"The altar is underground?" Lu Chen was a little surprised. He glanced at Huo Yan and asked.
Huo Yan nodded his head and beckoned to Lu Chen to follow. Then, he took the lead and walked down.
Lu Chen turned his head to look at Atsu. He saw that Atsu was also staring at the dark and deep underground tunnel. Apart from that, there didn't seem to be any special reaction.
Lu Chen was silent for a moment, but he still followed. Atsu followed behind him and walked into the stone tunnel.
When they entered the underground cave, they saw Huo Yan standing at the side of the stone steps that extended downwards. He reached out his hand and grabbed a stone on the wall. Then, they heard a rumbling sound, and the heavy stone slab closed behind them.
The light in the cave suddenly dimmed. But after a while, when Lu Chen's eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, he discovered that in the distance of this underground passage, there was a faint dark red light swaying gently.
Although the light was still very weak, he could already vaguely see the shadows of the stone steps around him.
There was a stuffy air coming from the front, but it wasn't stifling. It was like a faintly discernible hot wind blowing from the depths of the cave. Apart from that, there was nothing strange.
The surroundings were very quiet. After a while, Huo Yan's low voice sounded from the side. He said in a low voice, "Let's go down."
The underground stone tunnel was big enough that even a burly barbarian like Huo Yan could walk with his back straight.
Lu Chen followed behind him in silence. His eyes would occasionally look around.
At this moment, the surroundings were quiet. Apart from the sound of their footsteps, there seemed to be no other movement. It was so quiet that one could even hear their own heartbeat.
With the help of the dim light, Lu Chen saw that both sides of the tunnel were incomparably hard stone walls. He had never seen the stone on the walls before. They looked dark and deep, and there were some strange patterns on them.
As he walked, he found an opportunity to touch the stone wall beside him. He immediately discovered that the stone wall was not cold, but rather warm.
This was obviously different from an ordinary underground cave, but it seemed to make sense that this was the location of the Fire God Altar worshiped by the Black Fire Tribe. After all, if the Gods were called the God of Fire, it was only natural for them to be scorching hot.
However, there was another question that Lu Chen did not understand. Therefore, he could not help but ask Huo Yan, "Why was this altar built underground?"
"Hmm?" Huo Yan, who was walking in front, paused for a moment, as if he was a little taken aback by this. He then said, "I don't know either. It's been like this ever since I found out about this place."
He paused for a moment, and then, as if he wanted to affirm Lu Chen, he added, "It has been like this since the time of our ancestors, or should I say, since the time of the Fire God Altar."
Lu Chen furrowed his brows, and his expression was a little puzzled. He said, "But the Gods and the like, in the legends, don't they always live in the celestial realm?"
Huo Yan laughed and waved his hand, saying, "I've never heard of this. It's probably what you humans say. Moreover, even if the Fire God Altar was built underground, there must be an ancient reason. You can't say that the Fire God is not a God from the celestial realm, right? "
Lu Chen wanted to say something, but stopped. After thinking for a while, he nodded and said, "What you said makes sense."
Huo Yan laughed, and did not take it to heart. He continued to walk forward.
Lu Chen looked at his back, and his expression changed. The light and shadow from afar fell on his face, making his expression look gloomy and uncertain.
In the human race of the Divine Continent, since ancient times, the Gods lived in the heavens, and all the altars were built in the open. Apart from natural disasters, landslides, and landslides, no other god's sacrificial ground would be in the dark underground.
In the long history of the human race, there were no Gods who built their altars underground. Those who built their altars deep underground had nothing to do with the Gods of the heavens.
What was hidden deep underground was the third realm that corresponded to the Immortal Realm and the Human Realm, the demons and monsters of the Underworld!
… …
When Lu Chen thought of this, he felt a slight chill in his heart. When he looked at Huo Yan's back, his gaze became cold.
However, Lu Chen had no intention of saying these words to this barbarian who worshiped the Fire God. Otherwise, Huo Yan might not even want the priest that he had been looking forward to, and would fight to the death with him, a human who slandered the Gods.
When no one spoke, time seemed to pass especially slowly. The sound of heavy footsteps echoed in the dark and gloomy cave, and the stone steps under their feet seemed to extend endlessly downwards.
Lu Chen felt that he had walked for a very long time, but the scenery in front of him did not seem to have changed much. However, for some reason, when he looked at this dark tunnel that went deep underground, Lu Chen had a frightening feeling that this was the entrance to the depths of the Ghost World.
The only thing that changed was that the originally faint and blurry light in front of them, as they continued to descend, it finally began to gradually become clearer and brighter.
After walking like this for an unknown amount of time, Lu Chen felt that the surrounding air suddenly began to become stuffy. At the same time, the red light in front of them suddenly brightened, and then a strange low muffled sound was heard.
The sound was like a tide, and also like a gale, vigorous and solemn. Just as Lu Chen was surprised and bewildered, Huo Yan suddenly stopped in his tracks, and then with a tone that was mixed with excitement, admiration, worship and fanaticism, he said, "We're here!"
The 'here' in his words, naturally referred to the Fire God Altar.
Lu Chen took a deep breath, hurried a few steps, quickly walked to Huo Yan's side, and then looked ahead.
Right now the dark red light had already become extremely bright, because the source of the light had already appeared in front of him. When the magnificent scene appeared in front of Lu Chen's eyes, even with his vast experience, he couldn't help but tremble.
In the depths of this deep underground cave, there really wasn't any immortal aura like in the legends of the human race, but here there was a completely different kind of majestic existence.
At the end of the black stone tunnel, there was a huge underground cave. A wave of heat blasted out, accompanied by rumbling sounds.
That was the source of all the red light, that was the scarlet red burning magma!
The scene in front of Lu Chen's eyes, without any concealment, appeared in front of him: the huge underground cave, crisscrossing rivers, a few narrow rocks connected to form a passageway, the rest of the place was completely filled with scorching and scarlet red magma. All the magma was constantly flowing, big and small bubbles rising on the surface of the magma, expanding, and then exploding.
Even from far away, he could feel the scorching heat, it wasn't hard to imagine, the terrifying temperature of the magma. The entire subterranean cavern was surrounded by this huge magma river. All of the magma flowed continuously in one direction, and everywhere it passed, flames would burn.
And in the deepest part of the cave, there was a huge black boulder that was only three feet tall on the surface of the magma. It had a circumference of two feet, and there were five black stone pillars towering over it.
When the magma flowed past this boulder, it was unknown what kind of strange terrain there was, but a huge whirlpool actually appeared. As a result, all the magma spun and whistled, contrary to its previous slow speed, it rushed into this whirlpool at an increasingly fast speed.
Countless scorching flames struck the hard black boulder, making a sound like thunder, and then finally disappeared into the depths of the whirlpool, as if once again flowing into the depths of the earth, that unpredictable place.
"That is the Fire God Altar!"
Huo Yan turned around, and said loudly to Lu Chen. In this underground cave, because the sound of the magma river was rather loud, he had no choice but to raise his voice.
Lu Chen took a deep breath, immediately felt the scorching heat in the air directly into his lungs, there was a slight burning sensation.
His expression changed slightly, this was the first time he had seen this kind of place, it was really strange and unpredictable. Then he turned to Huo Yan, also raising his voice to ask him, "Then what do we do now?"
"Go there!" Huo Yan pointed at the huge boulder with the five black stone pillars from afar, and then walked forward.
Lu Chen hesitated for a moment, then turned around and made a gesture to Atsu, indicating that it should stay in this cave passage, then he himself followed Huo Yan and walked over.
The path to the huge black boulder, which was also the Fire God Altar that Huo Yan spoke of, was actually a few large boulders that were exposed on the surface of the magma river. They were a little closer to each other, some places could be walked, and some places had to risk jumping over the magma.
Looking at the raging flames below, the bright red and bubbling magma, even Huo Yan, who worshipped the Fire God very much and was an extremely valiant barbarian himself, couldn't help but become cautious and solemn. If he were to accidentally make a mistake, then he would only end up with nothing left of his corpse.
Huo Yan took the lead and walked forward, and Lu Chen followed behind him, walking and leaping forward on the black stone path.
Not long after, they came to a fork in the road. Separated by the magma, one side was the huge boulder that was close to the Fire God Altar, while the other side that was separated by the magma extended to the other side of the cave.
Just as Lu Chen was about to jump over, he was suddenly pulled back by Huo Yan. Lu Chen looked at him with some surprise, only to see Huo Yan pointing to the other side, and said, "Go that way."
As he said this, he leaped and jumped towards the rock that was even further away.
Lu Chen hesitated for a moment, then also followed, and then asked Huo Yan, "Why not take the shortcut?"
Huo Yan shook his head, and said, "This is the rule passed down by our Black Flame Ancestor, at the Fire God Altar, we can only take the long road, we cannot take the shortcut."
Lu Chen was silent for a moment, his eyes slightly flickered, and said, "What if we take the shortcut, what will happen?"
Huo Yan, who was about to walk forward, suddenly stopped, and then stopped.
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