The land in the far west, the Kingdom of Fire.

When Zhou Chun entered the sea of ​​flowing fire sand filled with red sand, he knew he had arrived in the Fire Kingdom.

Looking down from the sky, the red sand sea under the scorching sun looks like a red sea of ​​fire, and the flowing sand is like a flame. This is the origin of the name "Liuhuo Sand Sea".

Even in the realm of cultivating immortals in the far west where desertification is common, the Fire Kingdom, located in the Sea of ​​Flowing Fire and Sand, is still the most difficult place.

But hardship does not mean poverty, or it does not mean poverty in the world of immortality.

Although this sea of ​​flowing fire and sand is unfriendly to mortals and even low-level monks, it contains rich mineral resources beneath it, in which the fire-attributed spiritual energy of heaven and earth is also very rich.

Therefore, the strength of the Immortal Cultivation World of the Fire Kingdom is actually much stronger than that of countries like the Shayan Kingdom.

As for Zhou Chun, who was going to seek out Master Yan Cang to refine treasures, he had naturally found out the information about Huo Luo Kingdom and Master Yan Cang beforehand.

According to the information he gathered, the overall strength of the Fire Kingdom should be ranked among the top five in the world of immortal cultivation in the far west. Although there are no late-stage Nascent Soul monks in the country, there are several mid-stage Nascent Soul monks with comparable strength.

Jingguo is even slightly better.

As the master of weapon refining, Master Yancang is naturally very famous in the entire world of cultivating immortals in the far west.

After all, there are only two known masters of weapon refining in the entire world of cultivating immortals in the far west!

However, the Tianhuo Sect, where Master Yan Cang was born, is not the largest immortal cultivating force in the Fire Kingdom, nor is it even the second largest immortal cultivating force.

Before Master Yancang became the grand master of weapon refining, Tianhuo Sect was just an ordinary sect, and the inheritance of the Yuanying Stage monks was also intermittent.

It wasn't until the emergence of a talent refining genius like Master Yan Cang that the Tianhuo Sect suddenly emerged in the Fire Kingdom and became a major force in the world of immortality with a reputation resounding in the far west.

There are currently two Nascent Soul Stage Masters in the Tianhuo Sect. In addition to Yancang Master, there is also a junior Nascent Soul Stage Master who was supported and trained by him.

Master Yancang himself has been famous for thousands of years, and his lifespan seems to be running out.

Speaking of which, the disappearance of Master Yan Cang for nearly two hundred years also caused a lot of discussion in the circle of high-level monks in the world of immortality in the far west.

If the Tianhuo Sect hadn't sworn that there was nothing wrong with the soul lamp left by him, almost many people would have thought that the great master of weapon refining had died.

It wasn't until the return of Master Yan Cang a few years ago that all the rumors were self-explanatory, and the number of people who went to Tianhuo Sect to see this great master of weapon refining suddenly started to flow again.

Only those who can really see the real person Yan Cang are all Nascent Soul stage monks.

These people could naturally see that something was wrong with Master Yancang's condition, so they didn't mention anything about refining weapons.

Anyway, as long as Master Yancang is still alive, with Master Yuanying's recovery speed, they will still have the opportunity to ask him to help refine treasures in the future.

For Zhou Chun, it is undoubtedly a good thing that Tianhuo Sect is not a particularly powerful sect.

This means that when he asks Master Yancang to refine the treasure, the probability of danger later is much smaller.

"Although it is not yet the ten-year period agreed with Master Yan Cang, it is right for me to go to Tianhuomen to pay a visit to the dock first. At least it will give Master Yan Cang some mental preparation!"

Zhou Chun thought of this and immediately let the golden-winged tiger go somewhere along the edge of the sand sea.

The Sea of ​​Flowing Fire and Sand is extremely vast, even larger than the Great Zhou Kingdom. It is easy for monks to get lost while walking through it.

Therefore, when foreign monks want to go to the Fire Kingdom, they usually look for a caravan to go with them.

Zhou Chun didn't try to be brave, he just jumped in headlong and forced his way in due to his high level of cultivation.

His previous experience on the ice sheet told him that having a guide to lead the way would definitely save a lot of trouble in such matters.

Besides, he himself is not in a hurry.

In this way, in a cultivator stronghold on the edge of the Flowing Fire Sand Sea, Zhou Chun, pretending to be a late-stage foundation-building cultivator, easily boarded a caravan heading to the Fire Kingdom and became one of its guards.

In the middle of the vast sand sea, a group of camel traders were slowly walking in the shape of a long snake towards the depths of the sand sea, braving the scorching heat of the sun.

Late at night, the camel team stopped behind a sand dune, and then a group of camels formed a circle and lay down on the ground to rest, and tents quickly appeared in the middle circle.

"Zhang Daoyou, you and Daoyou Cen will be responsible for the vigil in the second half of the night. It is your first time to enter the Flowing Fire Sand Sea, so you may be a little unfamiliar with the situation here. You can communicate with Daoyou Cen more when you have nothing to do, and he will not hesitate to inform you."

Beside a bonfire, after giving an explanation to Zhou Chun who came to take over the sentry duty, a caravan foundation-building monk who was on duty at night quickly went back to his tent to rest.

Beside the bonfire, another middle-aged man with a dark complexion nodded friendly to Zhou Chun, and the two parties exchanged greetings.

"Fellow Daoist Cen, Zhang came to the Flowing Fire Sand Sea for the first time. He only heard that there are three major dangers here: sand bandits, sand beasts, and sandstorms. The more specific details are not clear. Can you tell Zhang in detail?"

Zhou Chun asked while gently fiddling with the wood on the campfire and looking at the middle-aged man opposite him with curiosity.

"Then let Cen talk to fellow Taoist Zhang."

The middle-aged man nodded and agreed happily.

Then I heard him say slowly: "The sand bandits are bandit cultivators in the Flowing Fire Sand Sea. Their main targets of plunder are various caravans, so they usually gather in groups, often dozens of people when they appear.

There are high and low levels of strength. Small teams with a few people are rare in the sand sea, and they are often more difficult to mess with!"

"Sand beasts are those monsters that live in the Flowing Fire Sand Sea. Because of the scarcity of food, the monsters here have a very wide range of activities. There are also several kinds of gregarious monsters and poisonous insects. Once you encounter them, it will be difficult to get rid of them, but the third-level

Monsters are not common, and generally they are not willing to attack caravans with Zifu period monks stationed there!"

"Sandstorm is a natural disaster in the sand sea. Once you encounter a sandstorm, if you don't have the cultivation level of Jindan, it's best to stay on the ground and wait for the sandstorm to pass, otherwise it will be difficult to fly out of the sandstorm range if you run out of mana!"

Having said this, he glanced at Zhou Chun and continued: "We have just entered the sand sea. At night, except for some low-level sand beasts who may be blinded by the smell of the sand beasts, there are sand bandits and

It's impossible to encounter a sandstorm, so you don't have to worry too much, Daoist Zhang, just maintain normal vigilance!"

"I see, Zhang has learned a lesson."

Zhou Chun nodded, bowed his hands to the middle-aged man to express his gratitude, and then looked at the bonfire in front of him and fell into deep thought.

Zhou Chun is very aware of the strength of this caravan.

It itself consists of a large merchant and many small merchants. The strongest protector in the large merchant is a monk from the middle stage of the Purple Mansion. During the day, he hides in the carriage pulled by the Shatuo beast and is nowhere to be seen.

There are about eleven or twelve other foundation-building guards, and there are four other foundation-building monks like Zhou Chun who want to use the caravan to go to the Fire Kingdom.

As for other Qi-training monks, although there are hundreds of them, the actual combat power they can provide is negligible.

Calculated in this way, the overall strength of the caravan is much stronger than that of an ordinary clan of immortal cultivators.

Most of the sand bandit teams in the Flowing Fire Sand Sea cannot take down a caravan of this strength. Only some of the top bandit teams can threaten this caravan.

Therefore, for such important duties as vigil, the caravan leader dared to involve temporary monks like Zhou Chun.

According to the information Zhou Chun had previously learned from the caravan leader, if everything went well, they would be able to reach the oasis where the Skyfire Gate is located after traveling for about two months.

Although this time was not short, it was still within Zhou Chun's acceptable range, so he chose to join the caravan.

In the middle of the night that followed, the situation was exactly as the monk surnamed Cen had said. Except for some low-level monsters approaching from time to time, which caused the Shatuo beast to scream, nothing worthy of their action happened.

Speaking of those Shatuo beasts, they are indeed a very good substitute spirit beast.

This kind of Shatuo beast can be said to be a specialty monster beast of the far west. They look like a dromedary camel, but are several times larger than a camel. They have very strong endurance and load-bearing capacity.

This beast is an indispensable mount when traveling through desert areas such as the Sea of ​​Flowing Fire and Sand.

There are twenty-seven Shatuo beasts in Zhou Chun's caravan. When they are traveling during the day, most of the monks sit in the wooden frame carried by the Shatuo beasts or in the carriages pulled by them.

The carriage in the sand sea has no wheels, and has a smooth structure like a skateboard underneath.

Most of the caravan's goods are packed in storage bags and then piled into carriages, where they are guarded by specialized monks.

These Shatuo beasts can serve as mounts during the day, and can block the wind and provide warning at night. They can be said to be multi-purpose beasts with great utilization value.

Naturally, the price of this beast is also extremely high, even compared to the dragon scale horse sold by the Zhou family.

If he hadn't known that this beast was only suitable for the environment in the Far West, it would be easily acclimatized in places with abundant rainfall such as Jingguo, and it was not good at traveling through mountains and rivers, Zhou Chun would have wanted to take some with him and keep them in his family when he went back.

In the next half month, Zhou Chun followed the caravan and advanced steadily in the sand sea, probably advancing about a thousand miles every day.

But they don't go in a straight line, but need to go around some dangerous areas.

Those places either belong to the activity areas of some powerful monsters and poisonous insects, are full of quicksand traps, or are far away from the main oases of the Fire Kingdom.

It was precisely because of this many detours through dangerous areas that the caravan was able to reach the real Huoluo country and arrive at an oasis for supplies, even after traveling more than 10,000 miles.

This oasis is not large in area, only two to three hundred miles in size. There is a small market on it for the caravan to supply and sell some goods.

Some small caravans often clear out the goods they brought after arriving here, and then purchase some special spiritual items from the Fire Kingdom and transport them back.

For example, after Zhou Chun's caravan arrived here, two small merchants gave up and continued their journey, not planning to continue walking.

But there are also some monks on the oasis who want to go to the hinterland of the Fire Kingdom, intending to join their caravan.

However, these people were rejected by the caravan leader because he was worried that these people would be the informants of the bandits.

Finally, after Zhou Chun and the others rested on the oasis for a day, they continued towards the hinterland of the Fire Kingdom.

After advancing like this for several days, a sudden sandstorm trapped the caravan in place.

Compared to the snowstorm Zhou Chun experienced on the ice sheet, the sandstorm in the Flowing Fire Sand Sea was even more difficult to fight against.

The sand in the sandstorm, supported by the strong wind, can easily smash ordinary mortals into sieves!

The Qi-training monks in the caravan can only hide under the Shatuo beast, or cover themselves completely with a skin tanned by the monster skin, so that they can block the sand attack without consuming mana.

However, compared with snowstorms that can last for a month or even several months, sandstorms often last very short. In most cases, they end in half a day, and the longest is only three or four days.

Today's sudden sandstorm is no exception.

After lasting for most of the day, the sandstorm gradually stopped around midnight.

But just when everyone was thankful that the sandstorm had finally passed, the leader of the caravan began to instruct everyone to check the camel beasts and prepare to set up camp on the spot.
To be continued...