The pitch-black passage lay deathly silent, the unceasing dangers that had plagued them from the moment they entered having vanished like smoke.
Lu Ye leaned against the cave wall while Nian Yuexian nestled against his chest. Both hurriedly employed their methods to restore their strength.
The crunching sounds were exceptionally abrupt amid the silence.
Nian Yuexian paid them little mind at first, but she soon sensed that something was wrong. It did not sound like someone chewing Spiritual Pills. Sweeping out with her divine sense, her eyes filled with shock.
She discovered that Lu Ye was actually eating Demonic Cores!
"Are you all right?"
How could a person eat Demonic Cores? She was well-traveled and knowledgeable, yet she had never even heard of such a thing. Demonic Cores did indeed contain immense energy, but that was the essence of a Monster Beast's cultivation. To cultivators, it was mixed and impure. Never mind whether it could be refined and absorbed—if it could, it would still make one's Spiritual Power incomparably murky.
"This subordinate is unharmed!" Lu Ye casually replied, continuing to eat the Demonic Cores. Vast clouds of gray mist rose from the Talent Tree, and the Spiritual Power in his nearly depleted body swiftly began to recover.
Nian Yuexian did not press him further. Though Lu Ye's actions puzzled her, this was clearly not the time to investigate such matters. She could ask him about it properly when there was time later.
They continued recuperating and regulating their breaths.
Borrowing the immense vitality within Lu Ye's body, coupled with the foundation of Nian Yuexian's own Divine Sea Realm cultivation, her injuries also recovered rapidly.
Only her bloodstained clothes could not be changed for the moment.
But those were trivial details and did not affect anything.
While the two recuperated, Ying