The struggle for the Frostflame Flower had begun, and the situation was becoming increasingly severe. If they didn’t act now, the prize would fall into the hands of others, which Solomon was not willing to see.
“Time waits for no one. I hope you two can lend me your strength,” he took a deep breath and said to the two beside him with seriousness.
“No problem.”
“Whatever you say.”
Faced with such a perilous situation, Ivan and Doug did not choose to back down.
The two were no strangers to big crises; were not uncontrollable spatial rifts terrifying? Were not the otherworldly lords that crossed realms to assassinate terrifying? The current situation was not enough to break the trust of these two men.
Solomon was very relieved at this.
“Pidel, it’s up to you now.” He signaled to his Secret Method Body Double.
“Sure thing,” Pidel replied nonchalantly, and then he slowly sank into the magma, gradually being swallowed by it.
As others were perplexed, a fierce, scorching golden light burst forth from Pidel, briefly revealing a three-legged divine bird before it flashed away and ultimately transformed into a small boat made of golden, glistening glass.
“Son of the Sun?” Ivan exclaimed in surprise.
That three-legged divine bird was clearly the underground Son of the Sun, which Zannie had seen once. She remembered an elder mentioning in passing that this object was very important to the underground world, and tampering with it could easily lead to taboo.
“Keep this a secret for me.”
Solomon nodded and added a reminder.
Then, he started to invite everyone to get aboard.
But the small boat of golden, glistening glass was indeed not large, barely able to fit three people. Ivan immediately sent the swamp ant to the shore to wait for him, Locke transformed into a streak of light and entered his body, while the Silkworm Queen, having shrunk and not being large in size, was able to join them.
Kang Mang similarly attached himself to Doug.
The three squeezed into the cramped boat, and the cabin door closed automatically without leaving the slightest gap.
The next second, the small boat of golden, glistening glass ignited with golden flames and then dived into the scorching magma, descending towards the depths while also making its way towards the Frostflame Flower.
“I’ve never been beneath the lava before; following you is quite the eye-opener.”
No wonder Doug was expressing his wonder; the interior of the boat was indeed remarkable. Once activated, the entire boat radiated with golden light, and being transparent, it felt like sitting within a ball of golden light, with the lava clearly visible outside.
The lava was within arm’s reach, yet they couldn’t feel the temperature from above.
The scene was magical.
“To obtain the Frostflame Flower, how could I not be well prepared?”
Solomon said with a light smile, having planned for many years. The small boat of golden, glistening glass was just one of his preparations and also the most important.
However, whether it was possible to enter the location of the Frostflame Flower from below, to be honest, he was not entirely confident, as the situation changed every time.
In the depths of the magma lake, originally there was the lord of the molten lake to guard it, and all other creatures born from it had been cleared. Now that the lord of the molten lake was outside, there was no obstruction in the lake.
The plans of Solomon were undoubtedly effective.
“Thump!”
After traveling through the magma for a while, as the small boat tried to continue upward near the target location, it was blocked by a strange energy.
This was a cold flame energy, and it was not hard to deduce that it was blocking the coveting of the molten lake lord.
Solomon had anticipated this, and a surge of icy chill from within him flowed into the small boat of golden, glistening glass. With his close relationship with Pidel, the icy chill smoothly integrated into the golden flames.
The golden flames blended with the icy chill, constantly changing and quickly approached the strange energy.
Half a minute later, the liuli jin wire boat broke through the blockade ahead and inched its way upward.
Solomon’s heart, which he had been holding, finally settled back into his stomach.
A while later, just over ten meters away from the Frost Flame Flower, one saw a golden boat emerge from below and with a ‘plop’ landed on the ground.
There was neither wind nor waves near the Frost Flame Flower, as if it were in a closed cave.
“Good grief, that strange bird is still here.”
“Cut the crap, take it out first. Who knows what will happen later, we can’t let this creature get in the way.”
In the blink of an eye, the liuli jin wire boat disappeared, and six figures subsequently appeared. They immediately noticed the three-headed bird poking its head out, almost squeezing through some crevice.
Seeing the people emerging from below, the three-headed bird’s six eyes bulged round with disbelief.
In its dumbfounded state, ‘swoosh, swoosh, swoosh’ went a few sounds, as three long whips stretched out, piercing straight through the three heads of the bird, causing it to die with its eyes wide open.
To think, it had struggled so hard to get here, just a step away from success, only to be ambushed by a group of elders.
What a suffocating death!
“Solomon, you go collect the Frost Flame Flower, leave the rest to us.”
“Alright, Pidel and I will make it quick.”
From the outside, the Frost Flame Flower didn’t seem large, but once there one could see that its overall height actually exceeded a two-story tower, looking like a small mountain peak.
The mountain peak’s exterior was filled with dangerously icy fire energy, while the flower’s core was positioned slightly above the center, the size a person could embrace.
To peel away the dangerous petals on the outside and extract the flower’s core intact was naturally no easy task, even for someone prepared like Solomon.
While Solomon was picking the flower’s core, Ivan and Doug’s job was to ensure no one disturbed him.
With formidable enemies lurking outside, this was not an easy task either.
“How dare you thieves, you’re asking for death!”
“Very well! No one has ever been so impudent in front of the Lord of the Cold Lake, you foreigners, your death is certain.”
Outside the Heaven and Earth Net, the Lord of the Melt Lake and the Lord of the Cold Lake were engaged in fierce combat. To avoid harming the Frost Flame Flower, both held back their full strength, and neither could do anything to each other.
Just as the three-headed bird was nearly reaching its goal, both Lords were prepared to unleash a devastating blow, but someone else had beaten them to the punch.
This truly infuriated both Lords, it was utterly outrageous.
“Fire barbarian, how about we stop fighting?”
“We’ll settle our scores later.”
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Quickly, the Lord of the Melt Lake and the Lord of the Cold Lake temporarily set aside their personal grievances, united in targeting the thieves who had taken advantage of the situation, intending to grind the intruders to dust and show them the might of Lords.
The two giants’ voices thundered as they spoke.
“Not good! Someone has snuck inside.”
“How could that be?”
The situation was unclear. Due to the terrifying might of the two giant Lords and unlike Solomon, the other three opted to ‘sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight,’ waiting for a chance to act.
Until the voice was heard, Delia and the others almost jumped out of their skin.
“Let’s go. We’ll join up with the others. I want to see if it’s Solomon or Kedaf who has the ability to appear and disappear so magically?”
It was highly unlikely that the giant Lords were deceiving them. After a few seconds of thought, Delia made her decision.
She decided to meet up with the others and find the team that had snuck inside, then form an alliance with the other two to discuss a strategy together. No matter what, if she couldn’t have it, she would make sure no one else had an easy time getting it.