Chapter 5917

Jared forced the last scraps of strength into his legs and vaulted upright. “Now! Follow me!”

The next second, he plunged first through the blazing cataract. His Dragonslayer Sword carved a whirling aperture of muddy gray, bending the onrushing magma and the dazed Lava Beasts aside long enough to open a breath-wide passage.

Lindsay darted after him, a shell of Earthfire True Flame blossoming around her like a translucent lotus. Behind them, Vermilion Demon Lord swept his arms wide, ribbons of demonic aura locking onto the cleft and prying it apart so the molten walls could not reseal.

The three shot through the falls like arrowheads. On the far side, the world exploded outward—a sudden hush, a gasp of cool, jade-scented air.

The chamber they burst into measured scarcely thirty feet across, yet its beauty stole breath faster than the sulfur smoke outside.

From the arched ceiling drooped countless jade-green stalactites, each one pulsing with a mellow inner glow, veins of milk-white light dripping down their polished flanks.

At the cave’s heart lay a pool no wider than a wash-basin, filled with opalescent liquid that shimmered in seven shifting hues. Life itself thickened the air, each inhale tasting of spring rain and ancient scripture.