Following Ah Jing down into the earth's crevice, Chen Guanshui momentarily felt as if he'd wandered into Shushan's Fire Element Cave.
Everywhere was red-hot magma and Fire True Essence, flowing through the confined space with the circulation of air, sometimes rushing in and other times surging out, as if it were the overwhelming breath of the earth's lungs.
"This is a natural lung of the earth," the Kunlun Mirror explained, "Well, maybe not entirely natural, but its scale is comparable to a natural phenomenon."
"The ancient texts say the collapse of the Southeast Heaven Pillar was due to the conflict between the water god Gonggong and the fire god Zhu Rong, where the former, in his defeat, crashed into the pillar and toppled it."
"But from the presence of this Earth's lung and Fire Vein, it's more likely some vast sorcery of Zhu Rong's, which impacted the Heaven Pillar while striking Gonggong, isn't it?"
