Chapter 2085 A Milky Pool

Chapter 2085 A Milky Pool

Lady Kang was left watching as Lin Mu casually disappeared into the ground.

'He really has been holding back on his Spatial Skills... Could he have used this in the previous trail? And what of the Tournament of the Four Guardian beasts?' Lady Kang wondered to herself. 'If he simply hid in the ground, most of the enemy attacks would be useless... He would even be able to sneak up on them.' She reckoned.

While she didn't know the conditions or the cost of using the Spatial Skills, the woman quickly understood that Lin Mu had actually put a major handicap on himself when he participated in the Tournament. If he really was taking advantage of his Spatial Skills, which he rightfully was allowed to, he would have wiped the competition.

Even in the case of the finalist, Feng Baxing it would have been the same. In fact, there was a chance that even the Imperial Might Talisman he had used would be ineffective, if Lin Mu had employed all his Spatial Skills.

"What else is he hiding?" Lady Kang muttered.

Lin Mu was unaware of all this and was instead focused on finding out what Xiao Yang had discovered.

He sank through the ground and continued downward, passing through soil, rocks and old dead roots that seem to have been there for a very very long time. 'There's actually roots left in the ground... interesting.' Lin Mu thought.

So far Lin Mu had not seen any plant life here but the presence of old roots proved that there were indeed plants here once upon a time. There was no vitality left in the roots and they had also shrunk quite a lot, showing that they had probably been here for centuries or thousands of years.

They had dried to the point where it was impossible to tell what kind of plant they belonged to, and whether it was a spirit herb or immortal herb.

Though Lin Mu was at least sure that it wasn't a mortal plant.

'If it was a mortal plant, the roots would have turned into soil a long time ago.' He thought.

He followed the hole that Xiao Yang had used and realized that it was not made by the snake but was actually a natural gap left in the rocks and boulders in the ground. It was also not straight, and had a rather winding path downwards.

But Lin Mu didn't have to follow, that as he could simply use his Immortal sense to judge the path of the hole and just move downwards with Phase. 'It's actually good that the Formation arrays are all embedded directly into the Spatial Fabric and not into the real world like normal. Or I would not have been able to use Phase freely like this.' Lin Mu understood.

If there were formation arrays that acted as a restriction or a barrier, Lin Mu would not have been able to pass through them with Phase as the skill did not work like that.

~sniff~

Lin Mu also got to smell the lake, finally understanding what Xiao Yang meant by a good smelling place. 'This scent... As if its the first rain after a harsh summer...' Lin Mu thought.

To him, the scent was faint but to a beast like Xiao Yang it was decently intense to find it good. Lin Mu's Immortal sense probed the milky lake and felt its energy finding it to be very mild. One thing he was sure about was that this was not a Immortal Qi or Spirit Qi pool of any kind. In fact, the milky water had no Qi inside it. The energy that was present inside it was entirely different in nature. Having observed all this, Lin Mu was able to narrow down the potential answers but still had about four choices left in his mind.

"Hmm... only one way to confirm it." Lin Mu muttered and dipped his finger into the milky water.

He then lifted the liquid coated finger and brought it to his mouth, licking the singular drop of water from it.

As soon as he did, a crisp and refreshing taste spread on his tongue.

This caused Lin Mu's eyes to go wide, as he finally figured out what the right choice was.

"There's no doubt... This is a pool of Pure Petrichor Cave Milk!" Lin Mu stated.

It was a unique liquid that was formed over a long time under very specific conditions. As its name, it had to form in caves but there had to be no effect of rain on it. No rain water should reach it and the cave should stay dry.

Then there was the fact that the concentration of Qi in the air should also be low, which was also the case here.

Lin Mu and Lady Kang had felt the moment they had left the previous trial that the Qi in the air had become quite sparse. This was the case for both Spirit Qi and Immortal Qi, showing that the inheritance ground was testing them even now.

With such concentration of immortal Qi in the air, restoring one's condition to the peak was not easy.

The air inside the first trial was basically devoid of any kind of Qi, as it was meant to be a trial of persistence. If one could restore their Qi naturally from the air, it would defeat the purpose of the trial.

Though of course, they were still free to recover their immortal Qi using other resources which they thankfully hadn't due to their cultivation bases.

The Pure Petrichor cave milk was very rare, and as such its value was quite high too. In fact, it was something every alchemist desired.