Chapter 2124 The Yin Heart Puppets
Before coming to the Rust Sky world, Ziran had studied the geography of the world as well as any other information he might need.
He had been an explorer for thousands of years and knew that such information was absolutely necessary when one went to a new place. If one already knew about the place, they would know what to watch out for as well was what dangers lay there.
It wouldn't matter what kind of dangers they were either, whether they be geological, animal or political in nature. All sorts could be managed as long as one was aware about them and could think about solutions to them.
As such, one of the basic things that Ziran had studied was the dangerous areas of the Rust Sky World, the forbidden lands.
Once such place could be considered the Sea of Muxuan that was full of story seas as well as stray spatial anomalies that could send one anywhere. Only the most skilled of sailors could traverse the sea with the assistance of the special lighthouses that guided them.
And in this Sea of Muxuan there were many islands, the biggest of which was the Land of Exile. A place one could not escape due to its unique properties as well as the danger that lurked within it.
"How did you... end up in the land of exile?" Ziran asked.
"It's a long story... But when I first came to the Rust Sky World, my teleportation went a bit haywire and I was thrown into the Land of Exile." Lin Mu replied. "A teleportation accident?" Ziran furrowed his brows while others were surprised by this information.
Even Lady Kang who had looked into Lin Mu and his history was surprised, as nothing of this sort was recorded anywhere. The others had similar thoughts and didn't know what else Lin Mu had experienced in his past. But while they were thinking all this, Ziran seemed to have reached a realization.
"Of course! The Spatial anomalies!" Ziran exclaimed. "The regular spatial anomalies have weakened the Spatial Fabric there, making it easier for Teleportation channels to skew towards them and ejecting people there. You just happened to be unlucky enough to be thrown right into the Land of Exile." He explained.
Lin Mu raised his brows, as he hadn't expected someone to understand it this well. Him and Xukong had reached the same conclusion in the past as to why he ended up specifically in the Land of Exile and not anywhere else in the Rust Sky world.
The answer for it was indeed the unique spatial structure around the Sea of Muxuan.
The Teleportation Channel Lin Mu had taken from the Xiaofan world didn't have a set of coordinates in the first place, and as such it was merely sending them through whatever path was available through the space. It was like water taking the easiest route through grains of sand before eventually reaching the bottom.
"Yes, that's where I encountered the Chasm Beasts." Lin Mu nodded. "More specially, there is a large chasm that splits the Land Of Exile into two sections. It is from this very Chasm that these Chasm Beasts spawn. It also contained a similar dark energy to what we saw in the first trial. Those were the same beasts that I fought there." He explained.
"I see... Considering how rare the Yin Heart Puppets are now, it isn't unusual for them to be called different names." Ziran responded. "But I certainly didn't expect them to found in another place in the Rust Sky World. I can still understand them being in a Celestial's Inheritance like this since it is old, but not anywhere outside. Especially considering the condition they need to be spawned." He spoke as slight confusion appeared on his face.
"No way... This entry, it was made by you?" Daoist Chu asked in shock. "It's written right here," he showed the others.
Lin Mu saw it too and noted that Ziran's name was recorded alongside a few more people, some of whom belonged to the Immortal Court.
"So you went there for work?" Lin Mu asked, feeling very curious.
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"Yes, back when I was still active in exploration, the Immortal Court commissioned me for it. I was one of the few people that knew of that region and as such, they asked for my guidance." Ziran replied. "We arrived at the last struggle of that world when the battle was about to reach its end. The two powers of the Greengage World, the Renegade Asura Sect and the Onyx Jackal Sect had been in a war for a long time.
It was also the Onyx Jackal Sect that had been using the Yin Heat Puppets." He revealed.
Hearing all that, Lin Mu couldn't help but feel a bit of Deja Vu.
"Anyway, that was the second time I saw those beasts. And since I saw their true power that day, I was interested in learning more about them, but even the Immortal Court's members seemed to lack information about them. It wasn't until four thousand years later that I saw them for the third time." Ziran spoke.
"And where was the third time?" Lin Mu questioned.
"On the Demon World." Ziran answered. "We had an invasion of sorts." He added.
"What?!" Lin Mu was shocked and so were the others. "There aren't many that would dare to invade a Demon World... especially not if they aren't on the hit list of the Immortal Court. Demons are still a neutral race as deemed by the Immortal court." Lady Kang stated.
"Exactly. Which is why we were sure that this was not an invasion by any orthodox power." Ziran replied. "It was by a group of six individuals that had come to the Demon World to search for something. The invasion was only staged by them as a way to disguise their real goal.
They too used the Yin Heart Puppets to make it seem like they had come to decimate the world, but they themselves were searching for something." He added.
"What were they searching for?" Lin Mu questioned.
"Well... When we defeated them, we couldn't make them tell us that. But we did find out who they were... They apparently belonged to Onyx Chimeric Legion." Ziran answered. "I looked into their background, but found little information other than the fact that they were an old power that belonged to a great being.
But had long since disbanded and had fallen from their glory." He revealed, making Lin Mu furrowed his brows.