Chapter 259

Chapter 259: Does She Have Bubbles in Her Head?

With one light kick on the Snail cart, Shen Sang Ruo vanished from Dong Fang Xu and Xu Han’s sight in a blink.

By the time the two of them reacted, even her aura was gone.

The duck cooked and brought to their lips had flown away.

Xu Han rounded on Dong Fang Xu and shouted in fury: “Dong Fang Xu, look at the mess you made!”

Dong Fang Xu’s eyes burned too as he snapped back: “What I made? If you hadn’t fought me for it, I would’ve pocketed the Spirit Jade Marrow already. How would that damned Shen Sang Ruo have snatched it?!”

He thrust a finger at Xu Han and barked: “Because of you, the Beast Taming Sect lost two pieces of Spirit Jade Marrow. Today I’ll punish you on behalf of the Sect Master!”

They pushed all the blame on each other and grew even more disgusted with what they saw.

Their conflict finally blew up. Each summoned his own Contracted Beast, and they fought like thunder.

Shen Sang Ruo had already left the valley. Hearing the huge clash behind her, she shook her head with fake regret.

But they had it coming.

She remembered clearly how, at the opening of the Treasure-Seeking Meet, they mocked Linglong Pavilion and Ninghua Sect.

She held grudges.

Weighing the Spirit Jade Marrow in her hand, she could feel the dense Divine Soul Power spilling out and flowing into her body just from holding it.

Her mood lifted. With two pieces of Spirit Jade Marrow, she planned to keep one for herself.

She placed both into her Teleportation Artifact to send them out, planning to divide them after leaving the Starfield Plain.

However, the Spirit Jade Marrow remained on the Teleportation Formation and did not teleport away.

She made a puzzled sound and frowned: “Huh? What’s going on?”

She tried a few more times and found that other items teleported just fine. Only the Spirit Jade Marrow didn’t.

The Dodder Flower Sprite popped its head out and guessed: “Maybe Spirit Jade Marrow is special?”

“Special…” Shen Sang Ruo lifted the two pieces to eye level and murmured: “Are soul-type treasures blocked by Formations?”

“Then I’ll carry them for now and take them out myself later.” She simply kept the Spirit Jade Marrow on her person.

No reason to waste the Divine Soul Power that kept leaking out.

After that small hiccup, she went back to searching for new treasures.

As she walked, she suddenly stopped.

The Dodder Flower Sprite peered around on her head and asked in a small voice: “Found a new treasure already? It’s only been a few minutes. That was fast.”

“No,” Shen Sang Ruo said with a slight shake of her head. “It’s nothing. I might’ve felt wrong.”

Just now it felt like a bubble rose up inside her sea of consciousness.

For some reason, a phrase flashed through her mind: [A bubble in my brain.]

Shen Sang Ruo: […]

She certainly wasn’t going to admit that, so she treated it as a mistake and set off again.

She had gone less than a hundred meters when another bubble appeared in her sea of consciousness.

Because of what happened before, she was paying more attention to it than usual.

So even though that bubble vanished quickly, she still felt it clearly.

She hissed in a breath and thought, startled: [Uh oh, do I really have bubbles in my brain?]

She immediately summoned the Kui Ox that lived in her sea of consciousness and tested it with a question: “Kui Ox, are you the one blowing bubbles in my sea of consciousness?”

The Kui Ox stared with question marks all over its face, pointed a hoof at itself like, me?

It shook its head hard and let out a string of moos, as if to protest loudly: “Moo, moo, moo!” The meaning was obvious: what kind of decent ox blows bubbles!

Shen Sang Ruo also felt that was unlikely. So why were there bubbles in her sea?

The Dodder Flower Sprite asked, “What’s wrong, what’s wrong?”

“My sea of consciousness suddenly started bubbling. Up to now, only the Kui Ox was inside, but it says it isn’t doing it,” she said, brows knitting tight.

Only those bonded to her—Zhu Miao and the Kui Ox—could enter her sea of consciousness.

If it wasn’t them, then either something had slipped in without her noticing, or her sea of consciousness had a problem.

Either way, it wouldn’t be a small matter.

The Dodder Flower Sprite understood too and spoke quickly: “So what do we do now? Is your brain still bubbling?”

“…” Shen Sang Ruo rolled her eyes and said dryly: “Another bubble just popped.”

She could also feel the gap between bubbles getting shorter.

The Dodder Flower Sprite grew anxious and suggested: “How about we head out first and find Immortal Lord Chang Li and Daoist Wu Wei to take a look?”

The Kui Ox, worried as well, circled around her, mooing to urge her to ride it out of the Starfield Plain.

Only Zhu Miao, hanging on her, looked bored and annoyed, whether at the Kui Ox or something else.

Zhu Miao shot the Kui Ox a cold glance and said in the beast tongue: “You’re noisy.”

A flash of light forced the Kui Ox’s mouth shut. It wanted to ram Zhu Miao in anger.

But Zhu Miao was in Shen Sang Ruo’s arms, and the ox couldn’t knock her away with him, so it could only stomp in circles, fuming.

Ignoring the Kui Ox, Zhu Miao gestured for her to take out the Spirit Jade Marrow.

Through the Spirit Pact, a cool thought flowed into her mind: “Your sea of consciousness is fine.” Another followed: “Absorb some Divine Soul Power and you’ll know why the bubbles are appearing.”

Even though it was just shared thought, she somehow felt the little one was grinding its teeth a bit.

Knowing her sea of consciousness was fine, she relaxed.

“Then I’ll listen to you,” Shen Sang Ruo said, trusting Zhu Miao completely. She took out one piece of Spirit Jade Marrow and began to absorb the Divine Soul Power inside.

Faint golden Divine Soul Power flowed into her body, ran along her meridians, and gathered in her head and sea of consciousness.

As the power poured in, her sea of consciousness grew stronger and steadier.

Another bubble rose—this time, something new appeared beneath it: a small fish, red and gold, gradually taking shape.

It flicked a shimmering tail and swam through her sea of consciousness.

As if it realized it could finally show itself, it suddenly moved with joy and blew a string of bubbles, trying very hard to catch her attention.

She stared and murmured in wonder: “Is that… a Koi Carp?” She felt the little red-gold fish swimming wild in her sea of consciousness.

Why would a Koi Carp show up inside her sea of consciousness?

Now that she knew what it was, she felt even more confused and thought: [I don’t remember ever taming a Koi Carp.]

The little koi swam in circles, still puffing bubbles. The bubbles gathered and pieced together into a picture.

Shen Sang Ruo recognized it at a glance: it was the map she had drawn before.

“You’re my map?” she asked in shock.

She suddenly remembered: in her last life, she had found that map inside an Aquatic Secret Realm.

Looking at the little koi in her sea of consciousness, a bold idea rose in her mind.

Could that piece of parchment she used to draw the map have actually been… the koi’s skin?

A heavy wave of guilt washed over her.

The kind of guilt that would make her sit up in the middle of the night and slap herself twice.

She hugged the little one tighter and said in a low, sincere voice: “I’m sorry. I didn’t know that was your… fish skin.”