Chapter 2161 A Collaborative Puzzle

Chapter 2161 A Collaborative Puzzle

It was a new kind of puzzle that Lin Mu hadn't seen before. Though he could still understand the theory behind it on some level.

'It's similar to large scale arrays that need multiple formation masters to control. Since they have multiple aspects to be controlled which can be too much for a single formations master to bear or control, it is a good way to distribute the workload.' Lin Mu thought to himself. 'What do we do now?' Everyone heard a voice.

"Huh? Who said that?" Lin Mu asked out loud.

"I didn't." Crown Prince Feng Shun replied.

"I didn't either." Lady Kang replied.

The others said the same until it came to Ziran. "I did say that... but in my mind." Ziran said with a slight smile on his face. "I think this puzzle is a bit more interesting than I thought." He added.

"Wait... It's connecting our thoughts too?" Lin Mu understood. "But it can't be all thoughts right?" he wondered before attempting something.

'Can you all hear this?' he thought intentionally.

"We do." They all replied.

~SHUA~

And when they did, a new rune appeared on the structure.

"It responded too." Ziran said looking at the new rune that was above Lin Mu's interface sphere.

"Huh... Looks like this needs some kind of mental interaction for it to work. All of us would have to try stuff to see how it works." Lin Mu said after thinking for a bit.

"Seventy." Lin Mu answered. "How about you?"

"Seventy as well... Perhaps the limit is seventy for each of us?" Daoist Chu guessed.

"It might just be so. So far only us two have been controlling them, and perhaps we took up all the slots we were supposed to." Lin Mu inferred. "Others will have to do the work now." He stated.

"I'll do it." Crown Prince agreed and got to it.

While he might not be fully versed in Formations, it didn't mean that he couldn't use it. At the very least, he was better than 99% of normal Immortal experts in terms of proficiency with Fomentation arrays. In fact, everyone here was somewhat versed in formations and could be considered above average.

After a while, Crown Prince Feng Shun also reached the limit of seventy runes.

"Let's see... We've got at least a quarter of the array solved." Lin Mu said after observing the entire thing. "Everyone will have to do a part to completely solve this." He added.

With that said, the others quickly got to working. Sometimes they needed a little assistance which was quickly provided by Lin Mu and Daoist Chu.

One by one, everyone was reaching their rune quota and Lin Mu was now understood why this puzzle needed all ten people to work. 'It is testing us on our cooperation skills. If it was a group that was not in cohesion with each other, or if someone was too stubborn or egotistical to listen to others, I can see how it would become hard to solve this.' Lin Mu thought to himself.

This was actually a thing that happened more often than not among immortals, especially talented immortals. They didn't want to be considered inferior to others or be shown up, thus they would often be stubborn. While they might listen to it eventually, it might just take extra time to finish the puzzle. Thankfully Lin Mu's group didn't have that problem, as everyone was genial to each other and had a common goal in mind. One could grasp from this, just how important it was to vet the members of an expedition carefully.

~HONG~

After about six hours of work, the runes seemed to have all been placed in the right positions, and the array finally made sense to everyone.

A wave of immortal Qi spread from the structure before the array presented itself before turning into a key!

~WHOOSH~

This incorporeal key flew out of the structure before embedding into the very air above while everyone watched it with surprise.