Walker Of The Worlds

Chapter 3960: Zhenyu’s Jade Token

Lin Mu held the jade token between two fingers and examined it carefully.

At first glance, there was almost nothing remarkable about it. It was a smooth piece of pale green jade, rectangular in shape with rounded edges and a few faint lines naturally occurring within its material.

Anyone who encountered it outside this hidden space would probably assume it was an ordinary communication token or perhaps a storage token used by cultivators to preserve written information.

There was no longer any obvious sign that it had once been connected to the strange spatial formation he had just passed through. Lin Mu rotated it slowly seeing that the intricate spatial runes that had covered its surface earlier were completely gone.

He remembered them clearly.

They had been extremely complicated, and while he had never managed to fully understand every function contained within them, he had recognized that the token had been acting as some kind of key.

It had interacted with the hidden formation and helped establish a connection between the different spatial layers. But now, those runes were nowhere to be seen.

’Looks like it was only meant to be used as a key at the start,’ Lin Mu thought. ’If the person who found this place failed to uncover the hidden space, they would never gain access to the rest.’

That arrangement made considerable sense. Whoever had created the hidden space had clearly wanted to control how far someone could progress. The spatial compression formation had served as the first puzzle and the jade token had been part of the solution.

Then the book had formed another layer of protection. Each step required a certain degree of understanding, and someone who lacked the necessary knowledge would simply stop at the previous stage.

Lin Mu found that rather interesting. ’It is almost like a succession test.’

He turned the token over. There were a few markings on the back, though they were so faint now that they could easily be mistaken for decorative patterns. Lin Mu recognized them as the same markings that had been part of the puzzle in the book.

’Looks like these will soon disappear entirely.’

He carefully sent a strand of immortal sense into the jade token and the moment his immortal sense touched it, a faint ripple passed through the jade and Lin Mu immediately became cautious.

He could not afford to maintain a connection like this for too long. His Abyssal Horizon Veil Seal had already been pushed considerably by everything he had done since entering the Mad Demon Depths.

The seal allowed him to conceal the true nature of his cultivation, yet maintaining tools that relied on a constant connection to his spirit sense or immortal sense could gradually place pressure upon it.

Jade slips, communication tokens and similar treasures usually worked through a connection with the user’s consciousness. Immortal sense entered the object, interacted with its formations and then transmitted information back to the user.

The stronger and more complicated the treasure was, the greater the demand could become. Lin Mu therefore intended to inspect the token quickly. But then, something unexpected happened.

TREMBLE

The moment his immortal sense established contact, the jade token trembled faintly and then the connection changed. Lin Mu felt the token establish a direct link with his consciousness and his immortal sense was no longer required to maintain the connection.

"There was a function like this?" Lin Mu immediately withdrew his immortal sense but the token continued functioning.

Lin Mu raised his brows. ’Interesting.’

He could still sense the information contained within it through his mind, almost as if the token had become an extension of his own consciousness. The connection was incredibly subtle and required almost no active energy from him.

’Looks like the elder modified this quite a lot.’ That realization made Lin Mu even more curious.

Zhenyu had clearly spent thousands of years studying formations. The hidden spatial formation itself had already proven that whoever created this place possessed astonishing knowledge, and Zhenyu had somehow managed to interact with it deeply enough to gain information from it. During that process, he had evidently learned enough to modify the jade token into its current state.

Lin Mu slowly closed his eyes as information began appearing in his mind. At first, it was exactly what Zhenyu had described. There were memories, observations, records of cultivation, names, events and information about all kinds of people.

There were countless pieces of information stored within the token, and they had been organized far more carefully than Lin Mu expected. The old elder had apparently taken his recording habits seriously.

There were sections devoted to cultivation, sections devoted to the Mad Demon Depths, sections devoted to the Wild Peak, sections containing formation research and even sections dedicated to random observations that Zhenyu had made over the years.

Lin Mu’s expression gradually became more serious. ’This really was only the tip of the iceberg.’

Zhenyu’s complaints had sounded endless when Lin Mu listened to the recording, yet compared to the sheer amount of information stored within the jade token, they were barely a fraction.

There were records spanning thousands of years.

Zhenyu had recorded his changes in cultivation, his understanding of the formation, his observations regarding the prisoners, the different zones of the Mad Demon Depths and even the changes in his own body.

Lin Mu quickly found the section describing Zhenyu’s cultivation when he entered the prison, and his brow rose. "Fifth Tribulation stage of the Immortal realm."

He continued reading before his expression changed slightly. "His body cultivation was equal to the Fifth Tribulation stage too?"

Lin Mu stared at the information for several seconds.

He had already suspected that Zhenyu was a dual cultivator. The old man’s physical strength had been extraordinary even after thousands of years of being connected to the strange formation.

His vitality was comparable to an Immortal realm body cultivator, and the chief had confirmed that he had possessed tremendous strength before entering the Mad Demon Depths.

Yet seeing the exact details still surprised Lin Mu. Zhenyu had been at the Fifth Tribulation stage in both Qi cultivation and body cultivation. He had been a genuine dual cultivator at an extremely high level.