Back-to-Back Breakthroughs, Platinum Codex

Golden Codex.

Besides gaining another five pages, it had also awakened the abilities One Flower, One World and One Leaf, One Bodhi.

Each leaf and each flower could store the origin laws of a summoned beast.

Within the area covered by the Chaos Ancient Tree's shade, enemies would suffer double suppression from attributes of the same type.

In other words, if Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass martial soul beneath its shade, he would not only be suppressed by the domain itself, but also by the laws of Blue Silver Grass.

This ability was pretty good. Xu Yu secretly rejoiced.

At that moment, inside the codex, Moss Head looked up at his main body. Why did it feel as though one leaf was holding up a world, with an A Lan happily bouncing around and playing within it? Then he saw another leaf, also holding up a world, where a two-headed demonic wolf was sprinting through it.

How strange. What was going on? Even the place where he slept had become much bigger.

Forget it. No matter how big heaven and earth were, sleeping was the greatest.

ZZZ~

With his eyes closed, Xu Yu enjoyed the insights from the Blue Silver Grass and Chaos Ancient Tree, feeling incomparably refreshed. Then there was the Gale Twin-Headed Wolf... The scene reappeared. Besides the Chaos Ancient Tree and the endless Blue Silver Grass, there was now a lifelike Gale Twin-Headed Wolf hunting birds.

Though they were both living creatures, those birds were far inferior to the Gale Twin-Headed Wolf. One looked like a cheap special effect that was obviously fake at a glance, while the other looked like it had cost millions, vivid and lifelike.

He withdrew the other scenes, leaving only the Gale Twin-Headed Wolf pacing around the bed inside the room, frightening Zhu Zhuyun into darting her eyes about.

"How utterly boring," Zhu Zhuyun said enviously.

"What about mine?"

"Here, here." A contract was inscribed onto another page and flew before Zhu Zhuyun. Without hesitation, she pricked her finger and let a drop of blood fall onto it. Once she accepted the contract, the paper turned into a ray of light that shot into her forehead before vanishing.

After everything was done, Zhu Zhuyun waited eagerly. Xu Yu had no choice but to make Moss Head cut off another piece of flesh and send her another wave of sap.

Moss Head would need a long time to recover this time. If he did it again, he would practically become a tree trunk.

She had broken through two levels. Not bad. Zhu Zhuyun glanced at Xu Yu, bid him farewell, then turned and left.

Watching the black-robed figure disappear through the city gates from the windowsill, Xu Yu let out a breath. A good gathering, a good parting.

Ding!

At that moment, the codex had also finished upgrading.

Platinum Codex.

Crossing two ranks in a single day—only he could do that.

The codex gained another ten pages. Xu Yu felt that he would never be able to use them all.

But that was not the main attraction. The real highlight was the new ability.

Replica.

The new ability was called Replica!

It could imprint a replica of his codex and create a crude Summoning Tome.

"Moss Head, make me a replica."

Awakened from his deep sleep, Moss Head kept his eyes closed as he sensed the additional information in his mind. A rather special leaf detached from his main body and flew out, and Xu Yu caught it.

He held it in his hand and examined it. This was it?

A leaf was a Summoning Tome? It did not look like one!

"Dad, soul masters who obtain these leaves can only summon the soul beasts from their soul rings, and the age of those soul beasts is fixed and can never increase. That is the greatest difference from the Summoning Tome. However, they have one advantage: after a summoned beast dies, at most the soul ring will shatter. Once the soul ring recovers, it can be summoned again."

"The greatest difference from Life Guardian Beasts is that those summoned beasts will never possess intelligence. They are also immortal and indestructible beings. As long as the soul master is alive and their soul rings remain, they cannot truly die."

Of course, one could also consider them dead. It was merely that, after the soul ring recovered, a new summoned beast was born. In any case, those summoned beasts had no intelligence, so who could tell whether they were truly dead or not?

"This ability is way too awesome, isn't it? It's even better than my Summoning Tome. They're all Life Guardian Beasts. Though they have no intelligence and their age cannot increase, they're easy to control, okay?" Xu Yu felt bitterly jealous.

"Can I make a replica for myself too?"

He was tempted as well.

"Ah, Dad, you don't need one. The codex itself already has this function." Moss Head's surprised voice rang out, and Xu Yu felt embarrassed.

It seemed he had devoted far too little effort to cultivation.

"However, Dad, your first four soul rings won't work, though they have other abilities. I'm not too sure what they are either, so you can sense them for yourself later. As for the soul rings after that, once I use the toughest leaf on my main body to make replicas, Dad can use them."

Life Guardian Battle Beasts really were great! Xu Yu was in a good mood. But what abilities did his first four soul rings possess that even Moss Head did not know about? It seemed the soul rings that had undergone the baptism of time and space had changed in indescribable ways. If he wanted to improve his strength, he had better set aside more time to comprehend them.

As for this replica leaf, he would give it to her.

It was clear that these leaves were precious. Even Moss Head's main body did not have many. Xu Yu was willing to give one to Zhu Zhuyun not only because she was his taste-sensation summoned beast, but also because of that damned connection through marriage.

Was this what it meant for even heroes to be unable to resist a beauty?

He smashed through the window and leaped out, while the innkeeper cursed loudly behind him.

Holding the Pope's Token, Xu Yu roared as he flew out of Spirit City.

"Papal Envoy! All idlers, make way!"

The commotion made the crowd boil. When Bibi Dong looked over, she nearly choked on her anger.

He was actually using her Pope's Token to cause trouble? His hide was itching.

She had just been about to suppress him when she saw Xu Yu catch up to a girl and give her a leaf as a gift.

The girl was leaving. The boy was reluctant to part with her but had no way to keep her. After she left, the boy hurriedly chased after her and gave her a leaf carrying special meaning. The two embraced tightly, feeling each other's heartbeats. Was this love?

Bibi Dong froze for a moment, then shook her head and flung those images from her mind. Why was she watching something like that?

Bibi Dong, still dressed in a loose bathrobe, had a headache. Looking at Golden Goose, whom she had summoned over after Xu Yu left, she said, "You really did take in a fine disciple."

Golden Goose had also seen that scene outside the city and was somewhat bewildered, not knowing what the Pope meant by those words.

Was she criticizing Xu Yu for flirting around, or was she genuinely praising him?

"Your Excellency the Pope, you flatter me!"

Golden Goose responded properly.

Bibi Dong stared straight at her, and Golden Goose answered again in confusion.

Bibi Dong kept staring. Golden Goose kept responding.

In the end, Bibi Dong sighed. There was simply no communicating with her.

Didn't you hear me say that you had taken in a fine disciple? Since he was such a fine disciple, and I was the one who gave him to you, couldn't you give him back to me?

Xu Yu was easier to communicate with. Xu Yu understood her.

Unfortunately, he had already become someone else's disciple.

"You may leave as well. Remember my instructions after you leave the city. Protecting Xu Yu is your only task, understand? I'm still waiting for him to grow stronger and come back to help me govern the countr—cough, cough—Spirit City."

She had nearly said "country." It would not do if she gave herself away.

It was merely a secret buried in her heart, one that only Xu Yu had seen through. That was why Bibi Dong regarded him so highly.