Ling Tian Sword God

”I’m gathering everyone to take a look.”

Sima Linyuan’s expression was grave, as he sent out a signal to gather all the members of the Green Mountain Association.

After conveying Ling Chen’s earlier words, everyone’s eyes brightened. They had no doubt about Ling Chen and were all thinking about how to delve deeper into this volcano.

”I have a Shui Yuan Bead here, which should be able to withstand the high temperature inside the volcano for a while. If it lasts too long, I’m afraid even the Shui Yuan Bead won’t be able to hold up.”

At this moment, a young member stepped forward, clutching a blue bead in his hand, emitting ripples of water energy around him.

”It’s enough. If we reach the limit of this Shui Yuan Bead, we’ll get out immediately, without lingering.”

Sima Linyuan nodded. The Shui Yuan Bead, a treasure containing water attribute energy, was perfect for countering the terrifying heat of the volcano, ensuring everyone’s safe entry.

If there are areas that even the Shui Yuan Bead can’t reach, they certainly are perilous beyond their endurance. Even with more rare treasures, it’s not worth going deeper.

Activating the Puppet Ship, Sima Linyuan placed the Shui Yuan Bead at the ship’s center, with the blue light emitted by the bead forming a shield that covered the entire Puppet Ship.

Upon entering the volcano’s crater, waves of extreme heat surged toward them, enough to pose a threat to Ling Chen and the others. But shielded by the protective barrier, they remained unharmed.

The deeper they ventured into the volcano, the fiercer the heat waves became, and occasionally a fiery storm would blow by, nearly breaking the Shui Yuan shield.

Everyone looked around, searching for the treasure Ling Chen had mentioned. However, everywhere was just hard minerals and golden lava, with nothing else in sight.

”There’s no sign of treasure around here. It might be in a deeper area, which we can’t reach anymore.”

Further down was entirely a lava lake, and this lava looked different from ordinary lava, with a purer and deeper color, and a correspondingly extraordinary temperature.

”Let’s look a bit more.”

Ling Chen nodded, not rushing to make a decision, but instead waiting for the Human Emperor’s next prediction.

”There.”

The Human Emperor conveyed his thoughts to Ling Chen, who turned his gaze, landing on a massive red rock, ”From that location, there’s a faint array formation fluctuation emanating.”

”Array formation fluctuation?”

Ling Chen paused, then a gleam appeared in his eyes. An array formation hidden in such a place surely wasn’t simple.

”It seems there’s something behind that rock.”

Ling Chen looked at Sima Linyuan and spoke.

”Oh?”

Sima Linyuan raised his eyebrow, somewhat skeptical. Yet, having come this far, trying a little more seemed harmless.

Following Ling Chen’s direction, the Puppet Ship stopped beside the red rock.

The red rock appeared ordinary, but upon closer observation, there indeed seemed to be differences, because though the volcano’s interior was stiflingly hot, there was a hint of coolness emanating from the red rock.

Between the cracks of the stone, a peculiar earth-yellow aura slithered out.

With a flicker of his gaze, Ling Chen drew the Red Sky Sword from his waist and slashed at the red rock. With a ”crack” sound, the rock split open, revealing a cool air drifting out from inside. In sight was a sealed chamber, with earth-yellow light spreading, merging with the entire chamber into a spherical form, and weak array formation fluctuations transmitting from above.

Inside the chamber, the atmosphere was completely different from the stifling exterior, filled with an immensely cool air, as if stepping into another world.

”This is the Tu Xing Array, I didn’t expect there’d be something else here.”

Surprised, Sima Linyuan briefly couldn’t believe just how precise Ling Chen’s guess was.

At the center of the great formation stood a stone tablet, inscribed with the four characters ”Fire Dragon Emperor.”

”The Fire Dragon Emperor,” Sima Linyuan remarked with a hint of astonished surprise, ”was said to be a Saint figure from three hundred years ago, a person commanding a fire dragon, waging battles across the Nine Provinces and Eight Wastes, invincible.”

”Oh?”

Ling Chen’s eyes moved slightly. So, the Fire Dragon Emperor was indeed a peerless figure, even changing Ling Chen’s thoughts. Could it be that the Burial Dragon Ancient Land was not burying a giant dragon, but this ’Fire Dragon Emperor’ himself?

”It’s a pity, apart from the stone tablet, there’s nothing else here.”

Upon entering this space, other members of the Green Mountain Association were searching around, but all returned empty-handed.

Ling Chen remained unfazed, gazing at the only conspicuous object in the chamber—the stone tablet inscribed with ”Fire Dragon Emperor”—he approached it. Despite the tablet’s less-than-ancient appearance, a subtle oppression emanated from below the stone tablet.

Ling Chen’s gaze fell upon the cushion in front of the stone tablet.

The cushion’s material was unique, allowing it to be preserved for such a long time.

With a spark of curiosity, Ling Chen lifted the cushion, revealing a hidden mechanism beneath it.

Click!

Ling Chen activated the mechanism, causing the chamber to vibrate. The stone tablet sank into the ground, replaced by a sitting figure in red robes, head bowed.

The figure was of gaunt, pale appearance, and although the body had calcified, the flesh did not decay, merely lost vitality, but still exerted a faint oppression.

Having reached the level of the Fire Dragon Emperor, not only was his cultivation profound, but his Saint Body had attained a formidable degree, remaining intact even after three hundred years, as if petrified.

”This must be the illustrious Fire Dragon Emperor.”

Ling Chen’s eyes narrowed slightly, feeling an extremely powerful fire attribute aura from the figure, an aura possessed only by someone who had cultivated the fire attribute cultivation method and True Qi to the peak.

”The Fire Dragon Emperor was not only formidable in cultivation but also had a fire dragon to assist him—one man and one dragon, with few in the world able to suppress them. It’s unexpected that such a peerless figure, who reigned supreme, ended up calcified here.”

Gazing at the red-robed figure, Sima Linyuan remarked with a tinge of emotion.

Even reaching the level of a Saint, immortality was unattainable; when the end came, they could only dissolve into history, becoming an eternal reverberation.