Dugu Qianye nodded, planning to fly up, but she discovered that flight was forbidden here. She attempted to use the Ethereal Step Technique to run up, but after covering just a short distance, she found it difficult to move, as if the air had solidified, nearly immobilizing her.
"It seems I must walk up." Dugu Qianye stopped, speaking rather helplessly.
"The temperature is so high here, staying for long will be very uncomfortable," Little Baiqiu cried out.
"There's no other way. Flame, protect me!" With Flame, she could barely make herself less uncomfortable.
However, when she had walked about halfway, Flame gradually withered away, and the flames enveloping Dugu Qianye's body were extinguished. Dugu Qianye sensed it—it was a kind of submission.
No wonder there were no burning flames on this mountain! Dugu Qianye thought.
