Above this entrance was a stone cover.
It was filled with soil and planted with medicinal herbs.
Without a powerful Divine Sense, no matter how many times one searched, if this medicine garden wasn't turned upside down, it would likely never be discovered.
There was originally a Restriction here, but it had been completely destroyed.
Yang Che carefully moved the stone cover aside.
After descending through the entrance, he meticulously gathered the soil and medicinal herbs back onto the stone cover from the inside, slowly sealing the stone cover.
He continued to descend the stone steps.
It wasn't until Yang Che felt a jolt of alarm that he sensed faint wisps of scorching Qi beginning to emanate from deep underground.
A hint of joy immediately rose in Yang Che's heart.
It seemed the Land of Extreme Yang should be deep underground.
As he continued to descend, the heat grew more intense, and soon Yang Che arrived at the very bottom.
Before him appeared an incredibly vast lava pool.
Within it, fiery hot lava bubbled and flowed like red blood.
Yang Che released his Divine Sense, looked around, and quickly searched the lava pool carefully.
Just then, his heart suddenly stirred, sensing that the Nine Heart Thunder Flame within him was incredibly restless.
After a brief thought, he directly released the Nine Heart Thunder Flame from his body.
Once the Nine Heart Thunder Flame emerged, it immediately plunged into the lava pool.
Subsequently, Yang Che watched with immense surprise as the underground lava was actually being devoured by the Nine Heart Thunder Flame!
The lava gradually decreased, while the Nine Heart Thunder Flame grew stronger little by little.
Feeling the Lei Yan's transformation, Yang Che was naturally overjoyed.
He simply stopped bothering with the Nine Heart Thunder Flame, allowing the Lei Yan to devour wildly.
Yang Che, enduring the high temperature, meticulously searched for any trace of the nine-colored fire lotus.
A long time passed.
Yang Che still found nothing.
Recalling carefully, Yang Che remembered that this place should have been the cultivation retreat of Jiang Wudao, the half-step Soul Transformation cultivator.
It seemed that even if there had been a nine-colored fire lotus, Jiang Wudao had long since picked it.
He sighed inwardly with regret.
To wait for the Nine Heart Thunder Flame to continue devouring the lava, he simply sat cross-legged with his eyes closed on the scorching stone, and began to continue refining and absorbing the medicinal liquid power from the Yao Beast inner core within his body.
Time slowly flowed by.
He didn't know how long had passed.
Yang Che suddenly felt a burning and itching sensation on his face.
He immediately opened his eyes.
Upon seeing the scene before him, he couldn't help but be slightly startled.
He saw a humanoid flame shadow, seemingly cheering and leaping for joy before him.
This flame figure was very tall.
Calling it a 'Flame Giant' would not be an exaggeration.
The most striking feature of this Flame Giant was its broad chest, where there were actually nine strangely arranged Vortexes.
Within one of the Vortexes, a 'fire crystal' shaped remarkably like a human heart was embedded.
The remaining eight Vortexes, however, were empty.
"Lei Yan, is this how you used to look?"
Yang Che could clearly sense that this Flame Giant was the Nine Heart Thunder Flame, and at this moment, the Lei Yan was far more powerful than before.
The Flame Giant nodded excitedly, then suddenly transformed into a stream of light and directly entered Yang Che's body.
After the Nine Heart Thunder Flame returned to his Middle Dantian, it suddenly released wisps of pure fire Spiritual Qi that dispersed into Yang Che's limbs and bones.
These pure fire Spiritual Qi circulated through almost all the meridians in his body before returning to his Dantian.
"My meridians have actually been widened again, and without the slightest pain."
Yang Che sensed the changes within his body and muttered to himself with joy.
As if sensing that the Lei Yan had something to say, with a thought, the Flame Giant formed by the Nine Heart Thunder Flame immediately reappeared before him.
The Lei Yan pointed to the lava pool with its fiery arm.
Yang Che then paused, refocusing his attention on the lava pool.
"Eh?"
Yang Che first discovered that all the lava in the incredibly vast lava pool had been completely devoured by the Nine Heart Thunder Flame.
Then, in a crevice at the bottom of the lava pool, Yang Che discovered a small, peculiar fiery red plant.
"Fire Lotus!"
Yang Che directly leaped down and approached the fiery red plant.
A thumb-thick stem emerged from the rock crevice, entirely crimson, covered with countless small white thorns, about a foot long, topped with a small, dark brown lotus pod.
Inside the lotus pod, nine small cavities were completely empty.
Yang Che's mood instantly shifted from pleasant surprise to dejection.
Evidently, the nine mature lotus seeds within this lotus pod had most likely been picked by Jiang Wudao, leaving only an empty shell.
Despite his immense frustration, Yang Che still planned to carefully collect both the stem and the lotus pod.
After all, this was a Spirit Medicine born from the Land of Extreme Yang; even without the lotus seeds, the stem and the lotus pod shell were extremely valuable fire-attribute medicinal materials.
He carefully moved the rock away.
This exposed the base of the fire lotus stem.
Yang Che suddenly froze, then a surge of joy abruptly welled up in his heart again.
It turned out that beneath the stone, the fire lotus stem was connected to a section of crystal-clear lotus root, shimmering with colorful light.
Yang Che did not hesitate at all; he directly dug up this lotus root, along with the fiery mud, and put it into the Void Illusion Magic Stone Space.
Then, he took the Nine Heart Thunder Flame and immediately entered the Magic Stone Space, arriving at the Tongyou Medicine Garden.
He directly dug a small pond not too far from the Spirit Eye Tree.
Then he transplanted some Spiritual Soil into it, and poured in all the Lingyan Spring water he had previously collected to create 'Spiritual Mud,' before very carefully planting the lotus root, along with the fiery mud, within it.
After completing all this and confirming that the fire lotus root was growing normally, Yang Che finally let out a long sigh of relief.
He just didn't know what kind of lotus seeds would grow on this lotus root if new fire lotuses were to sprout.
After all, this wasn't the Land of Extreme Yang, so growing a 'nine-colored fire lotus' seemed highly unlikely.
But since he had the root of the fire lotus, which was this section of lotus root, coupled with the effects of the Lingyan Spring and the Spiritual Soil, he presumed that the lotus seeds ultimately produced wouldn't be bad; however, Yang Che had no idea what their final appearance and effects would be.
Exiting the Magic Stone Space, Yang Che quickly left the underground area.
After lifting the stone cover of the medicine garden and fully emerging, Yang Che found it pitch black outside.
He had come all this way, yet ultimately, he hadn't obtained a single one of the nine-colored lotus seeds of the nine-colored fire lotus.
However, by a stroke of Opportunity, he not only killed the thin Old Man from the Jiang Family, avenging the near-death experience at the city gate, but the Nine Heart Thunder Flame also devoured the lava from the Land of Extreme Yang, greatly recovering and becoming even more powerful.
And he also obtained a section of crystal-clear lotus root shimmering with colorful light.
"It seems I can only continue to search for other Lands of Extreme Yang to find this nine-colored fire lotus."
Yang Che unceremoniously emptied this medicine garden, transplanting it into the Tongyou Medicine Garden. Then he quietly left Jiang Huo City and swiftly flew back in the direction of the Qing Jian Sect.
He was concerned about the safety of Old Ancestor Old Man, and decided that if he returned to Sword Four Peak of the Qing Jian Sect and Old Ancestor Old Man and the other Peak Masters still hadn't returned, he would prepare to go to the bottom of the river to investigate.
He flew at top speed.
Before he even returned to the Qing Jian Sect, Yang Che learned of an event on the way that greatly shocked the entire Cultivation World of Jiang Country.