. Seeing Zi Yan's foodie look, Xiao Ling couldn't help but chuckle.
He turned his gaze away from Zi Yan and fixed it on Qing Lin, sensing the auras that didn't belong to him. Curiously, he asked, "Qing Lin, it looks like your Green Snake Triple Eyes have awakened. Did you experience any discomfort when taming snake beasts?"
Hearing Xiao Ling's question, Qing Lin smiled sweetly and held up his wrists, from which six small snakes dangled.
He replied, "Young Master, your guess was correct. Qing Lin has now successfully awakened the Green Snake Triple Eyes. These are your contracted snake pets."
With a thought, the snakes wrapped around Qing Lin's wrists fell to the ground, gradually growing larger until they returned to their original size.
Xiao Ling's investigation revealed four second-tier snake beasts, one third-tier snake beast, and a fourth-tier Green Phosphorus Snake.
Patting Qinglin's head, Xiao Ling praised him, "As expected of Qinglin, you can now tame even a fourth-tier monster. Perhaps you'll have Qinglin to protect me in the future."
Hearing Xiao Ling's praise and feeling the warmth on his head, Qinglin shyly lowered his head, a faint blush already tinging his cheeks, making him look quite alluring.
He replied, "Then when Qinglin becomes very powerful, Qinglin will protect the young master."
Xiao Ling smiled slightly at Qinglin's response. While Qinglin's cultivation speed was undoubtedly swift, far superior to that of ordinary cultivators, thanks
to his foresight and the system's lucky draw, Xiao Ling was confident he could maintain his superior strength. With the Burning Technique, which allowed him to increase his cultivation by consuming strange fire, his rate of improvement was unmatched by ordinary cultivators.
Shaking his head, no longer dwelling on these trivial matters, Xiao Ling withdrew his hand from Qinglin's head and said to Ziyan and Qinglin, "Now that you're all back, I've prepared the elixirs needed to devour the strange fire. Let's set off to find the strange fire hidden in the Tagor Desert."
Hearing this, Qinglin and Ziyan nodded in agreement with Xiao Ling's plan. With
a slight nod, Xiao Ling called out Leikongzuo, who had been absent from work for several days.
After speaking a few words into his sleeve, the black Leikongzuo emerged from Xiao Ling's sleeve and appeared before Xiao Ling and the other two.
Seeing Qinglin's surprise, Xiao Ling smiled and explained, "Qinglin, this is probably your first time meeting this creature. Its name is Liekongzuo. It's a magical beast I trained and one of my best companions." After hearing Xiao Ling's explanation
, Qinglin greeted Liekongzuo and said, "Hello, Liekongzuo. I'm Qinglin, the young master's sister."
Liekongzuo, now a sixth-rank magical beast with an intelligence comparable to that of a human, naturally understood Qinglin's words. He nodded and rubbed his face against Qinglin's, expressing his affection.
After introducing Liekongzuo to Qinglin, Xiao Ling sat on it and said to Qinglin and Ziyan, "Qinglin and Ziyan, come sit on it too. With Akong's help, we can save a lot of time and energy on our search for the strange fire."
The two women nodded in agreement. Ziyan took Qinglin's hand and, with a light leap, landed on Liekongzuo's back, carrying Qinglin.
Seeing that the three people had already sat on it, Rayquaza began to twist its body and flew into the air.
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Standing above Liekongzuo, Xiao Ling pulled the Strange Fire Map he'd received from Hai Bodong from his ring. He cast his gaze upon the information depicted on it, noting three flame icons marked on the map. The locations of these three icons indicated the most likely locations for the Strange Fire.
Drawing upon his recollection of the original novel's plot, Xiao Ling pondered for a moment and quickly remembered the location of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire: the eastern region of Stone Desert City.
Patting Liekongzuo's head, Xiao Ling pointed eastward, saying, "Akong, fly in that direction." Liekongzuo
nodded slightly at Xiao Ling's instruction, twisting his slender body with all his might. His speed increased, breaking through the clouds before him and soaring towards the east of Stone Desert City.
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The vast desert, raging with yellow sand.
Xiao Ling, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin arrived at a flat expanse of desert and stopped.
"Xiao Ling, are you sure it's here?" Zi Yan looked at the flat desert in front of her in astonishment. The terrain here was extremely ordinary, without any features that could attract people's attention. There were almost countless flat sands like this in the vast desert. It was hard for Zi Yan to imagine that there were traces of "strange fire" in this inconspicuous place.
Xiao Ling placed the map containing the information about the Strange Fire into his ring. With a noncommittal smile, he cryptically replied to Zi Yan, "Who says the Strange Fire will appear in the desert? Otherwise, it would have been discovered long ago. How could we possibly be searching for it?"
Hearing this, Zi Yan scratched her head, puzzled, and said, "If it doesn't appear in the desert, then why would it appear underground?"
Touching Zi Yan's head, Xiao Ling smiled and said, "Congratulations, you guessed the correct answer. It's a pity there's no reward."
Retracting his hand from caressing Zi Yan's head, Xiao Ling squatted down, touched a patch of yellow sand, closed his eyes, and the soul perception between his brows radiated, beginning to explore the subterranean conditions.
Now that Xiao Ling's soul perception had reached the spiritual realm, the subterranean conditions appeared in his mind like a topographical map, and he easily discovered the method to enter the subterranean magma world.
Xiao Ling withdrew his hand, stood up, and said to Qing Lin and Zi Yan, "I've found the underground passage. Come with me."
After walking a distance to the north, the three of them arrived at a slightly sunken sandy area.
Xiao Ling activated his fighting spirit and with a single palm, he dispersed the sand dunes that covered the cave entrance.
After the dunes were cleared, a hole about half a meter wide was blasted out in the sunken area. He glanced inside the hole. It was pitch black, with a faint warm air rising from it.
(End of this chapter)