[After a wave of dizziness, you revived in the 'Night Watchman's Cabin'.]
Once he revived, Mu You immediately opened the Spirit Shrine to take a look.
Sure enough, the eyes of the bottommost skull on the urn were now glowing with an eerie purple light.
"Purple, huh..."
Mu You rubbed his chin. It seemed that absorbing remains of different grades also produced different colors of ghostfire in the skulls' eyes.
And judging by the Star Spirit World's usual color classifications, purple wasn't the highest grade of Troll. There were probably colors like gold above it...
Shaking his head, Mu You took the Teleportation Array back to Xiao Ya's treehouse, then rode his donkey toward the cave again.
One death and one teleportation had cost him another two years in an instant, and he had only obtained one set of remains. To get all twenty, he would have to spend at least forty years of lifespan.
That was with his Time Pocket Watch greatly reducing the lifespan he spent scouting. If an ordinary person came here, who knew how much lifespan they would have to burn to complete this quest...
By the time he returned to the cave, another two hours had passed, and it was early Sunday morning.
Mu You entered the cave again, ready to repeat his previous approach and find a second tomb.
But he soon noticed something wrong: the patrolling Trolls were noticeably more numerous!
Before, firing missiles two or three times had been enough to find an unguarded path. Now, it took around seven or eight attempts to find a way through. The guards' strength had more than doubled, and each Troll's patrol range had expanded considerably.
"Looks like the Trolls discovered that a chieftain's grave had been dug up and reinforced the tomb