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Chapter 1082 - 496

Chapter 1082: Chapter 496

"Ah? I just tried sprinkling some dust, and it lit up!" Facing the astonished gazes of the crowd, the Watchman scratched his head and chuckled.

"What dust?" Gege Wu quickly asked.

"Just Fairy dust..." said the Watchman.

"How could that be? We’ve also tried using Fairy dust as fuel before, but it wasn’t successful..." Gege Wu still looked surprised as her gaze shifted from the Watchman to the lantern in his hand, "Could this lantern be some sort of Divine Artifact?"

"Well, for me personally, it definitely counts as a Divine Artifact since it’s been with me from childhood and has helped me find quite a few treasures before. But in reality, it’s just a rare item, far from being a Divine Artifact," the Watchman laughed.

"Only rare?" Gege Wu’s expression grew even more puzzled, "The exploration team had even brought legend-grade lanterns before, but they didn’t work either..."

"I don’t know about that... But, have you noticed? The light from this lantern is a bit strange, how come it only shines downwards?"

Upon hearing this, you immediately looked up and carefully observed the lantern. As the Watchman said, the fluorescent light in the lantern illuminated an area of less than a meter in all other directions, but unusually, it stretched over ten meters downward along the direction of the rope ladder.

Ling Long and Gege Wu looked up and soon confirmed this pattern as well, equally puzzled.

"It’s strange, it’s clearly a lantern, but it seems to have turned into a flashlight that only illuminates in one direction... and the direction can’t even be adjusted?" The Watchman marveled as he fiddled with the Pumpkin Lantern, turning it upside down and in various directions, but no matter how he adjusted the lantern’s position, the light source always aimed in the same direction, like a compass needle.

Mu You was struck by a sudden thought upon seeing this, recalling what Ormedo had said before.

Fairies can’t enter the dark cave, but the Fairy King still chose to enter because only the Royal Family’s Fairies can sense the position of the mother tree’s roots.

It’s probably not the Pumpkin Lantern that has the problem, but the dust because the Watchman had just sprinkled the Lucky Dust he brought.

This dust is produced by the Fairy Lady, and according to Tina, the Fairy Lady should also be a Royal Fairy.

It seems that perhaps only the Royal Fairy’s dust can illuminate here.

And the light seems to also exhibit ’guidance’ properties, so could it be that the direction it points to is the path to the mother tree’s roots?

Thinking this, Mu You explained his theories to the three of them in the game.

After listening to your explanation, Gege Wu suddenly understood, "So that’s it, it’s very likely. Let’s follow the direction of the light first! Oh, also, for some reason, there are no Wind Elements in the dark cave, so aerial and slow-fall type Wind Magic won’t work here. Remember, it’s essential to walk along the cliff walls; falling off would be terrible."

...You continued on your journey guided by the light, heading downward quickly, reaching the end of the rope ladder and arriving at a naturally formed cliff platform. At this point, the light that had consistently pointed downward suddenly changed direction, pointing to one side of this narrow path.

Seeing the change in the light’s direction confirmed your earlier theories further.

"It really is showing us the way; excellent, we might find the root source of the mother tree this time!" Gege Wu excitedly said.

Confirming that the pollen could indeed show the way, Mu You was thinking about whether to save the dust by using the Pocket Watch along with the Pumpkin Lantern, as the Fairy Lady’s dust was running low.

However, after asking the Watchman, he learned that the current dust wasn’t burning, but merely emitting fluorescence in the lantern, which wouldn’t produce lucky effects but also significantly extended the light’s duration.

Mu You collected all the remaining Fairy pollen from the three of them, even the leftover pollen from Fuya, handed everything to the Watchman, who counted the illumination time, and found out that the remaining dust could provide light for over a day and a half!

Since it could last that long, Mu You simply decided not to engage in the complex operation of backtracking; after all, they were pressed for time and needed efficiency. With the light, their movement was much faster.

You descended a hundred meters below the surface, where the once-narrow space abruptly opened up, with jumbled rocks and spectacular peaks hidden in the surrounding darkness, as if you were in an endless range of mountains and ravines.

"In such a lightless environment, to think flowers can actually bloom?" the Watchman incredulously looked at a small white flower blooming on the roadside cliff.

The flower looked fresh and pure under the fluorescence, indescribably beautiful. Below the flower, its stem bore an unripe fruit, and the Watchman instinctively reached out to touch it.

"Don’t touch!" Gege Wu hastily intervened.

"This is a ’Rejuvenation Flower,’ an extremely dangerous entity! Any life form that directly touches the open Rejuvenation Flower will fall into an Illusion, unable to extricate themselves, while the Rejuvenation Flower slowly drains all their vitality."

"The life force drawn will then turn into the fruit of the Rejuvenation Flower; after it has absorbed enough vitality, it will bear the Rejuvenation Fruit, which legend says has the miraculous effect of rejuvenating those who eat it."