Chapter 327: Tunnels (1/2)

Xukong carefully tried to read the runes but found most of them to not make much sense. A vast majority of them had been destroyed, and thus they could not really be read anymore. Lin Mu tried to read it as well and could only make out some basic words.

But even then, the uncomfortable feeling that he was feeling was not dissipating and was still the same. Thinking of a solution, Lin Mu started chanting the calming heart sutra and a few seconds later felt much better. The uncomfortable feeling could not affect him anymore.

”Let's see what is here, there's bound to be something if it can make me feel like this.” Lin Mu said before walking ahead.

A few minutes later he could smell the foul stench in the air again. He saw that he had reached a point where the tunnel branched into multiple parts. There was one of them that was the biggest in size and was also giving out the feeling of discomfort, while one of the other branches was where the foul stench was coming from.

The remaining tunnels had no effect on him, and he didn't particularly find them unique.

”Which one do we head to first?” Lin Mu questioned.

”Hmm, let's go to the one that is the biggest one.” Lin Mu decided after a few moments.

Lin Mu walked ahead and saw that the runes that were carved into the walls were much more degraded than the previous parts. He touched the walls and could feel they were steeped in that uncomfortable aura. But even then the main source of that was quite ahead.

It took him about five minutes to reach the end of the tunnel. This was where the uncomfortable aura was the strongest, nearly ten times as much as when he first felt it. But now Lin Mu could not proceed anymore, for there was a large wall in front of him. This wall also had runes that had deteriorated with time carved on it.

”Now what?” Lin Mu asked.

He touched the wall and could feel the uncomfortable aura behind it. He tried probing the wall with his spirit sense and realized that he could not penetrate it more than an inch.

”Hmm, seems like this is a gate of some kind. But looking at the runes carved on it, the opening mechanism for it has also broken due to the time.” Xukong answered.

Lin Mu looked at the wall and felt unwilling to head back. But then an idea appeared in his mind. He triggered the third skill phase and walked ahead.

~Thud~

”Ouch!” Lin Mu winced.

Lin Mu recoiled from the collision and rubbed his head. He looked at his hands and saw that they were still blurry. He touched the wall with his hands and found them unable to penetrate through them.