I awakened my god-tier passive skill early on and took off instantly

After Long Muxue recovered her magical power, the two continued on their way.

Another three days passed, and according to the map, they had reached伏龙 Ridge (Fulong Ridge).

The so-called Fulong Ridge was a high, winding sand dune. The two arrived at the 'dragon head' position, identified the direction, and headed northwest.

After walking and stopping along the way, they finally arrived near a valley thirteen days later. Here, they could clearly feel that the temperature was several levels higher than elsewhere.

And they could see with the naked eye that gusts of scorching wind were blowing in the sky above the valley not far away.

“I have a hunch, it's nearby,” Lu Xin said after observing for a while.

Long Muxue's entire face was covered by a black veil, making it impossible to see her expression. She said, “Could it be in the valley?”

“We'll know once we go take a look.”

Afterward, the two approached the valley. Soon, Lu Xin's divine sense sensed that there were actually two people guarding the entrance of the valley, and their cultivation levels were not low either, one in the late stage of Foundation Establishment and the other in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

“There are actually people!” Lu Xin exclaimed in surprise.

“What?” Long Muxue's divine sense didn't detect as far as Lu Xin's, and she was a little puzzled.

Lu Xin quickly explained the situation and described their attire, asking, “Do you know what force they belong to?”

“They are people from the Seven Luminaries Sect, a third-rate force, even weaker than our royal family. Their sect is indeed very close to the 流沙之海 (Flowing Sand Sea), but I don't know why they would appear here,”

Long Muxue explained with some surprise.

“Since it's a third-rate force, then there's nothing to be afraid of.” After clarifying the situation, Lu Xin felt confident.

“Then are we going to go straight over there?” Long Muxue looked at him.

Lu Xin pondered for a while and said, “Looking at the way they are guarding the valley entrance, it's obvious that they are not worried that anyone can enter from elsewhere. There must be something strange about it, so let's just keep it simple and direct, and charge through.”

“That works too.” Long Muxue didn't object.

Afterward, the two approached quickly and were soon discovered by the two old men guarding the gate.

“Stop, who are you?”

“You're asking me? I want to ask you, why are you guarding in front of my cave dwelling after I just went out for a trip?” Lu Xin revealed himself.

“Your cave dwelling?”

The two looked at each other in confusion, and then quickly reacted. One of them shouted:

“Nonsense, we've been here for so many days, where is there any cave dwelling? Our sect master is handling matters inside right now. Since you've bumped into us, then don't even think about leaving!”

“Very well, you actually dare to forcibly seize this seat's cave dwelling.”

Having gathered the information he wanted to gather, Lu Xin attacked directly, closing in on them.

“How bold!”

Seeing that Lu Xin dared to rush up without even using a magic weapon, they simply didn't put them in their eyes. They instantly became angry, took out their own magic weapons, one on the left and one on the right, and smashed them towards Lu Xin's body.

With a clang, a golden light suddenly flashed on Lu Xin's body, and the two magic weapons were instantly knocked away.

“What?!”

The two were shocked and quickly recalled their magic weapons.

But Lu Xin had already arrived in front of them. As two screams rang out, the two spat out blood and flew backward, crashing heavily to the ground, their life or death unknown.

“What do you plan to do with them?”

Long Muxue walked forward in surprise. She didn't expect Lu Xin's physical body to be so powerful that he could withstand the bombardment of a high-grade magic weapon and a top-grade magic weapon without suffering any damage.

“Since they had murderous intentions towards us, naturally we can't let them live.”

Lu Xin expressionlessly dealt with the two, collected their storage bags and magic weapons, and then stepped into the valley entrance.

Long Muxue quickly followed.

As soon as he stepped into the valley, Lu Xin immediately felt the difference. It was like walking into a furnace. He didn't feel it so clearly outside. It seemed that there was a barrier formation.

As he went further inside, the temperature became higher and higher. Lu Xin actually felt a burning sensation on his exposed skin. Since he had cultivated to the second transformation of the Golden Body, he hadn't felt this way for a long time.

Now that it actually appeared, it was a bit unbelievable.

So he quickly circulated the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Technique, and soon discovered that the scorching temperature here could actually have the effect of tempering his physical body.

However, there was a problem. If this continued, his clothes might be burned away, so he could only temporarily put aside the thought of body refining, and circulate his magical power to protect his body.

At this moment, a burst of icy cold air came from the side. It turned out that Long Muxue had raised a blue protective shield.

“You cultivate an ice-attribute technique?” Lu Xin asked in surprise.

“That's right.”

“Then you're looking for the True Yang Stone, could it be that you have an excess of cold energy?”

Long Muxue nodded.

“No wonder you always have such a cold appearance.”

Lu Xin muttered to himself, but didn't ask any more questions and continued forward.

Soon, the two went deep into the valley and arrived in front of a cave. It was dark inside, and bursts of heat continuously poured out.

Lu Xin probed with his divine sense and didn't find any danger, so he walked in.

He didn't know how far he had walked until his divine sense discovered something unusual, and he stopped.

“Wait!” Lu Xin raised his hand to signal her to stop.

“What's wrong?” Long Muxue had already taken off her hat and asked.

“There are people, quite a few, but they're dead, turned into dried corpses, and they don't even have clothes or hair on their bodies.” Lu Xin had already seen the situation clearly.

“Could they be people from the Seven Luminaries Sect?” Long Muxue guessed.

“I don't know, let's go take a look first.”

Lu Xin's divine sense couldn't see anything specific, so he stepped forward and soon arrived in front of a pile of standing dried corpses. He reached out and touched one, and the dried corpse immediately scattered into a pile of dust.

“These people should be people from the Seven Luminaries Sect, but looking at their appearance, they should have turned into this appearance before they could even react.”

“Look over there!” Long Muxue suddenly said.

Lu Xin quickly looked over and saw a orange-red light suddenly lit up in front of him. It turned out that there was a cliff in front of him, and the light was coming from below.

However, along with the light came an overwhelming heat wave.

“Careful!”

With the reminder of the dried corpses, Lu Xin instantly understood what was going on, fully circulated his magical power to resist, and quickly retreated.

Long Muxue was also prepared, and flew back quickly under the protection of a force of icy cold.

Soon the two retreated a distance.

However, at this moment, Lu Xin suddenly felt a strange movement in his dantian. A faint blue flame suddenly emerged, covering his entire body.

Then a coolness enveloped his whole body, preventing him from feeling a trace of heat again.

“What a treasure, it actually automatically protects its master!”

Lu Xin instantly stopped and then reached out and grabbed Long Muxue, covering her with the blue flame as well.

“Nether Blue Ice Flame!”

Long Muxue was shocked, not even noticing that Lu Xin was holding her hand, “You actually have such a thing.”

“I got it by chance.”

Lu Xin didn't explain too much, and pulled Long Muxue towards the source of the heat wave, “Let's go back and take a look first.”

Afterward, under the protection of the Nether Blue Ice Flame, the two quickly arrived at the edge of the cliff and saw a river of lava below. It seemed to be intermittent, otherwise it wouldn't have suddenly lit up just now.

“Look there.”

Long Muxue pointed her finger.