Chapter 982: The Earth's Core Cave
Qingyang's speed was fast enough, and he gradually caught up with other cultivators. He met more and more cultivators on the road. Qingyang didn't understand why it was like this before. Isn't it said that the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave is connected in all directions, and the fewer cultivators gather in large numbers as you go further back?
After listening to other people's discussions, I realized that the place ahead was a relatively important place in the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave, called the Earth Core Cave. Not only can you collect the Earth Core Extreme Fire here, but also produce a common refining material, Jinling Iron Ore, and occasionally Earth Fire Sulfur Cinnabar. Because there are many good things, it is very famous among cultivators, and the location is relatively obvious, so every time the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave is opened, a large number of cultivators will come here to try their luck.
Not every cultivator who comes to the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave for adventure has the good luck of Qingyang. In the end, there are many who get nothing. For them, instead of trying their luck aimlessly in other places, it is better to come to the Earth Core Cave to look for Jinling Iron Ore and Earth Core Extreme Fire. If they are lucky enough, they may even get some Earth Fire Sulfur Cinnabar, and then they will make a fortune.
Qingyang and his companions had just come to the Ancient Wind Continent, and they had only heard about the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave for the first time. They had done very little preparation, and they had not heard of such news. But now that they knew about it, they naturally had to go and take a look. His main task in the second half of the trip was to get some Earth Core Extreme Fire. This place not only had Earth Core Extreme Fire, but also Golden Spirit Iron Ore and Earth Fire Sulfur Cinnabar, which was exactly what he wanted.
Now there were more than two months left before the six-month deadline for the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave. Considering that it would take more than a month to return, the remaining time was about one month, and it would be too late to go to other places. Qingyang decided to take a look at this Earth Core Cave and get some Extreme Fire to use. As for the Golden Spirit Iron Ore, it would be better if he could get it, but it didn't matter if he couldn't.
With this purpose in mind, Qingyang followed other monks from a distance and headed towards the Earth's Core Cave. Because there were more monks on the road, Qingyang was actually safer. It was easier to take action when there were fewer people. If there were too many monks passing by, if he was fighting hard and attracted the covetousness of others, wouldn't he become the mantis catching the cicada while the oriole was waiting behind?
Qingyang followed others and walked forward for two more days, and finally came to the Earth's Core Cave that others mentioned. The appearance of this place is not much different from other places, and it is also a series of connected caves. However, the gloomy wind here is smaller than other places, but the underground fire is more vigorous, almost covering the ground. The whole cave is red, and the temperature is ridiculously high. If the monks here are not protected by the Wind and Fire Order, at least nine out of ten would not dare to come here.
There is another reason why this place is called the Earth Center Cave. The cave here is ridiculously deep. The Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave is underground. When they entered, they kept going down. However, after a period of time, the cave became flat. After that, there were occasional downward trips, but they were limited and not many people went deep. Generally speaking, they were flat.
The caves here are completely different. All of them lead to the underground, one deeper than the other, as if they were going deep into the center of the earth. Therefore, this area is called the Earth Center Cave by the cultivators.
The deeper you go into the Earth Center Cave, the higher the temperature. The higher the temperature, the more likely it is to collect high-quality Jinling Iron Ore and Earth Fire Sulfur Cinnabar. How deep is this Earth Center Cave? No cultivator has ever figured it out, because the Wind and Fire Order has a limit. When the temperature reaches a certain level, it is useless even if you have the Wind and Fire Order in hand. Ordinary cultivators dare not go too deep.
Qingyang was deeply touched by this. As soon as he entered the scope of the earth's core cave, rolling heat waves hit him. The surrounding gloomy wind weakened a little, but the underground fire became more intense. The ground was full of underground fire, and the surrounding walls were all roasted red by the underground fire. Although there was a wind and fire order to block it, Qingyang still felt hot all over and kept sweating.
Qingyang tried it, and it was still bearable, so he gritted his teeth and followed the people in front into one of the caves and walked down along the path on the edge of the cave.
On the side of the wall next to the road, there were mines dug by other monks, some large and some small, some deep and some shallow. The deep ones could lead to other caves, and the shallow ones were only three or five feet. It might be that the monks who were mining felt that the location was not good, so they changed places after digging a few times.
If you want, you can continue to dig in these mines. If you are lucky, you can always dig some gold spirit ore or earth fire stone. However, Qingyang did not stop. Although he did not know much about the situation here, he also knew that the closer to the outside, the fewer good things there were. You can only find good things if you go as deep as possible. Otherwise, why is there no one digging here?
Qingyang went down all the way, and the temperature in the cave became higher and higher. Almost every time you go down a distance, the temperature rises by 10% or 20%. After only walking down a thousand feet, the temperature rose to a point that Qingyang could not bear. He had to activate his true essence and formed a true essence shield outside his body. With the true essence shield, the situation was slightly better, and he dared to continue going down.
After a while, the person in front finally stopped and stopped at a mine pit four or five feet deep next to him. It seemed that he had chosen a place to mine. There were only two of them, an old man at the second level of the Golden Core, and a young man who had completed the Foundation Establishment. They looked somewhat similar, as if they were a grandfather and a grandson. The reason why Qingyang had been following them was that, firstly, he was unfamiliar with this place, and it was easier to follow others, and secondly, these two people were not very strong, so he was not afraid that they would have any bad intentions.
If the other party did not intend to move forward, then there was no need to follow them. Qingyang felt that he could go deeper, so he passed the two people and continued to move forward along the path.
Qingyang was alone, and he only had the foundation of perfect cultivation, which was indeed easy to arouse some crooked thoughts from others. The old man looked at Qingyang passing outside the mine with a complicated expression, but he didn't make any extra movements. He didn't help but speak until Qingyang walked four or five feet away, saying: "My friend, you are also alone, why don't you stay and cooperate with us? The deeper you go into the earth's core, the higher the temperature is. It's not a place that we can go to casually."
Qingyang turned around and said: "I'm afraid we can't dig up too good things here?"
The old man said: "Young people should not be too ambitious. The probability of getting good things here may be lower, but it's not zero. As long as you are lucky enough, you still have a chance to get good things. In addition, it is safer here, there are not so many competitors, and you don't need to spend a lot of energy to maintain the true essence shield. It is safe and worry-free, so why not do it?"