Aven, Harry, Hermione, and Elaine held their wands and walked along the dark and narrow passageway.

Soon, the surroundings around them grew brighter.

Without the light of a wand, the darkness is dispelled by the light from the walls, floors, and ceilings.

It's a bright bright red, the kind of special bright red that the rock wall emits like a red-hot pig iron or a lit filament, the brightness of the rock when it is burned at high temperatures, and the special brilliance makes everything red, and even the air begins to turn bright red.

Along with the change of color, there is a rapidly rising temperature, and the heat scorches everything.

Evan estimated that the four of them were now completely immersed in the depths of magma.

Even the protection of magic could not prevent the rock from being ignited by the heat.

In the same way, even the protection of magic could not keep the four of them out of the astonishing temperature coming from the rock wall.

"It's hot!" Elaine wiped her sweat.

Because of the high temperature, her perennially pale face also showed a rare flush.

"It's going to feel better!" Evan waved his wand at Elaine and cast another thermostat spell on her.

"It's not much cooler, vampires hate heat. Elaine continued with her tongue out, stretching her neckline open.

"If this Chamber of Secrets were a real Slytherin vault, what would be down there?" Harry asked expectantly, his curiosity piqued, "Could it be a legendary magic item, like a double snake staff or a locket?"

"Chances are, Slytherin has a lot of valuable collections, and legendary magic items are just a part of it. Evan replied in a relaxed tone, "If I had to say, I'd rather have a clue to an evil god or a secret treasure key." ”

Of course, if it's a powerful legendary magic item, Evan won't dislike it.

"But it's not going to be that simple. He continued, "Don't forget, Slytherin will only leave his treasure to purebloods, the kind of true pureblood wizards, I don't think he'll just talk about it, and if there's a real vault down there, he's probably not going to leave us anything." ”

That scene just now reminded Evan of this.

Strictly speaking, none of them are purebloods that meet Slytherin requirements.

Needless to say, Evan and Hermione are also half-blood, and he only inherited part of Voldemort's bloodline talent in his soul. As for Elaine, she is nominally the successor to Slytherin, but her actual bloodline is more messy, a mix of evil gods, vampires, and wizards.

If Salazar Slytherin had made up his mind to choose his successor based on the purity of his bloodline, he would have left behind a magic or trap to verify his bloodline.

In this way, Aven, Harry, Hermione, and Elaine did not meet the requirements.

"Well, it's a pure-blood, it's hard to believe that the founders of Hogwarts would have this kind of discrimination. Seriously, whatever Slytherin left down there, I hate it. Hermione said with a wrinkled nose, looking around uneasily, "Now is not the time to hunt for treasure, we better get out of here quickly, the goblins above must have discovered us, the orbit was destroyed by the dragons, they can't get down, but they will definitely guard the main road above......"

"Don't worry about that, Hermione, no matter how many elves and Death Eaters are guarding it, we don't have to go out along the tracks. I've studied the underground structure of Gringotts before, and this cave leads to Diagon Alley above, and we will rush up in a dragon for a while, and no one will be able to stop us. Evan said and stopped, the four of them had come to the end, and in front of them was the exit of the secret passage, "Since we are here, we should investigate carefully." And, it looks like we've reached the end, look, that's the end of the secret passage, come on, let's see what's inside......"

Evan came to the end of the secret passage, and in front of them appeared a crimson world, a world of flames.

What appeared in front of him seemed to be a path of flames, and the four of them stared at the scene in front of them in amazement, as if they had merged into this red world that could not be distinguished, up and down, left and right, and stared at this picture for a long time before Ai Wen came back to his senses, and in front of them was a closed space.

There was no way to move on, and what Evan thought was a path of flame was simply rolling magma.

Directly above the chamber and on all four sides of the walls are also occupied by flowing lava, all of which merge to form a world made of fire.

The heat was raging, and the flames seemed to engulf everything.

In this space made entirely of flames, the four of them seemed so small, so isolated and helpless.

Evan stood at the end of the passage and looked inside, Harry, Hermione, and Elaine standing behind him.

Directly across from them was a relief on the wall, also covered in lava, a statue of Salazar Slytherin.

I can't see the specific appearance, but the line of text on the relief is very obvious.

Not a parseltongue, but plain English.

The words made up of stones protruding outwards convey the message that the blood that falls will verify the truth, and that those who are pure in blood will receive treasures.

"The blood that falls will verify the truth, and the pure bloodline will get the treasure!" Evan repeated in a low voice.

"What does this mean?"

"Presumably, as I suspected, Salazar Slytherin intends to find some way to verify the bloodlines of the people who opened here, and then decide whether or not to hand over the treasure to them. Evan said, looking around, "Well, if I'm not mistaken, he seems to want us to drip blood into the molten lava below?"

"Looks like that!" Hermione chimed in, observing the line as well.

"What are you talking about?" asked Harry, confused.

"It's just a guess, Harry, but it should be about the same, step back and let me try. ”

As he spoke, Evan reached forward with his left hand, and his right hand took up his wand and swiped it lightly over his left index finger.

A slender wound appeared on his finger, revealing a few drops of blood and falling into the endless molten slurry below.

Soon, the blood melted into an even deeper crimson and seemed to evaporate.

For a moment, nothing happened, but soon a pillar of fire rose into the sky where Aven's blood had fallen.

At the shouts of Harry and Hermione and the loud roar, the pillar of fire struck at Evan with an astonishing momentum.

Evan hurriedly raised his wand, and a protective shield appeared out of thin air, stopping the pillar of fire coming at him.

Flames and magic collide with each other until they are exhausted.

"Aven, what just happened?" Hermione asked, widening her eyes, pulling Evan back away, "The pillar of fire ......"

"It confirmed our suspicions, but my blood didn't meet Slytherin's requirements, so he wouldn't give me anything, and attacked me with magic. Evan said, squinting his eyes forward again, looking at the reliefs on the opposite wall, "If I had known this, I would have prepared some of those pure-blood wizards' blood!"