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Chapter 699 The Scent of Pure Gold

The prey and pollutants offered little resistance, leading Yu Xia to speculate that the Hand Bone Flower emitted a scent that could confuse them.

She saw the scarlet threads connecting the Handbone Flower to the fungal carpet from its rhizome, and she felt that the foreign pollutants that were being preyed upon were the Handbone Flower's nutrients, actively providing it with energy.

She observed carefully and found that the handbone flowers here were much smaller than the ones she and Flock had encountered earlier. They probably did not yet have the ability to tear through space to hunt outside.

The Handbone Flowers sensed Yu Xia's spiritual power and made a puzzled "cooing" sound, which sounded rather childish compared to the adult Handbone Flowers that possessed offensive capabilities.

Yu Xia carefully bypassed them, slightly reducing her mental energy.

At this moment, the Hand Bone Flowers, after a moment of confusion, smelled the alluring scent emanating from Yu Xia. They stretched out their palms and extended their spiritual tentacles from their central heads to touch the pink dolphin swimming in the air, wanting to establish some kind of connection with Yu Xia.

Even the dormant handbone flower was awakened, and one of them stretched out a spiritual tendril.

Yu Xia swung its tail forcefully, darting past their spiritual antennae, and sped forward.

She didn't get very far before her path was blocked by the dense energy tentacles of the handbone flowers.

These mental tendrils, like a spider web, left her unable to advance or retreat.

A spiritual tendril touched her first, and then began to glow excitedly.

The moment Yu Xia was touched, it felt as if a tiny electric current surged through her body.

Her body trembled slightly, but she didn't feel any discomfort. She gritted her teeth and charged forward with her head down.

At this moment, the Hand Bone Flower in this area had already shared her spiritual energy, and its spiritual tendrils surged with immense excitement, quickly wrapping around her.

Countless fluorescent spiritual tentacles wrapped around the little dolphin, giving Yu Xia a sensation similar to, but several times stronger than, that she had felt before.

At first, she was afraid they were coming to eat her, so she struggled frantically and tried to bite off the mental tentacles with her mouth.

But she soon discovered that her mental energy was not being absorbed by them; instead, their energy was constantly flowing into her body.

The consciousness of the handbone flowers also entered her mind through their spiritual tendrils.

“It smells so good.”

"It smells so good, can I eat it?"

"No, you can't eat it, or it will be gone."

"Oh, don't run away, let us touch you more."

"Here you go, don't run away, all our energy is for you."

"Stay with us."

The voices of the handbone flowers were noisy in Yu Xia's mind. One of them seemed to have discovered something and made an extremely excited gurgling sound.

"It's gold!"

"Oh, the smell of pure gold, no wonder it smells so good."

"for you."

"Here you go! They're all yours!"

The hand-shaped flowers swayed excitedly, their palm-shaped leaves spreading wide, and their energy heads shining like high-wattage light bulbs.

At this moment, Yu Xia was like a fish caught in a fishing net, swimming slower and slower until she could no longer swim and was trapped in a shimmering white grassland formed by spiritual tendrils.

Okay, lots of energy
The hand-bone flowers forcefully poured this energy into her spiritual body, with a kind of devoted flattery, not satisfied with just touching, but wanting to have a deeper spiritual connection with her.

Yu Xia felt her willpower being melted by this energy, and slowly closed her eyes.

Let's just stay here.

Being with them, she no longer needs to worry about not having enough energy. She can grow into a towering tree, restoring the glory of gold, and everyone will bow down to its brilliance.

Yes, that's it.
Tentacles covered the little dolphin, almost completely engulfing her.

Just as the little dolphin sank completely into the fungal carpet, a gentle voice sounded in Yu Xia's ear, "Ador, you can't fall asleep yet, turn around." The little dolphin suddenly opened its eyes, and a burst of golden energy erupted from its body. The golden flower spirit body formed blades, severing all the spirit tentacles.

"Gurgle!" The hand bone flowers cried out in pain.

"Ouch, that hurts! Ouch!"

"She rejected us, ugh!"

"You can't leave! We'll give you as much energy as you need!"

"You can't leave! You have to stay with us, put down roots here, put down roots here!"

"She's disobedient; she needs to be punished!"

The little dolphin swam swiftly forward, and the golden petals severed the mental threads that were trying to entangle her again.

After rushing forward for an unknown distance, Yu Xia crashed headfirst into an invisible wall, and was bounced back and rolled several times.

"Ok?"

Yu Xia lunged forward again, only to be bounced back once more.

Why is there a wall here?
Yu Xia probed the "wall" and tried to go around it from the side.

After going around in circles, they were still blocked by the wall and couldn't move forward.

She glanced at her surroundings, which had become somewhat unfamiliar. She couldn't take any more detours; otherwise, her spiritual body would detach from her physical body.

Floch and Kraken waited silently and anxiously beside Yu Xia.

When Floch saw Yu Xia's body suddenly go limp and her forehead beaded with sweat, he tried to wake her up, but Kraken stopped him.

“Don’t stop me.” Floch revealed a golden half-ring in his hand and said in a deep voice.

Kraken glanced at him sideways, then nestled against Yu Xia's chest, preventing him from making a move.

Floch noticed that Yu Xia's complexion was rosy and her mental energy had not decreased, but rather increased.

He was taken aback for a moment, then suppressed his anger.

After a long while, Yu Xia's spirit returned to their side.

"How are you?" Floch saw Yu Xia wake up, half-hug her, and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"I'm fine," Yu Xia reassured him when she saw his worried expression.

Floch breathed a sigh of relief when he made sure she was alright.

"What happened to you?" Floch took a bottle of water out of his backpack and fed it to her lips.

Yu Xia drank some water from his hand and told him what had just happened.

"There's a wall in front of me that I can't get through, and my spirit keeps circling around it."

Floch: "Is it still that unknown power from before?"

Yu Xia shook her head. "It doesn't seem like it. It might be some kind of pollutant or a different kind of BOSS?"

At this depth, the pollutants and alien species have become abnormally strong, and the sentinels from all sides can barely push them forward.

Floch thought for a moment, “We’ve looked at all the other places. If you can’t sense them, then we need to go deeper. Otherwise, we can wait another day or two until the sentinels clear out one or two more teleportation points.”

"The sentries are nearing their limit." Yu Xia thought about what she had seen along the way and felt that waiting any longer would not be very optimistic.

"Could it be just ahead?" Yu Xia said, "Since that 'wall' can block me, it means it knows I'm looking for the Blood Nest main hive? Perhaps we can get through it."

After resting for a while, Yu Xia opened the map, not wanting to wait any longer.

Flock and Kraken exchanged a glance and then huddled together in front of Yu Xia to look at the map.

“It shouldn’t be far.” Yu Xia connected the points they had visited with lines on the projection screen. “We’ve been to all these points. Only here is there a ‘wall’ blocking our way.”