Star Farming, the eldest lady relies on alchemy to counterattack

Chapter 318 What's Still Missing?

Ning Xuan felt the abundant lightning energy within the blue meridians, and even her blood was surging with lightning power. The energy was clearly sufficient. However, the giant beast's body, which had already solidified, with lifelike scales and claws, suddenly collapsed with a bang.

Ning Xuan felt a void in her heart, and the faint sense of connection vanished.

The little red bird flew to Ning Xuan's shoulder and chirped a few times, seemingly trying to comfort her.

Ning Xuan sat there blankly, feeling lost and dejected.

Ning Xuan only captured 11 juvenile Thunder Beasts during the first thunderstorm. In the subsequent battles, no more juveniles were found.

The evolved Thunder Beast is not only enormous in size and has extremely high defense, but it is also swift in movement and can control lightning, making it much more difficult to deal with than its juvenile form.

Ning Xuan had also tried to capture the evolved Thunder Beast, but all her attempts failed. The Thunder Beast could be killed, but it could not be captured alive. After the Thunder Beast died, its core would explode immediately, making it impossible to preserve.

After killing the Thunder Beast, the only valuable information that can be obtained is its teeth and hide.

Tomorrow marks the start of a new round of combat. Ning Xuan just received news yesterday that with the continued thunderstorms, the number of casualties is increasing, and the forces are insufficient. Rest time will become shorter and shorter in the future. In the later stages, the intensity of the war will increase, and there will be more and more star beasts. In order to ensure the safety of the base, there may not even be any time for rest.

Ning Xuan possessed outstanding strength. When she first arrived at the base, her mental strength level was only A-level. During training, she quickly broke through to S-level. Later, during the war, her mental strength level broke through to SS-level on the battlefield. This speed of advancement amazed many people.

This rapid advancement further convinced everyone of her powerful family background, leading them to believe that she must have been carrying a drug that allowed her to break through to a higher realm in a short time, coupled with her accumulated knowledge and skills, which resulted in such a miracle.

Even so, it's still very strange and shouldn't stand up to scrutiny, but this is the battlefield, where strength represents everything, and no one will question it carefully.

Ning Xuan's team always had the lowest casualty rate and the best record. The special ore submitted by her team far exceeded that of other teams, leaving the second-ranked team far behind.

It is precisely because of such outstanding achievements that Ning Xuan has accumulated a large number of combat merits in a short period of time. She is currently a senior colonel and has even been received by the highest commander of the base. If it weren't for her short service time and lack of experience, she would have been promoted to major general based on her combat merits.

The higher the rank, the more people under her command, and the greater the responsibility and expectations. She did not want to expose the aura of her companion spirit, the Vermilion Bird, on the battlefield. The methods she used before were all disguises created by the Ghost Face Red Vine. However, as the frequency of wars increased and the opponents she faced became stronger, Ning Xuan felt increasingly powerless.

Driven by a strong sense of crisis, Ning Xuan wanted to awaken a new companion spirit before the end of this rest period. This would not only rapidly enhance her overall strength but also prevent her from revealing her identity.

But today is the last day of the rest period. The accumulated energy is clearly enough, so why can't it condense into a solid form?

She just felt like something was missing. When she awakened the Vermilion Bird before, although her physique was too weak to handle it at first, after several body tempering sessions, awakening her companion spirit felt like a natural process. Why was it so difficult this time? Ning Xuan was puzzled. In terms of companion spirit level, the Vermilion Bird was legendary. A newly born companion spirit could not possibly exceed that level. Moreover, the lightning energy absorbed by her blue meridians had far exceeded the accumulation of fire energy she had accumulated before. She knew that if she hadn't come to a star system with such abundant lightning energy, it would have taken her at least ten or eight years to accumulate this much lightning energy.

Although she was completely baffled, Ning Xuan still tried her best to think of a solution. She had a premonition that if she could not successfully awaken a new companion spirit this time, the Vermilion Bird's aura might be exposed.

Ning Xuan took the last Thunder Beast larva from her spatial ring, thinking that the Thunder Beast larvae needed special minerals to complete their evolution. She had raised eleven Thunder Beast larvae, but they had not been able to complete their evolution because she could not obtain special minerals.

Hmm, she has a special ore in her hand. Perhaps she can try absorbing the energy within the special ore and see if she can complete the awakening of her companion spirit.

She only knew that the special minerals formed during thunderstorms contained unique energy and had many special uses, but she had never thought of using them for cultivation before.

Let's try it today.

Thinking of this, Ning Xuan put the Thunder Beast juvenile in her hand back into her spatial ring, and took out a black, irregularly shaped ore with seven facets from the spatial button.

Judging from its appearance, this ore doesn't look like it was born in nature at all; it looks like it was created through exquisite human craftsmanship.

The surface of the black ore shimmered with strange colors, and each of the seven facets shone with a different light.

Ning Xuan carefully examined the ore. Inside the ore, surging energy was surging. She placed her palm on the ore and tentatively activated her internal energy cultivation technique to absorb the energy. "Hiss!" As soon as her internal energy cultivation technique was activated, her fingertips brushed against the edge of the cut surface, and the cut surface immediately released purple arcs of electricity, leaving a burning stinging sensation on her skin and a red mark.

"Hiss!" She gasped and immediately withdrew her finger. Her action seemed to trigger some mechanism, causing the already surging energy inside the ore to suddenly surge and crash within the crystal as if it were alive, occasionally condensing into ferocious shapes, as if a roar was coming out.

Ning Xuan felt a chill in her heart. No, she couldn't directly absorb the energy from the ore. If she did, the surging energy would burst her apart.

Ning Xuan released black vines to test the ore, but there was no response; the vines could not absorb the energy from the ore.

No, what a companion spirit needs to awaken is not energy, but something like spiritual awareness or consciousness.

Let it find it on its own.

Ning Xuan once again condensed the dragon-shaped phantom, inputting lightning energy into it. As the phantom gradually solidified, the dragon scales became clearly visible. Just as she felt the dragon shape was fully formed, Ning Xuan absorbed the little red bird into her body, her blue meridians were covered by red meridians, and at the same time, she used vines to roll up special minerals and threw them into the dragon-shaped phantom.

With a "bang," the special ore burst forth with an extremely strong light within the dragon-shaped phantom, instantly illuminating the entire space.