The silver lake was more than a hundred meters in diameter. Its edge was absolutely smooth, without the slightest flaw. It was like a magnificent silver gem embedded in the dark world seven thousand meters below the ground, emitting a soul-stirring charm.
Suddenly, a drop of silver liquid dripped down from the 'sky' and fell into the silver lake, raising ripples. The ripples spread out into the most splendid patterns, which did not die down until half a minute later.
At this time, the silver liquid dripped down again, and the splendid patterns appeared again.
Li Yao adjusted the resolution of the remote crystal camera in the center of his helmet to the highest and observed the ceiling of the cave at the cost of a lot of spiritual energy. He discovered that many of the silver crystal stalagmites hanging down from the ceiling were condensed with drops of silver liquid.
Although the speed of condensation was extremely slow, there were hundreds of thousands of silver crystal stalagmites.
Therefore, every half a minute, a drop of silver liquid would drip down from thousands of meters away.
However, in the air of the underground world, a weird wind blew over from nowhere, forming an invisible vortex that looked like the shape of a funnel.
Even the silver liquid dripping from the crystal stalagmites on the outside was blown to the center by the wind, where it slid down in a spiral arc and fell precisely into the silver lake. Not a single drop fell on the shore.
"Is it possible that the silver liquid has been dripping for billions of years before it gradually formed the silver lake? The workmanship of the natural paradises is truly marvelous! "
Li Yao was secretly amazed.
Such a marvelous view could not be seen in the Tian Yuan Realm. The immeasurable depth of the Cultivation world was only the tip of the iceberg for him.
"According to preliminary analysis, the spiritual energy contained in the silver lake is extremely abundant. It is even more powerful than the most advanced strengthening drugs produced by humans in the Tian Yuan Realm. It is almost a natural lake of strengthening drugs!"
"My estimation. Above the ceiling of the cave, there might be one, or even several, spiritual mother lodes with abundant reserves. Furthermore, they all contained the rarest high-purity crystal minerals of the Heaven's Origin Sector. Under the mutual influence of several spiritual mother lodes, such a marvelous silver liquid was formed. Under the high pressure underground, the silver liquid naturally found a way out and seeped out, forming the silver lake! "
"As for the specific composition, some of the lake water will have to be extracted to examine it."
"Wait a minute, there is a circle of plants beside the lake. That is …"
'Swallow' Yan Yangtian was in charge of investigation. Her Crystal Suit was similar to the Mournful Mist Battlesuit. Both of them had been specially modified. It had the most advanced detection and concealment magical equipment among the six members.
Seven or eight probes extended from the gaps of her Crystal Suit. They could sense the mysteries of the silver lake even from a thousand meters away.
At this moment, she was taking pictures of the plants beside the silver lake and comparing them with all the data in the database of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Hiss!
Very soon, Yan Yangtian's excited voice came from the communication channel. "Two Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures have been found. One of them was 99.8% similar to Flowing Brightness Grass! The other one is 99.9% similar to the Lockheart Flower! "
"We can basically conclude that this is an extremely rare Heavenly Treasure from the Tian Yuan Realm. Flowing Brightness Grass and Heart Locking Flower! "
"This harvest is too great!"
Yan Yangtian spoke quickly and quickly. Every word was like a spark that ignited the sparks in everyone's eyes.
Even Li Yao couldn't help but swallow.
Flowing Brightness Grass and Heart Locking Flower were among the top 100 rarest Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the Heaven's Origin Sector.
Flowing Brightness Grass was not valuable by itself. However, its roots often grew on 'Flowing Brightness Stone', a type of Heavenly Marrow Crystal.
Flowing Brightness Stone was known as the marrow of marrow crystals. The spiritual energy it contained was ten times more powerful than that of regular marrow crystals. Most importantly, it was very stable. It was one of the few marrow crystals that could be directly absorbed by the Cultivators because of its stability and peacefulness.
Heart Locking Flower, as its name suggested, could lock the mind of a Cultivator and prevent the invasion of external devils. It was of great help to the Cultivators when they were practicing difficult arts or when they were trying to break through important barriers.
According to the experts' calculation, after the Heart Locking Liquid made of Heart Locking Flower was used, the odds of mental derangement would be reduced by at least 80% within 72 hours.
For low-level Cultivators, the Heart Locking Flower might be of little use. But for the Core Formation Stage Cultivators and Yuanying Cultivators who were close to their limits and were in danger of mental derangement at any moment, the value of the Heart Locking Flower was even higher than that of the Flowing Brightness Crystal!
The two Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures could not be described as priceless. They were simply priceless!
In the top three auction houses of the Heaven's Origin Sector, any Flowing Brightness Crystal that was not in good condition or an incomplete Heart Locking Flower could serve as the ultimate treasures of the auction!
Li Yao had read some of the records of Occult Orbs Fellowship. Once, on an Occult Orb, two Star Teams fought hard against an exploration squad of the demon clan for three Heart Locking Flowers. In the end, two Orb Patrollers were killed before they finally brought the Heart Locking Flowers back to the Heaven's Origin Sector.
But there were at least fifty Heart Locking Flowers here, and as many Flowing Brightness Grass, too.
It was indeed a great fortune!
"Calm down. We must calm down. There's no reason for such precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to be left here for us to pick. Things are going too smoothly!"
Li Yao bit his lips hard and tried to clear his head with the sharp pain.
Captain Hong Tong spoke in the communication channel, too.
"Let's calm down, everybody. I feel that something is wrong with this underground world.
"Look. There is an ecosystem on Ultimacy where many kinds of creatures live!
"Even the ancient Cultivators knew that Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were often guarded by powerful spiritual beasts. Those who were blinded by the treasures would only end up as food for the spiritual beasts.
It was not a superstition that Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were guarded by powerful spiritual beasts. It was a simple truth of Cultivation.
Because Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures often grew in natural paradises where spiritual energy was abundant. The more abundant the spiritual energy was in a place, the more powerful spiritual beasts were likely to be born.
Even if the spiritual beasts were not very strong themselves, they would enjoy the benefits of being close to the water. If they fed on Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for several generations or even hundreds of generations, as long as they didn't die, their bloodline would be improved and they would grow stronger and stronger.
The silver lake was so rich in spiritual energy that even a bunch of pigs would turn into silver battle pigs after hundreds of years if they drank the lake water every day.
However, at this moment, the underground world was silent to the extreme. Only the dripping sound of the silver liquid could be heard. There was not the slightest trace of a powerful spirit beast. It was so quiet that it made one's hair stand on end.
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "Let's try it.
"Let me give it a try. I don't think this silver lake is too dangerous."
"We were led here by Team Tiger Deity. If it was extremely dangerous, there would've been traces of their battle. Even if they were defeated, they would've left a warning signal.
"But right now, there's nothing, which means that Team Tiger Deity has passed through safely. At least, it should be safe at our current distance."
While Li Yao was talking, the two protrusions on the back of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit opened one after another. Ten beast puppets no larger than wasps popped out and flew toward the silver lake.
Everybody adjusted the resolution of their crystal cameras to the highest. They also unlocked the barriers of all the remote magical equipment so that their attack rune arrays were in the super-sensitive state and could be activated at any time to lock onto the silver lake.
The ten Venomous Bee beasts flapped their translucent wings made of crystals and soon reached the silver lake.
They circled around the silver lake carefully at first and found nothing wrong. Then, they approached the stamens of the Heart Locking Flowers.
The mini crystal cameras installed on the heads of the Venomous Bee beasts captured ten pictures from different angles. Everything was calm and peaceful.
"Nothing seems to be happening …" Ba Weiqi couldn't help but whisper.
Hardly had he finished his sentence when an abrupt change took place!
Of the almost fifty Heart Locking Flowers, twenty of them were shivering violently. More than twenty shadows dashed out of the rocks below the flowers!
The shadows were so fast that they almost reached the subsonic speed in the blink of an eye. Blurred blurred shadows appeared in most of the crystal cameras.
Only the few crystal cameras with the highest performance captured the full appearance of the shadows!
They were a type of spiritual beast that was light gray and almost identical to the rocks. Their bodies were covered in layers of scales, which made them look like six-legged lizards.
The so-called 'Heart Locking Flowers' were actually the tongues of the six-legged lizards!
The six-legged lizards were extremely fast, but their tongues were even faster. The Heart Locking Flowers on the tip of their tongues were torn into four petals in the blink of an eye. Sharp thorns were attached to each petal, from which a blue bone needle pierced out!
If they had pierced a human body, a large piece of flesh would have been ripped away instantly!
"CRACK!"
Li Yao thought quickly, but there was no time. Ten Venomous Bee Armed Shuttles were pierced through by the long tongues of the lizards and swallowed into their bodies!
It was indeed a trap!
The spiritual beasts that were born together with the Heart Locking Flowers had turned their tongues exactly the same as the Heart Locking Flowers after hundreds of years of evolution. Even the super high-resolution crystal cameras had been fooled!
They were hiding below the real Heart Locking Flowers and covering themselves with the spiritual energy released by the Heart Locking Flowers. There was no telling how many underground creatures that were attracted by the Heart Locking Flowers or came to drink the water next to the silver lake had been killed by their tongues miserably.
But it was still not the end of it!
Hardly had the six-legged lizards showed up when countless bubbles popped up in the silver lake as if it were boiling.
Suddenly, more than a dozen tentacle-like limbs that were full of holes extended out from the lake. They waved like whips and swept toward seven or eight lizard spirit beasts with a whistling sound!
The lizard spirit beasts let out shrill squeaks that sounded like the cries of cats as they fled into the ground one after another.
But two of them did not have the time to run away and were tied up by the tentacles in the silver lake.
A lot of green liquids spurted out of the holes on the tentacles and corroded the shells of the six-legged lizards quickly. The liquids seemed to have a strong paralyzing effect, too. The six-legged lizards that had been struggling hard a moment ago soon collapsed.
Just when the tentacles were about to drag the two prey back to the bottom of the lake, a third accident took place!
A silver brightness that was almost transparent flashed in midair. One of the tentacles was cut off and dragged to the sky by an invisible force!
There was actually an invisible hunter hiding in the void above the Silver Lake! (To be continued …)
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