C5 (1/2)
Chapter 5 - Two Bones
In the darkness, he suddenly saw a bright light. Li Mu immediately became excited, endured the unbearable heat, and started to jog forward.
After a while, Li Mu neared the source of the red light, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he was completely shocked, and was unable to react for a long while.
This was a vast cave, covering hundreds of meters wide. At the center of the cave, there was a pool of lava that was about ten meters wide.
The fiery red magma in the magma pool was bubbling, and the scorching hot wind was coming from within the magma pool.
The entire cave was filled with thick vines that were as thick as an adult's arm. These vines intertwined with each other, covering the entire cave, but they were not afraid of the high temperature emitted by the magma pool.
”Mm, what is that?”
Suddenly, Li Mu's eyes flashed, he realized that there was a fire red lotus growing in the magma.
The fiery-red lotus emanated a dazzling, crimson-red light. It was quite dazzling within the cave.
”To be able to grow within a magma pool, it must be some kind of rare natural treasure!”
Li Mu was secretly delighted in his heart. He took a whiff and a faint fragrance came from the lotus flower. Just after smelling it, Li Mu immediately felt refreshed, and his blood started to boil.
”It really is a heavenly material treasure. Just its fragrance alone has such an effect. Could it be that the heavens have pitied me and bestowed upon me such a heavenly material for my life?”
Li Mu was extremely excited as he slowly walked towards the lava pool.
”So hot!” As they got closer to the lava pool, Li Mu felt the temperature grow higher.
When he was still seven or eight meters away from the magma pool, Li Mu already felt that he somewhat couldn't take it anymore. It wasn't that his heart wasn't firm, but the temperature was too high, and it was unbearable for him.
”Is it possible that I, Li Mu, am so poor that I cannot even obtain heavenly resources in front of me!?” ”Does the heavens really want me to die?”
Looking at the fiery-red lotus in the lava, Li Mu swallowed his saliva. At this moment, he truly wished that he could circulate his vitality. Although resisting the frightening temperature of the magma would not be easy, it was still possible for him to not be too close to the magma pool.
”Eh? What's that?”
In a trance, Li Mu discovered that there was a weak light that flashed past in the corner of the cave. It seemed that it was difficult to discover something because there were too many vines inside the cave.
Seeing the fiery-red lotus that was not far from him, but untouchable, Li Mu did not hesitate at all and decisively turned around to walk toward the direction of the reflecting light.
When he arrived at the place where the light was reflecting from, Li Mu removed the vines covering the outside of the cave. The light reflecting object appeared in his eyes, and was actually a dagger that was half buried in the rocks.
It was a foot long cold light dagger. Although he did not know how many years it had been here, its surface was still emitting a terrifying cold aura, its appearance was extremely sharp, and on the dagger, there were three ancient characters — — Zhan Qianqiu.
After fiddling with the dagger in his hand for a while, Li Mu muttered: ”What big words, a dagger dares to take the name Zhan Qianqiu, how could there possibly be a divine weapon that can cut apart a thousand years of history?”
”Swoosh.” With a crisp sound, Li Mu's dagger struck a scarlet vine that was as thick as an adult's arm that was on the ground.
What happened next made Li Mu's expression change slightly. The thick and sturdy vine was easily chopped apart by his dagger, and the cut was smooth and flat.
”This dagger...” ”To think that it would be so sharp.”
Looking at the dagger in his hand, Li Mu could not hide the excitement on his face. He once again waved the dagger to cut down a few thick vines, and the result made him sigh with emotion.
”I've picked up a treasure. Even the legendary weapons made from thousand year iron essence aren't as sharp as this!”
Curious, Li Mu stabbed the dagger into the stone wall with all his might. Something even more shocking happened, Zhan Qianqiu's dagger easily stabbed into the wall.
Looking at the dagger in his hand, Li Mu said emotionally: ”It really is a treasure, I wonder what kind of material this Divine Weapon is made of, forget about how sharp it is, even after staying here for so many years, it still hasn't rusted at all.”
”Hmm? ”This is …” While playing with the dagger, Li Mu saw something underground from the corner of his eyes.
Under the urge of his curiosity, Li Mu waved the vine in his hand, quickly cleaning up the dense vines on the ground.
After the vines were cleared, what appeared before Li Mu's eyes were two skeletons that had already decayed for who knows how many years.