Wind Spirit

Night had fallen, bringing a faint chill, and the moonlight was like water.

Bai Mo washed his hands carefully. He believed today was a good day. His luck had been unexpectedly good, so this draw should bring him a decent haul.

He first cast Dimensional Summoning, drawing a small crescent arc beside him.

Then he took out a Summoning Guidance Scroll, tore it evenly in half, and silently recited in his heart: elemental life-form.

He tossed the torn scroll into the space-time rift. It could not be wasted.

Only then did he hold in his palm the Wind Crystal that Sister Leng Qing had opened for him, then wrapped it in Summoning Element magic energy.

Finally, he sank his mind into the Dimensional World.

The Dimensional World was vast. Every time Bai Mo roamed through it, the place he descended into was different: broad forests, hilly plains, boundless grasslands, the Ten Myriad Mountains.

And the place he descended into today was a wasteland. Bai Mo looked around. Wild grass grew in disorder, but more of the land was bare, broken stone. The trees were short and sparse, and there were quite a few small summoned creatures moving in groups.

The sky was clear. Torn clouds drifted across the azure heavens toward the eastern horizon.

There, a thin gray cylinder linking heaven and earth was turning. Endless clouds and dust gathered around it, filling the place where sky met ground with boundless desolation.

It was a tornado of unknown size.

Only because he was too far away did it look long, narrow, and tiny.

"Looks like my spawn point this time is excellent. There's even a natural wonder."

After teasing himself inwardly, Bai Mo did not rashly approach that Hurricane Tornado that, from where he stood, did not seem large.

Instead, he took out that Wind Crystal and held it in his palm, letting the crystal stir the already-mixed currents around him as it slowly floated up.

He waited quietly.

The guiding sensation from the scroll grew stronger and stronger, and the wind around him grew heavier and heavier.

But Bai Mo found it a little strange. He clearly felt that a wind elemental life-form should have arrived by now.

The ground a li around him was about to be ripped up by the raging wind. Grass blades and dust were already flying everywhere, and who knew how many tiny stones had been swept into the storm.

It was as if a ring of murky glass had been placed around him, as though vast wind dragons had surrounded him. He could no longer see the originally clear sky, nor the distant Hurricane Tornado connecting heaven and earth.

But it was all thunder and no rain; around him, of all places, only a light breeze was still drifting.

He stood there for a while, yet still no wind elemental life-form appeared.

Bai Mo was somewhat puzzled. He waited a little longer, then saw the increasingly violent winds around him calm down at great speed.

A pressure of will fell upon him. Sensing that pressure, Bai Mo was slightly startled. Monarch Level!

He had roamed the Dimensional Plane many times and had seen Monarchs on quite a few occasions, but those creatures never paid him any mind.

Some saw him and acted as though they had not. Some would stare at him for a while.

But none had ever placed their own thoughts upon him, because they had no interest in him.

Now, however, it was different. It looked like a Monarch Level creature wanted to communicate with him!

Immediately afterward, Bai Mo saw a wisp of white wind appear before his eyes.

Then came a second wisp, a third, a fourth, and then countless wisps of white wind gathered together, transforming into a creature with the body of a deer and the head of a sparrow, over five meters tall.

Then the creature sized him up with its eyes again before silently dissolving into chaotic white wind.

When the wind dispersed once more, a humanoid creature three meters tall reappeared before him.

Bai Mo watched the change before his eyes, his gaze tightening as thoughts flashed rapidly through his mind.

He realized what this creature was.

Plain white currents, ever-changing forms—this was a Wind Spirit, one of the Wind Elemental Holy Spirits.

Wind Spirits were the purest elemental beings, born only from the winds of heaven and earth. Their essence was a mass of Origin Wind, which was also a Heaven Seed. That was why they could transform into any shape. And every Wind Spirit, besides possessing the same Origin Wind, also possessed its own unique Companion Wind, which was likewise a Heaven Seed.

However, a Wind Spirit had to enter its juvenile stage before it could comprehend its Companion Wind.

Although newborn Wind Spirits were young, because they could accelerate the cultivation speed of Wind Attribute creatures, they were generally watched over by powerful Wind Attribute creatures when they were little.

Therefore, Wind Spirits also liked transforming into the appearance of the creatures that had watched over them as they grew.

Thinking about it, that sparrow-headed, deer-bodied form just now must have been the creature that had watched over the Monarch Level Wind Spirit before him as it grew up.

"Human, you want a Summoned Beast?"

An ethereal voice that was neither male nor female suddenly rang out in Bai Mo's mind.

Bai Mo was slightly startled, and immediately understood that the Wind Spirit before him was speaking to him.

Without waiting for Bai Mo to speak, that voice continued in his heart:

"No need to wait any longer. I already drove away all the Wind Attribute creatures that were coming over. Let's make a deal, human. Give your Wind Crystal to it, and I'll let it become your Summoned Beast."

"Give it to who?"

Bai Mo had only just asked when he saw the Wind Spirit before him take an egg out of its own body, an egg entirely encircled by transparent, translucent white currents—an egg as large as an Eight Immortals table!

In the center of the egg was a slowly flowing mass of cyan-white wind. That wind emitted the aura of life.

Although it was not very stable, it still proved one thing: that was a living creature!

Bai Mo looked at the rather strange egg and asked, "Give it to it? What is it?"

The Wind Spirit Monarch slowly crouched down, drawing closer to Bai Mo, then held out the egg in its hand before him.

At the same time, its voice rang out in Bai Mo's heart.

"It is a wind spirit, one of my kind. I only just found it. It has yet to grow up, but its source was wounded by the Wind from Outside the Realm. It needs something containing power from beyond the realm to recover."

"Although your Wind Crystal was formed from the Mysterious Wind that went from this world to yours, it also contains the power of your world. It can help it."

After Bai Mo listened, he felt both surprised and delighted. He had not expected one wind spirit to actually be taking care of another.

How could he let such a rare opportunity slip by? So without even thinking, he agreed.

"What should I do?"

The Wind Spirit Monarch gestured again at the egg in front of him, and that ethereal voice once more echoed in Bai Mo's heart.

"The Wind Crystal has already become one with your magic energy. Just send the magic energy you are using to maintain this Wind Crystal into it."

Hearing this, Bai Mo moved his mind, and the Wind Crystal before him fell into the pale-white Wind Breath Egg as if there were no barrier at all.

And when the Wind Crystal touched that slowly circulating cyan-white wind aura...

It was like smoke dissolving into the air, vanishing without a trace.

But that mass of cyan-white airflow, mist-like in form, began to spin. It turned faster and faster, its range growing wider and wider.

Gradually, it dyed the pale-white airflow outside it cyan-white as well, then slowly shrank back down, returning to its original size.

Its life aura also stabilized at that moment.

Within the cyan-white airflow, a pair of lively, kitten-like eyes opened and glanced at Bai Mo.

Then they closed again, as if nothing had changed.

Only the airflow enveloping it on the outside had turned pale cyan.

At the same time, Bai Mo also sensed that as the Wind Crystal and his magic energy dissolved away, a contract...

Had been formed between him and this Little Wind Spirit.

He just did not know whether his Star System had changed now. He had no way to sense it at the moment.

Instead, the Wind Spirit Monarch's astonished voice sounded in his heart:

"Human, you have extraordinary talent. I trust you will not mistreat it. Its condition has already improved. Influenced by you, it is now entering its juvenile stage and advancing to Commander Level."

"It will slumber for a period of time, and it must also give birth to its own Companion Wind. By your way of measuring time, it should be six months. During this time, it cannot answer your summons, but you need not worry."

"Then it won't encounter danger, will it?" Bai Mo asked, somewhat worried. The Dimensional World was not safe, and he had already contracted it now.

That meant they were bound by the same fate, so he could not help worrying.

The Wind Spirit Monarch seemed very satisfied with his attitude and shook its head.

"Before it enters the growth stage and reaches Commander, I will watch over it the entire time."

After saying this, it carried the Little Wind Spirit and turned into a gust of white wind, vanishing from sight.

Seeing this, Bai Mo stayed there for a while. Only after nearly an hour had passed did he withdraw from the roaming state and return his consciousness.

He was very curious whether his Mental World now had an additional wind element.