Published: December 25, 2024
After slowly progressing for half an hour, Mo Li finally arrived at the bottom of the cave.
What place is this?
Mo Li surveyed his surroundings and saw that the entire cave seemed to have once experienced a brutal battle; it was in ruins everywhere.
The air was filled with an unsettling aura that made his heart race, and his body felt uncomfortable.
Crack!
After taking two steps forward, Mo Li accidentally stepped on something, and a sharp pain shot through his foot. He looked down and discovered that he had stepped on a broken piece of metal.
This metal fragment, he couldn't tell whether it was from armor or a weapon, was only the size of a palm and was covered in rust, extremely damaged.
Yet, this seemingly severely damaged piece of metal managed to slice through his sole, causing his entire right foot to bleed profusely.
“Hiss!”
Mo Li couldn't help but take a cold breath. What kind of metal fragment is this? Even in such a broken state, it could easily pierce through his foot?
With his current defense at the peak of half-step Martial King, which was comparable to an ordinary early-stage peak Martial King, he had no power to resist against this metal fragment.
Just as Mo Li was in shock, the attraction he felt grew increasingly stronger, pulling him deeper into the cave.
“This should be the place.”
After searching for a moment, Mo Li sensed that the attraction was emanating from beneath his feet, and he immediately began to dig.
“Crack!”
Having barely dug a few times, his hands touched something cold. As he dug it out, he found it was an ancient jade bottle, with strange and sinister patterns carved on it that irresistibly drew one's attention.
“Yes, this jade bottle! The attraction I felt earlier was indeed coming from this jade bottle. Could it be a treasure?”
Unable to contain himself, Mo Li pulled the cork out of the jade bottle.
“Jie jie jie!”
“Hahaha!”
“Woo woo woo!”
The moment the cork was removed, a howling wail, akin to the cries of ghosts, echoed from the jade bottle, immediately filling the entire cave with eerie sounds.
At the same time, a terrifying force surged out from the jade bottle, instantly descending upon Mo Li.
“Ah!”
Mo Li immediately screamed in pain, his face contorted with bulging veins, looking particularly sinister and terrifying.
“Jie jie jie, after sleeping for so many years, I can finally come out. The air outside is so refreshing.”
A rumbling voice echoed throughout the cave, but Mo Li remained oblivious, completely engulfed by excruciating pain.
His mind was blank.
Boom!
The terrifying force entered his body and resounded within him, then rushed straight into Mo Li's mind.
“Hmm? Parasitic seed, how could you have a silver-level parasitic seed? Damn it!”
As soon as it sensed the silver spiritual seed in Mo Li's mind, the cold voice immediately filled with rage.
“So, you brat must have been chosen by those guys? Damn it, such a perfect body, and this Demon Lord can only watch and not devour. Damn, damn!”
The voice howled in anger, rumbling with terrifying force, but in the end, it could only leave a trace of black demonic energy on Mo Li before returning to the jade bottle.
After tens of thousands of years of decline, all it wanted now was to find a body to possess, but unexpectedly, it had found someone that could not be taken over.
That feeling of depression and helplessness was beyond words.
“Who... exactly are you?”
As the intense pain subsided, Mo Li regained his senses and hurriedly re-corked the jade bottle, then began to cough painfully.
His eyes were filled with terror as he stared at the jade bottle before him. Although he didn't know what had just happened, he had an instinctive feeling that he was on the brink of death.
“Jie jie jie, young man, this Demon Lord is the Ancient Red Flame Demon Lord. That you found me is your luck.”
“Red Flame Demon Lord?”
Mo Li was shocked. Could this person be a powerful member of the ancient Demon Tribe?
In fright, he threw the jade bottle to the ground and turned to leave the cave.