Chapter 439: Ill-fated Seeker (1/2)
Chapter 439: Ill-fated Seeker
In the cave halfway up the mountain...
As a Premium grade equipment forger, Jiang Bo summoned an object that looked like an awl.
In the next moment, it pierced into the rocky end of the cave and started rapidly digging down towards the heart of the volcano.
It wasn’t very long before it returned, followed by blazing flames and lava.
Rather calmly, Jiang Bo took out a huge bronze cauldron and placed it under the hole where flames and lava were about to rush out. At the same time, he cast exquisite fire incantations to refine the pouring lava and extract the earthflame essence from within, which he would later use to forge a spiritual tool.
Afterwards, he picked out spiritual materials from the big pile of spiritual materials beside him and tossed them into the cauldron in a certain order.
As Jiang Bo formed one hand seal after another, glowing spheres of light slammed into the cauldron’s surface.
The numerous fiery patterns on its surface lit up as the spiritual materials within it were gradually melted by the earthflame essence.
At the mouth of the cave.
The late Greater Heaven stage Lu Shen was gazing off in the direction Nie Tian and Dong Li had left in as he waited patiently.
He could still perceive Dong Li and Nie Tian’s existences, which meant they had stopped in a location not far from him. Considering they were still within the range of his psychic awareness, he believed that, once he was ready to make his move, he would be able to catch them within a short time.
He occasionally turned around to look at Jiang Bo, who was making preparations with the numerous spiritual materials he had gathered for this event.
Even though Nie Tian and Dong Li were still within his perception range, and everything seemed to be going as he had expected, he didn’t want to make his move so early, lest Jiang Bo get distracted and ruin his work.
Meanwhile...
Nie Tian was sitting on a crimson rock by a river of flowing lava. He took out some of the spirit beast meat he had purchased in the Dong Clan, cooked it with the flames in the river of burning lava, and shared it with Dong Li.
As he did, he closed his eyes to sense what was going on the with Flame Dragon Armor by relying on the profound connection between it and him.
He could sense that the Flame Dragon Armor was absorbing flame power from the heart of the volcano, where the lava was the most fierce.
Moments later, the spirit beast meat he had consumed started to generate wisps of flesh power, which slowly flowed towards every corner of his body.
However, the green aura coiled up in his heart suddenly grew restless, and started madly absorbing the flesh power.
Every wisp of flesh power was pulled into Nie Tian’s heart the moment it rose from his stomach, and soon became a part of the green aura.
When the green aura had devoured all of the freshly-generated flesh power, it didn’t return to its dormant state.
Surprised, Nie Tian examined it with rapt attention.
The green aura consisted of three layers. The outermost layer was a misty, green aura, inside of which were numerous crystal-like chains. Inside of the crystal-like chains were countless shiny, green spots, which seemed to be branded with the profound truths of his bloodline.
At this moment, the shiny, green spots in some of the crystal-like chains were flickering.
“Hmm?!” he was surprised.
As he recalled, only when the green aura had gathered enough flesh power and gone through a period of dormancy would the green spots in those crystal-like chains start shining brightly, and that was usually when he was ready to awaken a new bloodline talent.
However at this moment, he felt that the green aura hadn’t gathered enough flesh power, and that it shouldn’t have reached the point where it was ready to transcend again yet.
Furthermore, the green spots within those few crystal-like chains were only flickering, not shining dazzlingly, which was another sign that he wasn’t ready to develop a new bloodline talent yet.
The strange phenomenon didn’t last long. Soon, the few crystal-like chains stopped flickering and went silent.
Everything resumed its original state.
Nie Tian didn’t give the incident too much thought. He occasionally sensed the situation with the Flame Dragon Armor while practicing cultivation.
Time flew. Two days passed.
Lu Shen and Jiang Bo were still at the volcano. Everything seemed fine.
Dong Li, who was sitting on a rock next to Nie Tian, let out a snort and said, “That guy is quite patient. I guess he can tell that we didn’t go far, and assumes that we’re like apples in his hand that he can grab and eat whenever he wants. That’s probably why he’s still waiting. However, it’s about time we went back. I bet the equipment forger has already started the equipment forging process.
“He will have to protect that equipment forger and make sure the equipment forging process goes uninterrupted. Those obligations will definitely hold him back in battle.