When Lin Yi said he had found something, everyone perked up, their eyes turning toward him in unison.
Lin Yi extended his right index finger. A pinpoint of concentrated silver-gray light gathered at its tip, fine as a strand of hair, and touched the center of the hidden marking with precision.
Space-Time power flowed into it slowly, at a peculiar resonant frequency.
Click.
A faint sound, almost too quiet to hear, came from within the container's material.
Immediately afterward, the shell-like markings on that section of the inner wall seemed to come alive, wriggling slightly and revealing a hidden compartment no larger than an egg.
An object lay quietly inside.
It was a crystal box about the size of a child's fist.
Neither metal nor jade, it was a deep, dark blue. Its surface was as smooth as a mirror, without a single ornament, yet a hazy, waterlike sheen seemed to flow across it naturally.
More eye-catching still, all six sides of the crystal box were tightly covered by an extremely complex dark-red Divine Power seal. Its runes were intricate and ancient, imbued with the Shi Race's distinctive aura of blood and corrosion. The seal was layered upon itself, clearly the work of someone who had been exceedingly cautious and had spared no Divine Power or effort.
The crystal box alone, along with the powerful seal placed upon it with such care, was enough to show that whatever it contained was no ordinary object!
"They really hid it well," Hui Lie remarked, clicking his tongue, his interest piqued.
Shi Feng and Serwilla held their breath as well, staring intently at the dark-blue crystal box.
A hint of surprise flickered through Liu Na's cool eyes.
Lin Yi's expression remained unchanged, though his gaze grew slightly more serious.
Carefully, he used Space-Time