Walker Of The Worlds

Looking at the simple key, Lin Mu found it a bit suspicious.

'A bit too simple…' Lin Mu thought as there were basically no Immortal Qi fluctuations coming from it at all.

This definitely would have made it hard to spot it even with their Immortal sense as the fire immortal Qi would cloud their senses. The simple key would have basically been a grain of sand in a sea; unassuming.

~shua~

Lin Mu made contact with the key with his Immortal sense and learned another thing about it.

"It really is a simple iron key." Lin Mu muttered.

"There must be something more to it." Lady Kang found it suspicious too.

~Ripple~

And sure enough, a few seconds later they felt the large lava lake in front of them ripple. These ripples would have been easy to mistake for the normal ripples that happened due to the bubbling lava, but for the senses of two immortals, they easily stood out.

"Of course, it wasn't going to be easy." Lin Mu said as he drew out Afternoon Pine.

A sense of danger could be felt by them, and they got ready for whatever was about to come.

"The fire elemental Qi is gathering." Little Shrubby informed. "A new presence is forming." He added.

"Oh?" Hearing that information Lin Mu realized something. "So that's why we saw no foes… They don't exist until we cause them to appear." He spoke.

"Just like before." Lady Kang said before pointing her finger towards the source of the ripples.

~SHA~

shot out a single small star

~BOOM~

lake. But this also ended up revealing a being

any limbs that were about three meters long and half a meter wide. Then it had several tentacles wiggling on its back, and two long eyes that were attached by a fleshy branch. In the center of its head, there was a circular mouth that was filled with hundreds of teeth that were made from

It was a slug!

~PWESH~

away and shot a ball of lava towards them from its mouth.

blasted apart. But that was merely the start as the lava slug amped up its offense. Several of

~ROAR~

Little Shrubby was the

beast simply slapped the lava streams away. He then tanked the next flurry of attacks from the slug with his body, sustaining no damage before his jaws closed around the head of

~SPLAT~

in its jaws before ripping

slugs body broke down into the same lava as the rest of the lake, though Lin Mu's eyes picked up on a strange energy mixed

they were also animated using some kind of energy.' The more he thought about it, the more he was sure that all these kinds of beasts had some link to each other. "I'll need to see what that energy is first." Lin Mu

could reach there, the

Mu furrowed

~Ripple~

"Fire elemental Qi

to test something." Lin Mu spoke before turning to Lady Kang. "I think these might be similar to the

~PWESH~PWESH~PWESH~

seconds later, six more lava slugs