Chapter 1864 - 1865: Dense Spiritual Energy
Ye Xuan looked up at the young vampire girl who had just been trying to mediate the fight, Lina.
At this moment, Lina seemed somewhat helpless.
She was the last vampire on the scene...
As Lina noticed Ye Xuan’s gaze upon her, her small frame trembled slightly, and she simply closed her eyes.
She dared not meet Ye Xuan’s gaze.
Nor did she dare to have thoughts of resistance.
She knew all too well the hopelessness of the difference in strength between herself and Ye Xuan.
Lina felt that she was already dead.
She was kind, yes, but she wasn’t a fool.
She also understood that the treasure hunt in these Ancient Tomb Ruins would be extremely brutal. Earlier, when they had the advantage of numbers, she wanted to be kind and play by the rules.
But now, her companions were all dead, and she didn’t believe this man who could wipe out a whole bunch of vampires with one move would be merciful to her.
A world of the survival of the fittest and the law of the jungle!!
However, Lina waited for a long time but didn’t wait for the arrival of death.
Instead, she heard Ye Xuan’s non-hostile laughter: "Little beauty, are there any of your kin in these Ancient Tomb Ruins?"
Lina was stunned and suddenly opened her eyes, realizing that Ye Xuan had already come before her.
Driven by fear, Lina retreated several steps, timidly and nervously glanced at Ye Xuan, and then shook her head vigorously: "No...no more."
In fact, there were.
And there were many more.
This time, for the treasure hunt, the vampires from the Western side were quite ambitious, and to get more and better treasures, they had split into several teams, plundering through various channels. Lina’s team was just the weakest among them.
But Lina felt that Ye Xuan intended to exterminate the vampires, and with a sense of loyalty and racial spirit, she naturally couldn’t betray her kin.
Yet, how could such thoughts of a mere vampire of sixteen or seventeen be hidden from Ye Xuan’s eyes?
Ye Xuan chuckled: "Go find your kin. Be careful when you’re alone on the road."
Upon hearing this, Lina was shocked and dazed: "You... you’re not going to kill me?"
"Kill you?" Ye Xuan shook his head and laughed: "I have no grudge against you, and you don’t intend to compete with me for treasures, so why would I kill you?"
Lina took a long time to react, staring blankly at this seemingly young and ordinary man from Yan Country, as if she couldn’t quite accept that such a powerful person, to whom killing her would be but a trivial matter, had no intention of killing her!
Turns out...
Humans aren’t as cruel and evil as they say...
"What? I don’t kill you, and you’re actually unhappy with it?" While Lina was in a daze, Ye Xuan’s soft laughter rang out again.
Only then did Lina come to her senses, hurriedly bowing to Ye Xuan: "Thank you!"
Then, she turned and ran away.
But quickly ran back.
Ye Xuan looked puzzled.
Lina’s small face blushed slightly, shyly glanced at Ye Xuan twice, and weakly asked: "Can I know who you are?"
Ye Xuan was embarrassed: "Ye Xuan."
"I remember you!"
Lina seriously memorized Ye Xuan’s face and finally ran off as if escaping.
Ye Xuan couldn’t help but smile, finding this little vampire quite adorable.
"Hey handsome, your charm is off the charts, even vampires are taken with you. Haha, perhaps there could be a cross-species romance in the future?" Lou Yaoyao’s playful teasing voice sounded.
Ye Xuan snapped back to reality, speechless: "She just asked for a name, how does that translate into being infatuated? How do you know she doesn’t want to remember who I am to bring her kin for revenge afterward?"
"If she truly had such thoughts, she wouldn’t have said she had no kin in the Ancient Tomb Ruins." Lou Yaoyao smiled amiably, yet also sighed: "But to have such a girl among vampires is indeed a bit incredible!"
"Even the darkest place has light."
Ye Xuan chuckled and then looked at Chi Lian and others: "Collect the remaining sheepskin scrolls, we need to keep going."
The immediate priority was the Sky Mountain Blood Lotus, so Ye Xuan wasn’t in a hurry to individually examine the contents of the remaining sheepskin scrolls.
The group gathered the remaining scrolls in the secret chamber, then walked out, continuing their journey to pursue the Sky Mountain Blood Lotus.
Lou Yaoyao stuck to Ye Xuan like a persistent glue, but compared to before, she seemed less troublesome.
From time to time, she glanced at Ye Xuan, her beautiful eyes like stars containing a trace of curiosity and complexity.
She was still thinking about what had just happened.
If Ye Xuan were replaced by Lou Xinyu, that little vampire might not have been so lucky.
Lou Xinyu would certainly have killed her.
Because, in his eyes, human life is no more valuable than grass, and killing effortlessly would not bother him at all, nor would he feel even slightly that it’s inappropriate.
But Ye Xuan was different.
He hadn’t thought of indiscriminate killing!
Human nature is often dark, someone like Ye Xuan, a peerless prodigy, should naturally be like Lou Xinyu, but he wasn’t.
"He has a kind heart, yet kindness doesn’t bring tranquility."
Lou Yaoyao sighed silently in her heart, as if she had come to understand Ye Xuan anew.
...
The Ancient Tomb Ruins were much larger than Ye Xuan and his group had imagined, a lot larger.
About three miles further, the Li Gate channel still hadn’t reached its end!
During this time, Ye Xuan and others found several secret chambers attached near the channel, each containing rare treasures, except they were all too large, and Ye Xuan decided to leave them behind.
These treasures were indeed priceless, but Ye Xuan’s journey wasn’t for wealth.
Moreover, now it seems he no longer lacks wealth...
"It looks like there’s at least half the road left to the end of this Li Gate channel." Ye Xuan paused his steps, his brows lightly furrowed: "And also, there seems to be something unusual about this place."
Indeed, once they reached this point, Ye Xuan began to faintly realize that the environment of the channel here seemed somewhat different from what they had passed earlier.
Lou Yaoyao also lightly furrowed her brows, her face slightly grave: "The Spiritual Energy here is at least a hundred times more abundant than outside!"
Ye Xuan raised his brows.
Yes, it’s Spiritual Energy!
The channel itself hadn’t changed much, the only difference was that the air here was now filled with the extremely scarce and precious Spiritual Energy in the current world, gradually permeating the entire channel.
Immensely abundant!
"Ye Xuan..."
From behind, suddenly came Ye Xiaoying’s somewhat somber call.
Ye Xuan raised his brows and quickly turned around, only to see Ye Xiaoying’s face flushed, her brows furrowed, and her expression grave, as if her body was experiencing an anomaly.
Ye Xiaoying bit her white teeth and pulled at the corners of her mouth, saying in a deep voice: "I... I seem to see a lot of the Spiritual Energy you mentioned and my body really wants to absorb them!"