Old Man Tiandi did not expect Jiao Fan to have something like this with me and it was rather unexpected to him. Even Lin Wu was stringed by this and took a look at the pale yellow stone that was in Jiao Fan's hand.

Of course, looking was not really an accurate word for this as Lin Wu was on top of the platform and could not directly see with his two eyes. Rather, he was using his spirit sense to observe it.

He tried probing with his spirit sense and found it to be impermeable to his spirit sense. This surprised him even more, as he knew that the material that could block one's spirit sense was usually quite valuable.

So far there were very few things that Lin Wu had encountered that were like this. For example, the door of the inner hall of the temple, the tomb of the Taiji Celestial and the interference field of the Dread Coil Marsh itself.

"System scan this thing and check the data banks." Lin Wu ordered.

~DING~

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SCANNER: Activated

SCAN COMPLETED: Target Identified

TARGET: Mind Expanding Lardite

INFO: The Mind Expanding Lardite is a special mineral that can help increase the mental faculties of a person using it. For normal humans who keep this on their person, they would be able to think faster and have better memories.

As for the cultivators that use it, they will be able to expand the range of their spirit sense greatly. It can also help in the tempering of spirit sense and is considered a very valuable resource in the world.

Mind Expanding Lardite is largely sought after by cultivators who greatly use spirit sense such as those in the occupation of being a Pill Alchemist and Formation masters. They need better command over their spirit sense for these occupations and as such the Mind Expanding Lardite can be very helpful for them.

The Mind Expanding Lardite is also quite rate and has a value that reached in thousands of High Grade spirit stones. Even if it has a demand, there is no supply and as such anyone who finds one, would rarely ever sell it.

The Mind Expanding Lardite also has a limited usage period depending on who is using it. For commoners or mortal humans, the Mind Expanding Lardite can last thousands of years without much wear and tear. But for cultivators, the more they use it the smaller the Mind Expanding Lardite would get.

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Lin Wu had not thought that there would be something like this here. But now that he had seen it, he knew he had to obtain it. Perhaps if Jiao Fan knew this, he may have never revealed it but now that he had, his fate was sealed.

Jing Luo looked at the pale yellow stone in his hand and closed his eyes. In the next moment, a strong pressure was exuded from his body as waves of spirit Qi spread all around. Tendrils of spirit sense rose from his body as they weaved together to become thicker.

Soon a spirit sense tendril that was as thick as a tree was formed.

"GO!" Jiao Fan said with bloodshot eyes.

The pressure being exerted on him was quite a lot as he was overdrawing on the Mind Expanding Lardite. Usually one was supposed to use it lightly, letting it slowly temper their spirit sense. But Jiao Fan did not have that luxury.

'Hopefully, it is worth using an heirloom…' Jiao Fan thought to himself.

Old Man Tiandi and the others were shocked by this and did not know what Jiao Fan was exactly doing. To them it looked quite powerful and Jiao Fan also seemed to be angry along with it. Though they thought it was due to the loss of his subordinate.

Lin Wu also kept a close eye on Jiao Fan's newly enhanced spirit sense and saw how it passed through the formation array of the statues. The red flames made by the statues tried to burn his spirit sense but could not do so easily.

Previously Jiao Fan had only stopped because the fire was actually able to harm his spirit sense as well. Thus, even if he wanted to find a way to proceed or doable the formation array, he could not do so.

But with the reinforcement from the Mind Expanding Lardite, Jiao Fan was basically brute forcing his way in. Of course this did not come without any disadvantages, and Jiao Fan was under constant pain due to his spirit sense being continually burned by the red flames.

Normal flames would have been unable to do anything to a cultivator's spirit sense, maybe just disturb them by causing spirit Qi fluctuations. But these red flames were extremely different from those common flames.

Unlike Jiao Fan and Old Man Tiandi, Lin Wu knew that these flames were actually similar to that of the Vermilion bird's flames. Lin Wu had seen the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle purging all of the Marsh Ghosts using the vermilion bird's flames, and if it could work on them, then the spirit sense was nothing in front of it.

Of course, these flames were not fully the same as vermilion bird's flames and were mere imitations. If it were the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle using them right now, not only would Jiao Fan's spirit sense be completely destroyed, even the walls of the temple would start to melt after a certain point.

Such was the incredible power of the vermilion bird's flames and that was also the reason why Lin Wu had chosen to go the cooperative route with the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle rather than antagonizing her right away.

"oh? He actually managed to find this?" Lin Wu suddenly said.

In the hall where the flames were raging, Jiao Fan's spirit sense had become as thin as a finger now. But he had a smile on his face as he found the way to overcome the formation array.

"FOUND IT! That's the defective node."