A beauty coming out of the bath was like a lotus flower emerging from the water.
Ling Qingxue's face was still flushed because she had soaked in the hot water for a long time. Her hair was still wet, and it hung by her cheeks, making her look even more alluring.
She had changed into a set of light purple Han Chinese clothing, and a belt with complicated and beautiful patterns was tied around her slender waist. Her wide sleeves revealed a section of her white and tender forearm, which was like a lotus root. As she walked, her robe swayed gently, making her look as alluring as a fairy.
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but stare blankly at Ling Qingxue as he murmured, "Graceful as a swan, graceful as a dragon. Glorious as the autumn chrysanthemum, magnificent as the spring pine. Like the moon covered by the light clouds, floating like the returning snow in the wind … "
Ling Qingxue couldn't help but blush even more when she heard that. She rolled her eyes at Xia Ruofei and said, "Nonsense again! How can I compare to Hero Luo … "
Xia Ruofei said in all seriousness, "Qingxue, in my opinion, Hero Luo can't even compare to one-thousandth of you!"
"Glib tongue …" Ling Qingxue muttered under her breath, but her heart was filled with joy.
Xia Ruofei smiled and asked, "Do you feel better now?"
Ling Qingxue hooked her arm around Xia Ruofei's arm and gently leaned her face on Xia Ruofei's shoulder. "Thank you, Ruofei! You're so good to me! "
Xia Ruofei reached out and caressed Ling Qingxue's cheek. He smiled and said, "Isn't this what I should do? If I'm not good to you, who will be good to you? "
Then, Xia Ruofei said, "Since you're done here, let's go do the mission!"
Actually, when Ling Qingxue was still bathing, Xia Ruofei had already seen the second part of the chain mission through the Perceptive Mirror.
The mission content was very simple — collect ten Star Fern Thorn Soul Essences.
Aside from the contents of the mission, it also provided information about the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence.
The so-called Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence was naturally the soul essence extracted from the Star Fern Thorn. In fact, as long as the Star Fern Thorn died, there was a chance for the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence to appear. However, the probability was relatively low. As for how low it was, Xia Ruofei didn't know because the mission prompt on the Perception Mirror didn't specify it.
However, judging from the fact that the mission only required him to obtain 10 Star Fern Thorn Soul Essences, the probability of obtaining them was shockingly low.
When Ling Qingxue heard this, she couldn't help but ask anxiously, "Ah? You've already received the second round of the quest? Why didn't you call me? It's not right to waste time taking a bath! "
Xia Ruofei caressed Ling Qingxue's face lovingly and said with a smile, "We have the Time Formation! No matter how long you take, it's only a few minutes. It's not a problem! You finally get to soak in a hot bath, so of course you have to soak to your heart's content. How could I bear to interrupt you? "
In fact, this mission did have a time limit. It had to be completed within ten hours. Otherwise, the mission would be considered a failure.
This round didn't mention the mission record, so there was naturally no reward for breaking the record.
Xia Ruofei analyzed it and knew that this mission was more or less a test of luck. If one was lucky, they might be able to obtain a Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence after destroying the first Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence. If one was unlucky, they might not be able to obtain a single Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence even after destroying hundreds or thousands of Star Fern Thorns.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei didn't think that wasting a few minutes on Ling Qingxue's bath was a big deal.
Ling Qingxue said with some self-reproach, "It's all my fault! Ruofei, let's hurry up and do the mission! What's the second round of the quest? Forget it, let's talk as we walk! "
Xia Ruofei chuckled and waved his hand. "No rush! No rush! "
With that said, Xia Ruofei put away the array flags, the array formation, and the temporary bathroom. Then, he took Ling Qingxue with him on the Curved Frost Flying Sword and flew to the location of the Star Fern Thorn Girdle that had been burned to ashes.
When Ling Qingxue saw Xia Ruofei stop, she couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Ruofei, why did you stop again? We should hurry up! "
Xia Ruofei said, "The second round of the quest is to collect the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence. The Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence is formed after the Star Fern Thorn dies. I was wondering if there would be a few Soul Essences left after we burned so many Star Fern Thorns. If we can directly find the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence, wouldn't it be faster than us searching for the Star Fern Thorns? "
Ling Qingxue was dumbfounded. She asked, "That's possible? Don't tell me that's against the rules? "
Xia Ruofei said without a care, "As long as there are no laws against it, then it's not against the rules! Let's give it a try first! We'll talk about it later if it doesn't work! "
Xia Ruofei's Perceptive Mirror could immediately determine the completion of the quest, so he would know if this method was feasible after giving it a try.
It was one thing if he couldn't find the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence in the ashes of the Star Fern Thorn Belt, but if he could find it and see if there were any changes to the quest progress, then everything would be clear.
Xia Ruofei led Ling Qingxue on the Qu Shuang Flying Sword and flew past the ashes of the Star Fern Thorn Belt. His spiritual power constantly scanned the ashes.
There were many Star Fern Thorns in the belt, which had a radius of one kilometer and a depth of about fifty meters. The ashes also formed a thick belt.
Fortunately, Xia Ruofei's spiritual power had improved by leaps and bounds, so he could completely search through the complicated ash belt in a short amount of time.
Xia Ruofei led Ling Qingxue across about half of the ash belt before suddenly stopping.
Ling Qingxue hurriedly asked, "Ruofei, did you find anything?"
Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "I'm not sure either. Let's see how it goes first!"
After saying that, he waved his hand, and the white ashes below immediately scattered in all directions, revealing a black oval-shaped bead.
Xia Ruofei's hand made a grabbing motion, and the black oval-shaped bead was immediately sucked into his hand.
Xia Ruofei held the black oval-shaped bead in his hand and immediately felt a faint flow of energy. Clearly, this wasn't an ordinary bead.
He was delighted and focused his attention on the quest progress bar at the top of the Perceptive Mirror.
At that moment, there was indeed a change in the quest progress bar. It went from the original 0/10 to 1/10.
The method worked!
Xia Ruofei's face immediately showed a hint of joy. He said to Ling Qingxue, "It's done! Qingxue, this is the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence. The quest requires us to search for ten Star Fern Thorn Soul Essences. When I got this oval-shaped bead, the quest progress bar showed that I had already found one. Now, there are only nine left! "
Ling Qingxue couldn't help but be speechless. After a while, she said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "It can actually be done like this … Only someone like you, who doesn't play by the rules, can think of something like this!"
Xia Ruofei laughed and said, "Who cares! It doesn't matter if it's a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch mice, it's a good cat. As long as it can complete the quest! "
"Mm!" Ling Qingxue nodded heavily and said, "Then let's hurry up and continue! If this Star Fern Thorn Belt can produce ten soul essences, doesn't that mean we don't have to do anything and the quest will be completed? "
Xia Ruofei said, "Haha! Let's continue, let's continue! "
He habitually tried and found that the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence still couldn't be stored in the Ring-Tu space. This was expected, so he didn't care. He directly put the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence into his pocket, then continued to search with Ling Qingxue on his sword.
Reality proved that the probability of the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence being produced was indeed very low. The two of them searched the entire Star Fern Thorn Belt. In the end, they found another soul essence just as the search was about to end. The quest progress bar refreshed to 2/10.
Although they had completed one-fifth of the quest effortlessly, Xia Ruofei's expression became even more serious.
The reason was very simple. The probability of the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence being produced was simply too low.
There were at least thousands of densely packed Star Fern Thorns in the one-kilometer-diameter, 50-meter-deep ring-shaped belt. However, only two Star Fern Thorns were burned to death and formed soul essences.
According to this probability, Xia Ruofei and Ling Qingxue would have to destroy at least four times the number of Star Fern Thorn Soul Essences in order to collect the remaining eight Star Fern Thorn Soul Essences.
The problem was that the Star Fern Thorns were very scattered in this wasteland. Often, there would only be one or two Star Fern Thorns in a large area. It was impossible to use a formation to burn such a large area like the Star Fern Thorn Belt.
Therefore, it was actually quite difficult to find ten Star Fern Thorn Soul Essences within the time limit set by the quest.
The Star Fern Thorns weren't just for decoration. They were very powerful, and their defenses were also very strong. Although Xia Ruofei had already found the Star Fern Thorn's weakness and could use fire to increase the efficiency, Xia Ruofei's fire attack was more suitable for dealing with a large number of Star Fern Thorns. If they had to set up a fire attack formation for just one Star Fern Thorn and then spend yuan crystals to burn it, not only would the cost be extremely high, but the efficiency would also be very low.
Ten hours was far from enough.
Xia Ruofei felt that there had to be another way. Otherwise, no one would be able to complete such a quest.
However, there was no point in racking his brains here. He had to give it a try first.
Ling Qingxue clearly also thought of the difficulties involved. She asked with a worried expression, "Ruofei, do we have enough time?"
Xia Ruofei nodded and said, "The drop rate of these soul essences is too low. We still have more than nine hours. If we're unlucky, we might not be able to complete the quest …"
"Yeah! There are so many Star Fern Thorns, but only two soul essences are dropped. The probability is too low. "Ling Qingxue frowned slightly.
"The rules can't be changed. We can only do our best to complete the quest!" Xia Ruofei said decisively. "Let's go find the Star Fern Thorns first! We'll know once we give it a try! "
"Okay!"
Xia Ruofei used his spiritual power to quickly scan the entire Star Fern Thorns Ring's ashes to ensure that nothing had slipped through the net. Then, he left with Ling Qingxue on his Qu Shuang Flying Sword.
In reality, there were quite a few Star Fern Thorns in this wasteland. When Xia Ruofei and Ling Qingxue came here, they had to deliberately avoid certain areas to avoid being attacked by the Star Fern Thorns.
However, the distribution of these Star Fern Thorns was simply too scattered.
Even though Xia Ruofei's flame formation could cover a radius of more than a kilometer, it couldn't cover much of the Star Fern Thorns. It also consumed a lot of energy.
However, Xia Ruofei didn't have any other choice. He could only try this method.
After flying for a while with Ling Qingxue on his flying sword, he found an area where the Star Fern Thorns were relatively denser and prepared to set up the formation.
Of course, this was only relative to other areas. It was still a far cry from the Star Fern Thorns Ring's airtight distribution.
Xia Ruofei roughly estimated that there were only about a hundred Star Fern Thorns in a radius of more than a kilometer.
Xia Ruofei carefully avoided the attack range of the Star Fern Thorns and spent about ten minutes setting up the flame formation. Then, he didn't hesitate to insert an origin crystal into the core of the formation. He made a hand seal to activate the formation. Even though Xia Ruofei's flame formation could cover a radius of more than a kilometer, it couldn't cover much of the Star Fern Thorns and consumed a lot of energy.
However, Xia Ruofei didn't have any other choice. He could only try this method.
After flying for a while with Ling Qingxue on his flying sword, he found an area where the Star Fern Thorns were relatively denser and prepared to set up the formation.
Of course, this was only relative to other areas. It was still a far cry from the airtight distribution of the Star Fern Thorns Ring's airtight distribution.
Xia Ruofei roughly estimated that there were only about a hundred Star Fern Thorns in a radius of more than a kilometer.
Xia Ruofei carefully avoided the attack range of the Star Fern Thorns and spent about ten minutes setting up the flame formation. Then, he didn't hesitate to insert an origin crystal into the core of the formation. He made a hand seal to activate the formation. Even though Xia Ruofei's flame formation could cover a radius of more than a kilometer, it couldn't cover much of the Star Fern Thorns and consumed a lot of energy.
However, Xia Ruofei had no other choice. He could only try this method.
After flying for a while with Ling Qingxue on his flying sword, he found an area where the Star Fern Thorns were relatively denser and prepared to set up the formation.
Of course, this was only relative to other areas. It was still a far cry from the airtight distribution of the Star Fern Thorns Ring's airtight distribution.
Xia Ruofei roughly estimated that there were only about a hundred Star Fern Thorns in a radius of more than a kilometer.
Xia Ruofei carefully avoided the attack range of the Star Fern Thorns and spent about ten minutes setting up the flame formation. Then, he didn't hesitate to insert an origin crystal into the core of the formation. He made a hand seal to activate the formation. Even though Xia Ruofei's flame formation could cover a radius of more than a kilometer, it couldn't cover much of the Star Fern Thorns and consumed a lot of energy.
However, Xia Ruofei had no other choice. He could only try this method.
After flying for a while with Ling Qingxue on his flying sword, he found an area where the Star Fern Thorns were relatively denser and prepared to set up the formation.
Of course, this was only relative to other areas. It was still a far cry from the airtight distribution of the Star Fern Thorns Ring's airtight distribution.
Xia Ruofei roughly estimated that there were only about a hundred Star Fern Thorns in a radius of more than a kilometer.
Xia Ruofei carefully avoided the attack range of the Star Fern Thorns and spent about ten minutes setting up the flame formation. Then, he didn't hesitate to insert an origin crystal into the core of the formation. He made a hand seal to activate the formation.
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