âDo you want some?â Alex Rockefeller asked.
âWhat do you think? I want both!â Luna Flores regained her strength. She then grabbed all the grilled
fish through the air. âIf you want to eat, go and catch new ones,â she said.
With that, Luna returned to the cave with the grilled fish.
Alex smacked himself on the head. He didnât have any other choice.
In the night, Alex stayed in the front half of the cave. Meanwhile, Luna stayed in the back half of the
cave. Alex didnât plan to sleep because he was afraid that the female demon might suddenly do
something to him while he was asleep.
However, later in the night, Luna called him in.
Alex lit up a fire. âWhy are you not sleeping in the middle of the night, and why did you ask me to come
over?â he asked.
Luna sat in a cross-legged manner. âSince I cannot sleep, and neither can you, letâs discuss how we
can get the Dragon Blood Vine.â
âArenât you tired?â Alex asked.
âCows die from exhaustion, but the field is evergreen. Havenât you heard of this saying?â Luna said.
âOh, but the field does get all dried up,â Alex retorted.
Wham!
Luna reached for a piece of rock and forcefully threw it at Alex. Fortunately, Alex managed to catch it.
âHerschel Lancaster is a Nascent Soul expert. When he hit you during the day, he was prepared to kill
you. If you didnât have a protection amulet with you, you wouldnât have been able to escape! Even so,
youâve been terribly injured. It took me great effort to save your life,â Alex said. He sat about ten meters
away from Luna.
âI didnât expect this either. When did Herschel become a Nascent Soul expert?â Luna was also feeling
bothered by it, but she didnât want to give Alex an easy time. âIf you knew I was severely injured, why
were you still so rough?â Luna asked.
âMy mind was influenced by your demonic Chi. If you hadnât attacked me, this wouldnât have happened!
But I must thank you. Your Demonic Chi helped in my spiritual powerâs evolution. Thatâs why I was able
to break through to Core Formation,â Alex said.
Luna didnât reply to Alex.
To be honest, she also made some progress. Alexâs spiritual power also increased the level of her
demonic powers.
âAlright, letâs drop the matter. Neither ofus will bring it up again. Iâll just pretend that a dog had bitten
me,â Luna said.
âAlright. Iâll also pretend that a dog had bitten me,â Alex said.
â⦠Iâm going to kill Herschel,â Luna said.
âWhat? You were nearly killed earlier. Youâre no match for him,â Alex said.
âHavenât you achieved Core Formation? Weâve got hope now. If we want to get the Dragon Blood Vine,
we canât circle Herschel. The only way weâll succeed is if we kill him,â Luna said.
âWhat if another Nascent Soul shows up?â Alex asked.
âNo way? Do Nascent Souls grow on trees?â Luna asked.
âIf a disciple could achieve Nascent Soul, what about his master? I have another solution. If we canât go
rough, weâll use a soft approach⦠Weâll steal it! Dragon Blood Vines are buried under the ground.
Nobody will notice if we stole one.â
âHmm. How do we steal it?â
After that, the two of them discussed in detail.
Their discussion ended in relative silence.
The next day, they proceeded with the plan they had come up with, figuring out the defensive patterns
around Hygieia Valley. Theyâd then wait until it was nighttime to act.
However, at approximately ten oâclock in the morning, two ferries showed up on Witch River.
The ferries stopped at the Hygieia Valleyâs dock. Close to one hundred people got off the ferries, and
none of them seemed ordinary. Most importantly, they were all women.
A middle-aged woman shouted, âFloral Valley has arrived! Master Brahms, are you all prepared for the
pill-making competition that takes place once every three years?â
Her voice rumbled throughout Hygieia Valley like the sound of thunder.