"Sister Shui, it's actually several Nascent Soul cultivators."

The woman in white, Jin Wuxin, said faintly, her voice still filled with a strange lament.

The woman in black, Shui Tianxin, did not speak, merely looking towards the Joy Hall's main entrance.

After a while, she suddenly said, "Huo Qingxin has escaped. She actually took the Vermilion Bird to the Wood Domain's Hall of Rage."

Upon hearing this, the woman in white couldn't help but say anxiously, "Sister Shui, then we should also hurry to the Wood Domain's Hall of Rage. If we go too late, and Mu Wanxin is rescued by her and completely won over, it will surely be like last time, where all our efforts end in failure."

"Hmm. This Huo Qingxin is truly reckless. The Five Elements Hall's guardian beasts generally cannot leave their respective Five Elements Domain, yet she actually brought the Vermilion Bird to the Wood Domain. It seems she's determined to decide her own fate."

For the first time, the woman in black's tone revealed an incredibly solemn meaning.

Then she suddenly turned to Yang Che and said, "Zhang Gu, our Divine Sense cannot detect what is happening on the Five Emotions Road. You stay here and find a way to enter the Joy Road to see if the Joy Key has already been taken.

If it hasn't, that's naturally for the best. If it has been taken, you must find a way to retrieve it. If you can't retrieve it, all of us will turn to ashes."

After speaking, she ignored the several Nascent Soul cultivators who had stopped fighting and looked puzzled, and directly left the Fire Domain with Jin Wuxin and Yang Xiaoqian.

As a result, the gazes of these several Nascent Soul cultivators all fell upon Yang Che.

Yang Che also did not speak, directly bypassing these several Nascent Soul cultivators, and walked towards the Joy Hall, holding the stone tablet.

The Joy Hall was built on a crimson volcano, surrounded by scorching red rocks.

Only a single crimson path led directly to the Joy Hall.

Wan Chen, the mustache and horse-faced elder beside the Wan Family's vicious woman, Sixteenth Mistress, immediately wanted to attack Yang Che.

But the Sixteenth Mistress looked at the four Nascent Soul elders opposite her, then reached out to stop him, saying grimly, "He's just a Core Formation Stage nobody. Ignore him. These old fellows in front of us are the real formidable enemies."

Wan Chen reluctantly withdrew his hand, snorted coldly, and then the two sides began to fight again.

This suited Yang Che's intentions perfectly. He quickly entered the Joy Hall and, crossing the long suspension bridge, stepped onto the Joy Road.

However, the Joy Road was eerily quiet, with Puppet fragments scattered everywhere.

Clearly, a Cultivator had already arrived here first.

Yang Che walked to the end of the Joy Road and saw seven or eight Cultivator corpses lying near where the bronze box floated.

These corpses had clearly been poisoned by smoke, each corroded and riddled with holes, their deaths extremely horrifying.

After a test to confirm it was safe, Yang Che approached the bronze box.

The box was empty.

Yang Che's eyes darted around, and he simply put the empty bronze box into his Void Illusion Magic Stone Space.

Returning to the Joy Road, he searched carefully and, as expected, found another yin yang stone. The one on the Path of Fear earlier, he had thought that if an uncontrollable accident occurred in the Fear Hall, that path would at least be a safe place, so he had reburied it in the end.

However, this time, after much deliberation, Yang Che dug up the yin yang stone and put it into his Magic Stone Space.

Back in the main hall of the Joy Hall, Yang Che did not rush out but listened carefully to the movements outside.

An old man's voice, filled with immense anger and weariness, happened to ring out:

"Sixteenth Mistress, how many times have I told you, the key is not on us.

It was taken by a tall woman. Her Magic Treasure is a long yellow moon-shaped saber, extremely powerful. Our cultivation was suppressed, even if we were not weaker than her, but her speed was too fast. We old fellows couldn't catch up and were instead blocked by this Wan Chen."

"What a joke. You several Nascent Soul old fellows couldn't stop a Core Formation woman? Who would believe that? Stop talking nonsense, hand over the key, and my mistress will consider letting you live."

Yang Che recognized the voice of the horse-faced, mustache elder.

Hearing this, Yang Che was also startled.

Wasn't the woman the weary old man spoke of Sha Rou?

Could it be that the Joy Key was taken by Sha Rou?

Just as he thought of this, he suddenly heard another hoarse old man outside the hall entrance shout, "Eh, Old Ghost Fan, that young man who just entered the hall, I remember he seemed to be with that tall woman who used the yellow moon-shaped saber near the stone tablet outside the Ancient Remnant?"

"Right, I remember now. It's him. Quick, Seal the Joy Hall."

With a loud shout from the weary old man, Yang Che immediately sensed several Seal Talismans being activated, directly sealing off the area outside the hall entrance.

It was impossible to teleport within this hall. Yang Che heard that the hall entrance was about to be opened and immediately thought, "This is bad." He quickly turned back to the three suspension bridges and was about to run towards the Joy Road, but then changed his mind and casually stepped onto another suspension bridge.

A large number of Yin spirits on the bridge seemed to have smelled something delicious and surged towards Yang Che frantically.

Yang Che directly unleashed the thundercloud, which boomed as it covered these Yin spirits.

The Yin spirits turned into light smoke upon contact.

Yang Che walked on this suspension bridge for a full hour before finally crossing it and arriving at a scorching hot lava pool.

The Nine Heart Thunder Flame, which was strenuously enveloping the Ice Spirit Breath and Gold Spirit Breath and furiously refining them, suddenly became restless upon sensing the presence of the lava pool.

Perceiving the Nine Heart Thunder Flame's intention, Yang Che couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart and blurted out, "Lei Yan, you said you sensed a 'single heart' right at the bottom of this lava pool?"

The Nine Heart Thunder Flame immediately surged and churned.

"That's great."

Yang Che was both surprised and overjoyed.

With his thoughts racing, he immediately controlled the Flying Stealth to take over from the Nine Heart Thunder Flame, forming an impenetrable needle net, barely managing to temporarily envelop the Ice Spirit Breath and Gold Spirit Breath within it.

The Nine Heart Thunder Flame excitedly and emotionally flew out from Yang Che's body, transforming into a flame giant, and plunged directly into the incredibly hot lava pool.

Yang Che immediately saw that the lava in the pool quickly melted at a visible speed.

Half an hour later, all the lava in the pool was devoured by the Nine Heart Thunder Flame.

At the bottom of the pool, the Nine Heart Thunder Flame appeared.

Beside him, there was a cluster of dark yellow flames, cheering and leaping, which quickly merged directly into the Nine Heart Thunder Flame, transforming into a heart-shaped fire crystal firmly embedded in a Vortex on the Nine Heart Thunder Flame's chest.

At this point, the Nine Heart Thunder Flame had recovered three hearts. His tall body had shrunk a bit further, but it had become much more solid, and the high temperature of the flames he released became even more terrifying.

Lei Yan excitedly spun a circle, then flew directly out of the lava pool, turning into a streak of light and merging into Yang Che's body.

Once it returned to his Middle Dantian, it immediately released wisps of incredibly pure Fire Spiritual Qi, spreading them throughout Yang Che's limbs and bones.

These pure Fire Spiritual Qi circulated within all his meridians, once again widening his meridians. Yang Che felt warm and extremely comfortable.

At this moment, Yang Che couldn't help but feel puzzled.

The Nine Heart Thunder Flame was the spirit of the ancient Divine Beast, Nine Heart Fire Crow. After being struck by a nine-colored heavenly lightning bolt, it was re-nurtured and born from the thunderfire, making it one of the three great ancient Divine Flames, an ancient relic.

After being severely wounded in the ancient war, its nine hearts split and scattered across the world.

But why did it appear in this Ancient Remnant?

While he was pondering, a piece of information suddenly flooded into Yang Che's mind.

It turned out to be the memory given to the Nine Heart Thunder Flame by this dark yellow heart of the Nine Heart Thunder Flame, which was then transferred to him by the Nine Heart Thunder Flame.

After reading this memory, Yang Che suddenly froze.

Because he not only knew why this dark yellow heart appeared here, but he also inadvertently discovered a huge secret of this Five Emotions Hall!

For a moment, Yang Che only felt a chill down his spine, and cold sweat couldn't help but seep from his forehead.