"An... an Elf?!"
Lei Xiaohu froze in place, nearly losing his grip on the flowerpot in his arms and dropping it to the ground.
He had been growing this Waterheart Orchid for nearly a year, loosening its soil and watering it every day, hoping it would sprout and bloom.
Yet he had never imagined that he would actually grow an Elf!
This was like opening the door for something bizarre in the middle of the night—bizarre beyond belief.
Mrs. Zhang stood behind Lei Xiaohu. The needle and thread in her hands fell to the floor with a clatter, and she muttered for a long while without managing to say anything.
The Waterheart Orchid Elf stood on tiptoe and lightly hopped atop the petals, then reached out to touch Lei Xiaohu's skin.
Pure water-element energy seeped into Lei Xiaohu through his skin, instantly erasing the frost-cracked wounds left by the cold wind.
"It healed?"
Lei Xiaohu carefully set the flowerpot on the table. He spread out his hands and looked them over for a while, unable to stop himself from marveling. "That's amazing! But isn't Waterheart Orchid a spirit plant? It can do something like this?"
Meanwhile, Lincon was inside the Sacred Court, performing Potential Unleashing on spirit plants.
He had just completed Potential Unleashing on a Purpleleaf Ground Fern, advancing it to the next rank. He still needed more than eight hundred species to meet the remaining requirement for the "Growth of Ten Thousand Lifeforms" quest.
At his current pace, it would take at least a month to fully complete the quest.
A month was neither particularly long nor particularly short.
Still, spending every day cooped up in the Sacred Court studying advanced spirit plants would inevitably become dull after a while.
His level was now stuck at level