Chapter 218
"My personal level is 61, which corresponds to the third level. This time it won't be the same..."
After another upgrade, Ye Bai muttered to himself while opening his personal information.
Very good, the identity and occupation remain unchanged as [Administrator]. There is not even a distinction between Administrator LV1 and LV2. It is very unbreakable.
The career system of Wanjie is a very important part of improving the combat effectiveness of characters. Although Ye Bai masters the "Root Magic", without the career system, she can only improve her level. This not only affects her comprehensive attributes, but also lacks more intuitive combat methods.
In comparison, in the same period of time, Nao has become a master of all professions thanks to his terrifying learning speed. Of course, his most powerful power is the curse power he mastered first.
While thinking about all sorts of things, Ye Bai subconsciously called out the career panel.
The next moment, her pupils suddenly shrank——
Unlike the previous lack of response, after Ye Bai reached level 60 and changed his job for the third time during the normal game process, his job panel finally changed.
But this change is not what the class panel should look like, but...
【82:11:22:23】
After seeing the content on the job panel, Ye Bai paused for a moment before slowly coming to his senses: "...Timer?"
That's right, a timer.
It was not only because of the familiar format, but also because she waited for a while and clearly saw the last digit jump and increase regularly until it reached 59, when the previous digit increased by one.
Hours, minutes, seconds... the first digit is the number of days?
After there was some movement on the career panel, the content that appeared made Ye Bai full of questions and guesses.
After being reborn in the game, there was no day or night in the divine world at first, and she no longer needed to sleep. This also made it impossible for her to accurately distinguish time. She could only roughly estimate that it might take two or three months for her to wake up in this world, which might correspond to the time shown on the panel.
But the important thing is, why did this happen? Could it be that the system timer was bugged and it affected the class panel? ... Thinking about it carefully, this possibility is not impossible.
"What's wrong?"
"roar?"
Nao and Ottophis, who were traveling with him, noticed something was wrong with Ye Bai and looked over with concern.
Hearing their voices, Ye Bai calmed down. They were now in an area with particularly lush vegetation. They were exploring and trying to find the Tree of Life, one of the energy cores of the divine world.
This is not a good place. There are dangerous living plants everywhere, which are natural traps. They are also interconnected and you will be attacked if you are not careful.
Of course, there are also gains besides dangers. Along the way, Nao has begun to master some natural magic without any guidance, and Ottophis has been eating and drinking various high-level fruits with Ye Bai. Under the influence of the law of space, its appearance seems to have not changed, but in fact its body has become very large. The strength of the dragon is directly related to its size.
"I may have some new discoveries, but I need to find a safe place to study them—enemy attack!"
Ye Bai was halfway through his words when a chain reaction caused by the large poisonous flower he had killed before occurred. The ground behind him shook, and thick roots as thick as giant snakes emerged from it and attacked towards them.
This root system also carries the resistance field of natural magic, which will reject other attribute forces except the laws of nature. It is not an exaggeration to call it a half-legendary magic level attack.
Nao and Ottophis immediately prepared for battle, but at this moment, encountering danger and triggering his instinct, Ye Bai's eyes changed unprecedentedly.
Time seemed to slow down in her perception, as if it had stopped.
Whether it was Ottophis beside him or Nao next to him, or more importantly, the huge tree roots attacking from the other side, only Ye Bai did not slow down.
At this moment, Ye Baifu's mind was in a state of shock, and he subconsciously called out the occupation panel -
Sure enough, the timer stopped, and the seconds that should have been ticking normally did not increase.
This ability... is time?
After this period of training in the divine world, Ye Bai was no longer the newbie who had no combat awareness when she first woke up in this world. After realizing this change, her eyes lit up and she looked at the activated tree roots that had become extremely slow.
At this time, not only the tree roots themselves, but also the broken soil and dust that flew up from the ground were slowly dissipating.
In this extremely slow world, only Ye Bai's speed has not changed.
Correspondingly, she will become extremely fast.
She didn't need any special fighting skills. Her response was just to quickly walk to the huge tree root and chop it several times with the wooden sword whose values had been enhanced by the console.
Even though Ye Bai doesn't have a career template now, the damage caused by this "N-speed slash in one second" is terrifying.
After Ye Bai’s third transformation, a new ability appeared on his career panel, which was to control the time in the game world!
With a thought in her mind, she suddenly realized that time had returned to normal under her control, or rather, she had exited that extremely fast state.
"Boom..."
The tree roots broke and fell, and there was a commotion in the distance, and then calm returned.
The source of this root system - some kind of mutated animated plant life - chose to flee after being severely damaged.
For Nao and Ottophis, it only took a moment to feel Ye Bai's incredible speed of action. Before they could react at all, the tricky enemy had already disappeared on its own.
When Ye Bai turned around, he saw two pairs of eyes filled with wonder and amazement.
“Ouch…”
Nao recovered from his shock and asked curiously, "Is this the new power you've realized?"
"Yeah." Ye Bai nodded, then recalled the other party's ability and asked, "What can you see?"
This "see" does not need much explanation, Nao also knows that it is
Hearing her say this, Nao's black pupils briefly turned red, and he used 'Root Vision' again. After a moment, he slowly spoke with uncertainty and confusion:
"Time... This is not a power that should be controlled by the creatures of this world--" After saying this, Nao's gaze fell on Ye Bai, and he suddenly regained his focus and became inexplicably determined.
"As expected of you!"
"roar……"
Not only Nao, but also Ottophis on the side looked at Ye Bai with bright eyes, fully showing an emotion of awe.
Ye Bai: "Ahem..."
In the past, Ye Bai had always relied on the "Root Magic" to pretend to be a master, but gradually he was unable to do so. In this way, he once again consolidated his personality in front of his companions.
And she could feel that this was just one application of time. In the future, other abilities could be developed, such as accelerating time, reversing time, and so on...
So, after a little thought, Ye Bai named the state that was like a super slow motion movie "Bullet Time".
"This is the Tree of Life..."
Since they began to master the new ability to control time, Ye Bai and his group have moved much faster than at the beginning. After some time, they arrived at the core area that should belong to the high elves in the future.
Looking at this scene, everyone couldn't help but raise their heads, shocked by the magnificent beauty of the sprouting Tree of Life.
As the embodiment of one of the source laws of the divine world, it is not only shocking in appearance, but also a manifestation of the laws of nature.
When arriving here, Ye Bai heard the system prompt that he had obtained many life-related bonus BUFFs. After being shocked, Nao faced the essential manifestation of the laws of nature and felt that the natural magic knowledge he had previously comprehended began to be integrated.
Only after Ottophis came back to his senses did he look around, searching continuously on the top of the Tree of Life.
The goal, of course, is the legendary fruit of the Tree of Life.
As the highest exchange item for the future high elves' faction reputation in the game, the fruit of the Tree of Life can greatly improve personal attributes after being eaten.
This was also the main purpose of Ye Bai pulling them to find the Tree of Life in the beginning - since she didn't have a career panel, she would go for the attribute stacking route.
Unlike other top races, the High Elves and the Purgatory Clan are in a similar situation. These two groups were first born from the original power, the Tree of Life and the Purgatory Core, and then slowly developed their races on their basis.
Ye Bai and his companions did not see any high elves along the way, only various animated plants, which meant that the high elves had not yet been born at that time.
Therefore, now is the fastest time to obtain the fruit of the tree of life.
Otherwise, given the High Elves' most vengeful character in the entire God Realm, robbing them by force would completely make them enemies. It would also take a very long time to raise their reputation to the highest level, and as an [Administrator], it was still unclear whether Ye Bai would be able to receive reputation tasks.
"roar……"
Nao had already fallen into a state of concentration in studying, and before Ye Bai could come to her senses, Ottophis had already skillfully used his head to push her from behind and threw her onto his back.
The dragon's wings spread out and flew directly with Ye Bai, heading towards the place where Ottophis sensed the most concentrated energy on the Tree of Life.
Ye Bai sought the Fruit of the Tree of Life to improve his attributes and increase his strength, while Ottophis was deeply attracted by her description of it being 'better than bread'...
Needless to say, the speed of the dragon born from the laws of space was extremely fast. Ottophis flapped its wings twice and took Ye Bai to the place where it sensed the strongest energy surge through space.
“Roar~”
Without looking at his expression, Ye Bai could hear Ottophis's excitement and anticipation just by listening to his voice.
However, looking at the thing in front of him, Ye Bai couldn't help but pause.
Having never seen the fruit of the Tree of Life, Ottophis naturally thought that the thing in front of him that condensed the essence of the Tree of Life was its fruit. However, in fact... it was a colorful flower bud the size of a head.
The bud of the tree of life.
In the framework setting of the divine world, the [Fruit of the Tree of Life] is indeed a top-level item that must exist among the high elves, but this is a world that is self-generating data from scratch. Because they came too early, not only were the high elves not born, but the Tree of Life had just bloomed and had no fruit.
"Ottophis, this is not a fruit, you can't eat it yet."
"Oh..." Upon hearing this, Ottofi immediately made a disappointed sound, and the curvature of his wings dropped a lot.
He used an Identify on the flower bud, and the feedback he got made Ye Bai speechless.
【Tree of Life Bud】
[Blooming time: 92 days, 21 hours, 21 seconds]
It will take a full three months for it to bloom, and Ottophis's perception of energy cannot be wrong. The bud it brought Ye Bai to is already the closest to opening.
Sure enough, after continuing to check on the other scattered flower buds, the one closest to maturity and blooming was indeed the first one. The others would take several years or even more than ten years to bloom, and the fruits would only form after the flowers had faded.
Regardless of the effects of eating the flower buds directly, judging from the halo around the flower buds, it is very likely that they are protected by the Tree of Life. Even though the Tree of Life is the most gentle original law, it is still a law.
To fight against the source of a law is no different from fighting against a god-level powerful being.
"What's wrong..." Nao also caught up at this time. After asking a question, he answered himself and learned the same information as Ye Bai: "I see."
Judging from the current situation, their trip will be in vain and they cannot wait here for three months.
But you can note down the coordinates and teleport back in three months to check the situation.
"Wait..." Just as the thought of leaving came to Ye Bai's mind, he suddenly paused and thought of something - didn't she just gain the ability of 'time'?
"Ottophis, come closer." Ye Bai patted the dragon's scales, signaling it to move closer to the bud that had recently bloomed.
Then she slowly reached out and approached the bud.
Otherwise, how can we say that the Tree of Life is the most gentle of the original laws? As long as there is no harmful behavior, its protective mechanism will not be triggered.
What Ye Bai was doing at this time was, on the contrary, a beneficial behavior.
The moment my fingers successfully touched the bud of the Tree of Life, I felt a wonderful velvety touch.
The next moment, Ye Bai's spiritual energy began to drop rapidly.
A halo of light flowed over the bud, and the leaves of the bud trembled slightly. Miraculous changes began to occur, like a video played at super speed. The petals that had been growing slowly quickly stretched out.
Ye Bai used his time ability to unilaterally accelerate the time of the flower bud.
When her entire spiritual energy bar was drained, she passively stopped her movements, and then used Identify on the flower bud again:
[Blooming time: 61 days, 17 hours, 56 seconds]
A month has been shortened!
Seeing this, Ye Bai's eyes lit up, and he immediately took out a high-level plant with a mana recovery effect, the [Purple Fig], from his backpack and ate it.
Nao and Ottophis understood what she was doing and waited excitedly on the side.
Soon, his mana was fully restored, and Ye Bai used the same trick again, once again shortening the time it took for the flower bud to bloom by one month.
Finally, during the last acceleration, the bud had become much larger than the size of an ordinary human head, reaching the size of a large pumpkin.
Of course, the biggest change occurred when Ye Bai used up his spiritual energy for the third time.
[Life Tree Will Affinity +10]
[High Elf Reputation +50, Current Reputation Level: Friendly]
Along with two system prompt sounds, what is even more shocking is the scene in front of you.
As time accelerated, the trembling buds fully blossomed, stretching out their petals with a white background and flowing colorful halos.
In the center of the unfolded petals, a tiny and beautiful girl was revealed, curled up.
The other person was wearing a white long skirt of the same texture as the flower petals, with long light golden hair winding down. In this extremely shocking scene, Ye Bai couldn't help but breathe lighter.
Then, the girl curled up in the center of the flower twitched her pointed ears, opened her pair of clear ice-blue eyes, and looked towards Ye Bai.
Suddenly, Ye Bai's eyes couldn't help but shine, and his face-control attribute exploded: a blond-haired, blue-eyed, pointy-eared elf... a fairy item!
This scene also solved the case. It turned out that the evolution of the Tree of Life was the birth of a clan of high elves from its flowers, and then the fruits of the Tree of Life would continue to be produced.
It's true that Ye Bai is the producer, but the core code of the divine world was obtained by accident. The framework does have the setting that "the high elves were born from the Tree of Life", and the rest is just about "you decide on the system yourself".
So it wasn't until she witnessed this moment with her own eyes that she could sort out the cause and effect.
And perhaps because it was the first time they faced the laws of origin, the Tree of Life and the High Elves were the first top race in this newly born divine world to have the concept of "race" or more profoundly, "civilization", compared to the dragons and the void elves.
He actually opened the faction reputation system for Ye Bai at the same time. As for the other mysterious effect of [Affinity with the Will of the Tree of Life +10], she soon witnessed it.
Because at this time, the first high elf, whose size was half that of Ye Bai, a human, stood up from the heart of the flower after it was born. His eyes swept over the one person, one void spirit and one dragon present, and finally stopped accurately on Ye Bai.
After a brief thought, the little elf girl's eyes lit up, and she looked at her with dependence and admiration, and shouted in a crisp voice:
"My Lord Prophet!"
Ye Bai: "...Uh, uh?"
As the darlings of the Tree of Life, or more accurately, its offspring, the High Elves are all born from the Tree of Life. They carry racial memory with them from the moment they are born. The Tree of Life is their god and parents, and the members of the tribe are also sisters and brothers.
Various professions will emerge within the elves, but in essence their social consciousness is very equal, without much class distinction. It is extremely difficult for an identity that is higher than their social structure to appear.
Judging from the attitude and address of the elf girl, the 'prophet' obviously meets this identity.
While Ye Bai was in shock, the elf came over happily: "Master Prophet, what should we do next?"
How would I know...Ye Bai answered subconsciously in his heart.
The title of [Prophet] undoubtedly has a special meaning in any ethnic group, and carries the functions of a 'leader, mentor'. She only helped give birth to a high elf, but she didn't expect it to cause this chain reaction.
Then she looked towards the flower. After it blossomed, the petals gradually drooped, and the bottom began to condense into a fruit shape. With a quick glance, she discerned it.
[Result time: 163 years, 85 days, 12 hours, and 47 seconds]
Ye Bai paused for a moment: I'm afraid this fruit from the Tree of Life will be hard to eat...
Then her gaze fell back on the elf girl. High elves were, to some extent, 'born with knowledge'. Even though they were just born into this world and were still ignorant, they still had basic thinking awareness.
The affinity with the will of the Tree of Life and the reputation of the faction obviously played a big role in his attitude towards Ye Bai.
There is no doubt that gaining the favor of a top ethnic group is a good thing, and what Ye Bai did was just to accelerate the birth of the high elves.
After thinking for a while, Ye Bai asked the elf girl in front of him: "What's your name?"
"Ainolucia." The elf girl reported her birth name, then puffed out her chest with a bit of pride and glanced at Ye Bai with some anticipation: "I will be the queen of the elves."
Huh…this feeling of a child waiting for praise from an adult?
So, Ye Bai said tentatively: "You are really amazing!"
"Yeah." Inollucia nodded calmly, but her trembling ears and wandering eyes betrayed her.
As expected, golden retrievers always have a bit of tsundere attributes...so cute!
Ye Bai finally couldn't help himself and patted Inollucia's head twice, which felt very good. Then, under the gaze of Nao and Ottophis, he coughed lightly and said, "Then let's go help other elves be born early."
Since using the time method to "give birth" to elves can gain affinity with the will of the Tree of Life and favorability with the faction, now that we are here and the faction reputation has been opened, of course we should take this opportunity to brush it up.
Now that you have maxed out the reputation of the elves' faction, it will be easier to exchange for the fruit of the Tree of Life in the future.
"Yes!" Hearing Ye Bai's words, Inolosia's eyes brightened again, and the look she gave her began to turn into admiration.
As the future Queen of the Elves, like the Tree of Life, she naturally hopes that the High Elves will grow stronger faster.
Unfortunately, although Ye Bai has activated the faction reputation, the personal favorability system did not appear when facing Naor or Ottophis. Otherwise, he would probably receive a series of notifications about the Elf Queen's favorability growth.
Next, Ye Bai continued to repeat his previous actions, like a hardworking gardener ripening the flowers on the tree of life.
This time, Inollucia treated her to the [Nectar of Life]. After taking it, she gained a continuous spiritual energy recovery effect, and the efficiency was much faster than before.
[Life Tree Will Affinity +1]
[High Elf Reputation +10, Current Reputation Level: Friendly]
Soon, the second bud bloomed, and another high elf was born. The functions of the elf clan would exist from birth, and this male elf would be the future elven general.
However, compared to the first Elf Queen Inorlucia, the reward this time is much lower. After all, the first one is always more special.
After being treated to the nectar of life, Ottophis on the side joined Ye Bai's team to promote the birth of flower buds in high spirits. However, Nao didn't know what was in his mind. He kept looking at Ye Bai with a look of "you are worthy of it", which made her confused.
[Life Tree Will Affinity +1]
[High Elf Reputation +10, Current Reputation Level: Worship]
Finally, after using his ability to "ripen" the eight currently visible buds on the Tree of Life, Ye Bai raised the reputation level of the high elves to the highest level of "worship", which was already at the level that could not be raised any further.
Like Inollucia, every elf born regarded her as a 'prophet' and treated her with great respect and worship.
When Ye Bai finally left, although he did not get the original Life Fruit, he obtained a large amount of [Life Nectar] that had the effect of restoring health and mana.
Of course, there were also a group of high elves who said goodbye reluctantly, which made Ye Bai feel guilty about his original idea of plucking the fruit of the Tree of Life.
However, after this incident, Ye Bai roughly understood the reason.
All ethnic groups standing in the divine realm have a basic competitive concept of moving towards the Supreme God's throne. Her action of helping the high elves to be born early is equivalent to increasing the competitiveness of this ethnic group, so she gained affinity with the Tree of Life and reputation in the elf camp.
After leaving the Tree of Life area, Nao finally said with admiration, "Lord Bai Ye is indeed a man of foresight. This way, it will be easy to conquer the elves in the future... No, I should say you have already conquered the elves."
Ye Bai: ...Huh? When did she plan to conquer the elves?
Having said that, Nao looked at Ottophis again and said, "Ottophis, when you were born, Lady Bai Ye placed high hopes on you to become the Dragon King. You will not disappoint her, will you?"
"call……"
Ottophis blew out a breath from his nose, glared at Nao, raised his dragon head, and used his eyes to express the meaning of "of course that's impossible".
Ye Bai: ...Actually, she just said it casually because the atmosphere was right!
Finally, Nao turned around and apologized to Ye Bai with emotion and admiration: "Those elves are the darlings of nature. Although their individual strength is not top-notch, they are a group with great potential... Selecting the promising populations and cultivating the kings of that group in advance will undoubtedly speed up the pace of conquering the world in the future. Forgive me for not understanding what you meant at first. I thought you were really after the fruit of the Tree of Life..."
"Haha...ha." Ye Bai laughed dryly when he heard that. Isn't it really for the fruit of the tree of life?
"So where do we go next?"
Not only Nao, but also Ottophis beside her was looking at her expectantly.
The corner of Ye Bai's mouth twitched, and memories flashed through his mind, returning to the scene when he answered Nao's question "become the strongest in this world" in order to maintain his image as a master. Finally, he realized where the other party's sense of belief at that time came from.
Unbeknownst to her, Nao had already begun planning to help her become the God King.
At this moment, the other party's eyes gave a feeling that everything for the next few hundred years had been planned for Ye Bai.
So she couldn't help but complain: "You're not going to make some five-year plan for me or something like that, are you?"
The next moment, Nao's expression was moved: "I underestimated Lord Bai Ye. I was thinking it would take fifty or a hundred years, but it turns out that Lord Bai Ye can do it in five years!"
Ottophis on the side couldn't help but look at Ye Bai with admiration, and he and Nao looked at Ye Bai with starry eyes.
Regarding this, Ye Bai hesitated to speak, then continued: "..."
But since I have reached this point unknowingly, I might as well try to see the scenery at the top of the divine realm!
"Then let's go to the 'deep sea'."
The deep-sea people are different from the elves whose strength limit and profession are determined from birth. The deep-sea area appeared early in the divine world and gave birth to various marine creatures. They compete among themselves, and finally the king is born based on their strength. This is similar to purgatory.
Compared to the simplicity of the Tree of Life area, the next activities in the deep sea really have the meaning of "selecting populations with potential and cultivating the king of that tribe in advance" as Nao said.
Of course, although he agreed with Nao's idea, Ye Bai still complained in his heart more than once whether this path should be called "The God King Must Start from Childhood" more appropriately.
After making a simple raft and giving it the characteristics of "deep-sea sailing and storm-resistant", Ye Bai and his team set out again and headed for the deep sea.
After finding an isolated island with suitable conditions, Ye Bai began his first step - fishing.
If a tribe that is not a deep-sea tribe goes deep into the sea, they will be "drowned" by the will of the deep sea. Even the strength of a god-level strongman will be greatly reduced. To some extent, conquering the deep sea by force is actually the most difficult among the top tribes.
Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to "catch" deep-sea creatures with a fishing rod, but Ye Bai has a trick.
Soon, a simple three-piece fishing gear set was completed according to Ye Bai's instructions and made by Nao. After completion, Ye Bai modified it into a fishing artifact and began his life as a fisherman.
“Crash…”
"Is this a deep-sea creature of the anglerfish species? It's quite powerful, but too ugly. Forget it."
“Crash…”
"Wow! Sizzling sunfish, great stuff, let's have fish soup today!"
During the fishing process, there are intelligent and spiritual deep-sea creatures, as well as fish. However, with the bonus of the "artifact" fishing rod, at worst, you can catch high-level fish. Ye Bai's fishing and cooking skills are also constantly improving during this period.
Until one day, accompanied by a familiar "splash" sound of water, a red figure was fished out of the water.
“Snap!”
Ye Bai turned around and saw that at the other end of the fishing line was a young deep-sea creature with red hair and blue eyes, a human upper body and red octopus tentacles in the lower body.
Ottophis curiously moved forward to smell it, and after discovering that it was a deep-sea creature that could not be eaten, he backed away.
Nao's eyes turned red, revealing a thoughtful look, and he began to evaluate diligently: weak, not poisonous, and seemed to have no special features... Hmm, it seems to be a big eater?
Only Ye Bai, the moment he saw the little deep-sea creature's appearance, was overwhelmed with admiration for her face: "What kind of little mermaid is this?! So cute! The future Sea God has decided to be you!"
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