Chapter 88

Chapter 88: Logging On to Beg for Help

“Trail-Seeking Rat, stay here and behave. If someone triggers the array, call me.”

“Yes, Master!”

Seeing that the master’s aura was stable, the little rat’s heart, which had been pounding wildly, finally settled.

Yun Xi said generously, “I’ll reward you with one milk fruit. Take it yourself.”

The Trail-Seeking Rat rubbed its tiny paws together, narrowed its black-bean eyes, and thanked her. “Thank you, Master.”

Then it happily curled up a milk fruit, sat beside Yun Xi, and pricked up its small ears. It listened for movement while sucking out the fruit pulp. This was the first time it had ever seen a fruit like this. The fragrance rushed straight into its nose. It had already been drooling earlier.

While the Trail-Seeking Rat ate milk fruit, Yun Xi sent her soul into the wooden plaque space. The first thing she did was send a message to the chat group to ask for help.

Passing Clouds and Smoke: Big shots, save me. My body is about to collapse. What do I do?

The chat group flashed, and then messages started flooding in.

Ethereal Aura: Little Clouds and Smoke, what did you do? How did you end up with your body collapsing?

????: Haven’t you been raising your cultivation lately? Did something go wrong with your method?

Tribal Warrior: Little Clouds and Smoke, you’ve eaten so many milk fruits that your body strength is almost on par with an adult beastman. You shouldn’t be this fragile.

Ox-Head and Horse-Face: Yun Yan, if it really won’t work, just switch to ghost cultivation.

Survival Is The Only Hard Truth: Were you set up?

Yun Xi scanned the messages from the big shots and could only reply, “When I was out training, I found a method that fits me by chance, but the owner of the method tried to seize my body. Luckily, I had the immortal artifact Ethereal Aura sent me protecting me, and in the end I swallowed the soul trying to seize me.

“But he was an Integration-stage cultivator when he fell. Even though he was trapped in the cultivation world for a thousand years and his soul strength had already dropped to the Divine Transformation stage, it still wasn’t something my newly established Foundation Establishment body could endure.

“Fortunately, for these five years I never stopped taking milk fruit, so my body didn’t collapse immediately.

“Just now I ate ten more milk fruits in a row to barely stabilize my collapsing body, and then I rushed here to ask for help.”

Yun Xi felt she was truly unlucky.

Ethereal Aura: What method was worth you risking your life? I have plenty of methods here, and they’re all immortal-tier. Why didn’t you trade with me?

Passing Clouds and Smoke: This little girl’s purse is thin. I didn’t have anything of equal value to trade, so I went to look for it myself. This method really suits me.

Yun Xi could only speak honestly.

????: Little Clouds and Smoke, your problem is clearly that your mental power far exceeds your body strength, so your body is collapsing.

“In our interstellar world, we have mental power suppressants. They can temporarily suppress your powerful mental power, but it’s only temporary. You must cultivate an Interstellar Body-Refining Art to strengthen your body so it can bear your powerful mental power.”

When Yun Xi saw that, her eyes lit up. She immediately replied: Senior, can I trade spirit stones and pills with you for the mental power suppressant and the body-refining art?

????: I’ll send over a detector first. We’ll measure your mental power and body strength, and then I can trade you the corresponding mental power suppressant and body-refining art.

Passing Clouds and Smoke: Okay. I’ll send you a sample of the spirit stones and pills I have on hand. You can tell me directly which kind you want to use for the exchange.

Yun Xi replied as fast as she could. She had no time to hesitate right now.

????: Okay.

A moment later, the chat group gave a notification. ???? sent an item to Passing Clouds and Smoke at a fixed point. After Yun Xi clicked to accept, a silver capsule-shaped testing pod appeared in her space.

Yun Xi quickly pulled her divine sense out of the space and brought the silver testing pod out with her.

The Trail-Seeking Rat was chewing on milk fruit. When it saw something appear out of nowhere, it got so frightened its fur stood on end, and it cried out urgently, “Master! Master!”

“It’s fine. It’s my thing.”

Yun Xi immediately sent a message to calm the little one down. Then she used an Object Manipulation Technique on herself and moved herself into the testing pod.

As the lid closed slowly, a mechanical metal voice entered Yun Xi’s ears. “Mental power testing will now begin. Please remain conscious during the test.”

Then Yun Xi felt an electric current sweep through her mind. Her sea of consciousness shook, then calmed again a breath later.

“Your mental power level is S-rank, which is upper-tier aptitude. Your body strength is B-rank, which is mid-tier aptitude.

“It is recommended that you begin mental power training. Given your age, your mental power still has room to grow. Please combine it with physical training.”

Yun Xi gained a clearer understanding of how interstellar mental power was ranked. Immediately after, the testing pod sounded an alarm.

“Alarm! Alarm! The tester’s mental power exceeds body strength. Body damage has already appeared. Please take mental power suppressant in time, and repair body damage as soon as possible.”

Yun Xi slowly let out a breath. This time, she sent both herself and the testing pod into the space. Then she used her divine sense to send the testing pod back to ????.

???? clicked to accept. A moment later, he posted a huge surprised emoji in the chat, along with a message. “Little Clouds and Smoke, you’re actually this young – not even a fraction of my age. I’ll send you a tube of body repair solution and a tube of mental power suppressant first. Save your life first. We’ll talk about the rest later.”

Yun Xi immediately said that was fine and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She had to get out of danger first.

At this moment, the Heaven Realm chat was also lively. Everyone was guessing Little Clouds and Smoke’s age and discussing her injuries.

Yun Xi couldn’t worry about that. She received the two tubes of medicine that ???? sent right away. One tube was silver, and one was a lake-water green, with usage instructions clearly marked.

The silver medicine was the mental power suppressant. Yun Xi drank this one first. The moment the liquid entered her mouth, it turned into a pure force that went straight into her sea of consciousness, gently soothing Yun Xi’s surging mental power. The two duck-egg-sized mental power light orbs slowly condensed into a single goose-egg-sized one.

As her mental power was suppressed, Yun Xi felt the force tearing at her body weaken as well. Only then did she relax. At least it proved the medicine was working.

The green body repair medicine needed to be used half by drinking and half by soaking. Yun Xi hurriedly left a message for ???? and then slipped out of the space.

The Trail-Seeking Rat stared blankly as its master vanished and reappeared. When it sensed that the master’s aura was stable, it finally lowered the fur it had raised.

Because of the contract, it had truly experienced the feeling of being on the edge of death just now. It had scared this little rat half to death.

Yun Xi dug out her bathing tub from the storage ring, formed a hand seal to fill it with water, quickly poured in half the medicine, and jumped into the tub. She tilted her head back and drank the remaining half tube of repair solution. Then she sat cross-legged in the tub and began to feel the repair process.

As the green liquid in the tub was absorbed by Yun Xi’s body, it slowly returned to clear water. The tearing pain in her body also slowly faded.

An hour later, Yun Xi opened her eyes and muttered thankfully, “Whew. I finally survived!”

Then she braced herself against the tub and climbed out. In the next instant, as if she had been summoned by something, the spiritual energy in the room suddenly began to pour into Yun Xi’s body.