Plant Vitality

[Name: Tang Zhixue]

[Level: None]

[Talents: Vitality Absorption, Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent]

As Tang Zhixue looked, information about the two talents appeared before his eyes one after another.

[Vitality Absorption: Allows the user to absorb vitality from plants and have plants absorb the extracted vitality. Perhaps its uses extend beyond this.]

[Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent: Every focused practice session, every effortful repetition, and every instance of gritted-teeth perseverance will yield gains.]

Tang Zhixue looked at the text before him in realization. "Just as I thought! It looks like the first hurdle is binding the personal panel. You can only learn this information after binding it."

After a moment's thought, he opened the regional chat channel.

[Tang Zhixue: Be careful when you go outside, everyone. If circumstances permit, you'd better find a way to kill a Mutated Beast first and bind your personal panel.]

[???]

[Huh, what do you mean? Bind the personal panel?]

[That guy above is right. You have to kill a Mutated Beast to bind the personal panel-the book.]

[Holy crap, seriously? That's such a trap!]

[Wait, so I can't use these functions without binding it?]

[Heh, if you don't bind it, what if you lose it? What if you don't have all the functions? Would you risk it?]

[Wouldn't risk it +1]

After sending the message, Tang Zhixue ignored what the others said and closed the panel.

He lowered his head to look at the smashed snake head, and information appeared.

[Item: Smashed Ember Ash Snake Head]

[Level: Tier 1]

[Description: The head of a low-tier mutated venomous snake. Because it has been smashed, venom has spread throughout the head. Inedible.]

Tang Zhixue blinked. "Binding the personal panel lets me see item information too?"

He immediately looked at the wooden table and stool nearby, but the information he wanted did not appear. Even information about the wooden cabin failed to appear.

"Are there restrictions? Levels?"

Tang Zhixue pondered for a while without finding an answer, then set the question aside for the time being.

After shifting the smashed snake head to one side, he cracked the wooden door open again and quickly dragged the rest of the venomous snake's body inside.

Bang!

With quick eyes and hands, he slammed the wooden door shut again.

I was lucky this time. Nothing attacked.

Tang Zhixue breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his gaze to the headless snake carcass.

[Item: Ember Ash Snake Carcass]

[Level: Tier 1]

[Description: The carcass of a tier 1 Mutated Beast. Edible, though it does not taste particularly good.]

Tang Zhixue looked at the information before him with satisfaction. "Being able to see information is great. Now I don't have to worry about eating something that upsets my stomach."

As for the bad taste?

The immediate priority was securing food and water. Taste and the like were secondary concerns.

Looking down at the gray snake carcass on the floor, Tang Zhixue curiously reached out and pressed his hand against it.

"Vitality Absorption?"

He wanted to test his talent.

However, he waited a long time without any response.

"Tsk, looks like it really only works on plants. In that case..."

Tang Zhixue opened the wooden door once again.

He still did not open it all the way, however, leaving only a crack.

After all, the cabin was surrounded by weeds half a meter tall. Who knew whether other dangers lurked among them? The attack by the Mutated Beast, the Ember Ash Snake, was still vivid in his mind.

Perhaps his ancestors were watching over him, for no Mutated Beast attacked when he opened the door this time.

After waiting a little while, Tang Zhixue finally extended a finger through the gap in the door and touched the nearest weed.

Vitality Absorption!

At Tang Zhixue's mental command, a wisp of emerald-green energy slowly rose from the weed and settled on his fingertip.

The weed turned withered and yellow, quickly losing its vitality.

As he looked at the emerald energy on his fingertip, information appeared before his eyes.

[Item: Plant Vitality]

[Level: Tier 1]

[Description: Life energy rich in plant essence. It can accelerate plant growth and has a chance of causing plants to mutate. Perhaps it has other uses as well.]

"Whoa, a god-tier farming skill!"

Tang Zhixue's eyes lit up. If he could find a suitable plant, he would no longer have to worry about food.

In a woodland environment, other things might be scarce, but plants certainly were not.

"Let's give it a try!"

With that thought, Tang Zhixue brought his fingertip toward a nearby foxtail grass.

The moment it drew close, the foxtail grass absorbed all the emerald-green Plant Vitality, and a green glow instantly bloomed over it.

Within the glow, its stem thickened, growing straight to about a meter tall, while its originally green flower head turned bright red.

"Am I that lucky?"

Tang Zhixue stared in surprise at the completely transformed foxtail grass. "It actually mutated on the very first try?"

As the glow faded, an information panel appeared before his eyes.

[Mutated Plant: Wine-Making Grass]

[Level: Tier 1]

[Description: A plant mutated from foxtail grass. It can be used with grain to brew alcoholic drinks.]

"Wine-Making Grass?"

Tang Zhixue frowned, not particularly satisfied.

Judging by the description, this Wine-Making Grass probably served a purpose similar to yeast, but what he wanted more right now was a plant he could eat directly to fill his stomach.

He looked up at the weeds outside, steeling his resolve.

I refuse to believe this whole patch of weeds can't produce a single mutated plant I can eat directly.

He reached out and extracted Plant Vitality from an unknown weed, then transferred it to another weed...

Time ticked by.

Tang Zhixue did not know exactly how much time had passed, only that the sun overhead gradually moved directly above him.

"Phew..."

Straightening up, he wiped the sweat from his forehead. "This is much more tiring than I imagined."

There were actually not many weeds within three meters of the cabin, but the problem was that using his talent consumed stamina.

Using it just once or twice did not consume much. He might not even notice the drain.

But Tang Zhixue had been using Vitality Absorption all morning.

He looked around and nodded in considerable satisfaction.

It had been tiring, but the gains were excellent.

The surrounding weeds were all withered and yellow, while five living plants stood neatly in a row beside the cabin.

Tang Zhixue had deliberately transplanted them beside the cabin. They were all special plants that had mutated from weeds.

Without tools, he had been forced to use branches to do the transplanting.

Besides the Wine-Making Grass that had mutated first, there was a white flower and three vines bearing white fruit.

[Mutated Plant: Jade Flower]

[Level: Tier 1]

[Description: A plant mutated from an ordinary weed. After flowering, it can gather the energy of heaven and earth from its surroundings, condensing special energy crystals at the center of its flower.]