Chapter 379 It's You!
'Is it some kind of heavenly treasure?' she thought before her eyes flared a sense of possessiveness, "just a little more!"
With all of her might Li Rong kept pushing her senses. She started to get a feeling that she was reaching very close to the source of the energy.
*Woosh!*
Her expectations kept increasing, and with each increase, she felt the essence of the energy.
"I can get one step closer to my goal if It's a heavenly treasure of such a level." Green had overtaken her eyes so much that Li Rong failed to sense an energy fluctuation from higher levels before vanishing without a trace.
Just as she found herself closer to the source, her qi senses stopped moving.
"What??!" Li Rong panicked before she faced reality. Her senses were not strong enough that she could stretch them so far.
*Bang!*
"This means the lava here is more than 1 mile deep." Biting her thumb nail, Li Rong punched the wall closer to her.
"Damn it, What should I do? I cannot even jump in the lake!" The wall of rock started to crack as she kept on punching it.
Suddenly as if realizing something her eyes widened, "That's right! That's right! If it's a treasure, it is being matured by the qi in the cave." Explore hidden tales at empire
A feral grin appeared on her face as she screamed in happiness, "That means once it matures, it would suck most of the qi in the surroundings, most of that should be from the lava."
"Once that happens, it would either come out of the lave on its own and I can move so fast that I can get out before the lava injures me badly." If Yuan Ming would have been able to see the look on her face, he would have realized there was no going back for her.
Li Rong was no different from a maniac in the way she was acting. But at that moment he was close to a very critical moment in his cultivation as four different energies streamed around his body.
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"Oh my~ You are already awake?" Noah smiled looking ahead.
In front of him were a few people standing looking at him with a vacant look in their eyes.
"Gasp!" Ruo'er gasped loudly as she saw the huge pile of people lying one over another. The pile itself was at least five meters tall.
*Snap!*
With a snap of his finger, Noah covered the cave with a seal invisible to anyone besides him.
"They have already?" Ruo'er asked sadly with her hands gripped around her sword.
"En! It's as you believe, they have already failed to pray to the curse." Noah looked at her from the corner of his eyes and replied with a calm look on his face.
'How can he stay this calm when so many innocent people have been hurt like this before him?' Ruo'er did not know why but she felt annoyed when she saw Noah's ever-changing expression.
It was not that she was someone selfless who wanted to save everyone but she was still young and she still could stay emotionless when she knew that she would have to kill so many innocent people just because someone decided to make them puppets for their selfish reasons.
Noah no longer lingered his gaze on Ruo'er and moved it back to the people whose attention was focused on the two of them.
"Intruders?"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"They don't have the mark of the lord…" One by one the controlled people started to realize that Noah and Ruo'er were not one of them.
"Kill them!!!" An old man whose one hand was missing screamed at the top of his lungs.
The few people who awoke looked at the old man before ignoring him.
"..."
*Woosh!*
Even though they ignored the old man, they still charged at the intruders with no intention of sparing their lives.
*Clang!*
Ruo'er unsheathed her sword and took her battle stance waiting for Noah's words.
'Hmm?' Noah's attention was not on the battle at all, 'looks like something is happening down below.'
*Splash!*
"Eh?" That was all Ruo'er could say. She blinked to confirm if what she had seen was true or not.
*Thud!*
But the sight remained the same. The people who were once charging at them were lying on the ground with their heads rolling on the ground.
Their blood painted the insides of the cave while their headless corpses fell to the ground.
'Was that a sword strike?' she thought looking at the wounds on the neck of the people lying on the ground.
"So I was late after all?" If it was when Noah spoke once more, Ruo'er snapped out of her daze.
She looked at him and saw that his calm expression was no more. What had replaced it was a glint of seriousness.
Following his gaze, she looked forward and saw that someone was still standing alive in front of them.
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*Zheng!*
Li Rong, who was seated in a lotus pose at the edge of the lava to recover her lost qi, suddenly opened her eyes, sensing something.
"Is it time?" A look of glee flashed through her eyes. The surface of the lake was building little by little as if something was pushing it upwards from underneath.
*Boom!*
The lake of lava suddenly exploded. Being caught off-guard Li Rong was showered by some of the drops of the lava.
"Arghh!" She screamed in pain feeling her skin burning.
She immediately cast a shield made of Qi to protect herself from the lave burning her any longer.
*Woosh!*
The pain in her eyes lessened when she saw a glowing light ascending from the depths of the lava along with a wave of qi.
*Boom!*
A huge pillar of light crashed against the surface of the cave shaking the whole volcano.
Li Rong's expression turned from glee to anger and madness as the light started to fade and the 'treasure' was revealed before her eyes. Her eyes caught the sight of dark spirit stones that fueled her anger.
"It's you!!!!"