Zhong Hou didn't notice the change in his mood, and after collecting his mood, he began to check the injuries on his body.

The first thing he noticed was the nine-tooth nail rake he was holding tightly in his hand.

At that time, he did not have time to put the nail rake into the wine gourd, and if he lost it, he would not have cried tears.

Then, Zhong Hou was stunned.

He didn't feel any discomfort in his body, he was still in very good condition, and his physical body realm had even advanced from the second layer of the Bone Forging Realm to the fourth layer.

actually rose two levels in a row.

There is no need to think about this, it must be because of the spirit of Quenyang Spring.

However, when he was running Zhou Tian, he was ready to check whether the meridians and dantian in his body were damaged, or if there was still cold qi left. I found that the cold was gone, but the meridians seemed to be blocked, as if they had been cut off, and the star power could not function normally at all.

The dantian also seemed to have disappeared in his body, and he couldn't sense it at all.

This discovery surprised Zhong Houda.

Could it be that in the battle of Quenyang Spring, his star power cultivation was abolished by the enemy?

Or was there something wrong during the period of coma?

Soon Zhong Hou denied it, because after he threw two punches at random, he obviously felt that there was no obstacle to the use of star power in his body, and the cultivation of the first layer of the Star Shell Realm did exist.

He had suffered two serious injuries in a short period of time, and Zhong Hou was not sure which one was the after-effects of the injury.

At the same time, he was very puzzled, since there was a problem with the meridians and dantian, it stands to reason that star power cannot be used normally.

So what's the problem?

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhong Hou still couldn't figure it out, so he could only put it down for the time being and shift his gaze to the scene environment.

This is an underground karst cave, and the surrounding rocks exude a rolling heat wave, and the faint red glow of flames makes the whole cave appear very bright, and I don't know what is hidden behind the rocks.

As soon as Zhong Hou found out about this situation, he felt that his whole body was already soaked with sweat. Fortunately, with his cultivation, he can barely support it, and if ordinary people came here, they would have already been roasted.

There is a pool of water in the cave, and the pool is like boiling water, and the water vapor is constantly rising.

The water vapor rises all the way to the roof of the cave and then sticks to the walls of the cave to form droplets. When it condenses to a certain extent, the water droplets cannot withstand their own gravity, and they drip again, and then return to the pool, and some drip on the ground next to the pool, and then immediately evaporate again by the high temperature of the ground.

There are also upside-down stalagmites in the cave, some are long and some are short, the long one is almost connected with the ground, and the short one is only slightly exposed on the top of the cave, which seems to be pure natural.

The ground is about ten meters away from the top of the cave, and there is no natural light penetrating the top of the cave, and I don't know if it is because it is night or because the cave is completely closed.

It took Zhong Hou a short time to explore the entire cave, but he didn't find any exits, not even a single crack in the rock wall, as if it was a naturally formed enclosed space.

Frowning, Zhong Hou returned to the waterhole again, thought for a moment, and tried to touch the boiling water in the waterhole with his hand.

Zhong Hou didn't know how high the temperature in the water was, so he had to be careful.

As soon as his fingers touched the surface of the water, Zhong Hou felt as if his whole body was being passed by electricity, and his fingers were quickly put away.

With Zhong Hou's current physical strength, his fingers were actually scalded red and swollen in an instant just now, and there were blisters.

You can imagine how hot the water in the waterhole is.

This injury was just a small matter, but Zhong Hou didn't dare to try again.

He was sure that if he fell into it, it wouldn't take long to get cooked.

Zhong Hou didn't know that the reason why he was able to come here safely was because the spring spirit in his body was working, and with the protection of the spring spirit, the temperature of the spring water did not hurt Zhong Hou.

At this time, the spring spirit had been fully absorbed by him, and the protection had failed, and it was impossible to return safely the way he came.

It was also because the spring spirit was fully absorbed by Zhong Hou, so his body would heal and break through.

Unable to find an exit, Zhong Hou could only stay here and slowly figure out a way.

There was no entrance or exit to this cave, so Zhong Hou set his sights on the waterhole again.

It had already occurred to him that he must have come here through a waterhole, but he had no clue why he could get in and out.

Could it be that this is another spring?

Or is it the source?

It's fine if it's a different spring, because if you wait a month, the water will recede. But if it is the source and the tide never reces, he will be miserable.

Thinking about it, Zhong Hou felt a little hungry, so he took out the dry food from the wine gourd and gnawed it.

Fortunately, I have scavenged a lot of medicinal herbs before, otherwise I would be hungry now.

There was originally a place in the internal space of the wine gourd, which was specially filled with the drunken red dust brewed by Zhou Bo. Drunk Hongchen was drunk by the raccoon before he was drunk, and now he is just making room for spring water.

But the spring water was so hot that Zhong Hou didn't even think about how to get water out of the pool. In the end, he simply put the gourd next to the pool, and then the water droplets dripped from the roof of the cave.

It's slow, but it's better than nothing.

If Zhong Hou knew how to release his mental power, he wouldn't need to be so troublesome. You only need to wrap the spring water with spiritual power, and you can move it into the wine gourd.

The problem of eating and drinking was temporarily solved, but since he couldn't leave, Zhong Hou simply began to cultivate

The Basic Breathing Technique cannot be cultivated, but it is no problem to cultivate the Basic Alchemy Technique, and time passes imperceptibly.

During this time, Zhong Hou had a very strange feeling.

At first, he felt that the air here was much cleaner than outside, which was not quite reasonable in such a sealed environment.

As time went on, he felt more and more stuffy, and it was only then that he realized that he was about to face a crisis of lack of oxygen.

Water vapor will continue to release oxygen at high temperatures, and before Zhong Hou's arrival, a large amount of oxygen had been stored in the cave, but the cave had a limited volume, which eventually led to a large increase in the density of oxygen, so Zhong Hou felt that the air was exceptionally fresh when he first came here.

It's just that the days go by day and the oxygen consumption is already greater than the stock plus the output, so Zhong Hou will feel more and more stuffy, and the lack of oxygen is a matter of time.

Although there is no shortage of food and drink, there is no oxygen, even if you are the ninth layer of the Source Star Realm, you will not be able to live for many days.

At this time, how many days the remaining air in the cave can last, Zhong Hou does not know, but he knows that he must find a way to get out of here before the oxygen is exhausted.

Zhong Hou was no longer in the mood to continue cultivating, and was wholeheartedly looking for a way out.

Unfortunately, nothing was found except for the incredible heat hidden behind the not-so-thick walls of the cave.

According to environmental speculation, Zhong Hou is 90% sure that behind the wall is magma, and above the magma is a volcano inhabited by lava flame lizards.