Immortality and cultivation begin with alchemy and accounting.

Meeting Bai Jingming's gaze, Bai Xuanjing smiled calmly and said, "Fortunately, we opened several batches of pills in the past few days, so we managed to complete our quota."

"That's good." Bai Jingming nodded with a smile.

As they spoke, the two arrived at the underground magma.

Stepping onto the bank of the lava river, Bai Jingming suddenly revealed a strange expression.

He raised his hand and cast a spell.

A flash of white light appeared, and it flew towards a certain part of the lava river.

The next moment, he caught a small, bright red insect that was still emitting heat in his hand.

This insect is entirely fiery red, has a sharp, hooked breath, four wings on its back, and is about one or two inches long.

"Fireflies?"

With just one glance, Bai Jingming knew the origin of the firefly.

Although he was not a cultivator who mainly practiced the way of beast taming, he had lived for so many years, so his knowledge was naturally superior to Bai Xuanjing's.

The insect, which Bai Jingming had captured with his spiritual power, was still fluttering its wings and swaying its mouthparts from side to side, seemingly wanting to bite someone.

Bai Jingming snorted and increased his spiritual power, crushing the spirit insect to death.

Fiery red sap burst from the belly of the poisonous insect.

Upon seeing the small insect, Bai Xuanjing's expression also turned serious, as her predecessor had been attacked and killed by such fire insects.

He quickly replied, "I was just about to tell my second uncle that at the beginning of the month I discovered that many small insects had appeared in the underground magma, and then more and more of them appeared."

"Although I sensed that these insects were of average strength and that I could easily kill them if they left the lava, I did not know their true nature and was worried that they might be poisonous, so I did not dare to act rashly."

"To avoid these little insects, I've been hiding in the alchemy room all month, practicing alchemy and cultivating."

Bai Xuanjing's words were half true and half false.

The original body was not on guard against the fireflies, which is why it was ambushed and killed by them.

However, after transmigrating, Bai Xuanjing basically stayed in the alchemy room, as a wise man avoids dangerous situations.

Bai Jingming nodded, his face showing approval.

"You did the right thing. In fact, these fireflies are indeed poisonous..."

Immediately afterwards, Bai Jingming told Bai Xuanjing the details of the insect.

It turns out that this is a first-order venomous insect that prefers to live in underground magma, and its incubation period can be as long as several decades.

Its toxicity also comes from the molten lava fire poison absorbed during the incubation period.

This poison is extremely potent; if one is not careful, the toxicity of a single adult wildfire worm can easily kill a cultivator in the early stages of Qi Refining.

"These fireflies appear to be juveniles and not very strong. Even if one is at the early stage of Qi Refining, they shouldn't be too difficult to deal with."

"However, after the Wildfire Worm is born, it grows rapidly and can reach adulthood in just a few months. Once it reaches adulthood, it can withstand the spell attacks of a Qi Refining cultivator in the early stage, making it difficult to deal with."

"Moreover, the Wildfire Worm is a gregarious poisonous insect. If the adult worms gather together, even a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator will find it difficult to deal with them."

Bai Jingming shook his head slightly, his expression solemn.

If these fireflies are allowed to spread, they will not only threaten Bai Xuanjing's life.

If the fireflies were to take over this underground lava river, it would cause additional losses if the Bai family tried to take it back in the future!

"Second Uncle, do you have any way to deal with these fireflies?" Bai Xuanjing looked at Bai Jingming hopefully.

The reason he couldn't do anything to these fireflies was twofold: firstly, his cultivation level was too low, and secondly, the fireflies preferred to stay in the molten lava of the earth.

This molten lava is also deadly to Bai Xuanjing.

With his cultivation level, it was impossible for him to dive into the molten lava underground like he did to kill the fireflies.

"Although this place is only a first-grade low-level earth fire vein, I mainly cultivate water-attribute techniques and spells."

Although one could force their way into the magma using their cultivation level, they couldn't stay inside for too long, especially since there were too many wildfire insects, making them extremely elusive.

"It will take me at least a month to eradicate these fireflies," Bai Jingming said.

He immediately shook his head. "I have a mission to fulfill this time, so I can't stay on Autumn Maple Island for too long."

"If only there were demonic beasts that are not afraid of lava, or cultivators who have mastered techniques that make them unafraid of lava."

After saying that, he pondered for a moment, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

"However, Uncle Qingshan is also within this sea area of ​​tens of thousands of miles, and he has a monster called the Fire Dragon Sable."

Although this demon is only a mid-tier first-order creature, it still enjoys lava and is not afraid of it. It can even go down into the lava river to catch wildfire worms.

"I'll send him a telepathic message!" Bai Jingming said, and immediately took out a telepathic paper crane.

Bai Xuanjing glanced at it and noticed that the restrictions surrounding the communication paper crane were more intricate, indicating that it was of a higher grade.

High-grade paper cranes for transmitting messages offer greater security, can transmit over longer distances, and transmit messages faster.

Bai Jingming cast a spell on the paper crane that transmitted his voice, and then his lips moved.

Soon, the paper crane carrying the message flew outwards like a streak of light.

After finishing these tasks, Bai Jingming looked around the alchemy room and his surroundings, then took out a talisman from his pocket. "This is a mid-grade first-tier Golden Shield Talisman. Its defensive capabilities are quite good. It can easily withstand swarms of immature wildfire insects in a short period of time."

"Uncle Qingshan will probably take six or seven days to get here. If you notice any unusual activity from the fireflies during that time, don't hesitate to use this talisman to escape the island and wait nearby until Uncle Qingshan arrives before making any further plans."

Bai Xuanjing nodded, accepted the talisman, and said, "Thank you, Second Uncle!"

A first-tier mid-grade talisman is quite valuable, and the Golden Shield Talisman used for defense is even more expensive, with one being worth nearly twenty low-grade spirit stones, equivalent to two months' salary for Bai Jingming.

Bai Jingming waved his hand, then frowned and said to himself, "I seem to have a knack for encountering demonic beasts on this trip."

"How so?" Bai Xuanjing asked, puzzled.

Bai Jingming chuckled lightly, "On the way here, I met a junior disciple of Senior Song Mingzi of the Liuyun Sect in the Inner Sea. That person was also a beast-taming cultivator and recruited me to do some things related to demonic beasts."

"Upon reaching the open sea, thousands of miles from your island, we encountered a herd of migrating black-skinned bull-like beasts."

"Having come to your place, I've encountered fireflies again."

The Songmingzi that Bai Jingming mentioned was a Golden Core elder of the Liuyun Sect.

This person had been taught by the current Supreme Elder of the Bai family for three years, forming a master-disciple relationship, and can be considered a powerful backer for the Bai family in the Liuyun Sect.

Many of the things the Bai family did after being summoned by the Liuyun Sect were actually done by this Golden Core cultivator.

Therefore, the disciples of the Bai family and the Songmingzi lineage mostly had some interaction.

The so-called inner sea refers to the sea area that existed when the Flowing Cloud Sect was founded and was occupied by cultivators.

In contrast, the outer sea is the sea area that the Liuyun Sect has seized from demonic beasts or demonic cultivators during its pioneering and expansion over the past five hundred years.

Autumn Maple Island is located in the open sea.

Even the Bai family's ancestral territory, the Canghuang Islands, is actually just the edge of an inland sea.

Compared to the outer sea, the inner sea is more stable, at least it is rare to find monsters.

However, those who can establish themselves in the inner sea are all long-established families with thousands of years of history and profound strength.