Dragon's Origin

Just looking at this, some people's breathing became heavy. Wang Sheng glanced at that person and recognized him. It was said to be an alchemist accompanying them, used to identify elixirs and prescriptions.

For an alchemist, seeing something like a ground fire vein, wouldn't that be like a master craftsman seeing a divine craftsman's set? Excitement is normal.

However, apart from the alchemist, the excitement of the others was focused on other things, such as those grottoes. The things everyone was looking for on this trip must be in those grottoes, without a doubt.

"Carefully check every grotto." Flying Fox's voice rang out at the right time, giving everyone guidance and allowing them to start taking action.

How could a group of people still hold back? A dozen people immediately scattered, each heading towards the grotto they favored. However, Flying Fox and his most powerful bodyguards all stood still, not moving.

The positions these people stood in were very particular, vaguely surrounding Wang Sheng and the female boss in several directions. They weren't in a hurry to find things, their eyes always on the two of them.

"Let's go, let's go take a look at that ground fire vein." Wang Sheng looked at this posture, smiled slightly, didn't compete for anything, and walked towards the red-hot lava lake.

The female boss also smiled and followed. Seeing this, several bodyguard experts all looked at Flying Fox. Flying Fox frowned, but in the end, he didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.

The four bodyguard experts still followed Wang Sheng and the female boss not too closely, not too far away. Anyway, as long as they didn't approach those grottoes and didn't go in to snatch things, these people wouldn't attack them for the time being.

Wang Sheng was indeed very curious and also observing the terrain. The entrance of the stone steps was more than two miles away from the lava lake, and it took more than ten minutes to walk while looking around.

This space not only had lava in that lava lake, but there were also some large and small holes on the ground, bubbling with lava. There was also the familiar pungent smell of sulfur dioxide in the surrounding air. The air temperature was also very high. According to Wang Sheng's estimation, it was at least forty to nearly fifty degrees Celsius. The closer to the lava, the higher the temperature.

If Wang Sheng hadn't had the grandmaster design a ventilation and cooling array in the underwear when he initially designed the protective suit, wearing several layers of leather protective clothing inside and out in this environment would definitely have been fatal.

The lava lake was not small, its width completely occupying the entire underground space. Only when you got closer did you realize that it was about a hundred meters in radius, blocking this corner of the underground space tightly. On the other side of the lava lake, you could see an area, very small, about the same size as this side, but empty, with nothing there.

Wang Sheng became curious and casually found a useless wooden stick from his storage ring and threw it into the lava lake. Whoosh, the wooden stick caught fire the moment it fell into the lava lake, and in a short while, it slowly turned into ashes.

Turning his head and looking around, Wang Sheng ran out and found a few fist-sized stones, and then threw them into the lava lake as well. After a while, the stones turned red and softened, and soon they assimilated into the lava and flowed together.

When the wooden stick burned, everyone didn't feel anything, but when the stones melted, everyone who saw this scene gasped. Even stones could melt, how terrifying would this ground fire vein be?

Wang Sheng didn't find anything strange about this. Lava is originally molten rock, and the temperature is enough to liquefy the rock. The stones picked up around were all cooled volcanic rock, and it was normal for them to be melted when thrown back into the lava, right?

Not satisfied with just holding stones, Wang Sheng took out an ordinary dagger from his storage ring and threw it in. Neither the female boss nor the surrounding guards stopped him. It was estimated that they were all curious and wanted to see if even the dagger could melt.

The lava temperature was probably between seven hundred and one thousand two hundred degrees Celsius, while the melting point of iron was above one thousand five hundred degrees Celsius, so Wang Sheng knew that the dagger would definitely not melt.

The fact was indeed so. The dagger quickly turned red, and the non-iron parts of the handle quickly burned. After a while, the dagger disappeared.

Several guards were far away, and secondly, they couldn't see very clearly in this dim light, so they only saw the dagger burning and then disappearing. They immediately intuitively thought that the dagger was also melted, and they were even more frightened.

Wang Sheng saw clearly that the dagger was not melted, but the iron was denser and slowly sank into the lava. After being burned red, there was not much difference between the two, and it was normal for those people to see it wrong. No one knew that Wang Sheng was calculating the sinking speed of the dagger.

While they were observing the lava lake, the guards who rushed into the grottoes had already made discoveries.

You wouldn't know until you went in, but once you entered the grottoes, you would find that each grotto was actually an independent alchemy room. In the center of the grottoes, there was a circular hole, with lava bubbles constantly emerging from the hole. Above the hole, there was an alchemy furnace. This was indeed using the ground fire vein to make elixirs.

There were furniture such as futons and cabinets around, as well as stone beds and other things, bottles and jars for storing medicinal materials, and even some scrolls spread out on the table.

The first guard who saw these cheered, and then immediately stepped forward to put away the scrolls on the table first. During the process of collecting them, he had already discovered that it was an elixir prescription. He didn't look at the specific prescription, but it must have recorded the medicinal materials and steps for refining the elixir.

After putting away the scroll, he immediately went straight to the bottles and jars that looked like they contained medicinal materials. If there were any elixirs left, they must be in these utensils.

However, not every alchemy room had things worth collecting, which depended on each person's luck. Only by entering a room with good things could you gain something. If you entered an alchemy room with nothing, you could only scold yourself for being unlucky.

"A bunch of idiots." Wang Sheng had already observed the lava lake, and when he turned his head, he saw that group of people searching one grotto after another like ants, and immediately cursed without even thinking.

"Why?" The female boss had of course also seen this scene and asked in confusion. These people were still nominally her subordinates. Even if she didn't control Baoqing Yutang now, they were still considered Baoqing Yutang's people, so of course she had to ask clearly where they were being stupid.

"Didn't you say long ago that there was an array that was always running to protect the elixirs from becoming ineffective?" Wang Sheng looked at the group of people over there, not afraid of the surrounding guards hearing, and sneered, commenting, "Several array masters are searching randomly, can't they find that array first, and then search for the divine elixirs they want?"