Chapter 122: 122

With the cage in her hands, Michelle retracted all the spirit energy she had spread around the room and turned her full attention to the cage. She knew that the net of her spirit energy wasn’t an omnipotent ability, so she didn’t rely solely on it and started moving her hands over the cage bars, trying to find something the net didn’t catch.

For a long while, she kept turning the cage over in her hands, feeling the surface for any imperfections or abnormalities. But going over the cage bar by bar, it took her quite a while until she found something. And when she found it, she furrowed her brows, her eyes shutting even tighter in concentration. It was nearly unnoticeable, but she found a slightly warmer bar compared to the others.

Trailing her fingers over it up and down, she realized that the side of the bar that was in the cage was even warmer, making her frown a bit, as it felt quite hot for her, as she had a cold body.

Keeping one of her hands on that bar, Michelle still used her other hand to check the other bars for abnormalities. And on exactly the opposite side of the cage, she found a bar identical to the one she found before. It was warmer than the others. The two bars were definitely a breakthrough point; she just needed to figure out how, exactly.

Michelle’s cold fingers wrapped around the two bars, ignoring that she felt like it would burn her hands, and she pulled on the bars violently, testing their strength. To her pleasant surprise, they vibrated a bit, something that didn’t happen with the other bars even when her spirit energy exploded around them. The two bars were not only warmer but also weaker.

Condensing a speck of her spirit energy in each hand, Michelle let it explode on the two bars, but they only shook, and nothing else happened. Though the bars were clearly weaker than the others, the explosion of her spirit energy wasn’t enough to break them. So she coated her hands in her spirit energy and started pulling on the bars again, but except for shaking again, it had no result.

With a sigh, Michelle thought about seeking out Nyxaroth for help, but she had already decided not to rely on him, so she shooed away the idea and thought of a different way. She remembered the memories Rivenaar passed on to her, so she decided to go through them to see whether the cage fit anything from the memories.

Rivenaar’s memories were already part of her own memories, but as their amount was huge, and they were all very complex, filled with thoughts and decisions, Michelle never bothered to absorb them into her memories fully. She just kept them in her mind like a thick scientific book she had read before but never fully remembered. Because that way, if she needed some knowledge from it, she would know where to look for it, even though the information wasn’t directly available to her.

Going through Rivenaar’s memories as fast as she could, she soon found something about invisible beasts and beasts of an evasive nature. Being an old monster, Rivenaar had met quite a lot of them before he was captured by Mavreth.

As for the invisible beasts, Michelle quickly ruled her creature out because the invisible creatures could be easily discovered with soul or spirit energy once they touched it. But the evasive monsters fit Michelle’s criteria.

They were able to completely conceal their own spirit, soul, or whatever energy they possessed, so they could avoid detection, and their senses were one of the best in the whole monster and beast world, so they could sense danger quickly and disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye.

But their concealment skills were very energy-draining, so they couldn’t stay in that state for too long and had to run away within a short time frame or they would be doomed. Well, and that didn’t fit into what Michelle thought about the creature in the cage. She had been observing the cage for a while already, but she didn’t see any signs of the creature reappearing. Also, the theory about the evasive creatures didn’t mention anything about why the two bars were warmer compared to the others.

So, Michelle delved deeper into Rivenaar’s memories until she found another thing that could have been useful for her. Very sparsely, Rivenaar had met with a kind of creature that could shapeshift to hide from the eyes of others. For better concealment, they could alter their bodily temperature, but in some places, they had to maintain their original temperature. That fit the cage in her hands quite well since it had two warm bars among all the other cold bars.

Roaming her hands over that cage for a while longer, Michelle marveled at the thought that she was actually holding a living thing in her hands, and she couldn’t even sense its heartbeat. For a doctor such as herself, it was a fair surprise. So she decided to feel for the pulse. She felt like her pride as a doctor was at stake. She felt like if she didn’t succeed, she wouldn’t deserve to be called a doctor.

So, she not only spread her spirit energy all over the cage, but also she added her soul energy to it at its peak and then placed her index and middle finger on the place where two bars, one vertical and one horizontal, connected.

For a long time, Michelle just sat on the dirty ground in the darkness, trying to find any traces of the cage-shaped creature’s pulse, but when she repeatedly failed, she started to lose hope. Was there really a creature of which she couldn’t even sense the pulse?

With a sigh, Michelle gave up. That was the first time she had to give up a “fight” since she woke up in the world of cultivation. It wasn’t really a good feeling, but accepting defeat was something she could do. In the end, if she couldn’t, she would have died a thousand years earlier in her past life from being unable to accept her first defeat and going on to challenge the one who had defeated her.

Michelle quickly threw away her sourness at having to give up and turned her attention back to the cage. Why did the Ostrich family hide a single creature in a whole room? Also, why did they coat the room in complete darkness? Just what was the creature to them?

Following her memories, Michelle returned to the place where the void obsidian wall once stood and walked back into the pathway where she could see in the darkness, where spells weren’t obscuring her view. There, she opened her eyes and finally looked at the cage. It was black, with streaks of dark purple, the purple the color of void obsidian. And within the cage was floating a pair of cute, innocent black eyes, staring at her curiously.

It was quite surprising, but Michelle couldn’t help but smile. The pair of eyes was just too cute. “Hi…” she smiled as she ran her hand along the edge of one of the warm bars.

The pair of eyes stared at Michelle for quite a while before the cage started shifting a bit, and then a black mist enveloped it, and it slowly transformed into a small black cat that immediately found a comfortable position to sleep in Michelle’s arms.

The small black cat seemed to want to sleep, but when it caught a whiff of Michelle’s scent, its ears perked up, and it quickly jumped over to her shoulder, sniffing her neck, too. There, the scent was even clearer for its sensitive nose, making it purr happily as it chose to sleep there.

Michelle lifted her hand to pet the cat as she turned her attention to the remaining void obsidian wall, wanting to touch it.

The cat seemed to notice her desire, and its eyes snapped open. Before she could react, the cat jumped off her shoulder and landed on a blown-off rock of void obsidian. At the same time, black mist appeared around the cat just as it had when it had transformed from a cage into a cat.

Seeing the black mist, Michelle’s eyes widened in shock. “Soul energy?!” she exclaimed in shock. “Kitty, you have soul energy?” she asked quickly. “And it’s completely black, just like mine…” she muttered as she stared at the cat.

Exactly knowing what his contracted master was planning, Nyxaroth woke up in Michelle’s body, ready to react in case something happened as she slowly approached the remnants of the void obsidian wall.

Slowly, Michelle stretched out her hand and placed it on the wall. In an instant, she felt like she was in a different place as she felt a strange sensation run through her. At first, she felt something enter her body, heading to where her soul energy was stored, and after it retreated, soul energy from the wall started surging into her body, making her unable to pull her hands away from the wall.

Nyxaroth immediately noticed what was going on, but he didn’t interfere, as having new soul energy sent into her body couldn’t harm Michelle. It could only benefit her or give her nothing at all.

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