Chapter 385 - Soul Nurturing Stone
Chapter 385: Soul Nurturing Stone
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Chapter 385: soul nurturing stone
This beetle didn’t seem to have learned any martial arts, and only knew some simple moves.
Its most powerful racial talent was its azure flames and hard carapace. None of these were able to cause any trouble to Lin Mo..
After a few rounds, Lin Mo split the beetle into two.
In the next moment, bright red blood flowed out, bringing with it a scorching temperature, and steam was still coming out from it.
“This inner core seems to be a little different…”
Looking at the inner core floating up from the beetle’s body, Lin Mo kept it into the system space, intending to take a look at what kind of creature it was.
[ divine flame bug’s inner core. This type of bug has a powerful bloodline, and is born from absorbing innate spiritual energy. Its grade is spirit level rank 4. ]
As the system’s voice fell, Lin Mo was a little surprised.
A demonic beast at level 31 of the dragonification realm could actually reach spirit level rank four with its inner core.
“Absorbing innate spiritual energy. Doesn’t that mean that this cave is very likely to have some kind of innate treasure…”
Lin Mo’s interest was piqued. After bypassing the divine flame bug, he continued to advance deeper into the cave.
As he went deeper, the surrounding space gradually expanded. He didn’t expect that there was such a cave underground.
This place was already extremely hot. The ground was emitting hot air, as if it would spontaneously combust at any moment.
“Roar…”
A roar came from afar. Following that, a deep red giant ape appeared. Its body was burning with flames. It was over a hundred feet tall and had a ferocious look on its face.
Its thick skin was surrounded by scarlet flames. This was definitely an extremely powerful ferocious beast.
Lin Mo was slightly surprised. He knew that they had arrived at the deepest part of this place. This giant ape should be the strongest expert in this place.
“You should be able to speak, right?”Lin Mo asked, wanting to find out the truth from this giant ape’s mouth.
“Die.”
However, just as Lin Mo finished speaking, the giant ape roared and charged towards him. Its huge fist enlarged in front of Lin Mo, and the terrifying power caused Lin Mo’s skin to feel a tingling pain.
“This ferocious beast is only one step away from reaching the Nirvana stage…”
Lin Mo was shocked. He started a huge battle with the huge ape. The battle between their physical bodies caused the earth to shake and the mountains to shake. The commotion caused by their exchange almost caused the entire place to collapse.
“It only knows some simple moves. It doesn’t know how to control a magic tool, doesn’t know martial arts, and doesn’t even have a cultivation technique…”
After a round of battle, Lin Mo crushed the huge ape. His palms threw out two flames. This was the condensation of the flames, exploding through the huge ape’s arms.
Then, his spiritual energy condensed into a huge hand and tightly grabbed onto the giant ape.
The giant ape roared incessantly. However, its arms were broken by Lin Mo and it lost 70-80% of its strength. There was no room for it to resist.
Although this giant ape was very strong and had the strength of a half-step nirvana stage, it was not a match for Lin Mo. Furthermore, it had not even learned any martial arts or cultivation techniques.
“How Strange, how did you grow to this stage without any cultivation techniques?”
Lin Mo asked. Logically speaking, if one did not learn any cultivation techniques, they would at most be able to step into the dragonification stage, stopping at more than ten stages.
However, this giant ape’s strength was already about to break through to Nirvana stage.
“You… how can you be so strong…”the giant ape roared, and after it could not break free, it said angrily.
“It’s not your turn to ask. First, tell me, what is this place and what is so mysterious about it?”Lin Mo asked. The most important thing was to ask what kind of supreme treasure was here.
The giant ape was still struggling and refused to answer. In the end, Lin Mo pressed the desolation ancient sword between its brows and asked again, “Answer my question. Otherwise, I don’t mind killing you and exploring on my own.”
“Roar.”
Suddenly, the giant ape’s body began to expand continuously. The palm condensed by spiritual power was broken, and its face was filled with fear.
“Self-destruct?”
Lin Mo frowned, and the ancient sword of desolation stabbed down, ending the giant ape’s life.
“Rumble.”
A violent explosion sounded, and the giant ape’s body exploded. Although Lin Mo had acted immediately, he was still a step too late.
Terrifying Flames engulfed the cave, and the area within was limited. If Lin Mo did not have the protection of the DAO Flame, he would have suffered serious injuries.
He did not expect the giant ape to be so decisive. It would rather die than reveal the truth to him.
“That’s not right. Its expression before it died shouldn’t have been voluntary. Could it have been controlled?”Lin Mo muttered to himself.
When he recalled the giant APE’s expression when it self-destructed, it was filled with fear. Self-destructing wasn’t its will.
“Eh, what’s That?”
While he was thinking, Lin Mo discovered something strange. The Giant Ape’s explosion had doubled the area.
At the same time, Lin Mo also discovered that there was something strange in the deepest part of the area. When he got closer, he realized that it was a stone carving.
“What Strange Runes.”
Looking at these runes, Lin Mo felt that it was very strange.
In his heart, he even had an impulse to charge forward and fuse his soul into it…
“So Strange.”
Lin Mo muttered to himself. Naturally, he wouldn’t be able to fuse his soul into it rashly. However, in this cave, this was the only thing that seemed to have some value…
“I’ll try to put it into the system space.”
He tried to activate the system space, but he didn’t expect that he would really be able to put the stone carvings into it.
At the same time, a notification came from the system space.
[ the ancient stone carvings have existed for more than 145,000 years. It was carved from the soul nurturing stone. It contains innate spiritual energy and can nourish the soul. It will last for ten thousand years. ]
[ the remnant soul that was nurtured in it has already dissipated. Only a remnant consciousness was left. The moment it controlled the giant ape to self-destruct, it had already dissipated. ]
“A single consciousness can control a half-step-to nirvana stage giant ape?”
Lin Mo was shocked. At the same time, he thought that perhaps the bugs in this entire area were controlled by this consciousness…
“It should be 145,000 years ago, when an ultimate expert died. The remnant soul hid in the soul nurturing stone, but it was ultimately unable to escape the wear and tear of time…”
After understanding the cause and effect, Lin Mo sighed.
A supreme expert had died, and his footprints had completely disappeared.
However, what he didn’t expect was that this dangerous land had existed for 140,000 years.
In fact, that supreme expert had already existed before he came here, and its age was immeasurable…
“It’s time to leave.”
After a simple inspection, Lin Mo chose to retreat. Jiang Xiyue and the others were still waiting outside.
As expected, when Lin Mo came out, the insects outside had already dispersed. Jiang Xiyue and the others stood guard at the entrance of the cave, waiting anxiously.
“Ah, brother is out.”
Lin Die was the first to sense Lin Mo’s aura and said happily.
Jiang Xiyue stood up. Seeing that Lin Mo was fine, she heaved a sigh of relief and said, “What’s in there? You’ve been gone for so long?”
“I think I know what’s going on,”Lin Mo said.
He gave a rough description of the situation in the cave. The reason why the swarm of insects attacked them was probably because they had sensed Xiaodie’s aura.
Their goal? Perhaps it was because Xiaodie’s true form was the huancai fire demon, and the butterfly was also a type of insect. Therefore, they wanted to control it.
This was the control of the consciousness of the soul-retaining stone. For tens of thousands of years, it should have dissipated a long time ago. It could only act instinctively.
“Spirit nurturing stone. That’s not bad. You can give it to an alchemist to refine a cauldron of spirit pills that nourish the soul,”Jiang Xiyue commented. She had already gained something as soon as she entered.
“What grade is this spirit nurturing stone?”Jiang Xiyue asked.