The Purple Crystal could indeed absorb the blue light dots, but the absorbing speed was extremely slow, far more difficult than absorbing the purple red light dots.
“Kid, what are you doing!” Yi Yun was carefully researching the differences between the two types of energy when he heard a man shout at him. In the eyes of others, Yi Yun was just idling.
One of the men who wanted to be the “foreman” of the group could naturally not stand Yi Yun’s laziness.
“Uh…” Yi Yun replied with a smile, “Sorry uncle, this axe is too heavy…”
“Hmph!” The man responded with a ‘I knew you wouldn’t amount to much’, “I really don’t know what the top brass were thinking, to send a kid to refine the desolate bones, holding me back! The useless kid I have, Da Tou is about the same age as you. His strength is twice yours!”
Not to mention Yi Yun’s age, but even among his same-aged peers, the past Yi Yun’s body was extremely thin and lacked strength.
In the vast wilderness, the people worshipped the strong. They were proud of the big and tall men who had dark rough skin.
A handsome person like Yi Yun who had smooth skin was considered “ridden with ills”. Such a person was not popular.
“I’m really sorry uncle. I didn’t only hold you back; I even held your eggs. I’ll work hard in the future.” Yi Yun was still smiling. The man was good at doing hard labor, but his reaction was slow. He had not realized what Yi Yun had said. He only grunted before returning to work while swearing.
Yi Yun began to split the firewood at an adequate pace. To avoid trouble, he increased his speed by a tiny bit. It took him five minutes of hard work, amounting to ten chops to split a piece of firewood.
He had to stay in line with his status.
At the same time, no one noticed that the purple red energies churning in the cauldron were flying towards Yi Yun.
As for the cold blue energies, Yi Yun also absorbed as much as he could. He felt that if he could absorb the blue energies, the men around him would not die as a result of the energy.
Unfortunately, the Purple Crystal was not highly effective in absorbing the blue energies. Small amounts of energy were still entering the bodies of the men around him.
Yi Yun had mixed feeling seeing this. Although these people weren’t pleasant, they did not deserve to die. However, he was unable to save them.
If he revealed the truth, the men would not only disbelieve him, and might even report him as rumor mongering to Lian Chengyu for a reward of bacon.
These people were definitely capable of doing that. Yi Yun’s situation will be terrible if that happens.
In the vast wilderness, the weak had to accept their own suffering. There was no other way around it.
Just like pigs, cattle and sheep, they did nothing wrong, but were kept in captivity and slaughtered by humans.
The only reason was because they were weak. And in the vast wilderness, being weak was a fault! Being weak made you unable to decide your own fate. Being weak allowed you be trampled on…