Chapter 2147 Similar Dao Embryo"s And Removing Obstacles
The Dao Embryo was certainly different than most other Wood Dao Embryos Lin Mu had seen, and actually felt similar to Little Shrubby"s own Dao Embryo.
"How were you able to recognize the Dao Skill from this?" Lin Mu questioned.
"Just like how new saplings have rich vitality and are resilient, my Dao Embryo embodies that and imparts those characteristics to me." Ziran answered but saw the confusion on Lin Mu"s face. "I think it is much easier to demonstrate it," he said before swiping his thumbnail across his finger.
This inflicted a small cut, from which red blood seeped out.
"So half elves have normal red blood too," Lin Mu noted. "Though does this apply to full blooded elves too?" he wondered upon seeing this.
But what he saw next, made him wide eyed.
~Rustle~
The Nascent Life Sapling Dao Embryo quivered before a wave of energy traveled from it to Ziran. Then in the next second, the cut on his finger closed up without leaving even the tiniest trace of injury. "Regeneration?" Lin Mu muttered. While he himself could regenerate like this due to being a Body Cultivator that was not the case for Ziran as he was a Qi cultivator. "No wait… The Speed is higher and there was no change in his vitality." Lin Mu realized more things as he watched it.
Usually when he or someone else healed their wounds through such regeneration, it involved the vitality of their body flowing towards the wound to fix it. As such, one would be able to sense the flow to recognize when one was regenerating.
This was an important skill to learn when facing beasts with great vitality as injuring them was often a thankless task. Unless one could outmatch their regeneration, defeating beasts like those was a difficult task. This very tactic was employed by Lin Mu too, as he relied on his body"s regeneration to ignore whatever injuries he usually took despite his defenses. But in the case of Ziran, Lin Mu certainly did not see a change in the flow of vitality. It was somewhat similar to how one would use a healing Qi skill, but there was no flow of Qi there either.
"Regeneration, exactly." Ziran replied. "Though my regeneration relies on Dao Traces instead." He added.
"I see… but then how does it relate to the vitality that you sensed from Little Shrubby?" Lin Mu inquired.
"While The Nascent Life Sapling Dao Embryo uses Dao Traces to heal, it still is an embodiment of vitality. In a way you can think that it simply converts the medium of healing from Vitality. Thus, it can still detect other Dao Embryos that come under the domain of vitality." Ziran explained. "It is quite useful and needed when one goes exploring as there are dangers anywhere." He added.
"No wonder." Lin Mu now understood.
"Though I hadn"t expected to see a beast manage to obtain the Vitality Reversal Dao Skill." Ziran spoke. "It isn"t exactly something beasts usually obtain as it is more inclined towards plants." He added before taking a closer look at Little Shrubby.
"Well, Little Shrubby is an exception to it due to his bloodline." Lin Mu said while a Dao Sh.e.l.l rose from Little Shrubby"s body. Within that Dao Sh.e.l.l was none other than Little Shrubby"s Dao Embryo.
"The Verdant Bloom Seed?!" Ziran"s eyes went wide upon seeing it. "Little Shrubby has the Fume Wood Panther Bloodline?" he quickly recognized it.
"Yeah… You know it?" Lin Mu was surprised.
"I do, there used to be a few of them living near the sect I came from." Ziran answered. "They were quite elusive and were the rulers of the forest. I"ve encountered a couple of them in the past when I was still a disciple there. They were very strong… Their leader was even said to be as strong as the Sect Patriarch thus the Fume Wood Panthers were given a wide berth." He explained.
Hearing that Lin Mu was intrigued as so far there hadn"t been many that had seen or heard about a Fume Wood Panther.
"It isn"t the only bloodline in Little Shrubby though." Lin Mu added. "There"s more.
"To see the bloodline of a Fume Wood Panther coexist with others… how peculiar." Ziran stroked his chin. "With how domineering they are, it would be hard for other bloodlines to be able to express themselves, not to mention be able to suppress and become the dominant one. If I weren"t for my Dao Embryo I wouldn"t have been able to tell at all. The fire affinity of Little Shrubby is extremely high and yet the Wood Affinity is still there." He pondered on it a bit.
"Yeah, he"s a unique case." Lin Mu said before seeing Little Shrubby move towards the pool of burning oil.
The beast"s Dao Embryo was hovering behind him while he peeked into the pool. After a couple of seconds of looking at it, Little Shrubby licked it.
~slurp~
Min Ju and Lady Kang were a bit taken aback but since they knew that Little Shrubby had an affinity to fire they didn"t think he would be injured by this.
"There"s something that makes the flames powerful in this." Little Shrubby said after having tasted the oil. "The pig oil is merely there to mask it." He said before swiping his paw through the flames.
~WHOOSH~
His paw became coated in flames as they tried to burn him. Of course, he wouldn"t be burned by it as his own flames were a lot stronger, but Lin Mu and the others could now feel the power of the flames.
"To disguise the pool to seem like a normal flame… If a careless immortal decided to pa.s.s through it they would be easily burned." Ziran said as he looked at the flames that rose as high as the roof.
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There was no other way to get past it and one would have to go over the pool. "Well that also means the solution is quite easy." Lin Mu said as he took the lead this time.
~SHUA~
A searing hot energy swirled around his arm before condensing into a rocky armor. Longgui Bulwark armor was active and protected Lin Mu"s hand as he directly dipped it into the oil!
~WHOOSH~
Then in the next second, the pool of oil started to decrease.
"Huh… You"re storing it away?" Ziran saw. "But is that a good way to use Spatial Storage s.p.a.ce?" he wondered.
"I have plenty of it." Lin Mu said, but thought about how he had just gotten more things to absorb. "This should definitely help with the Omnicore Ascendancy." He thought happily.
"I suppose "erasing" the obstacle counts as a viable method of clearing the trial too." Lady Kang thought to himself. "He"s using the same method as before." About a couple minutes later, Lin Mu had fully drained the pool of oil making the area darken again.
"That should be enough now." Lin Mu said as he easily jumped over to the other side.
"Yeah, that"ll do." Ziran said as he jumped over.
~SHUA~SHUA~SHUA~
The others did the same and they continued their journey.
The next obstacle they faced was a tract of corridor fully filled with holes. "How much do you wanna bet that something sharp is gonna come out of those holes?" Ziran chuckled. "It won"t be much of a profitable bet." Lin Mu said before throwing a rock from his storage.
~SHING~SHING~SHING~ Hundreds of sharp spikes were shot from the holes that pierced through the rock and quickly turned into into fine gravel.
"Hmm… The spikes are strong enough to pierce through the defense of a Third Tribulation Stage Immortal." Ziran said. "So not an issue for us." Lin Mu said directly stepping through it.
~CLANG~CLANG~CLANG~CLANG~
The spikes tried to pierce Lin Mu but merely collided with the rock armor that had manifested at a moments noticed. The armor blocked the spikes with ease, and cracked several of them in the process.
The spikes should have pushed an Immortal around even if they couldn"t pierce through them due to the stiffness, but with how much Lin Mu weighed, that was an impossible task. "The trap would have to be a lot stronger to work." Lin Mu reckoned as he finished crossing it. "There we go."
~SHUA~
Little Shrubby also appeared next to him, his speed being unmatched against the spikes.
~DENG~DENG~DENG~
Elder Hu took the same approach as Lin Mu and walked through the spikes uninjured due to the armor.
"Is this perhaps a small test for defensive skills, I wonder?" Ziran muttered to himself, trying to figure out the thinking of the creator of this place.
~DAK~DAK~DAK~DAK~
His skin turned dark brown and rough, as if it were tree bark when he stepped through the spikes. The spikes were unable to pierce through it too, though Ziran had to put in a bit more effort to move as the spikes did manage to slow him down.
Now it was only Lady Kang and Min Ju left.
"I"ll handle it." Lady Kang said to her maid and made a hand seal.
~SHUA~
Five stars rose from her palm and covered Min Ju"s body before the same happened to her. The five stars arranged themselves around them in a pentagonal shape and a barrier was created.
~CLANG~CLANG~CLANG~CLANG~
The Star barrier protected both of them as they crossed the spiked path.
"I think I might have an idea as to what is the theme of this trial." Ziran suddenly said.