bookcurios Chapter 4886
Chapter 4886
"Fire Demon, guide the way. Now is your chance to prove yourself."
Zhang Yi looked up at the dog-like Zhu Rong spy, Huo Gui, not far away.
Fire Ghost immediately stepped forward obsequiously, lowering his posture.
“My lord, the Lava River is merely the outskirts. Crossing the ridge from here, seven hundred miles away lies the second layer of the molten zone, and two thousand miles further down is the City of Flame Prisons—the very heart of the Kingdom of Zhu Rong.”
He stretched out his finger and pressed it on a temporarily unfolded rock map, pointing out more than a dozen nodes: "Outpost, energy storage well, armor-casting nest, legion warehouse... I know the location of every single one of them, and I also know their hiding places."
Zhang Yi nodded: "Lead the way quickly."
The strong fell one after another in battle, and the remaining members of the Zhu Rong clan were powerless to resist.
All geothermal energy resources are collected by a special technology that can seal the heat energy within a special type of red rock.
The Tianhai team didn't hesitate to take them all down in one fell swoop.
Some members of the Zhurong tribe lived beneath the lava ocean, trying to escape the disaster, but they were dug out by the fire demons themselves.
The mournful cries echoed across the sky of the Zhu Rong clan. They wailed and begged for mercy, but having experienced a war that had destroyed their country, their hearts were hardened as iron.
Fire Demon led the group around three patrol lines, two energy storage wells, and a ley line communication corridor.
He knew it like the back of his hand; he knew exactly which side of the path to take to avoid the flame detection, and which rocky outcrop to hug to avoid being seen.
After turning through a narrow, long cavern, the view suddenly opened up, and he found the refuge of the Zhu Rong clan.
"These damned lowly people, they actually think they can hide? Humph, do they really think I can't find them?"
Fire Demon snorted coldly and led his team straight in.
In a corner of the crowd in the shelter, an elderly man with sunken eyes and wearing a shawl draped in molten sand hurried over.
"Greetings, Lord of the Foreign Race! We are all law-abiding citizens!"
The old man's eyes held fear, weariness, and a hint of familiarity.
When the fire ghost saw the old man, it quickly came over and said, "Father, I am the fire ghost!"
The eyes lingered on the fire demon's face for a moment, then suddenly lit up, like a spark emerging from ashes.
"A fire demon?" The old man's voice was hoarse and excited. "You're a fire demon! I thought you were from another race!"
This simple statement was like a scalding pebble falling into the heart of the fiery demon.
“Father,” Fire Demon laughed, “I have long been a different race.”
The old man was stunned, his hands trembled, and he finally realized what his son had done.
"Foreign races are good; they bring glory to our ancestors."
Zhang Yi was quite considerate; he kept the old man and took him back to study his genetic samples.
But the fire demon showed no mercy to the others, killing the leader with a single breath of flame.
His loyalty is truly touching.
……
The clearing operation proceeded smoothly.
"It's so hot here you could fry an egg in it!"
Fatty Xu muttered in the channel, "My armored belly is big enough to be grilled on a hot plate!"
"Stop talking," Uncle You laughed. "If you really want to be a teppanyaki grill, you'll have to grill yourself first."
Zhou Ke'er looked up into the depths and said softly, "A different world... They treat lava as water and fire as wind."
Zhang Yi readily agreed: "Just don't go easy on them when you're beating them up later."
After the clearing was completed, the army assembled and quickly descended from the sea of lava, with layers of chaotic firestorms swirling through the lava layers.
Unlike a river, this is because the magma layer is interspersed with rock layers, resulting in a complex and intricate terrain within the three-dimensional space.
Fortunately, with Fire Ghost as their helpful guide, Zhang Yi and his team successfully made it to the second area.
Along the way, Zhang Yi did not see any large reinforcements arriving. They probably had already discovered that the outermost layer of the lava river had fallen, so they chose to hold their ground in the town.
The sea of fire resembled an inverted red canopy at the heart of the earth, with rows of molten lamps hanging from the dome, beneath which lay a rocky city spanning hundreds of miles: the City of Flame Prison.