LGHTNOVELBOOK 17: Junior Sister Turned into a Vegetative Person!
Chu Sang recalled their first meeting. No wonder he, at the early Foundation Establishment stage, could escape from the mouth of a Nascent Soul beast. It was probably because of this Weeping Blood Sword.
Although this divine sword was powerful, it was also extremely difficult to control. It was a ferocious sword that fed on fresh blood and malevolent thoughts. Historically, all its masters had been evil-doers steeped in wickedness, which led to the sword’s unusually strong murderous aura. Those who could truly control it were either great sinners or those with hearts as pure as an infant’s.
Chu Sang’s gaze fell on Tantai Ming, lost in thought for a long time.
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With only three days left before the secret realm closed, the three of them were like a swarm of locusts, moving northward, plundering every beast, spiritual herb they encountered, leaving nothing behind.
The qiankun bags that were empty when they arrived were now packed full, filled with various spiritual herbs, beast cores, bones, and horns. Their harvest was bountiful.
Bystanders were stunned.
These three… how could they be so lucky??
They found treasures wherever they went!
Some had ill intentions and tried to rob them, but were all beaten away by Tantai Ming.
Gradually, no one dared to target the three. Others watched enviously as they collected bag after bag of heaven and earth treasures.
Chu Sang had added all 4 points to her luck, and now her luck value was 7. With her fortune increasing exponentially, she basically encountered treasures wherever she went.
Even without looking at the map, she could rely on intuition to bypass various traps and arrays. She led her two senior brothers through the secret realm as if they were on a shopping trip.
The only unlucky thing that happened was on the last day before the secret realm closed, as Chu Sang was walking—
She fell into a pit.
The cave was pitch black, and she couldn’t see her hand in front of her face. She lit a small spiritual flame at her fingertip, illuminating a bit of her surroundings.
The exit might have been blocked by vegetation. She couldn’t find where it was for the moment, but she didn’t feel panic. She had given positioning talismans to her two senior brothers earlier. They would surely come looking for her anxiously once they noticed her sudden disappearance.
With her spirit root not fully repaired, using spiritual energy made her like a rapidly deflating balloon.
Fortunately, she had a large bag of spirit-replenishing pills from Sixth Senior Brother, which could slow down the rapid loss of spiritual energy in her body.
Using the spiritual flame, she circled the entire cave and discovered a hint of green in an inconspicuous corner.
A seemingly newborn sprout was floating in mid-air, only about the size of a fist, surrounded by a faint light green halo.
Chu Sang reached out her hand, her fingertip lightly touching it, and immediately felt a profound energy surging into her heart. Her entire body seemed to be enveloped by a warm and healing force.
It was the Wood Essence Spirit!
Her heart leaped with joy.
The female protagonist had left halfway, and unexpectedly, this treasure had fallen into her hands.
The Wood Essence Spirit was a supreme treasure nurtured by heaven and earth. Everything of the wood attribute had a natural affinity for it.
If a cultivator without a wood spirit root obtained this item, it would be like acquiring a top-grade wood celestial spirit root. They could cultivate wood-based magic, and there would be a significant buff bonus when nurturing spirit plants.
In the original story, the female protagonist, with her fire spirit root, relied on obtaining the Wood Essence Spirit to become a spirit plant cultivator. She cultivated a large number of precious spirit herbs, some even extinct in the Spirit Abyss Continent, becoming the most talented young alchemist among the younger generation.
Chu Sang longed for the beautiful life of returning to the village to farm. Whether in her previous two lives or in this life after returning to the world of cultivation, she had never forgotten her simple and passionate heart.
Unfortunately, she had a fire spirit root, and spirit plants instinctively rejected her. The techniques she cultivated would even harm spirit plants. In this life, she could never realize her lofty ambition of returning to the village to farm.
The Wood Essence Spirit was truly a gift from heaven.
She strongly agreed with one thing the female protagonist said—treasures belong to those who can use them.
Chu Sang immediately took the Wood Essence Spirit into her dantian, sat cross-legged, and used her divine sense to refine it, attempting to make it her own.
Fully immersed in the refinement process, time ticked away bit by bit. She couldn’t even feel how much time had passed. It might have been an hour, a year, or possibly ten or a hundred years……
In her chaotic consciousness, the passage of time became vague and elusive. Chu Sang kept her eyes tightly closed, feeling her body become unusually light. She seemed to transform into a gust of wind, a drop of water, a piece of cloud…… merging into all things in the world.
Golden waves of wheat, emerald grasslands, vast forests rushed past before her eyes.
She slowly forgot who she was, what she was supposed to do, where she was supposed to fly to.
As her consciousness was sinking, two voices called her back.
“Junior Sister!”
In an instant, memories rushed back like a tide. She suddenly opened her eyes, a flash of green light passing through her pupils.
Looking up, she was still in that cave, but the once dark cave was now brightly lit.
It turned out that the entrance at the top had been cleared, and sunlight was shining through.
Two backlit figures were anxiously calling out. It was Mu Chihuai and Tantai Ming.
“Little Junior Sister, how did you fall into a pit? Come up quickly!” Tantai Ming urged, “The secret realm will close in less than three hours. We need to hurry to the exit.”
“It seems… my legs are numb.” Chu Sang moved her fingers, finding that she couldn’t muster any strength, and her legs had no feeling at all.
She looked down and drew in a sharp breath in horror. Her legs had become like plants, intertwined and deeply rooted in the soil.
“Sixth Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, I’ve encountered a small situation here. Why don’t you come down and take a look?” She spoke carefully.
The two couldn’t see the specific situation in the cave from their vantage point. Hearing this, Tantai Ming immediately jumped down. Seeing the situation, he was also shocked. Without time to ask more, he first drew his sword and carefully dug her legs out of the soil.
“Junior Sister, can you move your arms?”
“Still can.” Chu Sang’s arms had regained a bit of strength. Fortunately, the two had arrived in time, and her arms hadn’t turned into plants yet. If they had come a step later, she would have really turned into a vegetative person.
This Wood Essence Spirit was truly powerful.
“Little Junior Sister, hold on tight to me, I’ll take you up.”
The cave was too narrow and enclosed to use sword flight. Tantai Ming carried her on his back, and Chu Sang obediently held tightly around his neck.
Even carrying her, the young man’s movements were surprisingly agile. Taking two steps as three, he swiftly climbed back to the surface, his movements fluid and seamless.
Chu Sang told the two what had just happened. Mu Chihuai and Tantai Ming were both speechless, feeling that their little junior sister was both lucky and unlucky.
“The power of the Wood Essence Spirit is too strong. With your current strength, you can’t fully refine it in a short time. There’s no need to rush for quick results, just take it slowly.” Mu Chihuai fed her a pill.
After the medicinal power spread, Chu Sang’s body slowly regained sensation. She sighed in relief and looked at the two, “How much time is left before the secret realm closes?”
“Only three hours left.” Tantai Ming said, “We need to hurry to the exit quickly, otherwise if we’re trapped in the secret realm, we’ll have to wait ten years for it to open again.”
“We still have three hours, no rush.”
Chu Sang stood up, patting her hands, and took out the map. “Sixth Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, look, if we go straight south for two kilometers from our current position, we’ll reach the place marked with the phoenix totem.”
“Why don’t we go take a look? We might really find a phoenix egg.”
The two looked at each other, feeling that their little junior sister was being too bold and risky. However, the secret realm only opened once every ten years, and it would be a shame to miss such a rare opportunity.
“Alright, let’s go take a look first. If we can’t get it, so be it. We must reach the secret realm’s exit in the last hour.” Mu Chihuai nodded.
The three agreed and set off on their swords towards the direction marked on the scroll map. On the way, they encountered an unexpected person.
It was Shen Rufei, the head disciple of the Beast Taming Sect.
Was he alone? Had all the Tianyan Sect people left?
Seeing the three looking behind him, Shen Rufei smiled knowingly, “They were accidentally poisoned and have already left.”
He didn’t mention the previous incident, but instead actively extended an olive branch to the three, “I guess the three fellow Daoists are also looking for the legendary extinct phoenix, right? Why don’t we go together?”