Chapter 53
For over a month, Michelle sat on the cold dusty ground cross-legged, her eyes closed as she kept sucking spirit energy from the annex’s basement into her body. The whole time, Nyxaroth was floating around the dark building, as if searching for something. Within the first day, he had already gone around it a few times, but he couldn’t find the thing that was making him restless. He felt something in the air, that was making the spirit energy much colder and denser. It didn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing, but not knowing what it was could lead to some dangers.
Finally, after over a month, he found a place where the spirit energy was way colder than everywhere else. It was strange that he found it only after a month, when he went around that one place many times and didn’t feel anything.
Nyxroth solidified and transformed into a young man dressed in black with black hair and black eyes. He walked around the place with the cold spirit energy and frowned a bit. He sat down, and tried to cultivate, but the spirit energy made him feel like his soul would freeze if he let it into his dantian, so he opened his eyes and stood up with a frown. The spirit energy was dangerous for him, but his guess was that it could be beneficial for Michelle with her cold body. But he still had to confirm what was causing the coldness.
So he searched around the place until he found a big crack in the wall behind an old empty shelf. After moving the shelf away, he placed his hand on the crack and hissed from the cold. Spreading his own spirit energy on the crack, he opened the crack enough so he could walk through it. The cold spirit energy that hit him made him grit his teeth, as he wasn’t quite a cold creature, but he walked in and entered the space behind the crack. There, he found a gleaming black stone. A Life Stone of a monster, definitely one with cold blood, most probably a snakish monster.
Nyxaroth wanted to inspect the Life Stone, but it was too cold around it, so he couldn’t approach it anymore. But since the cold spirit energy was caused by a Life Stone, he knew that it was safe for Michelle to cultivate there, so he transformed back into the black mist and went back to the basement. "Michelle..." his voice stirred Michelle out of her cultivation and she opened her eyes.
"What is it, Nyx?" she asked with a tilt of her head. "Did you find something?" Her purple eyes glimmered in the dark, because after cultivating the ark element spirit energy for over a month, she gained partial night vision and her eyes changed a bit.
Nyxaroth nodded a bit. "I found a Life Stone which might help with your cultivation."
Hearing that, Michelle was surprised. As far as she knew, monsters powerful enough to have life stones couldn’t be found in the lower realm and rarely in the middle realm. "A Life Stone? Here?" she frowned as she stood up and let Nyxaroth lead her to the place. It was on the third floor, and Michelle raised a brow when she felt the drop in temperature on the floor. She didn’t feel cold, but she noticed that Nyxaroth was clearly uncomfortable.
Nyxaroth pointed to the crack in the wall. "It’s behind the crack." Then, he just returned into Michelle’s body. Though her body was colder than the surrounding air, but as he was in a contract with her, the coldness of her body didn’t affect him, so he could hide from the cold there.