Published: August 25, 2025
Chapter 214: The Earth Fire Chamber
"Hehe! Good, good! I’ll arrange it for junior brother right away!" The ugly man’s face lit up when he saw that Han Li had given him a mid-grade spirit stone.
It must be known that although exchanging one mid-grade spirit stone for one hundred low-grade spirit stones is the recognized rate in the immortal cultivation world, very few were willing to trade mid-grade stones for low-grade ones.
Because everyone knew that under the same conditions, mid-grade spirit stones absorbed spiritual energy much faster than low-grade ones. For this reason alone, everyone preferred to keep mid-grade spirit stones and naturally looked down on low-grade spirit stones.
Of course, the exchange between high-grade and mid-grade spirit stones was similarly rare.
The ugly man, beaming with happiness, took the fire-attributed spirit stone and became even more eager to please Han Li. He immediately led Han Li to a huge multicolored stone door and pulled out a purple command arrow from his pocket. He waved it at the stone door.
The purple command arrow flashed red light, shooting out a streak of rosy light that accurately struck the door. Instantly, the colorful flowing light on the door spun rapidly. After a few creaking sounds, the stone door slowly lifted, revealing a black corridor behind it. The corridor was about three meters high and square-shaped.
"Junior brother, beyond this dockstone path is the chamber with earth fire. Let’s go now!" The ugly man forced a smile and said ingratiatingly to Han Li.
"Mm!" Han Li nodded noncommittally and took the lead into the corridor.
"This dockstone isn’t exactly rare, but it’s not an ordinary material from the secular world either. Finding so much at once and using it as bricks and stones to build this passage and the rooms was a painstaking task accomplished by several great ancestral masters of our sect. However, thanks to dockstone’s peculiar resistance to earth fire, which is three times stronger than true fire, this earth fire area has never had a major accident since it was opened!" The ugly man boasted a little as he led the way.
Han Li listened with great interest and couldn’t help but stroke the black stone wall on one side. It felt slippery and cold!
"Where is this dockstone produced? It can resist earth fire that’s stronger than true fire by three degrees, that’s really rare." Han Li praised for once and casually asked.
"Well, it’s not exactly rare, but Yue Country doesn’t produce it. All the dockstone here was brought by our ancestral masters from a far western land, which was quite troublesome!" the ugly man explained.
Like this, Han Li followed behind the ugly man. In the blink of an eye, they passed through two more equally tall stone doors and finally exited the dockstone corridor, arriving at a huge circular hall.
This hall was also built with dockstone, but the diameter was around 40 to 50 meters, and more than 10 meters high—truly enormous and shocking! Around the hall, evenly spaced white stone doors of the same size surrounded it, totaling more than thirty.
At this moment, there was no one inside the hall except the recently arrived ugly man and Han Li.
After a curious inspection, Han Li heard the ugly man chuckle and say:
"Below this hall is where the earth fire gathers most intensely. So our sect has opened thirty-six earth fire chambers here for refining instruments and pills. The best refining rooms are numbers eighteen and nineteen.
"But room eighteen is already occupied by a senior uncle, so junior brother should use room nineteen instead! Although it’s slightly inferior to eighteen, the firepower and stability are still excellent." The ugly man said as he led Han Li to a door painted with the golden characters "19" and grinned.
Han Li said nothing but nodded silently to show his agreement.
Seeing this, the ugly man immediately took out a white jade token and pressed it against the door; the white stone door automatically opened. Then, the ugly man and Han Li entered the room.