Soon, time flowed on another month for Dandelion Village.
During this period, Cal's trip to Yellow Town was successful as he safely comes back to the village with Pickle. Furthermore, the bullock cart was full of foods and other goods, which Old Fei distributed to the villagers.
The buying power of ten gold coins was not meager, not to mention the stuff Cal required to purchase was just some commonly needed food like meat and spices with other miscellaneous things.
Copper, silver, and gold coins were widely used as a basic form of currency throughout the continent.
At the same time, Spirit Stones was also used for trading as another higher form of currency, but they are usually used in significant transactions.
After all, Spirit Stones are an essential and strategic resource that could speed up the training progress of a cultivator and other various utilities.
Therefore, one could opt to trade Spirit Stone for gold, but rarely would it be the other way around.
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100 copper coins = 1 silver coin.
100 silver coins = 1 gold coin.
10 gold coins = 1 low-grade Spirit Stone.
100 low-grade Spirit Stones = 1 mid-grade Spirit Stone.
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The supplies Cal has purchased from the town would be able to sustain the need of their small village for a while if they are used sparingly for the next few months.
Once old Fei has distributed the supplies, bright smiles bloomed on everyone's faces, especially the dozens of children, for they would rarely have a chance to eat sweet.
Upon receiving the candies, they treat them like treasures and would feel reluctant to eat them.
A peaceful atmosphere washed over Dandelion Village for a short time despite the occasional roaring of fierce Spirit Beasts in the depth of the Eflo Woodland and giant birds flying through the blue sky above.
However, everything comes to an end, and happy times didn't last for long.
Even after an entire month, no adventurers nor mercenaries group accept the mission to scout out for the unknown Demon Beast posted by their village.
Consequently, the villagers couldn't help but feel a little restless and worried.
In this wintertime, there was nowhere else for villagers like them to go. Furthermore, their forefathers reside here beneath the very soil of the Dandelion Village.
No matter what, they can't just abandon the root of their ancestry.
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It was another morning of the winter season.
In the backyard of his house, Myah could be seen moving around the place and performing the Dance of the Moon Goddess's exercise movement.
After many days of continuous training and stumbling countless times, Myah was finally able to practice by himself, though his movements were slow and clumsy.
Throughout this process, Mu Suyin has regularly let Myah bathe in medicinal baths after every training session.
Although the medicinal bath only consists of typical herbs which could be found anywhere in the forest. However, with Mu Suiyin's mystical methods and knowledge, they could still slowly temper Myah's fragile body and increase his strength and stamina.
A month was neither too long nor too short, and there was not much growth to the little guy's appearance except that his silky silver hair grew slightly longer, which was neatly braided together beautifully.
Myah was more energetic and lively.
If compared to the beginning, Myah could only perform the Dance of the Moon Goddess for three cycles before he is completely drained.
Then, now, he could complete it for four cycles, and the duration he could last while performing each posture was twice as long.
"Haa... I'm exhausted." Letting out a breath, Myah swiped the bead of sweat on his front before sitting down on the soil.
The cold wind didn't bother him as much as before, and he could still stay outside for a little more time after practice.
Myah's dainty nose twitch upon smelling the earthy and herbal aroma wafted in the air, then he nonchalantly mumbled with a satisfied smile.
"There should still be some time before Grandma finished preparing the medicinal bath; I can use this time to cultivate. Hehe, hehe..."
Even though his muscle tissues and tendons were currently stinging with a not-so-funny sensation, Myah was happy. He could sense the change in his body clearly; it's getting stronger.
Gradually, Myah was able to calm down his disordered breathing and faced the direction of the sun.
With his back leaned against a large apple tree almost 10 meters in height, Myah took out a low-grade Spirit Stone in a small pocket of his lamb wool coat.
After sitting quietly for a while, the little guy finally manages to feel the spiritual energy from within the Spirit Stone.
The next step was to absorb, refine and cultivate.
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In this past month, there was a problem.
Mu Suyin discovered that Myah's speed of absorbing spiritual energy was pitifully slow, much, much slower than the average C-grade talent should be.
After some inquiries, she deduced that Myah's sense, more particularly, his ability to communicate with the world's spiritual energy, was significantly damaged.
And the most logical reason should be due to the loss of his eyes.
Furthermore, although Mu Suyin didn't know what kind of trait Myah's eyes were before she met him, she knows that it's an exceptional one to be able to leave such side effects.
However, after carefully observing Myah for days, she noticed that his ability to sense spiritual energy slowly recovered to its normal state.
Albeit the speed of recovery was slow, it was better than nothing.
She didn't delve much into the matter.
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Currently, the low-grade Spirit Stone in Myah's hand was the second one considering he just finished the first one a few days ago.
While sitting in a lotus position, with no distracting thought, Myah began to absorb the spiritual energy from the Spirit Stone at a steady pace.
A stream of warm current entered his body.
The particular sensation was pleasant and made him feel refreshed. It was as if he was being immersed in a comfortable and warm bathtub.