Chapter 78: Wind Tunnel Laws

  "Hey Xiao Wu, do you know how to get through these wind tunnels?"

  Hu looked up at a black fire lotus flower that was closest to him, this black fire lotus flower was about twelve wind holes away from him, a straight-line distance of nearly thirty meters. If it were usual times, he wouldn't need one or two seconds to cross the distance of thirty meters, but now...

  Even taking a step out can be a matter of life and death.

  Fortunately, Xiao Wu was there. Otherwise, even with his keen senses, he would have been helpless. The fire poison was too potent, and if he had come into contact with even a single drop, the healing function of the jade pendant would not have been able to save him.

  Xiao Wu's voice quickly rang out, "Boss, it's actually very simple to cross through these wind tunnels. I feel that the fire poison sprayed by these wind tunnels is extremely regular, if we follow this rule, it's impossible for the fire poison to touch our bodies even a little bit."

  "What rule? What kind of rule?"

  Hu Gao asked in confusion.

  "To be specific, I don't know either, but I just feel that these wind tunnels shouldn't have formed naturally, and there must be some reason behind it."

  Xiao Wu hesitated and said: "I feel that under these wind tunnels, there should be something with fire properties. It is precisely because of this thing that the wind tunnel was formed."

  "Something with fire attributes? What is it? Can't you sense it?"

  "It's not that I couldn't sense it, but the fluctuations of fire attribute energy beneath the Wind Tunnel are just too many and too intense. I simply can't determine anything here. In this place, I'm like... like a blind man." Xiao Wu looked very depressed.

  "Blind man?"

  Hearing these words, Hu Gao was taken aback at first, but then suddenly came back to his senses.

  Xiao Wu's perception was indeed very powerful, within 5,000 meters, some powerful creatures or spiritual treasures, he could all sense them. However, in a place like Huoyan Valley, basically everything was fire-attribute, and under the interference of these energies, it was as if a membrane had formed, preventing Xiao Wu from sensing something more accurately.

  It's quite apt to describe him as "blind".

  Below, many warriors looked up at Hu Gao, seeing that he was standing still for a long time without making any move. One by one, they shook their heads and sighed, with some even shouting "If you're afraid of death, then get down here!"

  "These guys, they're clearly afraid to go pick the Black Fire Lotus themselves, but now that Brother Hu has just paused for a moment, they say he's afraid of death? What a bunch of rubbish...!" Yun Feng saw many people being disrespectful to Hu, and his heart also rose with a thread of anger, indignantly saying.

  "Hehe, don't mind them, let's just quietly watch and see, I believe Hu Gao Xiaowawa won't disappoint us."

  The old man with a pipe smiled lightly. When Hu Gao jumped up without hesitation, he had strong confidence in the latter.

  "Boss, many people down there are saying you're a coward." Little Five said with a smile.

  "Hu Gao curled his lip and said, 'Let them talk, I'm here risking my life to pick the Black Fire Lotus, they're over there watching the show and chattering away, not even a bit of manners.'"

  After a pause, Hu Gao said, "Cut the nonsense and tell me how to jump over these wind tunnels."

  "Wow, I thought you weren't in a hurry at all, just standing here enjoying the view."

  Xiao Wu smiled mischievously and, sensing Hu Gao's gradually darkening face, hastily said: "Whoa whoa, Big Brother, please don't get angry, I'll tell you right now how to jump over the wind tunnel."

  Hú Gāo's face finally looked a bit better.

  "Boss, don't think about anything now. When you see the fire poison jumping out, immediately jump to the next step, don't worry if the fire poison will fall on your body."

  Xiao Wu's reply was concise, and at the same time, it made Hu Gao's face, which had just looked good, completely darken. "You want me to jump into the fire poison? Are you asking me to commit suicide?"

  As for the power of fire poison, Hu Gao had experienced it before and it was not something he could resist. Even if a single drop of fire poison landed on him, he estimated that even Yu Pei would be unable to withstand it. If he were to lose his ability to move and fall into the wind tunnel, it would be no different from falling into a smelting furnace.

  But he also knew that Xiao Wu wouldn't really let him go to his death, so he didn't blow up.

  "Boss, trust me on this one. I can't explain it clearly either, but that's just the rule of fire poison bursting out of the wind tunnel. When you see the fire poison later, not only do you have to jump over immediately, but your speed absolutely cannot be slow. This distance of less than two meters, you must cross over within half a second, otherwise, it's really going to be dangerous."

  Xiao Wu smiled and said, not worried at all. Hu Gao's speed was still very fast, crossing two meters in half a second was no problem.

  "Rule?"

  Hu Gao hesitated for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said that this might be the rule of the wind tunnel fire toxin bursting out. This was also why the previous warriors who picked the black fire lotus had such a high mortality rate, because they feared the fire toxin and rushed over at the moment when the fire toxin retreated, which violated the rule of the wind tunnel fire toxin bursting out and was directly killed.

  "It seems like it's worth trying."

  Although he had decided to jump past the moment the fire poison burst out, Hu Gao couldn't help but say, "Just in case, if the fire poison has an accident and doesn't retreat in time, you must absorb it all, don't let a single drop fall on me, not even one, did you hear?"

  "Got it, boss! Don't worry, with me around, the blame won't fall on you."

  "Hmm." Hu Gao nodded, then stopped thinking about it and stared at the fire toxin. He didn't jump over immediately, but instead took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and just as the fire toxin was about to burst out of the wind tunnel in front of him, he leaped into the air.

  Hu Gao felt as if he had jumped into a sea of flames, with no return, and would turn to ashes the next moment, his heart almost subconsciously chilled.

  A wave of scorching air rolled past his ears, and then Hu Gao felt himself falling to the ground, unable to react in time.

  "Hsss..." Hu Gao steadied himself, took a deep breath and let out a heavy sigh. For that one instant, he truly felt like he had walked through the gates of hell, fortunately emerging unscathed in the end.

  "Boss, with me here, you don't have to worry, these flames won't harm you." Little Five also knew Hu Gao's current state and comforted him.

  Hu nodded, after what had just happened, he believed there wouldn't be any more problems from now on.

  At this time, he also heard that many warriors below began to make a loud noise.

  "Has he crossed over? He actually just welcomed the flames and poison and crossed over?"

  "What? Shouldn't he have been killed by the fire poison? How can he be perfectly fine?"

  "Luck, this is absolutely luck, now I'd like to see how he's going to get out of this, will luck always be by his side?"

  "That's right, next time he will definitely be killed by Huo Du."

  Listening to these people's almost cursed discussions, Hu Gao raised an eyebrow and didn't take it to heart, but soon his eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he had thought of something. He asked: "Xiao Wu, if those people see through the fire poison and jump over during the chaos, they won't be killed by the fire poison. What will happen then?"

  This was what Hu Gao worried about, but after asking this question, his face suddenly showed a look of realization, knowing what to do next, and Xiao Wu also didn't answer.

  "Whoosh!" Next, Hu Gao didn't stay for another moment, his body flew up again, and with one step, he crossed over a wind tunnel. This time, his mood was much more stable, and during the process, he even turned his head to look at the situation in the wind tunnel out of curiosity. He found that the wind tunnel was a fiery red, without any visible place, and suddenly felt uninteresting, so he continued to cross over the wind tunnel, and each time he crossed over the wind tunnel, his speed would increase by a lot.

  And below, many warriors watched him leap over the wind tunnel without stopping, their eyes wide with wonder.

  Hu Gao didn't bother to reason with the crowd, and continued his magnificent leap, crossing twelve wind tunnels in almost less than half a minute. He then casually grabbed the Black Fire Lotus and put it away.

  He successfully plucked a black fire lotus flower and, without even a moment's pause, his figure flashed again as he swooped towards another black fire lotus flower.

  "How... how is this possible? How can this be? What did he do?"

  "These winds are in front of him, as if they don't form even a slight obstacle, let alone pose any danger. Can't the fire poison harm him? No... he doesn't have even a hint of fire poison on his body, but how is this possible?"

  "It seems that there is a certain rule for the fire poison to burst out of these wind holes, and this rule has been grasped by this little brother, so the fire poison cannot get close to his body."

  "Pattern? Hmm... it seems that every time he jumps from one wind hole to another, it's always at the moment when Huo Du is about to jump out, isn't that what you're saying?"

  Everyone watched as Hu Gao jumped continuously on the wind tunnel, treating the fire poison as nothing. They were shocked one by one, but soon someone saw the mystery in it and knew that the emergence of the fire poison from the wind tunnel was governed by a certain law, without needing to sense or disperse the fire poison.

  No wonder previously, they tried every means to sense the fire poison or use their agility to dodge through the wind tunnel, only to be almost completely consumed and killed by the fire poison. Even when Yun Feng used his powerful sword skills to disperse the fire poison, he nearly lost his life. It turns out that in order to avoid the fire poison, there was no need to sense anything or use agility to evade it, nor did they need to disperse it; all they needed to do was understand its pattern.

  Like the Hu Gao in front of him, he had figured out the rule of the fire poison bursting out and didn't need to use any other special means. He directly swept past it without any danger, not even using half a minute, and successfully plucked a black fire lotus flower.