Chapter 551: A Deep Maze
The entire Dark Bloom Caverns were a series of tunnels and caves that were joined by passageways. While it had many entrances, there were only a few paths that actually led to the depths of it.
There were hundreds of smaller entrances that were blind on the other end, and tens of major entrances that led deeper. Though only the main entrance was said to go to the very depths of it.
But beasts rarely ever entered it. The current reason for it was the Twin Lights Liger King, but before him, those that entered it all just died. There may have been some survived by those beasts were lost and never heard from again.
Lin Wu may have been one of the only beasts that had managed to come this far in hundreds of years.
“This is certainly made by a man.” Lin Wu said upon observing the cave he was currently in.
There were carvings on the wall that looked decorative in nature, though some faded runes were remnants of various formations that once dressed this cave. The runes were in Dao Script and readable for Lin Wu, though he could not really make out the formations right away.
“These should be the older formations that linked on the surface. They have really degraded over time…” Lin Wu said upon seeing this.
After about a minute of investigation later, Lin Wu asked the system. “Is this the reason why the tomb’s formation is unable to link to the Dark Bloom Caverns?”
~DING~
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ANSWER: No, the formations here are auxiliary input and channeling formations. The main formation circuits that link to the Tomb’s formation array are deep underground. According to the system’s recent estimates, after the new data was obtained, the Dark Bloom Caverns might be over twenty kilometers deep.
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“Damn, that’s deep.” Lin Wu said upon hearing this.
~DING~
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NOTIFICATION: Would the host like to see the theoretical map- Y/N?
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“Yes! Yes! Why’s that even a question? Show me.” Lin Wu ordered.
~DING~
In the next moment, the map window expanded in front of Lin Wu and he could see several new layers being added to it. On the right side, he could see that the lawyers went at least a hundred meters deep.
“Hmm… so the difference between each layer is about a hundred meters. This means there should be around 200 if not more layers.” Lin Wu hypothesized.
On the map, Lin Wu could only see the current layer and the one below it. All the others were currently hidden as he had not explored it himself. The interference prevented them from being shown.
“Though… where the heck is the Twin Lights Liger king? I’m already quite deep, just how far deep does he live? Is he a liger or is he a mole?” Lin Wu wondered.
Lin Wu even wondered if he should drill straight down, but he decided against that. The reasons for that were several, the first being the fact that he didn’t know what was below him.
The second was that going straight down might mean that he misses the Twin Lights Liger king. If he was in one of the layers and Lin Wu did not appear near him, he might just end up missing him.
Rather than that, it was better for him to follow the path that already existed. Finding the Twin Lights Liger King was one of the important tasks that he needed to do. Only that beast knew the secrets of the Dark Bloom Caverns and the millennium forest itself.
Lin Wu ended up traveling for about an entire day and kept on going deeper and deeper. It didn’t take long for him to realize that the depths were no less than a maze and if he didn’t check the map again and again, he would get lost.
“Fudge, wrong turn again!” Lin Wu cursed as he checked the map.
Currently, the map could only update passive with the use of his spirit sense. It was similar to the video games of his past life in which one needed to explore an area to reveal the parts that were hidden behind the ‘fog of war’.
Often times what was happening was that Lin Wu would take a long route and eventually realize that he ended up circling to a part that he had already been too. A lot of the routes were looping, and some were simply dead ends.
There were dangers here too of course, but to Lin Wu, they were pretty much nothing. The dangers being, poisonous and acidic plants, mosses and small insect beasts that were weak but could probably kill Nascent soul realm beats just from their sheer numbers.
Lin Wu could also tell that the small beasts here had little to no intelligence and were mostly acting on instincts. If they found something that looked like prey they would swarm them and attack.
Their bites and stings would probably be deadly, but for Lin Wu’s crystalline body they were nothing. In fact, most of the insect beats didn’t even register him as a living beast. The ones that attacked were just those that attacked based on movement.
Then there were other dangerous areas such as falling stalactites. These were sharp and had condensed over thousand of years. Any movement that caused vibrations over a certain limit would trigger these to fall.
The Stalactites themselves were easy to dodge if they were limited in number, but the problem was they covered the entire ceiling, thus leaving barely any room for one to dodge.
Lin Wu tested out a couple of them and found them to be harder than iron.
“Damn, these can easily kill even Core Condensation realm cultivators and beasts. A Nascent soul realm beast that has weaker defenses might get injured as well.” Lin Wu analyzed.
But it was these very stalactites that showed Lin Wu the path and where to go. Lin Wu noticed that there were some places where the stalactites were missing, and it looked like they had fallen already.
“This should probably be the path that the Twin Lights Liger King took.” Lin Wu stated.
