A tail? Did that mean the thing sealed below really was some kind of creature?
But if the Bitter Mother Tree on the surface was only the tip of this tail, and the fairies had grown from the mother tree, didn't that mean all the fairies had split off from this creature's body?
And if a single tail stretched from the surface all the way to such depths underground, how long did it have to be? How enormous must the creature itself be?
Mu You had no time to dwell on it. Deciphering the order here had taken over a day. He had little time left to stay here and had to act quickly.
[You have discovered a Parasitic Circuit Prosthesis that can be fused with you. Fuse immediately?]
When Mu You clicked on the "Wind Qilin Arm" text, this message popped up instead.
"A parasitic prosthesis?" Mu You paused, then quickly understood. This Qilin Arm had clearly been processed into something like an item that could be equipped and removed at any time.
"Fuse!"
[Fusing prosthesis. Estimated completion time: five hours...]
"That long..."
Mu You frowned. He had thought this thing was just a glove he could slip on and use. He hadn't expected even putting it on to take four or five hours.
With no other choice, Mu You could only wait patiently.
Meanwhile, once the three clones realized Mu You had finished looking through their eyes, they set off again. This time, however, things were much simpler. They no longer needed to explore cautiously; they only had to keep following the tail downward, and they would eventually find the creature's body.
As Mu You waited, he kept track of the clones' situation, only to discover that the tail was far longer than they