"If I could get that plant—no, even just one of its leaves—my Blue Silver Grass might undergo a complete transformation!"
At the thought, Tang San dug his nails deep into the tree bark, his eyes bloodshot with jealousy.
"One day, I'll go there too!"
Watching the live broadcast on the Light Screen, Tang San secretly swore to himself.
Meanwhile, in the live broadcast.
The older Wet Nurse saw Zhu Zhuqing staring blankly at the plant. Growing impatient, she kicked it.
"What are you looking at? This Purple Star Weed grows faster than anything. I pulled it out just two days ago, and it's already grown back."
"What a nuisance."
The Wet Nurse glanced at the weeds with disdain. Then, as if she were kicking away a piece of trash, she stomped the divine herb that Tang San considered priceless right into the dirt!
"Pfft!"
Seeing such wanton waste, Tang San in the Douluo World couldn't hold back any longer. He spat out another mouthful of blood, his heart aching so badly he could barely breathe!
That was a divine herb!
And you called it a weed! Then stomped it right into the dirt?!
What a waste! What a waste! Heaven itself would punish you for this!
But as the scene on the Light Screen continued, more and more seemingly extraordinary plants came into view from the perspective of the Douluo Continent.
By the roadside, a large red flower bloomed. It looked like a peony, but had flowers and no leaves, with jade-like stems.
The moment it appeared, a voice rang out from the Spirit Hall.
It was Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan's shriek. The shock was so immense that even the dignified Titled Douluo's voice had gone shrill:
"Is that Lovesick Heartbreak Red?! No, that's not right. It looks like Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but it's an even more terrifying flower!"
"There are Dao patterns on its petals. It's the finest of all Immortal Herbs!"
"Heavens, there's a whole patch of them there?! Do they plant these like roadside flowers?!"
Watching the scene on the Light Screen, Yue Guan clawed at his face in a frenzy, wishing he could dive right into the screen:
"Let me go! Let me work as a gardener in that garden!"
"I'll give up my position as an elder! I'd even bow down to those flowers!"
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Light Screen.
Though Zhu Zhuqing, a gifted young Soul Master from the Douluo World, didn't know the names of these plants, she wasn't foolish. Their appearance and the faint aura they gave off were enough to tell her that they were extraordinary.
Looking at the garden full of rare flowers and plants, even she couldn't help swallowing.
"Wet Nurse, these flowers and plants smell so good..."
She could sense that the energy within them was countless times more terrifying than that grain of rice from before.
But when Zhu Zhuqing said this, the Wet Nurse seemed to see right through her thoughts. Her expression changed at once as she warned her:
"Put those thoughts out of your head!"
"Listen, girl. That grain of Spirit Crystal Rice was specially cultivated to remove its violent Spiritual Energy. It's a low-grade crop made specifically to help ordinary people like you lay your foundations."
"But the flowers and plants in this garden—even a weed by the roadside—grew by absorbing innate Spiritual Energy!"
"The energy in a single leaf could make a hundred of you burst apart in an instant!"
"Forget eating them. If you greedily breathed in even a few extra mouthfuls of their pollen, your meridians would snap one by one under the strain, and you'd end up exploding into a mist of blood!"
As she spoke, the Wet Nurse pointed at the purple plant Tang San had taken for a divine herb.
"Only the Spirit Beasts in this garden dare eat this one."
"If you dare sneak even a bite, not even the immortals could save you!"
"Understand?!"
Seeing how stern the Wet Nurse was, Zhu Zhuqing—who had been planning to sneak a couple of bites once she was gone—turned pale with fright and quickly nodded. "I... I understand."
Only then did she realize what she'd been about to do. She looked at the flowers and plants by her feet in terror and hurriedly drew her foot back.
The Douluo World was filled with lament.
Everyone throughout the world had taken a devastating blow.
"Did you hear that..."
At Shrek Academy, Tang San sank weakly to the ground, a bitter smile on his face. The Wet Nurse's warnings still seemed to echo in his ears.
"The Immortal Herbs we'd give our lives for aren't even fit for ordinary people to eat in their eyes..."
"Eat one bite and you explode. Is this what the gap between us looks like?"
After crossing the patch of weeds that had made everyone on the Douluo Continent question their entire lives, Zhu Zhuqing finally reached the center of the garden.
Contrary to what she'd imagined, there was no grand palace here—only a gigantic, strange stone with a dark-gold sheen.
A small beast, pure white from head to tail, was sprawled on top of it.
It was only about the size of a house cat, round and fluffy. Its eyes were closed as it slept soundly, occasionally smacking its lips. It looked utterly adorable.
"Phew..."
Seeing it, Zhu Zhuqing quietly let out a breath of relief.
She'd thought she would have to care for a ferocious beast, but it turned out to be just a little animal.
"What an adorable kitty."
Since she had a cat-type Martial Soul, she felt a natural affinity for felines. She let down her guard completely and gazed at it with curiosity.
And it wasn't only her. As soon as the mysterious little beast appeared, all the female Soul Masters across the Douluo Continent nearly melted at the sight.
"Aww, so cute!"
"It's so tiny. It can't be dangerous, right?"
"Exactly! Looks like not all Spirit Beasts in that world are monsters."
"I thought it'd be some peerless evil creature, but this is it? I could take on a hundred of those!"
But the instant Dai Mubai of Shrek Academy saw the little white cat, his heart began pounding for no apparent reason!
The shudder that rose from the depths of his soul was so intense that he dropped to his knees and couldn't get back up.
As the owner of the Evil-Eyed White Tiger Martial Soul, he was exceptionally sensitive to the presence of tiger-like creatures. His instincts were unmistakable.
"No, that's not a cat!"
At that moment, Dai Mubai's face was deathly pale. He stared fixedly at the faint, barely visible 王-shaped marking hidden beneath the fur on the little beast's forehead. Through clenched teeth, he spoke each word slowly:
"That's a tiger!"
On the other side, the sleeping little white beast seemed to sense a stranger approaching.
Its ears twitched, and it slowly opened its eyes.
In an instant, its adorable appearance changed completely, nearly frightening Zhu Zhuqing into falling over.
White Tigers were born to kill!
Those weren't ordinary beast eyes at all. They were two terrifying little suns!
Deep in their pupils, it was as if mountains of corpses and seas of blood were surging, while an endless aura of slaughter churned within!
"Roar!"
The little white beast seemed to have woken up grumpy. It got to its feet with a dissatisfied look, stretched, then let out a tiger's roar at Zhu Zhuqing!
Rumble!
The roar sounded childish at first, but the moment it rang out, it became rolling thunder, nearly shattering the audio system of the Sky Screen!
Even more terrifying, with that single roar, a Primordial White Tiger Manifestation towering tens of thousands of zhang appeared behind the little white beast!
The manifestation trod upon the stars and was wreathed in Geng Metal Qi, sovereign over slaughter. Yet it was only a phantom, and still it left everyone across the Douluo Continent trembling with fear!
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