As Lin En looked at the Sanling Hot Spring, he felt a bit helpless. How could he collect it if the guardian beast was immortal?

Looking at the hot spring, Lin En took out an egg and held it in his palm. Then, he put his hand into the hot spring. The temperature was just right. Don't misunderstand, he didn't want to make a hot spring egg to eat.

After swirling his hand in the hot spring, Lin En silently activated Bait to Fish.

Before long, Lin En felt something wrap around his hand. He immediately lifted his hand, and a semi-transparent ball of water encased it. It was the hot spring spirit.

Lin En looked at the hot spring spirit, opened his palm, and the egg slowly dissolved. The hot spring spirit's eating speed needed improvement.

After lamenting this for a moment, Lin En immediately spread his wings and flew away from the hot spring.

He pinched the hot spring spirit. The feel was really good, soft, warm, and very bouncy.

After finishing the egg, the hot spring spirit wanted to jump back into the hot spring, but found it was so high up in the air. It immediately wrapped itself around Lin En's hand, and its upper body materialized, shaking its head left and right.

No, no, there's nothing here either. The hot spring spirit ran around on Lin En, Where's the hot spring? Where did the hot spring go?

Lin En silently watched the hot spring spirit crawling around on him, wanting to see what it was trying to do.

The hot spring spirit finally returned to the palm of his hand and looked at Lin En.

Lin En raised his eyebrows. What did this mean?

Just as Lin En was about to speak, he saw the hot spring spirit suddenly start to cry. Bean-sized tears kept falling.

Hot Spring Spirit (ಥ﹏ಥ)

Lin En (￣ェ￣;)

To Lin En's surprise, as the hot spring spirit's tears continued to fall, her body became smaller and smaller. It felt like if she kept crying, she would disappear.

The hot spring spirit saw that Lin En was ignoring her, and her mung bean-sized tears immediately turned into soybean-sized tears, as if she wouldn't stop until she cried herself out of existence.

Hot Spring Spirit (꒦_꒦)

"What the heck!" Lin En looked at the hot spring spirit that had shrunk by half and had no choice but to fly back to the hot spring. He quickly flew back.

The hot spring spirit was still looking at him, shedding tears. Lin En silently rolled his eyes and wanted to throw her into the spring, but the hot spring spirit clung tightly to his hand, and the tears became even bigger.

Good heavens, she really was made of water. Her tears were getting bigger and bigger, soon they would be bigger than her eyes.

Lin En (눈‸눈)

Lin En put the hand that the hot spring spirit was clinging to into the spring, and then stared at her.

As soon as she touched the spring water, the hot spring spirit immediately left Lin En's hand and began to grow slowly.

Lin En silently took out Moonlight, which began to slowly turn red again.

After returning to the spring, the hot spring spirit was now thirty centimeters shorter. The little face that had been crying looked at Lin En, and then tears immediately welled up in her eyes again.

Hot Spring Spirit (இдஇ`)

Lin En: "Even if you cry, it's useless. I'm determined to have the Sanling Hot Spring. Crying won't stop me."

"Damn it, she's really crying! Where did all your initial momentum go?"

There was nothing Lin En could do.

Hot Spring Spirit. •˚•(ノД`)ヽ(˚w˚=) Lin En

Finally, with Lin En's tireless efforts, the hot spring spirit slowly stopped shedding her peanut-sized tears, looking at him hazily.

Looking at the hot spring spirit who had turned into a tiny thing, Lin En secretly complained, "I don't kill unarmed people. I don't want this hot spring after all."

"Forget it, let's go." Lin En withdrew the hand that had been stroking the hot spring spirit and prepared to leave.

The hot spring spirit looked at him in confusion. When she saw Lin En get up to leave, tears slipped down again.

Lin En, who had turned around, didn't see the hot spring spirit crying again, or he would definitely complain, "She really is made of water. Water is really worthless."

After asking the stone wall, Lin En prepared to head east. As he spread his wings to fly, a magic circle appeared.

Seeing that Lin En was really leaving, the hot spring spirit seemed to have made up her mind. She pointed her little hand, and a magic circle instantly appeared.

Lin En looked at the magic circle under his feet and was about to take out Moonlight to give the hot spring spirit a warm slash when a system notification popped up.

[System: The Hot Spring Spirit has entered into a contract with you]

[System: Congratulations, you have obtained a Hot Spring Spirit Baby ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

"Uh, what the heck?" Lin En silently put down the idea of drawing his sword, turned around, and looked at the hot spring spirit. He saw her reach out her hands, looking like she wanted a hug.

Hot Spring Spirit o(´v｀)o

Looking at the hot spring spirit like that, "Hmm, so cute!" Lin En immediately picked her up.

Looking at the hot spring spirit in his arms, Lin En opened the contract and looked at it. Okay, another dependence-based intimacy. It seemed like he had another little newbie.

Although he didn't know why the hot spring spirit, who had been beaten into this state by him, would do this, the contract couldn't lie. So, loli plus one.

After collecting the Sanling Hot Spring, Lin En took the hot spring spirit and headed to the next dungeon.

Spreading his wings, he flew to the east, and the hot spring spirit directly transformed into spring water, enveloping Lin En, afraid of being thrown off.

He quickly flew to the bottom of the east stone wall, took out a pickaxe, and dug. A big hole appeared in the stone wall. The hot spring spirit, who had just transformed back, almost turned into spring water again.

Lin En carried the hot spring spirit in and walked in. In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the new dungeon.

The environment of this dungeon was swamp-like. There wasn't much ground, and most of it was marsh ponds filled with miasma.

Lin En was about to set off to find the treasure chest, but he found that the hot spring spirit was very resistant, as if she didn't want to enter the swamp.

Just as Lin En was feeling puzzled, he suddenly noticed a bit of black impurity appearing in the hot spring spirit's body, but it was immediately expelled by the hot spring spirit.

Seeing this situation, Lin En understood what was going on. It seemed that the hot spring spirit couldn't stay in places with too harsh an environment, or she would deteriorate.

There was nothing he could do. He couldn't look for treasure chests for now. Lin En carried the hot spring spirit to find a piece of flat ground where he could materialize his home.

Flying through the air, the hot spring spirit slowly expelled the polluted spring water.

Finally, he saw a piece of ground that looked decent. Lin En flew down and immediately materialized his home.

As soon as the treehouse appeared, Lin En carried the hot spring spirit in and headed straight for the demon space.

After arriving at the demon space, he walked towards the tavern.

Pushing open the tavern door, he saw Hilria mixing drinks. Lin En walked over and threw the Sanling Hot Spring and the accompanying hot spring spirit to her.

Lin En quickly said, "Auntie, this is the Sanling Hot Spring and the accompanying hot spring spirit. Please take care of them for now. I'm going to dig the dungeon."

After saying that, Lin En quickly left the tavern and walked towards the treehouse. After leaving the treehouse, he put away his home and went to search for treasure chests.

Hilria looked at Lin En's series of actions with a dazed expression. Then, she looked at the equally dazed hot spring spirit and began to stare at each other.