#376 - Ancient burial ground?
At the horizon's end, mist swirled, vaguely revealing a mountain range stretching and undulating.
Beneath the mountain range, there was a deep, secluded mine.
Logically, with such a vast mountain range stretching so far, a single mine would be difficult to spot.
Yet, that mine seemed to possess a strange, inexplicable allure.
As long as one gazed in the direction of the mountain range, the mine would appear in their line of sight.
"Young Master Jun, do we really have to go in there?"
Lilia felt an inexplicable sense of dread; the mine stirred a feeling of rejection and fear within her.
"Certain death awaits outside. Going in might offer a glimmer of hope. It's our only chance to survive!"
Jun Wuxie responded, there was no other choice.
How could he not know the strangeness of that mine?
Years ago, he found the bronze key to the Eternal Life Temple before that mine.
A different chapter of his life began there.
"Humans, there's nowhere under the heavens for you to hide!"
The fire dragon pursued relentlessly, its roars echoing, shaking the mountains and earth. Terrifying sound waves swept across the land like tidal waves.
It chased Jun Wuxie and Lilia into the misty area.
Behind them, the holy sects and beast kings of various forces also followed.
The mysterious, deep mine was just ahead.
The distance was getting closer and closer.
Jun Wuxie felt a growing unease in his heart, his hairs standing on end, goosebumps erupting all over his body.
"Human! If you are willing to hand over the Fire Lotus, I might spare your life!"
The pursuing fire dragon suddenly said.
At this moment, Lilia, carrying Jun Wuxie, had reached the ancient mine entrance.
A mysterious and chilling aura emanated from within, causing them to shiver involuntarily.
"Humans, don't go any further! Entering the Burial Corpse Ancient Land will guarantee your death! Hand over the Fire Lotus, and I won't kill you!"
The fire dragon's voice was somewhat urgent; for it, the Solar True Lotus was the most important thing.
"Young Master Jun, do we really have to go in?"
Lilia's body trembled slightly, the aura inside causing her to feel a bit terrified.
Especially after the fire dragon said it was the Burial Corpse Ancient Land, her heart was even more uneasy.
"Lilia, listen to me. The Fire Lotus has already fused with me; it's impossible to separate it now, so we have no other choice. Besides, do you really believe that the fire dragon will let us go even if it gets the Fire Lotus?"
Jun Wuxie did not waver in the slightest.
Behind them were not only the fire dragon but also the powerhouses of the holy sects and the ancient remnants.
"Lilia, go!"
Jun Wuxie saw that the various forces and beast kings were about to catch up.
Lilia no longer hesitated and rushed into the mine like the wind.
Keng!
The fire dragon roared furiously.
"Damn humans!"
A look of madness flashed in its eyes, and it swung its dragon body, following into the mine.
The tunnel inside was very wide, dark, and deep, with many twists and turns.
There were no forks inside, only one passage, filled with a faint, decaying smell and scattered with white bones.
After going hundreds of miles deep, there was no way forward.
"Young Master Jun, it doesn't seem as scary inside as they say. We've reached the end. What do we do now?"
She stopped at the end of the mine, clearly regarding Jun Wuxie as her backbone.
"That's impossible. If it were just a simple cave, the fire dragon wouldn't be so afraid!"
Jun Wuxie activated his Primordial True Eyes to examine the surroundings.
At this moment, the fire dragon was about to catch up.
"Young Master Jun, hurry!"
Lilia paced anxiously.
Suddenly, a strange light shone beneath her feet.
With a rumble!
The ground beneath her feet suddenly disappeared, and she and Jun Wuxie fell down together.
It was pitch black all around, and one couldn't see their fingers.
Jun Wuxie's Primordial True Eyes could vaguely see that this was a tunnel, very steep.
Their bodies slid down the tunnel at a rapid speed.
The tunnel seemed endless.
They didn't know how far they had slid down.
It wasn't until a long time later that they saw some light, and then they fell out of the exit.
The aura here was even colder, and a strange smell floated in the air.
Jun Wuxie pulled Lilia up from the ground and looked around.
This was a spacious cavern, and tens of meters ahead was a bottomless cliff.
On the opposite side of the cliff was a protruding, huge boulder. The surface of the boulder was very flat, and the ground was even engraved with strange patterns.
In the center of those patterns was a one-meter-high circular stone platform, and on the platform was a huge oval light gate, flowing with a gray-green light.
"Let's go over there!"
Jun Wuxie didn't hesitate, and pulled Lilia to the edge of the cliff.
The cliff was about two or three thousand meters wide, surrounded by a vast, dense fog, making it impossible to see what was below.
These mists were very cold, somewhat bone-chilling, making people feel cold all over.
Lilia tried to cross the cliff, but as soon as she took a step, her body suddenly sank, and she fell into the abyss.
Jun Wuxie was quick-witted and pulled her back.
Lilia was still in shock, saying, "This place prohibits magic and has a terrifying gravitational field. We can't fly!"
Keng!
A muffled and angry roar came from the tunnel behind them.
However, there was a hint of unease in this voice.
Wasn't that guy afraid of this place?
He actually followed them down here!
Jun Wuxie's expression was grave. If he wanted to save his life now, the first thing he had to do was get rid of the fire dragon.
If it were normal times, let alone a two or three thousand meter wide abyss, even thirty thousand meters, he could jump over with one leap.
But it was different now.
The cliff abyss was covered by a gravitational field.
This gravitational field was so strong that even a demi-human saintess like Lilia almost fell down, which shows how terrifying it was.
"There must be a way to get across!"
Jun Wuxie activated his Primordial True Eyes to carefully examine the area.
Soon, he saw stone pillars in the middle of the misty cliff abyss, rising from the bottom of the abyss, forming circular stone platforms where one could step.
He counted them. There were nine stone pillars in total, which meant nine stone platforms where one could step, each separated by hundreds of meters.
"Come on, give me your hand, and hold on tight!"
As soon as he grabbed Lilia's wrist, Lilia also grabbed his wrist tightly.
Jun Wuxie jumped up, his body flying towards the first stone platform.
But after jumping only a hundred meters, Lilia's body sank violently.
That force was like an invisible palm pulling her feet fiercely.
As a result, Jun Wuxie's body also fell down.
He was shocked, and with his free hand, he spread his fingers and slammed into the void, his golden blood energy surging.
"Rise!"
He pulled Lilia up forcibly, rushed forward a hundred meters, and his body fell down again, and this time the fall was even more violent.
"Hold my neck tightly!"
Jun Wuxie pulled hard, and Lilia's body was pulled into his arms.
Almost instantly, she wrapped her arms around his neck, hanging on his body.
At this time, Jun Wuxie pressed down hard with both palms.
The golden blood energy surged like a mountain torrent, forcibly pulling up their falling bodies, crossing a hundred or two meters, and landing firmly on the stone platform.
"Were you scared?"
Jun Wuxie looked down and couldn't help but be stunned.
Lilia was looking up at him with her light green eyes.
Their eyes met, and he saw a blush quickly appearing on her beautiful face, her eyes shy, and she buried her head in his chest.
"I said, Saintess Lilia, are you so shy?"
Jun Wuxie was a little speechless, facing this life-and-death crisis, she still had the mind to be shy.
Women are really incomprehensible animals.
Lilia's heart was pounding.
Of course, she wasn't so shy; she had never been like this before.
For some reason, in front of this human man, under such intimate contact, she couldn't help but feel flustered.
Keng!
At this time, a blaze of fire rushed out of the tunnel exit.
"Human kid, come back to me!"
The fire dragon's body had shrunk to the thickness of a bowl.
It instantly arrived at the edge of the cliff and discovered the gravitational field and the power of the forbidden magic here.
"Let's see how you can escape!"
The fog had already dissipated from the place where Jun Wuxie was standing.
The fire dragon saw the stone platform under his feet and immediately understood what was going on.
The power of the forbidden magic and the gravitational field here made it impossible for that human to leap to the other side in one breath, so he could only cross the abyss through the stone platforms in the middle.
Its body swelled wildly.
Its upper body stretched forward, quickly approaching Jun Wuxie and Lilia.
"Hold me tight!"
Jun Wuxie's pupils contracted, his blood energy surged in his body, his legs exerted force, and he leaped up.
When he rushed to about two hundred meters, his strength was exhausted, and his body fell rapidly.
He slammed two palms into the void, his body pulled up and continued to leap towards the second stone platform, landing firmly on it.
At this time, the fire dragon's head had already crossed the first stone platform and quickly stretched towards the second stone platform.
Jun Wuxie didn't dare to stay and quickly leaped towards the third stone platform.
When he landed on the third stone platform.
The fire dragon's head almost stretched over the third stone platform at the same time, its bloody mouth opened, and the flames in its throat were blazing, and the extremely hot aura permeated, making him feel stinging pain in his skin.
Lilia in his arms, her protective qi was burned through by the high temperature, and the clothes on her body burned up.
He quickly used his blood energy to extinguish them, and a patch of snow-white came into view.
He was shocked and quickly took out a set of his own clothes and covered her before the flames were completely extinguished.
"Human, why aren't you running now?"
The fire dragon's huge dragon head looked down at him, and its two fire-colored dragon eyes burned with golden-red flames.
Jun Wuxie's heart sank.
At this moment, it truly seemed they had reached a dead end.
The fire dragon's head was in the air, absolutely locking onto him.
In this situation, as long as he made any move to escape, the flames in the fire dragon's mouth would instantly erupt, burning him and Lilia to ashes!
