In the mountains fifty kilometers away from Xiao Bai and others, Murong An had just cut off the neck of a mad wild boar that was charging towards him with one knife, and then with another knife he pried out a black dark core the size of a soybean from the wild boar's brain.
"Although it's a little small, it's better than nothing." Murong An murmured to himself, and then threw the dark core into the flowerpot in his left hand. He saw that the small flowerpot where the red spider lily was planted was now covered with a shallow layer of black dark cores of various sizes. The largest one was the size of a soybean, and the smallest was only the size of a mung bean.
Murong An sighed. Since the quality was not good enough, he could only make up for it with quantity.
He was just about to change places to search for some more mutant animals when he suddenly felt a surge of spiritual energy churning and twisting in his dantian. He frowned, hurriedly sat down cross-legged, put the flowerpot aside, and took out a peanut-sized white water crystal-shaped spiritual core from his trouser pocket. He had secretly taken this from the flowerpot at Xiao Bai's house. For now, he could only "borrow" the spiritual core from Xiao Bai's house. Later, he would search for some more spiritual cores and quietly return them.
When he first saw the fist-sized spirit core in the orchid pot in Xiao Bai's house, he was shocked. He didn't expect that there would be such a large innate spirit core in such a place, and it was obvious that this spirit core already had an owner.
After the reawakening of spiritual energy, cultivation can resume. However, the fundamental prerequisite is the opening of the spiritual orifice. This is achieved through the use of a spiritual core. The quality of the spiritual core determines one's potential for cultivation. A cultivator can incorporate the spiritual core into their dantian (Dantian), then use it as a foundation to open up their meridians and guide their cultivation. For example, the opening of a cultivator's spiritual orifice is like the formation of a pearl: it requires an external medium to stimulate the pearl core, which then enters the shell. This allows the core to be layered around the core, gradually enlarging the pearl and ultimately becoming a beautiful pearl. A cultivator's spiritual orifice requires the spiritual core as a medium and catalyst, helping the cultivator's body, dantian, and meridians gradually become familiar with the spiritual energy. This allows the core to transform the cultivator's spiritual energy, ultimately guiding them to absorb external spiritual energy and ultimately opening their spiritual orifice to become a cultivator.
Humans can use spirit cores to open their spiritual orifices. Once a spiritual orifice is opened, the spirit core can only be used to replenish spiritual energy and cultivate. The spirit core used to open the spiritual orifice can be incorporated into the Dantian or placed outside the body, but placing it outside the body is quite dangerous.
When Murong An saw that the fist-sized spirit core was connected to Xiao Bai's body, he didn't know whether he was shocked by Xiao Bai's boldness or her ignorance. In the end, perhaps because he felt guilty or ashamed that he had absorbed many small spirit cores from her flowerpot without asking, he silently set up a small formation for Xiao Bai's spirit core so that people could ignore it.
He sat cross-legged, silently absorbing the spiritual core in his hand. Cleaning up the polluted animals nearby had used up a lot of his spiritual energy in the past few days, and the spiritual energy and dark matter in his body were a bit unbalanced again. He needed to replenish some spiritual energy to maintain balance. He felt like he had to carry a "spiritual core" with him like Xiao Bai's phone, charging it every now and then. Sigh.
Murong An had just recovered when he suddenly felt a surge of black matter in the northeast. He looked towards the northeast and saw everything was calm. After a brief thought, he gathered his spiritual energy in his eyes and looked carefully towards the northeast. He saw a light grey translucent circular barrier that was constantly surging in the originally calm forests in the northeast and among the layers of mountains.
Murong An flew into the air and took a closer look. He saw a translucent light gray semicircular cover upside down in the distant forest, with black mist swirling inside the semicircular cover.
"How could there be a dark zone here?" Murong An took a deep breath, then his lips curled up slightly. He picked up the flowerpot where the red spider lily was planted and said to the flowers in the pot: "Now you have your food!"
After the dark domain was formed, the light gray cover would hide all the dark matter aura inside the cover. No wonder he hadn't discovered it even though it was only a few dozen kilometers away. Something must have broken through the barrier and entered the cover, stirring the barrier and causing some aura to leak out, which allowed him to notice it.
It's true, it's better to arrive at the right time than to arrive in time. He was regretting that there were too few dark cores provided by the contaminated animals nearby.
The next moment, Murong An's figure disappeared from the spot.
When Xiao Bai woke up again, he opened his eyes and saw a sky filled with rolling black fog.
"Oh my god! Where am I? A coal mine? Why is there so much black fog in the sky?! The air pollution is too serious!"
Xiao Bai was about to stand up with a somersault, but the next second she missed a step and her body slid down from mid-air.
"Ah!!" Xiao Bai screamed in horror. After a period of weightlessness, she was about to fall to the ground. Xiao Bai was so frightened that she closed her eyes. The next second, her feet tightened and her whole body was pulled by something, which stopped her from falling.
Xiao Bai's heart was pounding with fear. It took her a long time to muster up the courage to open her eyes and check her situation. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the ground covered with fallen leaves was only a palm's distance from her face. She was almost dead or crippled! Even if she wasn't crippled, her face would have been disfigured!
“Huh~Huh~”
Xiao Bai took deep breaths, trying to calm herself. It took a long time for her pounding heart to slow down. She turned her head and looked around. All around her were fallen, dry trees and a ground covered with dry leaves. Wisps of black mist rose from the ground. Where was this? And was she now, suspended in mid-air?
Xiao Bai tried hard to bend over and save herself from mid-air. Fortunately, she had a fruit knife in her pocket, which allowed her to cut the vines on her legs. She was also thankful that she did sit-ups regularly, otherwise, she would not be able to bend over!
Xiao Bai stood up, brushed off the weeds on her body, straightened her clothes, and looked around. She realized that she had been dragged to a big tree by vines without knowing when, and had just fallen from the tree. She remembered that before she fainted, her feet were encircled by the vines of the mutant plants and dragged into the jungle. Her back was dragged on the ground, and her body was swung around by the vines. She didn't know when her head hit a rock, and then she fainted.
"Hiss~ No wonder my head hurts so much!" Xiao Bai touched the bump on his head and checked other parts of his body. He found no other external injuries and felt relieved.
Xiao Bai walked around and finally found her backpack on the other side of the tree. She looked around again, but didn't find the mutant plant or the little squirrel Songbao.
Xiao Bai opened her backpack and found the snacks and cell phone were still there. She picked up the phone and was about to call for help, but when she looked at the screen, she was shocked to find that there were still places with no signal these days!
In this jungle, the trees around are all withered and yellow. There seems to be no living creatures except for wisps of black smoke floating in the air and on the ground.
"This is..." Xiao Bai stretched out her hand, trying to touch the black mist, but she only felt a burning pain in the palm of her hand, as if her palm had touched boiling water. She quickly withdrew her hand and jumped away from the black mist.
Where exactly is this place? And where is the mutant vine that brought her here?
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