There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

"Just pretend I read it in a book, and continue with what you want to say," Lu Qing said as Ling curiously circled around her.

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Karvin, will update later.

As the title says, I'm experiencing writer's block, so updates will have to wait a while.

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Chapter 543: The Elf's Condition

"What I just said is all a rumor. The official story from the human world is that the Guiji Cult held a horrific sacrificial ceremony at the Sacred Tree Festival fifty years ago, which ultimately caused the Sacred Tree to wither and die."

“Even the elves know this is the truth; the stench of the void emanating from the sacred tree can be smelled from a great distance,” Ling said, hovering around Lu Qing.

"Uh... the stench of the void emanating from the sacred tree..." Why does this sound so strange coming from an elf? Lu Qing thought to herself.

Suddenly, Lu Qing thought of something and asked Ling, "Ling, did you come here to heal the Sacred Tree?"

Lu Qing thought about her main goal, which was to successfully heal the Sacred Tree and allow the world's life to continue. However, without any clues, how could she heal the Sacred Tree?

If she wasn't mistaken, the spirit that appeared before her was definitely there to give her a clue!

"Oh, I just came to check on the condition of the Sacred Tree. Whether it can be cured or not, we'll have to see." The spirit said, its body shimmering with light.

"Can't you check the status of the Sacred Tree now? This place can be considered the depths of the Sacred Tree." Lu Qing asked with some doubt.

She paused, then asked with some curiosity, "And you said I was unconscious for fifty years. During those fifty years, didn't any other elves come to investigate the Sacred Tree?"

"Oh! You're asking too many questions, Ling'er can't keep up..." Ling said, looking a little dizzy.

After organizing her thoughts for a while, Ling spoke, "After the Sacred Tree withered, although it did not immediately lose its vitality, the concentration of the void increased significantly. The elves could not adapt to the sudden change in environment, and many of them returned to the earth."

"We have been searching for our compatriots for the past fifty years, and things have only recently stabilized. I am the best doctor among all the elves, so I took the initiative to come and investigate the condition of the sacred tree."

Ling swayed in the air and said, "The roots and branches of the sacred tree have been completely corroded. I need to check if there is anything wrong with the core of the sacred tree."

"As long as the core member is alive, there will always be a way!"

"Oh!" Ling seemed to suddenly remember something. She looked at Lu Qing and said, "Ling'er said before that there was a bad guy at the door, and I can't beat him."

"I need to check on the state of the Sacred Tree's core, but I'm stuck here."

"Could you please help me? Ling'er will help too~"

“Okay.” Lu Qing smiled and nodded, saying, “I also want to get out of here, of course I’ll help you.”

"Yay!" Ling exclaimed, bobbing up and down as if she were very happy.

"Hehe." Seeing Ling's appearance, Lu Qing couldn't help but chuckle. She looked at Wei Yin, who had been left hanging for a while, and said, "Ling, please wait a moment. I still have some things to do."

"Hmph, finally remembered me, huh?" Wayne snorted, sounding annoyed.

"Um!?"

Lu Qing's pupils widened subconsciously, not for any other reason than that Wayne's voice sounded exactly like a woman's!

"Why are you acting like a woman?" Lu Qing subconsciously thought of this sentence.

"Is this voice not good, or do you prefer it the way it is now?" Wayne's voice returned to its usual form, and the next moment, he used a more arrogant male voice to say, "I can now use magic to modify my voice at will, didn't expect that, human!"

Lu Qing could clearly see the smug look on Wayne's bird-like face, and said somewhat speechlessly, "It is indeed a bit unexpected, but it's good that your voice isn't so unpleasant anymore."

"By the way, how come you've even gotten rid of your verbal tic when you changed your voice?"

“A voice simulated by magic will naturally not have verbal tics,” Wayne’s voice suddenly changed to that of a very mature woman.

"..." Lu Qing felt as if Wayne had opened the door to some incredible world.

"So, you've successfully advanced to blue rank? Do you know exactly what happened?" Lu Qing asked Wayne, selectively forgetting her earlier thoughts.

"After I advanced to blue, I was kicked out of this world, and after flying outside for two hours, I was summoned here by you, my little master." Seemingly unhappy about being kicked out of the world, Wayne said in his natural voice.

"I've been sleeping here for fifty years, and only two hours have passed outside?" Lu Qing thought to herself. That made sense, after all, a dream game couldn't possibly make her lie in bed for a year or two in reality, right?

"Huh?" Ling listened to the conversation between the human and the bird with some confusion, unable to understand what they were saying at all.

If she couldn't understand, so be it. Ling chose to empty her mind and stop thinking altogether.

"How is your combat strength now?" Lu Qing asked Wayne.

"I now know a whole bunch of spells, and I'm also incredibly strong in hand-to-hand combat. It'll be no problem for me to crush a whole bunch of weaklings at the blue level," Wayne said confidently.

"Can you carry me in the air?" Lu Qing asked, looking at Wayne's physique and suddenly remembering something.

Now that Wayne stands up, he's almost as tall as her. Given the characteristics of superhuman beings, Wayne's strength must be greater than that of a bird that normally grows to this size.

In addition, he knows all sorts of magic, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to take me flying into the sky.

"This bird is so noble, how could I possibly carry a person while flying..." Seeing that Lu Qing's gaze was gradually becoming less friendly, Wei Yin quickly changed his tune, "Gliding, gliding is fine, but carrying a person while flying is impossible..."

(;￢＿￢)

"I'll give you a look, you'll understand." Lu Qing returned a disdainful look.

Turning to Ling, Lu Qing said, "That's about enough, we can set off now."

"Mmm." Ling nodded in mid-air.

As for Wayne, although he felt a little heartbroken, he didn't say anything and obediently followed behind.

Lu Qing recalled the path Archbishop Angus had taken when he controlled her body and headed towards the outside of the elven sacrificial site. However, after walking for a short while, Lu Qing found that the path in front of her was blocked.

There appears to have been a collapse here, with large amounts of rubble piled up in the center of the corridor, along with many dark green vines growing there.

"Let's go this way." Ling floated above the ruins and said as she came to a crack that was only about thirty centimeters high.

"Even if I crawl on my stomach, I can't squeeze in here," Lu Qing said, looking at the gap in front of her.

It's not that there's no way; if she uses the Silver-Gray Evening Breeze's [Escape into Shadows] skill, she can also slip inside.

However, Ling was unaware that she possessed this skill, so she was simply curious whether Ling had any other way to help her leave.

“I already thought of that.” Sure enough, Ling said, her voice shimmering with a pale blue light, after hearing Lu Qing’s question.

She circled around Lu Qing, then suddenly burrowed into her body. After a strange sensation, Lu Qing found herself almost as tall as the gap in front of her.

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P.S.: I haven't talked about the issue of gender before, what do you guys think?

1: Male.

2: Female.

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3. Cross-dressing master (doge)

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Chapter 544: Psionic Climbing and Elven Fire

"What's going on?" Lu Qing instinctively wanted to ask.

"Chirp chirp..." The words were on the tip of his tongue, but inexplicably turned into a sound like that of a small animal.

"Huh?" Lu Qing raised her left hand with a puzzled look and found that her left hand had turned into a white, furry shape.

Looking down at her body, she saw her belly with blue and white stripes, and the festival costume she was wearing that was several times smaller.

Apart from the festival costumes, all the other props were still there, but they were all scaled down many times. Lu Qing took out the Dark Dagger, which felt to be about the length of an adult male's finger.

"Chirp chirp... chirp chirp... chirp chirp chirp!"

"......"

Lu Qing gave up thinking.

Just then, Ling's voice rang in Lu Qing's mind, saying, "Your body has been soaked in the sacred tree spring water for fifty years, and some special changes have occurred."

“You are now like an elf who looks like a human, but the final step of the transformation has never been completed, which is why you have fainted.”

"After I arrived here, I used my power to awaken you prematurely, which prevented you from using your spirit abilities as instinctively as you would have."

"But if I help you, you can use all these powers that belong to the spirits."

"I see... Yeah, right!" Lu Qing thought to herself, "There are so many things to complain about that I don't even know where to begin."

Leaving aside the fact that spring water soaked in the sacred tree for fifty years can turn people into humanoid elves, it seems quite reasonable. Wait, why do I find this reasonable?

After thinking for a moment, Lu Qing asked, "Can I learn these abilities on my own?"

"Chirp, chirp chirp chirp..." The words came out of his mouth and immediately turned into another language. This was probably... um... bird language?

Following behind, Wayne shook his head, indicating that he couldn't understand what Lu Qing was saying.

Fortunately, Ling understood Lu Qing's words and said, "All we need to do is collect magic essence; it's everywhere outside now."

"Magic element?" Lu Qing asked with some doubt, as she had never heard the Pope or Knight Myron mention this thing.

"It's the magical energy released when a creature with magical power dies. There are mutated creatures everywhere outside now; killing them will give you magical energy," Ling explained to Lu Qing.

"Please do not pity them. The process of being corrupted by the void is very painful. The best help is to free them."

"How do I collect magic essence?" Lu Qing asked.

“I’ll collect them for you. Just tell me what you want to learn when the time comes,” Ling replied after hearing Lu Qing’s words.

Almost the instant Ling finished speaking, a pale blue window popped up in front of Lu Qing's eyes.