Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 316: Formations for Strengthening the Defense Zone

Leaving the Ghost Market was even smoother than entering it.

Su Ming hurried along his way, deliberately sticking to the shadows.

It wasn't until he had completely left the area of the Supply Camp and returned to the familiar patrol route of Bing Battalion that the prickling sensation of being watched on his back finally dissipated.

Returning to Stone Hut Number Seven, the first thing Su Ming did was activate all the defensive formations.

"Minor Heavenly Cycle Water Rhythm Formation, rise."

"Spirit Response Spider Web, activate."

As streaks of spiritual light lit up one after another, the small stone hut was tightly wrapped in layer upon layer of restrictive spells.

Only then did Su Ming let out a long sigh of relief, plopping down on the stone bed, feeling the cold sweat on his back had already soaked through his clothes.

"Master, what did that Old Blind Man's last sentence mean?" Su Ming took out that grayish-white stone from his storage pouch and carefully placed it on the stone table.

"Exactly what it sounds like."Lin Yu's figure materialized in the Consciousness Sea, his tone unusually serious. "This stone indeed carries a very faint trace of murderous aura. It's not demonic energy, nor ghostly energy, but a kind of... more ancient, more chaotic aura."

"You mean... the bugs?" Su Ming frowned.

"Very likely." Lin Yu nodded. "Void Stones are usually found accompanying spatial rifts or extremely deep earth vein faults. And such places are often also the nesting grounds where ancient aberrant species slumber. There are a few extremely fine scratch marks on the surface of this ore. They don't look like they were left by mining tools, more like marks from being gnawed by some kind of sharp teeth."

Su Ming leaned in for a closer look.

Sure enough, on the grayish-white stone skin, there were several extremely shallow scrape marks.

If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice them at all.

But if you probed with divine sense, you would discover a trace of a heart-palpitating, violent aura lingering at the site of the scratches.

"Even Void Stone gets gnawed..." Su Ming felt a toothache coming on. "Just how good are the teeth of the bugs down there?"

said gravely. "Those things underground might be more active than we imagined. The fact that this stone could end up in the

a moment, then stood up and scooped a basin of clear water

have the stone

tossed that priceless "broken stone" into the water

Plop.

bottom, sending ripples across the

Art, and shot a wisp of

"Cleanse!"

water in the basin began to slowly rotate, forming a small

were forcibly extracted from within

stone?" Su Ming asked

get rid of the murderous aura." Lin Yu stretched lazily, returning to his usual indolent demeanor. "Tomorrow night, we can use the 'water grinding'

you're practically turning my Like Water Art into an 'all-purpose menial post

after you finish processing this

Ming's eyes lit

listen to

the continuously swirling water

this perilous Iron Wall Pass, every bit of increased strength was a bargaining chip

...

the next morning, as the sky was just

was already echoing with the

Ming, sporting dark circles under his eyes, pushed open the door of

night, fearing that stone might pull some trick, and only dared to rest a little after

Su! Up so

carrying his giant hammer, drenched in sweat, clearly having just completed

are things, Brother Zhao?" Su

"Same as usual."

Tiji wiped the sweat from

Su Ming's heart stirred.

Blind Man last night,

I want to further reinforce the formation in our defense zone."