Chapter 762: 99.9% Completion (1/2)

Lin Mu and Little Shrubby walked into the grotto while keeping an eye on things. Even if they had already checked the area with their spirit sense and didn't find any danger didn't mean that it wasn't there.

Even if there were no dangerous beasts, there could be other forms of danger that they could not detect. There could very well be plants or dangerous substances here. Lin Mu and Little Shrubby took an hour to check every place in the grotto and only after that did they relax.

~PHEW~

”Finally, a safer place here.” Lin Mu said.

Lin Mu picked one of the trees and sat down with his back against it. Little Shrubby, on the other hand, was responsible for guarding this time and would prevent any beast from coming into the grotto.

Well… most beasts would avoid him anyway due to the bloodline suppression, but if there were Dao Shell realm beasts wanting to come here, Little Shrubby would be able to hold one back for at least a minute.

And if not that, he could very well alert Lin Mu through their link.

~HUU~

Lin Mu took a deep breath and mediated for a few minutes to reach his optimum condition. Once that was done, he began his work. He needed to break through to the third stage of the Five Treasures realm and finish refining his heart.

As for getting the wood? That was something that could be done at any time. Lin Mu just needed to place his hand, and the entire tree would be stored into the ring. And it was not like the tree that Lin Mu used for cultivating would become useless.

Its wood and other parts could still be used and if left on its own for several years, it would regain the energy that it had lost.

Lin Mu started using the Embrace of Hong Lin and followed its method. His consciousness sank into the tree and sensed the pockets of fire elemental energy within them.

He focused on them and little by little they started getting sucked into his body through his back. The warm energy felt like water to him and was quite pleasant. Lin Mu felt as if he was sitting in a tub of warm water now.

The energy moved through his skin, into his muscles, and then into his blood. The blood swiftly took it all the way around his body, and eventually reach its destination… the heart. Lin Mu felt a wave of heat spreading through his chest and felt a bit uncomfortable now.

It was a sudden change, but knew that it was just his heart's cells changing little by little. It wasn't exactly painful this Lin Mu could withstand it easily. Hours passed by in the blink of an eye as more and more energy was absorbed by Lin Mu.

His progression in the refinement of his heart was moving at a slow pace. He didn't know how long it would take, but he knew that with the number of thousand year old Hong Lin trees he had; it was just inevitable.

'If I didn't get these thousand year old Hong Lin trees, I doubt the hundred year ones would have even made a dent at this point. Their energy content was just getting too low for my body to make use of.' Lin Mu thought to himself.