Chapter 88: Mysterious Underground World

The next morning, the crimson sunlight of Blazing Flame Mountain slowly spread across the mountain range.

After spending the night inside the secluded cave, Long Feng and Shen Yao finally prepared to part ways.

Long Feng watched her leave before turning his gaze toward the deeper part of Blazing Flame Mountain.

He wasn’t particularly worried about Shen Yao anymore.

What mattered to him now was Ye Wuxie.

’If I keep staying too close to Ye Wuxie, sooner or later he’ll become suspicious.’

He had already followed Ye Wuxie for quite some time.

If he continued appearing wherever Ye Wuxie went, even someone as cautious as Ye Wuxie would eventually notice something was wrong.

That would be troublesome.

Besides, Long Feng had already discovered something important.

Ye Wuxie was slowly moving deeper into Blazing Flame Mountain. Every day, he seemed to travel farther from the outer regions.

That was exactly what Long Feng wanted.

’Keep going deeper.’

A faint smile appeared on his face.

’Once we reach a deep enough region, even if something happens to him, there won’t be many people around.’

At that point, he could find an opportunity to finish Ye Wuxie without attracting too much attention.

Of course, Long Feng wasn’t in a hurry.

There was no need to expose himself before the perfect opportunity appeared. For now, maintaining some distance was the safest choice.

With that thought, Long Feng set off.

Several days passed. During those days, Long Feng deliberately maintained a considerable distance from Ye Wuxie.

He would occasionally use the tracking token to determine Ye Wuxie’s general location before continuing his own training.

Sometimes he hunted beasts, searched for natural treasures or simply wandered through the mountains, allowing his body to adapt to the power he had gained after reaching breakthrough.

His cultivation was increasing with extremely fast speed after waking up in this body. However, continuous breakthrough were not always good things.

It’s good previously he had used that so called Creation Spiritual Liquid to make his foundation, otherwise it would leave some hidden injuries that could become major problem in future.

As he continued deeper, the surrounding flame energy also became increasingly dense.

The environment itself became more dangerous, the beasts were stronger and the terrain was more treacherous.

Even the ordinary flames erupting from cracks in the ground could seriously injure a True Spirit Realm cultivator.

On this particular day, Long Feng was walking through a dense jungle when something suddenly happened.

The tracking token in his palm was trembling. Its needle began spinning rapidly. Its speed continued increasing until it became almost impossible to see clearly.

"What?"

Seeing such odd scene, he was surprised for a moment. Then he immediately injected spiritual energy into it.

But nothing happened. The needle continued spinning for several breaths before suddenly becoming dim.

The faint connection he had maintained with Ye Wuxie’s location completely disappeared.

"How can this not work?"

Long Feng’s brows furrowed. He tried some more time to injecting spiritual energy, but failed.

He stared at the token with an ugly expression.

"Don’t tell me that old man gave me such a cheap thing?"

He remembered the old man who had given him this token. At the time, the old man had looked quite mysterious and powerful.

Long Feng had assumed that anything coming from his hands would naturally be extraordinary.

But now, he couldn’t help feeling speechless.

’Could it really be this unreliable? I didn’t expect him to be this stingy."

Since it could no longer locate Ye Wuxie, there was no point wasting time.

He had already memorized the direction in which Ye Wuxie had been traveling over the past few days.

Without hesitation, Long Feng quickly run in that direction.

Even through he didn’t know what had caused the tracking connection to disappear, but something suspicious related to a protagonist couldn’t ignored.

As he approached the location where Ye Wuxie should have been, his speed gradually increased. Soon, Long Feng arrived near an open area.

However, the scene before him made his expression changed.

Because there was a water source, several groups of disciples had often rested around this place.

That was precisely why Long Feng had maintained some distance whenever he passed through this region.

But now, there was no one.

His brows slowly knitted together as he looked around.

"Where did everyone go?"

The place was strangely quiet, not a single disciple could be seen.

’Could the sky have swallowed them? Or did the ground eat them?’

There had been quite a few disciples around this water source before, yet he hadn’t seen any of them leave.

If they had all left separately, he should have encountered at least some of them.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Long Feng’s expression gradually became tensed.

"There should still be people around."

He immediately spread his spiritual sense. The surrounding area was swept by his powerful perception.

Tracing the residual aura, he moved toward the edge of the water source and crouched down.

There were several traces of spiritual energy left behind by battles. Several rocks had been shattered. The ground was cracked in multiple places.

"Looks like there was a fight here."

He carefully examined the remaining traces. Suddenly, a familiar aura caught his attention.

"This..."

Long Feng walked toward a damaged section of ground.

A deep imprint remained there. The surrounding earth had been shattered by an extremely powerful fist technique.

The residual aura wasn’t particularly strong anymore, but Long Feng recognized it immediately.

It belonged to Ye Wuxie.

"That’s definitely his."

His eyes became sharp. So Ye Wuxie had been here. But where had he gone?

Long Feng immediately expanded his spiritual sense. This time, he carefully examined every inch of the surrounding area.

Soon, something caught his attention.

On the side where the traces of Ye Wuxie’s fist technique remained, there was a large hole. At first glance, it looked as though the ground had collapsed.

But when Long Feng approached, he realized that it wasn’t a simple collapse.

There was a passage beneath it, an underground passage.

"So that’s where everyone went?"

Long Feng looked into the hole with shocked expressions.

His spiritual sense immediately entered it.

However, after descending a considerable distance, his perception encountered nothing but darkness.

It was too deep. Even with his powerful spiritual sense, he couldn’t clearly determine what was waiting below.

"Judging from the traces... all disciples should have gone inside."

Long Feng glanced around once more and took a deep breath.

"Let’s see what is down there."

Without further hesitation, he jumped into the hole.

His body rapidly descended through the underground passage. The walls around him were uneven and covered in cracks.

As he continued falling, the temperature gradually increased.

Long Feng’s expression became slightly surprised.

’The flame energy is getting stronger.’

The deeper he went, the denser the flame energy became.

Boom!

Finally, his feet landed heavily on solid ground. Brushing the dirt off his clothes, he looked around. But one look was enough to shock him.

"...What is this place?"

Beneath the surface was an enormous underground world.

It was far larger than Long Feng had expected.

The ceiling was hundreds of meters above him, and massive stone pillars supported sections of the underground cavern.

Most importantly, the flame energy here was incredibly dense.

It was almost tangible.

Even Long Feng could feel heat spreading across his skin. Sweat slowly formed on his forehead.

His gaze swept across the surroundings as he finally found some other people.

A large number of disciples were scattered throughout the underground area. Some were using weapons to dig into the ground, others were breaking apart rocks.

And every time a piece of stone was removed, something crimson-red appeared beneath it.

"Flame Spirit Stones."

Long Feng’s eyes narrowed. There were Flame Spirit Stones everywhere, not one or two. There were a considerable number of them buried beneath the ground.

The disciples were frantically collecting them.

He immediately understood why the flame energy here was so dense. This entire underground area was practically a natural mine of Flame Spirit Stones.

However, something still bothered him.

Long Feng didn’t waste time wondering. In an instant, he appeared beside a Vermilion Flame Sect’s disciple.

Before the disciple could react, Long Feng’s hand had already grabbed him by the neck and lifted him from the ground.

"Ahhh!"

The disciple’s face instantly turned pale.

"Who are you?!"

Several nearby disciples immediately turned around.

"Release him!"

"You Azure Heaven Sect’s bastard!"

"How dare you? Put him down!"

A few disciples stepped forward angrily.

But Long Feng simply released a trace of his aura. The powerful pressure instantly swept across the area.

BOOM!

The expressions of the surrounding disciples changed.

They were all True Spirit Realm cultivators. Facing Long Feng’s seventh-level Golden Core Realm aura, they couldn’t even breathe properly.

Long Feng glanced at them coldly.

"Quiet."

The single word immediately silenced everyone. As he looked back at the disciple in his hand.

"Tell me what happened here."

The disciple swallowed nervously.

"W-we..."

Long Feng tightened his grip slightly.

"Hurry up, I don’t have all day."

The disciple hurriedly nodded.

"Some time ago, one of the Azure Heaven Sect’s disciple fought with some of our Vermilion Flame Sect’s disciples near the water source.

Nut the battle became intense as one of them used an extremely powerful fist technique. The force of the battle damaged the ground, and suddenly the ground beneath us collapsed."

"We all thought there would be treasure here, so we all jumped in too."

Long Feng’s eyes narrowed.

"So this place was discovered because of their battle?"

"Yes."

The disciple nodded quickly.

"When we landed here, we discovered all these Flame Spirit Stones. Since there were so many of them, everyone immediately started mining them."