Starting with the Sword Ancestor System: Xiao Yan, Your Harem is Mine!

281: Molten fire vanquishes evil, a glimpse into the mirror is chilling.Molten Fire Canyon, true to its name.

This was a massive fissure spanning a hundred miles deep within the crimson mountain range, over a thousand zhang wide at its broadest point, and bottomless. The rock walls on both sides of the canyon were dark red, covered in honeycomb-like holes, from which hot air, sparks, and sulfurous fumes constantly erupted. The canyon floor was not solid ground, but a slowly flowing river of scorching magma, occasionally erupting in fire waves dozens of zhang high. The space here was extremely unstable, with fine black cracks appearing and disappearing, only to be violently mended by the raging fire-attribute energy, emitting hissing sounds.

When Li Ao and his group arrived above the canyon, the violent aura, a mixture of spatial turbulence and scorching magma, was enough to make even ordinary Dou Sheng frown. But what was more striking were the few wisps of cold, decaying Soul fluctuations pervading the air, completely out of place with the surrounding environment.

”As expected, they’ve been tampering here.” Li Ao hovered in mid-air, his Power of Gui Xu silently spreading out like the most precise detection net, sweeping over every inch of the canyon. His gaze finally settled on the middle section of the canyon, an area where the magma river was relatively calm, but the spatial folds were unusually dense. ”More than one spot... three nodes, arranged in a triangle, echoing each other. They are setting up some kind of Formation for spatial interference and Soul erosion, and it’s quite large-scale; it looks like it’s almost complete.”

Gu Xun’er’s beautiful eyes flickered with golden flames, and she also sensed the hidden malice: ”The Hun Clan’s methods are always so sneaky and venomous. If this Formation is completed, it will likely not only interfere with the spatial stability of the Yan Realm’s entrance but, with long-term erosion, it might even serve as a springboard to infiltrate Soul Power into the Yan Realm, planting hidden dangers.”

Medusa’s crimson snake eyes coldly scanned below, Seven-Colored Dou Qi surging around her: ”Rats hiding their heads and tails, just drag them out and crush them.”

Xiao Yi Xian, however, frowned slightly and whispered, ”Those cold Soul Powers also contain a... very subtle fire poison? Unlike the natural fire poison here, it’s more insidious, seemingly designed specifically to erode the Soul Origin of fire-attribute Cultivators.” Her recently consolidated Chaos Poison Body was extremely sensitive to all kinds of ’poisonous’ substances.

Elder Gu Hai’s expression was solemn: ”To be able to set up such a Formation here, the Hun Clan personnel dispatched this time are probably not weak in strength, and they came prepared.”

”Their strength? We’ll know once we try.” Li Ao’s tone was calm, yet it contained absolute confidence. He did not rush directly towards the Formation node but raised his right hand, gently clenching his five fingers at the Void Realm where the spatial folds were densest.

There was no earth-shattering commotion, but that space suddenly collapsed inward, twisting as if gripped by an invisible giant hand. Several blurry black figures hidden deep within the spatial folds were caught off guard, forcibly expelled from their concealed state, and stumbled into view. They were completely shrouded in black robes, emitting a cold aura, and were none other than four Hun Clan powerhouses. The leader actually possessed the cultivation of a One-Star Dou Sheng in the Late Stage, while the other three were also Peak Half-Saints!

”Li Ao of the Ruins Hall?!” The Hun Clan Dou Sheng was both shocked and enraged, clearly not expecting their whereabouts to be exposed so easily, nor that Li Ao would appear here. They had received orders to set up the ’Soul Corroding Demonic Flame Formation’ here as a prelude to subsequent actions, and it was on the verge of completion.

”Too slow to react.” As Li Ao’s voice fell, his figure had already vanished from his original spot like a ghost.