Chapter 882: Chapter 878: The Megrez Stone’s Warning
Simultaneously, the zipper of Xiao Tian’s wide side pocket suddenly started to open on its own, revealing the appearance of the Megrez Stone.
After emerging from the pocket, the Megrez Stone didn’t sink into the spring as one might typically expect, but instead naturally floated in front of Xiao Tian and remained motionless.
Perhaps it was an illusion, but as Xiao Tian gazed at the Megrez Stone before him, he was amazed at how it had come out of the pocket while also feeling as if he was perceiving an emotion from it.
A moment later, Xiao Tian shook his head to dismiss this unrealistic notion, then raised his arm to retrieve the Megrez Stone back into the pocket.
However, at that very moment, the previously motionless Megrez Stone suddenly moved downwards slightly, just enough to evade Xiao Tian’s grasp, and then became still once more.
This situation finally made Xiao Tian realize something was amiss, prompting him to closely inspect the Megrez Stone before him.
On the surface, the Megrez Stone still had peculiar patterns, with no unusual phenomena appearing, yet Xiao Tian faintly sensed that the emotion emanating from the Megrez Stone was becoming increasingly clear.
After a while, Xiao Tian could finally determine what that emotion was—joy, excitement, and a hint of urgency!
Though it may sound like a fairy tale for a stone to anthropomorphically possess emotions, Xiao Tian truly felt it, and decided to trust this feeling.
With this realization, things became much simpler.
Joy, excitement, along with a faint urgency, if these three emotions appear simultaneously in a human...
Thinking of this, Xiao Tian placed his finger in his mouth to bite it open, then pressed the wound as he slowly approached the Megrez Stone.
This time, the Megrez Stone did not evade as it did before; instead, halfway through Xiao Tian’s approach, it spontaneously moved closer, leaving one in awe.
When its surface caught Xiao Tian’s blood, the patterns on the Megrez Stone began to illuminate gradually, following the usual pattern, and eventually suspended sharply in front of Xiao Tian, displaying projections one after another before him.
Seemingly to accommodate Xiao Tian, this time through the Megrez Stone’s initiative, he could understand more intuitively what the Megrez Stone wanted to convey.
In front of Xiao Tian was a magnificent picture, with the distant red dot being the location of Kunlun Mountain that Duoduo had identified before.
At this moment, the original red dot there was lit by a kind of white light, its position subtly shifted elsewhere.
As if frustrated by Xiao Tian’s inability to focus on the main point, the picture in front of him suddenly enlarged several times, showing a pair of large and small red dots close together, with the distinction being that the smaller red dot faintly resembled a human form and kept blinking on and off.
The larger red dot, however, was located in a seemingly giant lake, not flickering endlessly like the smaller human-shaped dot.
Witnessing this, Xiao Tian suddenly seemed to have a moment of clarity, and with this realization, he began to think deeply, intending to deduce what the Megrez Stone wanted to convey.
Given the prior experience as a basis, it didn’t take long for Xiao Tian to hypothesize what it might be about.
Of course, Xiao Tian couldn’t say with absolute certainty whether the deduced content aligned with the Megrez Stone’s genuine intent, as the stone couldn’t directly communicate with him and he could only rely on some indirect cues to ponder it slowly.
While pondering, Xiao Tian first used True Qi to isolate himself from the surrounding spring water, creating a temporary vacuum area that ensured he could breathe freely even underwater.
Although his abilities didn’t necessarily require this, doing so ensured safety, reducing the likelihood of exposing weaknesses underwater.
After finishing all this, Xiao Tian began to focus entirely on thinking, first concluding that the flashing human-shaped red dot should represent himself.
As for the larger stationary red dot, combining its depiction within an illusion realm resembling a lake, it wasn’t difficult to guess what it represented.
Summing up, the Megrez Stone likely wanted to convey that there must be some treasure hidden in the place he was located.
With this thought, the Megrez Stone seemed to exhibit a childlike delight, as if pleased that Xiao Tian could accurately guess its implied message!
Subsequently, the Megrez Stone’s projection vanished in the blink of an eye, and the surface patterns gradually dimmed, then spontaneously returned to Xiao Tian’s pocket.
This self-aware behavior left Xiao Tian somewhat at a loss for whether to laugh or cry, though since the Megrez Stone hinted that something was hidden here, it wouldn’t hurt to search.
However, when Xiao Tian attempted to use his Perception Power to seriously search for energy fluctuations around him, he soon discovered a massive impediment.
Firstly, the water of Confucian Spring here had inherent energy fluctuations by itself, although weak on their own, collectively they were substantial enough to affect perception.
Additionally, water inherently weakened Perception Power compared to land; after a bout of perception, aside from confirming that Xiang Yiting was safe on the surface and no rescue teams had arrived, there were no other useful findings.
This situation caused Xiao Tian to scratch his head; although Confucian Spring wasn’t large, it encompassed at least a hundred mu in area. A detailed search could easily take three to five days.
And this was merely the search part, not accounting for the possibility that the hidden item was deeply buried in the water, which would indeed be absurd if true!
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After a long while, Xiao Tian suddenly slapped his forehead, internally cursing himself for being a wise person overlooking the obvious: the conspicuous spot he hadn’t considered!
What Xiao Tian thought of was the spring eye he had just left. Although he hadn’t noticed anything at the time, he hadn’t thoroughly explored beneath the water, coupled with the circumstances lacking conditions for such actions.
But now it was different, being underwater and with the reminder from the Megrez Stone, Xiao Tian felt that if he didn’t take this opportunity to see for himself, he would feel regret and remorse to the extreme.
Once decided, Xiao Tian immediately headed toward the center of the spring eye; finding the direction was easy, simply following the path of greatest resistance would not be wrong.
At the moment, Xiao Tian was indeed exerting all his strength, moving rapidly, faster than even typical small boats.
The reason for doing this was primarily because he didn’t want to expose his identity prematurely.
Xiao Tian was well aware that matters on the surface would eventually be discovered, and once rescue teams arrived and found him absent, his identity as Xiao Erren would be nullified, requiring him to devise a new plan.
Moreover, once unable to be found after retrieval operations, there was a chance of drawing attention, equating to identity exposure as well, meaning that Xiao Erren’s identity could no longer be used.
