After continuously swimming for about 12 hours, we finally found the core of the fire essence. But it was not a single entity.
The core was a bed of fire lotuses surrounding a mother fire lotus. The petals of the lotuses were so bright that I was able to easily distinguish them from the surrounding magma.
The magma still had shades of light orange or red. But the flowers were white-hot. It was blinding to look at them directly.
And protecting the mother lotus was an Inferno Salamander languidly coiling around it with its eyes closed.
A Spirit Beast at surpassing the cultivation realm of Nucleus Formation.
I couldn't even determine its cultivation level. But from the aura emitted from the sleeping beast, I could determine that even in my strongest state, I wouldn't be able to put a single scratch on its body.
The Inferno Salamander was at least two cultivation realms stronger than us.
