Chapter 2015: Spiritual Essence Crystals

As Ning Shu fumbled to feel the roots of snow soul lotus, she touched a lump of something. As soon as she touched it, she felt an abundance of spiritual energy within reach.

Ning Shu was a little disappointed. It was likely just some spiritual essence crystals.

Ning Shu felt needle-like pain in her lungs as if they were about to explode, but she continued to fumble and felt two more spiritual essence crystals.

There was no more air in her lungs. Ning Shu quickly lifted her head out of the water, coughing as she gasped for breath.

Her whole body was numb and cold. Thus, Ning Shu had a bit of difficulty swimming back to the edge of the pond. Little Grass continued to drift beside her.

Suddenly, Ning Shu felt something bump into her leg, startling her. She mobilized her remaining energy to quickly swim.

She felt a pain in her leg. When she got to the shore and took a look at her calf, it looked as if it had been bitten by something. It was probably one of the strange fish in the ice pond.

Ning Shu squeezed the blood from the wound. The blood was red, so she probably wasn’t poisoned.

Ning Shu opened her other hand. It held three pieces of spiritual essence crystals.

So they were only a few spiritual essence crystals.

This indicated that there was likely a spiritual mine underneath the pond.

“What did you get?” The scarred mercenary breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Ning Shu was alright. No matter what, right now they only had each other.

It’d be good to have someone else, even if it was just to talk and distract themselves from their fear.

Ning Shu shook her head. “Nothing much.”

“We should spend the night by the pond tonight and leave tomorrow morning.” The scarred mercenary’s expression was not good. “There are also many nocturnal animals at night.”

Ning Shu nodded, ate some rations, sat down cross-legged, and began training, absorbing two spiritual essence crystals one by one. The vitality in her dantian had formed a definite shape, a white dragon, which was swimming in the dantian.

If there were more spiritual energy, the energy would become golden.

Ning Shu reserved a spiritual essence crystal for Little Grass.

Ning Shu opened her eyes. Under the hazy moonlight, she saw Little Grass floating around the snow soul lotus. Little Grass had grown a lot.

Ning Shu’s consciousness communicated with the green ball of light. The green ball of light conveyed to her that it was happy.

Immediately after, Ning Shu discovered that Little Grass had actually grown long roots which were planted next to the roots of the snow soul lotus. The roots were quite thick and were frantically absorbing spiritual energy.

Sure enough, under the nurturing of spiritual energy, all sorts of monsters could be created.

The kelp from back in the day had become an invulnerable kelp-sama by growing on a spiritual essence crystal. Ning Shu saw that Little Grass strengthened itself like this and thus did not intend to summon it back. Instead, she let it just absorb more spiritual energy.

Ning Shu also continued to train. She must not waste the high-quality spiritual energy here.

The growth that the lotus seed thing could grant definitely couldn’t compare with just directly absorbing spiritual energy.

She just wasn’t sure if there were going to be any unnatural side effects.

The ice pond had gone through a giant monster battle. As a result, the immensely powerful aura that surrounded it temporarily prevented other monsters from approaching, making it quite peaceful.

Ning Shu finished training and opened her eyes. She saw that the scarred mercenary’s face was blue with cold and that his hands were tightly wrapped around his body.

It was too cold near the ice pond.

“Are you okay?” Ning Shu asked aloud.

“*Sniff*… I’m fine.” The scarred mercenary said while shivering and sniffling.

Ning Shu stretched out her hand and pressed it to his back, sending a bit of energy to his body.

The scarred mercenary immediately felt more comfortable. He felt like there was warm air flowing through his body that warmed him up.

Translator: Christina

Editor: Taconite

Translator: Kaho