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

Lu Qing raised the [White Eagle Feather] and immediately felt an upward force. The huge feather was like a giant hot air balloon, slowly sending her into the sky.

"It really flew... Wow!"

Just as Lu Qing was looking at the ground and sighing, a sudden gust of air disrupted her balance, forcing her to crash into the smooth cliff face.

Lu Qing quickly regained her balance, gently stepping on the smooth cliff face to stabilize herself.

As she ascended, she also discovered that she could move her center of gravity to fly in the direction she wanted. Although she certainly couldn't go against the airflow to descend, she could move freely in all directions.

After flying for about two minutes, Lu Qing and Ling saw the top of the cliff.

Gently retracting the [White Eagle Feather], Lu Qing lightly touched the top of the cliff with her toes. Only then could they officially enter the deepest part of Storm Valley.

Apart from Lu Qing, Wei Yin, and Ling, there is no other living being here. In fact, due to the influence of the wind element, even the sound of the wind cannot be heard.

In this deathly silent environment, Lu Qing subconsciously quickened her pace, heading towards the location of the wind element provided by Wayne.

Along the way, they encountered many difficult terrains or deep pits exceeding a hundred meters. With the help of the feathers given to them by Maevelyn, they managed to reach the area directly beneath the wind element without any major incidents.

"Inhale...exhale..."

Lu Qing breathed with some difficulty. The dense wind element here almost solidified the air, and the air she inhaled seemed to become as hard as steel.

She looked up and, using the long-range vision provided by her eagle eye, saw the raging cloud of air floating in mid-air, shapeless and constantly shifting – that was their target: the wind element!

"Now is not the time to use feathers."

Thinking this, Lu Qing channeled her spiritual energy into her feet, and her legs slowly bent.

[Super Jump!]

With a loud "bang," a dark shockwave was released from beneath Lu Qing's feet, sending her flying high into the air towards the suspended rock wall above.

Infusing her spiritual energy into her feet, Lu Qing used [Spiritual Climb] to stick herself to the suspended rock wall, and then used [Super Jump] to jump to the suspended rock above.

The suspended rock wall that she used as a springboard suddenly plummeted a short distance downwards before slowly floating back up.

And so, Lu Qing kept jumping upwards until there were no other objects above her head besides the wind element.

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Chapter 558: The Blessing of the Wind Element

“It’s time.” Looking at the wind elemental above her, which was still quite a distance away, Lu Qing spoke slowly.

She took out the [Wind Eagle Feather] and flapped it violently in the air in front of her.

Because of the extremely high density of wind elements here, Lu Qing felt a much greater pressure when flapping her feathers than when she had flapped them in other parts of Storm Valley.

The instant Lu Qing unleashed the feathers, a massive storm instantly erupted from beneath the wind element.

The wind element, which had been at work for decades, was suddenly unleashed. The suspended rock walls were torn to pieces by the raging wind element in an instant.

Lu Qing promptly put the Guardian Mask on her face and summoned heavy armor to protect herself. In addition, she also activated the Guardian Shield and the Insect Hunter's Grip.

The raging wind elements should also be considered magical attacks, so it could block some of them. With that in mind, Lu Qing unfurled the [Wind Eagle Feathers].

"Ugh... Uh..." The raging wind element instantly swept Lu Qing into the sky, and countless pebbles and wind blades struck the Guardian's Shield, making a constant "clanging" sound.

Lu Qing was unable to determine her position or adjust her flight posture for a moment.

Like the rubble that was instantly torn apart, she spun in the turbulent air currents, not knowing when she would find her place.

After a while, and after a dizzying experience, Lu Qing finally regained her balance. With the help of Wayne's vision, Lu Qing roughly determined her location. Then, using her body's sense of airflow, she kept searching for upward airflow.

The Third Eye

[Third Eye: Humans have two eyes, enabling them to see clearly. Some say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. This skill can be used once per day. Once activated, you will gain a brief full-angle field of vision, allowing you to see objects behind and to your sides.]

Lu Qing used this special Nightmare skill after a long time, and immediately gained the vision of everyone in front of and behind her. In addition, she also used her golden vertical pupils.

With the help of her golden vertical pupils, Lu Qing gradually saw the flow of wind elements and kept adjusting her center of gravity, moving towards the direction of the wind elements.

However, just as she reached a distance of about fifty meters from the wind element, she was repelled by an invisible barrier.

"This is..." Quickly stabilizing herself in mid-air, Lu Qing used her golden vertical pupils to observe the barrier surrounding the wind element within a fifty-meter radius.

After a closer look, she realized that it was not a barrier at all, but a dense wind wall formed by a large number of tiny gusts of wind constantly rotating at high speed!

This wind wall blocked Lu Qing's progress, leaving her only able to float outside the wind wall and watch the wind elements inside.

"Is this distance okay, Ling?" Lu Qing asked Ling.

"No, it's still too far from here," Ling said, sounding somewhat anxious.

"Aren't you an elemental being? Can't you just pass through the wind wall?" Lu Qing shouted in the air to avoid her voice being drowned out by the wind.

“Those wind walls are also made of wind elements. Even an elf would be torn apart if it went in!” The light on the spirit's body flickered, as if it could be blown away by the gale at any moment.

"There's no other way, let's prepare to force our way in!" Hearing Ling's words, Lu Qing knew she had to find a way to get in, and said.

"How are you going to force your way in?" Ling asked, somewhat puzzled, after hearing Lu Qing's words.

The outermost layer of the wind wall has the least destructive power, but it is the most difficult to break through. It will bounce everything it touches away. Ling really couldn't figure out how Lu Qing would break through.

The next moment, Lu Qing removed the protection of the Guardian Mask, leaving only the Guardian Shield to help her withstand the flying rubble.

"Sizzle..."

A sharp wind blade left a tiny scratch on Lu Qing's cheek. Lu Qing squinted and covered her eyes with her hands to prevent the wind blade from scratching them.

Her body gradually grew taller, her long silver hair turned black, and because she covered her eyes with her hands, she fell from above the wind element barrier.

"Aaaaaah, what are you doing?!" Ling shouted as she followed Lu Qing to tell her whereabouts.

Lu Qing did not answer Ling, but focused intently on the distance between herself and the wind wall surrounding the wind element. Almost at the moment her body was about to make contact with the wind wall, she used the special skill of the Black Rose Vampire form.

[Blood Magic - Crimson Pool (Purple): Transforms the body into a pool of blood for a short period, during which time the user is immune to most physical damage and gains extremely high magic resistance and movement speed.]

[Blood Magic - Blood Control (Blue): A type of magic that allows free control over blood. If spiritual power (magic power) (blood energy) is infused into the blood, it can also gain attributes such as resilience, cutting ability, and fluidity.]

Lu Qing's body instantly turned into a pool of blood in mid-air. Under the control of spiritual power, her blood tightly clung together and possessed extremely strong resilience, which prevented her body from being blown away by the gale after turning into a pool of blood.

The next moment, Lu Qing controlled her blood to envelop Ling's body and plunged headfirst into the raging wind wall!

Countless wind blades slashed at her body, cutting away large amounts of blood with the wind element before it was completely consumed. After all, the Blood Pool spell only increases magic resistance, not complete immunity to magic, so being injured was inevitable.

Fortunately, the wind wall wasn't very thick. After losing a quarter of their blood, Lu Qing and Ling successfully squeezed inside!

A gentle wind lifted Lu Qing's body, causing her to stop her movements as she was about to take out the [Wind Eagle's Feather] and slowly descend after the magic was dispelled.

She and Ling arrived before the wind element, and almost simultaneously sensed the immense wind elemental power within it, as well as the repulsive aura of void mixed within it.

Under the influence of this ethereal aura, the once pure and flawless wind element has become tainted with a deep, dark black.

"This distance should be enough, right?" Seeing the wind element in front of her, Lu Qing breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Ling with a pale face.

“That’s enough.” Ling said, her body shimmering slightly. She looked at the wind elemental, then at Lu Qing, and said, “Thank you, Lu Qing. If it were just me, I definitely wouldn’t have been able to get here.”

“No.” Lu Qing shook her head and said, “Even without me, I believe Ling would still be able to get here.”

"Really?" Ling seemed to be happily sparkling, and then without waiting for Lu Qing to answer, she directly entered the interior of the wind element.

With a dazzling light, the void energy within the wind element was completely purified, and a faint breeze flew out from within the wind element, landing on Lu Qing's body.

[Congratulations to the player for receiving the blessing of the wind element!]

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Chapter 559: Flight

[Congratulations to the player for receiving the blessing of the wind element!]

[You have obtained: the properties of flow obstruction and the properties of flow acceleration]

[With the power of the wind element, you can stop or accelerate the flow of anything that is moving, such as air currents, water currents, and quicksand.]

[Note: The blessing will only be effective during this world session. Once the player returns to the game lobby, the Wind Sprite's blessing will take on a different form.]

As Lu Qing looked at the words in the diary and felt the wind elemental power swirling within her body, she moved her mind, and the wind walls surrounding the wind element slowly came to a standstill.

This is the power of the wind element's blessing—the ability to still or accelerate flowing things.

"The wind element has bestowed its blessing because we helped it clear the void power within!" Ling floated beside Lu Qing and said after Lu Qing stopped the flow of the wind wall.

“It is indeed a very convenient ability.” Lu Qing said after thinking for a moment. This skill is highly controllable, and she thought of more than one way to use it in a very short time.

"Let's go down first," Lu Qing said, looking at the chaotic storm below.

She stopped all the air currents around her and her body plummeted downwards. The violent air currents and wind blades composed of wind elements all disappeared before they even reached Lu Qing.

Just then, a loud eagle cry rang out from afar. Lu Qing and Ling looked in the direction from which the eagle cry came and immediately saw Maeveline flying in the storm.

She spread her tattered wings and flew against the fierce wind. Because she hadn't flown for years and one of her wings was severely damaged, Maevelyn's flight looked somewhat clumsy, as if she might fall from the sky at any moment.

"Wow!!"

Maevelyn shouted loudly, and the wind element on her wings seemed to reach its peak at that moment. She quickly swooped down to the ground, then flapped her wings violently and leaped over the high cliff. Before Lu Qing could react, Maevelyn caught her and Ling as they fell from the air.

"It feels so good to be flying again..." Maevelyn said with great emotion after catching Lu Qing.

The raging winds could not interfere with her flight, and the sharp wind blades could not leave a single scratch on her feathers. Lu Qing sat on Maevelyn's back, feeling the wind blowing across her cheeks.

Lu Qing tidied her hair and said, "Thank you for your help."

“It’s nothing troublesome, just going home.” Maevelyn nodded and flew swiftly toward the canopy of the sacred tree.

She deployed a barrier while flying, so that Lu Qing did not feel the recoil from the high-speed flight.

As it flew over the dark Lake Fanling, Bolton, hidden in the river, slowly raised its head, its eyes gleaming with a murky light.

“Bring Wu Tian back, don’t let her sleep in there,” Bolton said to the Bui beside him.

"Bui~"

The Bui responded softly to Bolton, then left the rocks on both sides of the riverbank and disappeared into the dense bushes.

......

"We'll be there soon." After leaving Storm Valley, without the support of wind elements, Maevelyn's flight speed slowed down considerably. Now, it would be more accurate to describe her as gliding than flying.

A hint of reluctance appeared on her face. She hadn't felt this sensation of flying for decades. However, once the wind elements that had accumulated in Storm Valley for over a decade returned to calm, she could no longer fly.

"Whoosh..."