Chapter 550: Onwards To The Dark Bloom Caverns
With the short battle over, both the parties were satisfied. Lin Wu was satisfied with his defenses while the Demon Spine Ape king was satisfied with the power that Lin Wu showed. He now knew what to look forward to in the future and didn’t mind following someone that was this strong.
“Now then… I’ll head back. I have some other things I need to get to.” Lin Wu spoke.
“That’s fine. We’ll head back too… need to let him heal now.” The Slim Arm Ape king said.
Lin Wu nodded his head and flew away to another destination. The place he was heading to was none other than the territory of the Twin Lights Liger king. The location was to the north east of the sixth ring, though the cave that the king himself lived in was more to the center.
The territory of the Lamp Light Ligers and the Twin Lights liger king was very wide and thus there were many places of conflict between them and the other rulers. In the recent years, the conflicts had pretty much mellowed out due to Lin Wu’s takeover.
The last major conflict was when the Beetle king and the two ape kings blocked the Lamp Light Ligers from acting when Lin Wu was killing the Olive Viper King. After that day, the conflicts started to reduce.
Then when the new Nascent soul realm beasts started to breakthrough in the forest, the Lamp Light Ligers were forced to stay in their territory. Right now, it was just the Twin Lights Liger king’s influence that was holding the territory in place.
Once the territory lost its owner, it wouldn’t take long for the order to collapse.
“Hmm… let’s see,” Lin Wu muttered and hovered in the sky.
His vision and spirit sense scanned over the entire area and went as far as possible. This gave Lin Wu an idea of what beasts there were and who was currently watching him as well.
The system had already updated the map, but to him, observing them on his own was important for details as well. Without it, things could turn problematic.
“The Lamp Light Liger Kings are spread around rather evenly. Seems like they aren’t staying in groups anymore. This is strange…” Lin Wu understood.
Lin Wu’s aura was now contained and he had surrounded himself with radiation. This prevented any spirit Qi waves from going and alerting the others. Plus, he was high up in the sky, hidden in the clouds, thus the Lamp Light Ligers could not spot him anyway.
Lin Wu continued traveling and soon found a suitable location to land. It was distant from all the lamp light ligers and was close to the Dark Bloom Caverns as well.
~thud~
Lin Wu controlled his body to make as little noise as possible and landed before moving towards the largest cave there was in the Dark Bloom Caverns. Lin Wu could faintly feel a strange aura in the air that got stronger the closer he approached the caverns.
After a few minutes he finally reached the main cave of the Dark Bloom caverns.
“Alright system, scan it all.” Lin Wu ordered.
~DING~
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SCANNER: Activated
ERROR!: Interference detected
SCAN: Failed!
NOTIFICATION: The host will need to manually scan around with his spirit sense and the system will pick up the passive data from that. Active scan will be disabled until the interference is removed.
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“Hmm… the place certainly has a lot more to it than we thought. At least the system isn’t completely in the blind this time though, which means it has improved.” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He spread his spirit sense just as the system had told him to and entered the cave. The cave was tall enough for him to easily move around with his head raised, which was a bit unusual.
“Caves as tall as these are rather uncommon… was this perhaps made by someone?” Lin Wu wondered and took a closer look at the ceiling and the walls.
Most of the places were covered with either moss or looked like normal rocky walls. But after going a bit deeper, Lin Wu started to see the signs of human interactions.
“These marks… they’re certainly made by tools. Plus this shape… it’s too smooth for it to be natural.” Lin Wu said, seeing the corners of one of the tunnels.
By now, he was sure that there were humans that had come around later. This was after the tomb had been built by the Sky Bright Daoist.
‘These marks are certainly not made by the Sky bright Daoist. He wouldn’t use normal tools to make a cave like this. Instead, it looks like someone tried to expand on an already existing cave.’ Lin Wu guessed.
After working for about five more minutes, Lin Wu finally came across the reason for the Dark Bloom Cavern’s name.
“Whoa!” Lin Wu exclaimed, seeing the blue light illuminating the inner area of the caverns.
The light came from a special type of moss that was growing on the ceiling and the walls of the cavern. In addition to the moss, some large mushrooms could also be seen growing on the floor.
These were glowing as well, but their illumination was a bit weaker than the moss. The size of these mushrooms was the same as any small mushroom and they were spread around the rocks that were scattered in here.
“There is no information about the flora here, is there, system?” Lin Wu questioned.
~DING~
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DATA DECRYPTED: Incomplete Data node obtained
TARGETS IDENTIFIED: 1. Dark Bloom Moss
2. Dark Bloom Mushrooms.
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“Huh… that was rather simple. Though this new information… it’s from the two disciples, isn’t it?” Lin Wu asked.
“Affirmative” The system responded.
Lin Wu nodded his head and continued onward, though he didn’t forget to take some samples of both the new things.
‘This place is really big… I’ve already been traveling for an hour now.’ Lin Wu thought to himself when finally he appeared in another larger section of the cavern.
