Full-Time Magister: I Had No Intention of Reaching the Dimensional Throne

Chapter 143 Seven-Colored Orchid?

"very good."

Bai Mo nodded. The item was made by someone else, and the name wasn't too bad. He looked at the Void Armor he was wearing.

The armor is not heavy, and it is bright silver with smooth and beautiful lines. The left shoulder armor has a dragon-like pattern, while the right side has a protruding tooth.

Overall, it was gorgeous and beautiful, yet also exuded an aura of majesty and dominance. Bai Mo turned his head and looked at Leng Qing, who remained silent to the side.

"How is it? Does it look good?"

"Not bad, he's pretty handsome."

Hehe~

Perhaps it's because the elderly have poor appetites and can't eat dog food, Huo Tuo said:

"This armor is more than enough for you to use until you reach the Super Tier. If you can acquire other Void Serpent Bones of the same quality, I can even expand it into a Void Set for you."

Bai Mo continued to experience some of the armor's functions, ignoring Huo Tuo, who was just making empty promises again.

He discovered that Huo Tuo had not wasted a single bit of the strange bone's power; the mental power, which was equivalent to the power of space, had been transformed into mental armor, protecting his mind.

Even after he put away the Void Armor, the powerful mental defense ability of this strange bone still existed, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Aside from his own protective winds, Bai Mo rarely saw such a passive defensive ability that protects the mind.

Huo Tuo also noticed the surprise in Bai Mo's eyes, and he smiled smugly.

"You felt it, didn't you? As long as your soul is bound to the Void Armor, it will always protect your mind. From now on, unless you release your defenses yourself, or a super-level mind master appears, no one can affect your mind."

Bai Mo nodded, praising him like a child, "Master Huo Tuo is really amazing, I like him very much."

Huo Tuo nodded in satisfaction, but he vaguely sensed that Bai Mo's tone was a bit off. However, the young man hurriedly left with his girlfriend, and he didn't have a chance to ask.

Lingling worked quickly; in just one day, she had already compiled information on the Mud Monster and the demons in the Qianzhou Dark Cave.

Due to its unique geology, more than half of Qianzhou is rich in soil elements, and its underground is also filled with interconnected, complex, and dense caves.

The dark cave is crisscrossed by water veins, connecting most of the underground of Qianzhou, forming a demonic ecosystem that is completely different from that on the surface.

Because the underground world is shrouded in darkness, few mages now venture into it to explore, so its true nature remains a mystery.

To this day, it remains unknown to the world, and the veil of mystery gives this dark cave a mythical quality.

It is said that long ago, an ordinary person accidentally entered a dark cave while following a river, and when he came out, he was already a forbidden spell master.

When this rumor first came out, it inspired many capable sorcerers to explore the underground world of Qianzhou, but most of them gained nothing, and some did not even return.

Since the creatures in the dark cave showed no inclination to venture to the surface, the authorities gradually stopped people from pointlessly chasing rumors.

At this time, Dingcheng was just a fortress city, not the later Elemental Capital, and there was no direct transportation route. You didn't need to go to Dingcheng to get to the Dark Cave.

Therefore, Bai Mo and Lingling boarded a plane and landed in Zhucheng. Zhucheng, also known as Zhuyang, is the largest human settlement in Qianzhou, named for its location south of Zhushan Mountain in the north.

Hidden caves are not uncommon in Qianzhou, but they certainly cannot be allowed to exist in the city.

However, there is a huge cluster of dark caves in the vicinity of this city. This is the most explored by hunters and the most frequently mentioned in the information Lingling found.

Mud monsters are widely distributed in the dark caves; they may be hiding in every dark crevice.

Aside from crawling and devouring their targets, they have no other offensive capabilities.

Bai Mo led Lingling out of Zhuyang West and continued forward. Before long, Bai Mo found a large crack leading underground.

The crack is nearly fifty meters long, like a window to the ground, letting the sunlight into the darkness below and revealing a part of the underground world.

Looking at the high-tech, semi-transparent eye mask Lingling was wearing, she even handed one to him. As Bai Mo took it, he asked:

"Can this thing really allow us to see clearly in the dark cave?"

"No, I can only make out the general outline, but I have prepared a light-emitting crystal ball."

"Okay, let's go down then."

Bai Mo pulled Lingling up, a gentle breeze swirling around him, and they quickly took flight, descending into the dark cave.

The area near the surface of the Dark Cave has been explored many times. Although it is not very noticeable in the vast underground world, it is enough for Bai Mo and Lingling to walk for a long time.

Where there is a lot of human activity, the traces of demons decrease accordingly. Bai Mo didn't find any creatures in this area, but he did find several groups of hunter mages like them.

As they continued to delve deeper, more and more bizarre things were transmitted to Hui Baimo's mind through sound waves. In the absence of light, these underground demons looked quite random.

For example, a nest of spiders blocking their way.

The crystal ball in Lingling's hand, which was responsible for lighting, attracted their attention from afar, and its gentle light illuminated their rugged appearance.

All I could see were eyes. It was a world where I didn't need to use my eyes, but those gray spiders had their millstone-sized carapaces covered with countless dark eyes, one next to another, one pair on top of another.

Shrug, shh! ...

They crawled in in great numbers, their densely packed spider legs sliding across the rocky surface with a constant sound, accompanied by countless black eyes reflecting an eerie glow when illuminated by the light, filling the space above, below, left, and right.

At first glance, it seems as if the entire cave is filled with eyes.

It's so chilling that it makes your scalp tingle and your skin crawl with goosebumps. You might even have a strange, phantom feeling that these things are crawling all over you!

"It's a compound-eyed ground spider! Their eyes can bewitch the mind, be careful."

The moment Lingling saw these things, she turned her head away and said to Bai Mo.

"It's even more disgusting than I imagined."

Bai Mo made a sarcastic remark, then casually flicked his wrist, causing several threads to condense in the air. As Bai Mo manipulated them, it was as if he were drawing a supreme divine weapon. A metallic scraping sound was heard, growing louder and louder until it covered the entire cave, completely suppressing the sounds of the compound-eyed earth spiders.

"Clang! C ...

As the massive sound waves swept across, the compound-eyed earth spiders struck by the sound waves seemed to suffer powerful impacts and cuts, shattering into pieces.

As the sound waves continued, strands of sound strings coalesced, causing large numbers of compound-eyed ground spiders to die.

Limbs were scattered everywhere, blood flowed freely, and in just a few seconds, the compound-eyed earth spiders that had blocked their path were all reduced to pieces, covering the entire ground.

Bai Mo led Lingling forward, and the earth waves easily pushed away all the filth along the way, leaving nothing on the two of them.

The mud monster is hiding very well. At least Bai Mo's current sonic detection has detected some other demons, but not them yet.

Although these elemental creatures are weak, they have no natural enemies. Apart from human mages, no other demons would be so bored as to target them.

"Strange, why can't I find it?"

Bai Mo stopped with Lingling. They had already traveled eight thousand meters, and their detection range had been refreshed. There were many demons reported by the sound waves, but no mud monsters were in sight.

"Sludge monsters are only interested in things rich in magical energy, which may not be available in this area. When they are not moving, they are not much different from ordinary land. They do not have a heartbeat or breathing, so your sound magic will have a hard time detecting them."

Lingling spoke up to remind her.

"Perhaps we should find a place rich in elements, a place that might give birth to rare and precious treasures, such as spirit seeds or something. Such a place should attract mud monsters. I brought an elemental detector."

After speaking, she turned her head and looked around. Through the light shone through the crystal ball, she could clearly see the environment of the underground cave. The rocky surface was not dry, but rather somewhat damp, with some weeds growing haphazardly.

"The elemental detector will attract demons, and it's not convenient to protect the detector in this cave."

The probe of an elemental detector is the main instrument for detecting the distribution of elements in the surrounding area, and it is usually buried within 100 meters of the main body.

If this were on the ground, it wouldn't be difficult for Bai Mo to protect it, but the underground caves here have many obstacles, and some places are not even connected and require detours, so Bai Mo doesn't plan to do it.

"We don't need to know the distribution of all elements. This is underground, in Qianzhou, which is rich in earth elements. We only need to know where there are more earth elements."

As Bai Mo spoke, a huge, moon-white star map appeared on the ground in front of him. The summoning array glowed with tiny lights, opening the portal to the contract space and summoning the Divine Dust Tiger.

"The orange cat has a keen sense of the earth element, making it the perfect choice to lead us to places rich in the earth element."

"Meow!"

Big Orange barked, understanding Bai Mo's meaning, and led the way towards an ordinary cave.

In the pitch-black cave, they were the only light source, holding the illuminating crystal ball, which is why they were often discovered hundreds of meters away from the demons.

Of course, Bai Mo was the one who led them to discover those things. These demons couldn't escape his sound-based detection, even those creatures as immovable as mountains, similar to the mud monsters.

The moment it sensed the two of them making a move, Bai Mo would still be able to detect it.

The space inside the dark cave is extremely irregular. Some paths are so narrow that the Divine Dust Tiger has to control the soil and rock to make them expand, while other places are so spacious that they can serve as a sports field.

Some demons like to block roads, while others quietly stay in a corner of a wide open space.

The desire for human flesh and blood is etched into the genes of demons. Even though some demons have never seen a human, it does not prevent them from instinctively attacking Bai Mo and Ling Ling after discovering them.

After walking another two kilometers, Bai Mo soon sensed a river wriggling and flowing across the land.

They lay sprawled on the ground, without any sharp edges, flowing continuously in one direction. It was as if something there was drawing them there.

"Found it!" Bai Mo said happily, picked up the big orange and put it on his shoulder so it could lie down, then pulled Lingling along and transformed into a shadow of the wind, speeding towards that direction.

Lingling reacted quickly and immediately put away the illuminating crystal ball in her hand.

The sound wave feedback prevented Bai Mo from going astray or crashing into walls. He was so fast that the demons passing by would often only realize what was happening before he was gone.

As the distance closed, Bai Mo also became clear about the direction of movement of those mud monsters; these things had a strong sense of energy.

Bai Mo was also curious about what attracted them, so through exploration, he discovered that they were all heading towards a huge, irregularly shaped dark cave, and there were no mud monsters or rock monsters evolved from mud monsters in that cave for the time being.

Bai Mo then turned away from the mud monsters and headed towards the huge dark cave. He didn't sense any demons in the cave, but he couldn't rule out the possibility that they weren't there.

But once he gets there, we'll know.

Bai Mo was much faster than those mud monsters. When he arrived at the other dark cave, the mud monster closest to this huge oval-shaped dark cave was still several hundred meters away.

Standing at the entrance, ready to defend, Lingling took out the light crystal ball at Bai Mo's signal. Immediately, a moderate light shone, just enough to illuminate the entire dark cave.

The cave is very large, at first glance it looks like the size of a stadium. On the cave ceiling, which is tens of meters high, there are thick, grayish-white stalagmites growing. Every now and then a drop of water falls down, spreading a thin but wide pool of water on the irregular rock below. The pool of water also reflects the grayish-white light.

On the raised areas where the watercourses and paths intertwine, clusters of yellow flowers bloom, without a trace of demons or humans.

The soft light from the crystal ball fell gently into this space, illuminating the scene clearly.

It looks somewhat strange and dreamlike.

"Is that... a seven-colored orchid?"

Bai Mo did not take Lingling inside, but remained standing at one of the entrances to this fantastical cave, looking at the yellow flowers blooming on the raised land between the large puddles.

He remembered the seven-colored orchids that Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu had planted a few days ago during a college event at the Qing Campus.

A plant with a short lifespan whose flowers are the same color as a certain element abundant in the soil.

"No, the seven-petaled orchid only has four petals, but these flowers have seven. They are related to the seven-petaled orchid, but they are not. Bai Mo, we're wrong, you've just hit the jackpot!"

Lingling first denied Bai Mo's guess, then said excitedly.

Bai Mo didn't quite understand. "What do you mean? If these aren't seven-colored orchids, then what are they?"

"Hehe, you wouldn't know this, would you?!" Lingling chuckled softly, then began to explain to him:

"This is the Earth Element Flower, which can be considered an evolution of the Seven-Colored Orchid. If the Seven-Colored Orchid grows in a place rich in elements, its lifespan will be extended, and with each extension, it will grow an extra petal."

"Elemental lands that can give birth to fragments of spirit seeds can nurture five-petaled seven-colored orchids, and their lifespan will be extended by seventy days; while places that can give birth to spirit seeds can nurture six-petaled seven-colored orchids, and the lifespan of six-petaled seven-colored orchids can reach seven years."

"So that seven-petaled seven-colored orchid is the elemental land where soul seeds can be born?"

(End of this chapter)