After traveling over a hundred li, Chen Lin stopped on a small mound.
He first checked his surroundings. Finding nothing unusual, he set up an Isolation Array and began examining his recent gains.
Aside from the ten blood spirits he had fished up, Gu Lianfeng had also left him a Pill Bottle at the end.
After the man vanished along with the lake, Chen Lin had thought the lake was an illusion and that the blood spirits he had caught would dissipate with it.
But they had not.
Opening the Spirit Storage Bottles containing the blood spirits one after another, Chen Lin could still sense their willingness to obey him. This astonished him.
It was precisely this feeling that had kept him from throwing them away after Gu Lianfeng left. But he would have to study them carefully to determine their use.
After examining the blood spirits, he picked up the Pill Bottle.
It held only one pill, crimson as blood. Yet rather than any bloody odor, it emitted powerful energy fluctuations. Chen Lin even vaguely sensed the pill trembling continuously, as though it were alive.
He fell into thought.
Gu Lianfeng had come specifically to see him, so he would never have given him a useless pill. Both the blood spirits and the pill were probably things he could use in the ruins, though they might also be connected to the Tavern Proprietress.
But the man had acted so high and mighty and never explained their uses, leaving Chen Lin thoroughly frustrated.
Unable to make sense of them after his examination, Chen Lin rested for a while, then continued on his way.
His luck was good this time. After another two days of flying, he spotted scattered villages and finally reached an inhabited region.
Yuangu City.
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