Chapter 2353 Three Months Into The West

"Only one?" Lin Mu scooped up the fragment with Bending Will Fist's wind, and quickly stored it away.

"What kind of fragment is it?" Crown Princess Shang asked as she waited for Lin Mu to show them.

~SHUA~

He withdrew it from the ring, and showed it to them.

"Oh? A bark fragment." Ziran quickly compared the patterns an textured on the fragment.

"Yes." Lin Mu nodded his head. "This will be good for us." The fragment was about two and a half inches long and two inches wide with irregular margins. It was the perfect size for Lin Mu to make an Arrow tip out of and creating an entire Mortal Reminder Arrow with it won't be a problem.

"Are there no more?" Monk Hushu asked as he looked down at the newly formed Death Qi sea.

"Hmm" Lin Mu furrowed his brows. "I had hoped there would be, but the power of Mortal Reminder is possibly too great for anything to be left intact. Even if there is something, it might have sank deep into the ground, unable to rise up." He answered.

"I see Amithabha, whatever the heavens wish for us, we have to accept." The Monk brought his hands together in prayer.

"Indeed." Ziran said as he glanced at the Death Qi sea below. "I don't suppose we have anything more to wait here for?" he inquired.

"None whatsoever." Crown Prince Feng Shun said before looking further into west. "We can of onwards, since we were forced to halt here before." He suggested.

"That might be good, perhaps there are more Chimera Plants there." Qiao De was now highly enthusiastic about the point gain from it all.

"Maybe we might even find more traces of the strangers here." Elder Hu reminded. "We cannot forget about them. Those Yin Nascent Soul maggots are far too dangerous to let em be." He added.

"Elder Hu is right, we should definitely investigate further." Lady Kang agreed too.

With that said, the group waited no longer and sped away on Little Shrubby's back.

~WHOOSH~

They did have to avoid the Death Qi Sea a bit but after a few hours; they managed to traverse it safely.

The Chimera Radar was watched carefully by them, as they sought out every Chimeric beast they could with it. Their goal was to get as many credits as possible while also looking for the signs of the strangers, thus they did just that.

Beast after beast was killed, as the group went on an extermination spree in the Spatial Plane. With the confidence that was backed by Mortal Reminder made by Lin Mu, they didn't fear coming across a Seventh Tribulation Stage Immortal Realm chimeric beast or a Chimera Plant. After all, they had all witnessed its power and knew that it was a trump card that could ensure their victory.

In this time, Lin Mu also utilized the newly acquired bark fragment from the Chimera Plant and made the third Mortal Reminder Arrow. Since he already had the components ready in his storage, he didn't need to do too much work.

The only sensitive part was the use of Black Hex Raven Tears to 'curse' the arrow tips. But since they were outside, Lin Mu didn't have to be as careful with it and did it in record time. Having done that a.s.sembling the rest of the arrow was a lot simpler.

Lin Mu even added the Herbsbane Poison to it to make it even more lethal. After all, he know if all attacks would be favorable for him and whether he'd be able to hit a Chimera Plant in its roots every time. Just in case he was blocked or missed, hitting the trunk or the branches, he still wished for the damage to be dealt.

Thus it was in his favor to make the arrows strong as possible.

And since he knew the power of a basic Mortal Reminder Arrow, he knew the arrow with Herbsbane would only be stronger.

The group hunted Chimeric Beasts for over three months, in which they gained a good amount of credits. While it wasn't as high as the amount they gained from the death of the Chimera Plant and its swarm of Chimeric Beasts, they still managed to get a minimum of forty million credits each, with Lady Kang getting the highest, reaching almost ninety million credits.

Lin Mu on the other hand, reached four hundred and fifty million credits with it, and was feeling very optimistic about reaching his goal.

The group continued to go further west and was now at least three thousand kilometers away from their base. They could have done farther than that, but since they were making sure to kill every Chimeric Beast on their path, the progression wasn't exactly straight. They did a lot of circling around as well as zigzag routes to exterminate all that they could.

But while they obtained a lot of credits, they didn't see any signs of the strangers. Of course, that was until the fourth month where they discovered the third offering hall!

"It has a barrier around it made from Baleful energy." Lin Mu noticed. "Only one barrier though." Monk Hushu narrowed his eyes. "Unlike the first one." He said before sensing the faint traces of a foreign energy.

"Someone's definitely been there." Elder Hu said, his instincts told him.

"Let's look around," Lin Mu said and the group quickly scanned the area.

A couple minutes later, they found what they were looking for.

"Someone broke the first barrier, but it wasn't done in a normal way." Monk Hushu was the one to find this peculiarity. "How did they do it?" Qiao De asked.

"Instead of purifying or purging the Baleful Energy, they seemed to have absorbed it instead." Monk Hushu answered, making the others surprised.

"Absorbed? Who can absorb the Baleful energy?" Qiao De muttered before Lin Mu spoke. "That maggot the Yin Nascent Soul Maggot was definitely capable of it." This made the group alarmed as they quickly looked at the ground.