Mortal Mirror

The great red bird felt fortunate. If Li Ergou hadn't pulled it back just now, it would have been reduced to a pile of bones.

At that moment, from the place where the scorpion emerged, countless dense black beetles swarmed out. Each of these beetles was the size of a human face, covered in bristly black hair. When they opened their mouths, they revealed countless sharp teeth.

They pounced on the surrounding bones, tearing apart everything they could get their mandibles on. In the blink of an eye, the ground was completely stripped bare.

Strangely, these beetles didn't dare approach the pill furnace, as if they were extremely afraid, and went around it.

Like a tide, they crawled into the deeper parts of the cave.

After a good while, all the beetles finally dispersed.

Li Ergou sighed, this snake cave is getting stranger and stranger.

With the beetles gone, the rabbit and the great red bird couldn't wait to jump down. They arrived below and, looking at the empty cave, didn't know what to do.

The great red bird looked at Li Ergou cautiously and asked, "Boss, will Ah-lǘ die? Can you come with us to save him?"

Li Ergou nodded, "I can, but I want to see if this pill furnace is a treasure first. Anyway, that guy has already been captured. Sooner or later doesn't matter. Do you have any objections?"

The rabbit and the great red bird were dumbfounded. They didn't expect Li Ergou to say that, but what could they do even if they had objections? What else could they say? They could only obediently shut up and hope Li Ergou would hurry up.

Li Ergou looked at the huge pill furnace. He could see flames still burning inside. The entire pill furnace was cyan, with extremely ancient patterns engraved on it. He looked around, but the pill furnace had no name.

Actually, he was suspecting something. The inside and outside of this cave are in this condition, could it be because of this pill furnace?

The lid of the pill furnace was still firmly fastened. Could it be that some elixir was still being refined inside? He had experienced the benefits of elixirs, if there really were pills inside, wouldn't he be rich?

He looked at the pill furnace, becoming more and more suspicious. That's why he wasn't in a hurry to save that donkey.

With anticipation, Li Ergou couldn't resist anymore. He jumped onto the pill furnace, then grabbed the huge lid and suddenly lifted it.

Boom!

A black beam of light shot into the sky, carrying a rumbling sound. The immense power caused the entire cave to shake.

Li Ergou quickly summoned his shield to defend himself. He was shocked and didn't know what was inside the pill furnace to have such great power.

After the light faded, he looked into the pill furnace. There really was a pill inside. He was overjoyed, but he looked at the pill with some doubt.

This pill didn't have a bright color, nor did it have the fragrance of a pill. The whole pill was as black as ink, without even a trace of luster.

He was slightly surprised and reached out to draw it over. Unexpectedly, the pill emitted a black light that shot towards him.

Li Ergou was shocked and thought that this pill had become a spirit. He wanted to resist, but he sensed an extremely dangerous feeling, so he dodged. The black light slammed into the cave wall.

Li Ergou looked up. The extremely hard stone was melted into a black liquid by the black light, dripping down. The black liquid landed on the stones on the ground, and the stones made a sizzling sound, as if boiling. In the blink of an eye, the surrounding stones within a ten-foot radius had turned into a pool of black liquid.

Fortunately, these liquids didn't continue to corrode the surrounding stones. If that were the case, it would be truly terrifying.

Li Ergou looked at the pill again, pondering. At that moment, he suddenly understood that this was not an elixir, but a poisonous pill, the extremely poisonous kind.

At this time, he was a little puzzled. Who was so insane to refine such a pill? Wasn't that courting death?

No wonder there wasn't a blade of grass around this cave, and the bodies of those monsters were black. It must be the pill's doing.

Although this thing was overbearing, Li Ergou thought of a saying from Wu Shenxian, called 'when things reach an extreme, they reverse.' Anything that reaches its limit is extraordinary.

Although this thing is highly poisonous, if used in the right place, it will definitely have unexpected effects.

So, he reached out again, with Xuan light protecting his hand, and grabbed the pill again. To his delight, this time the pill didn't emit any light, and he easily took it into his palm.

The pill floated in his hand, and he could see clearly that the pill was not only as black as ink, but also had three pill patterns on it. Oh my god.

No wonder this pill was so fierce. It turned out to be like this. He couldn't help but sigh.

He quickly took out a pill bottle, put the pill into it, and then took out a jade box, and put dozens of seals on it. After all, this thing was extremely dangerous, so don't take it out casually.

He was about to leave when he suddenly saw a piece of burnt gold paper in the pill furnace. He was slightly surprised. The pill furnace was so hot, how could such a thing be preserved? It was simply incredible.

He reached out and sucked, and the golden piece of paper flew into his palm. He could see that only a small corner of the gold paper was left, with two large characters on it... 'Celestial Burial'.

Unfortunately, there should be more words below, but they have all been burned, and no one knows what they were.

"Celestial Burial, could this be the name of the pill? Celestial Burial Pill, not to mention, compared to the toxicity of the pill, calling it Celestial Burial is not too much."

He didn't think much about it and casually wanted to throw away the gold paper, but on second thought, this gold paper could be preserved, it must be very simple, it is better to store it first, maybe it will have some effect in the future.

He threw this thing into the bronze mirror.

He glanced at the pill furnace again, thinking that this thing was good, it could burn for countless years, it should be a good treasure.

He was happy and wanted to take this thing away, but at this moment, the pill furnace made a cracking sound, and several cracks appeared in the entire furnace body.

With a crisp sound, the pill furnace shattered into countless pieces.

Li Ergou was dumbfounded when he saw this scene, and then felt extremely distressed, he should have copied this thing in the first place.

Now it was too late, this was really a sad story.

The rabbit and the great red bird looked at Li Ergou expectantly. The rabbit plucked up the courage to say, "Boss, aren't we going to chase them?"

Li Ergou could only turn grief into strength and said, "Where is the nine-colored fruit?"

The rabbit spread its hands and said, "Boss, we don't know, we can only look for it slowly, but there has been a legend about the nine-colored fruit for a long time, it should be in this snake cave, I heard that the Golden Snake King ate the nine-colored fruit to achieve the supreme demon king."

In this way, what else can Li Ergou say, he continued to move forward with the two guys.