984 The Sacred Tree’s Seed
In the depths of the cave, Fang Heng followed Maica into the cave guarded by Joel.
Along the way, Fang Heng watched as Maica brought him along and evaded at least 30 restrictions of the vampire. The latter even spent some time dismantling the few that they couldn’t evade.
“Alright, we can go in now,” After removing the perceptual restriction at the entrance of the cave, Maica nodded at Fang Heng.
Fang Heng sighed in his heart. Fortunately, he met Maica. If he had come alone, he would have triggered the restrictions. By then, Prince Joel would come back immediately to deal with him.
“Lord Marquis.”
More than a dozen high-tier vampire guards in the cave bowed to Maica when they saw him.
Maica waved his hand, signaling the vampires to continue working.
Fang Heng glanced around the cave and was pleasantly surprised.
It was a large-scale central nurturing magic array!
In the center of the cave, a large magic array was slowly operating.
A large amount of energy from the magic arrays in the upper cavern gathered at the central magic array.
The weak lifeblood in the surroundings was continuously sucked into the magic array.
At the center of the magic array was a raised stone platform about half a meter above the ground, where there was an additional magic array.
Under the energy absorption and conversion of the magic array, pieces of high-tier blood marrow were formed.
The high-tier vampires transformed into bats and grabbed the condensed blood marrows. They flew through the black hole at the top of the cave and transported the blood marrows to the deeper part of the cave.
Fang Heng frowned.
He felt that the magic array was a little strange, and there was a sense of disharmony.
Fang Heng raised his head and looked at the bat-form vampires, asking, “This is blood marrow, right?”
“Yes,” Maica explained, “Mr. Jian has improved the magic array. After absorbing the blood of those humans, the magic array can produce blood marrow continuously. Mr. Jian asked us to bring him the completed blood marrow.”
Blood marrow was the currency of the vampire.
It was a crystal that contained a high concentration of blood energy after being purified.
Vampires could cultivate and recover quickly by absorbing the power of the blood marrow.
Fang Heng took a few steps forward, squatted in front of the operating magic array, and pressed his hands on it.
He poured his perception into the magic array, and a line of game hints appeared.
[Hint: The player’s side mission has been updated. The player has discovered a broken central magic array (repaired). Please continue to explore.]
“Eh?” Fang Heng let out a soft sound of surprise and raised his head to look at the stone platform in the center of the magic array.
The stone platform was not a part of the magic array! It was forcefully added later on!
No wonder he had felt that something was out of place. So it was the stone platform.
The stone platform was new, and it should have been built not long ago. As for the magic array on it, it should have been added later on.
The original configuration of the magic array had been forcibly modified by Jian Muzhi, and the effect changed from the original nurturing to the forming of blood marrow.
Fang Heng stared at the stone platform and suddenly had an idea.
He felt as if he had caught onto something.
Fang Heng turned his head and looked at Maica behind him, “Maica, when was the stone platform and the magic array set up?”
“Huh?” Maica was curious why Fang Heng asked that, but when he saw the latter’s serious expression, he recalled carefully and answered, “After we escaped from the Federation’s pursuit and returned here, Mr. Jian re-planned and planted the stone platform. I was involved in most of the renovation of this cave, so I have an impression of it.”
“What about the original?” Fang Heng stared at Maica with a burning gaze, “What was at the center of the magic array at the beginning?”
Maica’s brows furrowed. He thought for a while and said, “There didn’t seem to be anything.”
Fang Heng was surprised, “No?!”
“No…” Maica tried to recall and said, “Fang Heng, I’m sure. The central area of the magic array was empty. It was just a muddy land. Mr. Jian asked us to build a stone platform on the muddy land and carve a magic array on the stone platform to form the blood marrow.”
Fang Heng became more puzzled.
There was nothing?
Wasn’t this too strange?
Why weren’t there any?
The entire magic array was used to nurture certain items.
But according to Maica, when he saw the magic array, there was nothing in the center.
“Was it taken away by Jian Muzhi?” Fang Heng muttered to himself in a low voice. He didn’t think that the Vampire King had spent so much effort setting up the magic array just to form some high-tier blood marrow.
That would just be a waste.
A more likely guess was that Jian Muzhi had discovered that he could not nurture that certain item, so he just transformed the magic array into one that refined blood marrow.
“Huh?” Maica heard Fang Heng’s mumbling and said, “I don’t think so. I don’t remember anything being moved away when we were clearing this area. If there’s anything, it’s the dried and rotten roots of the plants on the ground that were cleared away.”
Roots?!
Fang Heng’s eyes lit up all of a sudden and an idea suddenly sprang to his mind. He raised his head abruptly and looked around the entire cave!
Could it be…
If his guess wasn’t wrong…
F*ck!
Fang Heng stared at the magic array in front of him, his eyes full of passion.
He should just give it a go!
It didn’t matter even if he guessed wrong. He could at least give Jian Muzhi some trouble!
What if he guessed right?
Thinking of this, Fang Heng stood up and strode into the magic array, coming to the stone platform in the center.
Decoding a magic array was difficult, but destroying it was relatively easier.
This was especially true for the subsidiary vampire magic array before him.
It had been set up in a hurry, and there was no proper protection at all.
Fang Heng took out the Glorious One’s Guardian Scepter behind him, raised his hand, and smashed it at the stone platform.
“Thump!”
With a loud bang, golden light exploded, and the entire stone platform was smashed into pieces by the scepter!
The central magic array lost its effect.
Maica was shocked.
What was going on? Why did he make a move so suddenly?
The other vampires were shocked as well. They all stopped in their tracks and looked at Fang Heng and Maica in the center of the cave.
“Fang Heng, you…”
For a moment, Maica’s trust in Fang Heng wavered.
Frowning, Fang Heng picked up the scepter in his hand again and swept away the stone debris on the ground, revealing the mud under the stone platform.
He covered the top of the scepter with a layer of blood blades, and the originally heavy top of the scepter instantly became extremely sharp.
Then, he used the scepter as a shovel and dug a hole in the soil, searching for something in the hole.
“Fang Heng, what are you looking for?”
After the initial shock, Maica immediately caught up with Fang Heng and checked with him.
He found it! There was something!
Fang Heng raised his eyebrows.
He could feel that the scepter had hit something hard, so he immediately dropped the scepter, squatted, and dug deep into the soil with both hands.
There were still many dried roots and stones left in the mud.
All of a sudden, Fang Heng’s heart moved and he felt that his fingers groping in the mud had found a rough, oval-shaped, shriveled ball.
Then, a game hint appeared on his retina.
[Hint: The player has discovered a special item (unknown)]
[Hint: It has been detected that the player is bound to the ancient Angetas tree. The player has successfully identified the special item.]
[Hint: The player has discovered a special unknown item, an unknown seed of the sacred tree (damaged)(ineffective).]