Chapter 116 Crystal Core

When Ning Xuan woke up, thinking about the hardships of the post-apocalyptic world, she decided to first check on the netizens in the post-apocalyptic world.

Have you successfully escaped? What are you planning to trade today?

Han Dongling received Ning Xuan's message. Because she had been thinking about awakening her superpowers, her subconscious thought was to send a message back:

I escaped! I want to become stronger, I want to become more powerful!

When Ning Xuan saw Han Dongling's reply, she thought of the Power Pill that she had kept in a corner. She had a lot of things now, and she hadn't used the Power Pill for a long time, so she had almost forgotten about this good thing.

She sent the description of the Power Pill to Han Dongling, thinking that the limit for ordinary people is 3 pills, and in the apocalypse, the greater the strength, the better. So she planned to give Han Dongling 3 pills directly, so that she could take the second pill after adapting to the new strength each time.

Han Dongling couldn't believe that such a good thing existed, but since she already had a system, it seemed normal for her to get another miraculous pill.

Han Dongling then exchanged half a box of gold for these three powerful pills.

After taking the first pill, she immediately felt a change in her body. It felt warm, and a surge of power welled up throughout her body. She suddenly felt like she wanted to do something, otherwise, it seemed like this power was accumulating in her body and making her feel restless.

As luck would have it, she happened to see five or six zombies not far away. Her first instinct was to run away out of fear, but the power within her compelled her to go and beat up the zombies.

Han Dongling followed her instincts, grabbed a stun gun and a pig-slaughtering knife, and ran towards the zombies. Before the zombies could react, she struck the outermost one with the stun gun.

As a result, Han Dongling was stunned when she hit the zombie's head with one blow!

The commotion drew the other zombies over, and Han Dongling was no longer afraid. Instead, she became excited and started beating the zombies with her stick, one blow to each zombie's head.

After all six zombies fell, Han Dongling felt that the restlessness within her body had finally calmed down considerably.

After checking her surroundings to make sure there were no zombies, she squatted down next to the nearest zombie corpse, preparing to loot it.

Yes, it's corpse-touching. She'd always watched people with superpowers do this job, but she, Han Dongling, never expected to end up doing it herself.

Because almost every zombie has a crystal core in its head, which was only discovered after people in the apocalypse began to awaken their superpowers, and absorbing these crystal cores can help strengthen and upgrade superpowers.

I've heard that crystal cores are very difficult to absorb. Even a level one ability user might not be able to absorb all of a regular crystal core in a month.

Even so, after defeating zombies, everyone still habitually puts away the crystal cores, thinking that the absorption speed might become faster as their ability level increases.

Later, people discovered that crystal cores also come in different attributes, and different superpowers can absorb different attributes. So now, crystal cores are a valuable commodity in the post-apocalyptic world. They can be used to exchange for crystal cores that suit one's own attributes, or they can be used to exchange for supplies.

She was lucky; all six zombies had crystal cores. One was golden and had the metal attribute, two were green and had the wood attribute, two were yellowish-brown and had the earth attribute, and one was white and transparent. She didn't think she had seen it before, and she didn't know what attribute it was.

Han Dongling regretted once again that she didn't have any special abilities, otherwise she could have absorbed them herself.

After thinking for a moment, she sent these crystal cores to Ning Xuan:

[This is something I just got, do you want it?]

Ning Xuan has now activated the sharing of all five senses, and Han Dongling and the others' subsystems have also all activated the sharing of all five senses.

Ning Xuan could sense that these crystal cores actually had spiritual energy fluctuations, especially the two green ones, which were of the same origin as her wood spiritual root, so she felt the strongest sensation from the crystal cores of this color.

This is great stuff!

Ning Xuan immediately realized that these crystal cores also corresponded to the five elements and should be beneficial to their cultivation, so she didn't hesitate and took them all.

Since they have such good stuff here, our friends in this post-apocalyptic world also need to grow stronger so that they can trade more crystal cores in the future.

Ning Xuan planned to exchange a storage ring for these crystal cores, and then have Han Dongling contact her again if she had any more.

After thinking for a moment, Ning Xuan took out the spirit-testing stone again.

[This is a spirit-testing stone. Didn't you say you don't have any special abilities? Use this to test it; maybe you have spiritual roots and can cultivate.]

Han Dongling was so overwhelmed by this series of surprises that she was almost speechless.

A storage ring allows her to store items on her person, which is no different from her activating spatial abilities.

It turns out that it might even be possible to cultivate? Is it the kind of cultivation she read about in ancient novels?

Ning Xuan was unaware that their current novels had already been considered ancient Chinese literature back in Han Dongling's time. At that time, science fiction was popular on Water Blue Star, with its rapid technological advancements. Novels like martial arts, cultivation, time travel, and systems had all become ancient Chinese literature.

Following Ning Xuan's instructions, Han Dongling grasped the spirit-testing stone, and then the stone gradually emitted a purple light.

Ning Xuan received Han Dongling's feedback and thought to herself that as expected, Han Dongling was someone who had been bound to the system and was quite lucky. Han Dongling must be especially lucky, as she actually had a top-grade lightning spirit root.

Ning Xuan gradually learned about spiritual roots after she started cultivating. She first gave Han Dongling the basic cultivation techniques so that she could guide Qi into her body. As for other techniques, she would need to find Yun Xi.

She still hadn't received a reply to the message she sent to Yunxi; she would have to wait a little longer.

Since none of these crystal cores had lightning attributes, and Han Dongling hadn't yet begun cultivating by drawing qi into her body, Ning Xuan took them all.

I'll keep the wood attribute for myself first, the metal attribute can be given to Lin Yuhan, the earth attribute to Wang Erya, and the transparent one is the wind attribute, which I can give to Yunxi another day, depending on whether she needs it.

This will be the arrangement for now, and I believe there will be more and more of these crystal cores in the future.

Ning Xuan held the crystal core in her hand, absorbing its energy as if it were a spirit stone. She discovered that the energy within the crystal core was extremely pure and easy to absorb.

She absorbed both green pills in one go and discovered that her cultivation level, which had just broken through to the second level of Qi Refining, had increased by another small step.

This shocked her greatly. It was even more powerful than the Spirit Gathering Array. As expected, the methods of evil cultivators were fast and easy to fascinate people. She wondered if there were any hidden dangers.

Ning Xuan planned to wait for Yun Xi's reply and then ask her if she would use this cultivation method again until the safety of the cultivation method was confirmed. She would not use it again if she received crystal cores next time.

As for the crystal cores that she originally planned to give to Li Yuhan and Wang Erya, she simply kept them for herself and would give them to them after she and Yunxi confirmed that there were no hidden dangers.

She belatedly realized how reckless she had been, absorbing it so directly; what if there were any potential dangers...?

However, since she had already absorbed it, there was no point in thinking about it anymore. She tried circulating the spiritual energy in her body, and it was still smooth. She didn't feel any discomfort in her body, so she could only comfort herself that there shouldn't be any problems.

Yunxi, who was on Ning Xuan's mind, finally regained consciousness. When she woke up, she found herself not in the place where she had broken through, but in a vast and boundless desert.