Chapter 188: The Big Revelation

Zhang Mu avoided the bodies of the mutated beasts and began to examine what was inside the rainbow light shield.

After seeing clearly, Zhang Mu once again confirmed that inside, there was the treasure from his memory, the Bottle Gourd.

The elderly white fox seemed to have underestimated a move, thinking that its defensive barrier was enough, but unfortunately, it encountered Zhang Mu and his group.

Even though they were peak first-tier mutated beasts, even though they had dominated the first-tier, under the suppression of a higher tier, they were still no match, they encountered freaks like Zhang Mu and the Obsidian Beetle.

Even the mutated wolfhound, under Zhang Mu’s generous feeding, being fed only the purest earth-type beast cores, without consuming cores of other elements to maintain the purity of its elemental composition, so the mutated wolfhound’s use of earth-element abilities far surpasses those mutated beasts that rely solely on energy accumulation to reach the peak of the first tier.

Seeing the mess of bodies on the ground, Blood Lotus had already begun silently devouring the bodies, and Zhang Mu didn’t mind, as these blood and flesh essences no longer had much effect on the Obsidian Beetle, so they could only be provided to Blood Lotus.

Zhang Mu focused his gaze on the rainbow light shield not far away, lost in thought.

The fox became more cunning as it grew older. Zhang Mu felt it was smarter than most normal people, which was just a gut feeling. In stories or myths from past lives, foxes were known for their cunning tricks.

Although the dozens of mutated beasts just now were already strong as the first line of defense, now that it is using this light shield to protect the Bottle Gourd, it must be its last reliance and should not be underestimated.

Suddenly, the Blood Lotus retracted and placed a pile of highly energized beast cores in front of Zhang Mu with dozens of vines, signaling Zhang Mu to take them back.

This time, Zhang Mu woke up from his contemplation and instinctively touched the Era Merchant Ring, collecting these beast cores into his bag.

But now the sound of bombardment outside the city had weakened significantly. Zhang Mu felt it was likely the human troops were retreating. Time might be running out. Regardless of whether Long Qi could handle or stall the old white fox, once all the mutant beasts army returned, Zhang Mu would completely miss the chance with the Bottle Gourd inside the colorful shield. He could only sneak away with the Obsidian Beetle and had to consider if he would be discovered by Long Qi or the white fox.

He looked at the dry corpses on the ground, all sucked clean by the Blood Lotus. Suddenly, he thought to himself that he still didn’t know what the defense mechanism of this colorful shield was. He decided to try and find out.

Zhang Mu summoned a vine of the Blood Lotus and directly controlled it to pierce into a skin bag. With force, he threw it into the colorful shield.

What shocked Zhang Mu was that the moment that body was thrown in, it started to disintegrate and vanish.

Soon, the body became a blood-like clot, slowly being drawn towards the roots of the Bottle Gourd as if it was attracted to it.

Under the exploitation of Blood Lotus, Zhang Mu was amazed by how it could still extract all the value from a completely dried-up body. He couldn’t understand how the colorful light shield could break down things so thoroughly.

Zhang Mu had a strange feeling that maybe the Bottle Gourd had its own defense mechanism. Otherwise, why would the energy flow back towards the Bottle Gourd after the decomposition?

Everything started to make sense to Zhang Mu. He wondered why the old white fox hadn’t obtained the Bottle Gourd yet. He used to think it was waiting for it to mature, but now he realized that maybe the fox couldn’t break through the colorful light shield itself.

It made sense why the fox was so relaxed here. It didn’t need to guard the light shield that even it couldn’t penetrate with a lot of troops.

So, he threw in a few more bodies, and like before, they were decomposed into blood essence and the energy slowly flowed towards the Bottle Gourd.

Zhang Mu was determined to understand how it worked, but even with all his focus and concentration, he couldn’t figure out the strange power.

Angered by the sight of the bodies on the ground, Zhang Mu used all the vines of Blood Lotus to throw them one by one into the colorful light shield.

Despite throwing in more bodies at once, they all met the same fate – being completely decomposed without a trace left.

“What is this thing, really?”

Zhang Mu stomped his foot and looked at the colorful light shield, but he didn’t dare to approach it. It seemed even harder to crack than what even the leader of the second-rank mutated beasts couldn’t handle.

He tried to touch it with his mental power, but it was completely consumed, which frightened him into quickly retracting. The Obsidian Beetle’s wind blades couldn’t cut through, and the mutated wolfhound’s earth spikes were crushed the moment they left the ground.

He was afraid to use the Blood Lotus for a try. Energy attacks were fine, but not knowing what would happen if there was physical contact made Zhang Mu consider retreating, feeling like he had tried everything he could.

“Little Black, let’s go. The complexity of the situation exceeds my imagination, it’s not easy to solve. Let’s leave before that white fox or Long Qi comes, that would be troublesome for me. Since there’s no way, let’s forget it and go.”

Zhang Mu turned to look at the relentless black shiny beetle that was still releasing wind blades, speaking more stubbornly than him.

However, Zhang Mu didn’t get the response he wanted. The Obsidian Beetle remained silent for a while before slowly sending a message through Zhang Mu’s soul connection.

“Take a closer look, I feel like the colors of those two gourds have deepened, haven’t they?”

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