86: Spirit Gathering Stone, a strange creation
"Brother, our Divine Sense leaving the body cannot be replenished, and excessive consumption will cause it to dissipate." Little White Fox poured a portion of her Divine Sense into Lu Yu's body, simultaneously sending him a mental message.
Their current cultivation level was insufficient; Divine Sense could only slowly recover within the body. Once it left the body, it would not be replenished.
"Alright, we don't need to bother with these black creatures for now. Let's continue deeper." Lu Yu nodded slightly.
With Little White Fox's Divine Sense replenishment, his Divine Sense body became clearer. He decided to change his strategy of pushing straight through, as their purpose in entering here with their Divine Sense bodies was merely to investigate the situation, not to clear the area.
However, just as Lu Yu finished speaking, the system's prompt suddenly sounded in his mind,
[Congratulations on obtaining 200 Evolution Points!]
[Congratulations on obtaining 200 Evolution Points!]
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Every black creature eliminated by the ice cones was silently absorbed by the system and converted into Evolution Points, each worth 200 Evolution Points.
This made Lu Yu's eyes light up slightly.
To know, he could obtain about a hundred Evolution Points for eliminating an E-rank fierce beast on Blue Star, far less than what these black creatures provided.
However, this also indirectly confirmed one point: these black creatures might not be native to Blue Star, but rather extraterrestrial beings that arrived with the giant spaceship.
Lu Yu's heart grew more cautious. He was about to activate the Hand of Earth to move forward and break out of the encirclement, but Little White Fox stopped him.
"Brother, wait a moment. It seems there's something left behind where those black creatures died."
Little White Fox's eyes glowed, and the surrounding scenery became clearer and more transparent in her vision. Beneath the dissipated bodies of the black creatures, there were white specks of light, the size of grains of rice, emitting a faint glow.
If not for the sudden disappearance of the black creatures' bodies, she wouldn't have noticed this.
Lu Yu followed Little White Fox's gaze and looked down. After seeing those rice-sized white specks of light, he suddenly had a familiar feeling!
It seemed he had seen those white specks of light somewhere before.
"spirit gathering stone! Could these white specks of light be spirit gathering stones?!"
Little White Fox's Divine Sense suddenly trembled, as if she had thought of something, and immediately sent a mental message to Lu Yu.
She knew that Lu Yu greatly needed zi xuan crystals and spirit gathering stones to set up arrays.
Now that the zi xuan crystals had a lead, and there were even suspected spirit gathering stones within the black creatures!
Lu Yu also reacted at this moment; no wonder those white specks of light felt so familiar to him.
The images of spirit gathering stones the system gave him were all quite large. The spirit gathering stones within these black creatures were too small, which prevented him from connecting them.
Immediately, Lu Yu activated the Hand of Earth, forcing back the black creatures outside the cage, and approached the white specks of light, preparing to confirm them.
The white specks of light were lifted by his Divine Sense. Although very small, he could still feel a faint suction coming from them, gathering the spiritual energy in the air.
These white specks of light truly were spirit gathering stones!
Lu Yu was overjoyed. The two most difficult items to find finally had leads.
As long as they were gathered, the Nine Heavens Spirit Gathering Array could be set up and activated!
Looking at Lu Yu's joyful expression, Little White Fox also smiled, then collected the other small spirit gathering stones around them and handed them all to Lu Yu.
After Lu Yu took them, as the spirit gathering stones approached each other, they attracted each other like magnets, quickly merging into one, becoming the size of a soybean.
Both the light they emitted and their ability to attract spiritual energy were several times stronger than when they were the size of a grain of rice.
"Excellent, this trip was truly worth it."
Lu Yu carefully put away the merged and enlarged spirit gathering stone, gradually calming his excited heart, then activated the Hand of Earth and rushed towards the depths of the cave, towards the spaceship that was mostly buried.
The black creatures that had surrounded Lu Yu and Little White Fox tried to prevent them from going deeper, frantically attacking the stone pillars that separated them with their long, blade-like legs.
But each time they struck, at most, scattered sparks flew, leaving faint white marks on the stone pillars. They simply could not shake the indestructible Hand of Earth.
And every once in a while, the Hand of Earth would quickly absorb the Earth's spiritual energy and recover to its original state.
However, the black creatures seemed to lack intelligence. Even if they couldn't break through the defense, they still relentlessly pursued and attacked, never giving up.
From a distance, the cage formed by several dense stone pillars looked like a lonely ship sailing on a black ocean.
The sound of the black creatures crawling and attacking the stone pillars was incessant, making the solitary and dim cave no longer so dull and boring.
Soon after.
The front of the cave suddenly opened up, and Lu Yu's pupils slightly dilated. The giant spaceship buried beneath the ruins forcibly entered his vision.
Compared to the scene seen in the video, the sense of shock experienced firsthand was even more intense.
The giant spaceship, stretching for thousands of meters, lay horizontally in the mud and ruins like a city from beyond time and space, its full appearance obscured.
Only vaguely through the broken parts could one see its exquisitely intricate internal structure, and the intermittent, flickering lights coming from various places.
It seemed that this spaceship was severely damaged, but some of its functions were still operating.
After that, all of Lu Yu's attention was focused on the area near the center of the spaceship.
Because a zi xuan crystal was suspended there, emitting an eerie purple light.
As Lu Yu continued to activate the Hand of Earth to approach, large numbers of black creatures emerged from various openings in the spaceship, like loyal guards, preventing any intruders from entering.
Lu Yu glanced at Little White Fox, then approached at an even faster speed.
"Brother, be careful. The inside of the spaceship gives me a very dangerous feeling."
The closer they got to the spaceship, the more solemn Little White Fox's expression became. Her eyes scanned the surroundings, full of vigilance.
If not for accompanying Lu Yu, she would never approach such a place that brought her a strong sense of foreboding and crisis.
Lu Yu nodded. He, too, instinctively sensed a subtle dangerous aura from within the spaceship.
This place was definitely not simple.
However, he now only wanted to get his hands on the zi xuan crystal as quickly as possible, as long as he determined the situation around the zi xuan crystal.
The location of the zi xuan crystal was not the absolute center of the spaceship, so the danger should be much lower.
If it could be taken away with Divine Sense, he would do so.
If not, after investigating the specific situation, his main body could arrive and take the zi xuan crystal away from here at the fastest speed.
As Lu Yu quickly delved deeper with Little White Fox.
The internal scenery of the spaceship was revealed in more detail before their eyes.
The rooms, built with silver-white materials, were covered with huge screens, where various incomplete and blurred galaxy projections, as well as symbols and texts they couldn't recognize, were faintly visible.
Being in it, the illusory and the real seemed to combine, like a dream.
To Lu Yu, it felt like this was the spaceship's front cockpit, used to provide flight coordinates for the spaceship.