Lin Mu continued flying towards the direction Little Shrubby had pointed out at full speed. He used blink in addition to flying and covered large tracts of the area at once. Little Shrubby was also heading towards him so that he could meet him mid way.
This way, they would be able to reach the wandering sinkhole quicker. In about twenty minutes, Lin Mu saw Little Shrubby appearing from the distance. He was running at his maximum speed and started to break when he saw Lin Mu.
~crack~crack~crack~
~thud~thud~thud~
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Unfortunately, his breaking was still not enough and several trees had to sacrifice themselves in order to reduce his momentum. Little Shrubby having gotten used to it already, quickly turned around and the harness appeared on his back.
"Let's go!" Little Shrubby said with excitement.
He had not seen Lin Mu for a while now and was feeling pleased seeing his master again and spend time with him.
"Mmhmm, run at full speed!" Lin Mu said as he strapped into the harness.
~shua~
Little Shrubby's paws dug into the ground and he shot forward like a cannonball.?
~whoosh~
The nearby trees were forcibly bent and broken due to the wind generated by Little Shrubby running, and a path was carved out. They kept on running for about five minutes, after which they reached the location of the wandering sinkhole.
Seeing the sinkhole, Lin Mu couldn't help but take in a breath of air.
"Damn... it's far bigger than I expedited." Lin Mu muttered.
"Just as Adviser Chu described. It looks dark, but once you go deep enough, the appearance would change." Lin Mu muttered.
~HONG~?
Just as he was observing, a faint spatial fluctuation spread around the area.
"No time to wait, let's head inside." Lin Mu said.
"Okay!" Little Shrubby responded, and they jumped into the wandering sinkhole.
To any normal human or even many cultivators, jumping into such a hole would be really terrifying. They couldn't see inside, and neither did they know just how deep it was. They couldn't even tell if they would survivor or not.
But for Lin Mu, it was not a problem since both he and Little Shrubby could just fly. The two of them descended at a relatively stable pace while observing the changes around them.
They kept this up for about two minutes, during which everything was the same. Lin Mu could see the normally blue sky above him that kept on getting small. It was as if the boundaries of the sinkhole were closing upon him.
But at a certain point, Lin Mu felt a change in gravity and they started to fall in uncontrollably.
"Huh? WHAT THE HELL!?" Lin Mu and Little Shrubby both were surprised by this phenomenon.
"Senior, what is happening?" Lin Mu questioned.
"It's normal. You are transitioning between two planes and this is just the vacuum effect. You've seen this before." Xukong spoke.
Lin Mu was reminded of the many black cracks he had opened up before and nodded his head.
The two of them kept on falling at a great speed and soon the sky above them had turned completely dark.
It was like the shutter of a camera closing in a circular manner. It reached the point of complete darkness and then opened back up as a new blue sky appeared above him.