Chapter 292: Chapter 254 Fire Spirit Root 531
Chen Mobai stood at the entrance of the Treasure Trove, taking a deep breath. The faint red cloud of smoke in his hand dispersed, fragmenting into myriads of jade crystal fragments, forming a faint red cloud suspended half a meter above the ground.
Chen Mobai took a gentle leap and found himself standing on this “Red Misty Cloud Silk”.
The sensation was like stepping on a soft rug, incredibly comfortable.
“It’s just like the flying nimbus in the TV shows I watched as a kid.”
Receiving his own exclusive vehicle for the first time, Chen Mobai was a bit excited.
He applied spiritual power under his feet, and the Red Misty Cloud Silk immediately radiated a faint red light, then lifted him into the sky.
The easiness and satisfaction, entirely different from using a flying technique, made Chen Mobai involuntarily indulge in the experience.
Yesterday he had asked Ming Yuhua how to refine this Red Misty Cloud Silk; she simply sent over a book detailing everything from material extraction, smoke refinement, to the final refining process.
Chen Mobai selectively flipped to the end of the book.
After reading the refining mantra, he practiced it all night and finally today, he was able to control this iconic cloud-like magic artifact of the Dance Tool Dao Academy.
If he felt like riding a bicycle, exerting his entire body when he was using the flying technique previously,
Then now, controlling the Red Misty Cloud Silk was more akin to steering a vehicle.
All it required was infusing spiritual power and then controlling the direction with Divine Sense.
Chen Mobai navigated through the air with the faint red cloud, carving one colorful arc after another. Gradually, his movements became more flamboyant, ascending and descending, rolling and turning.
After a good while, his enthusiasm finally diminished.
The Red Misty Cloud Silk, carrying him like a red cloud, drifted into the Treasure Trove.
Chen Mobai spotted the tunnel entries on the cave wall, put on his gold- rimmed glasses with only one lens left, and started measuring the spiritual energy value of each entrance.
Many were wide open, but some had restrictions set up, indicating they were owned by someone.
Following the generally accepted rules, of course, he wouldn’t intrude without permission.
First, he tested his limit.
The Red Misty Cloud Silk continuously descended, swiftly dropping a thousand meters in height.
By this point, just his physical body could barely endure the heightened temperature around him, he had no choice but to enshroud himself with the Misty Cloud Silk.
Depending on this Rank-2 magic artifact’s excellent resistance to fire spiritual power, Chen Mobai descended another twelve hundred meters. Here, he felt the consumption rate of his inner spiritual power was a bit too fast.
Although he felt he could still descend a bit more, Chen Mobai thought there was no need for it.
With a slight stamp of his foot, he started to turn the Red Misty Cloud Silk around, lifting towards the upper direction.
As he had already observed the spiritual energy density of most entrances during his descent, he drifted into a pre-marked tunnel entry after ascending eight hundred meters.
Upon setting foot on the solid ground, Chen Mobai stowed away the Red Misty Cloud Silk.
The magic artifact transformed into a red jade bracelet, worn on his left wrist, perfectly complementing his pale and glowing skin, appearing extremely beautiful.
The tunnel maintained its original natural state, dim and narrow, twenty meters ahead there was no light source.
Well-prepared, Chen Mobai took out an illumination pearl from his backpack.
This Rank-1 lower-grade magic artifact only required a bit of spiritual power to provide more than seven days of light, the highest-grade illumination pearl can reportedly shine for a thousand years without extinguishing.
However, the one Chen Mobai had was merely the most common type.
He manipulated four illumination pearls using the Object Capturing Technique to levitate ten meters ahead of him, two pearls floated behind him, and two floated on his sides. He did not proceed into the depth of the tunnel until the area within the fifty-meter radius was well-lit.
Recording every step he took, measuring the distance he had covered.
At the three hundred and sixty-seventh meter, Chen Mobai suddenly came to a halt.
He looked up above his head.
A Device Nurturing Sphere was embedded there.
Under the light of the shine pearl, the pearl-like outer shell emitted a glittering jade glow.
Under the contrast of the surrounding red iron ore, it glowed with a faint blush, tempting like the skin of a beauty.
Chen Mobai levitated, closely observing this Device Nurturing Sphere.
The gold-rimmed glasses could only observe the broad flow of spiritual energy, which was useless at this moment.
Chen Mobai removed his glasses, his originally pitch-black pupils began to emit a faint clear glow.
In an instant, the vision in his eyes started changing.
The surface of the Device Nurturing Sphere of the size of a human skull gradually became transparent, Chen Mobai saw the spiritual liquid filling it up, and a bar-shaped magic artifact at its center.
It seemed to be a flying sword?
Chen Mobai thought secretly, infusing his Divine Sense and Spiritual Power into his eyes in a certain proportion, pushing the power of the Void Spirit Eye to the bearable limit of his eyes.
The scene his eyes saw further improved, he vaguely understood why each Device Nurturing Sphere was placed differently.
The red iron ore surrounding the white jade sphere had strands of Essence of Iron slowly and uniformly integrating through the outer shell of the Device Nurturing Sphere. After being filtered by the spiritual liquid, they were absorbed by the magic artifact at the center.
Chen Mobai observed the blush on the outer shell of the Device Nurturing Sphere, his face revealing realization.
This was the impurity of the essence of iron filtered out by the spiritual liquid.
Waiting over many years, when the effect of the spiritual liquid had completely dissipated, this magic artifact would cease to grow. Worse, because the interior environment of the Device Nurturing Sphere was no longer pure, it might start to decay and even drop in quality.