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The man had never expected for the beast to be able to speak in the human tongue. While he knew that beasts with a higher cultivation base had the same intelligence as that of the humans and some could even understand human speech, not all could actually speak.
Those who could speak in human tongue could be counted on two hands and they were not beasts that could be commonly found. Thus, seeing a completely inhuman beast like that talking in human tongue was far more shocking than seeing a humanoid beast like an ape talking.
"Yeah, I can. Now tell me who you are and what were you doing at the Jiao Dian City? What is your background?" Lin Wu questioned the man in an authoritative tone.
The man was stunned and did not speak for about ten seconds before he finally understood something.
"Oh? You want to know my background? Hahaha!" The man suddenly started to laugh.
Lin Wu only furrowed his brows upon seeing the man's actions and even wondered if the man had gone insane from the shock. At first, he was scared and then he was acting fearlessly, laughing in front of two beasts, one of which was at the Dao Shell realm!
"You will shiver in your place after hearing about my background! Open your ears and hear, I belong to the Lian Clan!" The man spoke.
But after he spoke, no reaction could be perceived from Lin Wu and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle. Lin Wu was simply confused and was trying to remember if he knew about this clan while the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle was simply staring daggers at the man while embers sparked on her feathers.
'Huh? Why are they not shocked?' the man thought.
Lin Wu got a list of the known Lian clans on the continent from the system and he looked through them. He immediately discarded the weaker ones and the commoner clans and only looked at the cultivation clans.
Eventually, he came upon the most probable option, the Lian clan, which was the third strongest clan on the Long continent. It was said to be in the same league as that of the Long clan and the Ji clan, though they were many times weaker than the Ji clan.
"Hmm, is it the Lian clan among the top three clans of the Long Continent?" Lin Wu guessed.
"Hahah! Seems like you know it! So… why aren't you kowtowing and begging for forgiveness now? If my clan finds out about this, you all will be slaughter—"
~Crack~
Before the man could finish his sentence, the barrier surrounding him was cracked by Lin Wu. Spikes appeared from his body that pressed upon the barrier. The spikes also had a blue layer on their tips, which meant that Lin Wu was using the Undaunted Sapphire Body art.
The man didn't even have a chance to cry out in fear, before the spikes directly hit his body. The spirit tools on his body all activated and tried to defend, but the spirit Qi modified by the undaunted sapphire body art was the best counter to that.
~gua~
The barriers were all broken and Lin Wu's spikes finally pierced the man's body. One of the smaller spikes directly pierced his forehead, killing him.
"System, check his memories if he is telling the truth and gather all that you can get as well." Lin Wu quickly ordered.
~DING~
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DATA NODE: Obtained
ANALYZING: Please wait a moment
ANALYSIS: Complete
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Lin Wu nodded his head upon seeing this and loosed his grip on the dead man, withdrawing his spikes.
"Here you go," Lin Wu extended the dead body of the man towards the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle who had been looking at him with fury.
~shua~
~Crackle~
Lin Wu threw the body of the man towards the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, who spewed out a stream of flames that instantly reduced it to ashes that drifted away in the wind.
'Oo, she really was angry…' Lin Wu thought.
"Humph! Pesky human!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said, still feeling angry.
"A stupid one too. I don't know what kind of upbringing he had that he was taunting us when death was just in front of him. He really knew how to court death…" Lin Wu said.
"What did that man talk about? Why was he laughing?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned after calming down a bit.
"Oh, yes. This man was just one of the stuck up young masters of the cultivation clans. One of the more… dumb ones. He really thought he could depend on his treasures and just his clan's name to resist us.
Though he does belong to a rather powerful clan, the Lian clan. They are two ranks below the Long clan who have the bloodline of the legendary Azure Dragon." Lin Wu answered.
"What imbeciles these humans have… even beasts don't act like that and know when to retreat." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle commented. "Though this Lian clan… are they strong?" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned.
"Hmm," Lin Wu nodded his head. "From what I've read before and this man's memories, the Lian clan has two Dao Treading realm experts and several Dao Shell realm experts." He answered.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle furrowed her brows feathers as her beak slightly opened like a frown.
"I know humans like to take revenge a lot. They have attacked the beasts in the forest many times, whenever one of theirs was killed while hunting us. Will these people come to hunt us too?" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned.
While the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle was proud of her strength and bloodline, she wasn't stupid like a certain younger master and knew that there were stronger experts that could fight and even kill her.
While the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle might have been able to resist the Aquadream Sea Lotus for a bit, it was still a beast that had been disadvantaged. The human cultivators at the Dao Treading realm would not have a restriction like that and they would also be far more clever.
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If the other powerhouses knew about the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, they wouldn't attack right away. First, they would try to find out more about her and then look for a weakness. Once that was all done, only then would they attack for sure.
It was also likely that it would be a sneak attack.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle had seen many humans act in the millennium forest before and had gained a little understanding of how they operated. She did not want an additional trouble before she fully awakened her bloodline.
Having heard the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle's concerns, Lin Wu understood where she was getting at.
"Hmm, I doubt they would know about it right now. The man did have a mark on him that would inform his clan of his death, but I managed to block it from working. While they would find out about him eventually, I think it will take a long time.
Rather than that, our main concern would be Jiao Dian city as it is now fully destroyed and the people are killed. Since the Lian clan would not have information about this man's death, they would probably assume his last known location, which would be the city.
And if they come to see the city, they would find it destroyed and the temple of the Vermillion bird there." Lin Wu explained.
"Though we don't know if the temple would disappear yet or not." He added.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle thought over it and found it to be okay. But she still had some doubts that she wanted to convey.
"How are you sure that the Lian clan knows about this man's previous location which was the city?" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned.
"Its simple, I read his memories. He had informed the Lian clan that he had arrived in the city about two days ago and had said that he would be living there for a few more days. And when the temple of the Vermillion bird arrived at the surfaces, it blocked all communications from the city.
This means that the man did not manage to transmit any message to his clan. Even after leaving his clan, he was still unable to get his communication jade slip to work because of the lasting effect of the temple." Lin Wu explained.
Lin Wu had not known that the vermilion bird's temple actually had a lasting effect on the communication jade slips. He had seen the memories of a lot of people but had not gone into detail since it was not the time for it then.
But with the Lian clan's young master, Lin Wu decided to go into detail and see how much he actually knew. He ended up learning quite a few things from it, such that the name of this man was Lian Li and he was the sixteenth young master of the Lian clan.
He wasn't even qualified to compete with the other young masters of the clan for the seat of the heir, but even then had a lot of resources poured into him. Lin Wu also learned that the mother of this Lian Li was one of the hundred concubines of the Patriarch of the Lian clan and was from a rather rich background.
She was the reason why Young master Lian Li had managed to reach the core condensation realm at the age of thirty eight!
The Lian clan was also widely different from the Ji clan in that they didn't really focus on nurturing their younger generation with strictness. They rather let them be opulent while pouring countless resources into them.
Whereas in the Ji clan, they only gave a specific amount of resources to their younger generation and only those that showed drive and talent would get more of them and come out on top. The competition was fierce in the Ji clan and the people were tough.
Ji Shirong was literally the heir of the Ji clan and even then he was sent out alone to do his missions with a relatively limited amount of resources. Even when he was about to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, they did not invite him back to the clan and instead ordered him to figure it out on his own.
The Ji clan's method was more crude and harsh, but it gave rise to talented and strong heirs. The character of Ji Shirong could not be compared to that of the young master Lian Li at all.
Also, the reason why Lian Li was not in his clan seemed ridiculous to Lin Wu. He had apparently gotten pissed off at some of his siblings and that his parents didn't respond how he wanted them to and thus he left his home.
'This man… he's really childish, huh? Running away from home at the aged of thirty eight…' Lin Wu didn't know whether to laugh at the man or pity the clan.
Still, it was not like Lin Wu could fully disregard the Lian clan. Despite Lian Li running away, they kept tabs on him and he even reported his location the entire time. The clan had even assigned not one, not two, but four Nascent Soul realm cultivators to guard him!
Two of them were carelessly sent away by Lian Li a month ago to do some task, while the final two were the ones who had sacrificed their lives to guard them. Just from this, Lin Wu understood that the Lian clan might be hiding their true power.
'If just the Lian clan has this much power and strong cultivators, then the Ji clan should have way more…' Lin Wu thought to himself, reconsidering certain decisions.
"We should get back to the city now. Where is that stone feather?" Lin Wu questioned.
"Here it is," The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said, pulling out the stone feather from her neck.
The stone feather was easily buried in her thick coat of feathers and could not be seen at all.
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"Ah, that's a rather nifty trick." Lin Wu said upon seeing where the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle had put the stone feather in.
It kind of reminded him of his part time job working as a cashier at a supermarket. Some of the 'classy' ladies would keep their money in their chests and pull that out to pay for whatever they bought.
It was both traumatic and fascinating to Lin Wu at that time.
Lin Wu took the stone feather from the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle and stored it in his own storage. He now had a lot of spatial storage treasures on him and some of them could even been seen on his body.
The spatial storage rings that had gemstones on them were embedded into his body and could be seen gleaming from time to time. In total, he currently had over a hundred such spatial storage treasures on him and this had allowed him to organize things really well.
If one were to compare it with a computer, if the system's storage was the Hard drive, then Lin Wu was using the spatial storage treasures as folders in them. With the stone feathers put away Lin Wu checked the map, just in case there was anything around them.
"Looks like everything is okay, we can head back to the city." Lin Wu said.
"Okay," The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle replied before flapping her wings and flying up.
Lin Wu entered the ground, which was his turf, and both of the beasts sped back to the city. After arriving there, they went to the platform that was above the temple, to get ready to leave.
Lin Wu paused and looked at the city below and furrowed his brows. A thought appearead in his mind and he turned to the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle.
"Can you erase this entire place with your flames… just in case? That way even if someone comes they won't be able to tell what exactly happened." Lin Wu spoke.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle didn't even think much before nodding her head. To her this was nothing and if it were not for Lin Wu telling her to hold back previously, she would have already used her flames when she was killing the humans before.
~PIIII~
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle let out a loud cry and flapped her wings, that started to glow red. Soon, the embers on her wings turned into vibrant flames that flew out and spread across the city.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle started to rise up into the sky as she flapped her wings even more and flew around to spread the flames. The vermilion flames licked the ground clean, reducing everything to ash. What could be burned was burned and what could not was charred.
Even the tough stones of the temple were affected and crumbled down, making an entire wall of the temple that was above the ground disappear. Pools of molten metal could be seen in various parts of the city. These were the metallic objects that were unable to bear the heat of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle's flames and melted.
'This is nostalgic…' Lin Wu thought to himself, remembering the scene of the forbidden area of the Millennium forest.
But that area was far more damaged than this. The rocks there had literally melted into lava and made massive pools of them. Even if the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle's flames were strange enough to melt a lot of metals, they weren't fully able to melt rocks.
Plus, the flames did not have an explosive impact like the meteor had in the millennium forest back then.
~piiiii~
Once the entire city was scorched by the flames, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle returned to the platform and landed.
"Good work," Lin Wu praised. "Let's get back onto our journey, shall we?" he said before walking towards the platform.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle followed him and the two of them came to stand near the platform. Lin Wu took the fourth stone feather that had the four red veins in it and put it into the groove on the platform with his tail.
~shua~
As soon as he did, all of the stone feathers started to glow and a rumbling sound spread from the temple. The four pillars started to sparkle with arcs of energy that appeared from deep within the ground.
"Huh? What's happening this time?" Lin Wu couldn't help but say upon seeing this.
It was different from the last time and thus he was confused about what was it this time. He watched on as the energy poured into the platform and the formation array started to glow as well.
The barriers appeared around the platform as it started to tremble.
~HONG~
A humming sound could be heard as the platform finally started to rise up. Once the platform left the four support pillars, they started to retreat back into the ground as well. Lin Wu watched on as the Jiao Dian city, which once used to be bustling and lively, continued to burn.
"I wonder what the people who came here to see it would think?" Lin Wu said out loud.
"I don't know… some human things, maybe?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said, not fully understanding Lin Wu.
Lin Wu didn't mind it though and simply shook his head as he looked towards the horizon. The platform finally reached the height where it traveled at and shot forward at a great speed. Had it not been for the formation arrays, Lin Wu and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle would have been knocked back due to the momentum, if not thrown away.
~WHOOSH~
A tearing sound was heard as the platform soared through the air, its speed only increasing more.
~shua~
~shua~
~shua~
~KABOOM~
Finally, the platform reached a speed that was faster than sound and caused a sonic boom. The clouds below it were split apart as it shot back in the north eastern direction.
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Lin Wu watched the sky as the platform tore through it at a sonic speed.
"This… this is significantly faster than it was before!" Lin Wu said.
"Looks like it… and its even heading back to the Dread Coil Marsh it looks like it." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle replied.
"Huh?" Lin Wu was stunned upon hearing this and checked the map. "Oh shit, it really is heading back there." He said.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle nodded her head and closed her eyes back up. Even if she had finished assimilating the bloodline crystal and had eaten her fill, she would obviously not waste this free time.
Thus, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle started cultivating, leaving Lin Wu to his thoughts. Lin Wu saw this and shook his head, knowing that the beast was obsessed about her cultivation and bloodline.
"Well then… let's see what things we have gained from the little 'excursion'…" Lin Wu muttered to himself.
Multiple system windows appeared in front of him that showed various things such as the list of resources he had obtained, the cultivation techniques the system had scanned and the data nodes that were taken from the humans that Lin Wu ate.
There were literally so many entities that had it not been for the system, organizing and filtering them properly, Lin Wu would have been simply lost. He decided to first check the items that he had gotten from everyone.
"Oh wait, where did that stone Jiao Fan used go?" Lin Wu wondered and searched through the list.
"Ah, here it is!" Lin Wu finally spotted it. "Mind expanding Lardite…"
Lin Wu took out the pale yellow stone from the storage and looked at it. Surprisingly though, there were cracks on it.
"What happened to this?" Lin Wu furrowed his brows and probed the Mind Expanding Lardite with his spirit sense.
Once it entered the Mind Expanding Lardite, Lin Wu felt his spirit sense changing. It was as if it was being cooled down and massaged. It was a stage thing to be feeling from his spirit sense, and he didn't know what to think of it.
"Is this how a Mind Expanding Lardite is supposed to work? But weren't those men suffering when they used this?" Lin Wu was confused.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The Mind Expanding Lardite has proportionate effects depending on the quality of a person's spirit sense. Those that already have a well refined and strong spirit sense will not suffer from the side effects.
As long as the Mind Expanding Lardite is not used to the limit, the host will not suffer from any problems either and will have a better effect. The system recommends no more than one hour of use every day.
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"Oh, no wonder… those people did use it forcibly. But what's up with the crack, did it get damaged?" Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The Mind Expanding Lardite was damaged due to the forced use of the four people. It has lost a lot of its durability and will eventually be used up. Once all of its qualities are drained, it will shatter into fragments.
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~Sigh~
"Damn those people. I should have just taken this from the very start…" Lin Wu shook his head.
Still, there was no medicine for regret and Lin Wu could only let go of the past for now.
"At least I have it now and can take benefit of it." Lin Wu muttered to himself and put the Mind Expanding Lardite aside for the time being.
He looked through the other things and realized that he had obtained a massive amount of spirit stones. There were spirit stones of nearly all grades on the list, from low grade all the way to high grade.
There were only Peak grade spirit stones missing from the list, but Lin Wu knew that they were unlikely to be found in a place like this. Even the cultivation sects that had spirit stone mines treated them as a strategic resource and seldom used them.
They were one of the essential requirements for making peak grade alchemical pills, formations arrays and peak grade spirit tools. Without peak grade spirit stone, making either of these things would be immensely difficult.
Lin Wu directly sorted them into different folders so that they could be kept for emergencies. He was also thinking of using them for the organization he would eventually be making if he didn't use them before that.
Lin Wu could already absorb spirit Qi at a quite fast rate and unless there was an absolute emergency that needed it, he wouldn't need these spirit stones. He was no longer like before when he needed to steal them from Shirong.
"Shirong… I need to do something about him. While he is no longer necessary for me, letting him go would be a waste as well. Hmm… I need to think of a different solution." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
Lin Wu ended up spending two hours like this and finally came up with a solution that might just work. There would be some unknown problems that would occur, but Lin Wu would have to deal with them when they actually came up.
"I guess the next time we meet would be our last… for a long time." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He pushed these thoughts aside for a now and went back to checking the items that he had gotten. The next window he checked was the ones that were showing the alchemical pills. There were thousands of them with a couple of really valuable pills.
"These seem useful to me…" Lin Wu muttered and took them out.
The first pill was a high grade pill meant for the Nascent Soul realm cultivators called as spirit Qi reservoir pill. Its use was as straightforward as its name. The pill could be filled with spirit Qi of the cultivator and then be swallowed when needed.
In a way, it was like a modifiable spirit stone. The amount of spirit Qi in it could reach a massive amount and it was able to accommodate the entire spirit Qi store of an Adult Soul Stage Nascent Soul realm cultivator!
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Lin Wu was rather interested in this pill as it could serve as an extra safety net in case the system's storage ran out of spirit.
The spirit Qi reservoir pill could store a cultivator own spirit Qi. This was the spirit Qi that was part of Lin Wu's Dantian and meridians. This was the spirit Qi that Lin Wu could not add to the system's storage and thus it was a rather useful method for him to store it in the pill for emergencies.
"I'll use this in a bit…" Lin Wu muttered to himself and took out the second pill that had been of his interest.
The second pill was also a high grade pill called as the Triple Meridian Reinforcement pill. This pill was technicality supposed to be for people that had yet to stabilize their foundation after a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm.
The tribulation lightning usually damaged one's meridians greatly and even after healing them, it took quite long for one to improve them. This pill helped reduce that time and could be said to be a hybrid of a healing and improvement pill.
Lin Wu was intending to use this in a different manner, though. The system had specifically sorted this pill into the most useful pill for Lin Wu on its own. This means that it had thought that it was optimum to use this right now.
"System, this pill should be good for the undaunted sapphire Body art, right? I can increase the speed of the meridian conversion with this?" Lin Wu asked for confirmation.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: Yes. Practicing the Undaunted Sapphire Body art with the Triple Meridian reinforcement pill will have a catalyzing effect and increase the speed by multiple folds. The system recommends the host uses it as soon as possible for the best effects.
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"Alright, that's all I needed." Lin Wu said before nodding his head.
He decided to first check the status of the technique and see where he was at.
~Ding~
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CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE: 1. Taiji Dual Unity Scripture
2. Immortal Sky Shaker Art- First level (Wind attribute spirit Qi initiate)
3. Undaunted Sapphire Body art- First level (17% Meridians converted)
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"Hmm… it hasn't really increased much since then." Lin Wu muttered upon comparing the earlier values.
~huu~
"Let's begin then," Lin Wu said before starting to cultivate.
Since Lin Wu didn't actually cultivate the Undaunted Sapphire Body art for its spirit Qi absorption, he didn't automatically further its progress. Instead, Lin Wu cultivated using the Taiji Dual Unity scripture and then transferred that to the meridians, letting it circulate according to the Qi touristic of the Undaunted Sapphire Body art.
If anyone that was an expert cultivator saw what Lin Wu was doing, they would freak out. This was one of the big no no's of cultivation. Cultivation techniques could not just be mixed and match, but Lin Wu did not have a problem here for multiple reasons.
First was the fact that the system had already checked the compatibility and ensure that it would all be fine. And second, was the fact that the Taiji Dual Unity scripture in itself was highly compatible with different cultivation techniques.
Since it was based on the duality of yin and yang, cultivation techniques of either attributive could be used with it. That was the reason why the Taiji Dual Unity Scripture was said to be one of the top most cultivation techniques.
But even then, if it was anyone else doing the same thing if they had both the techniques, it was not a 100% guarantee that they would succeed on the first try. They would need a few attempts to be able to find a balance between the two.
~shua~
Waves of spirit Qi rose from Lin Wu's body as the cultivation technique started to show its effect. The spirit Qi in the air started to swirl around him and formed a small vortex, before entering through multiple acupoints on his body.
~HONG~
The spirit Qi only got stronger and stronger until eventually, it reached a plateau. Lin Wu watched as the number on the host data started to increase at a visible pace.
'Alright, now to redirect it to the other circuit…' Lin Wu willed it to change.
The numbers that were increasing one moment slowed down until eventually stopping. All of the spirit Qi Lin Wu was absorbing was now being used by the Undaunted Sapphire Body art.
"Now the pill!" Lin Wu popped the pill into his mouth.
As soon as it entered his body, it melted and assimilated rather quickly. If one looked closely, they would see a pinkish liquid circulating through his body. This was nothing but the medicinal efficacy of the Triple Meridian Reinforcement pill.
The pinkish liquid entered each and every meridian of Lin Wu's body, starting from the three great meridians in the center of his body before moving to the peripheral ones. About ten minutes later, Lin Wu had pink patterns on his emerald green body.
His meridians that were usually invisible, were revealed for the first time.
"Huh… so this is what they look like." Lin Wu said, seeing them for the first time as well.
Till now, Lin Wu could feel the meridians but had not seen them with his own eyes. Only spirit sense could allow him to 'see' them, but even then it was similar to using the sense of touch to feel up a pattern.
While Lin Wu had seen the many meridian charts in the multiple cultivation manuals he had gathered, those were useless to him since his body was not that of a human and that of a beast… a worm beast.
~shua~
The pinkish glow soon started to change as a bluish tint appeared in there. This tint was mostly in the peripheral parts of his meridians and was focused around the tips of them. If one measured the meridians that had the bluish tint, they would realize that it covered 17% of his entire network of meridians!
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The medicinal efficacy of the Triple Meridian Reinforcement pill started to show its effects, and under the combined effect of the Undaunted Sapphire Body Art, it became further catalyzed.
~shua~
The spirit Qi fluctuation coming from Lin Wu's body changed slightly, its rhythm becoming sharper than before.
Lin Wu continued to cultivate and saw the bluish tint in his meridians increasing bit by bit. The pinkish glow was being consumed and the blue tint increased in exchange. Of course, the exchange was not equivalent and the blue glow of Sapphire meridians was easily overpowering the pinkish glow of the Triple Meridian Reinforcement pill.
This all continued for about an hour before all of the efficacy of the Triple Meridian Reinforcement pill was used up.
'Finally, it is done…' Lin Wu thought to himself.
~huu~
Lin Wu let out a breath and looked at his body now. The total length of the sapphire meridians in his body had increased, as could be estimated from the bluish tint.
"System show me the updated Host data." Lin Wu ordered.
~Ding~
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SCANNING HOST VITALS: Host Data Updated.
AVATAR'S CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE: 1. Taiji Dual Unity Scripture
2. Immortal Sky Shaker Art- First level (Wind attribute spirit Qi initiate)
3. Undaunted Sapphire Body art- Second level (31% Meridians converted)
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"Perfect!" Lin Wu said upon seeing that his avatar had managed to reach the second level of the Undaunted Sapphire Body Art.
This was even beyond his main body's process, but he didn't care as much and knew that he could catch up with it later.
"The main body is stronger than my avatar anyway, and this helps them get a bit closer. That way I would have a drastic disparity when using both of them and switching between them." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
What Lin Wu didn't want was to have really good proficiency and skill with one body and getting too habituated to it. If that happened and for example, he switched to a different body, there was a chance he could make a mistake.
For example, fighting an enemy that was far stronger than him could cost him his life, if he made a mistake. He might be too used to the main body's higher strength and cultivation and thus causing him to act disproportionately to his strength when in the avatar body's
Lin Wu extended his tail and activated the sapphire meridians, using it to convert and amply his spirit Qi. The tip of the tail started to glow in a faint blue light and Lin Wu pressed it on the barrier of the platform.
Since he had a really good test subject right here, Lin Wu thought he may as well try it out and thus he did. Upon placing his tail on the barrier, at first, nothing happened, but about ten seconds later, the runes on the barrier started to part.
If one looked closer, one would see that the blue glow on his tail was pushing the spirit Qi contained within the runes of the barrier. It wasn't really fighting with it and thus didn't trigger any offensive reaction from the platform's barrier.
About a minute later, the part of the barrier where Lin Wu touched was completely devoid of ruins as it created an opening there. The rest of the structure of the Barrier was not affected at all, and was still stable.
This was a shocking thing as usually affecting a barrier like this could cause the rest to react as well. If one was lucky doing so, they might just encounter a trap that would activate but not hurt them. And if they were unlucky, only death would await them at the end.
Not to mention the barrier on the platform was nothing normal and was of a far higher quality and complexity than the other barrier formations that the cultivators might use.
"Damn! If even a barrier of this level is affected, then this technique is truly a top tiers technique. The creator of this technique was truly a genius if she managed to figure out something like this back then." Lin Wu exclaimed.
Feeling pleased with the progress that he had just done, Lin Wu nodded his head.
"I should deal with the Spirit Qi Reservoir pill as well. But first… I need to restore my spirit Qi." Lin Wu chuckled.
He coiled back up and cultivated for an hour before being able to replenish all of his spirit Qi and filling his Dantian to the full. If he continued to cultivate and went past this, this spirit Qi would just be used by his body to further his own cultivation base.
~huu~
"This should be enough… time to take out the pill." Lin Wu muttered before holding the pill between what looked like a pair of tweezers that had risen from his tail.
He then started to pour all of the spirit Qi that he had accumulated into his body. First came out the spirit Qi currently flowing in his meridians, which entered the Spirit Qi Reservoir pill. The pill trembled slightly in his tweezers and almost slipped out.
"Ah, need a better grip…" Lin Wu said, before transforming his tail to look like what was a scoop shape. He put the pill in there and folded the tail to cover it. Now if the pill trembled and jumped out of his grip, it would not fall on the ground, thereby ruining it all.
"There we go! Much better…" Lin Wu said as he continued the process after the little interruption.
The spirit Qi that was in his meridians was replenished by the spirit Qi in his Dantian as it triggered a never ending cycle of consumption. About fifteen minutes later, all of Lin Wu's spirit Qi had been consumed but even then the pill wasn't full!
~Sigh~
"Should have known… though in a way it is good since I'll be getting a far better supply of spirit Qi in case of an emergency." Lin Wu muttered to himself as he put away the pills and cultivated again.
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It took Lin Wu another hour to replenish his spirit Qi once again, but before he could continue putting it into the Spirit Qi reservoir pill, he noticed a change in the surroundings. Or rather, there were a lot of clouds below the platform.
These clouds weren't the same as before either and seemed to have a far darker color than the normal ones.
"Didn't expect to reach the Dread Coil Marsh so fast…" Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He opened the map and saw that they were currently at the edge of the Dread Coil Marsh, or rather, the southern edge of the Dread Coil Marsh. If it were not for the change in the spirit Qi concentration, Lin Wu might have not realized it either.
After being away from the Dread Coil marsh for these many days, Lin Wu had managed to get a feel of it and could tell the difference there was between the normal spirit Qi and the spirit Qi of the Dread Coil Marsh.
There was this suppressive feeling mixed into the spirit Qi of the Dread Coil Marsh that caused them to be unable to properly use the spirit sense and also the reason why there was interference in the system's scans.
This was all new information that Lin Wu had gotten due to the new data that the system had obtained till now. The data had been analyzed and that, combined with the previous data collected from the Dread Coil Marsh, was enough for it to come to this conclusion.
"System, can you find a way to overcome this interference now?" Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The system cannot bypass this interference, as it is also dependent on the host's own cultivation base. The system is restricted intrinsically and the parameters that do so are not currently within the limits of the host nor the system to change.
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After seeing the answer to the system, Lin Wu was lost in his thoughts. There were many things that appeared in his mind, though he was mostly questioning the creation of the system.
"Who could have been able to make something like this and how does the system actually work?" Lin Wu wondered.
But no matter how much he thought about it, Lin Wu knew that nothing would come out of him stressing over it. Even the system itself didn't know who it was that actually made it and thus it would be senseless for himself to spend too much time on it.
"I should focus on the matter at hand." Lin Wu said to himself before putting away the Spirit Qi Reservoir pill.
He couldn't fill the spirit Qi reservoir pill right now either, as he would need his spirit Qi later and it could get troublesome if he was lacking it when he needed it the most. While he could still use only a part of it for the pill, Lin Wu reckoned it would be better to shelve it for now.
"While I didn't expect the Platform to reach its destination this fast, I can't just continue doing what I was before and need to adapt." After saying this, Lin Wu walked to the edge of the platform and stared down.
While he couldn't see anything below him due to the clouds, Lin Wu could still use his radiation perception to get a sense of the area. Though there were several inconsistencies with them.
"System, show me the previously made maps." Lin Wu ordered.
With that, a few windows appeared in front of Lin Wu. These were the maps made by the few survivors who had managed to survive, traveling through the Dread Coil Marsh. While System had already assimilated these into its data banks, Lin Wu wanted to see the finer details that could only be seen by naked eyes.
After staring at it for five minutes, Lin Wu spoke again.
"Nope! Nothing. Looks like the system got it all… that was a waste of time." Lin Wu said to himself before dismissing the map windows.
~shua~
And just as he did that, he realized that the platform had started to slow down again.
"Oh? Is it close to its location?" Lin Wu wondered.
He looked from the edge of the platform but couldn't really see anything down there because of the clouds. Even his radiation perception wasn't that helpful at this moment. Lin Wu continued to observe for a while when he felt some movement behind him.
"Oh? You're awake," Lin Wu said upon seeing the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, who was now walking towards him.
"Are we at the Dread Coil Marsh already?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned.
"Yup, we are. We reached there way faster than I expected." Lin Wu answered.
The two beasts watched the clouds in silence as the platform slowed down little by little, until eventually coming to a halt.
"Looks like we're finally there! I wanna see what kind of a place the final location would be," Lin Wu said, feeling a bit excited.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle didn't respond and simply looked on as the platform started to descend. It passed through the clouds and ten seconds later; it had finally gone through them all.
"Oh, damn… didn't think it would be this place…" Lin Wu said with a surprised expression.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle looked with furrowed brows as well and scanned the large structure that was below them. The place below them was none other than the ruins where Lin Wu had left Shirong in!
Right now they got a bird's eye's view of the ruins and saw how big it truly was. The barriers that surrounded it were actually concealing its true size as they ended up distorting its appearance from others' vision.
"We went all this way only to end up back here… huh, who could have expected that…" Lin Wu muttered to himself, feeling strange.
The platform continued to descend and passed through the multiple barriers that surrounded the ruins with ease before finally settling down on four pillars similar to Jiao Dian city.
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Seeing that their final destination ended up being one of the very first ones they had been to, though not for the same reason, Lin Wu and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle didn't know what to say.
"Well… at least this saves me time and I can get done with Shirong as well." Lin Wu said before turning to the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle. "Do you feel anything here?"
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle closed her eyes and sensed the surroundings with her spirit sense and the bloodline resonance. She stayed like this for a minute before opening them, this time her pupils glowing.
"It's here… IT'S HERE! I CAN FEEL IT! ~PIIIII~" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle let out a cry of joy.
Lin Wu nodded his head and understood that the barrier formations might have been far more than what he had seen outside. The layers between which he had trapped Shirong were on the outermost part and were thus the easiest to get into.
Whereas the current layer they were in was the innermost one, and there were thirteen layers to the border from here, with each layer having a different strength and durability. It had taken Lin Wu a few minutes to open up an opening in the outermost layer, just from that, one could imagine how long it would take with each subsequent layer.
'Thankfully we have the platform that brought us here…' Lin Wu thought to himself.
"Let's get in! I can't hold back," The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated and turned around to head towards the large archway in the main structure of the ruins.
Unlike the other places, the pillars in this part were made such that the platform would end up in the right center and the level of it would match the entrant. In fact, without the platform, this place would like unequal.
The archway here was over thirty meters tall, allowing both Lin Wu and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle to enter easily. Once the two of them were in, they could sense the density of the air increase and become heavy.
"W-what… what is this?" Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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WARNING!: The air in this area is suffused with a dense interference field.
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Seeing the system's warning, Lin Wu became a bit more alert. He didn't know what was the limit to which the system could handle the interference field. If the system worked similar to the electronics in his past life, there was a chance it might just stop working completely till he was here.
"Let's just hope that doesn't happen…" Lin Wu muttered to himself.
The area in front was dark, but a minute later, they felt the ground tremble.
~RUMBLE~
Two streaks of light came from the arch way from where they had just entered. These streaks of light traveled through the flooring and seemed to have come from the platform directly.
~Zoom~
The two streaks of light reached a pedestal that was located about fifty meters away from where they were and went perpendicular towards the walls to the sides. Lin Wu and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle were completely unable to use their spirit sense here currently and thus needed to depend on their sight.
The interference field was finally at that point where even their meridians seemed to be in a little bit of distress. This was not a good sign, and if they were being affected by it already while being at the Nascent Soul realm and the Dao Shell realm, there was a great chance it might just kill others that were at a lower cultivation base.
"Whoa! Where are they going?" Lin Wu questioned.
The two streaks of light climbed up the wall and entered the hundreds of patterns that were made on them. As the streaks filled them up, the hall started to light up.
~Huala~
About ten seconds later, the entire area was lit up and the two beasts could not see everything there. In front of them was the pedestal that had just redirected the lights. On the sides of the two were tall pillars that supporting the ceiling and at the very end they saw something else.
Lin Wu had fully expected that there would be a statue of the vermilion bird here too, but it was not so. Instead of that, there was just a large altar at the very end of the hall. This altar also had the patterns, but this one seemed to be a bit more different from the ones on the walls.
"Huh? Aren't these… written in Dao Script?" Lin Wu recognized.
He stared as the system translated it all for him. But that did not catch his attention for long, as that was taken up by the container that was kept on the altar.
The container looked to be made out of some kind of a crystal and was open at the top, like a glass. The only difference between it and glass was that it was massive in size and thus worthy of being called a container.
The crystal was unlike the transparent ones and was opaque instead. But from it, both Lin Wu and Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle could feel a delicious smell.
"What is this?" Lin Wu couldn't help but lick his lips.
~PIIII~
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle had her eyes locked on the prize and let out another cry.
"That's it! That's the bloodline of the Vermillion bird!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle proclaimed.
Lin Wu narrowed his eyes and zoomed up on the container, seeing that it had a bright red liquid kept in it. The liquid was flowing like dense lava and flames also danced around the edges of the container.
"Is that… Blood?" Lin Wu questioned.
The two of them got closer and finally confirmed that it was blood… but the question stood what or rather whose blood this was. Lin Wu felt a bit nervous while the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle seemed to be excited.
'System, try and see if you can scan this.' Lin Wu asked.
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~Ding~
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SCANNER ACTIVATED: Error (interference)
WARNING: The scanner range will be limited to the one meter radius of the host and touch.
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~Sigh~
Seeing the system's words, Lin Wu couldn't help sigh. He got closer without asking and let the system scan the blood in the container. The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle did the same and they came face to face with the thing.
~shua~
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle's eyes lit up as she almost pounced on the large container.
"It's blood! It's the bloodline Essence of the Vermillion bird… I can sense it!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said out loud.
Lin Wu's eyes went wide upon hearing this. He knew what this meant.
'Just the crystals before were strong enough to push her to this limit. What would happen with a container this big…' Lin Wu wondered to himself.
~Ding~
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SCAN COMPLETE: Substance identified to be Refined Essence Blood. Information about the species cannot be confirmed, but according to extrapolated data, it is likely to be that of the Vermillion bird.
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Seeing the confirmation, Lin Wu was shocked.
'No wonder it seems so tempting… it is literally the essence blood of the Vermillion bird. But how the hell did it end up here? This must have been intentionally built and put.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
~PIIII~
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle let out a cry, unable to hold herself back and dunked her head in the container of essence blood.
~shua~
It was as if her mouth had turned into a vacuum and sucked in all of the essence of blood in five seconds. Once she was done, she lifted her head with a pleased expression. Lin Wu on the other hand, watched on, wondering if there would be any change in her body now.
But even after five minutes, nothing happened.
"Huh? Is everything okay?" Lin Wu wondered.
The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle did not respond to him though and stayed in her position while keeping her eyes closed. Lin Wu understood that she must be trying to assimilate the essence blood or something like that.
"Looks like this will take a long time… I should get other things done in the meantime…" Lin Wu said before looking around the hall.
After about ten minutes of search though, he didn't really find anything in this particular hall and it was relatively empty.
"Guess this hall was only meant for the essence blood." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
"Still, it is not like there aren't the other halls. I should check them out too…" Lin Wu said before leaving the hall.
Back on the platform outside, Lin Wu looked to the two sides and randomly picked to go left. There were several structures there, most of which were collapsed. Thankfully, since he had left the main hall, the dense interference field was no longer there and Lin Wu could use his spirit sense.
It spread around and checked the area. Despite its reduced range, it was quite useful. Lin Wu was able to find several old spirit tools and weapons that had been degraded by time. They were unusable and thus were left behind by him.
Though Lin Wu did end up finding several old murals that showed some history of this place.
"System, scan all the murals, records and data you find here and analyze it to find a conclusion." Lin Wu ordered.
"Affirmative." The system responded shortly.
Lin Wu continued his search and found an intact building.
"Let's see what we got here…" Lin Wu muttered and opened the doors.
The doors were made of stone like the other places, and were quite heavy. Though for Lin Wu, they were nothing difficult.
~whoosh~
The moment the doors were fully opened, Lin Wu felt a gust of spirit Qi hit his face.
"Whoa! That's a lot of spirit Qi." Lin Wu said.
But that was not all, as he could also smell a fragrant scent coming from inside. The building was dark, but Lin Wu simply made his body glow to make it easy for him to see. Finally, once he was inside, Lin Wu realized what this place was.
"A Pill repository!" Lin Wu exclaimed.
This was exactly the kind of place that he had been looking for and now he had finally found it. The gust of spirit Qi was a sign that there were things rich in spirit Qi here. Lin Wu swept his spirit sense around and spotted several pill boxes, bottles, vials, gourds, and pouches kept on the various shelves and containers.
"BINGO!!" Lin Wu exclaimed upon seeing them all.
While there were some damaged containers here and several pills that had degraded over time, a majority were still fine for him.
"Hang on… System these expired pills… I can still eat them for spirit Qi, right? Even if their medicinal efficacy is gone?" Lin Wu questioned the system.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The host has resistance to toxins and thus can handle the pill toxins of the expired alchemical pills. Alchemical pills have different lives and some become stronger the more time passes, while some degrade in quality.
The ones that degrade usually lose their unique medical perpetuity but will still have the spirit Qi that exists in them by default.
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Seeing the answer of the system, Lin Wu showed a big toothy smile.
"HAHAHA! This should be enough for a lot!" Lin Wu said before collecting all of the pills.
It took him about an hour just to do that because he had to be careful with the pills. He had already shrunk his body to do this, but he still ended up damaging some of them. Still, it was a loss Lin Wu was willing to take.
"Alright system, sort out the pills according to the categories we had decided on previously and as for the expired ones, use them up for the system's own spirit qi storage." Lin Wu ordered.
In the next moment, Lin Wu felt a pulse of energy in his body, which came from the pills that had been taken in by the system.
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The spirit Qi taken in from the pills was slightly different than the normal spirit Qi. This spirit Qi had hints of foul Qi that was produced from the pill toxins of the pill. Normally, a cultivator should not eat pills such as these, but Lin Wu was an exception.
Not only did his body have great resistance to toxins, but it could also use its ability to use radiation and prevent the foul Qi from entering his meridians. There were easily thousands of alchemical pills in the repository that were expired and thus provided Lin Wu with a massive amount of spirit Qi.
~Ding~
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SPIRIT QI OBTAINED: 541,052 units [liquid spirit qi]
SPIRIT QI STORAGE: 1,971,222 units [liquid spirit qi]
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With the spirit Qi added from the pills, the system's spirit Qi storage had increased once more. Lin Wu's main body had mostly been cultivating directly and not by killing others and thus it was not taken to the system's spirit Qi storage, instead entering the body directly.
Even for the Avatar, Lin Wu had mostly been absorbing spirit Qi directly and thus the system did not have a good chance to increase its storage. But now that the pills were consumed, Lin Wu had a large storage of spirit Qi to use for later.
"Ahh! Perfect!" Lin Wu said upon consuming all of the spirit Qi.
He checked the couple of windows that had popped up and saw that they were about the pills that they had just obtained. Lin Wu had gotten over ten thousand pills here, though most of them were not something that he could use.
For some reason, the majority of the pills here were those of healing type rather than the ones that could be used for cultivation. And the ones that were indeed used for cultivation were of a far lower quality than would come in handy for Lin Wu.
"Was this place perhaps a hospital of some kind?" Lin Wu wondered.
Having searched the entire place, Lin Wu went out and went to look for other places. After about twenty minutes, he found another place that had some spirit Qi fluctuations. This place was buried under the rubble and thus was hidden from the direct sight.
~Crumble~
~thud~
Lin Wu used his tail to sweep the rubble aside and opened the path to the structure. It seemed like the area that he intended to go to was buried underground and the rubble on top of it was from the building it originally belonged to.
"Damn, the entrance is small." Lin Wu said upon seeing the staircase that was evidently made for humans.
"Nothing a little elbow grease wouldn't fix," Lin Wu said before ripping apart the entrance to make it big enough for him to pass through.
Lin Wu was an expert in digging and drilling, and thus this little excavation was nothing to him. In less than a minute, Lin Wu had expanded the staircase enough for him to reach the very bottom of it.
Upon reaching there, the first thing Lin Wu saw was a bunch of corpses. This made Lin Wu furrow his brows and look around.
"The interference is also strong here and thus my spirit sense could not enter, but I didn't expect this to be here…" Lin Wu muttered.
He increased the brightness of his body and looked with his eyes. In total, there were eighteen corpses in this room, some of which were still intact and some that were mere skeletons. Lin Wu went to check up on each corpse, one by one assessing their condition.
Most of these were skeletons and thus Lin Wu could only let the system tell what must have happened.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: These corpses have died from sprint Qi depletion; all of them.
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"Huh? All of them? There must be some kind of a formation that must have caused this. There is no other way it could have happened." Lin Wu said.
He then looked at the three corpses that were still intact. These corpses evidently had a high cultivation base, or they would not have been able to last this long. Plus, since there were no injuries on them, that seemed to be the most likely option.
Though one of the Nascent Soul realm corpses seemed a bit familiar to Lin Wu.
"Wait, a minute… could this be… Ji Quan? Shirong's uncle?" Lin Wu said upon seeing it.
"System, see if they match up." Lin Wu ordered.
Since the system had the vital status data of Shirong, comparing relations between two people was easy for it.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: This corpse has a 46% similarity to Shirong and comparing the facial features is likely to be that of Ji Quan.
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Hearing the confirmation from the system, Lin Wu furrowed his brows and checked the corpses to see if they had anything with them.
"Huh? Nothing on the corpses. No spatial storage ring nor any spirit tool…" Lin Wu muttered, finding this to be weird.
This told him that whoever killed this probably took the items with them.
"But wait, if they managed to get in here, then they must have found a way to overcome the barriers. What layer is this in?" Lin Wu said before checking the map and fining that he was in the third layer from the outside, just one layer behind where Shirong was, the only difference was that Shirong was in a different direction.
"This is pretty far out. If I managed to make a hole in the barrier, then others must have been able to do the same. They must have some method like a spirit tool or a formation master that did this, otherwise, they would have not been able to enter." Lin Wu inferred.
Lin Wu didn't touch the corpses now, as he wanted to leave them for Shirong. He now had a different plan in mind for Shirong, and decided to check the rest of the area. Going further, Lin Wu saw a few more rooms that were locked.
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