The temperature of the lava here exceeded a thousand degrees. Even iron could be melted, let alone a mere human body.
After falling into the lava, Lanling’s body instantly transformed into a blazing inferno.
“Ah… ah…”
Endless, boundless pain surged through him.
The agony of his entire body being completely incinerated was simply unbearable.
Lanling (Suolun) roared and struggled in torment!
This wretched screaming and shrieking travelled directly up to the mouth of the volcano.
The sheer anguish of these cries was enough to make anyone shudder with dread.
“Papa… Papa…” The little girl struggled with all her might, crying out.
Within a short minute, the screaming stopped, and the mouth of the volcano fell silent.
Everyone’s heart trembled: “That man is dead. That near-human whose name no one knew is dead.”
The little monster shaman priest sneered at the little girl: “That fool is dead. From now on, I am your papa.”
He picked up the little girl and left the platform of the volcano mouth, saying: “The Sky Eye trial ends today. The remaining dozens of people are to be taken back to the cave prison.”
With that, without waiting for anyone else’s reaction, he turned to leave.
The cowardly near-human Mulon struggled and hesitated for a long time before stepping forward, gritting his teeth: “Your Excellency the Priest, this little girl’s father entrusted her to me. I must honour my promise.”
The little monster shaman priest let out a sinister laugh: “Are you also tired of living? Are you not afraid of me?”
“Yes.” Mulon trembled: “And I have already entered the Chimera tribe. I treasure this opportunity greatly. But we Tar people value our promises above all else, so please return her to me.”
The little monster shaman priest’s expression turned cold, and he ordered in a sharp voice: “Throw this equally foolish near-human into the volcano as well. Let him burn to death alongside the other.”
But no one moved.
The little monster shaman priest said coldly: “Leader Dina, did you not hear my command?”
This curvaceous dark-skinned woman was named Dina, the third leader of the Chimera tribe’s foreign army.
She hesitated for a moment before saying: “Shaman, this near-human has already passed the Sky Eye trial, so he is already a member of our foreign army. We have a duty to protect him.”
Mulon gritted his teeth: “Shaman, please return the little girl to me.”
“Roar…” The little monster shaman priest let out a sudden roar.
In an instant, like a hurricane, he sent Mulon flying dozens of metres through the air, blood spraying wildly from his mouth.
The foreign army’s female leader Dina’s legs tensed and sprang, actually leaping over a dozen metres high. She caught Mulon in mid-air and quickly poured a bottle of medicine into his mouth.
In the barbaric world, every exile had survived through countless near-death experiences. This was even more true for the foreign army of the Chimera tribe. As one of the leaders, Dina had a responsibility to protect every member of the foreign army.
Seeing this scene, the little monster shaman priest let out a cold snort, picked up the little girl, and strode away.
This was a descendant of demons. With her, his cultivation could advance by leaps and bounds. Moreover, she was such a young demon descendant, truly priceless beyond measure.
Dina’s face twitched slightly, then she could not help but come to the platform of the volcano mouth and peer down.
Beneath the abyss was endless lava, as red as blood.
Clearly, anyone who fell down would certainly die.
“Return.” Dina gave the order.
Immediately, several hundred members of the foreign army escorted the remaining dozens of barbarian prisoners down the mountain, returning to the cave prison within the tribe.
…
Not knowing how much time had passed, Lanling actually woke up.
Then he discovered that his entire body was burning fiercely.
But the pain was gone, replaced by a very strange sensation, one that was almost pleasurable.
Then Lanling raised his hand and saw an incredibly bizarre scene.
His left hand was burning fiercely, turning into charcoal. But his right hand was healing rapidly, returning to its original state.
But then, the newly healed right hand was once again burned by the lava, turning into charcoal. Meanwhile, the left hand that had turned into charcoal, like withered wood meeting spring, grew back anew, quickly returning to its original state.
It was not just his left and right hands, but his entire body as well.
The left side of his body was being burned, while the right side returned to its original state.
In short, half of his body was always charcoal, while the other half was intact.
To look at him, he truly resembled a demonic ghost.
Just as Lanling was stunned with joy, he suddenly realised that the energy within his body was continuously draining away.
So, all of this came at a cost, transforming the energy within his body into his own life and flesh.
Immediately, Lanling quickly swam towards the edge of the lava, using both hands and feet.
Swimming in lava truly looked incredibly bizarre, and also incredibly imposing.
Perhaps Lanling was the only person to ever swim in lava.
Swimming to the edge of the lava, Lanling climbed up the rocks along the side.
These black rocks, who knew what they were made of, could actually withstand the terrifyingly high temperature of the lava without crumbling into dust.
“Ah…” Lanling leapt up fiercely, his four limbs pressing against the cliff wall of the volcano mouth.
At the same time, sharp claws grew from his hands and feet, firmly embedding themselves into the hard, slippery cliff, then he climbed up rapidly.
With tremendous effort, Lanling climbed the entire hundred-plus metre cliff, leaping out from the volcano mouth.
By now, it was already dark!
The entire volcano was completely empty!
Finally, Lanling had saved his own life!
But he quickly sensed something amiss!
It felt as though a ball of fire was burning in his heart!
Ever since landing on the barbaric continent, Lanling had always had a ball of evil fire burning in his heart.
This desire accumulated every single day, and was completely beyond the control of his will.
Originally, Lanling had thought that once he found barbarian society, he would definitely find a woman to vent his frustrations wildly. But the moment he entered barbarian society, he immediately became a prisoner, his life in constant peril.
So, this evil fire desire was temporarily suppressed.
But just now, he had been burned by the lava for one or two hours, and this fire qi had completely permeated into his bloodline, penetrating deep into his body.
The flame energy of this lava was simply too powerful, and it had burned for a full one or two hours, exceeding the limits of what Lanling’s bloodline could endure.
So, it became a hidden fire within his body!
Lanling clearly felt that his body temperature was rising sharply. Not only that, but his eyes were growing increasingly dry, as though the moisture within his eyeballs was about to be burned dry as well.
Not only that, but Lanling looked down at his chest, at the location of his heart.
He clearly felt that his entire heart had swollen by thirty or forty percent, and was as red as firelight.
Then, every single blood vessel swelled, with blood flowing rapidly through them.
Every blood vessel was like a red-hot wire, and his entire person looked utterly terrifying.
It seemed as though he could ignite and explode at any moment.
“Not good, this evil fire is going to burn out from deep within my heart.” Lanling felt that his heart was growing larger and larger, as though it could explode at any moment.
Once his heart swelled to its maximum, without a doubt, Lanling’s entire body would be completely blown to pieces.
At that point, he would truly be beyond saving, and there would be no Demon Star left to rescue him.
Immediately…
Lanling opened his legs and ran frantically.
“Ah… ah…”
He roared wildly in his heart.
His body temperature grew higher and higher, his heart swelling larger and larger.
His running speed grew faster and faster, until he was finally moving like a fierce horse.
Moreover, the dry grass he stepped on was actually set ablaze directly.
Not only that, but Lanling felt his consciousness growing increasingly hazy, the world in his eyes growing redder and redder.
It was as though he was seeing this world through blood, through flames.
The fire within his body burned ever more fiercely.
His heart grew larger and larger, larger and larger.
Finally, his legs had already caught fire.
His heart was soon going to swell to its maximum, soon going to explode.
In the end, Lanling’s entire body was like a red-hot branding iron, his eyes like blood. He could no longer see anything at all, only a darkness of the most extreme blood-red before his eyes.
He was completely running blind.
His entire body was like a massive bomb, ready to explode at any moment!
Suddenly…
Lanling instinctively sensed a wave of icy coolness, as though there was a very powerful icy-cold energy nearby, roughly two or three thousand metres away.
He could no longer see anything at all, completely relying on his energy sense to run frantically towards it.
Along the way, everything that blocked his path was completely shattered by his collision.
In this manner, he charged into a valley that was regarded as forbidden ground.
…
The Chimera tribe was backed by a volcano, so the temperature was extremely hot.
Only this forbidden valley was incomparably icy cold, perennially at over ten degrees below zero.
And the entrance to the valley was covered by thick ice, several metres thick!
Ordinary barbarians, the moment they approached this valley, would be unable to endure the cold.
Moreover, this valley was forbidden ground. Anyone who approached would be chopped into minced meat and fed to the griffins.
And Lanling, whose entire body was almost burning, was attracted by the icy-cold energy of the forbidden valley. Although his eyes could see nothing, he charged frantically towards it.
He also could not see the hard ice at the entrance of the valley, several metres thick.
Anyone who collided with this ice would likely have their only result be broken bones and a violent death!
But when Lanling’s almost flaming body crashed into it.
“Bang bang bang…”
With a series of impacts, Lanling’s fiery body fiercely smashed through layer after layer of ice.
This was like throwing a red-hot iron ball onto a frozen water surface, the scorching red-hot ball rapidly melting the ice.
“Comfortable, comfortable…”
The thick, solid ice’s chill temporarily suppressed the flames within Lanling’s body.
But very quickly, his almost burning body completely melted and penetrated through this layer of ice several metres thick.
He charged fiercely into the valley!
Within this valley, there was a small hot spring lake, with water temperature above sixty or seventy degrees, heated by the lava of the nearby volcano.
This temperature was unsuitable for swimming.
However, at this moment…
There was a large snake swimming in the lake water.
This was a large green snake, swimming freely in the water, letting out comfortable cries from its mouth.
When its head emerged from the water, it was actually a woman’s face!
A face of stunning, peerless beauty!
Her serpent body in the water waves was also constantly changing.
Sometimes it was a serpent body, sometimes it was a snow-white female human body.
When she was in human form, the curves of this delicate body surpassed any woman.
The term “devil’s curves” could no longer describe this body.
These curves of extreme seductiveness, this perfect arc, were sexy and fiery to the extreme.
This was an absolute beauty, a peerless enchantress. In the human kingdom, there was probably only one woman whose figure could compare with hers, and that was the demon continent princess Wanwan.
These two women’s bodies were equally seductive, equally bewitching.
Wherever her body swam, the lake water instantly froze into ice!
This was a human-snake possessing powerful icy-cold abilities.
She swam out of the water, and upon seeing Lanling, who was almost bursting with flames, she could not help but be greatly shocked.
This place was forbidden ground, how could someone have entered?
Immediately after, she was about to release powerful icy-cold energy to lock down Lanling.
“Crack crack crack…” Within the dozen or so metres between her and Lanling, all the air completely froze into ice, becoming a solid wall of air.
“Bang bang bang bang…” Lanling, whose entire body was completely burning, rapidly smashed through these walls of air, charging fiercely into the lake water.
Burned by the evil fire, he had lost all consciousness, directly lunging towards the bone-piercing icy-cold energy.
And this icy-cold energy was precisely this human-snake.
Very quickly, this human-snake was pinned down alive by Lanling.
She struggled desperately…
She was very powerful, but unfortunately she was of the ice-cold element.
A terrifyingly hot energy emanated from within Lanling’s body, rapidly melting her ice-cold attacks.
Not only that, but the special energy aura emanating from Lanling’s body, beneath the blazing flames, exerted a fatal attraction upon her.
She was an ice-cold human-snake, and what she loved most was warmth, which was why she had come to the surroundings of this volcano, seized this hot spring of strangely high temperature, and designated this valley as the forbidden ground of the Chimera tribe.
Twenty-four hours a day, she spent over ten hours in this warmth.
Because the ice-cold energy within her body was constantly backlashing against her, only the warmth by the side of this volcano could alleviate her terrifying ice-cold backlash.
But compared to the sixty or seventy degree hot spring, Lanling’s almost burning body was filled with even more fatal attraction.
After being pinned down by Lanling, her body fixed into human form, becoming a complete, peerless beauty.
Lanling, who was being burned by the evil fire, whose heart was continuously swelling, whose entire body seemed about to explode.
At this moment, he also felt an incomparable lust. Filled with mystery, and filled with magnificent splendour.
With a wild roar!
He madly possessed the peerless beauty beneath him!
Even though, he could see nothing, he had no idea what kind of person this was. Or even if it was a person.
At this moment, he also did not resemble a human, but rather a special kind of creature, completely following special energy auras to find his target.
Completely driven by instinct.
Lanling had finally fulfilled the promise he made the moment he landed on the barbaric world, that he would definitely find a woman.
At this moment, within this forbidden valley.
Lanling and the peerless beauty transformed from the human-snake burned and intertwined frantically.
Not like two people, but rather like two beasts.
A male beast, a female beast!
…
Not knowing how much time had passed!
Lanling completely vented all the fire poison within his body.
And this peerless beauty human-snake also completely vented all the ice-cold poison within her body!
The two of them completely collapsed on the ground by the side of the lake.
Opening his eyes, Lanling immediately saw a face of stunning, peerless beauty, a face somewhat different from humans, yet even more enchanting.
His gaze dropped, and this woman’s body possessed curves of seductiveness that no human could possibly have.
“You near-human, you have quite the nerve? You actually dared to defile me.” This peerless beauty said hoarsely: “Do you know who I am?”
“Who are you?” Lanling asked.
“The forbidden plaything of the Chimera tribe chieftain Constantine, his second wife.” The peerless beauty sneered: “Congratulations, you have cuckolded the chieftain. You will be flayed alive, your tendons pulled out, and chopped into minced meat!”