Chapter 427 - Awakening In The Sleepscape
After Lin Mu had fallen asleep, he immediately appeared in the Sleepscape.
"It worked!" Lin Mu exclaimed.
He looked around the Sleepscape and confirmed that he truly was in there.
"Senior Xukong!" Lin Mu called out.
~Shua~
In the next second, Xukong appeared in an orb of light in front of Lin Mu.
"Ah... good, very good. It worked just as we had hoped." Xukong said.
"Indeed, senior. Even at the end, I had some doubts whether it would work, but now this is a big relief to me." Lin Mu replied.
"Now then... I guess it’s time for you to begin the second part of your plan." Xukong stated.
"Yes senior. I can already sense the spirit Qi increasing in my body. I feel like I’ll reach the core condensation realm rather quickly." Lin Wu said.
They almost had an encounter with a core condensation realm guard, but the old man managed to get them away by using a special technique. But this came with its own disadvantages, the old man became quite exhausted shortly after and the two of them had to rest in a suitable place.
They knew that going to a town or a village was not a choice, and thus they had to hide in the forests around the mines. They had not even traveled fifty kilometers away from the mine and thus there was a great chance that they would be found out. The coming two days were tense as the lost immortal kept an eye out without sleeping a single minute.
The old man finally recovered on the third day, and they started their journey again. The lost immortal asked him about the technique that he had used and the old man explained that it was a technique that burned longevity to use normally, but he had instead diverted it to use up his vitality instead which could be restored.
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Lin Mu stopped after this point as he felt like his mental energy had been restored and he could begin practicing again. He repeated the same cycle multiple times and would learn from the memoirs of the lost immoral in the resting time.
Sometimes instead of practicing the thousand armament blade scripture, Lin Mu would learn the Dao script from senior Xukong and even a few formations that he knew.
Bit by bit, Lin Mu was furthering his skills, until he felt a change in his body.
"The time has arrived..." Lin Mu muttered as he closed his eyes.
***
Time passed as the summer turned to autumn.
In a cave in the Northern Mountains, a faint thrumming of heartbeats could be heard. It was coming from deep inside the cave and one couldn’t tell what kind of beast it belonged to. The heartbeats kept on getting stronger and stranger until a strong wave of spirit Qi came from the cave.
The wave of spirit Qi spread all over the mountain and scared off the beasts that lived there. A vortex of spirit Qi formed around the mountain and started to get sucked into it. The beasts instinctively stayed away from it and watched from afar as the clouds parted in the sky.
This lasted for an hour before silence descends in the mountains again.