Chapter 120 So Many Crystal Cores

The next day, Ning Xuan received a message from Han Dongling, informing her that she had reached the first level of Qi Refining.

Ning Xuan was extremely shocked. Was this the speed at which top-grade spiritual roots and abundant spiritual energy could be combined? It was too fast.

It was only after seeing the message that she remembered, because she had previously thought that Han Dongling would also need a month or so to cultivate qi, just like them. She had planned to wait until Yunxi gave her some more cultivation techniques before trading them with Han Dongling.

Therefore, Han Dongling currently only has very basic martial arts techniques and does not yet have any offensive techniques.

She quickly traded the few attribute-free basic cultivation techniques that Yunxi had given her to Han Dongling. Although they weren't specifically for those with lightning spirit roots, Han Dongling could still use them.

As expected of the "Scroll King," Han Dongling, having just broken through to the first level of Qi Refining, consolidated her cultivation and began practicing the Art of Object Control. She felt that the Art of Object Control was very useful, and if she mastered it, she could control weapons to kill zombies and mutated animals from a distance.

When Han Dongling received Ning Xuan's reply, she had already mastered the art of object manipulation. However, her cultivation level was still relatively low, and at present, her object manipulation could only be used to retrieve objects from a distance and control some relatively small objects.

For example, she can control a fist-sized stone to move about one meter, but if it is a larger stone, she can only control it to lift for a short while.

Han Dongling was very dissatisfied, but in reality, her speed in practicing the technique was already very fast, the kind that even Yunxi would admire.

Han Dongling traded the remaining gold to Ning Xuan, then looked at the newly acquired martial arts techniques and picked one that was useful for fighting to learn.

After learning the techniques, Han Dongling felt she needed to improve through real combat, so she started looking for zombies and mutated animals everywhere.

She deliberately searched for places where zombies often appeared, and soon found a group of zombies. This time there were more than ten of them than yesterday, and Han Dongling was a little nervous.

She wasn't entirely confident facing a dozen or so zombies at the same time, so she decided to scatter them.

However, this group of zombies is probably of a higher level than the zombies from yesterday. They are also more sensitive to sound and move faster.

Han Dongling originally intended to create a commotion to lure the zombies that were closer to her, but the rest of the zombies also rushed over, which was something Han Dongling hadn't expected.

Seeing that more than a dozen zombies were quickly surrounding her, she didn't have time to come up with any tactics and just started fighting with her stun baton. Sure enough, these zombies were more difficult to deal with than the ones from yesterday.

Yesterday she could take down a zombie's head with one hit, but this time she didn't get a headshot with her first hit. The zombie was only stunned for a moment, and then she quickly followed up with a second hit to knock it to the ground.

For those that she didn't have time to hit with her stick, she kicked them directly. Each zombie required two or three blows to deal with. In the end, there was one left, which looked even more difficult to deal with.

Han Dongling guessed that this was just the leader of the group of zombies. It was quite large, and it had been watching its subordinates fight without making a move.

After seeing all his subordinates fall, Han Dongling could sense that the last zombie was angry and began to attack her. Han Dongling quickly retaliated.

Unexpectedly, the stun gun that had served her so well struck the zombie's head and went crooked.

Han Dongling's expression turned serious; this zombie was indeed difficult to deal with.

She took out the butcher knife again, but it was more effective in close combat. She didn't want to get too close to the zombies, as that would increase the chance of being scratched and infected.

She could only try to throw the knife at the zombie's face with all her might, and then Han Dongling watched helplessly as the zombie grabbed the butcher knife with its hand, put it in its mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.

This was the first time Han Dongling had ever seen a metal-eating zombie; all the ones she had seen before were meat-eating zombies.

With both of her weapons destroyed, Han Dongling was starting to have second thoughts. However, the zombie was also very fast, and Han Dongling kept dodging its attacks with her hands empty.

Several times she was almost caught by the zombie's claws. In desperation, she thought of the knockback technique she had just learned. While dodging the zombie, she quickly mobilized her spiritual power, then formed a hand seal and attacked the zombie.

Just when Han Dongling thought the spell would make the zombie retreat, the zombie was frozen in place, and then crackling sounds like it was being electrocuted rang out all over its body.

Han Dongling suddenly realized that this was her lightning power; the zombie seemed to have been electrocuted by her spiritual energy.

Seeing that the zombie seemed to be regaining activity, Han Dongling quickly cast another knockback spell. Then, while the zombie was immobilized, she quickly ran to the side, picked up a large rock, and smashed it against the zombie.

After being smashed about ten times, and seeing that the stone was starting to crack, the zombie finally collapsed.

Han Dongling didn't have time to rest and quickly started touching the corpses, starting with the most powerful one.

Han Dongling pried open the zombie's head and searched for a while before finally pulling out a golden crystal core the size of a duck egg. It was much larger than the quail eggs from yesterday and looked very beautiful.

Then I touched the rest, and sure enough, they were all bigger than yesterday's, almost twice the size of yesterday's, but they still paled in comparison to the golden one.

Unfortunately, none of the dozen or so crystal cores contained lightning attributes, so she couldn't use them herself and could only trade them with Ning Xuan.

Ning Xuan is currently fishing on the mountain. There are still a few days before the harvest, and she plans to go to the commune to find Jiang Xiaohong tomorrow.

She planned to sell the job at the provincial capital food factory to Jiang Xiaohong to see if she was willing to work there. If she didn't go, she would sell it to someone else.

Xu Jiajia and the others were also willing to continue staying in the countryside. She had a good relationship with Liang Qingqing and Zhao Yulian at the educated youth institute, but neither of them could afford her job. If she gave it to one of them for free, and the other would see her every day in the countryside, Ning Xuan would easily be resented.

So Ning Xuan is still considering Jiang Xiaohong's side first. She is thinking about what to bring to Jiang Xiaohong tomorrow. Work pays off, but social obligations are another matter and need to be calculated separately.

Before she could even choose a gift, Han Dongling gave her another huge surprise: lots of crystal cores!

There are sixteen crystal cores, three of which are gold, but one of them is particularly large, equivalent to several of them. Then there are four each of red, green, and yellow, and one blue one.

Ning Xuan kept the green and blue ones for herself, gave the gold one to Lin Yuhan, the yellow one to Wang Erya, and the remaining red one to Yun Xi. In the future, when she gets more crystal cores, she plans to trade them to them according to the attributes they can use.

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Yunxi had already emerged from the desert and was just about to find a place to cultivate and help the Ice Soul Glazed Fire recover when she received Ningxuan's message.

Seeing that these crystal cores were even larger than yesterday's, Yunxi took them out and put them in her hand to absorb them. Unexpectedly, before she could absorb them, the crystal cores disappeared before her eyes!