Her shoes melted from the intense heat beneath her feet, leaving her no choice but to summon a magical artifact to transform them into the shape of her previous shoes and wear them. Chu Nian followed the path to the end of the lava river and discovered a sea of lava.
On the vast, fiery red sea of lava, which stretched for thousands of miles, rising and falling with the waves of lava, lay a crystal coffin.
Chu Nian was very familiar with that crystal coffin; it was the one she had given to Lin Jingting, the one he used to store his remains after becoming a ghost immortal.
At this moment, the crystal coffin was enveloped in powerful ice-elemental divine energy. When she gave this coffin to Lin Jingting, she hadn't done any special research on it. Unexpectedly, the coffin was now covered with ice-elemental array patterns, which should be the extremely cold object that Chu Nian had previously discovered.
Inside the coffin was a... zombie, which should be the zombie Chu Nian had previously discovered—Lin Jingting.
Chu Nian was shocked: Lin Jingting was a ghost immortal who followed the path of ghost cultivation after his physical body died. How did Lin Jingting become a zombie? Did he later switch to the path of corpse cultivation?
She quickly discovered that the energy within the zombie was unusually complex and chaotic, and that Lin Jingting's soul was indeed inside the zombie, its soul energy also extremely chaotic.
Chu Nian finally understood why the crystal coffin was placed on the lava river. It was precisely because of the alternation between the extreme cold of the crystal coffin and the extreme heat of the lava river that the zombie body was not destroyed by the chaotic magic energy, and the soul was able to continue to survive.
What on earth did this guy do? Is he trying to get himself killed?
Chu Nian suddenly remembered that the barrier at the vortex when she entered hadn't hindered her at all...
"I was wondering if this guy was just waiting for me to come so he could sort out this chaotic magical energy and get through this difficult time! He's as calculating as ever!" Chu Nian thought to himself.
Although she felt like she was being schemed against by this bastard, Chu Nian still couldn't just stand by and watch him continue to suffer in this extreme of extremes.
After using her mental power to understand the situation inside Lin Jingting's body, she began to organize her thoughts, trying to figure out how to straighten out the chaotic magical energy within him without causing him any harm.
Top of the abyss cliff.
Two hours had passed, and Chu Nian, who had gone to the restroom, still hadn't returned. Qi Meili, who had been watching the things, was extremely anxious. She heard voices coming from the abyss and realized that Jing Yue had returned with the exploration team.
The group climbed to the top of the cliff one by one, only to find that Qi Meili was the only one there. Jing Yue asked in surprise, "Why are you alone? Where's Niannian?"
Qi Meili said, "She said she had an upset stomach and went to find a place to relieve herself. You've come back just in time. She hadn't come back for half a day, and I was so worried. All her things are here, nothing is missing. You two rest for a while, and I'll go look for her."
Jingyue asked, "When did she go?"
Mentioning this made Qi Meili even more anxious, and her face turned pale. She said, "They've been gone for quite a while, at least two hours?"
Old Li exclaimed in surprise, "Two hours? You didn't contact her using a communicator?"
Qi Meili said helplessly, "We've been in contact. She said she had diarrhea, and it was quite severe."
Feng Heng said, "There are so many monsters in Huai Mountain, are you really sure you want to leave her alone?"
Jingyue: "I'll go with you to find her."
Old Li couldn't help but complain: "Honestly, it's not only useless, but it also causes trouble."
Jingyue: "Alright, Lao Li, you can rest here for a while."
Qi Meili didn't want to go with Jing Yue, but she didn't refuse because she was worried about Chu Nian. The two of them quickly headed in the direction Chu Nian had left.
Qi Meili contacted Chu Nian using a communicator, and the call connected quickly. Perhaps due to an echo in the mountains, Chu Nian's voice sounded slightly different from the other end of the communicator. Actually, Lan Dian was the one receiving the message.
Lan Dian used his mental powers to process his voice, but he still couldn't make it exactly the same as Chu Nian's.
Hearing that Qi Meili and Jing Yue had come looking for Chu Nian, Lan Dian was startled and quickly used the Boundary Stone to contact Chu Nian. Because the Boundary Stone allows communication across realms, it cannot be blocked by any barrier, and Chu Nian quickly received Lan Dian's message.
Fortunately, after working for so long, she had finally managed to sort out the various energies within Lin Jingting. He should be able to fully wake up soon.
Chu Nian strongly suspected that although he was asleep, half of his soul was still awake, and he could at least sense what was happening outside. Otherwise, that barrier outside... it couldn't have been set up before he lay down in the crystal coffin!
Chu Nian felt that he had been sleeping in this crystal coffin for quite some time.
This world is not connected to the underworld ruled by Lin Jingting. Chu Nian had several guesses about this before, one of which was that the time she traveled to was before the establishment of the underworld: it seems that she guessed correctly.
Although Lin Jingting's current situation is somewhat chaotic, Chu Nian can also sense that he is slightly weaker than when he was Jiang Bai, which is likely before he transmigrated into Jiang Bai.
As for why he switched from ghost cultivation to corpse cultivation, it is estimated that something happened when he was a ghost immortal, and he absorbed soul energy that was so powerful that he could not fully absorb and refine it at the moment, so he had to use a corpse to share the burden.
Furthermore, the corpse energy within this body doesn't seem to belong to just one person. Lin Jingting must have absorbed corpse energy as well.
Sensing that Lin Jingting's condition had stabilized, Chu Nian used magic to move the crystal coffin containing him out of the magma.
In such extreme cold and heat, both corpses and souls would suffer unspeakable pain. Now that Lin Jingting's energy has stabilized, there is no need to inflict this torment any longer.
She quickly left after moving the crystal coffin out of the lava. She needed to get back to the vicinity of the Abyss as soon as possible to avoid arousing Jingyue and the others' suspicion.
Not long after she left, the crystal coffin placed on the lava shore began to shake.
However, Chu Nian had already successfully returned to the vicinity of the Abyss using Simon's Great Void Technique.
To be honest, although Lin Jingting's internal energy was chaotic, it was already quite powerful. It took Chu Nian a lot of effort to straighten out this chaotic energy, and her legs were weak when she came back.
With her power depleted, she was probably having trouble even walking. Fortunately, she had some elixirs and divine medicines stored in her Soul Ruins, and she popped a few into her mouth, which prevented her from fainting.
Simon and Blue Lightning were put back into her spatial artifact. She then pretended to clutch her stomach and walked shakily toward the place where Qi Meili had been looking at things, just in time to run into Qi Meili and Jing Yue who had come to find her.
Seeing Chu Nian's deathly pale face, Qi Meili was startled and quickly stepped forward to support her, asking in alarm, "Nian Nian, what happened to you?"
Chu Nian looked helpless: "I had so much diarrhea that I was almost exhausted. Thank goodness you came to find me, otherwise I was afraid I wouldn't have been able to walk back by myself."
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