Plant Spirit

So careless?

Watching the careless simulation process, Yang Wu was still a little dumbfounded. Were these three years really going to be this ordinary?

Sure enough, without any cheats, he was no different from an ordinary person.

Perhaps...

He could do this!

Yang Wu thought of a method and could not wait to test it, but the new simulation was still on cooldown. The next simulation would only be available a month later.

Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, Yang Wu looked at the withdrawal options.

[Simulation ended. Please choose.]

[1. Martial arts insights from the past three years.]

[2. Cultivation experiences from the past three years.]

[3. Opportunities from the past three years (random)]

The three simulated years had yielded nothing remarkable.

No insights, and insufficient experience.

The only useful thing was the Plant Spirit, which belonged to the opportunity category.

Which should he choose?

For the current Yang Wu, increasing his strength early on was the most important thing.

He desperately needed a sense of security!

Choosing to withdraw insights or experiences would, whether successful or not, slightly improve his comprehension or willpower.

However, every stage of talent withdrawal had an upper limit—or rather, a bottleneck—for improvements to comprehension and willpower.

They could not be increased without limit, such as forcibly raising an ordinary person's comprehension or willpower to the level of the Primal Ancestor.

It was like a math exam. If someone scored full marks every time, their score would show no improvement, but in reality, they were improving each time and keeping up with the curriculum.

Yet no matter how much they improved, their score could not exceed the upper limit of full marks and redefine a new perfect score.

An upper limit was an upper limit. Once it was reached, no matter how hard one worked, one could only linger at that limit.

Of course, the above only applied to worlds without cheaters. Other situations were another matter entirely.

Still, one or two tiny improvements in comprehension would not do much for him at this early stage.

Rather than waste time on that, he might as well hurry and improve his physical fitness. After all, no matter how awesome he was, a first-stage apprentice could not defeat a Planet Level fighter.

Yang Wu looked at the option to withdraw an opportunity.

As one of the few treasures in the Earth arc that could directly improve physical fitness, he had paid particular attention to it in his previous life.

Plant Spirits were produced when grasses, trees, and other plants underwent transformation. Every Plant Spirit could be said to contain the essence of heaven and earth, each possessing special effects.

They came in more than one type: wild grass types, willow tree types, dew types, vine types, and so on.

For example, the Millennial Willow Heart, Jade Grass Dewdrop, Ironclad Spirit Pearl, Life Spirit Grass, Sun-facing Flower, and others.

The famous Millennial Willow Heart on Earth was the core of a willow-type Plant Spirit.

Of course, prefixes such as millennial or ten-thousand-year on Plant Spirits were merely exaggerated terms, used to distinguish their effects.

For instance, Millennial Black Crow Root could be steeped into three kilograms of medicinal wine. Drinking one hundred grams daily would greatly improve one's physical fitness and make one's skin incredibly tough.

Hundred Dew Grass could cure any poison or injury as long as it was chewed and swallowed. It was worth ten times as much as Water of Life.

As for the origins of Plant Spirits, opinions varied.

Some said that Plant Spirits evolved after plants absorbed special energy from the universe and nature.

Others believed Plant Spirits had existed since ancient times. The materials Xu Fu used to refine the Elixir of Immortality at Qin Shi Huang's command had been Plant Spirits.

However, with the development of the Industrial Revolution and humanity's various activities damaging the natural environment, Plant Spirits had gradually disappeared.

After the Great Nirvana, with humanity no longer causing destruction, the natural environment began to improve, and Plant Spirits reappeared.

That explanation was far-fetched!

Yang Wu did not know where other Plant Spirits came from, but one thing was certain.

The Plant Spirits on Mist Island had been formed from Mu Ya Crystal powder deliberately scattered by Babata to lure Earth's experts together and make it easier to select an inheritor.

Plant Spirits had different effects, and the Plant Spirit from the simulation was probably the Millennial Willow Heart Yang Wu was more familiar with.

The Millennial Willow Heart had two effects. One was improving physical fitness, while the other was increasing cell vitality.

There was no need to elaborate on improving physical fitness. As for cell vitality, it was essentially a form of bodily recovery. The stronger a person's cell vitality, the faster their body recovered.

For every martial artist, whether fighting other martial artists or slaughtering monsters, survival ability was clearly more important than attack power.

So what if your combat strength was high? I could still outlast you. After you died, I could happily take over your inheritance, your orphaned children, your...

Ahem, he was getting off topic!

In short, the stronger a martial artist's cell vitality, the stronger their ability to survive.

As long as they were not killed in a single blow, there was a chance to retaliate. If you slashed me once and I did not die, then if I slashed you once, you might not be so lucky.

Hardly anyone in the world would be willing to sell a treasure like a Plant Spirit, and no one would ever think they had too many of them.

Withdrawing an opportunity meant gambling on luck. He might get nothing, or he might become rich overnight.

He would gamble on it!

Whether he was blessed by luck or cursed by misfortune would depend on this draw. At worst, he would only waste a month.

[Withdrawing opportunity...]

[Withdrawal in progress...]

[Congratulations, you have obtained "Plant Spirit."]

Hahaha...

Fate was on his side!

Yang Wu was so excited that he nearly burst out laughing.

The most important thing in the entire simulation had been this opportunity-class Plant Spirit.

At the instant he made his choice just now, he had been so nervous that he could barely breathe. He had even prepared himself to give up hope.

Yet unexpectedly, he had actually drawn it.

Coming back to his senses, Yang Wu immersed his consciousness in a mysterious space-time.

All rewards selected for withdrawal would be placed in this special space-time.

It could neither be observed nor imagined.

[Extract!]

With a thought, Yang Wu stretched out his hand, and an egg-shaped green crystal immediately appeared in his palm.

The structure of this green crystal was extremely strange. It was as though green liquid rippled within it, and merely looking at it with the naked eye made one's heart stir.

The withdrawal process was fairly considerate. A small opening had even been cut into the Willow Heart.

It spared Yang Wu the trouble of finding tools and avoided wasting a great deal of time again.

After all, if Yang Wu went through great effort to find tools, it would be fine if he could break open the crystal shell. But if he could not, it would be infuriating.

Through the opening, the vibrant green liquid within flowed slowly. Waves of coolness seeped through Yang Wu's skin, leaving him refreshed and clear-headed.

"Sure enough, it's a Millennial Willow Heart!"

Looking at the green crystal in his hand, Yang Wu spoke softly. The Millennial Willow Heart had two special effects and was the most suitable treasure for him right now.

Although he knew there were many opportunities throughout the original story, with his current strength, he simply could not obtain them.

Plants that had transformed into Plant Spirits differed from ordinary plants. They had already developed spirits and possessed simple instincts such as attacking and defending themselves.

With his meager strength, leaving aside whether he could even reach those places, even if he did, he would only be delivering fertilizer to them.

Delivering fertilizer from a thousand miles away—small gift, great sentiment.