After Aron left, Lin Taichu returned to the guest room with the Mo Stone.
He placed the Mo Stone on the table and examined it carefully by the light of the glowing crystal in the room.
The Mo Stone was slightly larger than a thumb, its surface smooth. Its green fluorescence flickered between bright and dim, and when he brought it close, he could sense a faint trace of demonic energy—but it differed from the energy leaking from the seal before. The demonic energy within this Mo Stone was very stable, as though it had been compressed inside the stone.
Lin Taichu touched the Mo Stone with his fingertip. Finding nothing unusual, he tried probing it with his inner energy.
The moment his inner energy touched the Mo Stone, its fluorescence suddenly flared. Then, a subtle pulling force came from within it, seemingly trying to draw away his inner energy.
He quickly withdrew his inner energy, and the Mo Stone's glow returned to its previous brightness.
"This stone is rather strange," Lin Taichu muttered.
He recalled the King saying that Mo Stones formed in places rich with demonic energy. Yet Atlantis's seal had only just stabilized, and the surrounding demonic energy had mostly dispersed. How had this Mo Stone appeared near the seal?
Moreover, the demonic energy inside it was so stable that it did not seem newly formed. It seemed more like someone had placed it there.
He put the Mo Stone into the wooden box that had previously held the Crimson Spirit Fruit. The moment he placed it inside, the residual spiritual energy in the wooden box repelled the Mo Stone's demonic energy. The edges of the box grew slightly warm, and the Mo Stone's fluorescence dimmed somewhat.
Lin Taichu stared at the wooden box for a while