"Is this really a plant seed?"
Li Mu frowned.
A seed nourished by the source bloodline of the Fate Sacred Ancestor should, no matter how he thought about it, at least be the seed of a primeval plant.
And the most basic trait of a primeval plant's seed was that divine objects concealed their own brilliance.
This was an instinctive form of self-preservation. So either this was not a primeval plant seed at all, or it had absorbed so much of the Fate Sacred Ancestor's source bloodline that it was too full to hide itself.
Either way, this seed-like existence was bound to be extraordinarily valuable.
Relying on the Eternal Life King Cauldron's formidable defense, Li Mu tried to approach and collect the seed.
Yet before he could get close, the seed suddenly vanished.
No matter how Li Mu searched, he could not find any trace of the golden seed.
It was as though he had merely imagined it. But Li Mu trusted his Star Emblem Mirror Eye. The only explanation was that the golden seed had never been left for him by the Primeval Phoenix. It had long been set to teleport out of the Sacred Blood Volcano and be sent somewhere else whenever someone approached.
Though he had failed to obtain the seed, Li Mu only found it regrettable and was not disappointed.
After all, he had never gotten his hands on it. He did not even know the golden seed's actual value, so how could he be disappointed?
Li Mu was about to continue probing the Sacred Blood Volcano when it underwent a drastic change shortly after the seed disappeared.
More precisely, the change had begun the instant the seed vanished.
The countless chains binding the heart had already begun snapping one after another. Each beat of