Chapter 84 - A Friendly Offering
The masked man seemed completely out of breath and it was as if this little task took him more effort than the entire Battle that he had just gone through. The masked man could not bear it anymore and collapsed down onto the ground while breathing heavily.
’What happened to him?’ Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu then extended his spirit sense and checked the condition of the masked man. When he saw the spirit qi of the masked man, he got shocked as it was completely depleted. Not a single wisp of it was left remaining inside his dantian.
"He’s in a severe state of qi exhaustion," Xukong spoke.
"How did he deplete it all, though? It didn’t look like he used much of it during the Battle either." Lin Mu wondered.
"Hmm, it seems like that small tube he’s holding is not simple," Xukong replied.
"Was that perhaps his method of contacting his superiors?" Lin Mu questioned.
"Hey! Are you alright?" Lin Mu asked with concern.
The masked man did not reply and only continued to pant. It seems that the qi exhaustion was much severe than he thought.L1tLagoon witnessed the first publication of this chapter on Ñøv€l--B1n.
"Why is he so severely affected by this senior? When I had qi exhaustion before I was tired but not this bad." Lin Mu questioned.
’Of course, you would not be tired. With how vastly that ring is modifying your constitution, it would be a feat to become that exhausted.’ Xukong thought but did not express it.
"You are at a higher stage of Body tempering realm than him, and you practically also have a superior method of cultivating qi. Your standards are greatly different, so you can’t really compare it." Xukong answered Lin Mu.
Silently nodding to senior Xukong, Lin Mu decided to wait for the man to rest a bit.
"You know, you can give the masked man one of your spirit apples. It will help him recover faster and you will also be able to observe its effects on him." Xukong suggested after waiting a minute.
Lin Mu had eaten a couple of spirit apples that grew on the spirit apple tree that was inside the garden of karma. It tasted good to him and also helped him restore a small amount of spirit qi. The last time he ate a spirit apple, it restored about twenty-five wisps of spirit qi for him.
’This does not seem like a normal spirit apple. It has more than double the amount of spirit qi in it.’ The masked man thought.
The masked man then looked up at Lin Mu with a strange expression that was hidden beneath his mask.
~sigh~ ’A person with such a distinguished identity as his was bound to be different. Even a normal spirit apple is so much more potent.’ The masked man spoke to himself.
"Thank you." The masked man said after taking a deep breath.
"It’s fine, the quicker you recover, the better it will be. We don’t know if more of those men would come." Lin Mu replied.
The masked man remembered the severity of the current situation and nodded.
"You’re right. Though we may not have to worry as much, my companions should be here soon." The masked man spoke while looking outside the warehouse.
Lin Mu then looked at the strange tube-shaped necklace hanging in the masked man’s neck and thought about it.
"Is that necklace a spirit tool that’s used to contact your companions?" Lin Mu curiously asked.
The masked man turned around after hearing Lin Mu’s question and sighed again.
"No, it’s not a spirit tool... Well, not completely. But it does allow me to contact my companions." The masked man answered.
Seeing that the masked man was unwilling to explain further, Lin Mu did not probe either. But he did ask senior Xukong about it.
"It may be some kind of primitive spirit tool, seeing as it did consume his entire store of spirit qi," Xukong answered.
Hearing about a new term, the curiosity within Lin Mu was ignited once again. Xukong instantly understood this and started explaining it before Lin Mu even had the chance to ask. Xukong was rather satisfied by the curiosity Lin Mu showed. It was good that he had a penchant for learning.
"A primitive spirit tool can simply be considered to be an incomplete spirit tool. While a primitive tool may have the structure of a spirit tool, it does not have the necessary formations and the qi circuits placed on it." Xukong explained.
Lin Mu nodded after hearing senior Xukong’s words and walked ahead to stand with the masked man. He joined the masked man in looking out of the door of the old warehouse.
The night sky was lit up with the moon and the stars, spreading their luminance all across the town. Lin Mu soon observed a group of masked figures running across the roofs of the buildings.