As they advanced deeper into the tunnel, the temperature rose higher and higher.
Later on, it almost took both Illya and Ghost raising their shields at the same time to hold on.
Qin Xiao arranged for himself and Ye Qingya to tame beasts, two to a group, ready to take turns at any time.
"Mayor, ask the cat how much longer. If this continues, things might get out of hand."
Qin Xiao said to Ye Qingya.
With her little face flushed, Ye Qingya, who couldn't help but follow the others and open her coat, immediately began to communicate with Totoro.
She understood Qin Xiao's meaning. If this continued, everyone's spiritual energy might be depleted, and they wouldn't be able to cope with dangers or emergencies.
After a while, Ye Qingya fanned herself and tugged at the collar of her bra.
"The cat said it's about half a kilometer away from here."
Although Youyou's cold air cooled the temperature, the continuous temperature loss was too great, and Youyou could not fully activate her extreme cold freezing air, so the temperature was still very hot.
As it stands, Ilya and Bai Ling can hold out for a while longer. With Jing Jing and Slovic taking over halfway through the journey, they can also maintain a certain level of combat effectiveness.
It's barely okay; I can still persevere and delve deeper.
We've come this far, it would be a shame not to go down and take a look.
The Totoro was having some trouble walking ahead, even though the high temperature was like a fish in water for it.
However, it also depends on the degree of high temperature. It's clearly starting to exceed the cat's tolerance range, and it has already activated its psionic shield.
The group fell silent and simply followed the cat further inside.
Soon, another half hour passed.
The cave became increasingly spacious and the temperature rose higher and higher.
Finally, the seemingly endless crystal passage came to an end, revealing a huge underground cavern.
The magma, dark red and golden red, surged everywhere, occasionally bursting open and releasing wisps of toxic gas.
In the center of the magma lay a huge skeleton, lying quietly on a bluish-black ground that looked like it was made of aggregated metallic elements.
"It really does look like a dragon!"
Ye Qingya muttered to herself, and Qin Xiao's expression tightened as well.
That's really true!
"Mayor, wasn't this supposed to be just a Diamond-tier secret realm? Where did this dragon come from?"
Generally, dragons reach the Diamond rank in their infancy, the Extraordinary rank or above in their youth, and adult and elderly dragons differ further depending on their genus.
However, no dragon is a creature below the demigod level after reaching adulthood.
In other words, the dragon skeleton that died here was at least a demigod-level creature.
"Slovic, your ancestors were once wealthy too?"
Qin Xiao looked curiously at the black swan in his arms.
Slovic was also completely bewildered. "I...I don't know, but there has never been a creature above the diamond rank in the royal records. Even this dragon race is more of an ancient legend."
"Ancient times are impossible. No matter how powerful this dragon is, I don't believe it can still be so terrifyingly powerful after being dead for so many years."
The fiery region, the magma, and the rising temperatures are all undeniably related to this dragon skeleton.
Qin Xiao thought for a moment and said, "After all, this thing can't possibly be a god-level existence, right?"
If it were truly a god-level being, even in death, this world would likely perish and collapse along with its corpse.
The group discussed it for a few minutes, but didn't come up with any useful information.
"Forget it, who cares what its background is? It's already dead. Let's get the dragon bones first, maybe we can get something out of it."
As Qin Xiao spoke, he began to control the roots of the Jianmu tree to move towards the dragon bone corpse.
However, the roots of the Jianmu tree had just emerged from the void passage and had not yet had a chance to entangle the dragon bone when they turned into ashes at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Everyone stared in disbelief. Just how high was that terrifying temperature?
Qin Xiao was completely unprepared for this situation. He had expected that it would be burned by the high temperature.
But to my surprise, I couldn't get close at all; it just vanished into thin air. Even adding more wood to make it longer didn't help.
Seeing a treasure but being unable to get close enough to take it is a terrible feeling.
"Mayor, do you have any idea how to get close to this dragon bone?"
Ye Qingya's fox ears twitched and swayed for a moment.
He also mustered his spirits and activated the Crimson Lotus Foxfire with all his might, enveloping his entire body in flames, before tentatively walking towards the dragon bone.
However, after walking only ten meters or so, he became increasingly unsteady, and the flames on his body began to flicker.
Seeing that something was wrong, Qin Xiao immediately used his roots to pull Ye Qingya back from the lava surface.
He hugged the mayor, whose face was abnormally flushed and pale, and whose foxfire had disappeared.
"Ling'er, heal her!"
Bai Ling stood beside him and joined in the treatment.
Ye Qingya let out a soft moan, her complexion improving.
"Little Qin, it seems we can't remove this dragon bone. The temperature is too high; even the Crimson Lotus Foxfire can't stop the intense heat from penetrating."
The most troublesome thing is that this high temperature is permeated with a dissipating will and spiritual power; perhaps this is the legendary dragon's might—it's terrifying.
Once someone gets close, they will be subjected to a form of psychological attack.
Ye Qingya recovered somewhat and immediately spoke.
Qin Xiao's expression was solemn as he looked at the dragon bone in the center of the magma. He was truly at a loss for what to do now.
What kind of situation is this? These powerful things, even if they're dead, there's nothing you can do about them.
No, I'm not willing to accept this.
No one would be willing to accept that.
Qin Xiao didn't want to give up. He was sure there was still a way to touch the dragon bone. As long as he could get close to it, he could store it in the demon realm space.
For Qin Xiao, who possesses the demon realm space, the hope is still very high.
At this moment, Jianmu also emitted waves of consciousness.
"Master, this, this thing, I can eat it, it's delicious..."
"This little foodie," Qin Xiao thought to himself, "but since Jianmu said it's edible, it means this thing contains something special."
Is it divinity again?
But can even a demigod absorb divinity?
Qin Xiao didn't know, but this was still a great thing.
Whether used for personal consumption or to create divine essence to meet Slovic's fusion template requirements, the extracted divinity is very useful.
Now, Qin Xiao was even more reluctant to leave.
After thinking for a moment, Qin Xiao said to Youyou.
"Hey, you've wrapped my roots in freezing air to form an ice armor. I'm going to try to force my way close to this dragon bone."
Yoyo floated, disappearing into the ethereal realm to escape the high temperature.
Upon hearing Qin Xiao's words, it revealed itself and began to exert all its strength to create extremely cold freezing air, but in this extreme high-temperature environment, the effect was very weak.
This is because Yoyo's innate high-level skill set means that ordinary water or ice skills would be useless in this environment.
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