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Chapter 1117 - 508: The Hidden Matter_2

Chapter 1117: Chapter 508: The Hidden Matter_2

Over four thousand years, he had single-handedly carved out an exclusive branch of "Dark Cave Magic Potions Study," creating over a hundred different dark cave magic potions!

Among them was an "age-reversing" potion made primarily with ’Rejuvenation Flower’ as the main ingredient.

The Rejuvenation Flower is a type of plant that, when ingested, initiates a "rejuvenation" process, causing one to devolve in growth, regressing from adult to infant, then to an embryo, and finally turning to ash and disappearing, making it a deadly poison for living beings.

However, once made into a potion, its toxicity was successfully removed, allowing the rejuvenation process to be stopped at an appropriate time, meaning that the consumer could freely choose to stop at a certain age!

Of course, to stop precisely at a certain age, a Magic Potion Master must manually fine-tune the potion’s ingredients in advance. A thread too much or too little wouldn’t do—the difference of a single pollen grain could mean an additional hundred years of unwanted rejuvenation. A slight miscalculation, and the consumer could devolve into a lump of flesh or even ash.

Despite such dangerous side effects, the impact of this potion would be world-shattering if word got back to the Star Spirit World!

And the only person in the world currently capable of precisely adjusting the Rejuvenation Potion was the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s counterpart.

The only pity was that he had spent too much time studying the nature of dark cave creatures. After all, it was a completely unknown magic potion system, with no predecessors to draw from, so every step was like groping one’s way across the river by feeling the stones.

This resulted in the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s Magic Potion Master level remaining on the same seventh-tier as Vivian after four thousand years, without further progress.

The memories related to magic potions were too complex, and Mu You could only try to skip over them for now, to digest them slowly later.

About ten minutes later, Mu You had finished browsing through the framework of the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s memories, but his expression turned odd: he couldn’t find anything secret in the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s recollections. All these years, had he really been focused solely on refining medicine?

Of course, there were still some strange things. For example, Mu You couldn’t find any memories related to the Shadow Fur Ball.

Ling Long had said that the Shadow Fur Ball was given to the Medicinal Plant Gatherer, yet there was no memory of it—surely a Shadow Fur Ball wouldn’t just vanish into thin air?

Also, another curious detail was that after merging the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s memories, both the ’wrath’ and ’pride’ attributes of the Bone of the Demon God instantly settled down, evidently having more than completed the task. While the ’envy’ attribute wasn’t as quick, it was also calming at a relatively slower pace, until it came to a rest.

Thus, five of the seven deadly sins within the Bone of the Demon God had been thoroughly digested and removed.

The issue was with the remaining two sins, sloth and greed—sloth should be with the Watchman, but on whom was greed? Could it be that the Watchman had also inherited it?

Mu You glanced over at the Watchman, who was leisurely inside the barrier. With his laissez-faire demeanor, he estimated that even if presented with some important artifact, the Watchman would probably find it too much hassle and toss it away, hardly someone to associate with greed...

The most likely possibility still lay with the incarnation of villainy.

Mu You couldn’t help but frown and looked towards the Medicinal Plant Gatherer.

He was starting to feel that the Medicinal Plant Gatherer had hidden something from him, though he didn’t know how it was done, since the memories between the main body and the counterpart should be in complete sync, leaving no room for anything to hide.

Mu You hesitated a moment, just about to ask something when the Medicinal Plant Gatherer gestured with his hand to speak first, "Instead of hashing out those trivial issues, let’s finish the long-overdue important matters."

The Medicinal Plant Gatherer said, looking up at the Giant Snake’s Pupils in the sky.

Mu You furrowed his brow, scrutinizing the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s eyes for a while, and the Medicinal Plant Gatherer met his gaze without flinching.

After a dozen seconds of silence, Mu You finally withdrew his sight and nodded. "Alright, let’s proceed with completing the seal."

"Are we starting now? I’ll get ready immediately!"

The Watchman’s eyes lit up. He quickly sat cross-legged, sitting upright in a meditative pose, and closed his eyes.

Half a minute later, the snake pupils high in the sky slowly closed.

The Watchman calmly opened his eyes and gestured to them with an ’OK’ sign: "All is well, we can start anytime."

Meanwhile, the location of the Seal Spear behind them was automatically bathed in light, and the golden Holy Spear was once again revealed before everyone’s eyes.

Mu You stepped forward to take a look. At the moment, the tip of the Holy Spear had nearly moved to the edge of the snake skin, with the sealing effectiveness reduced to a mere tenth of what it had been four thousand years ago.

If four thousand years ago, the Fairy King and the Seal Spear played a 3:7 role in sealing Gusha, now the ratio was 9:1, with the Watchman shouldering over ninety percent of the pressure alone! If it had been anyone else, Gusha would likely have already broken free and escaped!

It was no wonder both counterparts were so eager—the situation had indeed reached a critical point.

Mu You took a deep breath and summoned the Divine Skin. On the right arm of the Divine Skin, the blue Kylin Arm quietly emerged.

At the same time, the orange cat and Bone Dragon landed beside him, reverting to their original forms, looking gravely towards Gusha, not far ahead.

The Lamp God also emerged from the waist-hanging oil lamp, transforming into a smoke wraith, and circled around the Seal Spear carefully a few times, giving Mu You a nod: "It seems the Chaos trap is indeed just one and has been triggered. There shouldn’t be any issues this time."

"Let’s begin, then!"

Mu You exhaled deeply, stepped forward, controlling the right arm of the Divine Skin to grasp the handle of the Holy Spear, and assumed a lunge position, beginning to exert force.

Amidst a rumbling sound, the spear tip began to slowly lift.