418 8th Floor (1/2)

”What…?”

Lin Yun looked at William in disbelief. Back then, in the Heaven Enlightening Plane, William obtained a crest of the Merlin Family with a soul inheritance in it. If what William said was true, then the Dark Sage was most likely the ancestor of the Merlin Family.

After a while, Lin Yun gradually calmed down. That was only a conjecture, after all, and William was busy studying the Well of Stars. Lin Yun didn't want to bother him so he quietly retreated to the side.

He went to a secluded corner of the room and fused the Element Chapter with the Book of Death. As he was about to put it away, Lin Yun thought about the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf in the Demiplane. He had taken a trip to the Demiplane not long ago and planted the Mana Vine, but he hadn't seen any traces of the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf.

Although the Demiplane hardly seemed dangerous, he didn't feel at ease not having seen the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf for a few months.

Thinking of this, he didn't hesitate chanted a long incantation before appearing in the natural Demiplane. He cast a dozen Mage Eyes as he walked through the Demiplane. It took him a dozen minutes before he managed to notice a quick shadow.

”Awooo, awooo, awooo…”

The Three-Eyed Secret Wolf had clearly noticed Lin Yun's existence, and it howled, completely unafraid of him.

”Come over.” Lin Yun frowned. He could sense that the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf had greatly changed. Just its speed was a few times faster than before. Its power had undergone a transformation, and it now already had the power of a magic beast over level 20.

The Three-Eyed Secret Wolf stood there, indifferent, its small head swaying as it simply didn't listen to him.

Lin Yun resisted the urge to curse a few times before fishing out a few high-level mana crystals. He knew that the wolf had no resistance against mana crystals. And sure enough, a shadow flashed as the palm-sized Three-Eyed Secret Wolf ran to his palm and quickly took care of those mana crystals before impatiently looking at Lin Yun.

Lin Yun rolled his eyes. He ignored the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf and directly bound it with mana before casually putting it in his pocket. He then chanted the incantation to leave the Demiplane.

Lin Yun appeared in the study, but this time, everyone had already finished their preparations and they were all in high spirits. However... the study room on the 9th Floor didn't seem to have a way down.

They looked for over ten minutes, but they couldn't find the way to the 8th Floor.

Lin Yun couldn't help frowning. When he first arrived at the study, he examined it and found that it was safe. Thus, everyone relaxed and no one paid attention to the passage. It felt troublesome now...

Every floor he walked through so far had a passage onwards, so how could there not be one now? In fact, the 9th floor was quite small, only a few hundred meters wide. With the few of them, it would only take a few minutes to turn it upside down.

Lin Yun cast five Mage Eyes and then controlled them to check every corner of the study. Time slowly passed, and soon, ten minutes later, his Mages Eyes had scoured every corner of the study, but he had yet to find anything. By the 4th check, his forehead was covered in sweat.

”Found…”

He was a lot more relaxed now. Under the 1st bookshelf was an extremely faint mana fluctuation. Even with his acute perception, he still missed it the first three times. Only on the 4th try did he discover those faint mana fluctuations. Soon, the group lifted the bookshelf, exposing an array.

”A Teleportation Array…”

Lin Yun frowned. He wasn't too fond of Teleportation Arrays. The Teleportation Arrays that Luo Ning had left in the hovering palace had almost trapped him.

'Just where does this lead to? It wouldn't lead to the Heaven Enlightening Plane, would it? Unless Luo Ning was sick, he wouldn't put one in the hovering palace and one in his magic tower.'

”The mana source has already dried up.”

Olaro was a Master Alchemist, so with one glance he could see that the mana source of the Teleportation Array was empty. After all, what array could remain undamaged by the passage of time?

Lin Yun nodded. He fished out a mana crystal and put it on the position for the mana source. He guessed that this Teleportation Array was most likely leading to the 8th Floor. But he was a bit curious. 'The previous floors used staircases, so why did this one uses a Teleportation Array? Could it be that the 8th Floor is special…?'

Lin Yun shook his head. He tried to activate the Teleportation Array, but he discovered that the array was unresponsive. He immediately started frowning and carefully observed for a few minutes, only to find out that there was a miniature array embedded in this array. He needed to crack that miniature array before they could use the array properly.