Tang Yue looked at the damned quest from the shameless old man and then looked at the elf lying next to her from the corner of her eyes.
A guilty embarrassed look flashed past her dwarven face.
"No. No. No. I cannot take advantage of a friend like that." She shook her head and covered her head with the blanket.
But then… the big juicy reward floated in her eyes…
The truth was that all her physical attributes have been kind of stagnant lately.
She could no longer improve any resistance by simply munching on herbs or drinking spirit herbal concoctions.
So this method to craft a lightning domain rune couldn't have come at a better time.
The description itself was amazing and she could already imagine the benefits.
If she used this rune, she would basically be enclosed in a small space filled with exponentially increasing lightning currents.
This could basically temper her body from top to bottom with pure lightning bolts.
Not only would it improve her lightning resistance but it would also improve her physical body as a whole, strengthening the meridians, bones, muscles, and tendons.
So when she considered all these benefits as a whole, it was too difficult for her to ignore the quest and its reward.
But at the same time, molesting the innocent woman, who had come all this way just to help her, was also out of the question.
Tang Yue was completely torn.
Of course, there were other lightning domain runes available in the market, but she doubted if any would be as effective as the one rewarded by the system.
She was too tired and drained from the evolution process to think about this right now and decided to sleep on the problem.
She had a 30-hour time limit for the quest and can potentially finish it tomorrow as well if she wanted to.
Gulp. Tang Yue took another look at the peacefully sleeping elf-vixen woman, who looked adorable and extremely cute.
She closed her eyes quickly and went to sleep.
While these two women slept soundly, along with the snoring wolf cub, the little kid alone tossed and turned restlessly throughout the entire night as if he had a severe case of indigestion.
The next day when Tang Yue looked at him, he had huge eyes bags under his eyes.
"Awww. Sorry, my dear. Was the floor very uncomfortable? Maybe I should try and sneak you into another room?" She clicked her tongue.
The kid immediately shook his head vigorously. "I only want to sleep in big sister's room."
Nope! No way! I am not letting that damned elf sleep next to you without my supervision. Xander's head hurt. This was torture.
Tang Yue worriedly smiled and nodded. "Whatever you want."
She had a busy day ahead so she quickly changed into a different robe and headed outside.
The maid informed her that Kosa had already left the house to work in the mine.
So she quickly walked over to the mines as well.
And just like the previous day, she silently sat down near the entrance cultivated her earthen elemental essence instead of following Kosa around and trying to help him.
But whenever the old man did not look in her direction, she quickly retrieved some raw meat from her space pearl and gulped it down.
Tang Yue was finally feasting on the high-grade quagmire centipede meat that she had saved for so long.
Though she got 'lesser earth elemental affinity' from devouring the Devil Boar, her cultivation would be a lot faster if she could increase this affinity.
And what could be better than a high-grade beast to achieve this target?
So Tang Yue had immediately started working on consuming the two centipede bodies she had.
It tasted awful and had a bland velvety texture, but Tang Yue bore with it and gulped it down bit by bit.
For this purpose, she had even left the little kid and Charlotte back at the house itself by giving some random excuse and only brought over the wolf cub today.
Xander had revolted badly by bawling his eyes out but in the end, Charlotte had used her palm to shut his mouth and dragged him inside forcefully.
Even though Tang Yue felt sorry for the kid, she didn't want to risk things and expose her dangerous secret.
So she had simply stifled her laughter at the duo's behavior and came over to the mine.
Luckily for Tang Yue, the old dwarf Kosa as well only worked until noon today.
He saw his daughter seated in a meditative pose and cultivating and sighed in tiredness.
"Child, don't work too hard. Come back home soon." He patted her before leaving.
And Tang Yue also obediently nodded.
She, however, did not have any intention of following his orders.
Once the dwarf left, Tang Yue headed deeper into the mines and started devouring the quagmire centipede meat with full gusto.
With her upgraded evolution abilities, she was now able to absorb 50% bloodline from a single low-grade beast.
So Tang Yue was curious to see just how much she could benefit from a single high-grade beast.
Her gamble of not consuming the high-grade beast immediately had paid off and it was time to see the results now.
It took Tang Yue the rest of the entire day to finish the single Quagmire centipede and she finally received the notification.
Ding. 20% Quagmire Centipede bloodline absorbed
Ding. 5% Quagmire Dragon bloodline absorbed
Ding. 5% Ethereal Swamp Crawler bloodline absorbed
The bloated dwarf girl grinned with satisfaction.
A whopping 20% bloodline from a high-grade beast consumption was a tremendous improvement!!!
"Now I only need two more of these disgusting centipedes to finally absorb my first high-grade bloodline."
Tang Yue clapped her hands in excitement, though the happiness quickly disappeared from her face.
Because unfortunately, she only had one more of these centipedes in her possession and didn't have the third and final one to actually finish the bloodline and trigger the evolution.