Chapter 30: Can You Save Him First…
Jiang Ning felt that launching the peas one by one was too slow, so she simply distributed her psychic energy evenly to each pod, controlled her perception, and released all the peas at once.
A lightning net composed of peas fell on the mutated tree frog.
‘Boom—’
The moment the massive current touched the surface of the bark, flames shot up into the sky. The mutated tree frog was blasted into pieces.
A smell of burnt wood filled the air.
The group waited quietly for a moment. After the flames completely disappeared, the mutated tree frog was no more. Only a layer of bark was left, struggling to support the roots and the remaining part of the trunk.
The three of them looked at the pea plant next to Jiang Ning with a tacit and unified gaze, their feet silently moving away from it in unison.
So damn freaky!
In less than five minutes, it had blasted the mutated tree frog that several of them couldn’t handle into nothingness.
Was this still the plant-based ability that was known as useless in their impression?
In comparison, it seemed their abilities were a bit more useless.
And the master of the summoned plant, Jiang Ning, seemed unaware of how powerful it was. She raised an eyebrow as if unintentionally, “By a strange combination of circumstances, it actually produced lightning-struck wood.”
“Lightning-struck wood?!” This brought Ke Lai’s thoughts back to normal. Her eyes lit up as she stared at the mutated giant tree that had been struck by lightning and was now charred black.
Many spirit tools were made from lightning-struck wood, but natural lightning-struck wood was a rare find. Therefore, many merchants would fake it, using artificial lightning-struck wood to pass off as natural material for sale. This also led to a significant reduction in the effectiveness of many spirit tools that flowed into the market.
Ke Lai could almost imagine the scene of her making a fortune after bringing this lightning-struck wood back.
A rustling sound came from the surroundings. Jiang Ning looked into the caves around the oasis.
Although the mutated tree frog was dead, the main body of the mutated tree was not completely dead. The roots that were attached to the main body of the tree were still stirring restlessly.
Jiang Ning’s perception attached to a section of a mutated tree root and explored downwards along the direction of the root.
Strangely, the main body of those tree roots did not seem to be just one. Besides the giant tree where the mutated tree frog she had just burned was located, there was another one in the other direction of the cave.
The pea plant had withered after all its pods were released. Jiang Ning could only tighten her grip on the blade in her hand and chase after the mutated tree root that her perception was attached to.
“Where are you going?” Ke Lai asked.
“I’m going to burn the other tree too,” Jiang Ning said with a hint of arrogance in her tone.
The three of them were first shocked that there was more than one such mutated tree. Then Ke Lai was about to say something to show her concern.
But the words got stuck in her throat as if she had remembered something and she held them back.
Forget it, with the terrifying strength of her ability, she didn’t need their concern at all. She thought they should be more worried about that tree.
None of them dwelled on how Jiang Ning had discovered the existence of the other tree.
Ke Lai retracted her thoughts, took out her light blade, and turned to walk towards the lightning-struck wood with a wide smile. “You two, come and help. I’m going to saw this lightning-struck wood down and take it back.”
After the danger was removed, this underground oasis temporarily became a safe zone.
“…I’m just saying, can you save me first?” Ji Fan’s pale lips moved, his entire body exuding a sense of weakness and powerlessness.
The blood from his abdomen was still continuously seeping out. Ji Fan only felt his vision go black, and he staggered as if he were about to fall backward.
Li Xiang quickly supported him.
Ke Lai’s steps towards the giant tree paused, and she turned and walked back. “Sorry, I forgot you were still injured.”
When it came to money, Ke Lai was particularly obsessed with wealth.
The two of them supported Ji Fan and laid him flat.
“Quickly use your healing method to stop his bleeding first,” Ke Lai temporarily put aside the idea of collecting the lightning-struck wood and said to Li Xiang.
If he continued to bleed like this, even if Ji Fan was fine, he would become not fine.
“But my current psychic energy is not enough to use the healing method,” Li Xiang said with a bitter smile, a difficult expression on his face.
His psychic energy had been almost depleted from saving the four of them before, and it had been completely exhausted after the entanglement with the mutated tree roots.
“What!?” Ji Fan sat up in shock, his face instantly filled with despair.
If he couldn’t use the healing method, it meant his wound couldn’t be stopped from bleeding. If it couldn’t be stopped from bleeding, it meant he would eventually die from excessive blood loss.
“Didn’t they say that if you survive a great disaster, you’re bound to have good fortune later? Why do I still have to die, wuwuwu…”
He didn’t die from falling from such a high place, and he didn’t die from being caught by such a large mutated tree frog. Was he now going to be done for because of a mere wound?
The more Ji Fan thought about it, the sadder he became, and he couldn’t help but cry out.
Li Xiang lowered his head in silence, his voice unusually low. “I’m sorry.”
Ji Fan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and tears silently rolled down from his eye sockets.
“Um… Li Xiang, didn’t you say my family’s spirit tools were useful? I have two more here. You can try them both,” Ke Lai fumbled and took out two square wooden tablets with a very smooth surface from her body and threw them to Li Xiang.
Li Xiang took the square wooden tablets from Ke Lai, a glimmer of hope igniting in his heart.
He glanced at Ji Fan on the ground, only hoping that he could hold on until he recovered his psychic energy.
How long did it take for his psychic energy to recover after using the spirit tool Jiang Ning gave him last time?
A dozen minutes?
He didn’t know if Ji Fan could hold on until then.
Li Xiang could only try his best. As for whether Ji Fan could live, it was up to fate.
Li Xiang sat quietly and carefully felt the psychic energy in the spirit tool.
“Whoa!”
When Jiang Ning returned with a tree stump, she was taken aback by the scene before her.
A pool of blood was flowing from under Ji Fan. His eyes were tightly closed, and his entire body was motionless. Ke Lai and Li Xiang were watching anxiously from the side.
Jiang Ning walked to Ji Fan’s side and squatted down. She gently pushed him. The moment her hand touched his limb, she felt a sense of stiffness, and his skin was frighteningly cold.
“!”
Jiang Ning quickly withdrew her hand and checked Ji Fan’s breathing.
Good, he wasn’t completely cold.
“Li Xiang, why aren’t you stopping his bleeding?” Jiang Ning looked at Li Xiang strangely.
“Aren’t I recovering my psychic energy?” Li Xiang was also very aggrieved. He wanted to save him, but this spirit tool seemed to be different from the previous one. It had been so long, and it had no effect at all.
His psychic energy was still in a depleted state.
Li Xiang didn’t know that if he had carefully examined the petal-shaped spirit tool from before, he would have definitely found that that spirit tool also had no traces of being used at all.
“…” Jiang Ning was silent after hearing his words.
She had forgotten to tell Li Xiang before that the recovery of his psychic energy was not the effect of the spirit tool.
“You can treat Ji Fan now. I’ll supply you with psychic energy,” Jiang Ning said.
“You?” Li Xiang sounded as if he had heard a joke.
What a joke!
A plant-based user summoning a powerful plant to attack an A-rank mutated tree was one thing, but now she could even restore his psychic energy?
“Stop dawdling. If we delay any longer, Ji Fan will be completely cold,” Jiang Ning kicked Li Xiang.
As if possessed, Li Xiang actually obediently walked over.
Jiang Ning threw the tree stump to Ke Lai and placed one hand on Li Xiang’s shoulder.
A familiar psychic energy flowed into Li Xiang’s body from the point of contact between the two. His depleted psychic energy actually became full again.
Li Xiang was so shocked he couldn’t speak.
What was wrong with this world?
Was he just ignorant, or was this Jiang Ning person too magical?
“Hurry up and save him,” Jiang Ning reminded him.
Li Xiang came to his senses. He looked at the deep, bone-visible wound under the bloody clothes and had no mind to think of anything else. He furrowed his brows and concentrated. The healing magic continuously stitched up the rotten parts of the flesh.
Ji Fan’s injuries this time were more severe than any other time. It took Li Xiang about two hours to repair the wound on Ji Fan’s abdomen.
However, Ji Fan ultimately could not wake up for the time being due to excessive blood loss.
“My ability can only repair up to this point. To fully recover Ji Fan, he can only be sent to a hospital or a treatment cabin for help.” Even with the support of a large amount of psychic energy, Li Xiang still felt very tired.
Abilities were not omnipotent. Otherwise, people would not rely on future technology.
Jiang Ning nodded and removed her hand from Li Xiang’s shoulder.
Li Xiang felt a sense of emptiness in his body, and the seemingly inexhaustible psychic energy withdrew.
“Jiang Ning, tell me the truth. Is your psychic energy level really only F-rank?” Li Xiang said.
This continuous output of ability for two hours… he probably couldn’t do it even with full psychic energy.
Jiang Ning thought for a moment and said, “It probably isn’t now.”
Based on one sun being F-rank, she had many, many of them in her mind, which meant her current psychic energy level was far beyond F-rank.
“So what’s your rank now?” Ke Lai asked curiously.
Jiang Ning thought for a moment and conservatively estimated, “It should be A-rank.”
She didn’t know what her specific rank was now.
Li Xiang and Ke Lai gasped in unison upon hearing this, especially Ke Lai. She had used countless spirit tools for nourishment and had only managed to raise her psychic energy level to B-rank in five years.
And Jiang Ning had done nothing, and in five years, her psychic energy level had directly risen from F-rank to A-rank.
What a terrifying improvement!
The two of them looked at Jiang Ning as if they were looking at a freak.
“Ji Fan needs treatment. Let’s find a way to get up first,” Jiang Ning changed the subject.
“Wait,” Ke Lai said. “Wait for me to saw this lightning-struck wood down first.”
She picked up her blade and walked towards the giant tree.
“You don’t care about your assessment?” Li Xiang raised an eyebrow and asked.
“That’s it for the assessment. At worst, I’ll just repeat a year and continue next year,” Ke Lai sighed.
Anyway, money must be earned!
Jiang Ning blinked and pointed to the tree stump on the ground. “Didn’t I tell you? The tree stump I threw to you just now is the root of an A-rank mutated plant.”
When she had controlled her perception to blast it, she had deliberately preserved a complete section just for Ke Lai’s assessment.
“!”
Hearing this, Ke Lai was both surprised and delighted. She rubbed and kissed Jiang Ning’s cheek. “Damn it! I love you to death!”