Chapter 44: Leave the Things Done with Nothing Left Behind
Chapter 44: Leave the Things Done with Nothing Left Behind
“Goldy, let’s go!”
After playing a trick on the Deadwood Withered Snake, Lil Wan called the Wild Gold Treant and continued venturing towards the depths of the Aura of Eternity. The Wild Gold Treant silently followed Lil Wan from behind, but this time, it subconsciously kept some distance from her.
Behind them, when the Deadwood Withered Snake saw that Lil Wan and the Wild Gold Treant had left, it wiggled its body tied into a fast knot and followed for two steps.
But after that, it had no choice but to stop.
After its body was tied into a knot, not only was his speed greatly reduced, but for every step which it slithered, the direction of his maneuver would alter, completely hindering it from moving in a straight line.
What could it do?
The Deadwood Withered Snake had its eyes wide open. It could only watch as Lil Wan and the Wild Gold Treant vanished before its eyes.
Thud!
Abruptly, it had a flash of inspiration. Clapping its tail on the ground, its entire body propelled upwards. This bouncing motion flung it across a distance of three to four meters.
“I guess this way of maneuvering seems pretty legit?”
The Deadwood Withered Snake shook its head and thought, “I think I’ll do with this for the time being. Gotta hurry up and cultivate. I can think of a way out when I get back to Master.”
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“What an interesting little one!”
At the same time, in the wooden house above the Eternal Aucuba Tree, the great tree laughed as it sensed what had unraveled. Even though it had lived for a very long time, this was the first time it had ever seen something so interesting. On the wooden pier in front of it, Lin Shiru also held her forehead while having a strange look on her face.
It was really rare to see an Apprentice level beast being able to fool a Bronze level beast like this.
At this moment, a verdant branch from the Eternal Aucuba Tree crawled downward and pointed at Lil Wan who was flying with its mystical will. Subsequently, Lil Wan at beneath was briefly immobilized. Immediately, she felt the drop of liquid absorbed by her body earlier on erupting and merged into her limbs and bones.
All in an instant, her body, which she thought would still need quite some time to completely digest this drop of mysterious liquid, immediately converted this drop of liquid into forms that were essential for herself.
As for the Eternal Aucuba Tree, one of its branches quietly withered, and upon a slight quiver, it turned into dust and drifted away with the wind.
“Mr. Aucuba, you...”
Seeing this scene, Lin Shiru’s expression altered mildly as she immediately stood up from her seat.
“It’s alright. This is just a drop of Origin. I can condense one more, should I spend a little more time. That little one is pretty good. I like her.”
The Eternal Aucuba Tree swayed gently.
“That was fast?”
At this moment, as Lil Wan was experiencing her metamorphosis, Ye Xuan who was waiting outside the Aura of Eternity roughly sensed Lil Wan’s current state via his Seed of Beasts. Next, he prompted his mind and directed a portion of his consciousness onto his own attribute panel.
For his attribute panel, he would have to focus his vision or Mind Energy on a beast or monster for the entity’s attributes to show up. But for his own attributes and that of the beasts he contracted, he would not have to do so.
At present, as he funneled a portion of his consciousness onto the attribute panel, he immediately discovered that Lil Wan’s attributes had undergone changes.
[Ancient Wood Elf (Lil Wan)
Level: Top-level Apprentice
Grade: ☆☆☆
Ability (1): lv3 Divine Concentration (☆☆☆)
Ability (2): Nature Affinity (☆☆☆)
Level: lv3. With the transformation brought about by the Eternal Aucuba Tree’s Droplet of Origin, the ability grade of Nature Affinity has been improved. Mastery level has slightly declined temporarily. Can be future upgraded upon training.
Ability (3): Mutated Aucuba Vines (☆☆☆☆)
Level: lv2. With the transformation brought about by the Eternal Aucuba Tree’s Droplet of Origin, the ability Spawn Ironwood Thorns has mutated into Spawn Mutated Aucuba Vines.
Mutated Aucuba Vines are sturdier. After spawning, it can become thicker and longer, inheriting the characteristics of the Ironwood Thorns.
Upon manual activation, vines can be covered in Verdant Spikes. Without activation, it will look just like the ordinary Aucuba Vines.
Ability (4): Spirit Sap of Life (☆☆☆☆)
With the transformation brought about by the Eternal Aucuba Tree’s Droplet of Origin, Conjure Tear of Life has mutated into Conjure Spirit Sap of Life. Ability grade is upgraded by one star. The Spirit Sap of Life has twice the efficacy of the Tear of Life.
]
“The Eternal Aucuba Tree’s Droplet of Origin, what is that?”
After going through Lil Wan’s attributes, Ye Xuan revealed shock on his face. This time, the transformations Lil Wan underwent was immense. The grade of a whole three abilities was upgraded.
With such an upgrade, she literally caught up with Tyrannosaur in its original form. It was foreseeable that on such basis, when Lil Wan advanced into Dark Iron level and he edited her into a Divine Wood Elf, her attributes would become even greater.
At the same time, as Lil Wan leveled up, Ye Xuan felt his Beast Tamer level, which he had gotten into, once again loosening up. Even if he does not do anything, it would probably take only some three to five days’ time for him to become a Top-level Apprentice.
“The fog is dissipating.”
As time went by, the students who were waiting outside could evidently see the verdant fog centered around the Eternal Aucuba Tree slowly dissipating. Of course, such a dissipation method was not in all directions.
Instead, it was reabsorbed by the Eternal Aucuba Tree. As the fog slowly dissipated, beasts started walking out of the fog one after another.
“What’s going on with my beast?”
Liu Hongtong who was waiting outside was feeling immensely perplexed at this moment. As there was quite some distance between the two and the fact Deadwood Withered Snakes have low intelligence, he could only vaguely feel that his Deadwood Withered Snake had probably encountered some kind of special situation.
But about the specifics, he was not clear.
“Is it about to level up?”
He fluttered on the inside. Although he only contracted this Deadwood Withered Snake last night, the default cultivation stage of Deadwood Withered Snakes was at the lower peaks of the Bronze level. It was not impossible for it to level up at this time.
With that in mind, he became extremely expectant.
“Goldy, hurry up.”
And while Liu Hongtong was waiting, Lil Wan and the Wild Gold Trent have already dashed out from the fog at immense speeds. When Lil Wan came out from the fog, she held herself at Ye Xuan’s ears and conveyed to him about what she had done within the Aura of Eternity through the Seed of Beasts. When she was done reporting, she sneaked into Ye Xuan’s pocket and revealed only her tiny head as if she was guilty of stealing something.
“Holy moly!”
Hearing Lil Wan’s narration, through the thinning fog, Ye Xuan saw a strange-looking object that was clapping its tail on the ground while it was heading outwards. The corner of his mouth twitched in spite of himself.
Like what Lil Wan had described, the snake’s body was full of poisonous sacks.
With these poisonous sacks, it formed a deadlock with its own body. Let alone itself, even a person would not be able to undo this fast knot. To undo the knot, it would probably need an operation?
Swoosh!
Just as Ye Xuan was thinking about it, he saw the Sacred Divine Wood not far away extending one of its branches and made a swipe before him.
After the swipe, Lin Shiru’s graceful figure walked out from within.
“Forget it. He’s a senior of mine after all. Gotta piss off for the time being. I still have more than a month until I will officially join Jiangzhou University. With more than a months’ time, I guess he would already forget his hatred no matter how deep it is?”
Ye Xuan murmured in his heart, talked to Ye Han beside him, then took Lil Wan and paced towards Lin Shiru.
“Miss Lin, when will we be leaving?”
Lin Shiru looked at Ye Xuan with an enigmatic smile, “Since you’re in such a hurry, let’s depart at once.”
As soon as her voice fell, the Sacred Divine Wood promptly extended its branches and once again formed a tiny magical tree house to cover them both. In fact, it was not that Lin Shiru does not want to help Liu Hongtong to undo that fast knot his Deadwood Withered Snake was in.
After all, Liu Hongtong was a student of Jiangzhou University. It was just that even she does not know how to undo that fast knot.
Going to a vet was probably his only option.
Bzzz!
Space mildly fluctuated. As space fluctuated, Ye Xuan became inspired. On this trip, he aspired to advance into Dark Iron level! In Dark Iron Level, he could probably form a contract with another two beasts?
Besides, there was also... the Beast Taming Talents!
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Thud! Thud
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And shortly after Ye Xuan and Lin Shiru left, a strangely shaped tiny snake who was slapping its tail on the ground in a puzzling way and bouncing out of the fog finally caught everyone’s attention.
What the hell was going on?
Everyone turned their eyes on the little snake.
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