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Chapter 948: Chapter 463: Creatures in the Cocoon

After this close call, Lu Yun became much more cautious. That Teng Snake was terrifyingly powerful, likely surpassing the True Spirit Realm level, and one of the great dangers within the Secret Realm.

It even had wings and could soar into the heavens. If he hadn’t discovered it in time, without the Demon Wings, his fate would have been easy to imagine.

Having refined so many of its offspring, had he fallen into its clutches, he would have inevitably become its food as well.

Fortunately, these powerful creatures seemed to be limited by the rules of the Secret Realm and could not leave their designated areas.

Whether it was the myriad-headed beast from Biyue Lake or the enormous entity in that abyss, or the Teng Snake he had encountered before.

“I need to find a suitable place quickly.” He resumed his journey, having narrowly escaped danger twice in a row, he was both cautious and anxious.

Several days later, Lu Yun entered another area. From a distance, he spotted a White Tiger with hanging eyes. Although it was not very large, lying there, it inhaled and exhaled massive amounts of Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi, its presence exceptionally frightening.

Indeed, it was a land of absolute danger, encountering yet another powerful creature.

Lu Yun gave it a wide berth, careful not to disturb the White Tiger in cultivation.

The more he explored the area, the more terrifying it seemed. There were numerous creatures even more powerful than the White Tiger, consuming Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, lying dormant in rivers, lakes, caves, and other such places, making them very hard to guard against.

Lu Yun’s goal was to find a cave. He kept searching, crossing mountain ranges, encountering dangers several times, meeting many large beasts and fierce birds. The weaker ones became nourishment for his cultivation of the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength, the powerful ones, he actively avoided.

“Huh… this place seems not bad.”

He looked at a strange peak in the distance with surprise; there was a rather hidden cave. If one wasn’t observant, it would be extremely hard to discover, and this place had a rich concentration of spiritual energy.

Moving swiftly, he appeared at the entrance to the cave. There were no tracks of large creatures, nor any precognition of danger that made him feel uneasy.

His sense of danger was usually very accurate, rarely mistaken. Now that he sensed no danger, he let down his guard.

Inside the cave, there were specks of rosy light, like swarms of fireflies dancing about, very beautiful and splendid.

However, before Lu Yun could delve deeper, intense symbols flashed and bursts of humming sounds erupted from within, swarming towards him.

They were a group of silver butterflies, tens of thousands of them. Flapping their wings together, they radiated a brilliant silver light that instantly illuminated the entire cave in silvery white.

Lu Yun drew in a cold breath. The cave, which seemed devoid of any crisis, was unexpectedly filled with so many butterflies.

Each butterfly was very weak, barely at the Unity Realm, but such numbers, when gathered together, were definitely a threat to those powerful beings.

“However, if all these butterflies were refined into essence, they should at least awaken tens of thousands of Elephant Microparticles,” Lu Yun whispered.

As the dazzling silver light was about to hit him, fearsome Thunder Power suddenly exploded, causing countless silver butterflies to fall to the ground, their bodies marked with the remnants of Thunder Power.

These silver butterflies seemed fearless of death, continuing to rush forward relentlessly, an endless stream. Lu Yun found it quite strenuous to deal with them, summoning both his causal Spirit Body and his Blood Slaughter Thunder Knife to fend off the butterflies’ attacks. Even so, he fought a difficult battle in that small cave for nearly half a day.

“There must be some other reason for these silver butterflies to attack me with such disregard for their own lives,” Lu Yun didn’t immediately summon the Hell Furnace to smelt the corpses; instead, he slowly made his way deeper into the cave.

Indeed, after a few steps, he heard a thumping sound.

The rhythm of the sound very much resembled the beating of a heart of some creature; he couldn’t help but become more vigilant, slowing his pace and quietly moving towards the source of the sound.

Thump… Thump…

The closer he got, the clearer and more profound the sound of the heartbeats, making Lu Yun’s expression grow more solemn, his footsteps even slower, making as little noise as possible for fear of waking some unknown creature.

One step… Two steps…

When he finally saw the throbbing cocoon from a distance, Lu Yun was stunned.

The being guarded by countless silver butterflies, which threw themselves into the flames like moths, the ‘creature’ that had him so carefully making no sound or movement, was actually a golden cocoon.

The cocoon was about three meters tall, its entire body covered with dense patterns, emitting a faint golden light. The creature inside seemed to show signs of awakening, its golden glow intensifying, bursting with a powerful aura.

Without even making a move, Lu Yun felt an unsettling presence from it, finding it hard to imagine what sort of being would emerge from within.

“No, it can’t be allowed to come into this world!”

He had learned his lesson. After he had slain many Teng snakes, the commotion roused a creature that had been sleeping for many years. Pursued by it, he fled for his life. If not for the rules of the Secret Realm, he would have already been digested by the creature.

Now, having killed countless Silver Butterflies, if he allowed the creature within the golden cocoon to be born, he’d inevitably face another powerful enemy.

Rather than hesitate, he decided to act decisively by bringing out the Hell Furnace to smelt it.

“Crack!”

Suddenly, before Lu Yun could act, a crisp sound came from the cocoon as a crack appeared on it, releasing a cloud of misty, rosy vapor.

“Could it be that the creature inside the cocoon is conscious and attempting to awaken earlier?” Lu Yun muttered to himself as his face showed a look of shock.

“Crack!”

The golden cocoon made another noise as more cracks formed, releasing even more glorious rosy light, shrouding the area with a mist that was both beautiful and mysterious.

Lu Yun felt that he couldn’t wait any longer. Judging by these signs, the creature inside was about to break free from the golden cocoon.

A flicker of dark light flashed, and a huge Furnace burning with dark hellfire appeared. With a swift motion, he gathered the nearly shattered cocoon, and divine power turned into blazing inferno that instantly engulfed the golden cocoon with flames.

As time trickled by, more and more cracks appeared on the cocoon, yet Lu Yun received not a hint of life essence, meaning that neither the cocoon nor its inhabitant had been smelted by the Hell Furnace.

On the contrary, he felt that the hellfire inside the Furnace was being extinguished, seemingly absorbed by the cocoon.

The hellfire, which had never failed him before and could melt anything, was now rendered ineffective, further confirming to Lu Yun the cocoon’s extraordinary nature.

Even more massive and turbulent divine power surged into the Furnace where flames raged, shooting up to the sky, burning everything to ashes. The piles of Silver Butterfly corpses were refined into life essence, their bodies’ potential microparticles transformed into Elephant Microparticles, and some even became Dragon Elephant Particles.

With the refinement of thousands of Silver Butterflies, his Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength was enhanced, and even the might of the Hell Furnace grew stronger. Inside the Furnace, the infernal flames erupted like a volcano, causing the Void to tremble, seeming capable of smelting all things in the world.

However, the golden cocoon seemed unaffected, slowly absorbing the infernal flames from the Furnace, speeding up the process of the cracks widening.

Especially when the number of cracks on it reached more than ninety, it released even more splendorous rosy light, mist rising and completely covering the raging flames within the Furnace.

“Boom!”

All at once, a torrential golden light burst forth from within the Hell Furnace, accompanied by a great, powerful force that violently shook the Furnace.

This abnormality lasted for dozens of moments, and then the golden light suddenly retracted, and even the hellfire within the Furnace was completely drawn into the cocoon, causing the Hell Furnace to lose its ability to sustain itself and completely dissipate.

Following this, an intensely bright light flashed in front of him, and from it emerged a golden butterfly. It was only the size of a thumb, but the power it wielded as it flapped its wings easily shattered the entire cave, bringing down countless boulders.

Seeing that the mountain was about to collapse, Lu Yun immediately used his Demon Wings to conjure up a fierce blaze and shot out of the cave.

Boom! Boom!

No sooner had he left the cave than the mountain collapsed with a thunderous roar, the endless boulders crumbling to dust beneath the tiny body.

Lu Yun inhaled sharply, astonished that such a seemingly frail golden butterfly could unleash such tremendous power.

“With such an abnormal creature, if I could subdue it, I would gain an additional force.” Lu Yun steadied his wings, hovering midair, and spoke softly to himself.

Suddenly, the golden butterfly glowed, its particularly striking, not-large eyes swiftly turning towards Lu Yun.

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