“Is it Yang Gang Qi?”
This discovery made Lin Dong freeze in place, but immediately after, his brows furrowed involuntarily, because he noticed that the Yang Gang Qi here appeared extremely violent. If too much of this was absorbed into the body, it might damage his mind.
“This place used to be a volcano, so it’s not strange for this kind of Yang Gang Qi to be underground. But unfortunately…”
What Lin Dong regretted in his heart was that the Yang Gang Qi within that crevice always contained a deadly violence. After all, who would dare absorb such violent Yang Gang Qi?
Standing before the crevice, Lin Dong’s face showed hesitation, a little unwilling. He had been searching for this special kind of Yang Gang Qi for over half a month, and today, after so much effort, he finally had some progress. Of course, he didn’t want to just give up like this.
“Uncle Qin Ying, you all keep watch here and don’t let anyone enter. I want to go take a look,” Lin Dong said, tilting his head towards Qin Ying.
Hearing that Lin Dong wanted to go in personally, Qin Ying was startled and instinctively wanted to stop him. But then he suddenly remembered that Lin Dong’s strength today far surpassed his own. He hesitated for a moment and then immediately nodded.
After giving his instructions, Lin Dong directly jumped into the crevice. However, he hadn't taken many steps before he saw Xiao Yan following him. Moreover, looking at its demeanor, it didn't seem to reject the scorching Yang Gang Qi here at all.
Seeing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickened his pace. After two or three minutes, the narrow crevice appeared before his eyes. Immediately after, a fiery red expanse of land came into view.
What appeared before Lin Dong was a fiery red patch of land, which from a distance looked like flowing magma. A scorching heat surged upwards from the ground, causing the air to warp.
Lin Dong’s gaze carefully swept across this land filled with shattered rocks, finally stopping abruptly at the center of that shattered rock area, where he saw a gigantic beast skeleton, approximately ten zhang long!
Lin Dong had never seen such a colossal beast skeleton since he was a child. Although this demonic beast was now only a skeleton, Lin Dong could still feel a special kind of pressure emanating from the remains. It could be imagined that this was certainly not an ordinary demonic beast. He just didn't know why this demonic beast had turned into a skeleton in this place.
As Lin Dong was pondering, Xiao Yan beside him had all the fur on its body stand up, turning crimson. Then, it directly transformed into a red shadow and shot forward, its target clearly that white skeleton.
This scene made Lin Dong’s expression change. This place was too strange, and he didn't dare to investigate further, not expecting Xiao Yan to be so disobedient.
“Truly disobedient!”
Muttering a curse, Lin Dong gritted his teeth and quickly followed it, his soles stepping on the rocks as if treading on hot coals, scaring him so much that he hurriedly circulated Yuan Power in his body to his feet for protection. Only then did he feel a little better.
One person and one beast quickly rushed through the shattered rock area, then reduced their speed as they approached the beast skeleton.
Xiao Yan stopped beside the beast bones. Its originally majestic body was truly insignificant compared to those beast bones. It raised its head to look at the mysterious beast bones, then, to Lin Dong's astonishment, it quickly leaped onto the beast bones. In just a few breaths, it reached the position of the beast bones' head.
"What exactly does it want to do?"
Seeing Xiao Yan's strange actions, a hint of doubt arose in Lin Dong's heart.
Under Lin Dong's fascinated and scrutinizing gaze, Xiao Yan raised its sharp tiger claws and directly swung a claw without ceremony, shattering the fragile head.
The enormous head fell, crushing the rocks into bone fragments. Xiao Yan leaped down, then searched for a while, suddenly using its blood-basin-sized mouth to bite onto a fiery red orb.
Lin Dong's sharp eyes clearly saw the fiery red orb. It was clearly a very round, fist-sized, crimson pearl. However, he wondered if he was seeing things, but this red pearl looked somewhat similar to the shape of a child.
Even from a distance, Lin Dong's keen senses still felt a hint of danger emanating from that peculiar red pearl.
"Gulp... Gulp!"
Under Lin Dong's focused gaze, Xiao Yan's tongue directly coiled around the red pearl and swallowed it.
"Roar!"
As the red pearl entered its body, almost in an instant, a surge of blazing heat erupted directly from Xiao Yan's body. At this moment, its body slowly expanded, and a low roar echoed, causing the enormous mountain cave to tremble and shake for a while.
Seeing Xiao Yan's astonishing expansion speed, Lin Dong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, slowly retreating his steps.
This kind of expansion only lasted for an instant before suddenly stopping. Immediately afterward, Xiao Yan's body, which was almost like a small building, shrank back, finally returning to its original appearance.
"Xiao Yan?"
Seeing Xiao Yan transform back, Lin Dong finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, then cautiously called out.
"Roar!"
Hearing Lin Dong's call, Xiao Yan immediately raised its head, quickly leaped to Lin Dong's side, and then frolicked around him.
Seeing that the so-called "berserk" situation did not occur, Lin Dong quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Only then did he carefully examine Xiao Yan's current condition.
Xiao Yan, originally crimson-red all over, now emitted a fiery red glow like jade light. It looked like flames, and its tiger claws also became sharper and shinier. The sharp tiger claws were deeply embedded in the ground, leaving no doubt about their destructive power.
Lin Dong's gaze slowly swept over Xiao Yan's body, finally stopping abruptly on the python tail behind Xiao Yan's rear.
At this moment, the peculiar python tail was occupying Xiao Yan's back. At the head of the python, there seemed to be a sharp object protruding, as if something wanted to burst out.
Lin Dong completely did not understand the reason for this change in Xiao Yan. He knew very little about demonic beasts, but he knew that Xiao Yan's recent transformation must be related to the red pearl it had just consumed.
"Could that pearl be the core of the owner of those beast bones? But why doesn't it look like normal cores?" Lin Dong muttered to himself.
"This place is a bit strange, we shouldn't stay long."
As this thought flashed through his mind, Lin Dong felt a desire to retreat. However, just as he was about to take Xiao Yan and leave, Xiao Yan suddenly turned towards a certain spot, lowered his head, and let out a cry.
Seeing this, Lin Dong was startled. His gaze followed Xiao Yan's direction and he saw that behind the beast's remains, there seemed to be some magma that had erupted from underground and solidified into a giant rock. Atop this giant rock, a red flower was blooming, surrounded by a faint mist.
Looking at the red flower, Lin Dong suddenly glanced at the position of the skeleton and realized that its skull had previously seemed to be fixed on that red flower.
"That mysterious demonic beast must have wanted to eat this red flower..."
A thought flashed through Lin Dong's mind like lightning.