"Swoosh swoosh!"
All the remnants of the clay soldiers were collected into eight bronze cauldrons.
"Clang clang clang!"
You could hear the clear sound of metal striking metal, as if the countless fragments inside were colliding with the cauldron walls, trying to come out and fuse back together.
But since Luo Yu had absorbed them, he certainly wouldn't sit idly by and let them recombine.
"Refine!"
Luo Yu commanded coldly, as the flames of the Five Emperor Flames blazed in his palm. He sent them flying into the row of bronze cauldrons, igniting them.
The bronze cauldrons seemed to transform into transparent jade cauldrons, revealing everything inside.
Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er watched Luo Yu's technique in shock.
"This guy knows way too many divine skills."
"It's not just a matter of quantity, Xiao E, haven't you noticed that he has fully mastered and integrated these divine skills?"
"What's so strange about these soldiers that they can revive infinitely?" Bai Xiao'e was astonished.
Zhen Fu'er shook her head, "I don't know. There doesn't seem to be anything special inside these clay soldiers, so what power is allowing them to be revived?"
Luo Yu was stimulating the Five Emperor Flames to burn, aiming to find the secret behind the infinite fusion and revival of the clay soldiers.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Within the cauldrons, the great flames raged, and the remnants of the soldiers clashed even more fiercely, but they were also slowly melting.
"What's the deal with this entwined blood and white vapor?"
Luo Yu noticed that, as the flames burned, the blood vapor was constantly being depleted, spilling and dissipating from the fragments, while the white vapor remained unscathed.
In the end, all the remnants of the clay soldiers turned into a mushy fluid, but they stuck to the walls of the cauldrons, attracted to the mushy fluids within the other vessels.
"Strange, the blood vapor has disappeared, yet the white vapor still exists without any change in its pulling force from before."
With a sweeping motion of his hand, Luo Yu overturned the eight Great Cauldrons, releasing all the mushy fluid.
"After all the trouble to suppress them, why did you release them all?" Bai Xiao'e exclaimed, confused.
Zhen Fu'er reassured from the side, "Don't worry, if Luo Gongzi did this, he must have discovered something."
"Plop plop plop!"
Without the suppression of the Great Cauldrons, the mushy fluids clashed with each other, but because the shape of the soldiers had been refined away, they formed a large ball of earthy yellow color.
"Thump thump!"
Each earthy yellow ball hit the ground without any reaction, unlike before when they seemed to have intelligence, aggressively attacking Luo Yu and the others.
"This..."
At this bizarre scene, Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er both uttered sounds of surprise.
"I understand," Luo Yu spoke after some thought.
"Understand what?" The two beauties looked over curiously.
Luo Yu pondered, "I could previously see red and white qi emerging from these soldiers; now the red qi has disappeared and the white qi is unharmed."
"The soldier's ability to fuse and revive is still there, but they have lost their instinct to attack."
"What do you think this indicates?"
Both women were intelligent, it was just that without Luo Yu's special God's Eye, they could not see the changes in the red and white qi. After hearing him out, they suddenly realized.
"Luo Yu, big brother, are you suggesting that this red qi was imbued into the clay soldiers to give them the instinct to attack, while the white qi is the reason for their continuous revival?"
"Exactly." Luo Yu nodded, "This earthy yellow ball itself must be some kind of divine object, capable of constant integration, indestructible, refined by the tomb owner into a clay soldier, and given autonomous attacking instincts through special methods."
Zhen Fu'er nodded, "In this era, there are no Artifact Refiners, but they did exist during the Qin and Han dynasties. It can be said that every top Qi Refiner was an expert artifact refiner, with most techniques deriving from the magical treasures they forged."
"But whoever could refine such treasures is definitely not a mere mortal." Zhen Fu'er marveled at the marvel of the clay soldiers.
Luo Yu's interest in the identity of the tomb owner grew.
Not to mention anything else, the materials themselves were top treasures, and just by acquiring these, the journey was definitely worthwhile.
With a grand wave of his hand, he collected all the earthy yellow balls in front of him to study in detail later.
"Let's go!"
Luo Yu called out and moved forward once again.
Bai Xiao'e had a look of hidden worry on her face, "These clay soldiers are already so abnormal, who knows what dangers lie ahead; Luo Yu, big brother, take care."
Luo Yu smiled, "Meet the soldiers as they come, cover the water with earth."
"But if it's truly unavoidable, then retreating is also an option."
The three continued along the dark corridor, with only the faint light from Bai Xiao'e's cellphone shining, which could illuminate only the nearby area.
Luo Yu keenly noticed that the materials of the corridor absorbed light, even his God's Eye was suppressed and he couldn't see into the darkness far ahead.
"Not good," Zhen Fu'er spoke up, "There's no oxygen around here."
Bai Xiao'e's expression grew serious, "Earlier the oxygen was just thin, but here it's completely absent."
Luo Yu took a light sniff.
"There's not only no oxygen, but the air also carries poison."
"What?"
Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er were shocked, immediately holding their breath. For Martial Artists, holding their breath was of course no difficult task.
Ordinary people ignore several minutes of breath-holding, and strong high-grade Martial Artists can hold their breath for more than half an hour with ease.
However, holding their breath would greatly affect their combat abilities, reducing at least half of their strength.
And if Luo Yu said there was poison in the air, wouldn't that mean they had been inhaling it all along?
Luo Yu said, "I just realized it too, this poison hidden in the air is colorless and odorless, very difficult to distinguish."
"How could you tell if it's colorless and odorless?" Bai Xiao'e asked bewilderingly.