Chapter 2118 More Than Half The Keys

Chapter 2118 More Than Half The Keys

~SHUA~

Crown Princess Shang took out several of the keys that they had obtained.

"Oh? That's a lot." Lin Mu was stunned seeing over thirty keys.

"So you all got less... No wonder our trial was so bothersome." Crown Princess Shang spoke, feeling upset.

"Perhaps... but we don't know how the number of keys vary as the trials themselves seem to be random." Lin Mu replied. "Though seeing there are nine circles here, there are probably nine different trial zones." He added.

"Volcanic land, Frozen wasteland, and a Marsh... That's just three out of nine." Monk Hushu counted, wondering what else could be there.

"We'll know once the others arrive." Daoist Chu said. "You two should cultivate and restore your Qi stores for now, as there isn't much to do." He explained.

"Yeah, that seems to be the case." Monk Hushu replied before looking at Lin Mu. "What do we do with the keys?" he asked.

"Oh, there." Lin Mu pointed to the elevated platform.

Because of how bothered they had been due to their condition, Monk Hushu and Crown Princess Shang had managed to entirely miss the platform with concentric keyholes.

"So that's where we use the keys." Crown Princess Shang said before walking up to it.

~CLACK~CLACK~CLACK~

She inserted all the keys and turned them, causing more than half of the holes to be filled.

~SHUA~

Once she did that, three of the circles started to glow.

He had quite a lot of Lava which he could definitely use, but it won't be good at the start since he wanted to begin from the very basics.

'Looks like I'll just have to use mortal herbs then.' Lin Mu thought as he took out a rather common spirit herb.

It was a small red fruit the size of a strawberry but was slightly oblong in shape, like a grape. It had fine fuzz on it that could cause one's throat to itch if they ate it directly.

~SHUA~

But it was not a problem for Lin Mu, as he directly used the Omnicore Ascendancy to break it down into fire elemental wisps. The red wisps were quickly absorbed into his hands and guided into the location of his heart.

~Huu~

Once it reached there, Lin Mu couldn't help but take a deep breath as a heat filled it.

'That was more intense than the other cores for sure...' Lin Mu noted.

The heat faded away after a couple of seconds though, thus he didn't think anything was wrong at the very least.

Lin Mu took out another herb and used Omnicore Ascendancy again, observing what would happen this time. But once the fire elemental wisps reached his heart, the heat couldn't be felt.

'No difference huh... Was it only a one time thing?' Lin Mu wondered, and decided to keep an eyes on it.

~SHUA~SHUA~SHUA~

One after the other, Fire elemental spirit herbs started being broken down and the Fire Core in his Heart slowly started to form.

Similar to others, it was just a tiny grain of sand before starting to grow. About a month passed and Lin Mu continued to cultivate.

None of the teleportation gates activated and when it was finally the fifth month since they had arrived here, both Lin Mu and Lady Kang became worried.