Silence, quiet.
Only the kneeling woman, bowing her head, pleaded softly in the woods.
Everyone's eyes widened slightly as they stared at her in shock.
No one expected the other party to use this method, not even the men who came with the woman.
His eyes were wide open, his gaze fixed on the woman. He wanted to speak up several times to dissuade her, but in the end he gave up the idea and stood silently to the side.
Shen Heng lowered his eyes slightly, his gaze falling deeply on the woman who was bowing and pleading.
Rather than that, he would prefer the other party to come and snatch it directly, just as he had thought earlier.
At least that way he could take the Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal with a clear conscience.
But now...
"Feel sorry."
Whispers began.
Calm yet with a clear sense of determination.
This sound brought complete silence to the forest.
Shen Heng glanced at the woman kneeling motionless on the ground, then turned and walked away.
The words you just said are enough to express your refusal; any additional words are merely excuses for your rejection.
Shen Heng doesn't need it.
This kneeling woman, bowing her head, is also unnecessary.
Le Gu Nan glanced at Shen Heng as he left, then looked at the woman still kneeling on the ground. She bit her lower lip and quickly followed behind Shen Heng.
The two of them walked away step by step into the distance.
Behind them, the woman remained kneeling on the ground, motionless.
At one point, her thin shoulders began to tremble slightly.
At first, it was just a barely perceptible tremor, but it quickly escalated and eventually turned into an uncontrollable low sob.
The man slowly walked to her side, and as he looked down at her, he finally let out a deep sigh.
The sound of sobbing drifted from afar.
Shen Heng continued walking forward expressionlessly.
Le Gu Nan couldn't help but look back several times.
Looking at the two people still standing in the same spot, looking at the woman kneeling on the ground trembling incessantly...
At one point, Shen Heng paused slightly.
He turned to look at the girl who had stopped behind him.
"I want to give it a try." Le Gu Nan stood still, looking at Shen Heng.
Shen Heng did not reply immediately, but instead focused his gaze on the other person's face.
The girl's face was serious and determined.
Although what she just said was a request, she had already made up her mind.
only...
"With your current abilities, you cannot Reconstruction the Lung Crystal of the Firmament Breath Beast."
Shen Heng looked at Le Gu Nan calmly, as if stating an objective fact.
Le Gu Nan said softly but earnestly:
"I know, but I never intended to Reconstruction a complete Lung Crystal of the Firmament Breath Beast."
"What I'm thinking about is whether it's possible to make a Lung Crystal that's much worse, but has similar functions."
"It may not be able to completely cure Weak Breath Disease like the Lung Crystal of the Firmament Breath Beast."
"But at least it can temporarily isolate or delay the influence of the Origin Power on her child, thereby prolonging her child's life."
"This timeframe might be ten days, twenty days, or thirty days!"
Are the less effective ones used to prolong life?
But is this little bit of time even worthwhile?
Shen Heng turned his gaze to the three figures in the distance.
After a moment, he looked away again.
"But even the inferior ones still require materials. Where do you plan to get the materials?"
"It should be in the body of the Firmament Breath Beast. Although the main part has condensed into Lung Crystal, there should still be some floating, unformed materials in its body. We just need to extract those!" Le Gu Nan said.
"This is at the micro level, you can't do it, can you?" Shen Heng looked at Le Gu Nan calmly.
Le Gu Nan's ability is Reconstruction.
It can rearrange and recombine matter.
In theory, it is indeed possible to manipulate things at the microscopic level.
However, all the abilities she has demonstrated so far have been developed at a macro level.
Her current attack methods, and the attack methods she is trying to develop, are all based on macro-level development.
And extract a possible element from the body of the Firmament Breath Beast.
While this wasn't quite at a microscopic level, it was still far beyond what Le Gu Nan could accomplish with the abilities she had previously demonstrated.
"Yes, it's possible, but..." Le Gu Nan paused for a moment,
"It's just that this method consumes too much time, Origin Power, and effort, so I basically don't use it under normal circumstances."
Shen Heng nodded slightly upon hearing this.
It's not surprising that micro-level consumption is high.
The reason why macroeconomic consumption is small is simply because it hasn't been scaled up to a certain extent. Once you scale it up to a certain extent, macroeconomic consumption will be frighteningly huge.
"So," Shen Heng looked at Le Gu Nan, "Are you sure you can do it?"
"Hmm." Le Gu Nan nodded seriously.
"In that case, let's go over there," Shen Heng said calmly.
After saying that, he turned around again and walked back to where he had been standing.
A smile appeared on Le Gu Nan's face, and he quickly followed after her.
Hu Yang remained silently watching the woman kneeling on the ground.
Suddenly, he looked up in surprise at the two people who were walking back.
Why are you back?
Upon hearing the sound, Tao Man stopped crying. She raised her head somewhat bewildered, looking at the two people approaching with confusion in her eyes.
Shen Heng glanced at the two of them, raised his hand in a gesture toward Le Gu Nan, and said:
"My colleague."
"Her ability allows her to extract some of the loose, unformed Lung Crystal from the body of the Firmament Breath Beast."
"The effect cannot possibly reach the level of the Firmament Breath Beast Lung Crystal."
"But extending the patient's life a little longer should still be no problem."
"But don't overthink it. An extension of ten days to two weeks is probably already very good."
Upon hearing that it could prolong the patient's life, Tao Man's eyes lit up, but Shen Heng's subsequent mention of time immediately dimmed her gaze again.
Hu Yang glanced at Tao Man, then quickly turned his gaze to Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan.
"It's alright, every little bit of extra time helps. Maybe that little bit of extra time will allow us to find news of the next Firmament Breath Beast?"
Shen Heng nodded; he had come with the same idea in mind.
Shen Heng turned his head and looked at Le Gu Nan.
"I need to analyze the Lung Crystal of the Firmament Breath Beast first," Le Gu Nan said softly.
Upon hearing this, Shen Heng took out the Lung Crystal of the Firmament Breath Beast from his backpack and handed it over.
Le Gu Nan took the lung, which was covered with a bright white crystal, with both hands.
A silver-gray thread darted out from beside her hand and slipped inside.
More than ten minutes later.
The silver-gray threads faded, Le Gu Nan stood there silently looking at the Lung Crystal in his hand, memorizing the structure of the Lung Crystal that had just been analyzed.
After a while, she handed the Lung Crystal to Shen Heng.
Shen Heng took the Lung Crystal, and then saw Le Gu Nan walk to the side of the Firmament Breath Beast's corpse.
She gently crouched down and raised her hand to cover the corpse of the Firmament Breath Beast.
Same thread, same drilling.
However, this time it took much longer than before.
Half an hour, an hour, two hours...