"Huai Guang will not lie, but will also not reveal the identity of any reluctant helper," Radiant Nun assured as the youth handed something to her.
She frowned upon seeing it but nodded anyway, after which he turned his head and set out.
Ian’s figure passed through the window, disappearing into the dark night and the torrential rain.
Without a moment of hesitation.
...
Solitary Flame Peak, Third Barrier Lake, an enormous structure formed by a catastrophic storm, torrential rain, and mudslides.
The vast mass of earth and rock blocked the valley and funneled the rainfall from surrounding mountains into it, forcing the Degan River to change its course while maintaining a strange equilibrium—there was a crack in the rock at the bottom of the lake, constantly draining water away, but there were still streams pouring into it, supplying it with fresh water.
The torrential rain continued unabated.
Amidst the cacophonous rainwater, gleams of dawn-like light shimmered.
In a gentle valley beside the Barrier Lake, several camel-beast-driven carts had halted by the side, and the camel beasts that had pulled them here had all passed out, slumped over where they lay.
Before these carts was the source of the dawn light.
There were four huge cultivation chambers filled with Spirit Energy Plant extract.
The refined nourishing extract of the Radiance Grass was immensely valuable, and even the rough extract was an excellent carrier of Spirit Energy. Filling these four chambers was certainly not something that could be managed by merely pilfering, but rather the result of years of secret planning, hiding production, and saving little by little.
In the intertwined light of purplish-red and golden-orange, one could vaguely discern the silhouettes of three children, faintly visible inside. Three cultivation chambers were arrayed in a triangular formation, while in the most central "empty chamber," a faint blue Spiritual Body could be seen undulating amid the Spirit Energy extract.
Beyond that, a muscular, severed arm lay within this chamber, and it was around this core that the faint blue Spiritual Body moved.
Because of the extract, the Spiritual Body was able to slightly interact with reality, churning the solution within the cultivation chamber until it was murky.
But under the gentle soothing of a black-haired, blue-eyed noble, the Spiritual Body gradually settled down.
He was missing an arm, making it evident that he was the owner of the severed limb.
At this moment, Baron Leyan’s complexion was pale. He raised his head to look at the rolling black rain clouds above, his expression distant and weakened, significantly changed from midday when he had received Radiant Nun and Ian.
"The Spirit Energy Field is stable..."
Muttering to himself, he lowered his head, pressing his face against the crystal wall of the central cultivation chamber, sensing the fluctuations within.
[Daddy...]
A muffled voice came through: [Daddy...]
"The fluctuations of the carrier have also stabilized."
Looking up, indifferent, or perhaps deliberately avoiding looking directly because he couldn’t face it, Baron Leyan nodded his head, then looked around at the three cultivation chambers.
Or rather, at the children inside these chambers.
"Are you all right, children?"
He asked wearily, "Any discomfort, difficulty breathing? I can increase the oxygen level a bit."
The first to respond was a brown-haired boy.
[I feel quite good, Daddy.]
Yila opened his eyes, his right eye still vividly red and full of vitality, while something was slowly regenerating in the socket of his forcefully excavated left eye.
His eye was slowly regrowing under the influence of Dawn Glow Grass Extract and some Regeneration Potion.
A light violet glow poured from his healthy eye and the healing eye socket, making the child smile. [I can clearly sense ’Brother’s’ thoughts.]
[The long-standing thoughts, impressions, and ’recognition’ that I implanted in the people of Leyan Territory over the years, alongside Linda’s Sister’s activation of Spirit Energy, have finally fully condensed his soul.]
[He’s still quite fragile though, Brother only remembers you and Uncle Moda apart from Daddy.]
[But I can endow him with memories.]