Ten minutes passed, and instead of withering away like blades of grass, the mosquitoes were still leisurely rubbing their hind legs on the rock.
It seemed to them that the black stone was no different from any ordinary stone on the roadside.
Ruan Tang was now certain that this strange thing probably only reacted to the vitality of plants.
But why?
A bold guess popped into her mind.
With a thought, she carefully drew a wisp of extremely weak spiritual power, carrying pure wood-type energy, from the Ruomu tree next to her spiritual root, and also separated a strand of her own water-type spiritual power.
Once she was ready, she first projected a wisp of water elemental energy at the black stone from a distance.
"Sizzle—"
A faint, soft sound.
The lifeless layer on the surface of the black stone seemed to be activated the moment it came into contact with the water elemental power, surging up briefly before quickly going still.
There was a reaction, but it wasn't strong.
Ruan Tang understood what was going on, and then she also sent over that wisp of pure wood-type spiritual energy.
The next second, a bizarre scene unfolded!
The moment the wood-elemental spiritual energy approached the stone, the originally lifeless black stone seemed to come alive as if a hungry beast had been awakened from its slumber!
A layer of visible black mist suddenly rose from the surface of the stone, like a greedy mouth that opened wide, swallowing up the wisp of wood-type spiritual energy in one gulp!
Not even the slightest energy fluctuation remained!
The whole process was frighteningly fast!
Ruan Tang and Yan Yu exchanged a glance, both seeing the surprise in each other's eyes.
This stone is definitely not an inanimate object!
It reacts to spiritual power, but only to wood-type spiritual power!
Although it didn't seem to be harmful to animals, Ruan Tang didn't dare to actually let Xiao Bai out.
Who knows if this thing has any other hidden attributes?
She thought about it and had an idea.
She took out a half-person-sized humanoid puppet made entirely of special minerals from her spatial storage.
This puppet has an ancient and simple design, with its eyes closed and its body covered with intricate runes. It is the "Scripture" that is the encyclopedia of research and development among the many puppets in her collection.
Ruan Tang skillfully opened a groove at the back of the scripture and pressed a mid-grade spirit stone into it.
"Ding—"
The puppet's tightly closed eyes instantly lit up with two beams of white light, and its joints made creaking sounds, like a robot that had just woken up, starting to move around.
"Put this on." Yan Yu had taken out the white protective suit from his spatial storage without anyone noticing.
Ruan Tang nodded, and together with Yan Yu, they hurriedly helped the newly "activated" puppet put on a protective suit. The scene was utterly comical.
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