In the Kunlun Mountains.
After two days of adaptation, Casey had been generally familiar with the operation mechanism of the Pantheon, and familiar with some of the rules here, but also had figured out the way to get Soul Setting Jade.
He had to get Soul Setting Jade from the Pantheon and to get it, he had to accumulate rewards. It was obviously unrealistic to steal the Soul Setting Jade from the warehouse of the Pantheon.
Casey could not cope with the four masters here, not to mention the power of the enigmatic Thomas.
And only Thomas and a few core figures knew where the warehouse of the Pantheon was. Casey was new here, it was impossible for him to find the location of the warehouse in the vast mountains.
So at present, the only practical way to get the Soul Setting Jade was to accumulate rewards.
Casey did not intend to stay too long in the Pantheon, after all, if he wanted to accumulate rewards, he had to go out to do the task. Although there were some opportunities for rewards in the Pantheon, but with that few of rewards, it would take long for Casey to have that Soul Setting Jade.
He had only three years in all, and now half a year had passed, so he had to hurry.
He packed up his things and went out from the room. He planned to see Thomas. If Thomas had nothing else to do, he would leave the Kunlun Mountains and go home first.
He came to the center mountain of the Pantheon, far away, Casey saw the thatch hut on the top of the mountain, and a big banyan tree outside the house.
Not far from the hut there was a stone table on which stood tea sets that looked as if they had just been served.
After walking to the hut, Casey shouted, “Thomas, can you come out?”
After a long while, Casey did not get an answer.
“He is not here?” Casey asked himself.
He learned from staff at the Pantheon that Thomas had been staying on the mountain since he came back and had not gone down, but now he could not be seen here.
Considering that Thomas might have something to do and went to a place he did not know, Casey went to the front of the stone table and sat down, intending to wait here for a while.
Casey did not know that the small hut on the top of the mountain had a channel connected with the interior of the mountain, along the channel, it directly reached the location of the mountain center.
The mountain was hollow inside, inside was a large cave, and Thomas was now in the cave.
The interior of the cave was dark, and apart from the channel, the rest of it had not been artificially modified.
Now the light in the cave was supported by torches, so it was not so bright, but a little dim.
Thomas was standing in front of a smooth, mirror-like stone wall. In front of him stood a table with candles burning on it.
However, because of a big event happened many years ago, Mayo became a residual soul and was sealed in the stone wall, in suppression of the endless darkness in the stone wall.
“I can’t last much longer. Even if with the help of Scarlet Sun Wood, I will eventually perish. Have you found the man you expected to find? Can he step into the Unrealm and change the present situation before I perish? If there is no one to suppress the entrance, the whole world will be in bad luck.” Mayo sighed helplessly.
“I have found him. He is the most gifted man I have ever seen, but it is up to his fate whether he can reach the Unrealm before you perish.” Thomas said.
Mayo nodded and said nothing more. He was in such a state that even if he wanted to worry about such things, he could do nothing about it.
Thomas no longer thought about it. He moved the candle on the table forward and pressed it against the wall. “Master,” he said, “I am going to light the wood ships of Scarlet Sun Wood.”
With that, Thomas placed the wood chips bit by bit on the candle, at the moment the wood chips touched the flame, it instantly burned up.
After that, a blue gas appeared in front of the stone wall, and Mayo immediately absorbed the blue gas.
After a while, the blue gas was absorbed by Mayo, and his figure became much more solid, no longer as ethereal as before.
“This feeling is really good, but there is only so much of Scarlet Sun Wood. If there is enough of it, it is possible to poweren my soul to the point of substance. It is a pity.”
Mayo laughed, free and easy, there was no loss.
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