Harvesting the Spirits of Plants and Trees

The distance between Jiangnan Base City and Australia is approximately three thousand kilometers. A typical First Order Planetary Level martial artist flies at a speed of about six hundred to eight hundred meters per second, but Yue Ming's flight speed exceeded two thousand meters per second. He arrived in Australia in less than half an hour by flying through the air.

The main reason for the delay was that he would occasionally encounter avian monsters while flying, and dealing with those that blocked his path wasted quite a bit of time. Otherwise, given Yue Ming's speed, he could have reached Australia in twenty-five minutes at most.

It seems the Chat Group Mall doesn't accept living things...

Yue Ming had wanted to test whether the Chat Group Mall accepted living creatures, so he captured a few monsters along the way. The result was that the Chat Group Mall refused them, which meant it did not accept living things. He just wondered if it accepted monster corpses?

Yue Ming then killed the monsters. This time, the Chat Group Mall did accept them, but the Points awarded were very meager. This completely extinguished Yue Ming's idea of earning Points by killing monsters.

Since the original story did not mention the exact location of Mist Island, he had to search for it slowly on his own. After flying for a distance, Yue Ming discovered that there were a great many monsters on the Australian continent; Lord-level Monsters could be seen everywhere, and King-level Monsters were not exactly rare.

The number of avian monsters here was even more astonishing. While flying over the Australian continent, he was frequently attacked by them. Fortunately, most were just Beast General Level monsters, with a small number being Lord-level avian monsters, all of which Yue Ming handled with ease.

This must be Mist Island!

Yue Ming searched for two full hours before finally finding the lake described in the original story. It was a lake spanning a radius of a hundred miles. The vast lake was filled with lush aquatic plants, and from time to time, the cries of monsters would emanate from the depths of the lake.

In the center of the lake was an island. The island was not very large, but it was shrouded in endless, dense fog. Without a doubt, this was Mist Island. In all of Australia, this was the only such peculiar place, matching the description of Mist Island in the original story.

Yue Ming did not hesitate at all and landed directly on the island from the sky. Upon landing, he found that the island was filled with lush trees, vibrant flowers, and tangled thorns, much like a primeval forest. The entire island was full of vitality, but strangely, there were no living creatures on it.

Yue Ming moved forward step by step, searching for Spirits of Plants and Trees. However, he had not even gone a thousand meters when a blur suddenly darted out from the flower bushes beside him.

Looking closely, he discovered it was actually a pink flower. The pink flower suddenly expanded and bloomed, like a giant beast opening its blood-red maw, looming over Yue Ming as if to swallow him whole.

Yue Ming remained calm, without a hint of panic. He simply raised his hand and threw a punch. Gene Source Energy erupted, and before the Man-eating Flower could descend, its terrifying power crushed the flower to pieces!

Yue Ming did not even turn back to look as he continued forward. Soon, he arrived at a grassy area where nine towering trees stood in the center.

"Spirits of Plants and Trees!"

Those nine towering trees were the nine willow trees that Luo Feng encountered in the original story. The nine willow trees were massive; even the thinnest one had a diameter of about one meter, while the thickest one reached a diameter of three meters.

There is no unified theory in the world regarding the origin of Spirits of Plants and Trees. Some say they were born through special mutations, while others say they evolved after absorbing special energy from the universe and nature. In short, there are many different opinions, and no consensus has been reached.

However, one thing is certain: the Spirits of Plants and Trees on Mist Island were cultivated by Bebeth using Wood Tooth Crystals. Furthermore, once a plant transforms into a Spirit of Plants and Trees, it generally will not attack you first unless you provoke it.

It took him one minute to harvest the nine Spirits of Plants and Trees. Yue Ming then began searching for others. For the rest of the day, he toured the entire Mist Island and harvested all the Spirits of Plants and Trees on it, totaling one hundred and seventy-eight.

The reason it took a full day was that the Spirits of Plants and Trees only attack when you get close to them. From a distance, they look almost exactly like ordinary trees, and without special sensory abilities, it is difficult to discover them without getting close.

I wonder if Bebeth has noticed me?

Yue Ming thought to himself with some curiosity. Unfortunately, he was not a Mental Master, and Bebeth would certainly not be willing to pass on the Meteor Star legacy to him unless he could comprehend a trace of the Origin Laws, which might then attract Bebeth's attention.

After all, Hong had long since comprehended a Domain. If Bebeth were willing to recruit martial artists, he would have recruited Hong into Meteor Star long ago. Don't tell me Bebeth didn't know about Hong; the bald artificial intelligence in Ruins No. 9 could monitor the Earth at all times. As a higher-level intelligent life form, could Bebeth really be inferior to an ordinary AI?

"Forget it, time to go!"

Not being able to obtain the Meteor Star inheritance was a slight pity, but truthfully speaking, the Meteor Star inheritance was nothing special—it was merely the inheritance of an ordinary Immortal Marquis.

Moreover, what Hu Yanbo left behind was a Mental Master inheritance. The Meteor Star Martialist lineage inheritance was left behind by Hu Yanbo's Soul Slaves, and they were all the most common Immortal inheritances.

Perhaps while on Earth, those Immortal inheritances still had some use, but once entering the universe, there would be plenty of opportunities to obtain more powerful Martialist Secret Techniques.

As Yue Ming left Mist Island, ten thousand meters beneath the island, inside a pitch-black spaceship, a dazzling light shone down from the high ceiling of the spacious hall, slowly coalescing into a figure.

This was a virtual projection of a being 1.45 meters tall, with two horns on its forehead, blood-red eyes, and wearing a black robe. At this moment, it was watching a 3D projection in the hall, which showed Yue Ming, who had just finished harvesting the Spirits of Plants and Trees and was preparing to leave Mist Island.

"Such a greedy human, to actually steal all the Spirits of Plants and Trees that Lord Bebeth the Demon cultivated! It's infuriating! However, his Brain Domain Width is quite high, though it's a pity he isn't a Mental Master..."

In fact, Bebeth had known about Yue Ming the moment he arrived at Mist Island. It just hadn't expected Yue Ming to be so greedy as to harvest every single Spirit of Plants and Trees on the island. This had infuriated Bebeth; one had to know that the Spirits of Plants and Trees on Mist Island were all cultivated by it using Wood Tooth Crystals.

"Fifty thousand years... Master, you have been dead for fifty thousand years. I will definitely follow your words and cultivate an excellent disciple for you!"

When mentioning Hu Yanbo, Bebeth's tone dropped, its eyes filled with sorrow as it looked toward the center of the hall. There, a crystal coffin was placed, and inside the crystal coffin lay a corpse—it was none other than Hu Yanbo.

Bebeth quickly composed its emotions and took out a handful of Wood Tooth Crystals, tossing them out. Since Yue Ming had harvested all the Spirits of Plants and Trees on the island, it had no choice but to cultivate some more.