Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1261: Eternal Death Zone

Chapter 1261: Chapter 1261: Eternal Death Zone

This small town with a population of only around ten to twenty thousand is called "Divine Fire Town".

Although Divine Fire Town is just a small town, it is widely known across the Shenwu Continent, with no one unaware of its reputation. Every year, tens of millions of martial artists come here, seeking fame and a place to rest in the town.

The reason Divine Fire Town is famous is not because of the town itself, but because of an area not far from the town that is considered forbidden land by the countless martial artists of the Shenwu Continent.

This forbidden zone spans a thousand miles, with scorched earth everywhere and not a sprout of grass to be seen. It is said that for millions of years, any living creature that entered the zone has never come back alive.

Therefore, martial artists refer to this area as the "Eternal Death Zone," and the mere mention of it changes people’s expressions.

It is said that the reason the Eternal Death Zone is so barren is because at its core, there is a flame that spouts from the ground, emitting extremely high temperatures. Regardless of rain, snow, or ice, the flame never extinguishes year-round, earning it the praise of many martial artists as the "Divine Fire".

The name "Divine Fire Town" thus originates from this.

Although the Eternal Death Zone is a forbidden place for life, and extremely terrifying, perhaps because of the continuous release of Fire Primordial Qi from the Divine Fire, the Fire Primordial Qi in that area is much purer and denser than in other regions, making it a cultivation paradise for Fire System Martial Artists.

Each year, including disciples from Golden Crow Manor, tens of thousands of Fire System Martial Artists would rush from all over the True Martial Realm to Divine Fire Town, approaching the Eternal Death Zone and using the dense Fire Primordial Qi at its edges for cultivation.

Even though the so-called "Divine Fire" is only a legend that no one has seen with their own eyes, there are still a large number of martial artists who firmly believe in its existence. They worship from afar in the direction of the Divine Fire at the core of the Eternal Death Zone, hoping that the Divine Fire will bless their cultivation to achieve great progress and increase their strength.

Divine Fire Town is an important traffic hub within a radius of ten thousand miles. Aside from Fire System Martial Artists who came specifically for cultivation, many other martial artists traveling from the north to the south would pass through, and because it’s close to a first-grade large Sect like Golden Crow Manor, Divine Fire Town has become even more bustling.

In Divine Fire Town, there are many inns built for martial artists to rest, as well as a dedicated Martial Artists Trading Market where martial artists can exchange cultivation resources and help each other out.

Being disciples of Golden Crow Manor, Sun Guangyi, Li Jingren, and others often use Divine Fire Town as a stopover point when they go out for training or return from afar, making them regular visitors of the town.

According to people like Sun Guangyi, although Divine Fire Town is always lively, today seems unusually bustling compared to the past. And while martial artists who usually come to the town are mostly Fire System Martial Artists, now it is a mix of all kinds, with various martial artists present.

Sun Guangyi and others keenly observed that among these martial artists, their faces reveal an excitement and agitation that is hard to conceal, despite their tension and seriousness. It is unclear what has nearly caused them to lose their composure.

"Go inquire, see what exactly happened..."

After entering Divine Fire Town, Sun Guangyi gave a meaningful look to Huang Yuanhu, Ye Qingxuan, and other Golden Crow Manor disciples, and said in a deep voice.

Among the martial artists coming and going in the town, Sun Guangyi noticed that quite a number of them were from Sects antagonistic to Golden Crow Manor; hence, he speculated that this gathering of a massive number of martial artists might be related to Golden Crow Manor.

Tens of thousands of martial artists, either in groups of three to five or in dozens, gathered together, whispering and discussing in low voices. Each person held a Spiritual Artifact in hand, with eagerness in their eyes and their aura exposed, as if they were gearing up for a big battle.

Huang Yuanhu, Ye Qingxuan, and other Golden Crow Manor disciples took a round through Divine Fire Town and returned quickly.

Joining them were a few disciples from the Golden Crow Manor.

"Wu Ling, do you know what’s going on?"

Sun Guangyi looked around, then inquired in a low voice to a female disciple from the Golden Crow Manor standing before him.

The female disciple, named Wu Ling, appeared only to be in her thirties, but was actually nearing fifty. She was a core disciple of the Golden Crow Manor and possessed the strength of a high-rank Cosmic Level realm.

"Steward Sun, something big has happened..."

With a puzzled look in his eyes, Sun Guangyi heard Wu Ling say in a low voice, "Someone has found a Flame Elemental Stone Vein on the border of the Eternal Death Zone..."

"Flame Elemental Stone Vein?"

Sun Guangyi was momentarily stunned, then became excited, his voice trembling as he asked, "Do you know the extent of the vein’s area?"

Wu Ling replied, "The details aren’t clear yet... but according to Elder Wu, it’s possible that the entire area with a radius of a thousand miles beneath the surface of the Eternal Death Zone is filled with Flame Elemental Stones."

"Really?"

Sun Guangyi’s eyes lit up, and he exchanged a meaningful glance with Li Jingren beside him, both of their faces flushing with excitement.

Elder Wu in Wu Ling’s words, named Wu Chengzhi, was one of the four Great Elders of the Golden Crow Manor. He had a keen sense for detecting Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, especially Fire Primordial Qi, and was skilled at finding Fire Attribute cultivation resources. If he said so, then it was very likely true.

A Flame Elemental Stone Vein spreading across a thousand-mile radius is rare in the entire True Martial Realm, no wonder Sun Guangyi and Li Jingren were so agitated that they nearly lost their composure.

"The Fire Primordial Qi here is so pure and rich, there must be treasures related to the Fire System hidden here. It seems this trip to the Golden Crow Manor will yield a great harvest..."

Fang Bai glanced in a certain direction outside Divine Fire Town, a sharp light flickering in his eyes and a small smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Based on his experience from tens of thousands of past lives, Fang Bai felt that the real treasure in the so-called Eternal Death Zone wasn’t the buried Flame Elemental Stone Vein, but that cluster of what was called "Divine Fire."

In Fang Bai’s past life, among the three thousand worlds, the most powerful flame was known as "Spiritual Fire," and in the Immortal Realm the strongest was "Immortal Fire." It was said that even stronger than the Immortal Fire was the "Divine Fire" from the Divine Realm.

The intensity and purity of the Heaven and Earth Fire Essence Energy that Fang Bai sensed at that time far surpassed ordinary Fire Primordial Qi, yet it was far inferior to the Immortal Fire, leading him to conclude that the so-called "Divine Fire" in the Eternal Death Zone was very likely a type of Spiritual Fire.

Spiritual Fire is formed from the most pure Fire Primordial Qi in heaven and earth after countless millennia of condensation and it is maintained by absorbing Fire Primordial Qi from heaven and earth, never extinguishing over a long period.

In the vicinity of the Spiritual Fire, Fire Primordial Qi is incredibly rich, so much so that over countless millennia, the mountains, stones, flora, and fauna near the Spiritual Fire have absorbed its essence, becoming Fire Elemental Stones or Fire-attribute Spirit Medicine.

If the Eternal Death Zone truly harbors a Flame Elemental Stone Vein spanning a thousand miles in radius, it would prove that the cluster of Spiritual Fire has existed in this place for tens of millions of years.

Other martial artists fear the Eternal Death Zone and dare not enter, worried that they will be reduced to ash under the intense heat. Although Fire System martial artists could enter the Eternal Death Zone relying on their special physique, they wouldn’t dare approach that cluster of Spiritual Fire. This shows how powerful the Spiritual Fire is, exceeding the endurance of the vast majority of martial artists within this world.

But Fang Bai was unafraid. With his current cultivation level and the robustness of his physical body, ordinary Spiritual Fire could not pose a threat to his life.