Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

While everyone was enthusiastically capturing fire porpoises and actively preparing to build a giant hot air balloon, Mo Yuming found himself with some free time.

All the arrangements have been made, and he will not need to do anything else personally.

Feeling bored, he had an idea and decided to take advantage of his free time to visit the Fire Cloud Cave again by himself.

In the center of the large cave where the "big cat" was once encountered, several large stalactite columns still stand quietly.

However, the crescent-shaped pool remains dry, and in the past three years, less than half a spoonful of the Water Spirit Liquid has accumulated in the center.

As for the white beads that were suspected to be "Chaos Divine Pearls," not a single one appeared.

Judging from the slow rate of condensation, it would take at least several thousand years to gather that small pool of "water spirit".

Therefore, even if one wanted to obtain even a small cup of water essence again, it would be decades later.

After lingering briefly in the cave, Mo Yuming did not stay on the ground any longer, but turned and walked towards the stone cave from which the "big cat" had come out.

He clearly remembers what the "big cat" looked like when it came out of the cave.

He longed to explore the depths of that cave.

Nearly three years have passed since "Big Cat" left, and the high temperature in the cave has subsided. However, while the cave is no longer hot, it still feels a bit stuffy, quite different from the cool and dry atmosphere of other caves.

This shows how high the temperature emanating from the "big cat's" body was at that time.

Using the light emitted by the fluorescent stone in his hand, Mo Yuming continued to move forward into the cave.

The deeper you go, the darker the cave walls become, and the smoother the edges of the walls become, like melting candles.

After Mo Yuming walked slowly through the cave for a quarter of an hour, the temperature inside the cave noticeably rose again.

The inner walls of the cave became increasingly smooth, and Mo Yuming even felt a slight heat.

The stone walls were clearly formed from cooled lava, and dark red crystals began to appear on the floor of the cave.

These crystals emit a faint warmth, and touching them will feel noticeably hot.

Mo Yuming tried to input spiritual power into the crystal to conduct an experiment, and the crystal actually burst out with blazing sparks.

Clearly, these crystals contain astonishing fire elemental energy.

Although Mo Yuming didn't know what these crystals were, he was certain they were no ordinary objects.

He pried it off forcefully, and a small piece of the crystal fell off.

Mo Yuming took it in his hand and examined it carefully. He found that the crystal was crystal clear and contained extremely rich fire element energy.

Mo Yuming thought this crystal must be a good energy crystal, and probably quite valuable.

However, he had no idea whether they were good or bad, since Mo Yuming lacked knowledge in this area and was unable to distinguish their quality.

Mo Yuming would never let go of any treasure.

Now that there is hope of leaving the valley, Mo Yuming is even more enthusiastic about collecting all kinds of useful items.

The low-level storage bag that Shi Potian had given him was no longer sufficient, but this did not pose a problem for Mo Yuming.

The bottom of this canyon is full of storage bags. The people in the valley originally felt hopeless about leaving and had long since lost all desires, so they disdained to search for treasure. Some people even stopped using their own storage bags.

Therefore, they had no curiosity whatsoever about examining the treasures that had fallen into the valley with the deceased.

If they come across them, they pick them up and pile them up at the Tomb of the Souls of Soldiers, as a small consolation.

Mo Yuming naturally wouldn't have the same mindset as those old men.

In order to collect the magic crystals and treasures he usually picked up, he searched around the Tomb of Soldiers' Souls and found no less than ten storage bags of various sizes.

After screening, four intermediate storage bags were left, and the useful items inside were kept for themselves.

Including the intermediate storage bag he obtained from the Cave of Oblivion, Mo Yuming has a total of five intermediate storage bags, not counting the advanced storage bag that he could never open.

Mo Yuming put the low-grade and restricted storage bags back in their original places.

He didn't go to the old man to break the restrictions, because there were two possibilities that the restrictions on the storage bag hadn't disappeared.

One type is a higher level. If your strength is insufficient and you do not have the corresponding method to forcibly remove the restriction, it will damage the storage bag, and the valuables inside will also be destroyed.

Another possibility is that the original owner of the storage bag is still alive. If the restriction is forcibly lifted, the original owner will find out that someone is after his storage bag.

If he knew that his storage bag was lost in the valley, then he would know that there must be someone alive in the valley, and naturally the Valley of Heartbreak would also attract attention.

This would expose the secrets of the valley, and some people with ulterior motives would try to find out what's going on at the bottom of the valley.

Therefore, the people in the valley would not do such a thing.

Mo Yuming's five intermediate storage bags have considerable internal space, each with a space of more than ten feet in diameter.

As long as Mo Yuming doesn't store large items, it's basically enough for his needs.

Therefore, Mo Yuming picked up several hundred crystals along the way, but they didn't take up much space in his storage bag.

Mo Yuming walked and stopped intermittently, and after an hour, he arrived at the bottom of the cave.

This is a large cave that is four or five zhang high and about ten zhang in diameter. The entire cave wall is made of cooled lava, and the rock has a dark red color after being burned.

The cave floor was covered with dark red crystal blocks of all sizes, the largest of which was about half a person tall and estimated to weigh over a thousand kilograms.

Mo Yuming struggled to knock it off and put it into his storage bag.

What was once an empty storage bag is now mostly filled with these unknown crystals.

Mo Yuming sat down to rest contentedly on a rock in the center of the cave.

This is a very smooth stone block, and it even feels slightly cool to the touch.

Mo Yuming sat on the stone stool, raised the fluorescent stone in his hand, and carefully examined the cave walls, trying to find something on the empty walls.

Mo Yuming felt that the "big cat" had spent countless years in this cave and must have left something behind, or there might be something special in this cave, not just those unknown crystals.

As Mo Yuming examined the rock face inch by inch, the rock base he was sitting on began to slowly change.

The rock gradually cooled and began to crack.

Mo Yuming, who was carefully examining the stone wall, also noticed something unusual and immediately got up to examine the small rock in front of him.

From the outside, this rock is not much different from the surrounding rocks, except that it is darker in color, with a reddish-brown hue.

The stone pier is only a little over two feet high and about one foot in diameter. It is an irregularly shaped cylinder and its texture is the same as the surrounding rock walls, like a dark red stone formed after lava has cooled and solidified.

Therefore, Mo Yuming once thought that it was formed by the solidification of rocks dripping from the cave ceiling as they melted.

It now appears that this rock was not formed by the solidification of molten rock dripping from the cave ceiling.

Fifteen minutes later, Mo Yuming clearly felt that the temperature of the rock had dropped significantly.

The cracks on the rock became more numerous and finer.

During this time, Mo Yuming also observed the surrounding rock walls, which remained unchanged.

Although the temperature of the rock wall dropped somewhat after Mo Yuming took away the fire-attribute crystals, it did not crack due to the temperature drop, and the surface temperature did not change much when touched.

The temperature change of the stone could only be caused by the stone itself, and had little to do with Mo Yuming taking away those crystals.

Perhaps it was because after Mo Yuming took the crystal away that the rock began to cool and crack due to the lack of heat from the crystal.

Mo Yuming felt the stone getting colder and colder, and at the same time the dense cracks were getting deeper and deeper, and in some places, stone fragments began to fall off.

The cave had changed completely. The once hot cave was now covered in frost, and the temperature inside had dropped so low that your breath would turn into frost.

If Mo Yuming hadn't already possessed the strength of the peak Earth Rank, which allowed him to withstand ordinary cold, he might have already had to flee.

Mo Yuming cautiously approached the rock that seemed ready to crumble at any moment to examine it.

He found that apart from the constant chill emanating from the rock, there was nothing that posed a threat to his safety.

Out of curiosity, Mo Yuming took out a wood-chopping knife from his storage bag and gently poked at it with the tip.

It wouldn't have mattered if I hadn't touched it, but as soon as I did, a large amount of stone chips fell off the rock.

After the stone chips fell, a small patch of milky white gemstone, mixed with wisps of blue-green, and as lustrous as white jade, was revealed deep within.

Mo Yuming was excited and quickly and carefully removed all the other stone chips from the outside.

What appeared before Mo Yuming was an egg-shaped gemstone, about a foot long and six inches thick.

The gemstone was crystal clear, pure and flawless, radiating an intense chill. It was this chill that made the surrounding air extremely cold.

Mo Yuming couldn't help but touch it with his hand, and as soon as he touched it, his hand almost froze.

Mo Yuming quickly activated his Fire Spirit Mystic Art to resist the attack, and only then was he able to safely move his fingers away from the oval gem.

"Where can you find such a cold gemstone? It's like millennia-old ice marrow, even colder than the water in that icy pool!"

"It seems that this cold stone is the reason why the 'big cat' has been living in this cave all this time."

Trapped by the soft whip, he was constantly tormented by extreme heat, and perhaps only by staying by this cold stone could he barely alleviate some of the pain and find a balance between extreme heat and extreme cold.

These crystals scattered all over the ground were probably formed under such circumstances.

Mo Yuming would naturally not let such a treasure go to waste; whatever it was, he would take it with him first.

Mo Yuming used his profound internal energy to protect his hands from the icy cold. He picked up the egg-shaped cold stone and prepared to put it into the storage bag containing the crystals. But just as he was about to put it in, Mo Yuming sensed that the cold jade stone seemed to be emitting a trace of resistance.

Mo Yuming felt something was strange, so he put away the storage bag and opened another storage bag. The faint resistance disappeared.

Mo Yuming wondered if he was imagining things, so he opened the storage bag containing the crystal again to test it. As a result, the faint consciousness reappeared. Only then did Mo Yuming believe that it wasn't an illusion, but that this oval stone, which looked like a precious gem, actually had its own consciousness.

Mo Yuming was filled with doubt, even suspecting that it might be a monster egg, but based on his limited experience, he could not connect it with a monster egg.

This pebble doesn't look like a beast egg at all. Its exceptionally hard shell is even harder than black iron, and the extremely cold spiritual energy it emits makes it look like a top-grade gemstone.

If this is a magical beast's inner core, then it's far too large.

It should be noted that Mo Yuming already possesses at least tens of thousands of magic crystals of various shapes and colors, of all levels. The largest one is no bigger than an adult's fist, which is the inner core of a giant python. The python's body is over fifty feet long, and its head alone is bigger than an elephant.

The size of the magic crystal has little to do with the level of the monster; it is only related to its size.

If this is truly a magical beast's inner core, Mo Yuming cannot even imagine how large the magical beast that possesses it must be.

The chill emanating from the oval gemstone was so intense that Mo Yuming could hardly resist it, and he had no choice but to put it into his storage bag before he could examine it any further.

Mo Yuming used his mind to observe through the storage bag and found that the storage bag containing the gemstone had been covered with white frost in a short time.

Fortunately, this storage bag is impervious to both cold and heat; otherwise, a mid-level storage bag would have been frozen solid.

After Mo Yuming emerged from the cave, it was already noon of the next day.

He arrived at Yishi Village and learned that the old men had already caught more than fifty fire porpoises and had begun working overtime to process and tan the fire porpoise hides.

Other materials were also prepared in abundance, and they were just waiting for the animal hides to be processed before they began sewing.

At this moment, Shi Potian also arrived and took out a handful of magic crystals from his pocket and handed them to Mo Yuming.

Most of these magic crystals are the inner cores of the Fire Earth Pig, with a small portion being the inner cores of other magical beasts.

They really went all out to capture the fire dolphin.

Led by Dugu Xian, the group of seven stayed in the monster-infested forbidden zone near the mangrove forest for three days and three nights, fighting countless monsters in the forbidden zone until they had collected all the Fire Earth Boars they needed before they came out.

Shi Potian knew that Mo Yuming liked to collect magic crystals, so he took out the magic crystals while hunting the Fire Earth Boar.

These low-level magic crystals were originally meaningless to them, the Heavenly Rank experts, but because Mo Yuming wanted them, he still collected them very carefully.

While collecting magic crystals, he also stole a nest of Fire Earth Boar eggs, a total of ten.

Since the Fire-Earth Boar is a small magical beast, its eggs are also very small, about the size of bird eggs.

However, the eggs of the dolphin are much harder than bird eggs.

As Mo Yuming received the reddish-brown eggs, one of them slipped out of his hand and fell onto the rock.

The egg didn't break; instead, it bounced up from the ground and traveled a long distance like a small ball.

Mo Yuming quickly picked it up.

He found a relatively secluded corner near the Red Spring, buried the eggs of the Fire Earth Boar in the soil, and carefully camouflaged them.

Mo Yuming was familiar with the breeding basics of the Fire Earth Pig. This creature was very easy to raise; all it needed to do was place it in a location with sufficient fire elemental energy and prevent it from being destroyed by other magical beasts.

In less than ten days to half a month, these baby fire dolphins will hatch from their eggs.

These little guys will live a carefree life as long as they carefully avoid their infancy.