Chapter 1204 - Hidden Gate (1/2)
His vitality had been fiercely consumed, and even if it was replenished by a Life Potion, it had already become a hidden injury which required a special potion to be compounded before he could cure it.
In addition, all the curses he had dispersed also left some hidden wounds. If he didn’t heal himself as fast as possible, it would pose great trouble later on.
This was something tested through countless mages’ blood. After being cursed, no matter if they sensed the hidden wound or not, they had to treat the injury thoroughly.
But this battle wasn’t without benefit. The fierce battle, coupled with his mana, vitality, mind and soul taking damage made the gate, that wouldn’t shake even if the world ended, tremble.
This meant that it should be possible to advance to the Heaven Rank soon. He only needed to quickly find the opportunity to advance to the Heaven Rank. And the best method was to seek a breakthrough in battle.
After having found a way to advance to the Heaven rank and break his perfect foundation, Lin Yun felt that today’s battle was extremely valuable. It’s just that this matter wasn’t over, he had almost been cursed to death, and Lin Yun clearly wasn’t someone with a good temper.
Using a bunch of materials from the Raging Flame Plane, Noscent, the Endless Sea, as well as two plants that only grew in the Abyss, he was able to compound a potion that looked like Lava.
That potion bottle was the Rebirth Potion that could only be compounded by Peak Artisans. Drinking it would regenerate anything, aside from the heart and brain.
And if he used another method to compound the solution, it would have a different effect. It would warm one’s body and soul. Any damage to his vitality would be perfectly cured and the warmth would make his body even more perfect.
During the process, the warmth would raise his spirit and make his soul feel as if it had returned to his mother’s womb, becoming even purer and more powerful.
Lin Yun could have already compounded this potion when he returned from the Abyss since he had already found the last missing ingredients.
But his vitality had been at its peak and he had perfectly reached the peak of the Archmage realm. It was useless at the time.
An intact item didn’t need to be mended. Without damage, there was nothing to repair.
He prepared a large crystal bucket and poured the purest Mana Water from the Demiplane before adding the potion in the crystal bucket. In an instant, the Mana Water started boiling and the crystal bucket looked as if it contained some dense sticky blood.
After entering the bucket, Lin Yun’s body was completely wrapped in the water. Wisps of black aura slowly shot out of Lin Yun’s body before being purified by the scarlet liquid.
The tremendous lukewarm vitality slowly combed Lin Yun’s body, and through the huge amount of vitality, it lifted Lin Yun’s soul.
After three hours, the liquid inside the crystal bucket turned light gray and Lin Yun came out. His half white hair had already recovered and he was bursting with the vitality of a newborn baby.
Sensing the gate emitting terrifying pressure in the depths of his soul, Lin Yun felt that he could slightly push the gate, even if it was only to barely make it tremble.
But this was still a lot better than before. His foundation was too powerful and his magic path was too perfect. Perfect to the point of making him unable to break through the gate. This was good, but it was also bad.
Because he didn’t know how long he would need to stay at the peak of the 9th Rank. Feeling some hope, Lin Yun’s mood greatly improved.
Leaving the alchemy laboratory, Lin Yun instantly moved to the Mana Lake, just in time to see the Holysong Blood slowly blooming. Then, after the flower bloomed, it rapidly withered and three blood-colored seeds devoured the last bits of the flower’s power. The bloody color slowly dissipated as they turned into three dark seeds that didn’t look special in any way.
As for the Holysong Blood’s branches and leaves, the blood color from the underside spread to the topside and dyed the leaves blood-colored. Those eighteen leaves turned completely blood-red and every tiny colored rune on top of them were different.
After collecting the three seeds, immediately planting them next to the Mana Lake and putting away the eighteen leaves, Lin Yun let out a faint sigh.
If the Holysong Blood had been refined into a Bloodsobbing Holysong Potion, he might have been able to get rid of Layford today.
But the Starry Sky College wouldn’t have allowed him to get rid of Layford within their territory. Moreover, if that happened, he wouldn’t have figured out the way to advance to the Heaven Rank today.
Figuring the way to advance to the Heaven Rank was the most important gain. As for Layford, there would be plenty of opportunities to deal with him in the future. As long as he advanced to the Heaven Rank and mastered Extraordinary Power, the other side’s curses would be unable to break his defense.
He would compound the Holysong Blood’s potion. The three seeds had just been planted, but their vitality was rapidly increasing and they would germinate sooner or later.
The mana next to the Mana Lake was definitely enough for the Holysong Blood to mature, it was impossible that they wouldn’t germinate.
What happened this time woke up Lin Yun. Not only did he have to compound a Bloodsobbing Holysong Potion as a backup, he also had to sort everything he had gained lately. Once everything was processed, he might be able to use something as a life-saving tool.
Once his injury was taken care of, Lin Yun departed. The Starry Sky College’s alchemist gathering was a week later. Back in the Merlin Family, he had deduced the coordinates of the Reedpush Plate from that strange letter, and it wasn’t far from Neverwinter City.
It was best to go to the coordinates to find the Reedpush Plate as soon as possible.
After leaving the Starry Sky College, Lin Yun’s mana fluctuations and life aura instantly dissipated. If they didn’t see him, they absolutely wouldn’t notice Lin Yun’s presence.
But Lin Yun’s movement speed had become even faster. He would cross several-dozen-meters with a single step and the surrounding air seemed to be getting out of Lin Yun’s way. He was extremely fast but didn’t raise any gale, he was like a phantom.
As Lin Yun disappeared, some people chased after his tracks, but they lost him in less than an hour.
After getting rid of all the people tailing him, Lin Yun finally arrived at the coordinates.
There didn’t seem to be anything special there, it was an ordinary mountain range, it wasn’t tall nor short. There was a large number of trees within the mountain range, but there wasn’t any particularly precious plants or minerals. Even the magic beasts within the mountain range were very sparse and at low levels.
Lin Yun frowned as he looked at this mountain range. After flying a few dozen kilometers, he didn’t sense anything different.
After checking a few times, he finally locked onto a five-kilometer-wide area. This was the place marked by the coordinates.
There were only two peaks not far apart within five kilometers, and there wasn’t many plants on the mountains, they were made of pure granite.
Lin Yun spent three to four hours searching around the two peaks but didn’t find a special location. He then started expanding the circle of his search using the middle point between the two peaks as a center, but he still didn’t find anything special.
Everything in this area was normal, there was no natural resources and a Level 18 Fanged Tiger was the strongest magic beast within ten kilometers.
There was not a single human town within a few dozen kilometers, and according to the records of the Odin Kingdom’s map, this place wasn’t valuable to mages. There were plenty of prey for ordinary people here, but ordinary people didn’t have the power to exploit this place.
In Noscent, most of the places actually didn’t have special resources, or it would be better to say that they held no resources valuable to mages.
This kind of place was a desolate area, and as time passed, areas with dense vegetation like those would have many plants absorbing the mana within the air, slowly producing magic materials.
But looking at this place, Lin Yun frowned. The vegetation was very dense, but there were very few plants containing mana, and they were very inferior.
Moreover, this place’s mana was average. Although it was inferior to places with dense mana, it couldn’t be said to be completely barren.
Lin Yun released his mana to sense the place and kept spitting out runes in the air and on the ground. He even started minutiously searching the air and expanding the surface progressively.
As long as there was something here, he would definitely find it. But he hadn’t found any clue after five hours, he simply didn’t find anything valuable, there was no trace of an entrance to a small plane, no trace of a ruin, no hidden thing.
The sky started turning bright as the first glimmers of dawn shone from the east, tearing through the darkness with irresistible power as the angle of the rays of sunshine slowly changed.
The sun slowly peeked out of the horizon, altering the angle of the rays of sunshine. As the sun rose, its light washed over the first peak’s right side, and the second peak’s left side.
The rays of sunshine illuminating the two peaks simultaneously became smaller and smaller as the sun slowly rose over the horizon. Ultimately, only a several-meter-wide ray of light could pierce through.
The radiance’s angle slowly tilted and shone on a forest, which had appeared strange to Lin Yun even though he hadn’t found anything. At that instant, an illusory phantom gate appeared in the forest.
Lin Yun had arranged a lot of runes and immediately found something different.
In the dense forest, a phantom gate over three-meter-tall was erected on the ground. And this illusory gate didn’t seem to have any effect on the surrounding light. Light passed through the gate, and branches’ shadows also passed through the illusory gate. Only faint mana fluctuations appeared.
The runes Lin Yun had set up to monitor the forest had immediately discovered that small difference.
After flying to the forest and discovering that ancient entrance, Lin Yun frowned. The entrance seemed broken, it was covered in cracks and many patterns had already been peeled off. Vines and moss were also growing on the gate, if it wasn’t illusory, Lin Yun wouldn’t feel like there was something wrong with it.