Chapter 251: The Advantages Of A Mixed Spiritual Root!
Next, Qu Suxin personally escorted him back to Golden Chicken Village.
When they arrived at the villa, Lu Li discovered that the entire villa was unexpectedly empty.
“Strange, where did everyone go?” Lu Li wondered puzzledly in his heart.
Qu Suxin smiled and teased, “They were probably taken into a secret realm by Yao Yifei, so your worry was all for nothing.”
“No wonder my calls wouldn’t go through. Even if the North American Alliance’s signal stations weren’t damaged, they probably couldn’t receive my calls anyway.” Lu Li also said with a smile.
Yao Yifei and the others hiding in a secret realm was a good thing. Although this time it was a close call but no real danger, one could never rule out that one-in-a-million risk.
“I’ll head back first. Contact me directly if anything comes up.” After Qu Suxin finished speaking, she left impatiently.
After Qu Suxin left, the impatient Tropius proactively emerged from its Poké Ball.
“Trop~”
（I want to go check on my orchard.）
Lu Li: “…”
Lu Li really wanted to say that it was his orchard.
But considering that what Tropius had was his own, Lu Li nodded: “Go ahead. Although the Death Tide didn’t affect this area, we still have an evil god right by our side.”
After Tropius flapped its huge wings and left, Milotic also eagerly burst out of its Poké Ball.
Over these three days, Milotic and the others had actually been living quite suppressed. After all, life in the super large secret realm had indeed been nerve-wracking.
“This time the gains were pretty good. If nothing unexpected happens, your strength should enter another explosive growth period.” Lu Li smiled encouragingly.
“Fire~”
（Really, fake?）
“Really!”
Lu Li rolled his eyes at Charmander and tapped its little head.
“How about it? Have you regained control of your flame?” Lu Li asked.
Charmander, covering its little head with its small paws, looked full of grievance.
Don’t you know you can’t hit the head of a noble male Pokémon!
“Fire~”
（Trainer, you’re done for!）
Emboldened by its mischief, Charmander pounced onto Lu Li and bit his shoulder.
Charmander didn’t bite too hard, and Lu Li didn’t even feel any pain.
The playful Charmander had recently been learning Bite, and in these daily interactions, Charmander could already control Bite freely.
Lu Li was also happy to interact with Charmander in this way.
Beldum circled around Lu Li excitedly, its face full of agitation.
Milotic stood by at a higher level, with a very helpless expression, watching the playful Charmander and Lu Li.
The honest and simple Onix had an auntie smile on its face, chuckling happily as it watched the interaction between the human and Pokémon.
Seeing this, Starry Sprite quickly jumped into Lu Li’s arms, then delivered a “rabbit kick” that sent the Charmander on Lu Li’s body flying.
After landing, Charmander was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage and charged at Starry Sprite.
Starry Sprite nimbly jumped to the ground and started a chase game with Charmander in the yard.
Charmander, with only its short little legs, clearly couldn’t catch up to Starry Sprite, especially since Starry Sprite was an elite level Pokémon with psychic power and dark attribute.
Throughout, it was Starry Sprite toying with Charmander.
Seeing the final scene, Lu Li was also full of relief.
Starry Sprite had overcome its psychological trauma and fully integrated into this big family.
Charmander appeared hot-tempered and carefree, but actually had a delicate heart.
Such a group of “family members” was actually pretty good, and peaceful years were pretty good too.
“Play hard today. These past few days in the secret realm were nerve-wracking.” Lu Li clapped his hands and announced.
By evening, Lu Li’s phone rang.
Seeing Yu Lili on the caller ID, Lu Li wasn’t surprised.
“Hey, Lili, is everything okay on your end?” After answering, Lu Li asked with concern.
Yu Lili asked rapidly, “I’m fine. Did you know about the Death Tide? And were you scared?”
Lu Li: “…”
Lu Li really wanted to share his exciting adventure over the past three days, but considering it might bring unnecessary risks to Qu Suxin, he ultimately comforted her helplessly.
“I’m an elite level trainer, I’ve had professional training, and I won’t get scared.” Lu Li said with a straight face, guaranteeing it.
“Your courage is really something.” Yu Lili stuck out her tongue on the other end of the phone, her pretty face showing a bit of worship.
After all, that was a world-ending crisis, a terrifying event that nearly ushered in a new era.
Yu Lili said, “When we got the news of the Death Tide, even my teacher lost control of her expressions from fear.”
“Fortunately it was a close call but no real danger, and the Death Tide didn’t affect the Asian Alliance.” Yu Lili’s tone was full of relief.
Death had brushed past them, and even after it was over, Yu Lili still felt lingering fear.
“As long as you’re okay, I still need to call my mom and them. Bye for now.”
After Yu Lili finished, she hung up.
“This little girl.” Lu Li chuckled inwardly.
Normally, shouldn’t she call home first?
Not long after, the phone rang again.
This time it was Ekaterina.
Lu Li helplessly answered the call.
Ten minutes later, just after hanging up, Lu Li heard footsteps at the doorway.
“The villa lights are on, big brother must be back!” Hearing Bao Bao’s voice outside, Lu Li let out a heavy sigh of relief.
Although he already knew they had hidden in a secret realm, he still felt some worry in his heart.
With a whoosh, Bao Bao excitedly jumped into Lu Li’s arms: “Big brother!”
Lu Li amusingly held Bao Bao.
Perhaps because psychic power was too terrifying and affected her mind, Lu Li noticed Bao Bao’s behavior was quite childish.
“This might be the so-called pure heart.” Lu Li thought to himself.
At that moment, a resentful voice came from the doorway: “You not answering calls really scared your big sis.”
Hearing Yao Yifei speak in such a tone for the first time, Lu Li felt a bit unaccustomed.
“The Death Tide started in the North American Alliance, their signal stations were all destroyed, so it was normal you couldn’t reach me. By the time I got back, you all had entered the secret realm, and I couldn’t contact you either.” Lu Li hurriedly explained why he hadn’t answered calls.
Hearing this, Yao Yifei was puzzled: “The Death Tide originated from the North American Alliance? According to historical records, Yveltal’s last appearance shouldn’t have been in the African Alliance?”
Lu Li spread his hands, indicating he also didn’t know why Yveltal appeared in the North American Alliance.
After all, it couldn’t be that the North American Alliance had invited it, right? That would take a special kind of folly.
“As long as you’re okay.” Yao Yifei said relievedly.
“Not just okay, the gains this time were pretty good.” Talking about his gains, Lu Li was full of energy.
No way around it, the gains this time were just too good.
If Xerneas hadn’t been so petty, the gains might have been even better.
Eternal life!
For a cultivator, brushing past eternal life could even breed heart demons in the cultivation world.
Yao Yifei didn’t care about Lu Li’s gains; what mattered was that Lu Li had returned safely.
“When I got the notice, I took Wei and the others into Qingfeng City’s secret realm.” Yao Yifei explained.
“Thanks for your hard work. Good thing you were here.” Lu Li said gratefully.
Yao Yifei shook her head: “It was nothing. Whether the results were there or not, they wouldn’t have been in danger.”
Because they hadn’t seen each other for three days, plus nearly experiencing life and death separation, once gathered, it was like they had endless words to say.
Just chatting in the living room, they talked until ten at night.
After a good night’s sleep, Lu Li eagerly opened his phone the next morning.
Hmm!
No other purpose, just wanted to see some amusement.
Opening international news, the first thing that caught his eye was a big red headline.
North American Alliance hit by Death Tide!
Regions around the world dispatched rescue teams to the North American Alliance for international rescue!
Lu Li quickly scrolled through the news, seeing only ordinary reports, not even any insider info.
“The reporters on this event aren’t up to much.” Lu Li pursed his lips and put away his phone.
Kyushu University had a three-day enrollment period.
Lu Li decided to go on the last day, and spend these two days at home digesting his gains from the Green Heart Secret Realm.
Lu Li first took out the Revival Grass he had plucked from the Divine Realm from his space ring.
Revival Grass was an extremely delicate medicinal herb, and particularly hard to propagate.
But these weren’t big issues for Lu Li.
Arriving at the medicine garden, Lu Li carefully transplanted the Revival Grass into the herb field.
The planting difficulty of Revival Grass was equivalent to a second-order spirit medicine in the cultivation world.
Tropius’s professional level was equivalent to a level one spirit farmer, meaning Tropius alone couldn’t grow Revival Grass well.
But this wasn’t a problem for Lu Li.
The key to Revival Grass was life energy, and the technique to concentrate life energy.
Thanks to Xerneas, his research in life energy had advanced by leaps and bounds.
Endless Vitality.
Lu Li formed hand seals, and his body’s spiritual energy was instantly depleted.
Endless Vitality was equivalent to a fifth-order spirit farmer spell in the cultivation world; its effect was to gather life spiritual energy, keeping spirit plants in a state of full vitality.
The downside was that Endless Vitality’s continuous effect lasted only one week, and it consumed a massive amount of spiritual energy.
Massive to what degree?
Lu Li’s spiritual energy had just been instantly drained empty.
Due to his eighteen-lineage mixed spiritual root, Lu Li’s spiritual energy reserves far exceeded Qi Refining Layer One.
The difference between mixed spiritual root and pure spiritual root was essentially quantity versus quality.
Mixed spiritual root absorbed chaotic spiritual energy, but in large quantities. However, due to insufficient purity, breakthroughs were extremely difficult, and quality was far below pure spiritual root.
Pure spiritual root absorbed singular spiritual energy, but with high purity and quality. Though less in quantity than mixed spiritual root, the difference was like iron versus paper.
In spell battles, mixed spiritual root was almost crushed by pure spiritual root.
However, mixed spiritual root had an advantage: most auxiliary professions in the cultivation world didn’t require high spiritual energy quality.
For farming, mixed spiritual root actually had more advantage than pure spiritual root.
But in a power is supreme world, farmers were just grass-eaters.
Ancestors’ experience told us: endure hardship and you’ll have endless hardship for life; to be above others, you must devour others.
The biggest advantage of the 18-lineage mixed spiritual root was that his spiritual energy was 18 times that of pure spiritual root! Unfortunately, spiritual energy didn’t undergo qualitative change from quantity.
With spiritual energy depleted, the physical body lost its nourishment and would weaken, but a superhuman weakened was still stronger than an ordinary person.
“Sigh~”
Lu Li stood up and sighed.
He didn’t know when he could breakthrough again.
“Revival Grass?”
Yao Yifei’s surprised voice came from behind Lu Li.
Lu Li nodded: “This is one of my gains from it.”
“Are you sure you can grow it?” Yao Yifei asked.
Lu Li smiled and teased: “I thought you already trusted my skills.”
“True, you even managed to grow the Precious Flower, so Revival Grass is naturally no problem.” Yao Yifei smiled and admitted.
Yao Yifei curiously looked at the Revival Grass in the herb field, then asked: “Is Revival Grass really as miraculous as the rumors say? No matter how severe the injury, one Revival Grass makes them lively again.”
Lu Li nodded, then explained: “Revival Grass can indeed restore a near-death Pokémon to peak condition, but it replenishes life origin, not energy origin.”
Yao Yifei nodded: “That’s normal. If it could even restore energy origin, Revival Grass would be too terrifying.”
“Moreover, Pokémon using Revival Grass endure immense pain during recovery, pain from the life origin, even from the soul. If the bond isn’t strong enough, it might even drop intimacy.” Lu Li added.
Revival Grass was indeed miraculous, but not as exaggerated as imagined. Still, it could truly be called a divine medicine.
“I remember Revival Grass is quite precious. How do you have so many?” Yao Yifei looked puzzled at Lu Li.
Hearing this, Lu Li’s mouth twitched slightly. Thinking of that nearly collapsing secret realm, he felt a pang of heartache.
Revival Grass precious?
That’s because you haven’t seen Revival Grass growing like weeds.
Before entering the Divine Realm, Lu Li had thought the same as Yao Yifei, that it was precious.
But now, Lu Li just scoffed.
No wonder the Life God Cult spent their lives pursuing the God of Life’s footsteps. Without cheats, he’d be happy to join such a pilgrimage.
Yao Yifei asked: “Isn’t school starting for you today? Why haven’t you gone to register?”
Hearing this, Lu Li finally remembered something very important.
According to guardian rules, his cooperation with Yao Yifei would end after enrollment.
“You want to leave?” Lu Li asked, pretending nonchalance.
“I’m just eager to report to the alliance. Work is work, life is life. Even after work ends, I still have to live here.” Yao Yifei said seriously.
Hearing this, Lu Li also breathed a sigh of relief.
Unlike Lili and Ekaterina, he truly didn’t want Yao Yifei to leave.
In an extremely good mood, Lu Li’s mouth curved up slightly: “I’ll register the day after tomorrow.”
“I’ll take you then. I’m quite familiar with Kyushu University. Strictly speaking, you should call me senior schoolmate.” Yao Yifei smiled and teased back.
