When Ye Feng had moved around the cave earlier, most areas were dark, with only a few spots containing fluorescent gem ore.
The area that had just captured Ye Feng's attention was emitting a bright, pearly white light, unlike the gem ore that only had a faint glow.
With a few leaps, Ye Feng reached the spot emitting the pearly white light.
"Damn, this familiar light, could it be a fragment of a spatial rift?"
Ye Feng approached and couldn't help but be surprised.
Immediately, Ye Feng stepped forward and picked up the pearly white light from the stone table to examine it closely.
"This special touch, and the fact that I can't see clearly what's behind the pearly white light... it really is a fragment of a spatial rift~"
After a thorough inspection, Ye Feng placed it into his spatial warehouse.
Then, he began searching the cave again.
...
About another hour passed,
"Sigh~"
Ye Feng sighed with a hint of helplessness.
He had searched for a long time but couldn't find the glowing object that was supposed to make the desert marching ants afraid to advance, as mentioned by Sang Yang.
"Could it really be this fragment of a spatial rift?"
Ye Feng looked at the fragment of the spatial rift in his hand, emitting a pearly white light, and felt puzzled.
"No! It's not this!"
Soon, Ye Feng dismissed his own guess.
He remembered that Sang Yang had mentioned the object that suddenly appeared in the goblin lair had a pair of silver-white wings.
This fragment of a spatial rift was too blurry to see clearly; it was just a ball of white light, let alone any wing patterns...
"Did that guy Sang Yang lie to me?"
"That shouldn't be the case. He said it under a lot of stress, instinctively."
"He didn't say it after calming down. He was drawing the route map when he calmed down...".
Just as Ye Feng was contemplating whether Sang Yang had lied to him, the entire cave suddenly began to shake, and soil and small stones fell.
"Rumble~"
A muffled sound of collapse echoed from afar.
"Damn, an earthquake?"
"The cave is going to collapse..."
Ye Feng reacted immediately and hurried to run outside.
...
"Big brother, are you okay?"
As Ye Feng reached the cave entrance, Xiao Xiao's concerned voice came.
"I'm fine~"
Ye Feng shook his head and asked, "What happened? Was it an earthquake?"
"No, the mountain at that location suddenly caved in. The villagers seem to have found something related to goblins there!"
Saying that, Xiao Xiao pointed to a spot.
"Something related to goblins?"
Ye Feng frowned and walked towards the spot with Xiao Xiao.
"This..."
Ye Feng was somewhat surprised.
On the side of the mountain next to the cave of the goblin lair, an entire section had collapsed into the ground.
It looked as if something had hollowed out the ground, causing the mountain to lose its support and sink.
"It's a goblin altar!"
At this moment, Old Li Tou walked over.
"Altar?"
Ye Feng looked at Old Li Tou with some confusion.
"Yes!"
Old Li Tou nodded, "Mr. Ye, look at that square, smooth, flat stone table. That is the goblin altar!"
"Goblins live extremely messy lives. They eat, drink, and defecate in the same place, with no taboos whatsoever~"
"Only that altar is special!"
"I and many people in the village have seen goblins using long wooden sticks, brooms, and the like to clean that stone table."
"Sometimes they would throw various stones and wood onto the altar, seemingly as part of some ritual~"
"Moreover, even the goblin chief would not approach that altar!"
"Goblins often worship that altar with extreme reverence, even... fear!"
Old Li Tou clearly understood the altar and quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"Is that so..."
Ye Feng frowned, he felt that something was not right.
"Big brother, there are desert marching ants over there."
"But their movements are so strange, they've stopped in a neat arc~"
At this time, Xiao Xiao, who was observing their surroundings with a telescope, spoke.
Saying that, she also pointed in a direction.
"Hmm? Let me see~"
Ye Feng took the telescope and observed.
In Ye Feng's vision, a large number of desert marching ants were moving quite far away from here, near where he and Xiao Xiao had originally entered Green God Town. However, they always maintained a certain distance.
It was as if a transparent circular wall was blocking them outside...
"The thing that emitted white light that Sang Yang mentioned... the goblin altar... the desert marching ants... expressions of reverence..."
"Wait, fear!"
Suddenly, a spark of inspiration flashed in Ye Feng's mind.
What if the altar was not being worshipped by the goblins, but rather they were afraid of something on it and didn't dare to approach?!
Old Li Tou's so-called cleaning with sticks and throwing things were not cleaning or rituals at all, but rather attempts to get rid of the object on the stone table?
With this thought, Ye Feng quickly ran towards the stone table.
"What are these goblins going crazy about?"
As Ye Feng reached the side of the stone table, Gou Dan's voice, filled with confusion, reached his ears.
"What's wrong?"
Ye Feng turned to look at Gou Dan.
"Explorer Sir, this altar originally seemed to be at a very high place, but the goblins actually dug out the ground beneath it~"
"And they dug downwards continuously. The bottom of this altar connects to a large underground river."
"If they continue digging like this, this altar will definitely fall into the underground river and be washed away..."
Gou Dan quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"It is as I suspected!"
Gou Dan's words confirmed Ye Feng's guess.
Those goblins were wary of the stone table, not for any other reason.
Immediately, Ye Feng took out his Tang Dao and began to cut towards a large protruding stone on the altar.
"Clang!"
As Ye Feng cut into the surface of the large stone, a white light shone out.
This was followed by a crisp metallic impact sound~
"What's going on? Is there iron ore inside the large stone?"
Ye Feng was somewhat surprised.
He was well aware of the sharpness of his Tang Dao, capable of truly cutting through iron like mud.
However, after the crisp metallic sound, he encountered resistance, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't cut any further.
"There's something inside the large stone, and it's emitting white light. Could it be the Blade of the Angels that the system hinted at earlier?"
Ye Feng frowned and guessed jokingly.
Immediately, he began to slowly shave off the protruding stone on the stone table, layer by layer, from the outside in...
"Damn... this large stone is a stone cover created by the goblins?"
"To... cover up the faintly glowing object in the middle?!"
After shaving off the stone, Ye Feng was speechless when he saw what was inside.
Then, Ye Feng began to examine the faintly glowing object.
It was about a meter long, entirely silver-white, appearing to be some kind of metal. It was shaped somewhat like a sword, covered with runes that Ye Feng did not recognize.
"Eh? This is the thing Sang Yang mentioned!"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's eyes lit up.
Because at the hilt of the silver sword he found, there were a pair of silver-white wings.
"Beep~ Hint, Epic item detected: Blade of the Angels, distance 0.3 meters!"
At this moment, the system's prompt sounded.
"Holy cow..."