Chapter 258 - A Skeleton?
Upon pulling out the object, Lin Mu found it to be a crystal. It was about the size of a finger and was dull grey in color.
"A peak grade spirit stone?" Xukong muttered.
"What! This is... a peak grade spirit stone?" Lin Mu exclaimed.
"It is indeed. But it has been depleted." Xukong replied.
Lin Mu couldn’t begin to imagine how a peak grade spirit stone would end up here, albeit a depleted one. The highest grade spirit stone he had seen until now was a defective mid grade spirit stone that he had previously used.
Lin Mu was now extremely curious, thus he searched the ground with his spirit sense carefully. This turned out to be effective as he detected more things hidden in the ground.
"Senior, there is more stuff buried here." Lin Mu said with excitement.
"Dig it out then," Xukong replied.
Lin Mu immediately started digging and soon unearthed a few objects that were buried in the ground. There were about three more depleted peak grade spirit stones that were buried in the ground, and on these spirit stones, the roots of the Dual Circle Ascension Vine were wrapped.
"This makes sense. No wonder the Dual Circle Ascension Vine was able to grow in an environment like this. It has been absorbing the spirit qi from these Peak grade spirit stones." Xukong explained.
Lin Mu picked one of the depleted peak grade spirit stones out of which led to the roots of the Dual Circle Ascension Vine that were wrapped around it to break. The instant those roots broke the Dual Circle Ascension Vine started withering.
It is unusual for them to be used by anyone else, as it means that they would rather have it destroyed than others discovering this stone badge." Xukong explained.
Xukong was now quite curious as well and did not know how such a thing could turn up in a world such as this. He had heard about organizations that would use such kinds of identity formations, but nearly all of them were dangerous.
While looking at the stone badge, Lin Mu’s eyes spotted a small white pointed object sticking out from the ground. He had already known that it was the last object that was rather big. It was also the one that his spirit sense was not able to recognize easily as the object seemed to be repelling it.
The repulsion was so strong that Lin Mu could not even tell the shape of the object.
Lin Mu did not dare to dig this out directly with his hand and instead decided to use a stick to do so. Since he couldn’t sense the object properly, he couldn’t tell for sure if it had any traps placed on it, thus he was extra careful and did not want a repeat of before.
But just a second after he prodded the white point, he saw what it was and became extremely shocked.
"A bone!" Lin Mu exclaimed.
He then carefully dug the soil around the bone, slowly expanding the dig area. Eventually, he ended up excavating an entire skeleton.
"What the! How did this skeleton end up here?" Lin Mu wondered.
"Careful, step back! It’s not just any skeleton, rather it’s the skeleton of a nascent soul realm cultivator, it could have a remnant of a soul on it." Xukong warned.
Lin Mu immediately took a few steps back as he contemplated on the revelation.
Lin Mu had learned about the Nascent soul realm from Senior Xukong before, but it was only some surface level information, thus he did not know what Senior Xukong was talking about.
"What do you mean Senior?"