Chapter 315 - Chapter 315: Chapter 284 Xu Ling_1 (1/2)

Chapter 315: Chapter 284 Xu Ling_1

“Big sister Ling Ling, will anyone come to save us?”

The children looked at Xu Ling with hopeful eyes, but Xu Ling didn’t know how to respond.

Rescue, definitely no one would come to save them. She once heard from her parents that this is a closed space, apart from the high and mighty figures in the central palace, no one could leave this place.

But if she told them the truth, these little ones, just like her, born here, would likely sink into complete despair.

“Certainly! Don’t you worry! As long as we hold on for a while longer, someone will come to save us!”

Xu Ling’s face broke into a smile, as if she was filled with hope for the future.

Seeing her in such high spirits, the children were slightly reassured.

“Time to eat!”

A young man, as skinny as a pole, walked into the dungeon and took bundles of Yinming flowers from his storage bag, shoving them into different cells like feeding pigs.

Inside the cells, apart from children around eight or nine years old like themselves, there were also quite a few adults. Compared to the hopeful children, these adults were lifeless and appeared to be waiting for death.

“Big sister Ling Ling, I don’t want to eat this!”

A little boy looked at the Yinming flowers in front of him with a resistant expression.

“I’ll choose some for you!”

Xu Ling picked two Yinming flowers that weren’t fully mature yet and whose Yin energy was not so heavy, and offered them to the boy, but he smacked them away.

“I won’t eat! I won’t eat!” the boy shouted angrily.

“Then just wait a bit longer to eat!”

Xu Ling didn’t insist further.

She was related to the boy by blood, as his cousin, so she always took good care of him, but her care had simply become the currency of his tantrums.

In the current situation, she wasn’t inclined to say more. He would naturally eat if he was hungry enough.

The young boy sat obstinately in the corner, watching as everyone picked up a Yinming flower and ground it into a pulp before swallowing it, like taking medicine. He couldn’t help clenching his fists.

After eating, everyone sat down in practiced way to expel the Yin energy within their bodies.

Though the Yinming flower is a tier-one spiritual medicine, long-term consumption in large quantities will still accumulate extensive Yin energy in the body. If not promptly eliminated or dispelled, the body will quickly deteriorate.

They were merely at the Qi Cultivation Stage of cultivation, and no matter how much they tried to dispel the Yin energy, some would always remain. With the accumulation over time, death is inevitable; it’s just a matter of time.

But they had no other choices. Yinming flowers were basically the only edible thing here.

Higher tier spiritual medicines would just make them die faster.

In the past, individuals from the palace would send them regular food. Back then, their only jobs were to cultivate the martial methods given by the palace and grow various spiritual medicines.

Life at that time was monotonous and dreary, but worry-free.

But things changed a year ago.

The individuals from the palace no longer appeared, and the wilderness started to swarm with spirits and puppet corpses. Although the spirits and puppet corpses wouldn’t attack them due to the martial methods, the loss of their food sources meant certain death.

At first, with the long-established prestige of the palace, the town managed to maintain stability.

However, as food became scarcer, chaos inevitably began to grow.

Before cultivators reach the Golden Core Stage, they need to eat, albeit less as their cultivation level increases.

The people in the town were all at the Qi Cultivation Stage. They could endure without food or drink for a few days, but they couldn’t last much longer.

They could use their skills to condense water, but food couldn’t be created out of thin air.

As time went by, the town grew increasingly chaotic.

Xu Ling’s parents died in one such upheaval.

She couldn’t even find their bodies.

As for where the bodies might have gone?

The group of people who imprisoned them was working on the same task each day.

The Yin-attribute spiritual medicines grown in the outside world can’t be used in large quantities. In order to live longer, those powerful figures started to band together, beginning to keep them as livestock.

They ate the spiritual medicines, and those figures turned them into food.

Thinking of the possibility that she could become food at any moment, how many could bear that? That’s why the faces of the adults were filled with despair and numbness.

Xu Ling’s only wish now was for someone from the palace to appear. If that happened, they would have a chance.

But as time passed, as their number continued to decrease, she was close to sinking into desperation as well.