Inside the Fish Abyss Shelter.
"How did it go, Zhizhi?" Yu Yuan asked.
"Squeak—" The Hidden Rat looked up at Yu Yuan and nodded gently.
Yu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Before Zhizhi lay the [Wendigo Blood Crystal].
"Then let's begin!"
Zhizhi immediately stood on its hind legs and touched its tail to the [Wendigo Blood Crystal]. A fluctuation of spirituality rose from the crystal.
Under Zhizhi's guidance, a connection on the spiritual level began searching, using the [Wendigo Blood Crystal] as its medium.
The spiritual fluctuations then grew increasingly intense. Yu Yuan could even see ripples stirring in space.
Zhizhi was drawing some kind of energy from the [Wendigo Blood Crystal] to intensify the search.
Yu Yuan involuntarily took two steps back, but his gaze remained fixed on the ripples in space.
As he watched, those spatial fluctuations grew faster and faster, while the spiritual fluctuations they produced began to weaken.
Finally, the fluctuations vanished.
At the very moment the spiritual fluctuations disappeared.
Within Yu Yuan's field of vision, an extremely insubstantial, dim thread emerged from the point where Zhizhi touched the [Wendigo Blood Crystal].
Then a gray hole the size of a coin appeared in the void.
The thread rose and slipped into the gray hole, continuing to probe and establish a connection.
After several dozen seconds, the gray hole abruptly vanished.
The thread also sank into the void and slowly disappeared.
Crack!
The fist-sized [Wendigo Blood Crystal] gave a faint crack.
It broke apart before Yu Yuan's eyes, then crumbled into dust.
Yu Yuan looked at Zhizhi, a hint of inquiry in his eyes.
"Squeak—"
The next instant, Zhizhi slipped into Yu Yuan's shadow.
"Master, I found the Wendigo..."
With Zhizhi's confirmation, the corners of Yu Yuan's mouth finally curved upward.
"Well? Where is it?"
Yu