"Wow, Jun Mohan, this Ice-Fire Bead really can cool things down! This is too amazing," Leng Ruoli exclaimed.
"I just suddenly remembered that the Ice-Fire Bead had this function. Come, Li'er, I'll hold your other free hand, and then Yin Chen will hold my hand. We'll link our hands one by one and see if we can transfer the coldness from you to us," Jun Mohan said, looking at Leng Ruoli with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Leng Ruoli nodded and extended the hand not holding the Ice-Fire Bead towards Jun Mohan. Jun Mohan immediately took Leng Ruoli's small hand, and instantly, a cool aura emanated from her hand.
"Li'er, this method is really effective. After I held your hand, the heat from my body vanished in an instant," Jun Mohan said with pleasant surprise.
"Then Yin Chen and Chu Mingxuan, why aren't you all holding the Prince's hand to cool down?"
Leng Ruoli reminded them as she saw Yin Chen and Chu Mingxuan still in a daze.
The few of them snapped to attention upon hearing Leng Ruoli's words. They linked their hands in a chain, and then held onto Jun Mohan's large palm. Soon, the heat in their bodies disappeared.
"Consort, that little green bead in your hand is truly magical! With this, we don't have to worry about being roasted to death. With its help, we can reach the mountaintop without any problem," Chu Mingxuan said nonstop after feeling cooler, leaving Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan quite speechless.
However, to be honest, the Ice-Fire Bead was indeed like a portable modern air conditioner.
Thus, the group, hand in hand, finally reached the summit of Flaming Mountain.
All of them were stunned by the scene at the summit. The peak of Flaming Mountain was actually a volcanic crater, with blood-red molten lava churning and bubbling like in a giant pot. Afterwards, they searched around the summit for the Fire Lingzhi, scouring the entire peak, but they couldn't find the Fire Lingzhi.
"Jun Mohan, are you sure you saw the Fire Lingzhi on this mountaintop back then?" Leng Ruoli asked with suspicion.
"I'm sure!" Jun Mohan replied with certainty.
"Then why haven't we seen even a shadow of the Fire Lingzhi after searching for so long?" Leng Ruoli said, her brows furrowed.
"When I was on Flaming Mountain back then, the summit wasn't like this. This crater was a natural lake, and the Fire Lingzhi grew on the edge of the lake," Jun Mohan recalled the past.
"Prince, Consort, is it possible that the Fire Lingzhi has already been picked?" Chu Mingxuan also voiced his doubt.
"Perhaps?" Leng Ruoli had this guess in her heart too.
"Impossible! The temperature on the summit is too high, and ordinary people cannot ascend. If we didn't rely on the Ice-Fire Bead, we wouldn't have been able to reach this summit," Jun Mohan immediately dismissed the idea.
After hearing Jun Mohan's words, Leng Ruoli also felt that he made a lot of sense. The temperature at the summit of Flaming Mountain was frighteningly high, and ordinary people truly couldn't endure it. She had even secretly measured it earlier, and the temperature was as high as 81°C.
Without the Ice-Fire Bead, it would have been impossible for them to reach the summit.
"Let's search more carefully," Leng Ruoli sighed.
Subsequently, they carefully circled the crater again, even kicking over the soil under their feet to check, but in the end, they were still disappointed.
At this moment, Leng Ruoli calmly pondered for a moment and said, "Jun Mohan, can your soft sword transform into a flood dragon at such a high temperature?"
"I haven't tried it. Li'er, what do you want to do?" Jun Mohan asked curiously.
"Send Chu Mingxuan and Yin Chen and the others down to the mountainside first. It's inconvenient for a group of us to search for things holding hands like this, but I can't let go of them. You should send them down first, and I'll stay on the summit to search properly," Leng Ruoli replied after careful consideration.
"No, leaving you alone here is too dangerous. I disagree."
Jun Mohan's stance was firm as he rejected Leng Ruoli's suggestion.
"But it's really inconvenient to search for things holding hands like this. No one can let go, it's like blind people searching for something," Leng Ruoli said calmly.
Jun Mohan also felt that Leng Ruoli's words made sense, so he nodded and agreed to her plan.
"Prince, it's not good to leave the Consort alone here." Chu Mingxuan and Yin Chen were both worried about Leng Ruoli's safety after learning about their plan.
"After I send you down, I'll fly back up slowly."
As Jun Mohan spoke, he drew the soft sword from his waist, which transformed into a flood dragon.
"Hurry up and get on, or my flood dragon will turn back into its original form from the heat."
Jun Mohan made the flood dragon fly lower and urged Yin Chen and Chu Mingxuan, the four of them, to sit on it.
Yin Chen and Chu Mingxuan immediately used their qinggong to fly onto the flood dragon's back.
Seeing that they were all on board, Jun Mohan immediately steered the flood dragon, flew into the air, and descended the mountain.
Meanwhile, Leng Ruoli, who remained on the summit, watched them leave. She immediately walked to the bubbling, molten lava within the crater and carefully searched the perimeter. However, she was still disappointed, as she hadn't found the Fire Lingzhi.
Just then, Leng Ruoli's foot accidentally kicked something hard. She looked down and saw a red mass.
Suddenly, Leng Ruoli's bright eyes lit up. She immediately crouched down, took a small hoe from her system space, and dug away the volcanic ash surrounding the mass. A Fire Lingzhi, about the size of ten fingers, then appeared before her.
Looking at the Fire Lingzhi, whose color was indistinguishable from the molten lava, Leng Ruoli's heart filled with excitement.
"Heavens! She, Leng Ruoli, has finally found this Fire Lingzhi," Leng Ruoli muttered to herself.
It turned out that the Fire Lingzhi had matured and looked exactly like the volcanic lava, no wonder they couldn't find it.
Subsequently, Leng Ruoli used the small hoe to dig out the mycelial stem of the Fire Lingzhi hidden in the soil. Then, Leng Ruoli carefully pulled it out with her hand.
At that moment, the entire crater began to shake, and the molten lava inside surged upwards. Seeing this, Leng Ruoli turned and ran.
Outside the crater, after Jun Mohan sent Chu Mingxuan and Yin Chen down the mountain, he immediately flew back to the summit. However, the temperature on the summit had inexplicably risen even higher. Before his flood dragon could reach the summit, it reverted to a soft sword. He could only endure the high temperature and walk up to find Leng Ruoli. However, after searching the area outside the crater, he couldn't find Leng Ruoli.
This gave him a bad premonition that Leng Ruoli might have entered the crater to search for the Fire Lingzhi.