Star Farming, the eldest lady relies on alchemy to counterattack

Chapter 205 Crimson Sand Sea
Ning Xuan and the others stayed in Lingquan Valley for three months. After this period of cultivation, Ning Xuan could feel that the energy in her body had reached a bottleneck, and no matter how much she cultivated afterward, the growth would be slow.

The entire area within hundreds of kilometers has been explored, and a detailed map has been drawn.

In addition, after their group's cultivation over this period of time, and with the development of surrounding mineral resources, the energy density of Lingquan Valley has decreased significantly.

After calculating that it was about time, Ning Xuan decided to leave.

Their exploration in this area has yielded remarkable results. They have not only drawn up a complete map, but also discovered the ruins of a primitive civilization, an energy stone mine, and two special mineral deposits. These findings can be exchanged for a lot of merit points. Furthermore, according to the development rules of the new planet, whoever reports these information in the safe zone will have the mining rights.

Lingquan Valley is located at the border of the Panshi Safe Zone and the Jiujiang Safe Zone. Since the Tianwei Legion is stationed in the Jiujiang Safe Zone, Ning Xuan will naturally hand over this information to the Jiujiang Safe Zone's upload terminal.

During these three months, they did communicate with the outside world. In fact, apart from Ning Xuan, the others were generally divided into two groups, taking turns to exchange supplies and gather information in the Jiujiang Safety Zone and the Panshi Safety Zone.

Therefore, although Ning Xuan was always busy with cultivation, she knew quite a bit about the outside world.

It has been almost five months since college graduates and foreign aid were deployed to the new planet. So far, apart from the one that Ning Xuan is about to report, a total of six original civilization ruins have been discovered on the new planet. These six original civilization ruins were all discovered by the stationed troops, including two that were discovered in the Jiujiang safe zone.

The reason why items found only in primitive civilization ruins appear in the trading market of the Panshi Safe Zone is because the Panshi Safe Zone is relatively close to the Jiujiang Safe Zone, and the two sides have relatively close exchanges.

After Ning Xuan decided to hand over the results of her exploration in Lingquan Valley to the Jiujiang Safe Zone, Yun Han personally went to the Jiujiang Safe Zone and returned with a team of nearly a thousand people.

At Ning Xuan's request, Lingquan Valley was placed under special protection, and no one was allowed to enter at will.

"Let's go." Ning Xuan gave the order, and the mechanical vehicle slowly started. Their next destination was the Crimson Sand Sea. Before entering the Crimson Sand Sea, they would stay in the Jiujiang Safe Zone for a period of time.

"Master, according to the information we've gathered, the danger level of the Crimson Sand Sea increases by 300% during the dust storm period. The Crimson Sand Sea is currently in a dust storm period, which is expected to last for about 40 to 60 days. It's only been a month since then, so we'll rest and recuperate in Jiujiang, and we should be there soon." Yun Han knew that Ning Xuan planned to undertake the mission in the Crimson Sand Sea, and had already sent Qiao Yu to scout out the situation there.

Ning Xuan nodded. "Yun Han, thank you for your hard work. Luckily you had someone scout ahead of time, otherwise we would have encountered a lot more trouble if we went now."

"It's what I should do." Yun Han helped Ning Xuan tidy her hair, which had been ruffled by the wind.

Di Youlin was displeased. "Yun Han, we agreed that I would be serving my master today, and you've been interfering again."

During this period, Ning Xuan could choose who to spend the night with. Most of the time she would choose Yun Han, and occasionally she would choose Chen Nan and Lin Mo.

However, Yun Han and the others were assigned to do the mundane tasks of combing hair and washing faces, pouring water, and serving meals during the day.

However, most of the time, Ning Xuan would do it herself and wouldn't specifically ask them to. Of course, when the person on duty was busy, others would also take the initiative to serve them.

"Alright, you do it. You're so clumsy. If you hurt your master, she might beat you up," Yun Han teased.

Di Youlin clearly had a history of such behavior. He tied Ning Xuan's disheveled hair back up and complained pitifully, "Master, look at Yun Han. Not only did he steal my work, but he also threatened me. You have to stand up for me!" Di Youlin snuggled against Ning Xuan's shoulder, acting like a spoiled puppy.

Ning Xuan patted his head reassuringly, just about to comfort him, when suddenly, a strange roar came from ahead.

Although the sound was not loud, it was piercing to the eardrums, and Ning Xuan and the others quickly became alert.

Ning Xuan condensed a wisp of energy at her fingertips and grabbed the black stick in her hand. The others also held their weapons and assumed a defensive posture.

Emperor Youlin even spread his wings and flew into the air, blocking the air passage.

Through the swaying shadows of the trees, they saw a brown bear, over ten feet tall, standing upright, its steel-needle mane stained with dark purple scabs. Its massive, barbed paws were clutching a vibrant tuft of fur—a spirit fox covered in purple markings!
"Roar—" The brown bear let out a low growl like thunder from its throat, and its bluish-black claws suddenly grew three inches long, actually lifting the spirit fox up and smashing it towards the ancient cypress.

The thousand-year-old tree trunk snapped in response, and the fox crashed through layers of branches and fell into a pile of decaying leaves. Its fluffy and beautiful tail drooped limply, making it look quite pathetic.

The brown bear had already sensed that someone was spying on it. It stomped its forepaws heavily on the ground, causing several cracks to appear like a spider web. Dark red demonic mist, carrying a foul stench, rushed out, and a pair of scarlet eyes looked towards Ning Xuan and the others.

"This beast has been infected with a virus." Ning Xuan's heart skipped a beat.

This beast is of a high level. It's already difficult to fight such a beast with high defense and thick skin. Now that it's infected, Ning Xuan thought that this would definitely waste even more time.

Ning Xuan rolled up her sleeves, wondering whether she should throw out the poison and the Ghost Face Red Vine to quickly get rid of the strange beast.

After all, if they didn't hurry, they probably wouldn't reach the Jiujiang safety zone before dark.

Just as Ning Xuan was about to make a move, the fox, which had been thrown out, crashed into a tree, and then fell to the ground, sprang up like lightning and bit the brown bear on the back of its neck. The seemingly thick fur was torn open, blood spurted out, and the brown bear fell to the ground, unable to get up.

Ning Xuan stared in surprise at the little fox, which was not much bigger than a brown bear's paws, and was somewhat amazed by its fighting power.

Just as Ning Xuan was looking at the little fox, the little fox happened to look in her direction as well.

Unlike the brown bear's blood-red eyes, the little fox's eyes were clear and bright. At this moment, looking at Ning Xuan, its eyes were both cute and soft, and Ning Xuan could even read a hint of pleading in those eyes.

The little fox's fluffy tail swayed gently in the morning light, like a wisp of crushed cloud. Its body, no bigger than a palm, was covered with a layer of snow-white fur, with only a few streaks of silver-gray spreading at the tips of its ears and tail, as if someone had used a brush dipped in moonlight to paint it.

Those almond-shaped eyes looked like they held two pools of shimmering spring water.

As if sensing Ning Xuan's gaze, it tilted its head and put its front paws together, its fluffy chest rippling with the movement.