Chen Lin had only waited a short while before Grass's sword light appeared again, streaking down beside him.
"Master, I didn't find anything unusual, but I found this!"
Grass handed what she was holding to Chen Lin. It was actually the Image-Recording Bead that had been tied to the Crow Puppet.
"Where did you find it?"
Chen Lin asked, then wrapped the Image-Recording Bead in mana before taking it.
After examining it, he frowned. The object had already undergone nightmare transformation and could no longer be activated.
"Not far from the edge of that pool."
Grass answered.
Then she added, "But that was all I found. I didn't see the Crow Puppet. Maybe it fell into the pool. Should I search inside?"
Chen Lin shook his head.
It was only a Crow Puppet. If it was gone, so be it.
What mattered now was determining whether anything dangerous lurked in the pool. If not, he could have Chen Bao bring the Road Guide over and check whether this space contained any nodes connected to the Otherworld.
His main objective now was to find nodes, not explore.
After some thought, Chen Lin took out the White Jade Palm.
The surrounding nightmare qi was instantly swept away.
He placed the White Jade Palm on the Image-Recording Bead, attempting to cleanse its nightmare realm aura.
There were differences between objects and people undergoing nightmare transformation. Nightmare qi could be removed from objects; anyone familiar with the Nightmare Realm knew that.
This applied not only to objects that underwent nightmare transformation afterward. Even objects native to the Nightmare Realm would slowly lose their nightmare realm aura after being brought into the Reality Realm.
It was merely a question of how long it took.
But there were two exceptions: Nightmare Coins and Road Guides.
These