Chapter 74: The Way Praying Fate and Sundial Needle Work Together

Finally, the flame-tailed squirrel was named Xiao Hong by Yue Li, a name as hastily chosen as Xiao Qing's, making Qin Chuan feel that, at last, he had an ally in his naming ineptitude.

And Xiao Hong's strength also surged after the contract.

Originally just a Juvenile Stage Lv4 creature, it was first directly raised by Yue Li using an Experience Gem to Juvenile Stage Lv10, and then Yue Li used two random low-level resources exchanged from the Achievement Shop and one self-selected low-level resource to directly advance it.

As everyone knows, before Praying Fate, random equals self-selected.

If it weren't for the lack of Experience Fruits and Experience Gems, Xiao Hong could probably have reached Growth Tier Lv20 today.

Innate thriftiness and obsession with food meant Xiao Hong didn't forget the small pile of food left in the shelter when she left; to celebrate her surging strength, she took out all the food and shared it with everyone.

After a hearty meal, the two persons and three beasts continued on their way.

What lay ahead were entirely regions Qin Chuan had never set foot in.

The first talent of the Sundial Needle suddenly became active.

Almost every few tens of meters, Qin Chuan would see a flashing cursor before his eyes, indicating resources within a one‑kilometer radius, at the very least something like Energy Fruits.

After Qin Chuan used this second talent yesterday, he took her around the vicinity, and just like turning on a navigation system, every place they passed yielded a harvest.

"They're mostly Experience Fruits, and most of them are of useless attributes." Qin Chuan laughed and shook his head.

At this moment, they were about ten thousand meters from the boundary of yesterday's detection range.

This also left a sliver of space for the other Spirit Beasts nearby.

The joy of being carried through the air is unimaginable!

But the next instant, Yue Li suddenly thought of something, grabbed Qin Chuan, and said, "Wait a moment."

"Your efficiency is too scary." As the item equipment bar gradually filled, Yue Li's eyes lit up. "Come clean—your talent isn't Insight, is it? Many people speculate that Insight has detection effects."

Although it lights up a cursor when resources are nearby, it never tells you the specific information; often Xiao Qing and Shui Hua go over and find only useless‑attribute Experience Fruits.

"Can't there be a little sincerity and trust between people? I really am a Purple Talent!"

"Huh?" Qin Chuan's mouth twitched slightly. "Doesn't the word Insight mean seeing through the truth? What truth are resources?"

Xiao Qing and Shui Hua, one in the sky and one on the ground, could each bring back a bunch of resources on every sortie under Qin Chuan's guidance; Qin Chuan and Yue Li only needed to collect and sort them, and the efficiency was so high that the newly contracted Xiao Hong was so startled she almost dropped her Spirit Beast snacks.

"I want to try—if I first give you Luck, then you detect resources, what would happen?"

"Just teasing you." Yue Li giggled. "But your talent is really over the top—along this route Shui Hua and Xiao Qing have had no rest."

"Shall we begin?" Yue Li's face showed an expectant look.

Compared with the latter two talents, the first talent of the Sundial Needle is considerably inferior.

Saying this, Qin Chuan stopped his steps, "In comparison, my second talent is more useful."

"Huh?" Qin Chuan blinked at the words.

It was time to use the second talent for a large‑scale detection.

Although these things could be sold, gathering them would occupy most of the item equipment bar and waste a lot of time, so Qin Chuan simply had Xiao Qing and Shui Hua discard them on sight.

One can still do it this way?

He couldn't help but show a doubtful expression.

Although it's said, Praying Fate is a Gold Talent.

But resources exist objectively; exploration merely discovers their locations.

What else could Luck affect?

"Come on, try it~" Seeing Qin Chuan's doubt, Yue Li took his hand and shook it twice, her eyes blinking.

"Then let's try." Qin Chuan tilted his head slightly, while Yue Li wore a triumphant smile.

As she clasped her hands together, light once again enveloped Qin Chuan.

After Yue Li finished using her talent's effect, Qin Chuan's mind stirred.

The next instant, the area‑exploration map formed by his second talent appeared before him.

After Qin Chuan skillfully filtered out the hidden resources, over a hundred items were reduced to about twenty, and upon seeing one of them, he fell silent.

"Is it useful?" Yue Li asked, full of expectation.

"There's a piece of Starlight Equipment Material, wind‑aligned, favoring speed." Qin Chuan reported his findings, then added doubtfully, "You gave me Luck, so why did I find what you need?"

"Maybe…" Yue Li rolled her eyes. "Your Luck is too terrible to bring anything?"

Qin Chuan: "???"

"Just kidding!" Seeing Qin Chuan's existential doubt, Yue Li let out a "pfft" laugh. "Luck is a deep mystery—perhaps something fortunate has already happened, it's just that we didn't find resources suited to you."

"Maybe that's really the case." Qin Chuan accepted the explanation; at least it was more comforting than "your Luck is too bad to bring anything."

"The location of that Starlight Equipment Material also has an Ice low‑level resource." Qin Chuan took a deep breath. "This situation usually means…"

"A Guardian Beast." Yue Li took over. "But this Guardian Beast is likely Growth Tier, so with our current strength it poses no difficulty."

"Exactly." Qin Chuan laughed. "These two resources lie on our mandatory route ahead, so we'll first seek other resources and head there last."

"I'll follow your lead—charge!"

——

On the mandatory route ahead of the two of them stood a modest snow ridge.

On the snow ridge blew a cold wind, scattering snowflakes entwined in the gale; hidden within the natural beauty lay an unfathomable peril—this extreme low temperature could easily freeze weak living beings to death.

The wind swept over the mouth of an ice cave at the mountainside, but due to the terrain it could not flow into the cave.

This ice cave is a rare warm spot on the snow ridge, where a white wolf up to three meters long lies relaxed, eyes closed as if resting.

Another gust howled past the cave mouth, the scraping sound like a snow ghost's wail, but the white wolf had long grown accustomed, paying it no heed.

An utterly unremarkable snowflake, seemingly by chance, drifted into the cave.

The white wolf's heart jolted; it snapped its eyes open—only to see that snowflake rapidly grow, instantly turning into a petite figure.

As that figure appeared, a snow‑white long blade came down in a slash aimed at the white wolf's head.

"Awoo——"

It's you again!

The White Wolf's roar echoed in the ice cave, and its massive body sprang up instantly.

The newcomer's strength was far inferior to the White Wolf's; after a single exchange, they were instantly smashed against the ice cave's inner wall. Before the White Wolf could strike again, its body suddenly turned into countless flying snowflakes that scattered and merged into the cold wind outside the ice cave.

Only the White Wolf remained, its expression constantly shifting.

(End of chapter)