heat.

The white cold light on Shen Luo's body began to tremble rapidly, seemingly unable to withstand the fiery breath of the red clouds.

“What is this? That unique breed of Red Flame Beasts indigenous to this area?” His brows raised, but instead of fleeing, he stayed put.

The red clouds moved at an incredible pace and were quickly near him. Only then did Shen Luo see that they were fire crows, each the size of a washbasin, engulfed in blazing red flames, with a fierce glint flickering in their eyes, looking murderous.

There were no few of these fire crows, at least a thousand strong, swarming over in flocks and clearly proficient in this kind of group attack.

Shen Luo had fought against masters of flame control before, and he used to possess a Five-Fire Fan capable of unleashing powerful fire attacks, so he was not unfamiliar with Flame Divine Powers. However, the red clouds formed by these thousands of flames were truly astonishing, and the term 'scorching mountains and boiling seas' would not be an exaggeration.

“Indeed, they're quite powerful,” he muttered to himself, yet he was not panicked and activated the Indigo Ocean Divine Technique.

An endless surge of extreme cold breath erupted, stunning the attacking fire crows for a moment and causing the fire cloud to pause there.

Seizing the opportunity, Shen Luo opened his mouth and spat out a red and a golden sword light, while his hands formed a sword technique.

In an instant, the sword lights swelled dozens of times in size, transforming into a red and a golden Flood Dragon, each a hundred feet long, thrashing about as they tore into the flock of fire crows.

The sound of sizzling cracks filled the air, and in the blink of an eye, nearly a hundred fire crows were slain, dissipating into large swathes of flame.

Seeing this, Shen Luo showed a look of surprise.

But at that moment, the scattered flames suddenly reformed, and in the blink of an eye, they coalesced back into fire crows, as if they had never been attacked at all.