Leaving The Desert (2)

When they were about to transition to the snowland environment, the two stopped and got changed in the portable changing rooms, they once again wore matching outfits.

But this time instead of black they had white and purple so they could better blend into the snow to act as camouflage.

They did what He Li suggested, however, they had underestimated the drastic contrast between the two environments.

Unexpectedly, the transition was extremely short and they had to expend more spiritual power than they thought to force out the heat quicker since how much heat is forced out in comparison to the amount of spiritual power expended is not linear.

By the time that they had arrived far enough into the snowland environment that their bodies adapted to the temperature, the two were absolutely exhausted!

Zi Hua quickly took out two spiritual power replenishing pills and gave one to He Li and ate hers.

Although her master told her not take any cultivation related pills, her master wrote in the books that were left behind that as long as the pill does not influence her cultivation it is fine to intake, which meant that she could consume spiritual power replenishing pills.

Plus, if she met any danger like this and had to use spiritual power forcefully, it would bring it into the minuses which may be life-threatening.

"Xiao Hua, my master advised me not to take any cultivation related pills" He Li said, he had never once taken a pill apart from the ones that heal wounds.

"My master did as well but it's fine to take spiritual power replenishing pills" Zi Hua explained.

He Li trusted her and took the pill, nothing happened, so he breathed a light sigh of relief.

Zi Hua had done some theorizing and ultimately concluded that their entire selves and cultivation was connected to the Heaven-defying artifact, which explains how it could stop her master's soul from going into reincarnation.

If they intake any cultivation related pills, it may distort the Heaven-defying artifact, so pills that restore spiritual power were fine.

The pill could not completely restore their spiritual power but it relieved some of the fatigue due to spiritual power exhaustion.

However, taking too much of anything would be bad and it wasn't good to be greedy so Zi Hua didn't take any more pills.

The two observed their surroundings to make sure that there were no dangers before settling down and setting up a tent to rest.

It would be better to have a roof over their heads in the snowy weather.

The best choice of action would be to recover their power before venturing out into the snowlands.

They had eaten not long ago but were already hungry so He Li started cooking whilst Zi Hua helped him with bits and bobs like cutting the ingredients.

"Ouch!" Although Zi Hua did have some cooking experience, after not cooking for so long, she had forgotten some regular occurrences that would happen whenever she cooked, like cutting herself, which was the reason why she often opted for pre-chopped foods. (A/N: Who says ouch? Coz I do... is it weird?)

Despite being able to handle swords with perfect precision and control she could not understand how to co-ordinate her hands so that she doesn't cut herself.

"Let me see" He Li hurriedly went over to her and lifted her finger up and quickly fed her a Intermediate rank healing pill which immediately closed the wound, he had plenty of healing pills but didn't want to sell them since it would be better to have too many than too little.

Neither of them found their intimate actions and contact peculiar, after all, who would after sleeping in each others embrace everyday for the past few days.