The great volcano roared and bellowed like a giant from mythology, hurling fiery iron fists toward the sky.
Rivers of magma spilled forth in abundance, forming a network of molten streams.
Black volcanic ash blotted out the sky and sun like dark clouds, shrouding the entire region and plunging heaven and earth into gloom.
The vivid rivers of magma emitted a dark red glow, flickering between light and shadow, dazzling and multifaceted—beautiful amid the danger.
"It's been too long! Mount Asura! The starting point of my journey to the Central Continent..."
Leilin's eyes held deep colors as memories flooded back—everything that had happened since he set foot on the Central Continent, all the events that had occurred in the Dark Pole Region before, the figures that existed in his memory, all becoming vividly alive once more.
Yes! Leilin planned to temporarily leave the Central Continent for a while and return to the Dark Pole Region!
Though it was nothing but a barren wasteland compared to the Central Continent, a treasure lay hidden there—a treasure only Leilin knew about!
"The Scorpion Man's remains, and the Ice World Guardian's blood upon them!"
Leilin's memory lingered on that time he had explored the Ice Cavern, on what he had seen within the bloodline memories of the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor.
That terrifying ancient war, even from his current perspective, remained utterly horrifying.
Even Morning Star beings had been merely the lowest threshold of participants.
The remains of a Morning Star bloodline creature were only somewhat valuable to the current Leilin—nothing too remarkable. But the bronze giantess's bloodline was another matter entirely.
A bloodline of the seventh tier or above, one that had touched the rules of existence! For the current Leilin, it still held a fatal allure!
Whether it was refining ancient bloodlines to create imprints or attempting to absorb them directly, it would greatly benefit Leilin.
The hope of breaking through to Brilliant Moon lay partly in that! Moreover, as the guardian of an entire world, her bloodline and genetic fragments must surely contain information about the world's coordinates!
That was the ancient Frozen World! A formidable world that even the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes had coveted yet ultimately failed to seize!
It was countless tiers above the Magma World, and it would be Leilin's alone to exploit!
It was precisely because of this confidence that he could casually give away the Magma World's coordinates as a gift.
Furthermore, regarding the Frozen World and the giantess's bloodline, Leilin harbored additional plans.
The giantess had been killed by the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes—could her remains still carry traces of the Purgatory World's aura, from which the world coordinates could be deduced?
Even if the giantess herself held no such traces, the entire Frozen World had once suffered invasion from the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes from the Purgatory World—how could it not have left some mark?
Using the Frozen World as a springboard, the difficulty of finding the Purgatory World would be greatly reduced. And once he reached the Purgatory World, locating the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes—the bloodline progenitor of the Great Serpents—would make breaking through the bloodline shackles simple.
Of course, the process would not be so smooth, but the general approach was sound and represented the best method for breaking through the bloodline shackles.
However, Leilin certainly would not dare face the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes head-on—that would be no different from delivering a sheep into a tiger's jaws. He did not believe he would have any power to resist against a rule-defying existence that surpassed the Radiant Sun. Thorough preparation was essential, and this path could only serve as a final trump card. Until he reached a point of absolute desperation, Leilin had no wish to provoke the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes.
First, he would go to the Dark Pole Region to lay low and bide his time, waiting for an opportunity to find a method to break through to Brilliant Moon—this was Leilin's most basic plan.
"Mount Asura enters a period of dormancy once every hundred years—the best time to infiltrate the underground world!" Leilin recalled his previous ascent from the depths. Even though he had seized the timing and made extensive preparations, the process had still been terrifyingly perilous. He couldn't help but let a faint smile cross his lips.
He arrived at the edge of the volcano crater, gazing down at the terrifying magma channel.
"The volcanic passage is normally filled with scorching magma at all times. Only during the dormant period does it reveal itself, and clearly now is not the time. If one forced their way down, even a third-tier crystallized Wizard would be absolutely unable to withstand the volcano's thermal erosion..."
Of course, this was only true for third-tier Wizards.
Once one entered the Morning Star realm, what were once terrifying natural barriers now seemed as safe and secure as one's own backyard.
Boom! A layer of black flame surfaced across his body, forming a spherical membrane of light that enveloped Leilin.
Then the black bubble parted the magma and rapidly sank downward, disappearing from sight...
The terrifying magma and scorching temperatures were all absorbed by the black flames. Inside, Leilin couldn't feel even a trace of heat. As time continued to pass, the black bubble pressed against the eruption of magma, plunging ever deeper!
Resisting a natural disaster single-handedly, even reversing the flow to break through magma—no eruption of Mount Asura could stop him. This was the power of Morning Star!
Boom!
In the underground world, within the magma lake, accompanied by earthquakes, magma sprayed wildly in all directions. The black flame bubble burst through the hard rock layer of the ceiling and crashed down to the ground.
The flames receded, revealing Leilin within.