Chapter 496: Outbreak
Under the gaze of Yuan Ming and the other two, the surface of the lava lake suddenly bulged, forming a huge bulge.
Inside the bulge was an extremely large fire crocodile head, its eyes glowing with dark gold, and its body exuded a terrifying aura, far superior to the other fire crocodiles in the lake, but its aura was slightly unstable.
"Level 4 Fire Crocodile King! Occupying the terrain here, even a Yuanying cultivator may not be a match, retreat quickly!" Qianbao Taoist immediately summoned the Qingye Flying Shuttle and flew out.
Fairy Jinyun's eyes also became solemn, and she patted the spirit bird under her body, turning into a golden light and shooting towards the shore.
Although Tu Sheng was seriously injured, he did not lose his ability to move, and he forced himself to fly towards the black rock not far away.
Yuan Ming's eyes flickered, and he also fled with the thunderstorm, but his movements were a moment slower than the other three.
Fire almost spewed out of the eyes of the Fire Crocodile King. It had just stayed in its nest at the bottom of the magma lake, trying to break through the bottleneck of the fourth-level intermediate stage. These damned human cultivators actually attacked at this time, causing it to fail and taking away most of the earth's core fire lotus.
It would be difficult to eliminate the hatred in its heart unless it killed everyone.
The Fire Crocodile King opened its mouth and spit out a round bead burning with red flames. The terrifying high temperature swept across, like a small sun falling into the mortal world and merging into the magma lake.
Boom!
The temperature at the center of the lake instantly increased several times, the spiritual energy of the world boiled, and all kinds of auras surged violently, stirring the entire lake into a pot of porridge.
The Fire Crocodile King flicked his tail, and the magma of half of the lake surged, forming a huge wave that hit the four people in the center of the lake.
"Well, it's really what you want!" Yuan Ming was happy in his heart, but his face showed a horrified expression, and he stopped escaping.
The coldness in his hand was so strong that a large piece of white ice crystal appeared out of thin air, and in the blink of an eye, it condensed into a huge ice ball, covering his body.
Tu Sheng's face turned pale, but fortunately he had already flown to the black rock, and his figure flashed and merged into the rock again, disappearing in an instant.
Fairy Jinyun and Taoist Qianbao were also shocked, and hurriedly accelerated their escape speed.
However, the attack range of the Fire Crocodile King was too wide. Although the two of them tried their best to escape, they were still submerged by the magma that covered the sky and the sun.
Yuan Ming's body was swallowed by the magma and rolled into the bottom of the lake.
Under the impact of the surrounding hot lava, the white ice ball continued to melt, but the ice condensed by the Hanyue Ring was extremely solid and contained amazing cold air. In addition, Yuan Ming continued to stimulate the injection of cold air, so the melting speed was not fast.
"Finally, I can let go!" Yuan Ming moved his shoulders and urged the Hanyue Ring to shoot out a white cold light to resist the erosion of the magma. At the same time, he quietly opened the Shura Bloodthirsty Map.
Hong Ling and Xueying flew out and plunged into the magma lake.
The Fire Crocodile King paddled his limbs, darted through the magma at an unusually fast speed, and pounced on Fairy Jin Yun who was hit into the bottom of the lake. His breath was completely hidden, not a single bit leaked out.
Fairy Jin Yun's face was slightly pale, but judging from her breath, she was not injured.
The fire cloud around her became several times denser, easily isolating the hot lava outside, and controlled the golden spirit bird to fly upwards, without noticing the danger approaching.
In the blink of an eye, the Fire Crocodile King flew to Fairy Jin Yun's back a few feet, and bit down fiercely with his bloody mouth.
The spirit bird under Fairy Jin Yun suddenly screamed in fear, and Fairy Jin Yun realized the danger behind her, and her expression changed drastically.
At this moment, a blood shadow shot from the side, but it was a woman in red.
This woman did not seem to have any means of self-defense, and the hot magma seemed to have no effect on her, and she raised her hand to grab.
The Fire Crocodile King's body tightened, and his body seemed to be covered by some net-like object, but it was not visible at all. The giant sword-like fangs stopped one foot behind Fairy Jin Yun.
Fairy Jinyun was horrified, glanced at the woman in red, and continued to fly upwards.
The Fire Crocodile King was shocked and angry, and his two front paws grabbed the invisible net around him, trying to tear it apart.
However, his front paws seemed to be stuck on the net, and his whole body seemed like a fly caught in a spider web. It was extremely difficult to move, and his strength was nowhere to be exerted.
A blood cloud shot from the other side, covering the fire crocodile and the bloody net.
"What a strong blood! Haha, I can finally drink to my heart's content today!" Nine blood shadows shot out from the blood cloud, making a strange laugh and merging into the body of the Fire Crocodile King.
The Fire Crocodile King's body felt cold, his strength quickly dissipated, his soul was surging, and a large piece of red flames rose from his body, and the nearby magma suddenly surged like a tide.
Fairy Jinyun flew out of the magma lake and immediately soared into the air. After escaping a little, she dared to turn around and look back.
The surging magma lake swelled up again, and several magma fire waves tens of feet high rose from the lake and collided violently.
In the turbulent magma lake, two blood-red demon shadows and the fire crocodile king could be vaguely seen fighting fiercely. The burst of breath was extremely shocking, far exceeding the level of the Jindan stage.
"The woman in red just now should be in the Nascent Soul stage! But aren't Nascent Soul cultivators not allowed to enter the secret realm? Who is she?" Fairy Jinyun frowned.
She did not stop in her hesitation and continued to flee outside.
Under the magma waves, a blood-red light suddenly appeared, the color was even stronger than the magma itself, as if thick blood plasma was poured into it.
However, after the waves passed, the blood-red light disappeared abruptly, as if it had never appeared.
And with it, the figure of the fourth-level fire crocodile king also disappeared.
Fairy Jinyun flew to the lakeside like lightning and landed on a high ground.
Long Chong, Qing Tong and the others who were restraining the other fire crocodiles saw that the situation was not good and they all retreated.
The fire crocodiles did not chase them, but rushed to the center of the magma lake, with anger in their eyes.
At this moment, a thick blood light appeared in the magma lake again, and more than a dozen fire crocodiles suddenly sank to the bottom of the lake, as if they were dragged down by something.
The next moment, the thick blood light disappeared again.
A group of people on the shore were sweating coldly. These fire crocodiles should have taken advantage of the magma lake and dragged other prey down, but now they have fallen!
What kind of monster is that blood light?
Fairy Jinyun was shocked, and then her pupils suddenly shrank.
In the center of the lake where the magma was rolling, the circle of reefs had been destroyed, and inside the black reef, the remaining earth core fire lotus disappeared at some point.
"Fellow Daoist Jinyun, what's going on? Where are Fellow Daoist Qianbao and Fellow Daoist Yuan?" Long Chong looked at Fairy Jinyun and asked gloomily.
A staggering green light shot out from the magma lake and landed near the crowd, revealing the wounded figure of Qianbao Taoist.
Almost at the same time, a yellow light flashed on the ground behind the crowd, and Tu Sheng's figure emerged.
He was already seriously injured, and he forcibly performed the earth escape technique, which added to his injuries and he sat on the ground.
Tu Sheng took out a green jade bottle, and regardless of how much was in it, he poured all the pills in it into his mouth and swallowed it. Only then did his pale face look better.
Seeing the two people appear, Long Chong was overjoyed and was about to ask them about Yuan Ming's situation.
At this moment, the change reappeared!
A dull roar came from under the entire magma lake, as if it came from the roar of an ancient giant beast, and like a muffled thunder suppressed in the heavy clouds.
Then, the ground nearby shook violently.
"Gugugugu..."
In that magma lake, huge bubbles emerged like a boiling hot pot, accompanied by bursts of thick smoke rising up. It seemed as if a spring had appeared out of thin air at the bottom of the lake, bubbling out magma, emitting a hot breath and a strong smell of sulfur
"Something is wrong, this magma lake is about to erupt, hurry up!" Qianbao Taoist's expression changed slightly and he shouted.
He drove the Qingye shuttle and retreated violently. Fairy Jinyun followed closely behind, also riding a golden bird and flying away.
Tu Sheng also took a deep breath and used the earth escape technique again to escape into the ground.
Others did not dare to stay and flew away immediately.
Zhong Ling, Hua Ping, and Baili Zhui, who were guarding the outermost and controlling the Wanmu formation, were obviously the farthest away, but they fled the fastest, even leaving behind the wooden stakes for the formation and fleeing towards the edge of the continent.
In the blink of an eye, only Long Chong, Qiong Yun, and Wu Lu were left by the lake.
"Go, what are you dawdling about?" Qiong Yun pulled Long Chong to leave.
"Brother Yuan hasn't come out yet, how can we leave him alone?" Long Chong didn't move, anxiously looking at the rolling lake.
"Brother Long, Brother Yuan is very powerful. If he is still alive, he must have a plan to retreat. If you insist on staying here, you may only make mistakes. It's better to leave first." Wu Lu also urged anxiously.
With a "boom", the magma lake that had been suppressed for a long time finally erupted!
A huge red fire column rose from the magma lake and rushed into the sky, carrying extremely hot magma and gray-black billowing smoke, and countless rock fragments mixed in it, bursting in all directions!
Not only that, the ground near the magma lake also slowly swelled up.
The ground under the feet of Wu Lu and the other two was also the same. Puffs of smoke drilled out from the ground, and it seemed that volcanic lava would also erupt here.
"No, the terrain around here is about to collapse, run away!" Wulu didn't care about Long Chong, and turned into a black light and flew away.
Seeing the current situation, Long Chong didn't dare to insist any longer, and soared into the air with Qiongyun.
As soon as the two flew into the air, the ground under their feet exploded, and a thick pillar of magma rushed towards them.
"Get out of the way!" Long Chong pushed Qiongyun out with force, and he also used the force to shoot backwards, narrowly avoiding the hot magma.
Boom boom boom!
One after another, the magma rushed into the sky, and the magma that collapsed turned into a rain of fire, bringing up countless thick smoke, submerging the magma lake and a large area nearby, and everywhere was a scene of the collapse of the sky and the earth.
Long Chong left the latest, and at this moment, there was magma and thick smoke everywhere. He didn't dare to be careless at all, rushing left and right, and flew out with difficulty.
There was a bang on the ground below, and another hot magma pillar broke out of the ground.
Long Chong hurriedly moved sideways to dodge, but a green light suddenly flashed in the thick smoke behind him, and a figure with green eyes suddenly appeared.
"Go to hell." A crazy killing intent appeared in his eyes.
A green shadow flashed by, and Long Chong suddenly felt a chill coming from behind him. Feeling that something was wrong, he quickly released the protective light.
However, the next moment, a powerful impact force hit his lower back.
Long Chong was caught off guard and was knocked away, hitting the lava column.