Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor-Chapter 881: Earthcore Icefire Lotus

Fang Bai had just finished excavating and clearing the ice layer, consuming some of his Essence Energy, but after resting on the spot for a moment, he recovered to his peak condition.

"Do you want to come down with me to take a look, or wait here?"

Fang Bai glanced at Wu De and asked with a smile.

From the Essence Energy that kept seeping out of the crevice, Wu De could guess that there must be many Essence Stones below. He rolled up his sleeves, clearly eager to try, and said, "How could I miss out on this? Let’s go down together!"

Fang Bai nodded, Wind Essence Qi circulated throughout his body, and he leaped forward, plummeting straight down toward the crevice below.

"Brother Fang, wait for me!"

Wu De shouted loudly and also circulated his Essence Energy, leaping into the crevice.

The two men, one above the other, kept falling rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, they had descended over a hundred meters, where the light from the Essence Stones made the surroundings visible.

Every twenty or thirty meters, Wu De had to slap the ice walls on both sides a few times to prevent falling too fast and being unable to slow down before reaching the bottom, and thus getting injured.

As for Fang Bai, who was full of Wind Essence Qi, he could freely control the speed of his descent. Moreover, his Divine Sense could probe a thousand meters downward, so he didn’t have to worry about getting hurt at all. Eager to inspect the bottom of the crevice, he intentionally increased the speed of his fall, stretching the distance between Wu De and himself even further.

"Brother Fang, how much deeper is this crevice? My Essence Energy is being depleted too much, I can’t hold on much longer!"

After sinking several hundred meters, Wu De suddenly cried out.

He hadn’t yet recovered the Essence Energy he’d used up before, and he had followed Fang Bai into the crevice, using up nearly all of his remaining Essence Energy during the descent. He knew that if this continued until his Essence Energy was exhausted, it would spell big trouble.

"This crevice is still pretty deep! Another kilometer wouldn’t necessarily reach the bottom! Brother Wu, if you can’t hold on, just rest in place! I’ll go down alone to take a look!"

Fang Bai’s voice echoed from below, reverberating through the crevice.

Wu De really wanted to follow Fang Bai to the bottom of the crevice, but knowing he couldn’t do it, he sighed, grabbed a protruding part of the ice wall with one hand, and with the other hand, he formed a fist and pounded a space big enough to accommodate a person sitting cross-legged directly into the ice wall. Then, taking advantage of the rich and abundant Essence Energy between the crevices, he began to rest and recover.

The place where Wu De was located was hundreds of meters below the crevice. Fortunately, the ice walls on both sides were embedded with a large number of Essence Stones, allowing the emitted light to make the surroundings visible.

About half an hour later, Wu De’s depleted Essence Energy was restored to its original state. Seeing the large number of Essence Stones embedded in the ice walls on both sides, he chose not to continue probing downwards like Fang Bai but began to mine the Essence Stones en masse instead. The mined Essence Stones were casually thrown into the Spatial Ring that Fang Bai had previously refined for him.

While Wu De was busily mining Essence Stones above, Fang Bai, who kept descending, finally had his Divine Sense reach the bottom of the crevice.

Fang Bai silently estimated that the depth of the crevice was around five thousand meters, a depth unimaginable to ordinary people.

Via Divine Sense exploration, Fang Bai discovered that the bottom of the crevice was, in fact, a vast space filled with mountains of Water Element Stones and Fire Elemental Stones, far surpassing the number embedded in the ice walls of the crevice.

Moments later, Fang Bai’s feet hit the ground, he looked around, and all he saw were Essence Stones, like a gigantic underground Essence Stone Mine.

Below this layer of ice and thousands of kilometers into this unknown territory, nobody knew whether there were other unknown creatures lurking; hence Fang Bai dared not let his guard down, concealed his Essence Energy, and walked slowly toward the front.

After traversing a kilometer, a strange interlaced glow of red and black appeared within Fang Bai’s Divine Sense. Within the area enveloped by this eerie light, both Water and Fire Primordial Qi were unusually pure and dense.

Moved, Fang Bai concluded that the source of the odd light must be some kind of treasure.

Feeling excited, he couldn’t help but quicken his pace, rushing towards the source of the light.

"It’s the Earthcore Icefire Lotus!"

Upon entering the range of light, Fang Bai’s Divine Sense detected an underground stream ahead, and at the center of a small pond on the north side of the stream, there grew a lotus-like odd plant.

It was considered odd because this lotus was vastly different from ordinary lotuses; it was only as big as a fist, and the colors of the petals were half red and half pitch-black.

The red petals looked like clusters of burning flames, radiating extremely high temperatures, with the water on their side of the pond in a state of constant boiling and churning.

The pitch-black petals seemed to be carved from ice and snow, exuding extreme coldness, keeping the water on their side in a permanently cold state, unthawed through the ages.

Fang Bai could sense that the red petals were releasing Fire Element Qi and the black petals were releasing Water Element Qi. The water in that pond had formed different states due to the influence of these two different types of Qi.

In the five elements, red stands for fire, and black stands for water. That little lotus contained both colors and embodied two types of pure elemental energy, which truly baffled the mind.

This kind of lotus had never been seen by people in the secular world, and only in his past life had Fang Bai had the opportunity to harvest it.

This lotus was called "Earthcore Icefire Lotus," which grew in an extremely deep part of the earth’s crust, and it bloomed only after at least a thousand years of nurturing by the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy—a very rare Spiritual Medicine.

And Spiritual Medicines that had grown for more than a thousand years belonged to the category of high-grade medicines; for Fang Bai at present, they were an excellent treasure for enhancing his strength.

Fang Bai hadn’t expected to find such a precious Spiritual Medicine here. In his excitement, he forgot to constrain his own Essence Energy, deployed his movement technique, and dashed swiftly towards the pond.

When he was still several zhang away from the pond, suddenly dozens of red and black flashes burst forth from the pond, like bolts of lightning, covering Fang Bai with sharp "swooshing" sounds.

"Red Blood Fury Frogs! Dark Ice Serpents!"

Feeling streams of intensely hot and intensely cold Qi shooting at him, Fang Bai was shocked and quickly retreated, also clearly seeing what those dozens of red and black flashes were.

Red Blood Fury Frogs and Dark Ice Serpents, creatures Fang Bai had only encountered in his past life, were both extremely formidable mini-sized Spirit Beasts.

The Red Blood Fury Frogs and Dark Ice Serpents before him, although only the size of a palm and as long as a finger, had grown for hundreds of years. Their attacking power and destructive force were alarmingly potent, and even an ordinary Heaven Level Martial Artist faced with such a sudden assault would likely struggle to defend and could easily be injured.

Both the Red Blood Fury Frog and the Dark Ice Serpent were peculiarly toxic among Spirit Beasts. For an ordinary Heaven Level Martial Artist, once poisoned by their toxins, unless one had a special anti-toxin constitution, death was almost certain.

In his initial excitement upon seeing the "Earthcore Icefire Lotus," Fang Bai had completely forgotten that powerful guardian beasts always protected spirit items. These surging Red Blood Fury Frogs and Dark Ice Serpents were undoubtedly the "Earthcore Icefire Lotus’s" guardian beasts.