Ning Chen and Ning Yong sat by the window on the second floor of the restaurant, monitoring the street at all times.

"Look, Ning Zhuo has appeared."

"Let's go!"

The two of them walked quickly and arrived at the intersection ahead of time. They pretended to meet by chance and bumped into Ning Zhuo head-on.

"Ning Zhuo?" Ning Yong called out.

Ning Zhuo looked at the two of them and was stunned for a moment. He smiled." It's you, Ning Yong and Ning Chen."

These two are Ning Zhuo's classmates.

Ning Chen pretended to sigh." We haven't seen each other since the final exam. It feels like a long time has passed."

Ning Zhuo's heart moved." Although time is short, if there are many things happening, there will naturally be an illusion that time is long."

NARRATOR:"I heard about you. After the exam, you fell out with your uncle and aunt and refused to accept their help."

"Is it difficult for you to live alone now?"

"What are you doing to earn spirit stones to maintain your cultivation?"

Ning Zhuo hesitated for a moment."I'm currently doing odd jobs in a mechanical workshop. What about you?"

Ning Yong chuckled and said proudly,"We've already joined the Demon Hunting Association!"

" We're buying supplies to leave the city. Tonight, we'll enter the demon cave to hunt demon beasts with the seniors of the Demon Hunting Association."

"How is it? Isn't it exciting?"

Ning Zhuo opened his mouth slightly in surprise: "You want to enter the Red Flame Demon Cave?" Isn't this too dangerous?"

"What are you afraid of? What can you do if you're afraid of death?" Ning Yong puffed out his chest and looked disdainful."Young, you should wander around." Without taking risks, where would the profits come from? Without money to speed up my cultivation, when will I be able to establish my foundation?"

And he said,"Don't listen to him." There are cultivators from our Ning family in the Demon Hunting Association. Have you heard of Lord Ning Zhan?"

" We'll enter the cave under his guidance. Tonight is the low tide of the Earth Flame, so it's very safe."

Ning Chen tried his best to dispel Ning Zhuo's worries.

Ning Zhuo revealed a look of envy.

Ning Yong looked at it and directly invited him: "As I said, Ning Zhuo, don't do any workshop work." Why don't you come down with us?"

"How many treasures are hidden in the Demon Cave?"

"How much do you earn a week? Perhaps, if you harvest a spiritual plant in the Flaming Demon Melted Cave, it will be enough for you to pay for a week!"

Ning Zhuo shook his head and waved his hand, refusing to say,"My sword subject scores have always been in the middle and lower grades." It's too dangerous to fight demon beasts. I can't do it."

"Coward!" Ning Yong glared and was about to speak.

Ning Chen stopped him with his gaze and smiled at Ning Zhuo." If I were you, Ning Zhuo, I would go back and apologize to my uncle and aunt and ask them to use their connections to send me into the family business." This treatment is definitely better than the work outside!"

Ning Zhuo immediately shook his head, showing his youthful side. He said firmly," Since things have come to this, I will never bow my head like this."

Ning Chen chuckled." If I were your uncle or aunt, what would I think if I saw you living in a humble workshop?"

" Perhaps he's thinking,'Look, this Ning doesn't know how high the sky is. Without our help, he can only live in hardship and gradually become the lowest level of cultivators!'

Ning Zhuo immediately frowned and his expression darkened, as if his defenses had been broken.

Ning Chen smiled inwardly and continued to work hard…

A moment later.

Looking at Ning Zhuo's back, Ning Yong said,"Ning Zhuo's grades are better than ours, but what's the use?" He was easily provoked by us and agreed to act with us tonight."

Ning Chen sighed." Ning Zhuo is just like us. We are both ordinary people."

" If I were him, I would have fallen into his trap."

"Sigh…"

Ning Yong saw that his companion was in a low mood and comforted him: "Although Ning Zhuo is our classmate, we have already attached ourselves to Ning Jiamen." This time, Lord Ning Zhan personally gave us the order. What is this feeling of schoolmates compared to our future? We don't know him well!"

Ning Chen shook his head slightly and said,"Forget it." This way, we can finally give Lord Ning Zhan an explanation."

"Let's go."

In the evening, Ning Zhuo came to the assembly point alone.

Ning Yong smiled and led him in.

Ning Chen brought him to Ning Zhan.

Ning Zhan was a burly middle-aged man with slender eyebrows. He sized Ning Zhuo up and said expressionlessly," Since you're all members of the Ning family, I'll take care of you this time and arrange for you to join the team."

"But remember, follow my orders and arrangements."

"Junior understands!" Ning Zhuo hurriedly said.

Ning Zhuo's mind quickly flashed with information about Ning Zhan.

Many years ago, the Ning family began to consciously send cultivators to various organizations inside and outside the Fire Peristle Immortal City.

The Ning fighter is one of them.

He was very strong and decisive. He was able to catch fleeting fighters in the battlefield, so he emerged as a general-type figure.

This time, Ning Zhan received Ning Zhe's request and accepted the latter's money. That was why he sent Ning Chen and Ning Yong to provoke Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhan sized Ning Zhuo up and looked away. He evaluated in his heart, Qi layer three, nothing special.

Very quickly, the team was assembled, with a total of more than fifty people.

Most of these people were surnamed Ning. A small number of outsiders were also strongly related to the Ning family.

Ning Zhan led everyone towards the Flaming Demon Cave.

Fire Peristle Immortal City was a typical mountain city.

Most of the buildings in the city are concentrated on the mountainside. The higher they went toward the center of the city, the higher the terrain became. At the center was the crater on the top of the mountain. The lower you go, the lower you go, the foot of a mountain that stretches.

Ning Zhuo and his party climbed up from the mountainside. Along the way, they passed through several checkpoints and underwent very lax inspections. Finally, they reached the top of the mountain.

At the top of the mountain, the spiritual energy was obviously dense and hot.

The air smelled of sulfur and was quite pungent.

Although it was night, the crater was still shining brightly. With the help of the light, Ning Zhuo saw white smoke floating above the crater.

In the midst of this white smoke, there were many larks flying about, darting in and out.

Ning Zhuo and the others arrived at the edge of the volcano.

Looking down, you can see a wide, flat rocky ground in the crater.

The red rocks emitted scorching heat at all times. Some of the red rocks were closely connected, and some of the rock slabs were exposed to cracks. Under the cracks, bright orange-red magma flowed. There were also holes in the rocks.

Some of the holes spewed out flames from time to time, some of them flowed lava, and some of them were bottomless, which could lead to a deeper path underground.

The mountain walls were almost perpendicular to the rocky ground, and the surrounding mountain walls were all glazed and unusually smooth. It was obviously artificial. The crater looked like a huge open cup.

And toward the center, Ning Zhuo found that the number of underground holes on the surface of Hongyan increased, and the size of the holes also increased.

In the end, his gaze was fixed on the center of the rocky ground.

There, there's a lava lake.