I Start with a Mysterious Island
Chapter 409 - 297: A High-Grade, Lifelike Spiritual Artifact
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Just as Lin Li finished buying strawberry seeds online, Su Yue padded out of her bedroom in slippers. His eyes landed on her, and he noticed she was holding one hand behind her back.
"Hee hee..." Su Yue beamed as she came and sat on the sofa next to Lin Li. Then, she extended the hand she’d been hiding behind her back.
Lin Li saw a small mahogany box resting on Su Yue’s fair palm. "Is this that interesting thing you called me about, the one you said you wanted to show me?"
"Mhm."
"What’s in the box?"
Su Yue gave him a mysterious smile, then opened the small mahogany box and turned it to face him.
A ten-centimeter-long, entirely golden, exquisitely crafted, and lifelike metal feather lay quietly in the small mahogany box.
"Is this feather made of gold?" Lin Li asked, looking at the golden feather in the small box.
"Er... I have no idea!" Su Yue hadn’t expected Lin Li to ask about the feather’s material. She didn’t know the first thing about that, so she couldn’t answer.
"What did you buy this for? I mean, this golden feather is lifelike and all, but it seems kind of useless."
Lin Li had no idea the golden feather in Su Yue’s hand was an incredibly valuable Spiritual Artifact. He just assumed it was some trinket she’d bought from a street stall.
Hearing this, Su Yue gave him a flirtatious eye-roll. "This isn’t some ordinary trinket," she said, miffed. "It’s a Spiritual Artifact."
"Huh?" A surprised expression crossed Lin Li’s face. He pressed her, "Where did you get a Spiritual Artifact? Don’t tell me you got swindled and foolishly bought a fake!"
"Hey, what’s that supposed to mean? ’Got swindled and bought a fake?’ Do I look that stupid?
Er... don’t try to change the subject. This Spiritual Artifact belongs to my dad. I borrowed it from him for a little while..." Su Yue said.
"Oh, so it’s your dad’s..." Lin Li nodded, dismissing the idea that Su Yue had been swindled. But on second thought, he realized something else was off and immediately asked another question.
"You’re an ordinary person who hasn’t even awakened your Spirituality, so you can’t use a Spiritual Artifact. What are you doing with it? Going to display it at home as a decoration?"
Su Yue explained, "Remember on the way to Qiong City, when we were on the plane, you said you wanted to experience flying freely in the sky.
Didn’t I mention back then that my dad has a Spiritual Artifact that can give someone the ability to fly?
So, after we got back, I called my dad and borrowed this Spiritual Artifact from him."
"..."
Lin Li hadn’t expected the Spiritual Artifact in Su Yue’s hand to be a Flying Spiritual Artifact, let alone that she had borrowed it from her dad just for him.
He looked at Su Yue’s beaming, pretty face, thinking, ’I was just making up a random excuse back then.’
’Who would have thought she’d actually take it to heart and act on it after we got back?’ At that moment, Lin Li couldn’t help but feel a little moved.
"So? Are you moved? See! Now you know how good your big sis is to you!
Next time I ask you to help me change a lightbulb, kill a cockroach, or unclog a drain... you’d better not dawdle anymore." Seeing Lin Li staring at her blankly, Su Yue’s eyes crinkled with a smile, and she giggled.
’Ugh, this woman... So that’s what this was about. To think I was actually feeling so moved. I want that feeling back...’ Lin Li fell silent, watching Su Yue, who was cackling like a hen that had just laid an egg.
Seeing that her teasing had left Lin Li speechless, the dazzlingly beautiful smile on Su Yue’s face grew even more brilliant.
However, she knew when to stop and not take it too far. Suppressing a louder laugh, she stood up and gestured for Lin Li to head out.
"Hee hee... Come on! Let’s go find a place to try out this Flying Spiritual Artifact."
With that, Su Yue took the Golden Feather Spiritual Artifact from the mahogany box and tossed the box onto the sofa. She casually stuffed the incredibly valuable Golden Feather Spiritual Artifact into her pocket and headed for the door.
Lin Li nodded and got up to follow her, but he stopped after taking just one step. He called out to Su Yue, who was walking ahead.
"Wait a minute. I remember Spiritual Artifacts have certain requirements for use. What are the requirements for this Flying Spiritual Artifact of yours?
Let’s not find a place only to discover we can’t use it. That would be a wasted trip."
Su Yue stopped and turned to face Lin Li. "This Spiritual Artifact doesn’t have any particularly high requirements," she said. "Any Awakened who has awakened their Spirituality and can channel Spiritual Energy can activate it..."
"Oh, really? In that case, this Spiritual Artifact is pretty advanced...!" Lin Li marveled, surprised that the requirements to use the Flying Spiritual Artifact were so low.
It was no wonder Lin Li was surprised. After all, Blue Star wasn’t Dongwu City in the Spirit Realm. In Dongwu City, you could buy Convenient Spiritual Artifacts that even ordinary people could use.
On Blue Star, however, the absolute minimum requirement to use a Spiritual Artifact was to have Awakened Spirituality and be able to channel Spiritual Energy.
The more powerful a Spiritual Artifact’s function, the higher the requirements for the user tended to be.
If a Spiritual Artifact was powerful yet had low usage requirements, then it was not only advanced but also incredibly expensive.
"It’s okay, I guess! Advanced or not, it’s all the same to me since I can’t use it. And if I can’t use it, it’s just a pretty trinket in my eyes."
Su Yue, who had not yet awakened her Spirituality, was a complete and utter ordinary person.
Just as she said, if this Golden Feather Spiritual Artifact that could grant a person the ability to fly couldn’t be activated, it was nothing more than a beautiful trinket in her hands.
Lin Li nodded, then asked with some curiosity, "This Spiritual Artifact wasn’t cheap, was it?"
"I don’t know. My dad bought it, and I never asked him how much he spent on it. But it probably wasn’t too expensive...
Anyway, let’s stop talking and hurry outside! We need to find a place to try this thing out," Su Yue said, heading for the door.
Hearing Su Yue’s casual reply, Lin Li naturally assumed the Spiritual Artifact mustn’t have cost much.
CLICK.
THUD.
The door shut. Lin Li, carrying a bag of trash, left with Su Yue. They took the elevator downstairs.
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Not far from Happiness Garden District, there was a medium-sized park.
The sun had only just set, so most people were still at home eating dinner and wouldn’t be out for a while. As a result, there were very few people enjoying the cool evening air in the park.
After leaving their apartment and tossing the trash, Lin Li and Su Yue decided to head to this park to try out the Flying Spiritual Artifact.
They entered the park and walked straight toward its deeper recesses.
They needed to test the Flying Spiritual Artifact, so the fewer people around, the better. This way, they could avoid drawing a crowd of onlookers.
Deep within the park was a small pond where many red and white lotuses were in full bloom.
Cute little goldfish swam freely in the small pond, constantly weaving under the blooming lotuses.
Usually, people coming to the park to enjoy the evening cool loved this spot by the pond. Not only could they enjoy the gentle breeze blowing across the water, but they could also use bait to tease the cute little goldfish.
Not far from the pond’s edge was a small, open patch of grass. Lin Li and Su Yue walked over to it.
"Here, you take it."
Su Yue took the Golden Feather Spiritual Artifact from her pocket and handed it to Lin Li.
Lin Li took the Golden Feather Spiritual Artifact, feeling the surface of the lifelike, exquisitely crafted artifact.
The Golden Feather Spiritual Artifact was cool to the touch, and he had no idea what kind of Spiritual Materials it was made from.
Its flexibility was incredible. He could bend it with two hands, and it easily flexed more than one hundred and forty-five degrees.
The moment he let go, it sprang back to its original shape, leaving no trace of a crease.
If an identical feather were made of ordinary metal materials, it would be impossible to achieve this effect.
Seeing Lin Li fiddling with and bending the Golden Feather Spiritual Artifact, Su Yue rolled her eyes in annoyance and urged him on.
"What are you doing? Hurry up and activate it to see what it does!"
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