Huang Quan patrolled and guarded the edge of the hot spring, while Ling Luo, Ye Ling, and Xuanyuan Yu got into the bodies of Jianlong and went to the center of the hot spring lake.
Through the layers of steaming fog, under the mottled starlight, the three of them finally saw clearly.
"Huh? Where's that vine?"
Looking at the empty middle of the lake, Ling Luo's eyes widened in disbelief.
Xuanyuan Yu's brows furrowed tightly, and a look of disappointment flashed across his eyes like black holes, and he said: "It's gone."
He regrets it now.
If he had known earlier that the strange vine was related to the tree of life that could save Luo'er, he wouldn't have stubbornly stopped it.
On the other hand, the expression on Qingcheng Ye Ling's face didn't change much, as it seemed to be expected.
"It's missing. It's normal. The Tree of Life is the creation spirit of the divine world and has independent consciousness. It cannot stay in one place forever."
"Furthermore, I think the reason why it appears in the middle of the hot spring in the back mountain is because it sensed Xiaoluo's aura."
Ling Luo pursed her lips and said, "Then what should I do now? Go back and wait for the vines of the Tree of Life to come to me proactively?"
"Definitely not." Qingcheng Yeling denied it without thinking, "Standing back and waiting is not an option at all. We have to take the initiative, and Xiaoluo's body can't wait that long."
Xuanyuan Yu took a step forward, with eyes like the deep sea and a temperament like a mountain. He lowered his head and looked at the center of the hot spring.
"We have only been away for two days. Presumably the vines of the Tree of Life have not gone far even if they left. I'll go down and have a look."
"I'll go too!" Ling Luo took a step forward.
"Don't go there. The hot springs are all connected to the crater. The smell of sulfur is very strong." Xuanyuan Yu hugged Ling Luo, looked at Qingcheng Ye Ling, and said, "Ye Ling, you look at me here.
Luo, wait for my news."
"Okay." Qingcheng Yeling nodded without any objection.
She didn't like the smell of sulfur either. This kind of hard work really had to be done by men.
Xuanyuan Yu jumped off the hot spring and swam down along the central location.
Its water resistance is very good, no problem at all.
The further down you go, the hotter the water temperature becomes and the stronger the smell of volcanic sulfur becomes.
Just when Xuanyuan Yu felt extremely uncomfortable and could hardly bear it any longer, the water temperature suddenly became cooler.
"Is this gold?"
Xuanyuan Yu was surprised in his heart, "So bright?"
He continued to swim deeper, and instead of being dark, the bottom of the lake was a dazzling golden color.
What's even more strange is that only one-third of the hot spring bottom is connected to the crater, and the remaining two-thirds are dark golden yellow.
Xuanyuan Yu continued to dive down for another two hundred meters, and finally touched the bottom. What he reached was a kind of ore full of golden spiritual power.
Black gold stone!
Xuanyuan Yu quickly made a judgment.
Black gold stone is a very precious stone, which is more valuable than the spiritual stones exchanged outside.
It seems that this generation is a mine of black gold.
Xuanyuan Yu was slightly shocked.
This is already the edge of the Black Flame Mountains, and this black gold vein extends to the outside of the ground.
Xuanyuan Yu carefully investigated and noticed keenly that there was a small smooth hole in the black gold vein at the bottom of the hot spring, with a green leaf at the entrance.
He took a step forward, stretched out his hand, and pulled the leaf over.