Chapter 212 The Second Spiritual Item (2/2)

"Brother, come with me."

When Ruan Tang opened her eyes again, her gaze was clear and full of confidence.

She took Yan Yu's hand, and her little feet lightly stepped onto a seemingly dangerous patch of duckweed.

Yan Yu let her lead him and followed in her footsteps.

His little girl always brings him surprises.

The two walked one after the other through the treacherous swamp with precision and composure.

Ruan Tang sometimes stepped on a slippery piece of dead wood, and sometimes used a hanging vine for support, making sure that every step landed in the safest position.

Suddenly, a bubble appeared in a mud puddle at my feet.

Ruan Tang had already "seen" a dark shadow stirring underwater through the plant's senses.

A foul-smelling gust of wind swept over her, and a black python as thick as a water bucket tore through the water's surface, opening its blood-red maw to bite at her slender ankle!

Ruan Tang lightly touched the top of the giant python's head with her toes.

"Bang!"

The giant python's head was stomped back into the mud by a clever force. The foul-smelling mud was just splashed up when it was pressed back down by the invisible force field emanating from Yan Yu.

Yan Yu followed behind Ruan Tang, casually flicking his long, slender fingers.

An invisible spiritual blade silently and precisely sank into the quagmire.

The giant python didn't even have time to struggle before it fell completely silent.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, they passed through a forest of poisonous mist that could corrode spiritual energy, and suddenly the view opened up before them.

A hidden cave surrounded by the aerial roots of a giant banyan tree appeared before them.

A desolate, heavy, and ancient earth-elemental energy was faintly emanating from the depths of the cave.

"Found it!" Ruan Tang's eyes lit up.

The two entered the cave, which was dry and spacious.

On the stone platform in the center of the cave, a bronze three-legged round cauldron is quietly placed.

The cauldron was no more than half a person's height, with an ancient and simple shape. Its body was covered with mottled green rust and engraved with strange bird and insect script, which was the source of that profound energy.

"Is this it?" Ruan Tang asked, somewhat uncertain.

Although the cauldron exuded a powerful aura, it carried a deathly energy, lacking the "endless vitality" she had imagined.

Yan Yu stepped forward, placed his large hand on the cold cauldron, probed it with his spiritual power, and frowned slightly.

"It's empty inside, but the material of this cauldron... can gather and suppress the earth's energy."

Its function is indeed somewhat similar to that of the Breath of Earth.

Ruan Tang also reached out her little hand and touched the cauldron.

What you feel at your fingertips is the coldness of metal and the vicissitudes of time.

She closed her eyes and once again channeled the power of Ruomu, attempting to establish a deeper connection with this ancient artifact.

This time, she "saw" a series of shattered images—

Amidst the raging flood and the wailing of the people, a tall and imposing figure, holding this bronze cauldron, suppresses the floodwaters from all directions…

This cauldron was used by Yu the Great to suppress floods!

“No…” Ruan Tang suddenly opened her eyes, her small face full of confusion, “The aura is wrong, it’s just a ‘container’, not a ‘source’!”

Just as she was about to share her discovery, her fingertips slid down the patterns on the cauldron and stopped on the stone platform beneath one of its legs.

The color there was a little darker than elsewhere.

"Brother, let's lift it up and take a look!"

Yan Yu nodded, and with a surge of strength, he steadily lifted the heavy bronze cauldron and moved it aside.

The moment the bronze cauldron left the stone platform—

Thump.

A faint yet persistent pulse, seemingly capable of splitting the heavens and earth, suddenly emanated from beneath the dark stone slab!

This is... the power of life!

This is a powerful life force that breaks through ancient, stubborn rocks and sprouts the first new green shoots!

The Ruomu tree in Ruan Tang's spiritual field rippled slightly, and as the branches and leaves of the Ruomu tree swayed, specks of green life essence dotted the spiritual field.

Ruan Tang's heart stirred uncontrollably with the rising and falling light emanating from the source of life!

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