Chapter 92 - I do not have any regrets Part3

The part of the island they were searching for was located in the south-eastern section.

A majestic mountain lined the entire coastal area and was sprawled across the vast island's width obnoxiously.

Grey fumes steadily rose from a few specific mountain peaks, distributing small amounts of dust and ash in the otherwise crystal clean atmosphere.

The lush green trees proudly standing up, without any fear of extinction and the unattended wild thorny bed of grassy ground were all impartially covered with a fine layer of ash and dust.

The island itself was not that huge and the group soon reached the coastal area, by moving around the mountainous part.

Su Lin wasted no time and immediately sat down near the shore, with the crashing waves, almost hitting her frail body.

She slowly extended her soul sense and scanned the surrounding areas. 

With her limited Stage 1 Soul, she was grasping at straws by trying to scan as much as possible.

But, she was desperate and this had to work.

After a good two hours under the harsh sunlight, her dried up and scorched lips, slowly curved upwards, revealing the hints of a small smile.

She had finally caught a glimpse of small bundled pockets of spiritual energy.

And just as she had predicted, it was far beneath the landmass, deeply buried in the oceanic surface.

Monkey and the bodyguards were standing under the shade of a nearby tree, completely perplexed about her actions.

If she wanted to search for some particular herb, shouldn't she just gear up already and swim around the ocean bottom searching for signs of any useful herbs?

What was she doing here? Just sitting simply, without starting the search?

Was Rabbit right? Did she just perform all these antics, just so that we won't consider her a guilty party?

Monkey's thoughts wandered, as he slowly felt his temper rising. He could tolerate anything...

But wasting his time, when his brother was lying in agony on a hospital bed?

That was something he refused to tolerate?

You better find something useful woman... Else this might just be your last day on this planet...

Monkey's hopeless heart, in the midst of turmoil and sadness, seeped out a toxic, albeit, inadvertent killing intent.

His sharp eyes watched Su Lin, as she finally got up from her seating posture and walked towards them.

She then haphazardly threw on her scuba gear and fastened the required tanks.

Su Lin quickly put everything on and swam into the ocean.

Unlike the roiling wavy surface, the bottom of the ocean was much more calm and serene.

As she went deeper and deeper into the strange waters, the sunlight which was trickling from the surface, slowly ceased its beautiful calligraphy.

The pressure of the endless blue water mass struck her unacquainted body.

Her dormant Stage 1 Soul core power kicked in and spiritual energy slowly circulated in her frail unsteady veins.

Su Lin took a deep breath, suċkɨnġ into her Oxygen tank like a hungry demon and continued her journey downward.

After a few meters in, she was now in the midst of vast nothingness. 

Schools of fish passed her by, without the slightest of concern, completely oblivious to her presence.

Bizarrely colored sticky plants waved about, clustered together on crustaceous glimmering corals.

However, none of this mattered.

They were only a dull and muted background to Su Lin, whose heart was still stuck somewhere else...

Every minute she spends on this mundane task, is another minute her precious person's muscles and bones are deteriorating.

Su Lin ceaselessly tunneled herself downward, quickly approaching the corners of the igneous rock formation, which emitted faint signs of spiritual energy.

Her listless deep black eyes scanned the roughly sprawled rock clusters, for signs of small bead-like plants, which encapsulated spiritual energy, by combining the Yang energy of the dormant volcano and the Yin energy of the oceanic currents.

Soon she spotted the fluorescent orange colored herbs emitting a shine and glitter proportional to their invaluable medicinal reserve.

Slowly, Su Lin swam closer, trying her best not to damage them by inducing extra pressure and force.

These small and slender herbs already withstood tremendous pressure by stubbornly thriving at the depth of this oceanic atmosphere.

As Su Lin neared the plants, suddenly she sensed a small disturbance in the depths below her.

Su Lin used her spiritual sense and quickly found the cause of this disturbance, an enormous ferocious great white shark.

Unlike the innocent fish, this king of the ocean did not ignore her presence.

And top of it, it seemed extremely agitated and annoyed with the human who had dared to invade its territory.

Su Lin immediately regretted not bringing any sort of weapon to deal with this kind of situation.

But who knew that a monster found in the depths of the ocean, would encroach this shall region, that too so close to the surface of the island.

She noticed a loose sharp rock near her and tried to jiggle it lose with all the strength she could muster.

But the shark was approaching her with tremendous speed.

Just when she had little to no option left, but to completely collapse and weaponized her soul core, the tall sturdy figure of Monkey stepped in front of her and pierced the vicious animal with a crude serrated knife.

"Hurry up. We should get out of here." He communicated using the device attached to the scuba suit.

She decided to spend a fair bit of time here and harvested as much as she could, almost completely cleaning out the reserve.

She did leave behind some untouched areas so that the herb could self-replenish and nurture itself back.

Without wasting further time, Monkey and Su Lin swam back up, as fast as possible and swiftly left the island in their private jet.

Monkey, who had been skeptical before, was now more trusting and hopeful.

This woman, at least on the surface, seems to be knowing what she was doing.

So far, she hadn't said anything negative and overall it looked like she got what she came here for.

He quickly called Rabbit, who was overseeing things in Hangzhou city and updated him about the situation and their return time.