Crack!
The sound rang out with absolute clarity. Xu Yuan, who had just recovered somewhat, froze for a moment before immediately sending his consciousness into his storage pouch.
Seeing the utterly empty storage pouch, Xu Yuan's mouth twitched. Although he had survived the crisis, and his Dao foundation had become even more solid, stabilizing his current cultivation—
Saying he did not feel heartache would be a lie.
His savings, his artifacts, his pills, everything he had—was gone.
Now, aside from his cultivation, he only had the mysterious bead obtained from Bu Hengtian, which he could not bite through; the inheritance of the Yin Wood Heavenly Heart Art; and the inheritance of that wood-element Foundation Establishment technique. For the same reason, they were protected by formations and could not be bitten.
Other than those, all he still possessed was the cultivation method for the Skin-Draping Art and this seed.
Everything else, including the Spirit Martial Weapon that had been with him the longest, had been swallowed whole by his crazed self just now.
Taking out the seed, Xu Yuan stared at the sprout that had fully emerged and paused. Then, almost unconsciously, he reached out and tapped it.
The next instant, the sprout burst completely free of its shell and coiled around his arm.
A strange feeling of connected hearts arose within his mind, and Xu Yuan instantly understood what this seed was.
It was the so-called Celestial Wood Vine.
Or, by another name, a Celestial Wood Demon Hatchling.
This was a wood-element demon beast with incomparably immense potential. Its adult form, like the guardian demon beast of the Celestial Wood Sect, would be a colossal demon infinitely close to the realm of immortals.
Of course, what was even rarer was that this wood-element demon beast had already acknowledged him, the