Chapter 84: A Friendly Offering (1/2)

The masked man seemed completely out of breath and it was as if this little task took him more effort than the entire Battle that he had just gone through. The masked man could not bear it anymore and collapsed down onto the ground while breathing heavily.

'What happened to him?' Lin Mu thought.

Lin Mu then extended his spirit sense and checked the condition of the masked man. When he saw the spirit qi of the masked man, he got shocked as it was completely depleted. Not a single wisp of it was left remaining inside his dantian.

”He's in a severe state of qi exhaustion,” Xukong spoke.

”How did he deplete it all, though? It didn't look like he used much of it during the Battle either.” Lin Mu wondered.

”Hmm, it seems like that small tube he's holding is not simple,” Xukong replied.

”Was that perhaps his method of contacting his superiors?” Lin Mu questioned.

”Hey! Are you alright?” Lin Mu asked with concern.

The masked man did not reply and only continued to pant. It seems that the qi exhaustion was much severe than he thought.

”Why is he so severely affected by this senior? When I had qi exhaustion before I was tired but not this bad.” Lin Mu questioned.

'Of course, you would not be tired. With how vastly that ring is modifying your constitution, it would be a feat to become that exhausted.' Xukong thought but did not express it.

”You are at a higher stage of Body tempering realm than him, and you practically also have a superior method of cultivating qi. Your standards are greatly different, so you can't really compare it.” Xukong answered Lin Mu.

Silently nodding to senior Xukong, Lin Mu decided to wait for the man to rest a bit.

”You know, you can give the masked man one of your spirit apples. It will help him recover faster and you will also be able to observe its effects on him.” Xukong suggested after waiting a minute.

Lin Mu had eaten a couple of spirit apples that grew on the spirit apple tree that was inside the garden of karma. It tasted good to him and also helped him restore a small amount of spirit qi. The last time he ate a spirit apple, it restored about twenty-five wisps of spirit qi for him.

Senior Xukong had told him that it would not be the same for another person as everyone's constitutions varied and even their metabolism was different. Lin Mu had wanted to try feeding a spirit apple to a normal beast, but senior Xukong told him that it would not do much except for killing them, perhaps.

Lin Mu would have to capture an eighth stage body tempering beast in order to be able to test it. But senior Xukong then told him that, for him to analyze a beast's constitution would be difficult, as their physiologies were vastly different than humans. He would have to have a higher cultivation level as well as better spirit sense to even attempt that.

Now that Lin Mu had this chance to test it on a different person, he wanted to take it. As for whether the masked man would suspect where he got a spirit apple from, that would be rather useless as he had already revealed much more shocking secrets.

Something as simple as this would not matter at all, besides there was an entire orchard of spirit apples in the Northern town, he may as well have bought it normally. He did have the sufficient capital for it.

Having made up his mind, Lin Mu withdrew a spirit apple from his ring and put it towards the masked man. The masked man turned to look up and saw the spirit apple in Lin Mu's hand.

”Go on, take it. It will help you restore your spirit qi.” Lin Mu spoke.

The man slightly nodded while panting and took the spirit apple from Lin Mu's hand. His mask was already lifted from his mouth, thus he did not have to make the effort again. He placed the spirit apple at his mouth and took a bite.

The sweet and tangy juices from the spirit apple spread in his mouth and gave him a little taste of heaven. He chewed for a little bit before swallowing it. As soon as the morsel of the spirit apple reached his stomach, it instantly started releasing the spirit qi stored within it.

The wisps of spirit qi started being absorbed from the masked man's stomach and were being pulled into his meridians. The spirit qi wisps traveled through the man's meridians while nourishing his body and relieving his fatigue bit by bit.

Feeling the effects of the spirit apple taking place, the masked man no longer hesitated and started devouring the rest of the spirit apple. Bite by bite, the entire spirit apple disappeared into the masked man's stomach. He did not even leave behind the core and ate it all without wasting anything.