Wilderness: I Tame Beasts to Survive-Chapter 44 - 43: Body Enhancement
In an instant, a magnificent emerald flower bloomed, exploding like a brilliant firework. Rapidly spinning Rhombic Crystals, imbued with immense kinetic energy, pelted the Iron-toothed Giant Snake’s body like a sudden, violent storm.
THOK! THOK! THOK! THOK!
One after another, the crystals pierced the giant snake’s body, then erupted in a series of violent detonations.
The blast wave rippled outward.
By the time everyone came to their senses...
The Iron-toothed Giant Snake, so arrogant and menacing just moments before, had crashed to the ground, its body shattered into pieces of all sizes, like broken porcelain.
A grayish-white Crystal Stone fell silently onto the grass.
Yin Yi redirected her Soul Technique, and the Emerald crystals continued to fire, gunning down the remaining Tree Spirits and every Iron-toothed Snake that tried to charge.
"So beautiful..." The students in the rear, who had been ready to provide covering fire, watched in a daze, mesmerized by the dazzling Rhombic Crystals Yin Yi was firing. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
In no time, not a single living Soul Beast remained on the grass before Yin Yi.
The foul stench of snake blood stained the withered grass red, adding an eerie air to the fog-shrouded night.
Han Ning, standing at the rear, remained silent. He could feel a continuous stream of Energy flowing back into him from the invisible, intangible bond of their contract, a result of Yin Yi’s evolution.
He clenched his fists, and the muscles in his arms bulged with power.
His heart beat with a powerful and steady rhythm, pumping surging blood to every corner of his body as Power welled up from within.
All the fatigue in his body vanished.
His mind was clear and refreshed, brimming with energy.
Moreover, his Spiritual Power was also enhanced. His sharp gaze pierced through the mist, letting him see much farther than before.
[
Name: Han Ning
Race: Human
Level: Unranked (65%)
Spiritual Power—
Current Spiritual Power: 2.81
Remaining Spiritual Energy: 0.2 (1 point of Spiritual Energy equals 0.5 Spiritual Attribute Points)
]
’The mist... It seems thinner now...’
Han Ning blinked, a faint realization dawning on him.
"Ling~"
Having finished off the Soul Beasts, Yin Yi gently rustled the leaves on her back. Like a falling leaf, she gracefully floated down onto Han Ning’s shoulder, her small feet, woven from rootlets, dangling back and forth.
Lü Xiuning, drenched in blood, gaped in utter astonishment. "This... this was a one-sided slaughter. What in the world just happened? How did Han Ning’s Silver Lotus Wood suddenly get so powerful?"
Nearby, Liu Yueming dragged an injured classmate to safety. Wiping the sweat from his face, he exclaimed in awe, "A Silver Lotus Wood? It’s not even the same species anymore, is it?"
"Yin Yi... she’s right, she’s not a Silver Lotus Wood anymore. She... seems to have evolved."
Han Ning didn’t hide the evolution. Feigning confusion, he took out the Green Crystal Stone obtained from killing the Tree Spirit Boss and said, "It was this Crystal Stone. If you let a Silver Lotus Wood consume one of these energy-rich Crystal Stones, it might be able to evolve."
He stroked the petals on Yin Yi’s head, his gaze sweeping over the severely injured teachers and students groaning in pain. "Let’s get a headcount of the injured and gather them in one place."
"Right. This isn’t the time to be hung up on evolution. Saving lives is what’s important now."
Lü Xiuning and Liu Yueming immediately clapped their hands, instructing those who could still move to help the wounded.
Along with the others, Han Ning helped carry the poisoned students—some bitten by Iron-toothed Snakes, others pierced by poisonous thorns—and laid them down on a relatively flat, clean patch of grass.
Lü Xiuning’s tone was heavy as he reported the count. "One, two, three, four... A total of thirteen people are injured. Six were pierced by poisonous thorns and are badly poisoned, and seven were struck by Iron-toothed Snakes or Vine Whips... As for the Silver Lotus Woods, all twenty are damaged to some extent. Three of them... seem to be... completely dead..."
They hadn’t had time to take stock of the casualties during the battle. Only now that it was over did everyone realize just how brutal the fight had been.
As the first line of defense, the Silver Lotus Woods had suffered the most severe casualties.
"Quick! Whose Silver Lotus Wood has strong Purification? Help Zhou Yi! I don’t think he’s going to make it!"
Just then, Liu Yueming, who was bandaging wounds, suddenly yelled out, his face fraught with anxiety.
"I’ll do it."
Han Ning had just finished laying the last person down on the grass. Hearing Liu Yueming’s shout, he quickly rushed over with Yin Yi.
The student, Zhou Yi, already had a livid complexion, and his eyes were squeezed shut. A bloody hole the width of a rebar was torn in his thigh, and dark blood gushed from the wound onto the grass.
Aside from the faint rise and fall of his chest, he was little different from a corpse.
Han Ning patted Yin Yi’s body and said gravely, "Yin Yi, I’m leaving all the injured to you."
"Ling~"
Yin Yi extended two Vine Whip-like "arms." As they flew through the air, the slender green vines suddenly split into dozens of delicate tendrils, which then plunged into the wounds and bodies of both the injured people and the Silver Lotus Woods.
Immediately, a faint emerald-green light traveled along the tendrils and flowed into the bodies of the wounded.
The light shimmered over their wounds.
A faint purple smoke seeped from the livid wounds and slowly dissipated.
Within seconds, the dark, flowing blood gradually returned to a normal crimson.
The gaping wounds began to mend slowly, and the bleeding stopped.
Zhou Yi’s ghastly complexion quickly returned to normal. Though pale from blood loss, his breathing was now noticeably less labored.
However, Yin Yi was clearly not yet proficient with her new Healing Soul Technique. The most she could do was stop the bleeding and neutralize the toxins; completely healing everyone’s wounds was still a struggle.
As for the severely injured Silver Lotus Woods, she had only managed to stabilize their life-signs.
’Watching the Spiritual Energy on Yin Yi’s panel plummet, Han Ning was inwardly stunned.’
’Using Emerald Flower Thorns to kill all those Soul Beasts had only cost a point or two of Spiritual Energy.’
’But healing more than a dozen people at once was consuming it at this incredible rate.’
’It was draining her Spiritual Energy at a rate of one point per second.’
"Ling~"
With a SWISH, Yin Yi retracted her tendrils and settled back onto Han Ning’s shoulder, letting out two soft cries in his direction.
"Mm... I understand."
Han Ning could sense the meaning in Yin Yi’s cries. He nodded and said to Lü Xiuning and Liu Yueming, "She’s done all she can."
"It’s all right. As long as the poison is gone, the rest are just flesh wounds. This is all thanks to your Yin Yi, and to everyone’s Silver Lotus Woods as well. It’s a good thing they have Purification abilities. Otherwise... our losses would have been catastrophic."
Lü Xiuning let out a long sigh. His gaze swept over the injured students, and after confirming that they were out of immediate danger, he beckoned to Han Ning and Liu Yueming. Together, they walked toward the three students who were still hanging from a tree in the distance.
