The spirit Qi taken in from the pills was slightly different than the normal spirit Qi. This spirit Qi had hints of foul Qi that was produced from the pill toxins of the pill. Normally, a cultivator should not eat pills such as these, but Lin Wu was an exception.

Not only did his body have great resistance to toxins, but it could also use its ability to use radiation and prevent the foul Qi from entering his meridians. There were easily thousands of alchemical pills in the repository that were expired and thus provided Lin Wu with a massive amount of spirit Qi.

~Ding~

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SPIRIT QI OBTAINED: 541,052 units [liquid spirit qi]

SPIRIT QI STORAGE: 1,971,222 units [liquid spirit qi]

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With the spirit Qi added from the pills, the system's spirit Qi storage had increased once more. Lin Wu's main body had mostly been cultivating directly and not by killing others and thus it was not taken to the system's spirit Qi storage, instead entering the body directly.

Even for the Avatar, Lin Wu had mostly been absorbing spirit Qi directly and thus the system did not have a good chance to increase its storage. But now that the pills were consumed, Lin Wu had a large storage of spirit Qi to use for later.

"Ahh! Perfect!" Lin Wu said upon consuming all of the spirit Qi.

He checked the couple of windows that had popped up and saw that they were about the pills that they had just obtained. Lin Wu had gotten over ten thousand pills here, though most of them were not something that he could use.

For some reason, the majority of the pills here were those of healing type rather than the ones that could be used for cultivation. And the ones that were indeed used for cultivation were of a far lower quality than would come in handy for Lin Wu.

"Was this place perhaps a hospital of some kind?" Lin Wu wondered.

Having searched the entire place, Lin Wu went out and went to look for other places. After about twenty minutes, he found another place that had some spirit Qi fluctuations. This place was buried under the rubble and thus was hidden from the direct sight.

~Crumble~

~thud~

Lin Wu used his tail to sweep the rubble aside and opened the path to the structure. It seemed like the area that he intended to go to was buried underground and the rubble on top of it was from the building it originally belonged to.

"Damn, the entrance is small." Lin Wu said upon seeing the staircase that was evidently made for humans.

"Nothing a little elbow grease wouldn't fix," Lin Wu said before ripping apart the entrance to make it big enough for him to pass through.

Lin Wu was an expert in digging and drilling, and thus this little excavation was nothing to him. In less than a minute, Lin Wu had expanded the staircase enough for him to reach the very bottom of it.

Upon reaching there, the first thing Lin Wu saw was a bunch of corpses. This made Lin Wu furrow his brows and look around.

"The interference is also strong here and thus my spirit sense could not enter, but I didn't expect this to be here…" Lin Wu muttered.

He increased the brightness of his body and looked with his eyes. In total, there were eighteen corpses in this room, some of which were still intact and some that were mere skeletons. Lin Wu went to check up on each corpse, one by one assessing their condition.

Most of these were skeletons and thus Lin Wu could only let the system tell what must have happened.

~Ding~

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ANSWER: These corpses have died from sprint Qi depletion; all of them.

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"Huh? All of them? There must be some kind of a formation that must have caused this. There is no other way it could have happened." Lin Wu said.

He then looked at the three corpses that were still intact. These corpses evidently had a high cultivation base, or they would not have been able to last this long. Plus, since there were no injuries on them, that seemed to be the most likely option.

Though one of the Nascent Soul realm corpses seemed a bit familiar to Lin Wu.

"Wait, a minute… could this be… Ji Quan? Shirong's uncle?" Lin Wu said upon seeing it.

"System, see if they match up." Lin Wu ordered.

Since the system had the vital status data of Shirong, comparing relations between two people was easy for it.

~Ding~

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ANSWER: This corpse has a 46% similarity to Shirong and comparing the facial features is likely to be that of Ji Quan.

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Hearing the confirmation from the system, Lin Wu furrowed his brows and checked the corpses to see if they had anything with them.

"Huh? Nothing on the corpses. No spatial storage ring nor any spirit tool…" Lin Wu muttered, finding this to be weird.

This told him that whoever killed this probably took the items with them.

"But wait, if they managed to get in here, then they must have found a way to overcome the barriers. What layer is this in?" Lin Wu said before checking the map and fining that he was in the third layer from the outside, just one layer behind where Shirong was, the only difference was that Shirong was in a different direction.

"This is pretty far out. If I managed to make a hole in the barrier, then others must have been able to do the same. They must have some method like a spirit tool or a formation master that did this, otherwise, they would have not been able to enter." Lin Wu inferred.

Lin Wu didn't touch the corpses now, as he wanted to leave them for Shirong. He now had a different plan in mind for Shirong, and decided to check the rest of the area. Going further, Lin Wu saw a few more rooms that were locked.