As Long Chen charged underground, Jiuyou Luosha and Yin Changsheng followed closely behind. After the ancient Fusang tree was uprooted, a large hole was left underground.
The cave was bottomless, forming a passage from which a mysterious aura surged outward, extremely strange.
When Long Chen rushed into the passage, he quickly discovered that beneath it lay another world.
When Long Chen reached the end of the passage, the first thing he saw was a golden lake, as if filled with liquid gold.
At the center of the golden lake, Long Chen saw an ancient bronze cauldron hanging on the lake's surface. The bronze cauldron was ancient in design, carved with sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, birds, and beasts.
This bronze cauldron was clearly no ordinary item, but strangely, it carried no pressure at all. Even the runes on it were extremely dim, even giving off a rusty appearance.
It floated quietly above the golden lake, but the transparent skyline split the entire lake apart. The bronze cauldron was half on this side of the skyline, half on the other side.
As soon as Long Chen entered, he saw a sneaky figure groping for the bronze ancient cauldron.
"Stop, that treasure is mine."
Long Chen shouted sharply as he charged toward the bronze ancient cauldron. Throughout his life, he had encountered countless treasures, and at a glance, he could tell it was an extraordinary source. It must be the most precious existence in the entire Heavenly Burial Land.
"That cauldron, we must get it."
At that moment, the voice of a dragon clan expert echoed in Long Chen's mind. Usually calm and composed, its voice trembled slightly, showing extreme agitation.
Long Chen was startled. A treasure that could excite a dragon clan expert so much must be an extraordinary existence.
"Buzz!"
Long Chen slashed his blade toward Ji Wuming, but Ji Wuming did not resist. His figure flickered and floated away, actually handing the ancient cauldron over to Long Chen.
At the moment he dodged, Long Chen noticed Ji Wuming holding a piece of paper printed with countless patterns—the runes on the ancient cauldron.
"Printing?"
He hadn't expected that Ji Wuming had only been making rune rubbings in the long rune since coming in, without collecting the ancient cauldron. In that instant, Long Chen suddenly understood that this bronze ancient cauldron was probably not so easy to obtain.
When Long Chen approached the bronze cauldron, looking at it only three feet tall, he slapped it with his palm.
But the bronze cauldron didn't budge an inch, not even making a sound. Long Chen's palm was instead shaken and went numb, leaving Long Chen greatly shocked.
At this moment, with the support of the Seven-Star Battle Body, his palm strike was overwhelming, yet it couldn't shake the bronze cauldron in the slightest. He didn't even make a sound. Just how heavy was this cauldron?
"Buzz!"
At that moment, a flaming spear tore through the sky, stabbing straight at Long Chen's back, striking with ruthless mercy—it was Yin Changsheng's attack.
Suddenly, Long Chen had a thought. Holding the bronze cauldron, he deliberately slowed down a bit, then pushed it away, narrowly dodging Yin Changsheng's spear. The spear pressed against Long Chen's ribs and stabbed hard into the cauldron.
Long Chen did not flee far. At this moment, he no longer had the intention to kill. His current goal was to seize the bronze cauldron. He wanted to wait for the moment when Yin Changsheng's spear, filled with faith-filled power, shook the cauldron, and see if he could seize the opportunity to put it away.
"Bang!"
Yin Changsheng's spear struck the bronze cauldron, producing a crisp sound. To Long Chen's shocked gaze, the peerless spear shattered into countless pieces. In front of the bronze cauldron, the flaming spear was as fragile as jade.
"Pfft!"
Yin Changsheng spat out a mouthful of blood. This spear was his life-bound spear, known as indestructible. He had nurtured it with his soul for many years, yet it was shattered just like that. His soul was severely damaged in an instant.
The spear shattered, but the bronze cauldron remained completely still, as if no force in heaven and earth could shake it.
Yin Changsheng spat out three mouthfuls of blood, his whole aura weakening significantly. Clearly, his spear had struck the bronze cauldron, shattering not only his weapon but also his body—and it seemed to be serious.
"This ancient cauldron is stuck in the skyline. As long as the skyline isn't broken, no one can do anything to it. Attacking it is like attacking the skyline, and attacking the skyline is like attacking the entire Land of Heavenly Burial."
Yin Changsheng, you really are lucky. At the most critical moment, you know how to abandon divine weapons and protect yourself with the power of faith. Otherwise, you would already be a corpse. "Looking at the shocked and angry Yin Changsheng, Ji Wuming said calmly.
Clearly, he was the first to enter and had already figured out the details of this ancient cauldron. So, when Long Chen charged at him, he didn't confront him head-on, because he knew no one could put away the ancient cauldron.
What he didn't expect was that Long Chen's attacks were precise and direct, and with a single slash aimed at him, Long Chen dodged, but Long Chen withdrew his blade and didn't hit the bronze ancient cauldron.
When Long Chen tried to test the bronze ancient cauldron, he didn't use weapons, but attacked with his physical strength, and was unharmed.
Yin Changsheng, on the other hand, was a bit unlucky. The same method failed with Ji Wuming, but Long Chen succeeded, and Yin Changsheng was nearly killed by Long Chen.
However, Yin Changsheng only spoke up now, which was no different from making sarcastic remarks. Yin Changsheng didn't appreciate him; instead, he thought he was deliberately mocking him.
"Rumble rumble...
Suddenly, the entire world shook violently. The golden lake began to bubble continuously, as if a pot was boiling. At the same time, the soil above their heads started to crack, and it felt as if the entire world was about to collapse.
"Long Chen, someone is coming from across the way. The person who came is ...," suddenly Mo Nian's voice came from above.
"Boom!"
A thunderous explosion sounded. The same spot on the opposite side of the skyline also shattered. Judging by the distance, that was exactly where the Wood of Moon Moon was located.
What Long Chen didn't know was that the moment he and Yin Changsheng pulled the Fusang ancient tree from the ground, the Taiyin Tree opposite them underwent a strange transformation.
If you look down at the entire space from the sky, this world resembles a giant Taiji diagram, and the Wood of the Moon and the Wood of the Sun are the eyes of the two yin-yang fish in the diagram.
After one eye lost its sight, the entire Taiji diagram began to lose balance, and the eye of the other Yin-Yang Fish, the Taiyin Wood, started to wither and crack.
At that moment, countless figures appeared in the world across the skyline. They rushed in and directly pulled out the Wood of the Moon. When Mo Nian and the others saw one of the figures opposite, they could hardly believe their eyes and hurriedly shouted to Long Chen.
The space across the horizon trembled as a figure descended from above. When Long Chen saw that figure, his eyes instantly turned blood-red.
The man who got down across from him also immediately spotted Long Chen. The moment he saw Long Chen, he immediately laughed:
"Long Chen, hahaha, I, Long Aotian, have finally found you. Tell me, how can I thank you?"