Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 79

Yan Zhuguang looked over this training room located in a time rift. It was indeed as the system had said. There was nothing inside. It was only a small, dark room, just large enough for one person to move around in.
There was nothing in this empty place worth studying. As for the principle behind stopped time, it was not something one could understand just by looking at the room.
Yan Zhuguang waited for a while. “System?”
The system came back to itself. “Host, are you really going to exchange the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed?”
That was the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed, a treasure that could fill every flaw. With it in hand, who knew how much strength could be raised? Host was actually going to exchange it. She could bear to give up such a good thing?
Although, as a system, being able to exchange for such a treasure was also a kind of achievement, and it was a good thing for the system, something still felt strange. Was Host the kind of person willing to take a loss?
The system felt a little uneasy.
The moment she entered the training room, Yan Zhuguang had taken the initiative to cut off the awareness she shared with the system. So the system could no longer hear her thoughts and did not know what she was thinking. “Why would I not exchange it?”
“All right.” Since Host was set on exchanging it, the system could not stop her, could it?
“What does Host want to exchange for?”
“Wanfu Core Pearl.” Yan Zhuguang said the four words decisively, without the slightest hesitation. It seemed she had planned this long ago.
“Uh…” The system choked.
It knew that anything Host was willing to use the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to exchange for would definitely not be ordinary.
“What?” Yan Zhuguang asked back. “Can I not exchange for it with the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed?”
“No…” the system said. “According to the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed’s value, it is indeed qualified to exchange for the Wanfu Core Pearl.” It was only sighing over Host.
“However, I do not have the authority to directly exchange for a treasure like the Wanfu Core Pearl. If Host wants to exchange for it, I need to submit the traded item first. After the higher-ups agree and open the Wanfu Core Pearl authority for me, I can give it to Host.”
Yan Zhuguang’s eyes flickered. “You mean I have to hand the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to you first, and then they decide whether to give me the Wanfu Core Pearl?”
The system said carefully, “Yes. The value of the traded item is decided by the people above me. I cannot make the decision.”
“If the people above you swap out my Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed, what then?”
“Please rest assured on that point, Host. We guarantee that if the exchange fails, the item will be returned exactly as it was. If Host receives a fake, then the thing Host wanted to exchange for will be given to Host as compensation.”
“Do not worry, Host,” the system said. “If something goes wrong with Host’s item, the first one to panic definitely will not be Host.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded. “I will trust you this once for now. Take that Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed. The other one belongs to Eldest Senior Sister. Do not get ideas about it.”
“All right.” The host’s backpack lost one Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed. “I will not touch Eldest Senior Sister’s things.”
The system used some unknown method to send that Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to the so-called “higher-ups.” Yan Zhuguang waited to exchange for the Wanfu Core Pearl. In this training room with no flow of time, there was no need to hurry and do anything, so she simply sat cross-legged on the floor and waited for the result.
Perhaps because they were in this training room where time did not flow, just as Yan Zhuguang sat down, the feedback about exchanging for the Wanfu Core Pearl arrived.
The system said, “We do not consume time in the training room, but once the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed is sent out from here, the other side needs to spend quite a lot of time successfully connecting with the training room. Then they have to check the value of the item, reconnect with the training room, and send the item over…”
“It looks fast, but the time they spent in the middle is not small at all. At the time point when we leave the training room, the higher-ups might not even have received the report I submitted.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded. She roughly understood what it meant.
However, what she cared about most was still the Wanfu Core Pearl. “What was the result?”
The system did not dare keep her in suspense. “Of course they agreed to the exchange. Host can rest assured. The Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed’s quality is still very high.”
The authority to use the Wanfu Core Pearl had already opened. The system quickly took it out and placed it into Host’s system backpack. “Host, the Wanfu Core Pearl is in hand.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded. She took out the Wanfu Core Pearl and held it in her palm.
Just like its name, the Wanfu Core Pearl was a perfectly round pearl. Its surface was bright with many colors and flashed with unusual light. Held in her hand, its glow dyed her palm in colors. It was extremely beautiful.
The pearl was not transparent, so the inside could not be seen.
Outside the pearl was a thin membrane. This had been specially placed to prevent poison gas from escaping and to keep anything that touched the Wanfu Core Pearl from being poisoned.
The moment the Wanfu Core Pearl appeared, the green bracelet-like Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine on Yan Zhuguang’s wrist immediately became excited. The entire vine moved, drooling with desire for that pearl.
Yan Zhuguang naturally would not let the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine attack the Wanfu Core Pearl. She still had a use for it. Without allowing any argument, she suppressed the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine. Under the influence of the natal contract, the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine could not resist Yan Zhuguang and had to unwillingly coil back around her wrist.
But it had not completely given up. It was ready to act again at any time.
The system watched Host suppress the restless Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine, and at the same time admired the pearl in Host’s hand. “Host, what did you exchange for this Wanfu Core Pearl for? Do you not already have the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine as your natal spiritual object?”
Looking at Host just now, it did not seem like she planned to feed the Wanfu Core Pearl to the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine. Then why exactly had Host been willing to use the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to obtain the Wanfu Core Pearl?
“I am going to use this Wanfu Core Pearl to completely rebuild my spiritual root.”
“Uh.” During its time with Host, the system had gradually learned Host’s thoughts about her spiritual root. “Host really wants to rebuild the spiritual root into a poison spiritual root? I think using the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to remove the poison spiritual energy attached to the wood spiritual root would be better. If Host completely rebuilds the spiritual root into a poison spiritual root, would it not stop matching your Wood Spirit Body?”
“I naturally will not give up the poison spiritual root. Otherwise, why do you think I chose a wood-attribute poison object as my natal spiritual object?”
This concerned her future cultivation path. How could Yan Zhuguang not have considered it? She had already calculated this point.
The system was a little confused. “I thought Host valued how fierce it was.” Wood-attribute cultivators were always at a disadvantage in attack, so most wood-attribute cultivators used a powerful natal spiritual object to protect themselves.
Yan Zhuguang shook her head. “The Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine is the balance between my poison spiritual root and Wood Spirit Body. It is both wood-attribute and poison-attribute. By using the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine as suppression, I can let these two attributes exist in my body at the same time.”
“Of course, this is only a transition. After I use the wood-attribute spiritual root as the foundation and rebuild it into a poison spiritual root, I will not need it to suppress them for me anymore. At that time, wood and poison spiritual energy can naturally exist inside my body.”
The system listened in a fog. It tried to understand and roughly grasped Host’s meaning. “In other words, Host’s spiritual root has both poison and wood attributes? Then why not simply make it dual spiritual roots?”
Yan Zhuguang said, “You understood wrong.” She touched the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine on her hand. “Just like it. It is a wood-attribute poison object, and my spiritual root will be a wood-attribute poison spiritual root. It can transform spiritual energy into poison spiritual energy, and also into wood spiritual energy. These two kinds of spiritual energy can also transform into each other, but they will not interfere with each other like dual spiritual roots might and affect cultivation speed. Do you understand now?”
The system scratched its head. “I… mostly understand?”
“Even for spiritual roots like water and wood, whose attributes can support each other, water is still water, and wood is still wood,” Yan Zhuguang explained a little more. “They cannot transform into each other, right?”
“Mm-hm.” The system nodded.
“Right now, the wood attribute and poison attribute spiritual energy in my body are in that state. Not only are they unbalanced, they each hold their own territory and cannot transform into each other.”
“But you know that single types of spiritual energy cannot transform into each other. Yet the five elements support one another. Once metal, wood, water, fire, and earth spiritual energy are all present, they can fuse and transform.”
“Yes.”
“I was originally five spiritual roots. Four of them transformed into poison spiritual roots. Adding the remaining wood spiritual root, this becomes a complete five-element Five Poisons spiritual root. Only, my wood spiritual root is the thickest, so my Five Poisons spiritual root is led by the wood attribute.”
“Once my unique wood-attribute Five Poisons spiritual root forms, it can use the way five-element spiritual energy transforms into one another to let wood spiritual energy and five-element poison spiritual energy change and work together inside my body. At that time, my Wood Spirit Body and spiritual root will naturally still match very well.”
This kind of rebuilding could both keep the poison attribute and prevent others from noticing anything. In outsiders’ eyes, she would still be a wood-attribute cultivator. Who would know that once she attacked, she could turn wood spiritual energy into poison spiritual energy?
“Oh, I understand.”
“Host’s case is like developing a new spiritual energy attribute: wood-attribute Five Poisons spiritual energy. This kind of spiritual energy can transform into pure wood spiritual energy, and it can also transform into pure Five Poisons spiritual energy. Is that what you mean?”
“Exactly.”
This kind of spiritual root would let Yan Zhuguang gain twice the result with half the work. One kind of cultivation would bring two kinds of gains. The identities of wood-attribute cultivator and poison-attribute cultivator could be changed at will, and her strength would not be weakened at all, making it convenient for Yan Zhuguang to disguise herself.
Because of this, before Core Formation, Yan Zhuguang had to transform all the spiritual energy in her body into this wood-attribute Five Poisons spiritual energy before forming her core. Otherwise, after Core Formation, the pure wood-attribute golden core would not match the spiritual energy she truly cultivated.
“A wood-attribute poison object like the Wanfu Core Pearl is exactly the best thing to speed up the transformation of my poison spiritual root.”
“But I still do not understand,” the system said. “Could Host not directly use the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to rebuild that wood-attribute Five Poisons spiritual root? Why make it so troublesome?”
“Do you know what happens after taking the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed?”
“Uh…” The system paused, then said in confusion, “What happens? The plot did not mention it.”
“If the plot did not mention it, does that mean it does not exist in reality?”
After Yan Zhuguang asked this, the system had no words. “N-no way?”
“You think such a powerful effect comes without a price? The more one gains, the more one loses. Who knows when the aftereffects might break out? I would rather take a more troublesome path, even with flaws, than hang a sword over my head that could fall at any time.”
The system swallowed. “Then if Host exchanged the Wanfu Core Pearl with me, did I not suffer a huge loss?” Host tricked me!
“Since the higher-ups made the decision, in their eyes, the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed is naturally worth a Wanfu Core Pearl. What are you panicking for?”
That was true…
The system breathed a sigh of relief again.
Still, Host was indeed Host. No matter what, she would not let herself suffer a loss.