Unknowingly, the originally boiling pool of water had returned to calm, and the surface of the water had become incomparably clear again. However, when Hu Yong looked down through the surface of the water, for some reason, he saw a long black shadow swimming under the surface of the water like a dragon or snake.
It seemed to be attached to the surface of the water, but upon closer inspection, it seemed to be hidden in the abyss, making it difficult to figure out.
At this moment, a large black shadow suddenly rose from the bottom of the pond. It suddenly approached the surface of the water and revealed its true form. It was a huge purple dragon head.
Its eyes were closed, and its dragon whiskers were stained with blood. It looked extremely ferocious.
Seeing this, a trace of joy flashed across Hu Yong's eyes. Just as he was about to open his mouth to say something, the dragon head's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened. A pair of deathly still dark green eyes suddenly flashed for a moment.
It was this moment of eye contact that the dragon head sank into the darkness and disappeared.
Hu Yong, who was standing on the surface of the water, somehow lost the whites of his eyes. His eyes became as black as ink, and his face became numb.
Although Shen Luo did not see anything unusual under the pond, he knew something was wrong when he saw Hu Yong's appearance.
He struggled to stand up, but just as he made the slightest movement, his shoulder suffered a heavy blow. His whole body sank, and he fell back. A sharp pain came from his shoulder, and his bones seemed to have been broken.
Shen Luo's eyes flashed with horror. He looked at Hu Yong beside him. With his eyesight, he could not see how Hu Yong came to his side in an instant.
However, to his surprise, after Hu Yong's attack, he did not kill him. Instead, he walked towards the pink lotus in the middle of the pond with an expressionless face.
When he came close, his eyes stared at the lotus. The corners of his mouth suddenly opened, revealing a strange smile. He raised his hand and broke the stem of the lotus.
In the sky, Lu Huaming saw this scene and his face changed immediately. He wanted to fly down to stop him, but unfortunately, Gui Jiang blocked in front of him, forcing him to retreat. He could not come over at all.
"Brother Jia Cheng, stop him, you must not …"
Lu Huaming's words had not yet finished when Shen Luo threw out a Thunder Talisman and smashed it towards Hu Yong.
The talisman paper flashed, and before the lightning could be released, a green light flashed in the center of the talisman paper. It pierced through a hole and destroyed the key part of the talisman paper with great precision.
The talisman was immediately silenced. It only flashed a white light for a moment before all of its power was drained away.
At the same time, Hu Yong's hand had already reached for the flower stem. The seal was about to be unlocked!
However, the moment Hu Yong's palm touched the stem of the flower, a sudden change occurred!
The pink nine-petaled lotus turned dark in an instant, turning into the scarlet red color that Shen Luo had seen in the illusion.
"Not good."
Shen Luo muttered to himself. Ignoring the severe pain in his body, he crawled out of the pond on all fours.
But in the end, it was too late. The nine petals of the scarlet fire lotus opened at the same time, and a burst of scarlet flames rolled out from it in an instant, turning into a sea of fire that swallowed Hu Yong and Shen Luo.
It was just that the flames burned very carefully. They only burned within the range of the pond and never left the shore.
At the moment when the flames touched his body, Shen Luo thought that he was going to turn into ashes, but in fact, he didn't even feel a trace of burning heat. The flames seemed to be blazing, but there was almost no temperature.
Just when he was surprised in his heart, he suddenly felt that his eyes were burning. It seemed that there were flames drilling into his eyes. But before they could really drill into his eyes, something suddenly flew out from his sleeve, blooming a layer of white light.
When Shen Luo looked at it, he found that the object in the white light was the stone box that contained the jade pillow!
With a "pop" sound, the lid of the box opened by itself, and an inexplicable attractive force appeared from inside, pulling the two strands of flames that were trying to drill into his eyes into the stone box.
Then, the stone box closed by itself with a "pa" sound and fell down.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Shen Luo was a little stunned on the spot. For a moment, he didn't understand what was going on, but he still raised one hand to catch the stone box.
But before he could figure it out, the flames that shrouded the surroundings suddenly rolled back and all shrank back to the lotus. Everything around him returned to its original state, as if the scene of the spreading sea of fire was just an illusion.
But Shen Luo looked down at the stone box that flew out of his hand by itself, and he knew that what he saw just now was absolutely not an illusion.
"What the hell is going on?" He couldn't help but murmur to himself.
Shen Luo's line of sight moved forward again, and he saw that not far in front of him, Hu Yong was kneeling in the pond. His hands were maintaining a strange posture in front of his eyes, and he was motionless.
"This is …" Shen Luo raised his eyebrows in surprise.
He only saw that there was no fluctuation of magic power coming out of Hu Yong's body, and his figure was sinking into the pond little by little. After a while, half of his body was submerged in the pond.
Shen Luo thought of something, and his expression changed again. He immediately rushed forward, grabbed Hu Yong's back collar, and pulled him out of the water. His figure jumped up again, and landed on the shore.
He threw the person in his hand casually, and the latter still maintained his original posture, even when he fell to the ground, and didn't change.
Shen Luo circled to the front of the corpse and took a look. He found that the corpse had already breathed his last. The muscles on the corpse's face were taut and his expression was terrified. His eye sockets were pitch black. There were no eyeballs, only two bloody holes.
"That flame … could it be that it can directly burn a person's soul?" Shen Luo suddenly turned around and glanced at the lotus in the pond. He was suddenly frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.
He still remembered that in the sea of fire in the pond, two wisps of flame had tried to drill into his eyes. If it weren't for the stone box flying out and sucking them away, he was afraid that he would have ended up like Hu Yong.
"You used up all your tricks, but you still lost your life. Fortunately, you still have this storage ring, so I won't hesitate to take it." Shen Luo sighed, and pulled Hu Yong's arm, took off a silver ring from his ring finger, and put it in his sleeve.
Then, he rummaged through Hu Yong's sleeves and chest, but couldn't find anything else, so he had to give up.
Shen Luo stood up and glanced around. He wanted to see if the corpses of Lu He and the others were still there. If he could find them, he would help them bury in the ground. It was better than letting their corpses be exposed in the wilderness.
It was a pity that the previous fighting process was so intense that the four corpses were nowhere to be found. Even if Shen Luo wanted to do it, he was powerless to do it.
"Boom!"
At this moment, there was another roar in the sky, and a figure flew down from a high altitude and crashed heavily into the forest.
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