Chapter 602 - A Different World?
Jing Luo was taken aback by Lin Mu's words, and wondered where he was going. Little Shrubby though did not ask anything; his trust in Lin Mu was something which could not be expressed in words.
But what Jing Luo was expecting did not happen. He had thought that Lin Mu was going to fly to some place, but instead of that, he disappeared into thin air.
"Huh? Where the heck did he go?" Jing Luo said out loud, feeling confused.
He looked at Little Shrubby with a questioning gaze and only received a gesture that could be considered being a shrug. Little Shrubby could still sense the presence of his master due to the link, and thus did not worry.
And neither could he speak to explain this to Jing Luo, thus he took the easiest option. Just shrug his shoulders in ignorance. While little Shrubby had spent ten months with Jing Luo, he wasn't particularly genial with the man.
He had held a grudge ever since his defeat when they first fought, and had kept it up. He had found him many times after that but could only end up in a draw each time. Little Shrubby thought that he was improving, but could still not come out on top.
The only reason he had only become tolerant of Jing Luo was that the man had made him the four new prosthetic metal hands. They were also spirit tools and were actually at the mid grade.
Since little Shrubby had reached the Nascent Soul realm as well, it was easy for him to control multiple spirit tools at once like this. Most beasts were at a disadvantage naturally when it came to using spirit weapons and spirit tools due to their different physiologies.
This also included the fact that their usage of spirit sense was inherently different. Most beasts used their spirit sense directly and did not even refine it. They mostly depended on their natural talent and the passive growth of the spirit sense to extend its range.
This led to them not having the finer motor skills needed for the spirit sense to use different spirit weapons and spirit tools. Humans though were always using different tools and weapon with their hand and thus using spirit sense to do the same came a bit more naturally to them.
Overall, it was just a question of habit and practice. Now that little Shrubby had been using the prosthetic metal hand, he had gotten habituated to it as well and could use it the same as any human would use their hand.
And with the addition of the four more prosthetic hands. Little Shrubby's capabilities had increased as well. The main thing he was happy about was the fact that he could now cook five things at once.
Jing Luo was unaware of what was running in Little Shrubby's mind, and looked at the place where Lin Mu had disappeared from. Had it not been for the collapsing minor plane, Jing Luo would have been able to tell that there were some spatial disturbances where Lin Mu had disappeared at.
But the spatial fluctuations coming from all over the minor plane were basically muddying the water and making it hard for him to perceive. If he was in fact able to perceive it, he would realize that Lin Mu had used Fade.
After using Fade, Lin Mu appeared in the paralleled world. He knew that the parallel world was like a more even mirror of the real world and the things that were hard to see were easily visible in here.
Since it was hard to tell where the spatial Qi was coming from in the depths of the fissure, Lin Mu reckoned using fade should solve his problem. And when he finally did, he could see the changes there.
"What's that? A sphere of some kind?" Lin Mu questioned.
Below Lin Mu, where the fissure was supposed to be in the real world, he could see a large illusory sphere. It was kind of like the black dots that showed the flaws in the spatial fabric or the moving ones, which designated the teleportation channels.
The only difference was that this sphere was not black and was instead white, along with being much bigger than that. Even from this distance, the sphere looked to be of a size the same as that of the mountain in the minor plane.
Lin Mu could only imagine how big it would be if he actually got closer to it. He tried to think what it could be, but could not reach a conclusion.
"What is that, senior?" Lin Mu asked, unable to think of anything.
Xukong who had been silently cultivating for a while, opened his eyes upon hearing Lin Mu's words. He used his link with Lin Mu and peered into the outside world before seeing where Lin Mu was standing.
"The parallel world? And… a world?" Xukong said.
As soon as Lin Mu heard senior Xukong's words, his eyes went wide.
"That's a world senior?!" Lin Mu questioned, surprised, visible in his tone.
"It does seem like it… but there is something wrong with it." Xukong replied.
"What could be it?" Lin Mu asked.
"Can't tell from here. There are far too many things that could have happened, just observing like this is not enough. But seeing as you are in the Parallel world and are able to see this world, it means it is quite close to the real world." Xukong spoke.
"It's not my world though, is it?" Lin Mu asked for confirmation.
"No, it's definitely not that. This is a different world… perhaps a forgotten one, or one that has been isolated." Xukong replied.
Lin Mu was intrigued by this and wondered what that world would be like. He knew that the image of the world he was seeing in the parallel world was not really accurate nor clear and he would have to see it in the actual void to know what it looked like.
~Crack~
But while he was thinking this, he saw a black crack spreading in the sky above him.