Chapter 63: How not to peep a formation
(A/N: did soone ask for a bonus chapter? As the caring author that I am, I decided to drop a bonus chapter for all the powerstones that you have wasted on the novel last week. *~*)
——(POV Li Huang)——
The formation was in front of and without hesitation, I stepped inside.
After a flash of light, I was inside the test location. It was a small room with no decoration in it, there were only two doors here and an oil lamp there.
'It seems that I have to choose one of these rooms and from what I can see, the doors are created and reinforced in a way that you can't use Qi sense to see behind them.' I thought.
Using the peeping eye of heaven, I looked at the doors but they were not different and both emitted the sa amount of light so I can't cheese my way as I did with the formation.
Turning my head, I looked at the only clue that was placed in this room, the oil lamp. It was a double-nozzle bronze-colored oil lamp. It wasn't anything extraordinary at a glance and looked ornantal, but I decided to take a look at it with the peeping eye of heaven so that I don't miss a clue.
The mont that I looked at it, I was shocked beyond my expectations. It wasn't ordinary at all and was a unique oil lamp that could be used to burn dicinal herbs that are resistant to fire and need higher temperatures. This oil lamp is so resistant that our sect's standard disciple sword wouldn't even scratch it, I reckon that the sword would probably even chip In the collision.
'This is sothing that grandpa Long would really need as he needs to absorb many dicinal herbs.' Giving this to grandpa would be for the best.
If you process the herbs the absorption speed would increase but you would need the necessary tool to do so and this lamp is one such tool.
As these tools would be damaged after a couple of uses, they cost a lot so having such a lamp that from what I can see doesn't have a single sign of deterioration on it after all these years, is significantly effective.
'This is why they say never judge a book by its cover…' I thought.
Looking closer at the oil lamp, I tried to see if the peeping eye of heaven can detect this oil, while I readied an antidote just to be safe.
From the mories of the artifact, I detected that this oil is from the [red snake tongue] herb. This herb is one of the herbs that form in extre conditions. The herb looks like a snake's tongue, hence the na and as this herb was ford near lava, it is called red snake tongue.
This herb's oil burns very slowly so this has to be burning for a very long ti. This shows the quality of this oil lamp and frankly, I can't be happier with this.
Now it doesn't really matter if I get anything else from either of these doors, I'm content with what I have.
As I was going to enter the right door aimlessly, I stopped on my track suddenly.
There is another reason for naming these herbs snake tongue. When you have one type of this herb, using its oil you can find any snake tongue herb nearby.
What I figured out just now is that the oil lamp is leading to the other door, and there have to be more snake tongue herbs there for this reaction to happen.
Shrugging, I changed my target to the other room. I had the oil lamp in my hands but if I can get more, why not?
Opening the door, I got pushed into the room by so power and the door closed behind . I didn't know about this until later because my attention was sowhere else.
The room was full of alchemical herbs and tools. All of them were top quality and would give a good sandbox to learn alchemy.
After a mont of silence to give my thanks to the generous senior who left these items, I started packing them into one of the storage rings.
I have so storage rings for storing the loot ready. They are arranged like prayer beads, where, instead of beads you have storage rings.
I have to commission a custom modular storage ring when I get back to the sect, this is a really ugly way of managing my inventory.
After I cleaned the room, I again thanked the generous senior and went toward the formation in the back of the room and stepped on it.
Just as I imagined, I got teleported back to the trial where I entered the 'test'.
I didn't waste ti and started running to find new loots.
…
Do you rember that I thought my plan to judge the loot by the strength of the formation was brilliant?
Yeah, that. Scratch that.
I didn't think that the formation might be there to hid a creature and not the loot. So a strong formation could an a strong beast and that is not okay.
I had good gains in a couple more formations until I ca across another very bright formation. When I got inside, instead of big loot, a big alchemical golem was waiting for .
Alchemical golems are artificially created humanoids that have high physical power. Creating these golems involves the employnt of intensive care to its formation runes and Qi control. What makes them harder to counter is their ability to nullify Qi.
You can't attack them with your Qi because it is like charging them with more power as they have cores that store Qi.
Although I was shocked from seeing it, it was sad that I had to destroy such high-quality creation to survive.
From what I know from my artifact's mory, there is an unwritten rule amongst golem creators that they carve their own face on their creation to leave a legacy behind.
This golem had a beautiful face and the character 'He' on its chest, showcasing its creator's na.
As I was marveling at its creation, the golem decided to attack without wasting any more ti.
The mont I know of his plan, I didn't even think of retaliation, all I did was rolling on the ground to move out of his hitting range.
As the golem's fist hit the ground, tremors spread in the room in an instant, and the floor beneath the fist caved in.
Looking at the spider web cracks in the floor and imagining myself there, I couldn't help but shudder.
'Now I can say for sure that my plan to loot everything has so minor flaws…' I thought.
The golem got on his feet again swiftly and attacked with what I could presu is its full power.
Without any pause, I reacted to this developnt and used the [Mirror of Reckoning] to reflect the golem's physical attack back to it.
The golem hit the mirror and I could feel my leg bones breaking under the pressure but I persevered.
'You can break my bones but not my storage rings.' I laughed at my own thoughts.
Luckily for , the mirror was able to absorb all of its attack power.
The golem was shocked and I was also shocked but for different reasons.
The golem didn't understand how his attack was completely ineffective and I was shocked because nothing happened.
'…why isn't it reflectin—' I wasn't able to finish my thought because a powerful physical attack ca out of the [Mirror of Reckoning] and blasted and the golem to the opposite sides of this room.
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