Bestowing the Barren Attribute, Unlocking the Shackles of Evolution!

At this moment.

Fang Yi rode down the street, bathed in sunlight.

He was looking for a vessel to bear the Barren Attribute.

"Hm? How did I end up here?"

A forest stood before him.

The forest lay on the outskirts of Tai City. There had once been plans to turn it into a park, but it was simply too large and difficult to tame. For now, it remained an ordinary forest standing here.

As far as the eye could see, everything was lush and verdant.

"The Barren Attribute should be more suited to something plant-based. At the very least, I definitely can't put it on myself. These are all sinister attributes. Putting them on myself could cause bad repercussions, and they might even conflict with the Lightning Affinity in my hand," Fang Yi thought.

The Barren Attribute was essentially corrosion. Corrosion was dangerous; one careless mistake could end up hurting himself instead.

Just then,

he suddenly thought of the Vine hanging down from the sky, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"The best way is to replicate something like the Vine that descended from the sky."

"The reason the Vine hung down from the sky was that it sensed the dense spiritual energy of the revival at that moment. It chose to evolve on its own, which was why it developed the Barren Power attribute."

"So, I need to choose a lucky one—a plant that can resonate with my spiritual energy and express a sense of closeness toward me."

All things possessed spirits.

He needed to find a plant that had some sort of affinity with him and grant it the Barren Attribute.

With that thought,

Fang Yi walked through the forest and began releasing his spiritual energy.

He was now Divine Axe Three-Star. His spiritual energy was immense, more than enough to cover the forest.

Boom!

The moment his spiritual energy was released, it flowed endlessly from his body like a clear spring, spreading into every corner of the forest.

As the spiritual energy spread, everything in the forest seemed to awaken with renewed vitality. The trees swayed gracefully under its nourishment, their leaves glimmering with emerald light. The flowers bloomed in dazzling colors at its call, crystalline dewdrops sparkling on their petals as they gave off a heady fragrance.

The forest seemed to come alive in an instant.

As the gentle spiritual energy brushed over their crowns, Fang Yi felt waves of surging pulses.

This was the plants' response to his spiritual energy.

"They're responding, but it's still not enough..."

Fang Yi closed his eyes and continued walking through the forest, sensing.

After who knew how long, he stopped before a patch of wildflowers.

Compared to the large, brilliantly colored flowers beside it, this wildflower was truly inconspicuous.

Not only was it tiny, its color was also dull.

Yet Fang Yi crouched down and gently extended a finger.

A wisp of transparent spiritual energy seeped out.

Like a living creature, the wildflower stretched its neck toward it to touch the spiritual energy. It trembled slightly as it absorbed every last trace of the energy from Fang Yi's fingertip, looking utterly content.

It was very spiritual.

"This flower is clearly a plant, yet when it encountered my spiritual energy, it acted like an eager, food-loving puppy. After sucking up my spiritual energy, it even came over to rub its head against my finger."

"In the entire forest, this flower has the strongest reaction to my spiritual energy. It's perfect for implanting the Barren Attribute."

"You're the one."

Would you like to forcibly implant the Barren Attribute into this object?

Yes.

The moment the words fell,

whoosh—

a stream of green light flowed from Fang Yi's body.

Like a trickling brook, it poured into the flower, watering the wildflower from top to bottom.

The wildflower's petals trembled, while its stem and leaves deepened into a rich green. It was as if it had swallowed a drop of dense green ink, growing wildly as an overwhelming, powerful aura erupted from it, like a hymn sung by angels.

It was clearly a scene brimming with life...

But the next second.

Boom—!

An emerald aura spread outward with the wildflower at its center.

In an instant, the surrounding flowers and grass rapidly withered away.

The towering ancient tree closest to the flower had originally been lush with branches and leaves, its greenery flourishing.

But after that green aura brushed past it,

a dim color of decay began spreading from the tender green leaves at its crown, racing down along the trunk. Brittle branches began to crack sharply.

A tree full of green leaves turned withered yellow in an instant!

A rabbit ran across the grass, its powerful hind legs pushing it into the air. The next moment, it turned into a skeleton midair.

Barren Power.

Like the gentle sweep of an invisible demon's hand over every flower, blade of grass, and tree around it, it madly plundered their life force!

The once-lush greenery turned dull and bleak.

The vividly blooming flowers rapidly withered beneath this irresistible power, their petals scattering in the wind like feathers.

Spiders and insects nearby fled in terror.

In just a few seconds,

the forest transformed from flourishing green into a field of gray, as though it had been destroyed by the long torment of time, with no trace of life left to be found.

Watching this scene, Fang Yi could not help but sigh.

"Five seconds, and it nearly drained the entire forest dry."

So this was Barren Power?

How overbearing!

At his feet, the Little Wild Flower that had originally looked somewhat sickly had absorbed the life force of its own kind and become incomparably vivid, possessing a bewitching beauty.

Fang Yi plucked the flower.

The moment it left the soil, the rapid desolation around it seemed to have been put on pause.

The large tree was half green and half yellow.

The flowers had withered halfway, while the other half remained in bloom.

"The Barren Power hasn't stopped yet."

Fang Yi could feel that the flower in his hand was still constantly absorbing life force.

However, compared to the previous reckless extraction, it had become much gentler now.

A faint stream of life force flowed from the surrounding trees into the flower's petals, as though invisible threads connected them, forming a subtle state of symbiosis.

It was remarkable.

"It can survive without roots?"

Fang Yi was somewhat surprised.

The flower was rubbing against his palm like a little animal begging for affection, desperately trying to draw its Lord's attention.

Moreover, after it had been pulled from the soil, that feeling had not weakened.

It seemed to possess intelligence.

Yet before he had chosen this flower, it had clearly been nothing more than an ordinary wildflower...

"Could it be that after being granted an attribute, this plant has begun evolving as well? It's as though some kind of shackle on evolution has been unlocked..."