Chapter 142 The Scorching Dragon Valley


    Smoke and mes rose over the looming mountains, engulfing the trees and wild beasts in a dense


    cloud. The forest was soon ame, the roar of the wild beasts echoing from the sky.


    In a remote corner of the mountain, hidden were three newly-dug caves. Sitting in the lotus position in


    their respective caves, Ricky and his twopanions were already in the state of refining fire essence.


    Although the fire essence had been divided equally among them, each of them had a substantial


    amount of it.


    With the help of the me Zone, Ricky had been skillfully refining the fire essence. With the added


    power of the powerful Devouring Skill, Ricky sessfully refined all his fire essence in less than six


    hours.


    Of course, there was also another important factor in Ricky''s sess. It was the fire essence, the


    purest energy on earth, which contained almost no impurities. This greatly lessened the effort he had to


    make in terms of purifying it.


    Ricky finally fulfilled his goal of reaching the sixth grade of Blood Purification after the sessful


    refining of fire essence.


    During his stay in the Casting Guild for over a month, Ricky had already reached the peak of the fifth


    grade of Blood Purification. Otherwise, he wouldn''t have been able to kill Casado so efficiently, even if


    he had the aid of the Ice Cage Fingers.


    Now, thanks to the energy of fire essence, Ricky had not only reached the sixth grade of Blood


    Purification, but also consolidated and strengthened it in a rather short span of time.


    ''This pure energy is extraordinary. The Earth Fire ce, due to its powerful fire essence and secretive


    nature, is really quite exceptional, '' Ricky thought to himself, feeling a wave of emotions well up inside


    him.


    Besides, the me Zone inside the regained spiritual meridian had once again undergone a change


    after he reached the sixth grade of Blood Purification. It seemed the originally boundless me Zone


    had expanded once more, the infernal power growing even more intense. The scarlet runes, especially,


    had be more gleaming.


    "It seems that as long as I keep elevating my cultivation, my regained spiritual meridian will appear


    naturally! But... I just don''t know when the Supreme Skills inside the me Zone will appear," Ricky


    murmured to himself.


    With this, Ricky walked out of the cave. He wanted to stand guard over Ka and Theo, who were still


    refining.


    He finally felt hunger pangs after some time, and so fished out some beast meat from his storage bag


    and began to roast it.


    ...


    Ka and Theo had been refining for a day and a half. Finally, they finished.


    As soon as they came to, the aromatic smell of the roasted meat met their nostrils. They hurriedly


    exited their caves and began to feast. The meat was so delicious that Ka was too busy eating


    ravenously to mind her decorum.


    "Ricky, you are so good at roasting meat. You can open a restaurant in the Casting City and your


    business will be booming!" Theo said with a chuckle.


    "Ha-ha! Theo, if it''s the case, we don''t need to cast weapons. With the ie from the restaurant, we


    can buy any Treasures from Heaven and Earth and cultivation method at the auctions," Ricky joked


    back.


    They talked and bantered, enjoying the feeling of finally being able to rx and unwind.


    In the process of their refining, Ka and Theo both had some sess. Ka had reached the


    seventh grade of Blood Purification and Theo, the eighth grade. To a certain extent, they would be able


    to protect themselves in the perilous Earth Fire ce.


    After a brief rest, they were ready to continue their journey to the depths of the Earth Fire ce and


    begin to look for opportunities.


    It was at this moment that Theo brought out a jade tablet from his breast pocket. It was deep maroon


    and glittered in the light.


    "Theo, is this the contact jade tablet?" Ka asked.


    "Yes, it is the contact jade tablet of my n. Two disciples from my n had been dispatched into the


    Earth Fire ce," Theo exined.


    "If theye within 1, 000 meters of our caves, this contact jade tablet will glisten!"


    "Well, in that case, let''s wait here for them. If they''re only one thousand meters away, I''m sure they''ll


    catch up with us in almost no time," Ricky said.


    Soon, two figures appeared, walking towards them.


    The two young men looked delicate and amiable. It seemed to Ricky that they seemed to have been


    born fragile and effeminate, just like Theo.


    "They really havee from the same n," Ricky thought to himself.


    In truth, the internal power of these two young men were quite substantial. Ricky could sense that they


    had possibly reached the eighth grade of Blood Purification and were close to the top level of the eighth


    grade.


    "Ka, Ricky, these are Pompeo and Aiden. They are known as two geniuses among the young


    disciples of our n!" Theo said proudly, warmly introducing them to Ka and Ricky


    and vice versa.


    However, they responded rather impatiently. "Theo, we know who they are! This is Ka, we know of


    her already! And of course this is Ricky, who hasn''t heard about him? A once in a century casting


    genius!"


    "Ha-ha, I am growing quite infamous, aren''t I?" Ricky said smugly.


    "That''s right. On our way to the Scorching Dragon Valley, we have heard rumors about you. Well, to be


    more precise, it''s rumors about your manual. You know, Ricky, you should take some precautions with


    that..."


    Ricky looked crestfallen when he heard this.


    "Humph! You are a self-obsessed man, but you cannot keep carrying on with your self-obsessed life


    style! What will you do if those assassins allocate some time to kill you and take the manual away from


    you?" Ka said admonishingly.


    "Humph, I''ll take real countermeasures," Ricky said determinedly.


    "Well, why did youe to me now? Why are you sote?" Theo asked, diverting the topic.


    "Theo, let us tell you the whole story. When we were first sent here, we went to the depths of the Earth


    Fire ce," Pompeo said.


    "At the depths of the Earth Fire ce! Why did you walk out of it? Why didn''t you remain where you


    were and wait for us?" Theo asked, quite confused.


    "Theo, we discovered the Scorching Dragon Valley!" Aiden said, his eyes lighting up. "We waited up for


    you in the originally agreed-upon ce for some time, but there was not much to do. So we walked out


    to trace you lest we should waste our time."


    "What! You discovered the Scorching Dragon Valley!?" Ka remarked in total shock as Theo was


    stunned into silence.


    "Yes, Ka, the Scorching Dragon Valley. Otherwise we wouldn''t have walked out of the Earth Fire


    ce if we didn''t make that discovery!"


    "Tell me about the Scorching Dragon Valley," Ricky said. He did not know enough to understand the


    expressions of astonishment on their faces.


    "Ricky, have you ever heard of the creature that exists at the top of the food chain?" Pompeo asked.


    "It must be the Great Dragon in a legend!" Ricky asnwered with certainty, associating the Scorching


    Dragon Valley with the Great Dragon.


    "Yes, it must be the Great Dragon!" Pompeo added.


    "The Fire Dragon, which belongs to the Great Dragon species, once lived here. The Scorching Dragon


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    Valley was soaked with the Great Dragon''s blood! After tens of thousands of years of evolution, the


    blood of the Fire Dragon has totally seeped into the soil of the Scorching Dragon Valley…


    And ces like that are now called the Scorching Dragon Valley!


    The blood of the Fire Dragon yed a key role in its evolution, and also its conditions now!" Ricky was


    shocked when he heard this. What a marvelous discovery it was indeed!