Path of Alchemy Mastery-Chapter 268 - 269 Strange Sounds

Mu Can tightly gripped both the book and the longsword within the nearby sphere of light, not daring to make any rash movements.

"Wuu wuu wuu!" The turtle seemed to understand Mu Can’s actions, its small eyes filled with excitement as it cried out as if to cheer Mu Can on.

"Do you think it will work?" Mu Can asked the turtle, which was hooting excitedly.

Talking to the turtle, Mu Can was completely driven by the nervousness in his heart at the moment.

In his mind, he once thought that by choosing the fruit in the middle, he had changed his fate and become the youngest genius of the Mu Family. This time, by choosing the book, he wanted to see if it could disrupt the course of the illusion and see if he could break it.

Actually, Mu Can still harbored a small selfish desire. Since obtaining the fruit, he had wondered more than once what exactly the other two spheres contained, a mystery that had troubled him for over a decade.

In those ten years, Mu Can had dreamt of this scene more than once. In his dreams, he did not choose the fruit in the middle, but the book beside it.

Mu Can was preparing underwater to make a change, while the area around the deep pool had become incredibly lively.

Both the older and middle-aged generations of the Mu Family were nearly all present, surrounding the pool and watching the calm water surface, each with a different expression on their faces.

"Are you saying Can’er jumped into the pool himself?" Elder Mu Dao asked Mu Hanyu in a cold voice.

After having just had a drink with a good friend, he heard such news. His favorite grandson had fallen into a cold pool, his life and death uncertain.

"Elder Grandfather, Brother Can indeed jumped into the pool himself and asked me to wait for him here," Mu Hanyu had never seen such a scene before, with nearly all the high-level members of the Mu Family gathered around this small pool.

"Who checked this area?" Mu Dao knew that Mu Hanyu was not lying and would not dare lie to him. Turning around and surveying the gathering, he asked coldly.

As everyone knew, every year before the hunting activity took place, someone from the Mu Family must inspect the mountain to ensure all hazards are eliminated. Yet now, under their watch, this originally recorded as no more than tens of meters deep and safe pool had undergone such changes, the responsibility was on whom.

"It was me." A middle-aged man slowly came forward, unable to hide the truth.

Despite internally bitterly smiling, the middle-aged man stood forward.

"Good, then let me ask you, now that my grandson has fallen into the pool, his life and death unknown, how exactly did you inspect this place?" Mu Dao looked at the middle-aged man as if he were a dead man.

To be blunt, if Mu Can really suffered any misfortune here today, Mu Dao would not hesitate to involve everyone responsible in accompanying Mu Can in burial.

"Speaking to the Law Enforcement Elder, when I inspected this pool, it truly was a pool without any peculiarities. I even specifically dived in to check. Now I do not know why this change has occurred." The middle-aged man inwardly moaned at his bad luck, having been responsible for checking this mountain peak and encountering such an incident.

This little mischief-maker, truly causing trouble everywhere.

"No dangers? Then tell me, what exactly is happening here now?" Mu Dao roared, pointing at a few people trembling by the side, all set to dive into the water to rescue Mu Can.

Not only them, but Mu Dao himself had also tried; he managed to dive a few hundred meters, the furthest of everyone, before almost turning into an ice block and then slowly retreating.

"I don’t know." The middle-aged man lowered his head; he genuinely did not understand why a normal pool had changed like this, nor why Mu Can had chosen to jump into it.

"If something really happens to my grandson, none of you will escape." After saying this, Mu Dao sat down nearby. He did not believe his grandson would die in such a place; he intended to wait here for the day Mu Can returned. If not, he wouldn’t mind letting a group of people accompany Mu Can in death.

At this moment, Mu Can had no idea what was happening beside the pool, but even if he knew, he would probably just laugh it off, as Elder Mu Dao’s protectiveness was well known throughout Liuyun City. Now that Mu Can was facing danger, uncertain of life and death, such a response was not surprising at all.

"Watch me," Mu Can said to the turtle, steadying his breath, ready to simultaneously retrieve both treasures.

Huh!

Mu Can slowly exhaled, took a deep breath, and prepared to make his move. freewebnøvel.com

His hands slowly moved outward, his arms slowly gathering strength, moving with deliberation.

Good!

He only felt both hands sink, the two items that had been floating in the light were now pulled out by Mu Can.

"Is it a success?" Mu Can looked at the ancient book and the time-worn longsword in his hands, slightly stunned.

Wuu wuu wuu wuu!

The giant turtle looked at the book and the longsword in Mu Can’s hands, hooting happily.

"Young man, congratulations," a voice echoed in this empty room.

"Who is it?" Mu Can tensed up, shocked to hear someone speaking in such a strange place.

"I am the master of this cave dwelling," the voice continued.

Mu Can placed the book behind him, holding the longsword and scanning the surroundings, but he could finde no trace of anyone. The room’s limited area would not easily conceal any person.

"No need to look further, I have already left this realm," the middle-aged voice spoke as if seeing Mu Can.

"Who are you?" Mu Can asked, the situation having completely exceeded his expectations. He wondered if this scenario within the illusion had ever really existed or was merely concocted.

"Who I am does not matter. What matters is your choice, and know that it is your choice that has awakened me."

"My choice?" Mu Can pondered, recalling his childhood when he had simply chosen the fruit, and just after consuming it, was kicked out of the cave dwelling.

This was his second visit here, and this time he chose two items simultaneously, and that had activated the residual Divine Sense.

"Could this be a Void Level powerhouse?" The more Mu Can thought, the stranger it seemed. The one who left this cave dwelling, Mu Can was almost certain, must be a Void Level powerhouse, as only such a being could leave the Mortal World.

"Yes, your choice. If you had chosen only one item, then after obtaining it, you would have been expelled from here."

"But you, my boy, heh, greedy yet clever, taking two items simultaneously, you have awakened me."