The Prodigies War

Lin Xun had indeed long decided which tunnel path to take!

As early as when he first stepped into the Cave of Divine Underworld, the copper ring on his finger had already reacted with a ripple of obscure energy.

It seemed to be calling to something!

The copper ring had silently twined around Lin Xun’s black hair when he was crossing the blood-mist river. It was extremely mysterious.

At that moment, Lin Xun had already concluded that the ring was extraordinary despite its ordinary appearance, and it might even be related to the headless corpse with the blood-stained skirt!

Now, the copper ring buzzed again, proving his speculation was correct.

When Lin Xun reached the forked road in the cave, it was an obscure wave of energy from the copper ring that made him promptly decide his route.

However, he did not tell anyone else about that.

This was because he had no idea where the copper ring would take them, and whether it was a blessing or a disaster.

Right after Lin Xun and the others stepped onto the path, a blood-colored rainbow silently and hazily drifted across to block the entrance.

A group of seven or eight experts rushed over to follow Lin Xun and the others.

“Ah!”

However, when they tried to force their way through, they felt like they were being slashed by a sharp blade under the sweeping force of the blood-colored rainbow. Instantly, three of them died on the spot, blood shooting everywhere.

“They…”

The others turned deathly pale, aghast, and frantically retreated.

It was bizarre. They saw that Lin Xun and the others were perfectly fine so they thought they could follow them to save them a lot of trouble.

Who would have thought that the path chosen by Lin Xun and the others was not one they could take?!

Meanwhile, Lin Xun and the others were completely unaware of this.

The cave, deep and silent, was full of twisting passages, and no one knew where it led.

Boom!

Suddenly, a blood-colored flame emerged in front of them, producing an eerie glow and blocking their path ahead.

Lin Xun and the others narrowed their eyes. The flame might only be the size of a fist, but it emitted an extremely terrifying and chilling aura. It was almost as though a ball of divine blood was burning!

“Sin Underworld Fire!” Toady’s countenance changed and his voice trembled with fear.

That name also made Ji Xingyao and Mo Tianhe turn pale. Rumor had it that this fire was born in the mysterious Underworld River and was imbued with the power of sin.

Even Saints would be reduced to a pile of rotting bones if they came into contact with it!

Of course, this was just a legend, and very few people had actually seen it since ancient times. The records in the ancient books were nothing but rumors.

“Are you sure?” Ji Xingyao questioned him.

“There’s no mistake. The sin power within the flame is boundlessly frightening. It is definitely that fire!” Toady’s golden eyes gave off a menacing glow.

All of a sudden, their hearts became heavy.

The path was impassable with the fire blocking it!

Moreover, they had no confidence in dispelling the legendary terrifying fire.

But Lin Xun waved his sleeve.

The Sin Underworld Fire disappeared with a hiss as if frightened.

Toady and the others widened their eyes and almost bit their tongues.

While they were agonized, Lin Xun got rid of the fire with just a wave of his sleeve!

‘Liar!” Ji Xingyao flushed with embarrassment.

They had freaked out over nothing just now. The flame was definitely not the legendary Sin Underworld Fire!

“Fellow Cultivator Jin, you like to scare people don’t you?” Mo Tianhe’s face also reddened.

Toady looked at them awkwardly, but he muttered to himself “As a direct descendant of the Three-Legged Golden Toad Clan, I would never make such a mistake. That thing just now was clearly the Sin Underworld Fire!”

However, he could not explain why the Sin Underworld Fire rumored to turn Saints into a pile of bones would be a coward.

Toady looked at Lin Xun. “Do you want to explain?”

Lin Xun had no intention of talking rubbish. “The danger has been averted, so what is the need to explain so much? Let’s quickly move.”

He took the lead and walked onwards.

In truth, he was just testing whether the aura of the copper ring could deter the Sin Underworld Fire.

Surprisingly, the result was particularly good!

This led Lin Xun to conclude that the ring had to be related to the Cave of Divine Underworld.

Before long, an eerie white bone flower blocked the path, standing at just over two feet tall. The flower blooming on its branches turned out to be a disturbing-looking blue skull!

“This is bad! That’s the Yin Bone Underworld Flower!” Toady cried out in shock.

Rumor had it that the flower possessed soul-drawing powers. Once it found a target, it would drag out their spirit and destroy it completely.

Ji Xingyao and Mo Tianhe trembled inwardly and turned ashen-faced. Clearly, they had both heard about the terror of the flower.

But Lin Xun did not stop. The most unbelievable thing was that, as he approached the Yin Bone Underworld Flower, he saw it flee in a panic and lost traces of it completely.

That...was it really a Yin Bone Underworld Flower?

Ji Xingyao and Mo Tianhe turned to look at Toady, who was flushing red as if thousands of wild horses were galloping past in his heart.

As they continued onwards, they encountered equally strange and terrifying things.

For example, a turbid spring and a deceased soul grass that produced an intense aura of death...

But without exception, they all got scared over nothing.

The terrifying things that only existed in legends disappeared without a trace before Lin Xun could get closer.

Ji Xingyao and Mo Tianhe started to sense that something was wrong and realized that the strangeness was very likely related to Lin Xun.

However, they could not ask Lin Xun since he did not seem willing to speak.

Who would not have some secrets, especially someone as strong as him?

Soon, an eerie stone forest emerged before their eyes. Several stone statues were standing upright. One was at least ten feet tall with serpents underfoot and a blood-colored chain in hand, and another was as short as a dwarf with a jet-black ox head while grasping a writing brush.

One was ferocious looking with terrifying sharp fangs, six claws, and skulls hanging from its ears.

One was…

Each one had an unusual appearance and assaulted the passersby with their sinister aura like malicious demons.

As they arrived, they thought they had come to the legendary hell!

Boom!

Suddenly, a stone statue jolted to life and charged forward.

It was the creature standing on two serpents and wielding a blood-colored chain. The air suddenly tingled with terrifying fiendish qi.

Its appearance startled even Lin Xun. Just as he was about to take action, he saw the strange creature explode in a rain of black light.

When he looked again, the stone statue of the creature was still standing quietly in the same spot, as if everything that just happened was an illusion.

But Toady broke into a cold sweat.

That was definitely not an illusion!

The palpable terrifying aura still lingered in his mind.

He had to ask himself whether he could hold his ground if a battle had truly broken out.

Lin Xun rubbed the copper ring on his finger, struggling to settle his emotions.

Along the way, they had many terrifying encounters that could only be compared to a series of deadly attacks and disasters, but in the end, they were all just false alarms.

They did not need to do anything.

But Lin Xun knew that, without the copper ring on his finger, they would not have been able to reach this far so easily!

Whether it was the Sin Underworld Fire, Yin Bone Underworld Flower, or the statues, they were all dispelled by the aura of the copper ring.

Simply speaking, it was the copper ring that averted all their crisis.

“Let’s go, continue onwards.”

Lin Xun was certain that, when they arrived at the eerie stone forest, the aura emitted by the copper ring would become stronger and stronger like it was being summoned.

Toady and the others calmed down and cautiously followed Lin Xun.

Along the way, the fierce stone statues transformed into figures and launched at them.

But without exception, they were all reduced to a shower of light, unable to get near Lin Xun and the others!

After several minutes, Lin Xun and the others passed through the stone forest.

At that moment, a refreshing medicinal aroma wafted over from afar.

“Smells good!”

The tip of Toady’s nose twitched, and his spirit was already captivated by the fragrance.

“Could it be another illusory thing?” Ji Xingyao said with a frown.

“Not this time.” The one who spoke was Lin Xun.

A lake loomed ahead, in which blood-colored waves were rearing up high and crashing down.

Faintly, sitting on the surface of the blood-colored lake was a white bone lotus flower. Its leaves were all made up of white bones.

Towering over it was a glowing, colorful lotus pod, from which streaks of light were fluttering out like tiny rainbows.

Even from afar, the pure medicinal aroma was unmistakable.

“Divine herb!”

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

“The Cave of Divine Underworld is indeed amazing! Even such a mysterious place gives birth to divine herbs!” Lin Xun exclaimed.

However, when he started to harvest them, he got into a bit of trouble. The blood-colored lake churned and white-bone dragons burst forth from it.

This time, the copper ring had no effect.

However, that could not stand in the way of Lin Xun and the others. Within moments, Lin Xun took advantage of a chance to pick a glowing lotus pod.

Rip!

Lin Xun tore open the lotus pod and was greeted by showers of splendid light of all sorts of colors—red, gold, black, blue, cyan...

He looked closer and found five lotus seeds resting inside the lotus pod, more sparkling and beautiful than diamonds!

Divine Herb!

And there were five of them!

Immediately, everyone was drawn to the divine herbs, quivering inwardly. It was incredibly rare to find such divine herbs.

“I remembered! The lotus gave birth to five offspring that were imbued with the wonder and secrets of the five elements great dao. That’s...that’s a Five Element Divine Lotus!” Toady gasped.

Divine herbs were roughly divided into grades: low, mid and upper, as well as the rarer supreme grade.

The Five Element Divine Lotus before them was of the upper grade!

Ji Xingyao and Mo Tianhe also nodded. The Five Elements Divine Lotus was a widely known divine herb as early as in the ancient times. Although they had never come across one before, how would they not have heard of it?

A strange feeling came to Lin Xun’s heart. He suddenly thought of the three Dual System Divine Lotuses he had obtained on Flying Star Mountain.