Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 31

The Lucky Draw was a red ticket. To use it, one had to press both hands together, hold the ticket between the palms, then shake it forward and back three times. Yan Zhuguang complained that this ritual was foolish.
The system felt a little wronged. This had all been set by its superiors. It was their prank and had nothing to do with it.
Although Yan Zhuguang somewhat disliked this ritual, she was someone who knew when to bend and when to stand firm. She would not give up a free reward just because she disliked it.
Yan Zhuguang took out the Lucky Draw ticket and placed it in her palms.
The system projected a long list of prizes suitable for the host into Yan Zhuguang’s mind. “Host, what kind of reward do you want? I heard that if your wish is very strong, then as long as it is not something especially rare, the chance of drawing it will increase by a lot.”
The condition was that the host could not be cursed with bad draw luck. Otherwise, all chances were useless.
The system thought about it. The host’s luck had always been rather mysterious. If it said she was lucky, then she was always targeted by strange people and could never be at peace. If it said she was unlucky, then whatever she wanted to do always seemed to succeed.
But it did not matter if this could not be seen in normal times. This was the true moment to test whether her draw luck was good or bad. Host, let me see it!
Yan Zhuguang said, “Was what I wanted not decided from the start?”
Her gaze landed on one of the names at the very top of the prize list. It read: Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl.
This name sounded rather festive, like a blessing object used on some lucky day. In truth, however, it was a naturally formed top-grade poisonous wood spiritual treasure.
This Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl was extremely hard to find. It was said that after a ten-thousand-year Ghost Crow Poison Wood lost its life, it had to be soaked and changed by thousands upon thousands of poisonous things. After countless tens of thousands of years, it would form one pearl of wood core essence.
During this process, there could not be any outside interference. Once disturbed, the gathering of the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl would fail completely, with no way to fix it.
And this process was not even the hardest part. The hardest part was that the Ghost Crow Poison Wood had a maximum lifespan of only one thousand years.
So using a ten-thousand-year Ghost Crow Poison Wood as the base to gather a wood core essence was almost impossible. This natural spiritual treasure, formed through countless coincidences, had been given the festive name Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl by those who loved poison. It meant a treasure that could only be gained by gathering ten thousand blessings.
Yan Zhuguang’s target was this.
The Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl had also existed in her cultivation world. By coincidence, she had once truly obtained one. It was just that at that time, she no longer needed such a pearl as her life-bound spiritual treasure, so she had kept it only as a collectible.
Later, only a wisp of her remnant soul remained. She could not bring treasures into life or carry them into death. Who knew who had benefited from all those treasures of hers?
Now, she did need such a treasure to balance and harmonize the two powers inside her body when she transformed her wood spiritual root into a poison spiritual root.
The system looked at that strange name, and goosebumps rose in its heart.
It truly could not understand why such a beautifully meaningful name would be placed on a terrifying poisonous object. It really did not understand the taste of these cultivators.
“Host, are you ready? Remember, you must think about what you want. Do not have any stray thoughts.”
If she accidentally drew one of those random messy junk items, even if the host did not cry, the system would cry to death. To avoid disrupting the host’s thoughts, the system did not say the rest aloud.
Its system storage did not only have treasures. It also had something called storage junk. These things were restricted by authority and could not be thrown away. Even worse, they also appeared among the Lucky Draw prizes. It truly did not know what the person who set the draw rules had been thinking.
To avoid affecting new hosts, the system’s memories of the detailed process of previous hosts’ strategy missions had been blurred. But its non-mission memories of old hosts were still very clear. Several unlucky hosts it had guided had been badly harmed by that storage junk.
One fragile-hearted host had even almost given up on continuing the strategy because of it. This storage junk was completely used to attack a host’s motivation.
Its new host was rarely this excellent and self-aware. The system did not want this storage junk to ruin the host’s mood at all. Even if she did not draw the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl, she should at least draw something decent.
With a serious face, Yan Zhuguang held the red ticket between both palms and shook it three times. The system prayed in its heart. Please bless Host with something good. She must draw something good!
After shaking three times, Yan Zhuguang discovered that the ticket in her hands had vanished. Right after that, a strange square frame appeared in front of her. Several rolling wheels sat side by side in the middle and were now spinning wildly.
Yan Zhuguang found it rather new and interesting. For a moment, she even forgot she was drawing a prize. To be honest, although she had said she wanted to use the Lucky Draw, she had not actually held much hope.
Among the system storage items, there were already hundreds of thousands of things suited for her use, and those were only the types. In truth, the draw was calculated by the total number of all items. Drawing one thing from hundreds of millions of items, how likely was that?
To Yan Zhuguang, the Lucky Draw was less for obtaining the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl and more for playing around.
After all, the system’s things were still very new to her.
Unlike Yan Zhuguang’s relaxed mood, the system watched the prize wheel spin with its heart raised. It was even more nervous than the host.
Finally, after who knew how many turns, the prize wheel slowed down. After a clacking sound, the wheels stopped on the same image: a white pouch.
The system’s heart thudded. Only one thought remained in its mind. It was over. What it feared had come true.
The white pouch was the symbol of storage junk. Its host’s luck had stayed mysterious for so long. Had the veil finally been lifted, fixing her as truly unlucky? It did not accept this!
Yan Zhuguang did not know what the system was thinking. After the wheels stopped, that white image was spat out by the square frame. Yan Zhuguang caught the white pouch as it became solid, and the square frame vanished.
She pinched the pouch. The thing inside was very small, only the size of a soybean. She knew then that she had not drawn the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl.
Yan Zhuguang did not feel upset. She opened the pouch and poured the thing inside into her palm. A dark green, plain-looking, shriveled little bead rolled into her hand.
Yan Zhuguang paused. Her expression became a little strange, and she could not help giving a soft sound of surprise.
The system asked carefully, “Ho-Host, what is wrong?” Host must not give up on herself. If Host truly wanted that Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl, the system would definitely think of a way to get it for her. If there really was no other way, it would write a virus to hack the system storage and steal the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl for Host.
At worst, it would be locked in the dark room. As long as the host could finish the mission, this bit of punishment was nothing.
Yan Zhuguang said, “I did not expect you to have this.”
“Ah?” It took the system a long while to react, only then realizing that the host’s tone did not seem very disappointed. “Host, what is it?”
“You actually do not know?”
“I… should I know?”
“Did this not come from your storage?”
The system laughed dryly. So-called storage junk was made of things the system could not identify. These things had either lost vitality or were already broken. Even if no one knew what they were, they had no value anymore, so they were all grouped into storage junk.
“What exactly is this?”
“This is a seed of the Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine. If its grade is truly counted, it is not much different from the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl. It is strange that this seed did not appear on the top-grade list.”
“What grade did you place this seed in?”
There were too many types of prizes. Yan Zhuguang did not have the energy to look through them one by one, so she had only looked at the very top grade and picked the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl, which was most suited to her.
Although she had not obtained the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl now, this Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine was a pleasant surprise. Compared with the Ten Thousand Blessings Core Pearl, the Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine was actually more suitable for her.
The system was too embarrassed to say it had been placed in the lowest junk grade. It reminded her even more carefully, “But Host, this seed no longer has any vitality.”
“It seems you truly do not know it.”
Yan Zhuguang took a wood spirit stone from the inventory, then took out ten low-grade spirit stones and placed them beside her. Green light lit up in her left hand. It was pure wood spiritual energy, and it wrapped around the wood spirit stone.
With her right hand, she picked up a low-grade spirit stone. As the wood spiritual energy in her left hand was continuously used up, the low-grade spirit stone in her right hand slowly turned to ash. Yan Zhuguang did not stop. She picked up another low-grade spirit stone.
After using five low-grade spirit stones, the wood spirit stone finally changed. It gradually softened from a hard stone. By the time nine low-grade spirit stones had been used up, the wood spirit stone had become a lump of soft mud.
Yan Zhuguang quickly absorbed the last spirit stone. Green light also lit in her right hand, and she reached toward the soft mud, kneading and pulling it.
Soon, that soft mud was shaped into a bowl. The moment Yan Zhuguang withdrew her spiritual energy, the mud bowl immediately hardened and became a green wood spirit stone bowl.
Then Yan Zhuguang bit her wrist without hesitation. Bright red blood sprayed out and was guided by Yan Zhuguang into the wood spirit stone bowl. Once a full bowl had been collected, Yan Zhuguang touched the wound, and it quickly healed, leaving only a fierce-looking scar.
The system’s heart clenched as it watched.
Then Yan Zhuguang took out all the poisons in the inventory at once and threw them all into the blood. That bowl of fresh blood turned into a strange and evil color.
At this time, under the system’s eager stare, Yan Zhuguang picked up the seed from the side and dropped it into the bowl with a plop.
At first, there was no movement. After ten breaths, with a sudden whoosh, the poisonous blood inside the wood spirit stone bowl, even including the bowl that held the blood, all vanished in an instant.
Ding.
The seed struck the table and made a crisp string of sounds.
Yan Zhuguang pinched the seed in her hand. It still had that shriveled, dark green, half-dead appearance.
The difference was that the system finally detected vitality inside that seed.
“The Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine is a special spiritual plant,” Yan Zhuguang said. “It can devour any living thing whose blood contains poison. If the target is not poisonous at first, poison can be injected into it first, and then the vine can devour it. As long as the target’s blood cannot resist its toxin, it cannot block the vine’s attack. The things it devours will become its nutrients and refine its own poison.”
“As long as the blood contains poison, and as long as that poison is not far stronger than its own toxin, it can eat even skin, bones, and hair. Because of that, it has another nickname: Poison Glutton.”
Yan Zhuguang stroked the seed and could hardly put it down. “This little thing can be raised slowly. If I accept it as my life-bound spiritual plant, it can also grow together with me.”
For her, whose current strength was still low, nothing could be more suitable. She also did not need to worry that she could not control it.
The system took a while to react. So its host was not unlucky. She was one hundred percent blessed with luck?
No, that was not right either. She could draw something like this from storage junk. This was not simple luck. This was the goddess of luck with the treasure-finding skill fully maxed out!