Chapter 53 The Essence of Yi Wood
With quick eyes and hands, Yu Shan snatched the insect away and scolded, "Why are you so impatient? You didn't even let me finish speaking."
"Although the flesh of this Spirit Eater Baby is delicious, it can only be eaten after the anesthetic fluid has been squeezed out. Otherwise, you will be anesthetized and unable to move."
"Most importantly, it must be roasted over a fire, steamed, or fried in vegetable oil to become a true delicacy."
"Oh, I see. My fan knows a lot." Xiaobai nodded.
Even if he accidentally ate raw meat, he wouldn't care too much. After all, the Algae Star People used to live a hard life. When they hunted mutated beasts in the wild and were particularly hungry, they would eat them raw.
If you can swallow bloody raw meat, how much more so this white and tender meat?
Each Soul Eater Baby is over half a foot long, with a spindle-shaped, chubby body, about the size of a large mango.
The feather fan collected thirty insects, intending to give them to his family and friends in Five Elements City to eat later. The remaining approximately seven hundred insects were kept safe by the warriors and taken back to their tribesmen for enjoyment.
The anesthetic fluid filled a large bucket, and Yu Shan kept two bottles, intending to take them back for Bo Yiyan to study.
The tall and sturdy Phantom Moon Silver Osmanthus Tree was originally a towering giant, but it was ruined by a group of such termites, which is truly a pity.
Feather Fan instructed the warriors to peel off the bark, which contained a secretion left behind by the crawling Spirit-Eating Babies. This substance stuck to the bark and slowly seeped into it.
The bark becomes much tougher, and the talisman paper made from it is far superior to ordinary talisman paper, increasing the success rate by at least 20%.
Many talisman makers damage the talisman paper during the creation process due to improper control of spiritual energy, and this type of talisman paper is particularly sturdy.
However, these are all recorded in the inheritance. Yu Shan had seen a Phantom Moon Silver Osmanthus Tree before, but the tree was so full of life at the time that she just passed by it.
The Holy Witch Clan reveres nature and would never cut down a tree that has grown for decades or even centuries for their own selfish gain.
If those insects hadn't already nearly killed the tree, she wouldn't have ordered it to be cut down.
After dealing with the insects and bark, Yu Shan was about to leave when she looked down and saw a small sapling swaying in the wind next to the large tree stump left after the felling.
Upon closer inspection, the feather fan revealed that it was actually a sapling of the Illusion Moon Silver Osmanthus Tree.
As expected, the fourth-tier spirit tree was quite intelligent. Knowing that it could not escape its fate, it had already sprouted a seedling to prolong its life.
The feather fan sighed and said, "Since I have received your favor today, I will protect your descendants for a hundred years."
She formed a hand seal, and a transparent spiritual light enveloped the little seedling. This was a hidden barrier that could last for a hundred years in this place rich in wood spiritual energy.
Within a hundred years, this little seedling can freely absorb sunlight and rain, but it will not be discovered by monsters or humans.
A hundred years from now, it will probably have the ability to protect itself.
Feather Fan led everyone away. As they walked, she suddenly saw a green light enter her brow, followed by a voice in her ear:
"Thank you for eliminating those parasites, which prevented my spirit from being completely devoured by them."
Now my remaining spirit is attached to the seedling, and you have set up a concealment barrier for the seedling, allowing me to sleep for a hundred years and repair my damaged spirit.
I have cultivated for a thousand years and obtained two essences of Yi Wood. To express my gratitude, I give you one, hoping that we will meet again a hundred years from now!
"It's actually the legendary essence of Yi Wood?" Yu Shan was quite shocked.
This thing is said to be made from a spiritual tree that has been cultivated for over a thousand years, using the essence of the wood's spiritual power and the essence of the moon absorbed by the tree.
Its rarity is self-evident.
Most importantly, the essence of Yi wood condensed in the spirit tree cannot be obtained even if you cut it down and dig out its roots, unless the tree willingly gives it its own essence.
Because when the spirit tree is dying, it will crush the essence of the wood, causing it to dissipate into the air and soil, benefiting the surrounding vegetation.
As expected of the essence of Yi Wood, as soon as the feather fan entered my body, I felt a warm sensation throughout my meridians. The greatest benefit of this treasure is that it can continuously release spiritual energy to nourish my meridians.
Furthermore, it contains boundless vitality, offering you a chance to survive when you are in dire straits, helping you turn danger into safety, almost like having an extra life.
This gift is so precious. Yu Shan subconsciously touched her lower abdomen. Could this be another stroke of good luck brought to her by Xi'er?
However, good fortune in this world doesn't just fall into your lap for no reason. If it weren't for her kind care before she left, the Wood Spirit probably wouldn't have been willing to give her a piece of Wood Essence to thank her.
Beneath her palm, a small bulge suddenly appeared on her lower abdomen, rolling back and forth as if Xi'er was responding to her mother's caresses.
Yu Shan smiled gently. Xiao Bai, who had been watching her closely, saw her touching her lower abdomen and smiling, and said:
"Is Xi'er whispering to you again? Do you think if men could get pregnant, Xi'er would often act coquettishly towards me, her father?"
"Pfft!" Yu Shan burst out laughing.
This man's ideas are really interesting. When Xi'er grows up, she will definitely tell her about them and see how he will maintain his fatherly authority then.
**
After school, Ah Chen, carrying a speed transmission talisman, waited early outside the gate of the weapon crafting department.
He wore a mother-child tracking ring on his wrist, a magical artifact invented by Lele's aunt herself.
When the distance between the child ring and the parent ring is no more than 500 meters, the real-time running trajectory of the child ring will be clearly displayed on the parent ring.
I originally thought that I would be unable to use the magical artifacts I had crafted in the new world, but I didn't expect that the mother-child tracking ring would be completely unaffected.
Before enrolling in school, Lele was worried about Achen, so she gave him the ring so that it would be convenient for her to find him.
At this moment, Lele is in the weapon-refining room, holding an iron hammer in both hands and forcefully pounding a piece of metal.
Today, her mentor taught her the techniques for removing metal impurities during the forging process. Although she learned them, she realized that techniques require repeated practice to fully master.
So after the instructor taught the techniques, he asked everyone to go to the weapon-refining room to practice in person, and Lele was no exception.
She had run a weapon-refining workshop before, and her practical skills were much better than those of the other students in the beginner class.
Each strike of the hammer gradually developed into a mysterious rhythm, and soon she was immersed in the joy of forging.
In order to completely remove impurities, besides skill, there is another point: the forging process of metal must never be stopped halfway.
Otherwise, once the metal cools, the impurities will completely fuse with the pure metal, making it virtually impossible to separate them.
She didn't notice when get out of class ended, nor did she realize that all her classmates had left the weapon-forging room. She was just staring at the piece of metal she was hammering.
Naturally, she didn't notice that the mother ring on her wrist was lit up.
Outside the gate, Ah Chen, who hadn't been able to wait for Lele's aunt to come out, was about to leave when he heard a cold laugh:
"Heh! You have a path to heaven but choose not to take it, and you insist on coming to hell when there's no way out!"
You narrowly escaped this morning, but now you've delivered yourself right to my doorstep!
"Kid, you're dead today!"
When Achen turned around, he saw the mentally unstable Gu Panshi that had inexplicably appeared this morning.
He was busy going to class and couldn't be bothered with him. As a result, the student actually found a classmate from the intermediate class to help him out and tried to trap him with a fog array.
Although he escaped easily, this feud was now firmly established.
Ah Chen had originally planned to stake out the entrance of the intermediate class to find out the real name of the guy who claimed to be Liu Dongming.
Unexpectedly, this idiot Gu Panshi delivered himself right to our doorstep.
Thinking of this, Ah Chen decided not to talk about martial ethics with him and directly launched a sneak attack.
He raised his hand and demonstrated his newly created laundry technique.
Gu Panshi was waiting to see his junior brother, who had come in through the back door, tremble with fear as a large ball of water enveloped his entire body.
He then found his body spinning in the water, and within moments he was already dizzy.
All of this happened so fast that he didn't even have a chance to gather his spiritual power to break free from the water's restraints.
Moreover, when a large mass of water enveloped his entire body, water poured into his mouth, nose, ears, eyes, and any other openings.
Dizziness and suffocation caused him to quickly lose consciousness.
Ah Chen used his mind to direct the water sphere to spin faster, while also taking a picture with a recording stone.
However, as he was recording, he noticed something was wrong; the person had actually fainted.
"No way? He's a veteran student, his cultivation should be at least at the Spirit Fusion Realm or higher, how come he's so fragile? He can't even take a beating, how boring!"
Ah Chen shook his head and sighed, then withdrew his spell and had someone slam him heavily to the ground.
He wasn't worried at all that the person would be crushed to death, since cultivators' bodies were very strong and couldn't be easily broken.
However, this person seems to have drowned; their stomach is bulging out.
Ah Chen was worried that if he really drowned, he was just trying to vent his anger, since the other person only wanted to make things difficult for him and didn't deserve to die.
Thinking of this, Ah Chen grabbed him by the back of the collar and patted his back hard, watching as he coughed up a lot of water from his mouth and nose.
Hearing the coughing sounds, he knew the person was alright, so he casually tossed the person to the ground.
"Cough cough! You're quite something, kid! I originally thought you were a weakling who got in through connections, but I didn't expect you to actually have some skills!"
"Hey! Junior brother, what spell did you just use? Could you teach me?"
Gu Panshi had a fawning smile on his face, his wet hair sticking to his forehead, making him look quite comical.
Achen: ...
"Hey! Big brother, what makes you so sure I got in through connections?" Ah Chen looked completely bewildered.
"Unless it's a prodigy like Mingbai, how can someone be admitted to Shifang Academy before the age of eight?"
"Besides, why did you put your second test after the third test? Isn't that obviously using connections?" Gu Panshi said righteously.
"Please! Don't be so arrogant, okay? Before you slander someone, please do a thorough investigation first!"
The reason I took the third test first is because I chose talismans and I don't know how to draw them. The testing system was dumbfounded and summoned Instructor Chang..."
Ah Chen patiently explained the assessment process to him. It wasn't that he was afraid of being misunderstood, but rather that many of the students at Shifang Academy were very proud.
Once they suspect someone got in through connections, they will target that person relentlessly until they are expelled from the college.
He didn't want to cause himself a lot of trouble in the future, so the best way was to explain things clearly once and for all.
And he believed that the ancient rock would help him continue to explain to others, since they were clearly interested in his laundry technique.
As expected, after hearing his explanation, Gu Panshi, though still not entirely convinced, believed most of it.
Then Ah Chen said, "Want to learn the spell I just used? It's simple. Just don't let me hear any more rumors about me getting into school through connections, and I'll teach you for free. Otherwise, forget it!"
"Your conditions are too..." Gu Panshi was interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"Stop talking nonsense! Just tell me if you want to learn or not!" Ah Chen said impatiently.
"Yes, I want to learn! I promise, no one in the academy will spread such rumors again." Gu Panshi nodded vigorously.
“Very well, then let’s learn this young master’s self-created laundry technique…” Ah Chen smiled slyly.
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