Chosen Mate of the Beastmen Empire by Lewis Reed

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Chapter 458

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Chapter 458

But aside from her, no one else seemed to notice the ripple–not even Melina, with her high cultivation. Nyx observed for a while, then pulled her gaze away thoughtfully.

No matter what, she wasn’t about to touch something so valuable. If anything went wrong, she’d never be able to pay for it.

The seeds she’d just bought were all the cheapest ones anyway. She’d only gotten her first month’s stipend, so her pockets were pretty light. Plus, she didn’t really want to dip into the money her master had given her yesterday.

With the seeds in hand, Eileen taught her how to plant them. She patiently explained the use of techniques, arrays, and puppets, then helped Nyx practice, planting all the seeds she’d bought.

“Try using your spiritual energy to water them,” Eileen instructed.

Nyx closed her eyes, focusing her mind, calming herself to feel the spiritual energy flowing through her meridians.

Then she raised her two little paws, summoning the Snow Dew Bottle. Her spiritual energy surged, spreading across the land, gathering the moisture in the air and weaving it into a fine, misty rain.

The freshly planted seeds immediately took root and sprouted at a visible rate, poking out of the soil and dyeing the ground a tender green.

“I like this!” A faint, indistinct ripple reached her.

Nyx didn’t even have time to savor the spiritual energy the plants fed back to her through the bottle. She opened her eyes in surprise, stunned for a long moment before daring to believe it wasn’t an illusion.

She turned to Eileen. “Eileen, do they have consciousness?”

“Hm?” Eileen had been about to praise Nyx when the question caught her off guard.

‘Is she asking if these spiritual plants have developed sentience? What kind of question is that? Of course not!” she thought.

thing to ask, but she still answered patiently. “It’s extremely rare for spiritual plants to develop consciousness. It takes eons of

had exceptional origins–like echinacea, lotus, or pokeweed–it might have a slightly better chance of gaining sentience. But

consciousness. Aside from holding a bit more spiritual energy and having some obvious uses, they’re not much different from plants in

to share what she’d felt, deciding to look into it more

Eileen, Nyx was left alone in the vast spiritual field, just one little rabbit. She sat there solemnly, staring at a white bamboo, and tentatively released her mental energy.

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in the body of a rabbit demon, her essence was still that of a divine tree sapling. in a different world,

was why she could sense the emotions of spiritual plants. Nyx pondered quietly while poking the white bamboo with her mental energy. Immediately, a clearer

white bamboo indeed lacked sentience, as Eileen had said—it wasn’t clever enough to speak, only having basic instincts–Nyx could somehow understand its meaning. “Water. Want more

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for plants that wanted their route to breathe spiritual energy flowed into the Snow Dew Youre from all directions, wrapping around her in a gentle stream, nourishing her meridians.

lunch. It

hadn’t eaten lunch either

all day and finally saw Nyx show up, He looked at her with reverence. “You really cultivate so hard”

such high talent and still working this hard, regular folks like him couldn’t possibly

been so absorbed

hurried to find Kian, not

some bamboo shoots, Nyx said with a wave of her hand,

a day of hard work, she definitely wanted to taste the fruits of her labor. She didn’t harvest all the shoots, only digging up a small portion and leaving

eventually spread into thousands. When that happened, she’d supply the outer

them?” Ernest picked

meant it. Bamboo shoots were common enough; the

them.

with spiritual energy. It almost made him want to

He handled the shoots with extra care