Chapter 438: Heart
Sam started observing the surroundings and after finding out of the area where the energy waves are higher than normal, Sam moved in that direction.
Mia slowly followed him along. This process continued for half-an-hour. But when they reached the place with the most energy concentration, there is nothing they could see. This made Sam frown, and he extended his hand as he touched the floor. Even without his spiritual sense and observation, Sam could feel the energy here.
It is too thick to be unnoticed.
When he placed the hand on the floor and started observing, Sam found that there is some sort of energy manipulation here.
So, he started examining the area and he finally found the traces of formation. There is something that is hiding within the Sea bed and a formation is made to hide it. Sam doesn't know if this is a dangerous thing to open.
He even checked with the hologram in the divine dimension but it was still hidden. The formation although, the grade is not higher and could be broken by a Normal Nascent stage cultivator, there seemed to be something wrong with the type of formation.
Even if divine dimension couldn't see past it, then it wouldn't before formation from this planet at all. The formation is practically foolproof.
Sam steeled his resolve and started dealing with the formation. The formation is clearly of higher grade and if brute force was used from a transcendent stage cultivator, it would be easily destroyed, but no one can guarantee that the thing inside would be able to stay safe.
The same thing would happen with the energy cells.
Sam has to deal with it slowly steadily. After half-an-hour Sam was able to find the nodes of the formation and started his operation.
Sam's main goal is to use the disintegration on the sea bed. He doesn't want to destroy the formation directly, all he wants to do is to force the nodes out of their original position so that the formation wouldn't be able to sustain.
But he has to pick the right nodes because if the wrong nodes are moved, the energy wouldn't stop, rather it would collide and there would be an energy blast which he couldn't handle head-on. This will also result in the destruction of the thing within the formation.
Sam started wearing the sea bed. He simply turned it into small grains and the seawater did the remaining job. The nodes are impaled too deep inside and Sam almost took half an hour to deal with one node.
After deviating one node, he finally noticed the formation clearly, the formation happened to be a complex formation with a layered structure. It is created by using multiple formations as layers and molded as a single formation.
He went on with his process to deal with it.
But with every node removed, he is receiving a backlash. But at this point, he didn't care. He doesn't have anything to do and can rest for sometime before the next stage. But he also noticed that although the formation is complex, it is not high level and dangerous enough to cause his death. Because the person who planted the heart might have thought that no one would think about getting the source.
After three hours, the formation was finally done and Sam could see what is in front of him and this made him forget about the time and effort he put and washed the frustration away.
This is something he didn't expect at all. Mia by the side is also excited. In fact, too excited beyond belief as she saw the thing.
It is a heart, live, and beating heart. Just from the structure, Sam could guess that is the heart of a snake-type beast. The heart is as large as a yoga ball in a gym.
There is nobody or a corpse around the heart and there are no veins connected out of it, it is just the heart all alone, but it is still beating continuously.
And it is emitting these poisons from it.
Sam could guess what type of beast it is, but there are too many which has this property of a poison heart. He couldn't immediately pinpoint. He wanted to see the internal structure to see, but as soon as he extended the hand, he felt his spiritual consciousness under attack.
He only noticed after he got the attack, due to the absence of the spiritual sense. Sam frowned but he still placed his hand on the heart.
He lost his consciousness and his will entered another world. Sam frowned at this. He is all too familiar with this area. He has come here twice before. This is the spiritual battlefield and he could only enter this when he has to battle a weapon spirit.
As he looked around, a large Black snake appeared before him. Sam recognized it immediately and he got answers to many questions in an instant.
This beast is a snake type beast, whose poison is on par with the hydra, it is just that the effects are not as instantaneous. The Shesh.
Apart from that, there is something else interesting about this beast. That is the life force of this snake. It has a life force which couldn't be seen normally in a poisonous beast and it can actually use that life force at will. It can not only kill, but also save a person at its will.
Even more interesting thing, the heart of the beast can be refined into a spiritual weapon. The heart of this beast is actually very special because it is as poisonous as the poison sac. This makes the blood, flesh, skin, and even the scales of this beast are extremely poisonous and they are not even suitable for consuming directly.
But this is a treasure to poison cultivator.
A healer and poison cultivator can transform this heart into a spiritual weapon with their combined effort. But it takes a lot of time. They could take breaks, but it still is a lot of effort at least if they are from this planet.
If they have higher-level cultivation it would be easier.
And judging from the size of the heart, Sam could guess that it would be a Consummate realm beast, maybe which just broke through.
Sam looked at the spirit and started the spiritual battle. There is no backing out now and since the battle is on equal terms, there is no way he could lose.
After an hour, Sam finally came back to his body and there is no resistance from the heart. Now the big question is, how should he use this.
The best option would be to let Mia eat it. Of course, with her level, it would be hard for her to absorb this thing directly. But she can still eat it after it became a Pre-transcendent stage beast. Which would make it easier for her to digest.
Until then Sam could use this as a cultivation aid. Right now, it is a living heart without anybody, so the poison it secrets is used to deal with the intruders here.
Anyway, since they already absorbed the poison that is accumulated in this place for years, the growth wouldn't be too fast from the poison Mia could absorb from the heart, but it would be steady.
He stored it first and placed it with the skeleton of the Hydra. That is already a zone that is completely filled with poison, it is the only safe place.
After that, he let Mia go inside. If the source of the poison is some other thing, he would have let Mia eat it all. Now, they have to stop. At least, they broke through to the fourth level of Nascent stage cultivation.
This is the last day before the island opens, but he doesn't know if this is the last test. But he has a gut feeling that this would be the last one.
The tests are designed well and this would be the best to be the last one as after the fear from the first round and the mental exhaustion from the second one will make them easily die in this third one. There is no need for more torture of the people who crossed.
He made his way towards the mist in front and slowly crossed it.
After a few minutes, he finally saw a clear area without any mist and it turned out to be an island. Sam felt relieved, he almost jumped in joy.
As he wanted to enter the island and go deeper, he was stopped by some barrier. It is invisible but still stopped him from entering.
But he is not disappointed. He decided that he could rest here for the night.
So, he took out a mattress and slept on it. He is just a bit happy that he wanted to relax a bit. All this while, he didn't care about comfort. But he felt like he should indulge himself a bit with all the annoying tests he passed through.
The next day, he woke up before dawn, because he noticed some energy fluctuations around him and he also noticed that his spiritual sense has come back finally.
But the range of spiritual sense is extremely limited. He could cover for more than five hundred meters normally. But he could only sense the next fifty meters.
Sam looked at the island that is in front of him. The seashore which he was on was filled with large rocks which are not giving a view to a larger distance.
He took out the harbinger and started moving.