Yan Qing looked up and followed the sound toward the direction it came from. Across the long corridor, at the end, lay an endless sea of fire. Countless flames burned fiercely within it.
"My God!" This scene was quite a shock to her, especially considering that this was underground!
It's unusual for such a massive fire to appear here.
"This should be the Fiery Hell, one of the Nine Hells." Yue Qi's voice sounded behind Yan Qing. He walked to Yan Qing's side, his expression extremely solemn.
"Among the nine hells, the southern one is the Hell of Fire and Shadows. It seems that the direction here isn't very accurate either." We were clearly going down in a spiral, so how did we inexplicably turn south?
Yan Qing nodded, understanding that Yue Qi was reminding her. Moreover, the temperature here seemed a little off.
Why is it getting hotter and hotter?
They had only been inside for a short while, and the two of them hadn't even taken more than a few steps. Logically, the temperature difference shouldn't be so great.
"Master, Lingxi is not feeling well. It's too hot here." As a supernatural being, Lingxi has a natural fear of fire, so Yan Qing simply put her away.
She pulled a thermometer from her pocket and, sure enough, discovered something was wrong.
The temperature on the thermometer isn't constant; it's been slowly and gradually rising. It started at 26 degrees Celsius, and now it's almost 27 degrees Celsius.
If this continues, they might very well be roasted alive here.
"There seems to be a special coating on the ground here." Monk Yuanhui had been studying the ground since the beginning, and now he seemed to have discovered something.
"This humble monk observes that this place uses a special coating that can absorb heat. If we continue to stay here, the temperature will only rise higher and higher."
Yuanhui's expression grew increasingly serious as he spoke, "Although I don't know what lies ahead, I'm certain it's not what we see with our eyes. Therefore, someone needs to make a journey through that so-called 'sea of fire.' Which benefactor is willing to go?"
His words gave Yan Qing a sense of sudden enlightenment.
Could it be that the raging fire in front of us was actually fake?
Everyone else heard Yuanhui's guess, but unfortunately, no one volunteered to try it out. This included even the Sun family members who were ready to die for their cause.
Yan Qing thought to herself with a sneer, "It seems these people are extremely afraid of losing their lives!"
Yuan Hui had anticipated everyone's reaction. In the end, he sighed and stepped forward.
“Amitabha Buddha, as the Buddha said, ‘If I don’t go to hell, who will?’ In that case, this humble monk is willing to be the first!”
He clasped his hands together, made a Buddhist gesture to everyone, and then walked towards the sea of fire at the end of the corridor without looking back.
One minute, two minutes... ten minutes passed, and Monk Yuanhui still hadn't returned.
Some people looked very unwell, but still no one made a move.
Another ten minutes passed.
"Look, what's that?!" Wen Jiajia suddenly cried out in terror, "There seems to be someone there! It looks like they were burned to death!!"
Yan Qing also witnessed this scene: a human-shaped shadow suddenly emerged from the depths of the sea of fire. Its entire body was engulfed in flames, and it seemed to be in extreme pain. Its body eventually collapsed, still writhing in agony.
"vomit--"
Wen Jiajia finally couldn't hold it in any longer and vomited. As her protector, Sun Qiang naturally pulled her into his arms immediately.
At the same time, Yan Qing and Yue Qi both clearly felt that the temperature in the air had risen.
The thermometer showed the temperature was already thirty degrees Celsius, and everyone was drenched in sweat. Even her secret weapon for cooling down seemed to have lost its effectiveness.
Deep within the sea of fire, there was not a single sound.
Yue Qi's eyes flashed with blue light, and finally, as if he had made up his mind, he grabbed Yan Qing's hand and said,
"No, we can't stay here any longer. Although I can't see through what's going on on the other side, my intuition tells me that staying here will only lead to our deaths."
He looked into Yan Qing's eyes and asked, word by word, "Yan Qing, do you dare to come with me?"
"What?! Are you crazy?"
Before Yan Qing could answer Yue Qi's question, Sun Gui interrupted her.
"Can't you see? Yuanhui, who insisted on rushing into the fire, has already been burned alive!! Now, we can't afford to lose the two of you too!"
Otherwise, if three superhumans are lost at once, we really won't be able to get out of this instance.
Sun Gui's words made sense, but Yan Qing simply refused to believe it. She shared Yue Qi's feeling that staying put was the most dangerous thing to do.
So even if there was a sea of fire ahead, she was willing to brave it.
So she turned to Yue Qi and smiled, "Since we think alike, what is there to be afraid of about braving a mere sea of fire?"
She spoke lightly, but to the others, it sounded quite different.
Even Wen Jiajia couldn't sit still any longer, "Yan Qing, are you crazy? Are you out of your mind?!"
"What a joke! Do I look like I want to die?" Yan Qing retorted without any politeness. "Here's a piece of advice: if you want to live, don't stay here."
Then she took Yue Qi's hand again, "Let's go!"
The two walked into the sea of fire, talking and laughing as they went.
The moment Yan Qing stepped into the inferno, she knew she had made the right gamble. Surprisingly, the fire, which looked capable of burning a person to ashes, was surprisingly cool.
All the high temperatures disappeared without a trace. Yan Qing took out the thermometer and found that the temperature on it had returned to twenty-five degrees.
It turns out that the so-called sea of fire was just a smokescreen.
This place was probably built in imitation of the Fiery Hell of the Nine Hells. Because the death scenes in the first hell, the Copper Pillar Hell, are too gruesome, people will instinctively be on guard when they see this place.
Therefore, they dared not easily take a step inside.
Little did they know, the real threat of death lay just outside the fire, where they had stood before. The temperature there was truly abnormal.
Yue Qi surveyed his surroundings, from where he could clearly see the reactions of everyone outside. And their reactions were no longer just shock, but deep fear.
It seems that their deaths in this so-called illusion of fire must have been exceptionally tragic.
He guessed correctly; what the others in the fiery illusion saw was the horrific scene of Yue Qi and Yan Qing being burned alive.
Unlike the first monk Yuanhui, this time the two of them were directly bound by a fire dragon, which first burned off all their skin, leaving only empty bones that were still crackling from the fire.
Most importantly, unlike Yuan Hui's silent burning, Yan Qing and Yue Qi's screams lasted for nearly twenty minutes. The screams only stopped abruptly when not even a bone fragment remained.
The gruesome scene of death completely shocked everyone.
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