The Long-Awaited Harvest

"Whoosh..."

In the battles that followed, Lin Li dodged the charges of the Boar Beast, whose entire body was wrapped in earthen armor, while occasionally tossing a Small Fireball at it.

"It's about time. I can make my move now." After tangling with it for four or five minutes, Lin Li felt that his opportunity had arrived.

"Hmph..." The Boar Beast let out a grunt brimming with mockery. After another failed charge, just as it was preparing to turn around, it suddenly felt an intense sense of danger descend upon it.

"Pig is still a pig. So what if you're clever? Could you really be cleverer than me? You looked down on me earlier, so today I'll show you why the flowers are so red."

After sidestepping the charge of the Boar Beast wrapped in earthen armor, Lin Li shouted inwardly.

Then he exerted force with his lower body, and his running speed instantly increased by a large margin. He swiftly rushed behind the Boar Beast wrapped in earthen armor.

He circulated the Spiritual Energy within his body, and the Spirit Artifact Longsword in his hand instantly bloomed with pale golden Spiritual Light.

After Lin Li infused it with Spiritual Energy, the already incomparably sharp Spirit Artifact Longsword became vastly sharper in an instant.

Although the Boar Beast had used its awakened ability to cover its entire body in thick earthen armor, there was one place where it had not strengthened its defenses.

Moreover, Lin Li's intermittent Small Fireball attacks had been ineffective, greatly lowering the Boar Beast's guard. After a bout of trembling, the place where it had failed to strengthen its defenses became even weaker.

"Pfft."

As Lin Li exerted force with his right hand, the Spirit Artifact Longsword glowing with pale golden Spiritual Light stabbed forward without hesitation into the rear entrance of the Boar Beast, whose entire body was covered in thick earthen armor.

"Hmph..."

Its rear entrance breached, the Boar Beast let out a shriek so tragic that even those who heard it would grieve and weep.

Even Lin Li, who had used this move, could not help feeling a little soft-hearted after hearing the Boar Beast's agonized howl.

Of course, he was soft-hearted for only that brief moment. Once that passed, he immediately hardened again.

After all, this was an otherworldly beast! Just a moment ago, it had still been trying to kill him!

Lin Li twisted the wrist of his right hand around the hilt of the Spirit Artifact Longsword. The sword embedded in the Boar Beast's body immediately twisted, heavily damaging its internal organs.

The injury was fatal. In a final burst of life, the Boar Beast leaped forward, dragging the Spirit Artifact Longsword lodged in its body out with it.

When Lin Li saw the Boar Beast break free of his Spirit Artifact Longsword, he did not continue forward to attack it.

He knew that his move just now—the "Rear-Entry Style"—had already dealt it a fatal blow. It would not be long before this ferocious Boar Beast died.

"Disgusting."

Lin Li looked at the Spirit Artifact Longsword in his hand. The blade was covered in a mass of filth, making him feel nauseated.

"Hmph..."

After breaking free of the Spirit Artifact Longsword, the Boar Beast's final burst of strength instantly dissipated. Its four legs went limp, and its entire body crashed to the ground with a thud.

Large amounts of blood flowed from the Boar Beast's rear entrance, mixed with some filth.

Before long, this Boar Beast, which possessed the strength of the First-Order Peak, died in Lin Li's hands in such a suffocatingly pathetic manner.

Ordinarily speaking, a Boar Beast with the strength of the First-Order Peak, after awakening an ability that could create earthen armor and greatly increase its defensive power, should have been impossible for Lin Li to defeat with his current strength.

As the old saying went, arrogant and conceited people mostly met bad ends. The same saying could be applied to this Boar Beast.

When Lin Li saw that the Boar Beast was finished, his first reaction was not to go forward and deliver a final blow. Instead, he quickly walked toward the small stream nearby.

"Splash, swish..."

Upon reaching the stream, Lin Li hurriedly placed his Spirit Artifact Longsword, which was covered in filth, into the icy water and washed away every bit of the filth clinging to the blade.

Only after cleaning the Spirit Artifact Longsword did Lin Li turn around and walk back toward where the dead Boar Beast lay.

"Whoosh."

Lin Li stopped two meters away from the Boar Beast and casually tossed a Small Fireball at its pig's head.

"Bang."

The Small Fireball struck the Boar Beast's face, scorching the thick bristles covering it.

Seeing that the Boar Beast did not move at all, Lin Li nodded slightly before continuing forward.

The Boar Beast had originally been wrapped in thick, hard earthen armor. But after it died, with its ability no longer sustaining it, the thick, hard earthen armor covering its body immediately shattered.

Crouching down, Lin Li placed a hand on the Boar Beast's back.

With a thought, Lin Li and the Boar Beast vanished simultaneously.

On the Mysterious Small Island surrounded by white mist, two figures appeared out of thin air.

Lin Li looked at the Miracle Small Tree before him. With a thought, a piece of information appeared in his mind.

"Ninety-nine percent."

After these days of rising early and working late, the progress was finally about to reach one hundred percent.

Nourished by the flesh and blood of nearly a hundred otherworldly beasts, the Miracle Small Tree had become increasingly vigorous. The newly grown emerald-green shoots had all matured, and its sparse branches and leaves had grown lush and luxuriant.

White mist surfaced from the Boar Beast's body. The crown of the Miracle Small Tree shimmered with pale golden Spiritual Light. Then, the white mist rising from the Boar Beast swiftly flew toward the tree's crown.

The branches and leaves glowing with pale golden Spiritual Light absorbed all the white mist rising from the Boar Beast in just a few breaths.

The Boar Beast, which had originally been two and a half meters long and one point two meters tall and possessed the strength of the First-Order Peak, vanished into thin air, without even a scrap of bone remaining.

Lin Li had long since grown accustomed to this sight. At that moment, his eyes were fixed intently on the Azure Fruit growing on the Miracle Small Tree.

"One hundred percent."

With a thought, the information that appeared in Lin Li's mind read one hundred percent.

As the Miracle Small Tree absorbed the Boar Beast's flesh and blood, the progress reached its limit.

After so many days of effort, the Azure Fruit, which had been the size of a pigeon's egg, had now grown to the size of a chicken egg. It was just one step away from fully ripening.

Once the information reading one hundred percent appeared in Lin Li's mind, the Azure Fruit on the Miracle Small Tree bloomed with pale golden Spiritual Light.

The pale golden Spiritual Light radiating from the Azure Fruit did not dissipate until a full three seconds had passed.

Seeing this, Lin Li understood. After so many days of arduous effort in the wilderness fraught with danger, after waiting for so long, the Azure Fruit grown by the Miracle Small Tree had finally ripened.