With the refinent room ready, Lin Mu left the two to work while Daoist Chu went to do his own research with the formations.
~shua~
Lin Mu closed the door behind him and activated the arrays to secure the room. After all, he had no idea how things could do thus it was better to secure it. Plus he was going to be dealing with materials that were rather dangerous such as the Black Hex Raven Tears. "Let's see…" Lin Mu took out the fragnts of the Chira Plant that he had fished out of the Death Qi river.
He placed them on a work bench and observed them. Among the five fragnts, two were from the Roots of the Chira Plant and three were from the trunk.
'Five fragnts that I'll have to be prudent with.' Lin Mu thought to himself. 'I should test out the limits of its durability first.' He picked up the smallest fragnt that had co from the Chira Plant trunk.
It was barely an inch in size and could easily held by Lin Mu between his finger and thumb. While holding it like this, Lin Mu started to squeeze it, trying to see its limits.
"HA!" Lin Mu didn't find much success with a single hand so he used both his hands to squeeze the fragnt.
Veins bulged up in Lin Mu's hands as he continued to increase the force, and yet the Fragnt showed no signs of bending or cracking.
~huu~
Seeing that even after five minutes of effort, the fragnt was unaffected Lin Mu stopped.
"Physical strength won't work… I'll try other thods." Lin Mu muttered to himself as he then took out the swords. ~HUALA~
He infused Afternoon Pine and Ocean Raker with Sword Intent as well as tal elental immortal Qi as he decided to strike the fragnt with as much power as he could. He already knew how durable they were so went with the highest power input right from the start.
~CLANG~
Sparks flew as Afternoon Pine Struck the Bark Fragnt, but not even a single scratch was left on the fragnt.
"Again!" Lin Mu swung Ocean Raker, striking the Bark Fragnt right on its side, leaving not even a faint mark.
"This is a lot tougher than I thought." Lin Mu knew his attacks were more than enough to split a mountain and yet such a tiny fragnt had managed to survive. "There's no way its invulnerable. The Chira Plant's destruction resulted in most of its bark and roots getting destroyed too, thus there is definitely so limit to it." He tried to think of possible reasons.
The first one that stood out to him was the explosion that had appeared due to the infective skills that had penetrated the insides of the Chira Plant.
"Perhaps that might work?" Lin Mu wondered as he directly pulled his fist back. He placed the fragnt on the ground, so that even if the damage from the skill spread, it would go straight down and not explode everywhere.
~HUALA~
Energy revolved in Lin Mu's arm as he quickly released a tal Devastator!
~CLANG~CLANG~CLANG~CLANG~
Since he had released it in a controlled manner, the size of the skill was limited. Lin Mu had in fact used less than a percent of his Immortal Qi in this attack, hoping to control the collateral damage and limit it to the fragnt itself.
And yet, all that happened was a flurry of sparks rising from the fragnt and a spiral hole being dug into the ground.
~TREMBLE~ And a few seconds later the ground trembled, as tal Devastator finally dissipated deep underground.
"Didn't work at all." Lin Mu furrowed his brows.
He sat down for a bit and thought over it all, before coming to a conclusions.
'The way the Chira Plant was destroyed, the Death Qi that was contained within it certainly played a part. As such Death Qi might be needed to cause it to break again.' Lin Mu reckoned. 'But it is not sothing we can use, especially not at concentrations as high as that.' He knew.
The Chira Plant had been destroyed due to the pressure that had built up inside it. The Death Qi had basically imploded, causing the entirety of the plant to break down. It was similar to how even a rock would shatter, if it was heated high enough and the fine water drops inside it would expand to crack it.
"Perhaps sothing else might work on this." Lin Mu thought of his skills and picked out another skill.
He stood in a stance again and pulled his fist back, gathering Immortal Qi inside it.
But this ti he wasn't using tal Devastator.
'Boulder Collapsing Fist: Second Form - Penetrator!' ~SHUA~
A thin needle of energy shot out from Lin Mu's fist and stuck the Bark Fragnt.
~TACK~
A big blinding flash happened from it before the fragnt was flung at sonic speeds!
~WHOOSH~
~SLICK~
Lin Mu felt pain on his cheek, as a warm liquid dripped down. Touching it, he felt the blood that was now leaking out from a cut.
"Damn…" He took a deep breath.
~THUD~
And a second later, he heard the sound of sothing collapsing behind him. "Shit, the table broke?" he saw the table which was now cut diagonally. The cut was clean and had been done in one go. But this wasn't from the needle of Qi, as Penetrator had went down straight into the ground, leaving a tiny hole. Rather this was from the Bark Fragnt that was hit by it and flung at great speeds. Not only did it cut past Lin Mu's face, it passed through the table and cut it down too!
Now everything on the table had fallen on the ground, while the Bark Fragnt was lodged deep in the wall. "Even the array didn't stop it." Lin Mu could see the crack on the array, as well as the flickering runes that had sustained damage.
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