Chen Lin returned beneath the mushroom and circled it, studying it.
This thing had to be a treasure.
But even if he actually cut off a piece, it would serve little purpose.
In a projection state, items from the Nightmare Realm could only be brought back to reality if they had been legitimately obtained. Anything taken by force could not be brought out.
Still, Chen Lin was reluctant to give up.
He had paid Nightmare Coins for this scenario and hired veteran cultivators to explore it. All told, he had spent quite a bit.
He needed to study it properly and try to reap some benefits to recoup his costs.
With that thought, he began flying up and down, inspecting it inch by inch without overlooking a single spot.
When he found nothing, he tried pouring various kinds of energy into the mushroom.
"Hmm?"
None of the other energies had any effect, including innate power. But when Chen Lin infused it with soul force, the mushroom's fluorescence began intensifying at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then it blazed with light, bathing the entire space in a riot of colors.
At the same time, a colored light gate formed on the enormous, milky-white mushroom stem.
This development left Chen Lin deeply shocked.
There really was a hidden change!
But he did not dare approach recklessly. Instead, he retreated some distance and watched quietly.
When he had used the veteran cultivators to test it, he had already instructed them to try activating this object with various energies.
Those had included soul power.
Yet according to their reports, soul power had been ineffective as well.
He, however, had caused the object to react.
That left two possibilities.
One was that the veteran cultivators' soul strength had been too low, and a