"Hah!"
"Finally killed this big bastard!"
After severing the roots of the Great Scholar Tree flush with the ground, Li Dingguo still was not satisfied.
He continued jabbing wildly at the roots with the spirit weapon spear in his hand until they had been reduced to pulp and his Mental Energy could no longer sense the slightest trace of the Great Scholar Tree monster's aura. Only then did he withdraw his spear and stand upright.
"Eh?"
"What's this?"
Li Dingguo let out a long breath. Just as he was about to turn and look toward the battlefield behind him, his gaze caught a faint, incomparably verdant gleam amid the wreckage of shattered roots.
He hurriedly used his spear to flick the root fragments aside. What appeared before him was a fist-sized, round bead, green enough to drip with life.
"Could it be..."
The miscellaneous books he had recently browsed in the Library Pavilion flashed through his mind. Quite a few of them contained records about Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Several of those books had mentioned that when certain plants became monsters, there was a chance that, after being killed, they would leave behind a treasure condensed from a great quantity of pure life-source essence: a Life Origin Bead.
For plant monsters below Level Four, the odds of producing such a Life Origin Bead were tiny. They basically would not form one at all; even if they did, the chance was one in a thousand, nearly negligible.
Among all Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Life Origin Beads belonged to the most precious category. Even those produced by low-level plant monsters were no exception.
Yet Life Origin Beads were difficult to preserve. Within half an hour after a plant monster died, the pure, abundant Life Essence contained within them would completely