Whether the altar was part of his mission or not didn't matter anymore—if it had the power to awaken beasts of this level, the Twin Leaf Peak Sect needed to know.
But how?
The air was thick with heat and hostility. The beasts were only the first problem. Getting to the skeleton, let alone the altar beneath it, would mean crossing through lava rivers, avoiding Nascent Soul predators, and not dying from heatstroke on the way.
And that wasn't even counting the Mist Eye Sect's presence. If they caught him…
Han Yu stared at the bubbling magma pools in the distance, glowing like blood beneath a blackened sky.
'How the hell am I supposed to do this?'
His stomach churned with nerves—and hunger again. The grilled boar meat he'd eaten before had given him a temporary boost, but it was fading. He could feel the exhaustion in his bones now that the adrenaline was wearing off.
Still, he had to try.
