Li Xiu was somewhat surprised. After asking Demigod Shana and the Jedi Knight to step aside, he began to dig along the edge of that thing.
He dug about a foot deep when suddenly there was a flash of light beneath, flickering like lightning streaking across the sky in a fleeting blaze.
Upon closer inspection, Li Xiu discovered that beneath the black substance was a transparent crystal, similar to glass, from which the light was emanating.
After a few more digs, there was still more crystal beneath, occasionally showing lightning-like arcs that appeared and disappeared abruptly, as if many lightning bolts were interweaving within it.
Chu Ling noticed the anomaly over there, but he did not rush back to check, choosing instead to maintain his vigil by the sea.
Before long, Demigod Shana and the Jedi Knight had excavated a large pit, fully revealing the thing.
It was a cylindrical object, about fifty to sixty centimeters in diameter and over a meter tall, yet shy of two meters.
