In the deep sea, where the waters rippled, all around was pitch black, except for the shimmering white light that came from the crystals.
Lin Ruo floated in the water several hundred meters away from the crevice, completely unaffected by the water flow, carefully examining the crystal fragment in front of him that resembled a luminous pearl.
She used a small amount of her spiritual energy to contact the crystal, knowing full well that if she found anything amiss, she could sever the connection with this small amount of spiritual energy without any problems.
But as soon as her mental energy came into contact with the crystal, Lin Ruo felt a flash of white light in her mind, and the energy in the crystal surged into her body.
The unfamiliar energy immediately transformed into the energy Lin Ruo absorbed during her cultivation after entering her body. However, this unfamiliar energy could be exchanged for a large amount of familiar energy, as if this energy was being diluted within her body.
Once Lin Ruo had absorbed all the energy in the crystal, the crystal had completely disappeared. Unlike animal crystal nuclei, which have shells, this one was a crystallization of energy.
After absorbing the crystal, Lin Ruo stood in the seawater for a long time, digesting it. The energy in such a small piece made Lin Ruo feel a bit "full".
After she manipulated her mental power to refine these energies, she was pleasantly surprised to find that her strength had significantly improved! Even her mental power had increased considerably, more effectively than when she absorbed two level-five water-type ability crystal cores.
Although I don't know what this is, it's definitely a good thing to improve my strength.
Having confirmed that this thing would be of great benefit to her cultivation, her eyes lit up as she looked at the white crystals. She never expected that she would encounter such a good thing on this sea voyage with them.
She mobilized all her spatial energy, prying all the white crystals off the stone wall and storing them in her still space.
After she stored the last white crystal in her spatial storage, a strange change occurred around her: the surrounding seawater surged towards the crack.
Lin Ruo did not move. She was completely unaffected within two meters of herself, and being closer allowed her to see the situation more clearly.
Seawater entered the crack, which became like a bottomless pit, even forming a huge whirlpool. Many mutated sea beasts in the vicinity could not resist the powerful suction of the whirlpool and were sucked into the crack, never to emerge again.
Through the spatial domain, she discovered that all of these things were sucked into the depths of the crack, forcibly pulverized, and transformed into streams of energy.
Lin Ruo withdrew her spatial domain and looked at the vortex that was still absorbing everything around it. She touched her nose and suddenly felt that she was being a bit unfair. These crystals had accumulated a lot of energy to form, and now she had taken them all.
Seeing the situation before him, Lin Ruo suddenly remembered what he had read in a miscellaneous book before. It said that there were also feng shui energy points in the sea, and many overseas sorcerers would select these feng shui points. Each time they succeeded, it was accompanied by an underwater vortex.
Could this place be the feng shui spot that was previously selected?
Lin Ruo didn't have a specific answer in her mind, and she didn't care too much about it. At this moment, she hoped that this place was a feng shui spot. If so, then after a period of time, maybe a few years, maybe more than ten years, these white crystals would appear again.
She took one last look at the crack that was still absorbing the surrounding energy, then turned and left the area.
She was underwater, but little did she know how much trouble she caused Chen Yu and his crew on the surface. Their fleet had already moved far away from this area, but suddenly a huge whirlpool appeared behind them. Compared to the size of the whirlpool, their ship seemed extremely small.
At this moment, dark clouds filled the sky, a strong wind blew, and a torrential rain began to fall. Giant waves rolled on the sea, all surging wildly towards the whirlpool.
Standing on the deck, Chen Yu ignored the raindrops pelting him and shouted into the walkie-talkie, "Everyone, turn the engine to maximum! Full speed ahead! Water-type ability users, use the water currents to propel the boat from behind! Get as far away from that whirlpool as possible!"
They raced for their lives for nearly an hour before finally escaping the vortex's immense suction and moving far away from the area. The sky was clear, without a trace of clouds.
They all looked back with lingering fear. In the distance, the sea was shrouded in darkness by dark clouds, a stark contrast to where they were now.
At this moment, a superhuman standing next to Chen Yu looked at the sea below the ship with some worry, "Captain, Sister Ruo is still in that sea, will something happen to her?"
Chen Yu shook his head. With Lin Ruo's water-based abilities, she certainly wouldn't be afraid of these things. "No, you have to believe in her strength."
The superhuman nodded, feeling slightly relieved. The captain had been in frequent contact with Sister Ruo and knew her abilities better, so if he said it wouldn't happen, then it wouldn't happen.
Lin Ruo, who was already far away from that area, did not rush back to the warship. Instead, she kept teleporting in the seabed. Having tasted the sweetness of this crystal, she wanted to see if she could encounter such a good thing again.
After navigating underwater for more than two hours and traveling over a thousand kilometers, she didn't find a single white crystal. However, she did find three shipwrecks, all of which were made of steel. She scanned the shipwrecks with her spiritual power and found that the long-term immersion in seawater had made the hulls of these ships rusty, and there wasn't much of value inside.
These are cargo ships, but the cargo on board has long been rotten and unrecognizable.
Lin Ruo only found some gold and silver inside, as well as some artifacts that looked somewhat old. What if these were antiques? If she needed money after the apocalypse, she could just sell one.
She encountered mutated sea monsters more than a dozen times, each time in large numbers, numbering in the hundreds. She killed them all with her water-based abilities and stored them in her spatial storage. This trip to sea was truly worthwhile, as she had both food and loot.
Three hours had passed by the time she leaped out of the sea. All she could see was the vast ocean, stretching as far as the eye could see. Every direction presented the same view, and without special equipment, it would have been very difficult to determine her direction.
She took out the positioning device she had previously exchanged with the B City base from her spatial storage, removed the spatial energy wrapped around it, and then pressed the switch.
Since acquiring this device, Lin Ruo has been covering it with spatial energy, cutting off all communication with it, so that the B City base wouldn't be able to track her movements.
They are partners now, but this relationship may not last long, and she can't afford to be complacent.
After turning on the switch, Lin Ruo followed Jiang Yue's instructions a few times, and her current location was displayed on the radar map. She took out the route that had been customized at the B City base and compared it with the route to confirm the direction.
The water flowed towards her from beneath her feet, growing freely behind her. She raised her head, flapped her wings, and flew away into the distance.
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