Chapter 61: Heaven-defying Moon Laurel Tree
In the intricate mine, the previously arrogant group had yet to notice anything unusual.
At this moment, they were surrounding a highly paid ore prospector, cursing under their breath.
“I say, Master Yang, can you do it or not?”
“Yeah, didn’t you say you were professional? How long has it been?”
The leading level five spirit tamer was already getting impatient.
They had been in this damn place for almost five days, and hadn’t found even a single piece of thunder fiend stone. How were they supposed to explain this to the mayor?
“This side has been completely turned over by the mine rats. How easy do you think it is to find a second piece of thunder fiend stone?” Master Yang said helplessly. “I even suspect there isn’t a second piece of thunder fiend stone here at all.”
“Whether there is or not, you have to find it for me.” The leading level five spirit tamer threatened in a deep voice.
“Isn’t this just making things difficult for me?” Master Yang was on the verge of tears.
If he had known it would be like this, no amount of money would have made him come.
As they spoke, the exorcism talismans on their bodies began to flash frequently.
The leading level five spirit tamer frowned and cursed coldly, “These abyssal monsters are as annoying as flies.”
Over the five days, they had long grown accustomed to this situation.
But as long as the abyssal monsters didn’t come looking for death, they couldn’t be bothered to deal with them.
But this time, the situation seemed different.
Buzz—!
The talismans on the rear teammates emitted a piercing buzz, and the talismans began to tremble slightly.
“Be careful, it seems an elite abyssal monster is approaching!” A teammate warned in alarm.
“Courting death!” The leader’s face darkened, and he coldly flung out an axis scroll painting. “Brainless thing.”
It was actually a powerful silver five-star scroll painting.
In a flash of eerie light from the scroll painting, it transformed into a somewhat rugged griffin. Purple smoke rose from the griffin’s body, its eyes dark and profound, sending chills down the spine.
The evil griffin let out a roar, intimidating the abyssal monsters in the vicinity.
However, the talismans on their bodies only calmed for a moment before flashing rapidly again.
The reaction grew stronger and stronger, until all the talismans began emitting piercing buzzes.
“Not good!” One of the teammates seemed to sense something. “Such a vast abyssal aura!”
The leader also realized something was wrong. In the sprawling mine, a massive abyssal aura seemed to be surging toward them.
Roar…
Hundreds and thousands of abyssal monsters surged in from all directions like mad, including several tier 3 and tier 4 elite abyssal monsters.
“What’s going on?” Everyone was shocked. “Have these abyssal monsters gone crazy?”
Having roamed the abyssal realm for so many years, they had never encountered such a bizarre situation. Each one treated it like a major threat, pulling out their own scroll paintings to cope, turning the scene into chaos.
The team had some strength, but they couldn’t withstand the sheer number of abyssal monsters—it was comparable to an insect tide in the insectoid world.
“Could something have happened deep in the mine?”
“What time is it, and you’re still worrying about that?” Master Yang said frantically. “Survival comes first.”
They retreated along the way, only to see a large swarm of abyssal monsters surging from the rear mine as well.
…
Meanwhile, Wu Xian had already followed the scent of wealth and quickly locked onto the position of the thunder fiend stone.
It was just that this thunder fiend stone was buried quite deep, requiring considerable effort.
Boom boom boom…
Brother Pillar transformed into a miner and began digging.
“Hiss~ Spiritual power consumption is still too fast!”
Seeing his internal spiritual power depleting rapidly, Wu Xian had no choice but to release the laurel tree to assist with recovery.
As soon as the cool and dim laurel tree appeared, the cave seemed illuminated by moonlight, dense spiritual energy filling the surroundings, slowing the rate of spiritual power decline.
But then, the laurel tree’s aura suddenly became restless. Its originally floating and swaying roots quickly rooted into the mine, beginning to absorb the dark yin and earth fiend power from the mine vein.
“？!”
On the mine walls, layers of dark yin ore and earth fiend ore rapidly dulled, turning into ordinary rock.
In contrast, the laurel tree’s aura was rising rapidly.
One and a half stars, two stars, two and a half stars…
The laurel tree, which had originally been only one star, climbed to three stars at a visible speed, and it was still continuously absorbing power from the mine vein.
Perhaps because large sections of the mine vein had been drained clean, the laurel tree’s improvement clearly slowed down.
“It can do that?”
He had previously only known that some spiritual object plant scroll paintings could absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth to improve their level, such as finding a spiritually rich treasure land in various other dimensions, planting the spiritual object there, and absorbing the power of that area to grow.
But he never imagined the laurel tree would be so heaven-defying, able to absorb even mine veins.
Was this the value of Pangu Great God’s eyelash?
And after the laurel tree’s level improved, the concentration of spiritual energy it gathered and converted also kept rising.
The spiritual power consumption trend, which had barely stabilized, began to reverse and recover, with the recovery speed overwhelmingly surpassing the consumption.
Amid the shock, Brother Pillar had also dug up the thunder fiend stone.
After collecting the thunder fiend stone, he quickly headed to the next wealth point.
Soon after, the remaining three thunder fiend stones in the area were all collected by Wu Xian.
And during the continuous absorption from the mine vein, the laurel tree unknowingly rose to three-and-a-half stars, after which it became a bit hard to level up further.
Remnant·Innate Laurel Tree
Version: Original Gold Embroidery Border
Rank: Copper Scroll
Painted Spirit: Three Stars
Spirituality: 31
Talent Trait: Taiyin Spiritual Root
With the three thunder fiend stones in hand, Wu Xian didn’t hesitate at all and quickly withdrew toward the mine entrance.
No choice, having caused such a commotion, he naturally ran as fast as he could.
The three yin commanders quickly withdrew, and Wu Xian rode the chicken king in a mad dash.
After a thrilling escape, he was surprised to discover that all the dark yin ore and earth fiend ore in the mine, which had originally glowed faintly, had lost their spirituality and turned into ordinary stones.
“Don’t tell me the entire mine vein got sucked dry?”
Wu Xian’s heart pounded wildly, feeling a secret fear.
The moment he burst out of the mine and saw daylight again, the scene before him left him dumbfounded once more.
Wail…
Air raid sirens sounded from the mining factories of various mining companies, echoing through the mining area.
As far as the eye could see, almost all the dark yin mine veins and earth fiend mine veins in the mining area had become dull and lifeless.
“Did it absorb that much?”
Wu Xian swallowed hard with difficulty.
The key was that draining most of a mine vein only brought the laurel tree to three-and-a-half stars.
How big was the laurel tree’s “appetite”?
And this was just the remnant·laurel tree. How terrifying would it be after removing the “remnant” label in the future?
At this moment, the mining factories, miner groups, and mine rats throughout the entire mining area were in complete chaos. Everyone was utterly baffled by this bizarre situation.
Wu Xian rode the chicken king and silently fled the scene.
Only after withdrawing far away did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Looking back at the mining area, he was shocked to find over a dozen level 2 and 3 yin soul abyssal monsters following behind him.
“What does this mean? They’re sticking to me?”
In his doubt, he released the ghost king again to intimidate them.
But he discovered that these dozen or so abyssal monsters behaved impeccably before the ghost king, like subordinates awaiting orders from their officer.
“No, no, these abyssal monsters seem different from before.”
Wu Xian gradually noticed the abnormality in these abyssal monsters. The evil aura on them had clearly diminished a lot, and they felt much more lively, as if they had gained some intelligence, or rather “self-awareness”.
He tried approaching these abyssal monsters and probed them with mental power, discovering that their spiritual structure had also undergone some changes.
This left Wu Xian amazed.
“This is… enlightened?”
With a thought, he tried controlling the ghost king.
The ghost king raised its hand in a gesture, and the dozen or so peculiar abyssal monsters obediently dispersed, wandering around just like before.
