Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 54

On the sparse grassland, spiritual light shifted and flashed, sometimes deep green, sometimes pale blue-green, lighting the whole area especially brightly.
Who knew how long passed? The green lights of different shades surged one after another, then slowly sank into stillness. The whole area returned to calm.
After absorbing more energy, the Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine finished breaking through before Yan Zhuguang. Without its master’s command and suppression, the vine twisted in the air, then plunged down into the huge pit left after the needle-leaf spiritual plant vanished.
On Yan Zhuguang’s side, she had only just turned the last thread of energy into her own power. After that, she began stabilizing her cultivation.
When all the energy calmed, Yan Zhuguang had successfully advanced to late Foundation Establishment.
In only two or three days, she had jumped two levels from early Foundation Establishment to late Foundation Establishment. Such advancement speed would shock the cultivation world.
More than that, even with her breakthrough being so fast, her realm did not seem too obviously unstable. After she fully stabilized her cultivation, even that small bit of instability vanished. How could that not surprise people?
Yan Zhuguang herself did not think there was any problem. She was cultivating again after one life. If her speed stayed the same as an ordinary cultivator’s, that would be strange.
If that truly happened, she would probably be so ashamed that she would want to hide underground.
After spending several days stabilizing her cultivation and confirming that her newly increased spiritual energy had been condensed solidly, Yan Zhuguang finally opened her eyes. Green light flashed through them, and the aura around her churned for a few breaths before settling completely.
Yan Zhuguang slapped a dust-cleansing talisman onto herself and cleaned away the impurities she had expelled earlier. Once she felt fresh again, she stood, stretched her shoulders and legs, and even performed a palm technique the system did not recognize, fully loosening this new body after her spiritual channels had been rebuilt.
“Congratulations, Host, on your great increase in cultivation!”
The system tossed flowers nonstop in its space. Although the process had looked painful and heart-wrenching, the result was very pleasing. In the end, it was a great good thing.
“Mm.” Yan Zhuguang answered faintly.
“After Host’s strength increased, my sensing range also expanded a little. Does Host want me to investigate Senior Sister’s location again?”
Yan Zhuguang said, “Try.”
Her breakthrough had taken a long time. She did not know where Senior Sister was now or whether Senior Sister had come to look for her.
She had been delayed on this grassland for so long. Without knowing Senior Sister’s location, if she rashly went to search, the two might accidentally miss each other.
The safest method was to stay here and wait for Senior Sister to come. Also, the strongest needle-leaf spiritual plant here had already been destroyed. No danger would arrive in a short time. Waiting here was indeed a good idea.
The system was quiet for a while, then suddenly said excitedly, “Host, Host, found her!”
“Where?”
“In the water area’s direction,” the system said. “Senior Sister is riding a cloud this way. She should reach here in about half a day.”
Riding a cloud… Senior Sister’s cultivation had indeed been restricted.
Yan Zhuguang nodded. Her gaze swept over the surroundings. After thinking for a moment, she raised a hand and pointed. The remaining grass leaves on the square flew up and wove through the air, forming a huge Fenghua Immortal Sect mark.
Yan Zhuguang made it float in the sky. Once Senior Sister got close, she would see it at a glance.
After doing this, Yan Zhuguang jumped down from the square and crossed in a few steps to the place where the giant needle-leaf spiritual plant’s main body had been, which was now a huge pit in the palace.
“Host, what are you looking at?”
Yan Zhuguang studied the pit, which extended in all directions. “The Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine has not come out yet.”
That was Host’s life-bound spiritual plant. Could Host not just call it back?
However, the system did not say that. It asked, “What did the vine go do?”
Yan Zhuguang did not answer. After a while, she said, “It is coming.”
As soon as she spoke, there was a trembling vibration. Some dry earth also began to shake, sliding downward bit by bit.
Soon, a touch of green appeared in the pit below. The vine, only about the height of a person, was twisted into a ball and seemed to be dragging something as it rushed out.
The deep green vine shot up and left the pit. After it came out, a long thing trailed behind it, struggling constantly and trying to break free of its restraint.
However, the vine had greatly increased in strength after absorbing the needle-leaf spiritual plant’s power. Although it was only a small section, its strength was not easy to escape.
The Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine dragged that thing out entirely. It was even very clever and dragged it onto the square.
Yan Zhuguang followed closely. The instant the Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine released the thing, the remaining grass leaves on the square gathered from all directions and bound it tightly.
The deep green vine spun in the air excitedly several times, then flew back to Yan Zhuguang’s side. The Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine shook its body, shrank to the length of two fingers, and wrapped around her wrist. It twisted itself and turned into a crystal bracelet with leaves.
Yan Zhuguang touched the newly grown leaves and walked up to the thing that was tied up by the grass leaves yet still struggling unwillingly.
The system sighed softly. Beans boiled with beanstalks. Why must kin hurt kin?
The thing dragged out by the Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine was one of the needle-leaf spiritual plant’s root stems. The needle-leaf spiritual plant had been quite clever. At the most dangerous moment, it had known to abandon the commander to protect the army, giving up most of its body and leaving itself a slim chance of survival.
Unfortunately, this root stem still had not escaped the Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine’s senses. Even though it had secretly slipped away, it was still caught and dragged back.
The Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine had swallowed an entire needle-leaf spiritual plant, and the power inside its body had temporarily reached saturation. But this greedy little thing was still unwilling to let go of this last fat root stem. It had dragged it back no matter what, wanting Yan Zhuguang to store it as rations.
Yan Zhuguang naturally accepted it all and threw the root stem, still wrapped in grass leaves, directly into the system inventory.
After thoroughly capturing the needle-leaf spiritual plant in one sweep, Yan Zhuguang thought of nothing else. She only sat cross-legged, adjusted to the new strength of spiritual energy in her body, and waited for Yun Mixue to find her.
Perhaps Yan Zhuguang’s huge Fenghua Immortal Sect mark was too obvious. Yun Mixue arrived at this strange grassland in less than half a day.
“Zhuguang.”
The familiar gentle voice sounded beside her ear. Yan Zhuguang opened her eyes and gave Yun Mixue, who was slowly landing from the sky, a bright smile. “Senior Sister.”
Yun Mixue was dazzled by this brilliant smile, bright as fire. She vaguely felt that after only a few days apart, Zhuguang, who had already been bright and moving, seemed even more radiant.
Yun Mixue was light as a cloud and landed gently beside Yan Zhuguang. She stretched out a hand to Yan Zhuguang, who was sitting cross-legged on the square. “I found you, Zhuguang.”
Yan Zhuguang looked at the ice-white fingers before her and placed her hand on them. Then she was pulled up by a clever force. Unable to steady herself, she could not help falling forward into an embrace that was already a little familiar.
Yun Mixue wrapped both arms around Yan Zhuguang’s back and hugged her tightly. “If you encounter a teleportation formation next time, you cannot carelessly stuff the drawing to me again.” Her voice was the release after being tense. “Putting aside whether the drawing might be lost or damaged during teleportation, Senior Sister also hopes you will have one more safeguard. Do you understand?”
Yan Zhuguang rubbed against Yun Mixue’s arms, then raised her head to look into Yun Mixue’s eyes. “I had already memorized everything on that silk cloth. Of course giving it to Senior Sister was more useful.”
“With the silk cloth, Senior Sister could follow the marks on it to find me, right?”
Yun Mixue poked Yan Zhuguang’s forehead. “You. Are you that confident in your memory?”
Yan Zhuguang smiled. “It was only a map. What is there to fail to remember? Besides, I did not need to remember much. Even remembering one marked place was enough.”
“Did Senior Sister not promise to come find me? I believe Senior Sister.”
Since Yan Zhuguang had already said this, what else could Yun Mixue say?
“All right, all right. Our Zhuguang thought everything through. Should Senior Sister praise you?”
Yan Zhuguang thought for a moment. Her eyes turned, and she nodded. “All right. I accept.”
“Little troublemaker.” Yun Mixue poked her head again. “You still had to think before accepting?”
Yan Zhuguang buried herself in Yun Mixue’s arms and said in a muffled voice, “Senior Sister is the best.”
Yun Mixue smoothed Yan Zhuguang’s hair, and her suspended heart finally settled.
After leaving that layered mountain range, she had stepped onto the water area. The vast water stretched endlessly and made it almost impossible to tell direction. Yun Mixue had searched countless islands in the water area for several days before finally heading in this direction.
When she saw that huge Fenghua Immortal Sect mark, her heart stirred with excitement. The mark was woven from grass leaves and floating in the sky, so someone was controlling it. Yan Zhuguang was a wood cultivator. It was very likely to be her.
Yun Mixue immediately sped up and soon reached the mark. From far away, she saw Yan Zhuguang meditating on the square in the ruins.
She had no time to check the surroundings and first confirmed Yan Zhuguang’s safety.
Holding Yan Zhuguang in her arms, she roughly checked Yan Zhuguang’s body with spiritual energy. After finding that Yan Zhuguang was not only unhurt but had even improved in strength, Yun Mixue finally let out a breath.
Yun Mixue released Yan Zhuguang and looked around. “Zhuguang gained quite a lot in the hidden realm. In only a few days, you are already at late Foundation Establishment.”
Because she could see that Yan Zhuguang’s strength was solid, and that although her advancement was fast, it was not blind recklessness, Yun Mixue did not scold her. She was only curious about what Yan Zhuguang had experienced.
Looking at the surroundings, which seemed to have been swept by a storm, one could imagine how fierce the earlier fight had been.
“This place originally had a strange mutated spiritual plant. It actually knew how to use mud to disguise itself, turning itself into the shape of a ruined palace to lure people inside before swallowing them whole.”
Yun Mixue looked at these strangely piled mounds of earth and could not help imagining what that spiritual plant had looked like while alive. “A spiritual plant actually had such intelligence. It must have been extremely dangerous at the time.”
Yan Zhuguang smiled. “I was not in danger. I discovered something was wrong early. If we talk about danger, the one in danger should have been it.” Yan Zhuguang pointed at the mark still floating in the sky. “Those grass leaves were cut from that spiritual plant by me.”
Yan Zhuguang pointed out the large pit and took out the last remaining root stem from her inventory to show Yun Mixue.
“All right, all right.” The root stem was still twisting vividly, and Yun Mixue stopped her. “Put it away quickly.”
It was enough for Yun Mixue to know she was not hurt. She did not need to dig into every detail.
Yan Zhuguang put the root stem away again. “Right, Senior Sister traveled through many places on the way. Did you discover anything strange?”
“There was indeed one place…”