Chapter 454: Incomplete Elemental Essences! Leng Yuexi

"Good." Leng Yuexi nodded and released the metal sphere she had retrieved into her space ring before the battle.

Hum—

The metal sphere floated to the transparent glass dome and projected faint blue virtual rays, scanning meticulously.

Only a few seconds later, it delivered its analysis:

"Information collection complete. The probability that these three energy clusters are elemental essences is 96%.

Fire elemental essence has an 87% probability of triggering an A-rank ability transformation into S-rank.

Light elemental essence has a 24% probability of triggering an A-rank ability transformation into S-rank.

Water elemental essence has a 26% probability of triggering an A-rank ability transformation into S-rank."

As the words ended, Xu Jingming and Leng Yuexi both frowned:

"What's going on? Why is the success rate for ability transformation so vastly different among these elemental essences?"

"After more than two thousand years, for unknown reasons, the energy of light and water elemental essences has severely depleted.

Fire elemental essence has been better preserved, hence the disparity in transformation success rates."

The metal sphere's mechanical voice spoke again.

"Energy loss... this..."

Leng Yuexi froze, her expression troubled.

If all three elemental essences were intact, it would be simple—divide them equally.

But now, the other two elemental essences offer barely over 20% transformation success rate.

They might as well be defective, their value drastically diminished.

Everything else left in this ancient civilization combined couldn't match the worth of this intact fire elemental essence.

And this essence was precisely the one she absolutely needed to obtain...

After a moment's thought, she made her decision, her beautiful eyes turning to Xu Jingming with sincerity:

"Brother Jingming, the fire elemental essence among these three is extremely important to me.

How about this division: I take the fire elemental essence, and you take the light and water elemental essences.

Also, the two remaining remains of the Golden Guard units are yours as well."

These were the most valuable items in the entire civilization base.

She only wanted the fire elemental essence—everything else went to Xu Jingming.

"No problem. I'll follow Sister Xi's arrangement." Xu Jingming didn't care much about it.

His primary goal in entering the Kanda Wilderness was harvesting ability points.

Entering the ruin was merely incidental; any extra gains were a bonus.

"Perfect!"

Leng Yuexi's eyes lit up, her cheeks flushing slightly with excitement.

She immediately pulled Xu Jingming into a warm embrace, giving him a face wash:

"Brother Jingming, you're absolutely amazing!"

"Sss."

Caught off guard, he felt the astonishing softness—no less than Song Qiuyun's.

Xu Jingming gasped, unsure whether to return the hug or push her away.

Fortunately, the embrace was brief; Leng Yuexi quickly let him go, smiling brightly:

"Let's go. First, get the elemental essences."

She opened the glass dome and retrieved all three elemental essences.

She kept the fire one for herself and handed the other two over:

"Here, these two elemental essences are yours.

Elemental essences differ from ordinary heavenly treasures—they don't require special storage; you can keep them anywhere."

"Alright." Xu Jingming nodded and took the two glowing orbs.

Unlike the energy forms he imagined, these two elemental essences were surprisingly heavy—about one kilogram each.

Yet their sensations were entirely different: one felt warm like sunlight, the other cold like seawater.

"Two elemental essences—one light, one water.

Though both are incomplete, they're still decent. The light one can go to Qiuyun; the water one I can hold onto..."

Xu Jingming thought silently.

A 24% success rate certainly couldn't compare to the intact fire elemental essence.

But who knows? Maybe luck would favor him and the transformation would succeed?

"By the way, Yin Bai, is there a way to replenish the lost energy of elemental essences and restore their original transformation success rate?"

As Xu Jingming stored the two elemental essences in his space ring, he asked.

If it could be restored, he wouldn't need to rush giving it to Qiuyun.

"My database contains no records on this. However, elemental essences are condensed to the extreme form of elemental energy.

You could try going to places with dense elemental energy and see if they recover."

The metal sphere replied.

"Places with dense elemental energy? I understand." Xu Jingming nodded.

The training building at the headquarters of Lei Ting Martial Arts had elemental pools designed to enhance ability proficiency for different elemental abilities.

He could try going there.

If they truly could be restored, these two incomplete elemental essences would be a massive windfall!

"There's a similar location on the Chaos Triangle Domain side. Once we get back, I can take you there."

Leng Yuexi nodded as well, then said with barely contained eagerness:

"Jingming, keep an eye on the surroundings for me. I'm going to use this elemental essence now."

"That fast? Aren't you going to find a place dense with fire element and try to raise the success rate?"

Xu Jingming was somewhat surprised.

"No need. An 87% success rate is already high enough."

Leng Yuexi shook her head, a hint of anticipation on her fair, pretty face:

"Besides, even if the evolution fails, it's still a pseudo S-rank ability. There's no way to lose."

"Fair enough. Alright, go ahead and use it. This way I can also see exactly how this elemental essence is used."

Crackle-crackle—

Blazing golden lightning erupted around them, enveloping Xu Jingming, Leng Yuexi, and a stretch of the surrounding area.

This was the perfected Lightning Barrier, whose size could be controlled at will.

With this layer of protection in place, even if something unexpected happened, there would be a safeguard.

Seeing this, Leng Yuexi also sat cross-legged on the ground, placed the fire-element essence on her lap, and said softly:

"Using elemental essence is very simple. You just need to touch it with your ability..."

As she spoke, a wisp of crimson flame appeared out of thin air and swiftly coiled around the red elemental essence.

Boom!!

The instant the flame wrapped around it, it was as if some switch had been flipped—the entire crimson orb of light suddenly exploded!

Immediately after, scorching flames surged out, engulfing Leng Yuexi completely.

The color of her original crimson flame ability instantly began to deepen.

At the same time, the dangerous aura it gave off grew ever more terrifying, so much so that even Xu Jingming felt a twinge of unease.

"This aura... it feels like it's definitely going to evolve into S-rank..."

Xu Jingming's eyes flickered as he carefully observed the evolution process.

Later on, he could also let Song Qiuyun use that light-element essence.

Hooooooom~~~

Blazing flames roared as the temperature in the entire side hall rose sharply.

In less than a minute, it had climbed to well over a thousand degrees!

Under this terrifying heat, the black instrument at the very center had already begun to self-ignite.

Even Xu Jingming furrowed his brow slightly. If the temperature kept climbing, he was afraid even he wouldn't be able to withstand it.

Meanwhile, Leng Yuexi, still seated cross-legged on the ground, kept climbing in aura...