Curious Treasure, Water of Life

Although he worried that forcibly breaking it open might destroy the item inside the stone mountain, Lynn had spent several days here without finding any way to enter the mountain and retrieve it.

Perhaps that Green Elf gentleman knew how, but he was already dead, leaving Lynn with no one to ask.

At last, Lynn lost his patience. He decided to drain the water... no, he was going to flatten this stone mountain.

As for the thing inside, if it was truly destroyed, so be it. His time was precious; he had no time to keep wasting it here.

Gripping the greatsword Qian Jun, Lynn stood at the foot of the mountain and fiercely slashed at Bluestone Mountain before him.

Grayrock Battle Qi erupted, instantly carving a gash several meters long into the mountain.

Rumble!

The tremendous force made the small mountain, less than a hundred meters tall, shake violently. Broken stones rained down in torrents!

"Again!" Lynn shouted softly and struck out with another lightning-fast slash.

After circling the mountain's base and delivering dozens of strikes, Bluestone Mountain had already been reduced to a shattered mess.

Finally—

"Rumble, rumble!"

The Bluestone Mountain, less than a hundred meters high, could no longer endure Lynn's relentless assault. Its body collapsed with a thunderous crash.

Once the dust settled, Lynn's gaze was immediately drawn to something amid the countless fragments of rock.

"A Magic Array!"

A dark black barrier occupied nearly one-third of the space within Bluestone Mountain. The inside of the mountain was actually hollow, seemingly deliberately excavated to conceal this Magic Array.

"Could this little mountain have been moved here from somewhere else?" Lynn could not help but speculate inwardly. His guess was hardly impossible.

In the original story, the Martial God Sect had been created when the "Martial God," O'Brien, sliced off a mountaintop with a single strike to make it level. If a Martial God could sever a mountain with one sword stroke, what was so strange about another expert moving a small mountain here?

What truly astonished Lynn was this Magic Array!

In The Dragon World, Magic Arrays were an extremely mysterious and advanced art. Many of those who researched them were experts from the Supreme Planes.

Logically speaking, Magic Arrays should not appear on a Material Plane.

"Could it have been brought from a Supreme Plane by those experts who once fought for faith on behalf of the Main Gods?" Lynn carefully approached the dark black barrier, lifted a boulder weighing several hundred jin, and smashed it at the barrier.

Bang! The boulder exploded into fragments, but the barrier remained utterly unmoved.

Lynn's gaze, however, turned toward the inside of the barrier.

At its center lay a smooth, enormous black stone, upon which sat a Bronze Double-Eared Cauldron.

"The cauldron is the treasure!" A sharp glint flashed through Lynn's eyes.

Unfortunately, the treasure was right before him, but without understanding the Magic Array, Lynn did not even dare approach it. He then hurled boulders and wooden sticks at it one after another, but all of them shattered against the dark black barrier.

"Right, the things on that Green Elf!" After probing for so long without results, Lynn recalled the Green Elf he had killed.

Since the Green Elf had come in search of treasure, the Magic Array should not have stopped him. Perhaps the item capable of breaking the Magic Array was among his belongings.

He took out the Rapier and Longbow one after another, but the Magic Array showed no reaction at all. Yet when Lynn brought out the map drawn on an unknown Beast Hide—

Buzz~

The Magic Array suddenly blazed with light, while the Beast Hide Map also lit up with a soft black glow.

"Just as I thought, the Magic Array is connected to this map!" Holding the Beast Hide Map, Lynn cautiously approached the Magic Array. When the light emitted by the two came into contact—

Pop!

The barrier of the Magic Array burst like a bubble, as though it had never existed.

"What a pity. This Magic Array was single-use. It's completely destroyed now." Feeling the Dark Element around him disperse, Lynn thought to himself. At the same time, his gaze had already been captured by the smooth black stone and the Bronze Double-Eared Cauldron resting atop it.

"This enormous black stone is all Black Flame Stone, a material similar to Earthstone. It can be used to forge weapons for Saint Domain Experts!" Lynn quickly identified the origin of the black stone. Such a massive piece of Black Flame Stone could forge dozens of Saint Domain weapons. On a Material Plane, it would not be an exaggeration to call it priceless.

Yet this huge piece of Black Flame Stone was merely being used as a table. The most valuable things within this Magic Array were still the Bronze Double-Eared Cauldron and whatever it contained.

Lynn picked up the cauldron, and a dense life aura washed over him.

The cauldron was actually filled with more than half a cauldron of emerald-green liquid. The liquid gave off an incomparably enticing fragrance that made one want to swallow it in a single gulp.

"This is Water of Life!" Lynn swallowed, unable to stop a delighted expression from flashing through his eyes.

Water of Life contained boundless life energy. The energy in a single drop was enough to allow an ordinary warrior to cultivate to the peak of rank nine. They would only need to comprehend Heaven and Earth Momentum to step into the Saint Domain.

It spared them the arduous process of slowly accumulating Battle Qi!

In truth, heavenly treasures capable of raising a warrior's strength were not uncommon, such as the Purple Eye Fruit he had consumed before to break through to rank nine.

That was also why warriors found cultivation easier than magi. There was no shortcut for increasing a magus's spiritual force; they could only meditate bit by bit on their own.

Shaking the small cauldron in his hand, Lynn's smile deepened. "A single drop can create a quasi-Saint Domain Warrior. There are at least a thousand drops of Water of Life in this cauldron!"

He stored the cauldron and its Water of Life, as well as the Black Flame Stone beneath it, into his Spatial Ring.

Without hesitation, Lynn turned and left. The single-use Magic Array here had already been destroyed. It would never produce Water of Life again.

At dawn, the rising sun cast its morning light as all things began to awaken.

A raging torrent roared down from the cliff, forming a massive waterfall. On a bluestone beside it, Lynn sat cross-legged. A terrifying pressure continuously spread from his body, while the surging Battle Qi within him seemed ready to explode at any moment.

In fact, Lynn had been sitting here cultivating all night.

After consuming a drop of Water of Life the previous night, he had remained here to cultivate his Battle Qi. Water of Life truly deserved to be called a heavenly treasure. A single drop had pushed the Battle Qi in his dantian to the peak of rank nine, saving him years of effort.

Lynn rose to his feet. The boiling Grayrock Battle Qi in his dantian gave him the illusion that he could fly.

"Without comprehending Heaven and Earth Momentum and transforming my Battle Qi to enter the Saint Domain, being able to fly is only an illusion." Lynn shook his head, jumped down from the boulder, and continued onward along the river.

Flight was an ability reserved for those in the Saint Domain and high-level magi. Warriors could only envy them!