Chapter 29: Yan Yang Mother Spirit Stone
No other members of the Chen clan participated in this landing. Only Chen Xuanlin and Chen Gan'er were involved in dealing with the people from Tingquan Island, resulting in virtually no casualties among the Sanyin Chen clan.
Furthermore, Liu Miao was surprisingly trustworthy, not only providing the promised spirit stones but also a large number of crops and seeds. Many of these crops were unprecedented for the Chen clan, making them extremely valuable resources for the Chen clan.
Therefore, Chen Qiuluo, who was counting the harvest, was naturally delighted.
Overall, Sanyin Island had a bountiful harvest. Chen Xuanlin
smiled and said,
"Those fruits and vegetables will only satisfy a momentary craving. The seeds are far more valuable; they will provide a future food security. We need to plant them quickly."
Chen Gan'er untied the storage gourd from his waist and handed it to Chen Xuanlin.
Chen Xuanlin took it, glanced at it, and took out all the fire spirit stones from the gourd. He handed them to Chen Ganer and said,
"You are now the pillar of the clan. You must strengthen your strength as soon as possible. I will give you all the fire spirit energy. Keep the other spirit stones for when someone else in the clan is able to practice."
Chen Gan'er nodded without refusing. After accepting the spirit stone, he said,
"Brother, Liu Miao once reminded me that the spirit spring spirit stone must be placed in the spring water as soon as possible. Otherwise, if it's left without water for too long, its spiritual energy will dissipate and turn into ordinary stone."
Chen Xuanlin nodded and said,
"It's too late now. Let's go and place the spirit spring spirit stone tomorrow morning."
The next day, Chen Xuanlin and Chen Gan'er arrived at a spring on Sanyin Island. The spring was nestled among a pile of rocks, far from Chenjia Village, where the Chen clan lived. On a normal day, the Chen clan rarely came here to fetch water.
Although the spring's flow was small, its remoteness and tranquility were its advantage.
Chen Gan'er took the storage gourd and brushed his finger across the rim. A flash of white light floated, and the white spirit stone landed in the spring.
The white spirit stone took root upon landing, clinging to the rocks beside the spring.
Suddenly, every time water emerged from the spring, a wisp of white mist was carried out.
As a cultivator, Chen Gan'er could naturally sense a faint trace of spiritual energy within the mist.
However, this trace of spiritual energy was extremely weak, far from sufficient for cultivation.
A trace of regret crossed Chen Gan'er's face.
"It's a pity that the spiritual energy produced by this spiritual spring is too thin, and it's water-based, so it can't support our cultivation. Unfortunately, Liu Miao was acting rather strangely at the time, and we were too hesitant to seize the spiritual spring."
However, Chen Xuanlin took it easy, saying,
"Gan'er, don't worry. This is an unprecedented breakthrough for Sanyin Island. Our Sanyin Island is an island with spiritual energy, no longer a place devoid of spiritual energy."
After collecting the gourd, Chen Xuanlin waved his sleeves and smiled. "The island's spiritual energy will nourish its vegetation and bring more vitality. Isn't that a good thing? Furthermore, protecting ourselves when we approach the shore is paramount. If we both perish, Sanyin Island will become a prey to be slaughtered."
"We might encounter a spiritual spring island again in the future. We should strengthen our strength now so we can seize it when the time comes."
Chen Gan'er sighed.
"I was greedy, but Liu Miao has kept his promise."
Chen Xuanlin said,
"Whether he was influenced by the presence behind the wooden sign or it was his own will, we should be grateful to him." "
By the way, we must plant those fruit and vegetable seeds as soon as possible. Our island now has spiritual energy nourishing it, and with the protection of the Lord of Sacrifices, we won't suffer the same harvest failures as in previous years."
After the two left, Chen Xuanlin mobilized the land further back from the hill on Sanyin Island to be reclaimed and planted with fruit and vegetable seeds from Tingquan Island. This land was
to be monitored daily.
...
Being Monday the Chen family's spiritual worship day, he naturally eavesdropped on the entire conversation between Chen Xuanlin and Chen Gan'er.
It couldn't be called eavesdropping. After all, on Sanyin Island, Zhou Yi had a God's-eye view.
He could freely observe every corner of the island and hear every sound. This was considered legitimate.
While the landing had successfully resisted the invasion of Tingquan Island and yielded a fruitful harvest, Zhou Yi's contribution wasn't significant.
Previously, he had merely fulfilled Chen Xuanlin's prayers, granting the two men a ring of faith that protected them from some attacks during their battle, and cooperating with Chen Xuanlin to scare off Liu Shixing.
This action alone had consumed a significant portion of Zhou Yi's faith, but ultimately, it was merely a supporting role.
Zhou Yi had no inclination to spy or eavesdrop. After becoming a sacrificial spirit, he had come to view himself as another life form.
A life form that fed on human faith, he naturally lost the worldly desires of his former self.
More than those desires, he now desired to understand the gray fog, the terrifying beings within it, and how he had come to this world.
What exactly is going on in this strange world?
But it's clear.
For a useless stone like him, unable to move or speak, wandering Sanyin Island only in spirit form, these questions remain questions, never to be answered.
Therefore, if he wants to clarify these questions, he must rely on the Chen clan on the island.
This is why Zhou Yi, even at the risk of being discovered as a fake sacrificial spirit, uses the Dead Sea Communicating Monument to communicate with Chen Xuanlin and lend him a helping hand.
Only when the Chen clan grows stronger and gains more power of faith will he have the wherewithal to delve into these mysteries.
The fog clearing and connecting to the shore is currently one of his few channels for gathering information.
Of course, he doesn't have the courage to control his spirit body and rush to the island to watch the battle. For now, he still dares to keep his spirit body confined to the stone ball sacrificial spirit.
Ever since he was nearly caught by the being in the gray fog, Zhou Yi has felt like bait on a protruding reef, ready to be devoured by a large fish leaping onto the reef.
His current task was to enlarge the reef beneath his feet, making it harder for the larger fish to devour him.
Therefore, Zhou Yi naturally wouldn't miss the conversation between Chen Xuanlin and Chen Gan'er.
He naturally overheard their entire conversation regarding the gray fog and the pattern on the wooden plaque.
After becoming a sacrificial spirit, he had acquired a photographic memory, and he remembered the pattern on the wooden plaque from the floating corpse in the Chen family warehouse vividly.
As Chen Gan'er explained that the pattern on the wooden plaque corresponded to a being in the gray fog, Zhou Yi felt a growing sense of familiarity.
It felt as if he had seen it in a dream.
Zhou Yi naturally couldn't dream after becoming a sacrificial spirit, and this dream referred to the bizarre dream he had before waking up in this world, in which the pattern seemed to have appeared.
Moreover, this pattern held an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Unfortunately, Zhou Yi's current knowledge was so limited, almost completely unknown, that he could only temporarily put aside these growing doubts until he had the resources to do so.
As the people of Sanyin Island toiled busily, a page of the book in Zhou Yi's mind was once again opened.
[The Island Spiritual Worship System reminds you that your believer's island, Sanyin Island, currently ranks 2999986 in the Island Strength Index.]
[Your Strength Index has surpassed the top 3,000,000, rewarding you with a Flame Sun Mother Spirit Stone.]
[Flame Sun Mother Spirit Stone: A spiritual stone originating from the deep lava beneath the Dead Sea, it contains pure fire-type spiritual energy. Practitioners cannot absorb it directly, but placing it on any basalt will form a small piece of lava, which will produce pure fire-type spiritual energy for six months.]
Zhou Yi, who was contemplating his dilemma, was stunned and muttered to himself,
"Oh, yeah, I even have a system."