Chapter 255 - Deciphering The Bewildering Formation
Lin Mu simply told it to wait in his mind, and he tried using the spirit sense to check the area. He was suspicious when he had originally arrived, but soon understood the reason behind the Brown Shrubby Forest Cat’s disappearance.
"Huh, there is a formation array here? How?" Lin Mu wondered.
"Not just any formation array. Look further with your spirit sense." Xukong spoke.
Lin Mu did as he asked and discovered that he could not extend it beyond two meters. After two meters, it was as if his spirit sense bent and came out of another part of the formation.
"What is this?" Lin Mu questioned.
"This is actually two formations layered together into a formation array. You have seen these two before at the Myriad armament canopy abode before, but its level is significantly low. You can use your previous deciphering method to find the nodes." Xukong answered.
Lin Mu then started chanting the severing heart sutra and extended his spirit sense, touching the formation array. The same thing as before happened and his spirit sense bent, coming out of another spot. But Lin Mu did not mind this and tried again.
An entire hour passed and multiple attempts had been done by Lin Mu, yet every time the same thing happened and his spirit sense came or from another random spot.
The Brown Shrubby Forest Cat walked forward and once again disappeared. This time though, Lin Mu did not lose focus and concentrated on his connection with the Brown Shrubby Forest Cat.
’Only one way to confirm my theory...’ Lin Mu thought with determination as he took a deep breath and took a step forward.
As soon as he crossed into the invisible formation, he felt the scene in front of him change for a slight moment. If it were some other cultivator in the qi refining realm, they would not even have been able to notice this kind of a small change as it was very quick and hard to recognize with naked eyes.
But Lin Mu had an advantage in this area, being used to the rapid changes due to him using the skill blink. He understood that something had happened and there was a change. This doubt of his was confirmed when he sensed the location of Brown Shrubby Forest Cat suddenly switching.
Previously the connection told Lin Mu that the Brown Shrubby Forest Cat was right in front of him. But now it was telling him that it was on the left. He took a few steps forward, and it happened again, this time the location of the Brown Shrubby Forest Cat changed to being behind him for some reason.
Lin Mu did not follow his connection and just walked straight forward, wanting to see where it would lead him. Two minutes later, Lin Mu found himself back to where he had started from.
"So it will return me back to my original position if I keep on walking straight. My connection with Brown Shrubby Forest Cat also told me otherwise. It seems like the formation array is changing the direction I walk without me noticing." Lin Mu hypothesized.
’Hmm, let’s try this again.’ Lin Mu thought to himself before taking a step into the formation array again.
This time though, he did not keep on walking forward and instead changed direction to face the location of the Brown Shrubby Forest Cat every time it changed. Before he had crossed the formation array and come out of it in 2 minutes. But now he had been walking for over five minutes, and yet the end was not in sight.
’He’s close to figuring out. His investigational ability is not bad...’ Xukong thought.