Chapter 69: Rest Stop and A Choice

Neo found her puzzling as usual.

Was this woman sure that she didn’t have a split personality?

He found her to be very puzzling.

They journeyed deeper into the domain, but the strange creatures hadn’t appeared for a while now.

And soon they saw the reason why, they had reached one of the rest stops on the way.

Everyone who had read the book Humba gave them knew what this meant.

They could rest here for a while, and more importantly make preparations for deeper progress into the domain.

All of the limit breaker went to gather with the people from their powers.

Samath left first.

Suren knew now was not the time to play around.

She also left to go join her people, and give them further instructions.

Neo was left alone.

Now, he could have some peace and quiet.

He looked at the small well, not too far away from where everyone was.

Most of the F-Rank cultivators wondered what it was.

But not Neo, and the limit breakers.

They knew what it was, and what it represented.

It was one of the most important things in this domain.

It was also their path to going forward.

He watched as the limit breakers instructed their people to go pour the liquid riloma into the well.

There were bucket loads of the thing.

They had to put them in stone carts, just to transport them as they traveled deeper into the domain.

Bucket after bucket was upended, until there was nothing left.

Then they waited.

The transformation of the riloma would take some time.

According to what was written in the book, the more riloma was poured into the well, the longer the transformation would take.

Neo walked to the well.

He was curious about what the process would look like.

There was no assurance that he would learn anything from it, but he thought the process would be fun to watch.

And no doubt enlightening.

The well was shallow, barely a few feet underground.

It held the riloma, almost to the brim.

He watched as the white riloma which had a tint of blue, had the blue in it slowly increase.

It was a long process.

According to what was in the book, the riloma would not only turn blue when the transformation finished.

It would also condense.

The riloma that almost filled the well to the brim, would become barely enough to fill a bucket.

The transformation was slow, but it was very much evident that the change was happening.

He looked away from the well, and looked at the cultivators around him.

They were all preparing for the journey onwards.

Samath’s team prepared themselves even more thoroughly.

This was just a rest stop, but after it came a choice that would determine which path they followed.

Her team’s expertise would be needed.

Neo turned back to the well.

Whatever interesting thing was going to happen as the transformation continued, Neo was truly invested in watching.

The slow transformation itself was very much calming.

By the time it was done, everyone was well rested, and prepared for venturing deeper into the domain.

The riloma after it was scooped up, truly didn’t fill a bucket.

They walked further in peace and quiet, until they reached the point where they had to decide what path to chose.

Their journey since the rest stop to this place was devoid of any strange creatures, or otherwise any trouble.

There were three pathways, just like the first one they walked into, to enter this deep into the domain.

There was nothing distinctive about the three pathways, they all looked the same from outside.

But inside, each might just be a whole different world entirely.

According to the book Humba gave them, one of them was likely to be a dead end.

A pitfall with no way forward.

The others would be very dangerous places, as they would be swarming with strange creatures.

In much greater numbers than anything they had come across since.

This path they had chosen was relatively unexplored after all.

There was nothing about what was in these three paths in the book Humba gave them.

Everyone also looked at the three paths, trying to guess which one would be the best.

But they weren’t the ones to decide the path, they waited for the limit breakers to decide among themselves.

The limit breakers also turned to the most powerful person among them.

Neo.

Neo felt the eyes on him.

Were they really waiting on him?

He looked at them all.

And turned to look back at the pathways.

What need was there to chose?

Just pick one, and kill your way through.

If it turned out to be a dead end?

Simply walk back, and start over again.

Neo knew that if it was left to him, he wouldn’t mind exploring all three paths before continuing forward.

But he knew that the people here wouldn’t be able to keep up with such crazy exploration.

He turned to Samath and her people.

It was best to let them do their thing.

They were prepared for it, after all.

He could also do what they were about to do now himself.

But it didn’t matter, they can do it themselves.

He nodded to Samath.

She stepped forward.

Before her team went on with their work, she turned to everyone here.

"Before we choose a path, and move forward. We have a way to check the best path for us to follow. My team and I will inspect all three paths now."

The limit breakers calmly accepted this.

This was a fact they were already aware of.

They knew this was one of the specialties of the military.

They also had their own ways, but nothing as specialized and effective as the military’s.

Samath and her team went to stand before the leftmost path.

They were starting from there.

Samath was in the front, her team of fifteen stood behind her.

All of them operated the same technique.

It was to activate the formation.

A white light gathered above them.

It rested there for a while, before it shot into the passageway.

Nothing happened for a while.

Then the light came back out.

It glowed red.

A red that shook everyone’s heart.