After passing through layer upon layer of restrictions, the group finally reached the deepest part of the cavern.
A White Jade Altar stood there, with a strange black-and-white cocoon floating above it. Yin and yang energies flowed across its shell, sometimes turning into swimming fish, sometimes forming a taiji symbol.
The Holy Lord unconsciously lowered his voice. "This is the Yin-Yang Gu. It has slumbered for three hundred years and has never..."
Before he could finish, the cocoon that had lain dormant for so many years suddenly began trembling violently!
The black and white energies spun wildly, forming an enormous taiji symbol above the altar.
Even more astonishingly, the cocoon's shell began to split slowly, revealing a pair of translucent, crystalline insect wings!
Ma Bu cried out involuntarily, "H-how is this possible?! The Yin-Yang Gu has awakened?!"
Li Chen watched the strange scene thoughtfully and asked softly, "May I touch it?"
There was no helping it. Simply looking was not enough for the system quest, so Li Chen needed to touch it and see.
A gleam flashed through the Holy Lord's eyes, and he said outright, "Since the Yin-Yang Gu shares a fated connection with you, Young Master, why don't I give it to you?"
"What?!" Even the White Miao Elders could not help crying out this time.
The Yin-Yang Gu was their Clan-Safeguarding Treasure! How could they simply give it away?
But one sharp glance from Ma Bu left the clansmen as silent as cicadas in winter.
Ma Bu's thoughts churned like an overturned sea. No one has been able to tame the Yin-Yang Gu for hundreds of years. Even if the Holy Lord gives it to him, Young Master Li would still...
A clear insect chirp suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
The Yin-Yang Gu, now fully emerged from its