Bai Yaoyao had no idea why, but she always felt that everyone in Dark Night, humans and beasts alike, had a strangely consistent fighting style.
Little Crook might have been a mutant plant, but... somehow, he fought just as dirty.
In no time at all, he had enraged his opponent, whose main body burst straight out of the ground.
Only then did everyone get a look at him in full.
"What the fuck is that? He's hideous!" Monkey had barely finished speaking when a vine lashed toward him. Startled, he hurriedly severed it with an Ice Blade.
"Holy shit, so we're not allowed to say you're ugly?"
Dark Night's only intellectual, the well-read Chenxuan, explained, "That's a vajra vine. He's mutated, but you can still make out his original form. Master used to steep it in liquor.
"Uh, Sister Yao, this stuff is pretty valuable, and useful too. Even before mutating, its roots and stems could be used medicinally. They dispel wind and dampness, reduce swelling and pain, and clear heat and toxins. You can take it internally or apply it externally..."
Bai Yaoyao's eyes brightened as she listened to Chenxuan.
Those weren't withered vines covering the ground. They were money! Among the elderly leaders of the families and bases, which of the ones who weren't ability users didn't have rheumatism or rheumatoid arthritis?
Trading this stuff for favors would be well worth it. After all, it was everywhere. Chop some off, wash it, pack it in a box, and there you had it: a precious medicinal supplement.
Thrifty homemaker that she was, Bai Yaoyao immediately became interested. If Little Crook hadn't said he wanted to try fighting on his own, she would have charged in already.
Little Crook was thrilled. The moment he saw the mutant vajra vine's main