Chapter 260: A Spatial Storage Ring? (1/2)

While Lin Mu was doing all this, the Brown Shrubby Forest Cat was lying in the grass and was basking in the warm sunlight while taking a nap. It had long since fallen asleep and did not notice Lin Mu do all this.

Lin Mu opened his eyes after recuperating his spirit qi to the full and looked at the skeleton. No physical change could be observed on the skeleton, and it seemed to be the same as before. Lin Mu extended his spirit sense and probed it, facing no repulsion like before it easily touched the skeleton.

Upon finally touching the skeleton, Lin Mu could not find anything peculiar on it.

”That was… a bit underwhelming, after all that.” Lin Mu uttered as a sigh escaped his mouth.

”It is safe to touch now. There are no remnants of a soul on the skeleton. If there were, you would have felt them there.” Xukong spoke up.

Lin Mu nodded in response before a question popped up in his mind.

”But Senior, what was that repulsion I felt?” Lin Mu questioned.

”That was the final layer of protection that was left on the skeleton of the cultivator. Usually, when a nascent soul realm cultivator dies, their remaining spirit qi would accumulate onto their skeleton due to its characteristics.

This ends up forming the repulsive layer that you felt before. It is a kind of precaution that prevents the remains from being disrespected. But this also ends up preserving the remains, as you can see. Although the flesh may wither away, the bones will stay on.” Xukong answered.

Lin Mu was listened on with interest and felt amazed by this new tidbit of information. He then pushed these thoughts aside as he now needed to check what was actually left on the skeleton.

Lin Mu brushed the soil away and revealed the ring that was hidden beneath.

On the index finger of the right hand of the skeleton, a plain golden ring was left. It was loosely hanging on the finger as there was no flesh left on it. At the top of the ring, a square surface was formed on which a green gem laid.

As soon as Lin Mu saw it, only one thing appeared in his mind.

”Is that a spatial storage ring?!” Lin Mu exclaimed.

Lin Mu probed the ring with his spirit sense and confirmed his assumption, it was indeed a spatial storage ring.

But a moment later, Lin Mu's brows furrowed as he sensed something else.

”There are barely any spatial fluctuations coming from it, is this normal Senior?” Lin Mu asked as he pulled the ring off of the skeleton's finger.