Chapter 92: Yu Lei’s Talent

Yuyan found several unknown spirit vines.

These spirit vines had been obtained from a C-grade instance. Aside from being tough and hard to break, they had no especially remarkable qualities. Yuyan had gathered some with the thought that they might prove useful someday, and now they happened to be perfect for making a hammock.

In no time at all, she wove a vine net between the branches of four towering trees, each more than a hundred feet above the ground.

Then she spread three thick quilts across it, and a temporary resting place was ready.

Everyone, especially Lou Yuhui and the others, who had kept themselves tense ever since entering the instance, collapsed in a most undignified heap upon the vine net. Lou Yuhui coiled his soft sword back around his waist and rolled comfortably about on the hammock. “Damn it all, I’m going to sleep until the world ends!”

“Don’t any of you dare disturb me.”

The amount of exertion he had had today was nearly equal to several days of his usual activity.

Especially after Yu Wan had fallen unconscious, carrying one person while fleeing and still having to beat back the iron porcupine beasts and corpse worms along the way had left Lou Yuhui utterly exhausted.

Yuyan smiled with her lips pressed together and tossed him a piece of roasted spirit beast meat. “Eat something before you sleep and recover your strength.”

“I want some too!”

A whole group of people’s eyes lit up. Forgetting their fatigue, they sprang up and crowded around Yuyan.

They were all people who knew good things when they saw them. The rich spiritual energy contained in that spirit beast meat was obvious from the scent alone; it was clearly of a much higher grade than split-tooth tiger meat. How could such a fine thing be left for Lou Yuhui alone to enjoy?

Naturally, Yuyan would not favor one over the others, but she did not distribute the meat herself.

Instead, she handed the remaining five portions to Yu Lei. “Xiaolei, take them over there to eat. I’m going to check on Xiaowan’s condition.”

The others tactfully stepped away and even turned their backs.

Only then did Yuyan set Yu Wan down from her back.

In truth, the moment she had taken Yu Wan from Lou Yuhui, Yuyan had already stuffed a piece of seventh-grade vermilion fruit flesh into her mouth.

Yu Wan’s wounds had also been cleaned and bandaged fairly well by Yu Lei and the others. By rights, after so much time, she should have woken long ago. Yet for some reason, she remained unconscious.

Perhaps her physical strength and mental energy had been depleted too heavily.

Or perhaps... Yuyan frowned.

If it was the latter, that would be somewhat troublesome.

Still, Yuyan was not especially worried. After eating the vermilion fruit flesh, Yu Wan’s breathing had basically stabilized. It no longer flickered faintly, as though it might vanish at any moment. If worst came to worst, once they left the instance, she would find some excuse to release Little Cloud.

Little Cloud’s healing light纹 had, after reaching the fourth rank, gained a certain degree of antidote effect, and its wound-healing abilities were even more superb.

She should be able to save Yu Wan without issue.

After carefully examining Yu Wan’s body from head to toe, Yuyan finally felt a weight lift from her heart.

The only injuries were the two wounds to the chest and back, and they had caused excessive blood loss.

Besides being rich in spiritual energy, vermilion fruit was also a sacred remedy for restoring blood, making it perfectly suited to the case.

There was no poisoning and no missing soul. Truly, this was fortune amid misfortune.

Yuyan was not a doctor, and plant spirits were even less suited to healing. After doing all that, she could not help Yu Wan much further and could only wait for her to wake on her own. Seeing that Yu Lei and the others had finished dividing the spirit beast meat, she beckoned to him. “Xiaolei, come tell me about what’s been happening at home.”

“How are Dad and Mom? Are they still fighting every day like before?”

When she asked that, Yuyan felt a little uneasy.

Last time, Yu Zhiqian had said that Dad had been injured, and she did not know whether he had recovered by now. As for Mom, not having been injured ten days ago did not mean she was still fine now. As for Yu Lei and Yu Wan being by her side, there was no need to ask about them.

“They’re... fine. Mm, just the same as always!” Yu Lei said after managing to chew through the spirit beast meat in his mouth and swallow it down. Finally free to speak, he added, “Mom’s as loud as ever. When she’s got nothing else to do, she sits at the door and curses Dad. Dad’s still the same as before, hiding at home and not coming out.”

“If Aunt Zhao is at home, she leans against the doorframe and argues back with Mom.”

“I also tried to persuade Mom to move somewhere else. Anyway, now that the instance world has descended, a lot of people in our village have died, and plenty of houses are empty. No one cares how you live. Why must she insist on living opposite Dad and getting angry with herself every day?”

“But Mom wouldn’t agree. She said why should she be the one to move? If anyone’s leaving, it should be Dad.”

Yuyan: “...”

As expected.

She really could not expect too much from that unreliable pair of parents. The instance world had already descended, and yet they were still bickering over the tiniest petty matters every day. Thinking of having to face her mother soon, Yuyan’s head began to ache out of habit.

Still, no matter what, the fact that both Mom and Dad were alive was a good thing.

Yuyan pushed those troublesome parents out of her mind. Though they were mostly unreliable, they had at least done one dependable thing: given her a pair of sensible and adorable twin younger siblings.

“Xiaolei, eat this.”

Yu Lei glanced at what Yuyan handed him. It was suffused with violet mist, crystal clear, and within it lightning seemed to flash.

Dimly, a miniature bird-like creature could be seen, lively and full of spirit.

Without asking a single question, Yu Lei swallowed it at once.

Hm?

Why did it hurt so much?

Yu Lei stared blankly at Yuyan. That made no sense. His eldest sister could not possibly harm him!

Harming him, of course, was impossible. What Yuyan had given him was a sixth-rank Lightning Roc blood crystal. In truth, Yuyan still had several earth-grade spirit veins in her spatial storage, but none of them were especially suitable for Yu Lei to absorb and refine. After traveling with him all this way, Yuyan had discovered that he possessed an innate intuition.

It should be a spiritual-type talent.

Whenever danger arose, it allowed him to react faster and more swiftly than others.

Spiritual type was the rarest category among spirit veins.

Yuyan had collected so many plant spirits and blood crystals, and even had a few low-grade mineral spirits and elemental spirits, yet she had never managed to obtain a spiritual-type one. On the rare occasions she encountered spiritual-type monsters, the low-grade ones would leave nothing behind when killed.

The high-grade ones, on the other hand, loved to self-detonate!

As if there were something wrong with their brains, and they were unworthy of dying unless they blew themselves up one last time before death.

Yu Lei’s spiritual talent was precious beyond measure, and Yuyan did not want to waste it.

After thinking it over, the Lightning Roc was the only thing even remotely connected to spiritual power, since its species had the innate ability to foresee danger. Although all its offensive skills were thunder-based, who knew? If combined with Yu Lei’s own talent, perhaps it might awaken a bloodline skill related to spiritual power.

Even if it did not, the Lightning Roc’s bloodline was still excellent.

Its thunder-based attacks were devastatingly powerful, and it had an extraordinary instinct for danger.

Whether in survivability or lethality, it was among the very best of spirit veins.

As for rank, that was merely one possible measure of future potential. It did not mean that someone who absorbed and refined a sixth-rank spirit vein would be limited to sixth rank forever; at most, advancement would be somewhat more difficult.

Given all that, the Lightning Roc was unquestionably Yu Lei’s best choice.

Yu Lei quickly felt the benefits as well.

As the energy within the Lightning Roc blood crystal dissolved, it began cleansing his marrow and refining his essence. After the searing pain came an incomparable sense of comfort, as if every cell in his body had been fully opened and had begun breathing the scattered thunder energy and unknown energies in the air.

Yu Lei seemed utterly transformed, as though reborn.

He had spent the whole day being hunted in the instance, leading the others in a panicked flight and hiding everywhere, his nerves frayed countless times.

He also had several wounds of varying severity on his body.

Yet at this moment, not only had all his wounds healed, but his nearly exhausted physical strength and spirit actually felt instantly restored to full.

What kind of treasure was this? Yu Lei looked at Yuyan in alarm and uncertainty.

“Big sister, with something this good, why aren’t you refining and absorbing it yourself?”