Not long after, the purple corpse puppet flew over, dragging a corpse.
It was clearly the Martial Emperor expert who had escaped earlier.
However, the other’s storage ring was also empty. Obviously, everything had been consolidated into Wu Dong’s storage ring.
Glancing at the corpse and seeing its body was still intact, Lin Xiao activated the skeleton hand and corroded all the flesh from the body. Then he collected the skeleton.
A fourth-stage Martial Emperor’s skeleton frame could still be refined into a powerful combat skeleton. It was somewhat useful, so he did not waste it.
However, the third-stage Martial Emperor beside him thought differently. Seeing the scene before him, the old man’s face could not help but twitch.
Not even sparing the corpse, but turning it into a skeleton. This master was too terrifying.
Of course, Lin Xiao naturally did not care what the third-stage Martial Emperor thought. He ordered him and the purple corpse puppet to follow him to another location to rest and recuperate.
Once the third-stage Martial Emperor’s injuries were mostly healed and Lin Xiao’s power was fully replenished, they flew towards the area that might contain purple fire crystal stones.
Of course, Lin Xiao made the third-stage Martial Emperor lead the way, followed closely by the purple corpse puppet, while he stayed at the rear.
Although the third-stage Martial Emperor had been controlled by Wu Dong and had some elements of being forced into it.
But after all, he had once stood on Wu Dong’s side. If Lin Xiao had not been able to kill Wu Dong, he would have been a major threat to him. Thus, Lin Xiao felt no pity for the other.
After flying one or two thousand li, Lin Xiao slowed down both the third-stage Martial Emperor and the purple corpse puppet.
Because Lin Xiao had already seen that the terrain ahead was different from the other mountain peaks and forests.
Ahead was a stretch of low hills, with sparse trees. Compared to the coolness of the forests in other places, this area was obviously much hotter.
This low hill region spanned about a hundred li in radius. Lin Xiao was certain this was the location the old man had mentioned as having purple fire crystal stones.
Given the eerie valley incident, Lin Xiao did not even let the third-stage Martial Emperor old man go ahead. Instead, he ordered the purple corpse puppet to fly into one of the low hills first to scout.
After the purple corpse puppet had landed on that low hill for a good while with no reaction, Lin Xiao then let the third-stage Martial Emperor go to scout.
Seeing nothing abnormal, Lin Xiao then had the purple corpse puppet and the third-stage Martial Emperor old man scout other locations.
The one man and one corpse searched back and forth across the various low hills and the ground. In the end, nothing happened, and there were no discoveries.
“Could the so-called purple fire crystal stones be inside these low hills?” Lin Xiao stood in place, guessing to himself.
“Master!” However, at this moment, the third-stage Martial Emperor’s voice came very low. Lin Xiao looked over and saw the third-stage Martial Emperor old man standing on a low hill dozens of li ahead, staring blankly down at the front.
“Hm?” Lin Xiao’s face showed a trace of surprise. Had he found something?
“Come over and take a look!”
The third-stage Martial Emperor transmitted his voice back.
Lin Xiao flew forward cautiously and ordered the purple corpse puppet to fly to the third-stage Martial Emperor old man’s side.
Soon, Lin Xiao also landed on the low hill where the third-stage Martial Emperor was.
At this time, Lin Xiao saw that in front of and below this low hill, the ground dipped down thousands of zhang. The depression spanned about a hundred zhang in radius.
In that ground dipped down thousands of zhang, like a rock layer, there were large blocks of stone.
The stone blocks were layered and covered the entire hundred-zhang radius of the depressed ground.
Those stone blocks had grey surfaces, but they faintly emitted purple glows.
It was as if huge stone blocks contained purple crystals within.
At this time, with the sun setting in the west, the ground thousands of zhang below was already somewhat dark. That purple glow became even more apparent.
The entire depressed ground seemed shrouded in purple mist, hazy yet extraordinarily extraordinary.
An extremely hot breath rose steaming from below.
“Purple fire crystal stones. There must definitely be purple fire crystal stones there!” Lin Xiao was overjoyed in his heart, but he did not lose his reason and did not act immediately. Instead, he carefully examined the stone blocks below.
If all of this contained purple fire crystal stones, it should not be so easy to obtain them. This place also had no dangers appearing.
The real danger very likely came from this hundred-zhang radius stone layer below the depression.
However, no matter how Lin Xiao examined it, he found nothing.
“Master, look there, the stone block in the very middle.” As he spoke, the third-stage Martial Emperor old man’s body began to tremble.
Lin Xiao was startled and immediately focused his attention on the stone block in the middle, which was over ten zhang in size. But after looking for a long time, Lin Xiao saw nothing.
However, as a slow hot wind brushed past, Lin Xiao saw that in the very centre of that stone block, half an inch higher, in an area the size of two or three palms, it moved slightly.
That grey surface was uneven and not like stone texture, but more like insects squeezed together.
At this time, the third-stage Martial Emperor transmitted a trembling low voice: “This is… the nest of giant boneless.”
Lin Xiao’s brow vein jumped.
The nest of giant boneless?
Those wriggling insect things were actually giant boneless squeezed together?
A single seventh-tier initial-level giant boneless spirit insect had left the purple corpse puppet helpless. Without the Flickering Light Severing Sword, one alone would have been enough to put him in peril. And here, it was a nest?
The nest of giant boneless?
He had actually searched for purple fire crystal stones and ended up at the nest of giant boneless?
This was simply courting death!
The kind where death could not be more certain!
Lin Xiao immediately had an impulse to go back and kill the old man who had given the information.
The other had only said this place was very dangerous and never mentioned the word “giant boneless.”
If he had known this was the nest of giant boneless, no matter how many purple fire crystal stones there were, he would not have dared to come.
However, what slightly relieved Lin Xiao was that those giant boneless spirit insects seemed to be in slumber, showing no intention to act.
Lin Xiao held back the urge to retreat violently. He knew the peculiarities of giant boneless. If discovered, if the other wanted to act, no matter how he retreated, it would be useless.
The giant boneless had not moved yet, which meant the other had not discovered them.
“Master, it is now autumn. Giant boneless love heat and fear cold. It is their hibernation period. They are still falling asleep. We should hurry and retreat. If we alarm them, we will die without doubt.” The third-stage Martial Emperor old man reminded.
Afraid of waking those giant boneless, this time, the third-stage Martial Emperor old man switched to voice transmission.
“Wait a moment. Look carefully again. Is it only on one stone block?” Lin Xiao transmitted.
