Chapter 253: Restricted Entry?
“So there is no way to enter the Dark Bloom caverns?” Lin Wu questioned.
“No, there is… the entrance is open. But, the other beasts will not allow someone to enter.” The Slim arm ape answered.
“Why is that? I heard the entry was free, it was just that due to danger no one entered.” Lin Mu asked.
~Sigh~
“It used to be like that, but then two years ago when the stars fell from the sky something changed. If a beast went into the Dark Bloom caves the other beasts would suffer bad luck.
This has happened twice such that misfortune descended on the entire forest. The first time it was a random core condensation beast that wanted to test its luck. But when it went in, a terrible sound was heard coming from the caves.
The sound was strange and we could hear it nonstop. No matter what we tried the sound would not stop and it would keep on ringing in our heads.” The Slim arm ape answered.
“That is strange… and what about the second time?” Lin Wu questioned.
“Back when the Olive Viper king was battling the previous owner of his seat, the battle had occurred near the Dark Bloom caves. This had scared the previous rulers’ subordinates, who ended up running into the Dark bloom caves to escape the attack.
After so many beasts entered it, our misfortune began again. This time not only was there that sound, but a strange odor emanated from there which made us restless. No matter what we tried, we couldn’t sleep or rest for a week.
Some beasts went mad directly and started raging. We ended up having to forcefully kill them, or they would have triggered a beast swarm, which is not what we wanted at that moment.
The beast’s numbers had already reduced due to the stars falling and if the beast tide occurred, it was likely the humans would send their experts to cull the beasts. With all the problems we already had we didn’t want the humans adding to it.” The Slim arm ape king explained.
Lin Wu did not know that all this had happened and wondered why the mole beast and the beetle beast servants had not told him this.
“Wait this matter… do the beasts from the third ring know about it?” Lin Wu questioned.
“No, they don’t. We don’t involve less intelligent beasts in things like these when they can’t understand it. They can’t get near the dark bloom caves anyway.” The slim arms ape answered.
‘No wonder they didn’t know… they were simply too weak to know at that time. And I also didn’t ask the swan and sparrow beast about it. They have been living in the fifth ring for longer and should have probably known about it.’ Lin Wu thought to himself.
Having obtained the answer, Lin Wu knew it would not be good to pursue more about it now. If the mandate was anything concrete, then something like this should not have happened. It was clear that whatever happened two years ago, it was related to the meteor.
‘Hmm… what could it actually be? Strange sounds and foul odor?’ Lin Wu wondered to himself.
“Alright then. I guess we can drop this for now. When you need me, you can contact me using this.” Lin Wu said before making another communicator like he had done for the beetle king.
The slim arm ape king looked at it with amazement.
“A communication jade slip? You can make them?” The slim arm ape king questioned.
“Yeah, just think of it as one of my abilities.” Lin Wu said before handing the communication jade slip to the slim arm ape king.
“I trust you know how to use it?” Lin Wu asked.
The slim arm ape king nodded his head as he spoke, “yes I do.”
“Alright then. I’ll go back to my place. If you want to mutate your subordinates, do as I instructed and tell them to ahead to the tomb, I live there now.” Lin Wu said, much to the shock of the Slim arm ape.
With this final shock, Lin Wu flew away to his ‘nest’. He had another plan hatching in his mind, but he would need to wait for a while to enact it. If he did it rightaway, he was sure the suspicion would directly fall on him.
Even though the Slim arm ape had told him not to go to the Dark bloom caves, Lin Wu was not going to listen to it. He had an idea that perhaps whatever was causing the disturbances; it didn’t want them to see what was in the depths.
And since it happed after the meteor fell, it was related to that as well. Lin Wu would wait a few days for the situation to normalize before he would make his way there. He already knew where the caves actually were and he was just asking the rulers as he had thought that they may know more than others.
That very hunch turned out to be true as Lin Wu would now be aware of these ‘dangerous’ that would happen. Besides, Lin Wu knew that if he really wanted to get in, there was no way they could stop him anyway.
He was not going to go from the surface, he was a worm. He would just dig his way in and nobody would know unless they met him on the way there. Lin Wu also had the backup of using the teleportation formation to return to the tomb if he was ever in danger.
That was his safety net that he would keep handy at all times. It would also help him hide if he ever aroused the suspicion of the other rulers. If they claimed he went there, he could just teleport back to the tomb.
~Sigh~
“I guess I’ll just cultivate for a while more… I got a lot of spirit Qi to refine anyway…” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
