Chapter 340: Chapter 232: Cultivation World 22_2
Si Lingle leaped through the air, dodging the strike, then spun around mid-air to launch another attack on the demon beast.
In the desert, a fierce duel unfolded between the human and the beast, with sword shadows and beast shadows intertwined, yellow sand swirling all around.
Si Lingle relied on her exquisite swordsmanship and agile movement techniques to spar with the high-level demon beast.
She constantly searched for the beast’s weaknesses, each sword thrust containing immense power. The high-level demon beast, however, relied on its formidable strength and resilient defense to stubbornly resist.
During the intense battle, Si Lingle gradually discovered the weak spot of the high-level demon beast.
Seizing the moment, Si Lingle lunged at the beast, her long sword stabbing towards the beast’s eye like lightning.
The demon beast cried out in pain, its body momentarily freezing.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Si Lingle intensified her attacks, continuously thrusting her sword at the beast’s vital areas.
Though the high-level demon beast fought back fiercely, it ultimately could not withstand Si Lingle’s ferocious assault and collapsed to the ground with a crash.
Si Lingle collected the demon beast’s corpse and continued onward after doing so.
Two days later, Si Lingle discovered spirit-devouring flying ants, which, true to their name, loved devouring objects with spiritual energy.
Wherever these ants built their nests, there must be spiritual ore veins.
Si Lingle took out a green elixir, igniting it with Nine Netherworld Strange Fire, then used invisibility to hide.
After waiting a few minutes, Si Lingle located the hidden nest of the spirit-devouring flying ants.
She released the Sword Pill, which quickly formed a Sword Array to start killing these spirit-devouring flying ants.
Si Lingle formed a spell with her hands, exploding the sand to reveal the nest of the spirit-devouring flying ants, and charged into the nest, battling the ants.
Over an hour later, Si Lingle fought her way into the depths of the nest and saw the spiritual ore.
There, a spirit-devouring flying ant queen at Nascent Soul Great Perfection was laying eggs.
Jiu Jiu spoke up, "I’ll take this ant queen."
With that, he clapped his claws, and a Contract Array appeared beneath both Jiu Jiu and the ant queen’s feet.
Jiu Jiu contracted the ant queen.
Once contracted, Jiu Jiu asked for a Spirit Beast Bag to store the spirit-devouring flying ant queen and the eggs it laid.
Si Lingle originally expected a fierce battle with the ant queen but didn’t anticipate that Jiu Jiu would contract it.
Now that there was no ant queen, Si Lingle began mining.
Si Lingle’s mining method was quite unique; she had crafted her own mining machine using materials from the Cultivation World, creating an automatic excavator.
This excavator was powered by Spirit Stones.
As the excavator dug, Si Lingle collected the Spirit Stones on the side.
Jiu Jiu unabashedly stored quite a few Spirit Stones in its Inner Mansion Space.
After more than seven days of mining, this Spirit Stone ore vein was completely extracted.
There were approximately over a million low-grade spirit stones, tens of thousands of Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and thousands of top-grade spirit stones.
After finishing the extraction, Si Lingle continued seeking an exit.
A few days passed like this when suddenly, the Heavenly Eye gave an alert, and Si Lingle quickly checked the optical brain.
It turned out that the Heavenly Eye had discovered someone, a cultivator nearly buried by the sandstorm.
This cultivator was a True Monarch of Out-of-Body from the Daluo Lower Realm, who had previously purchased a talisman for spiritual power compression from her.
Si Lingle sped up to reach the True Monarch’s location.
Using Divine Sense to explore, she found that the True Monarch was severely injured.
Even the Divine Soul was wounded.
Si Lingle quickly administered an elixir to the True Monarch and infused her own spiritual power to help dissolve the elixir.
Over an hour passed before the True Monarch awoke.
Lanxin True Monarch saw Si Lingle drawing a talisman and sat up to express gratitude, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Yun Hua, for saving me."
"You’re too kind, Senior."
"I am Lan Xin by Taoist name, a disciple of the Sky Dragon Sect from the Daluo Lower Realm," Lanxin True Monarch said. "Fellow Daoist Yun Hua, there’s no need for formalities; you can just call me Lan Xin."
"Fellow Daoist Lan Xin, how did you sustain such severe injuries?"
Lan Xin replied, "I entered a Demon Monster Space, where the lowest cultivation of demons is at the Nascent Soul Stage."
"During the several days in that space, I battled with demons daily."
"Later, I even encountered a Demon at Divinity Transformation Great Perfection. Fought with all my might, injured the demon severely, then escaped from the Demon Monster Space."
"I was then transported to this desert space." Lanxin True Monarch smiled, "It’s as if the heavens do not entirely shut man’s path since I met Fellow Daoist Yun Hua."
"That’s probably because Fellow Daoist Lan Xin bought talismans from me before, making us acquainted."
Lanxin thought to himself: If it were before, cultivators meeting across realms might have attacked each other for treasures instead of offering help.
