Chapter 109 - 106: The Role of the Spirit Gathering Lotus

After Er Gou regained consciousness, he was bewildered to find himself in a world filled with light."Howl? Isn’t this the Spirit Beast Space? Could it be that I didn’t die?"

"You dumb dog, you’re a Spirit Beast, how could you die? Even if you did, your soul would be attached to me. As long as I don’t let you die, you won’t be able to, even if you wanted to."

Almost forgot.

This dog is immortal.

No matter how reckless, he won’t truly die!

When the husky jumped out of the Spirit Beast Space, he found himself back in the open area where he had just been, the dog’s corpse in the underground river ahead had disappeared, and the corpses of over a dozen Black-striped Crocodiles were strewn across the shore.

The boss was standing in the center of this pile of corpses.

In his right hand, he held a blood-dripping knife, and in his left, a golden lotus flower.

Er Gou could clearly smell that this golden lotus flower was a rare treasure, and immediately widened his husky eyes to curiously ask, "Boss, boss, is this the treasure you found? What’s it used for, can it be eaten?"

The husky was back to being lively.

You couldn’t tell he had just died once.

Theoretically, a Spirit Beast won’t completely die; if it dies in the Spirit Realm, it will revive directly in the Spirit Beast Space. If it dies in the real world, its soul will return to the Spirit Beast Space, where the owner can manually resurrect it by consuming Crystal Stones.

The former death results in a loss of the spirit beast’s Spiritual Qi.

The latter death results in a loss of the owner’s Crystal Stones.

Luckily, Er Gou was only level 1, and Hang Yu resurrected him for only five White Crystal Stones. This would be a lot for regular people, but for Hang Yu, it’s nothing.

Hang Yu glanced again at the golden lotus flower in his hand.

This could be said to be the greatest gain of this trip.

"This is a Spirit-Gathering Golden Lotus, not meant to be eaten. Its ability, as the name implies, is to gather Spiritual Qi."

Can’t eat it?

Then it’s not interesting!

Er Gou was obviously a little disappointed.

The silly dog didn’t have much knowledge and surely didn’t understand its preciousness.

The Spirit-Gathering Lotus can be effective both in the Spirit Realm and the real world; in the early stages, it can provide significant advantage and growth!

In the Spirit Realm, when this golden lotus manifests its effect, it’s similar to a XP Potion, giving about a 10% boost in Spiritual Qi.

One should know that special items that can enhance Spiritual Qi are very rare, even in the Spirit Realm. However, at this current stage, the effect of the Spirit-Gathering Golden Lotus in the Spirit Realm is far less than a tenth of its effect in the real world.

The Spirit-Gathering Lotus can automatically extract Spiritual Energy from the bodies of monsters in the real world!

Through the conversion of the Spirit-Gathering Lotus, Spiritual Energy directly turns into Spiritual Qi!

What does that mean?

Does it need explaining?

It means that Hang Yu can gain Spiritual Qi by killing monsters in the real world!

No, Hang Yu doesn’t even need to kill monsters; he just needs to find a hunting spot, like a plaza full of Spirit Realm Mountain Chickens, bring a small bench, and sit quietly reading novels or playing games.

Other people would be frantically hunting Spirit Realm Mountain Chickens, never realizing they were unwittingly working for Hang Yu.

And it’s the kind of work you don’t get paid for.

Once there’s a Mountain Chicken Monster killed nearby, Spiritual Energy will be continuously drawn and flow into the Spirit-Gathering Golden Lotus, finally turning into Spiritual Qi, which Hang Yu absorbs slowly.

Hang Yu had just killed over a dozen Black-striped Crocodiles.

He used the Spirit-Gathering Golden Lotus to absorb for five minutes; the Black-striped Crocodiles’ Spiritual Energy was exhausted, and Hang Yu absorbed 4 points of Spiritual Qi through the lotus. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but they were just regular monsters, and there weren’t that many of them!

People want to acquire Spiritual Qi in the real world.

The only current method is consumption.

Hang Yu, with the Spirit-Gathering Lotus, has an additional method to obtain Spiritual Qi apart from everyone else. Its significance is nothing short of game-breaking.

Imagine, inside and outside the city, there are millions of monsters.

Hang Yu just needs to dabble in an intense battle area, or even do nothing, and he can absorb a large amount of Spiritual Qi, virtually effortlessly, without anyone noticing.

Of course, hunters might find it frustrating when they realize the quality of the materials they’ve gathered is significantly reduced, though they’d be hard-pressed to figure out why.

All this Spiritual Qi will become a tremendous advantage.

Allowing him to grow quickly in the real world as well.

Apart from the very precious Spirit-Gathering Lotus, he also acquired six seeds, one lotus leaf, one segment of lotus root, and some remnants of the lotus plant.

These are all good things.

Makes it feel like the trip was worthwhile!

Hang Yu knew that on his own, he wouldn’t have found this place, let alone discovered the Spirit-Gathering Golden Lotus, thanks to this seemingly silly husky that allowed him such a fortuitous encounter in the labyrinth’s complex layout.

Er Gou’s earlier performance made people reevaluate him.

It must be said that this dog is more useful than imagined.

Rewarding merit and punishing fault is a basic principle.

The Spiritual Qi seeds are intended for his own use, and it’s impossible to give them to the dog to eat.

Since the dog likes to eat so much, might as well reward him with the lotus root and the remnants of the Spirit-Gathering Golden Lotus.

The Spirit-Gathering Lotus Root is a top-grade food material.

With a Spiritual Energy content of eighty points.

However, Spiritual Energy can’t be directly absorbed by the human body unless the food is processed using Spirit Chef techniques... but the issue is that the grade of the Spirit-Gathering Lotus Root is too high. Given the current capacity of human Spirit Chefs, it’s challenging to cook it properly, likely resulting in waste.

Rather than that.

Better to give it to Er Gou.

Er Gou’s talent "Enhanced Absorption" isn’t just for show.

Even if it’s not a food material, as long as it contains Spiritual Energy, Er Gou can swallow it whole, and it can convert into some Spiritual Qi.

For this reason.

Hang Yu also gave Er Gou the remnants of the Spirit-Gathering Golden Lotus.

These remnants are garbage to Hang Yu, but as an Overlord Level and above item that exhausted its Spiritual Energy, it still holds great value for a Spirit Beast and can promote its evolution.

"Howl, boss, is all this really for me?"

The Erha Spirit seemed somewhat incredulous.

To him, the barely edible lotus plant remnants had great allure, and the Spirit-Gathering Lotus Root, which smelled delicious, was even better?

"You earned it this time, they’re your reward. Keep it up, and find more treasures in the future." Hang Yu patted the husky’s head. "Eat up, once you’re done, we’ll be on our way back."

The boss is generous and righteous.

As long as there’s meat to eat, he’ll make sure you have bones to gnaw.

And indeed, that’s the case; the meat was all eaten by Hang Yu, and Er Gou was left with the bones.

The Spirit Qi seeds, Spirit-Gathering Leaf, and Spirit-Gathering Lotus acquired by Hang Yu were superior to the broken lotus plant and lotus root by an immeasurable amount, but the dog was still very content. To him, this was the best reward.

Without further ado.

Crunch, crunch.

The dog devoured the lotus root.

He immediately provided a review after eating.

"Howl, it’s so delicious, it melts in your mouth, even the Ginseng Fruit is just so-so."

"This dry Withered Lotus doesn’t look much, but once in the stomach, it makes my whole body feel warm, as if it’s about to catch fire."

During this, Hang Yu swallowed a Spirit Qi seed, too.

Now he had about 170 points of Spiritual Qi in his body, and if he could digest the four Spirit Qi seeds, he’d reach 330 points of Spiritual Qi, just a short distance from the 500 points needed to level up.

However, Hang Yu didn’t plan to level up so quickly.

Because if nothing goes wrong, the next time he enters the Spirit Realm, he’ll be able to get an Eagle Eye Skill Stone from Wang Cong, thus completing a full set of Inheritance Skills.

Having only three skills.

He still couldn’t obtain the corresponding inheritance.

Hang Yu needed to upgrade all three skills to full level first.

Generally, the full level for low-level skills is level 3.

Obviously, this requires investing quite a bit of Spiritual Qi.

Fortunately, low-level Inheritance Skills are different from production-type skills.

Increasing production-type skills is difficult; take Hang Yu’s low-level Collection Skill, for instance. To get from level 1 to level 2, it requires not just 1000 proficiency but also 300 Spiritual Qi.

Low-level Inheritance Skills don’t require as much Spiritual Qi.

Hang Yu opened his skills information to check the situation.

[Throwing]: Skill Level 1, Spiritual Qi (0/30), Proficiency (200/200).

[Stealth Skill]: Skill Level 1, Spiritual Qi (0/80), Proficiency (300/300).

Stealth Skill is a core skill within the inheritance.

Therefore, it demands relatively more Spiritual Qi for upgrading.

To fully upgrade Throwing, it requires 30 and 50 points of Spiritual Qi, respectively.

To fully upgrade Stealth, it requires 80 and 140 points of Spiritual Qi, respectively.

This totals the consumption of 300 points of Spiritual Qi.

After Hang Yu digests the Spirit Qi seeds, he can meet the upgrade requirements. If he can fully upgrade these two skills, his strength will see a significant boost!