Zuo Xiaoduo had not expected that the moment he sent a mass of Flame Yang True Fire burning toward it, he would burn the creature's head clean away...
Its entire body immediately split on its own into seventy or eighty segments, which fled madly in seventy or eighty different directions, scrambling for their lives...
With a splash, puddles of water appeared everywhere underground!
Was this... from burning its head?!
Even Zuo Xiaoduo was stunned.
"This is... the fierce beast guarding a heavenly treasure?!" Zuo Xiaoduo tilted his head to look at Little Dragon, only to find him looking just as dumbfounded.
Clearly, even he had not expected this creature to be so incapable of taking a hit!
Even if you were an earthworm, you were still an earthworm dozens of meters long!
Did you really have to fall apart at a touch? What was that all about?
"What's this?" Zuo Xiaoduo picked a glittering stone up off the ground. It was perfectly round.
A sudden thought struck Zuo Xiaoduo. "Is this an inner core?"
"No."
Little Dragon leaned over for a look but could not identify it. "This thing... I've never seen it before. The energy on it is very strange, but if my guess is right, this should be what caused that earthworm's abnormal, runaway growth. But it seems to have grown only in size, not in strength... doesn't seem to be much use..."
Zuo Xiaoduo could also sense a strange energy hidden within the bead.
But now was not the time to study it. He casually stuffed it into his Space Ring. He would ask Wen Xingtian or Grandma Shi about it once he got back.
Then he continued digging downward.
Since the earthworm had come rushing back as though its heart were on fire, that proved he