"Not only that." Elena said, "This small bottle of stuff is not only enough to cure all the hidden diseases in your body, but also greatly increase your lifespan. This is not an ordinary bottle of tree sap, but the essence collected by the dark elves at the millennium festival, and it also contains the blessings bestowed by the elders at that time. I estimate that it can increase your lifespan by at least a hundred years. It also has a miraculous effect on maintaining your youth. Maybe you will be like us elves, aging faster at the end of your life."
"One hundred years? That's a long time." Luo Ling glanced at Xiao Chen, "What if I only eat half? What if I give him the remaining half?"
"In that case, perhaps your injuries will not be completely healed. In the best case, you will be able to cast spells normally, but it will be very painful. That pain may no longer hurt you, but it will still accompany you throughout your career as a mage..."
"Then I think it's pretty good. This kind of pain makes me much braver. Since I learned magic, I even cry less." Luo Ling joked.
"Me? I don't need it. You have to finish it all!" Xiao Chen said immediately, "Who knows if taking only half of the medicine will be enough? If it's not enough and can't cure your illness, then Elena and I will have wasted our efforts!"
Luo Ling said: "I just thought of a poem: Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir, the blue sea and blue sky are in her heart every night."
Elaina couldn't understand the meaning of the poem, but Xiao Chen knew the sentiment behind it. He laughed and said, "Don't worry, it's only a hundred years. If I reach the level of a saint, it will be easy for me to live longer. At worst, next time I meet the archons of the dark elves, I can just ask them for some more sap from the world tree."
Luo Ling said, "Nonsense! You make it sound so simple, as if you were picking a fruit from a tree."
"This is really possible. I think the high elves do owe Xiao Chen a bottle of sap. At least, the gratitude they give to Xiao Chen is far less than the help Xiao Chen gave them." Elena said.
"Okay then. Remember what you said today, and keep your word!" Luo Ling opened the crystal bottle and drank the juice inside. The water gave her a very warm feeling, just like bathing in the spring sunshine and breeze. Luo Ling didn't know if this was an illusion, but she could feel that after drinking the sap, it seemed to turn into pure life energy, crossing the digestive system and entering every corner of the body. The many injuries accumulated in her body began to be repaired little by little by the life energy.
If Luo Ling's body is like a vast plain, originally this land was crisscrossed with gullies and cracks. Every time she cast a spell, it was like a great sword that created the world, slashing across this land, leaving a deep mark. And a fierce battle was like a plate split, enough to turn the gullies into rifts, and the rifts into oceans. And now it was as if there was a great power that magically filled all the cracks on the ground, turning it back into a flat and fertile land.
Luo Ling closed her eyes and slowly felt the wonderful changes in her body.
"I feel much better." After a long time, Luo Ling opened her eyes and stretched out her hand to summon an ice shield. She used to feel a sharp pain as if her body was torn apart, but now, she just felt a slight soreness, as if someone pinched somewhere in her body.
Elena in the room had disappeared. It was time for her to be summoned, and she returned to Xiao Chen's meditation world.
Xiao Chen said: "Elena told me that the juice of the World Tree does not take effect quickly. You are only feeling the initial effect now, so you will still feel pain. After you rest at night, you will feel better tomorrow."
"This is already very good. I have never felt that casting magic is such an easy thing. You don't know how envious I am when I see those magicians and even those magic apprentices being able to cast magic without burden. I finally don't have to haggle over every bit of mental energy like the stingiest vendor. Screw the ice magic, I'm really fed up with it!" Luo Ling stretched out a hand, and an ice ball began to condense above her palm. Then, as her thoughts changed, the ball turned into flames, lightning, and finally returned to nothingness.
This kind of change between elements requires a very high level of magic, but Luo Ling did it easily. Xiao Chen realized that the magic level she usually showed was far from her limit. Now that the shackles have been removed, her achievements will be limitless.
Luo Ling tried a lot of magic tricks before she reluctantly stopped. She asked Xiao Chen, "I want to discuss something with you. How about letting Elena come to my meditation world?"
"You mean, let Elena become your spirit servant?" Xiao Chen said in surprise.
"That's right. I spend a lot of time with her, and my relationship with her is much closer than yours. Besides, she has made great sacrifices for me. I really want to treat her well."
"To be honest, I haven't treated her unfairly." Xiao Chen said.
"Anyway, please help me convey my feelings."
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In Xiao Chen's meditation world, he and Elena stood on the beach, facing the surging sea.
Elena looked into the distance, not knowing what she was thinking about. After a long while, she said, "Luo Ling asked me to be her spirit servant, but it was just an impulse."
"I think she considers everything she does. She also specifically asked me to tell you that her meditation world is very beautiful, and there is a cycle of four seasons. From summer you can see autumn, and from winter you can go back to spring. It is a vast field occupied by the four seasons, and the range of your activities is much wider than here."
"What do you think?"
"Me? I don't have any opinion. If you feel like living there, you can move there as long as you build a soul bridge between our two meditation worlds."
"No, I won't go. Luo Ling just feels guilty. She won't treat me as an ordinary spirit servant, but will try every possible way to compensate me. But if she really does that, she will only get deeper and deeper into it. What's more, I hope to realize the value of a spirit servant. I want to fight and grow, instead of staying in one place and living a long and boring life under the protection of others."
"She wants to treat you as her best friend."
"No, as good friends, we shouldn't live in the same head so closely. There's an old saying in your place: distance makes beauty. Isn't it?"