Chapter 13: You’re The Ornamental Plant! Your Monkey’s An Ornamental Monkey Too!
Big Willow instantly got excited, its heart shaking its willow threads.
“Really, Bai Bai, teach me quickly.”
Ge Bai didn’t keep her in suspense and said directly.
“This skill is called Wind Blade, it should be a ranged skill.”
“My understanding is to quickly swing the Willow Whip by mobilizing spiritual power, vibrate the air, generate airflow, form a Wind Blade, and fling it out.”
This was much more difficult to understand than the Willow Whip.
Big Willow was somewhat confused, mobilized spiritual power, swung the Willow Whip again, then turned its head to look at Ge Bai.
“Bai Bai, it’s still Willow Whip, no Wind Blade.”
Ge Bai furrowed her brows in thought.
“Wait, let me think.”
Afterward, Ge Bai tried shouting System fiercely in her mind.
“System! System! Does your Spirit Plant Cultivation Atlas work or not? Don’t the skills have detail pages?”
The System completely ignored Ge Bai.
Ge Bai strongly denounced it in her mind again, but the System didn’t budge.
What a joke, if skill teaching was broken down and fed right to your mouth, what need would there be for you as a Spirit Planter?
Seeing that the System was truly unreliable, Ge Bai figured she’d have to rely on herself.
She sat cross-legged, seriously experiencing the Wind Blade skill.
Wind Blade? Wind Blade! How to produce a Wind Blade?
Suddenly, she had a flash of insight.
“Big Willow, try gathering spiritual power to the very tip of the willow threads.”
“This time, it’s not to swing the willow threads powerfully; don’t start swinging the entire willow threads from the branch roots.”
“Try lifting the willow threads and swing the tips at a higher speed.”
Big Willow understood and mobilized spiritual power as Ge Bai said.
But this was more difficult than infusing spiritual power into the willow threads; Ge Bai reached out to help Big Willow guide the spiritual power flow.
Under their joint effort, the spiritual power flowed into place, and Big Willow suddenly swung the willow thread tips quickly.
The willow threads cut through the air, driving a vortex.
With a snap, a small Wind Blade appeared out of thin air and shot off into the distance.
The System prompt rang out in Ge Bai’s mind.
Weeping Ancient Willow skill proficiency: Wind Blade-Beginner (1/100).
Big Willow also instantly comprehended the new skill, excitedly uprooting its roots from the ground and circling around Ge Bai while flinging its willow threads.
Ge Bai was also very happy, but at the same time a bit annoyed.
Last time when Big Willow mastered the Willow Whip skill, there was no prompt sound.
This dog System must have heard her calling it just now but deliberately didn’t respond!
It definitely knew a bunch more but just didn’t tell her.
But right now, Ge Bai had no way to deal with the System and could only let it go.
Big Willow was still excitedly going wild.
Ge Bai soothed it.
“Our Big Willow is so awesome; like this, alternate practicing Willow Whip and Wind Blade.”
Big Willow chugged the remaining nutrient solution in one go and trained hard again.
After more than an hour, Ge Bai rubbed her eyes, preparing to put down the mobile terminal.
“Bai Bai, I knew you were here.”
Liu Hao’s voice came from not far away.
Getting down to this valley open space required some skill, and he was holding a lunchbox, which was a bit inconvenient.
Ge Bai got up to support him, and he smoothly crossed a cliff wall and landed.
“Teacher Xiaolu said you went to rest, but you didn’t eat lunch; I didn’t see you in the dorm, so I guessed you came here.”
Liu Hao opened the aluminum lunchbox and handed it to Ge Bai, then pulled out a pair of chopsticks wrapped in a napkin from his pocket.
He vigorously wiped the chopstick tips with the napkin.
“Just taken from the kitchen, still hot; eat quickly.”
Ge Bai looked at the lunchbox full of potato braised pork, garlic broccoli, and tomato scrambled eggs—all her favorites.
She subconsciously swallowed, quickly took the lunchbox; she really felt hungry now.
“Haozi, you’re the best!”
Ge Bai ate voraciously, her words not too clear.
Liu Hao grinned foolishly beside her.
“Eat slower, no one’s robbing you.”
“I listened to you and contracted a Sichuan Golden Snub-nosed Monkey named Jin Rui.”
Ge Bai’s eyes lit up; just as she was about to say something, Liu Hao reacted and directly summoned his Pet Beast.
With a thought of his spiritual sense, a nimble, refined little golden snub-nosed monkey appeared in his arms.
Just summoned, Jin Rui nimbly climbed onto Liu Hao’s shoulder, hugging his head with little paws and looking around.
Its dark, round, bulging big eyes were full of curiosity, very endearing.
Liu Hao let Jin Rui hug him, reaching out to support him carefully, afraid he’d fall if unsteady.
While supporting, he said.
“Jin Rui is actually a Sichuan Golden Snub-nosed Monkey from the previous breeding batch, about half a year older than this batch.”
“But he was born with a weaker body, so he was left behind and sold together with this batch.”
Ge Bai had almost finished eating, put down the lunchbox, and reached out to pet the little golden snub-nosed monkey.
Jin Rui didn’t resist and even rubbed his head against Ge Bai’s palm.
Just then, Big Willow formed a Wind Blade over there; the Wind Blade shot out, slicing into a distant stone wall with a whoosh and clattering rocks, startling Liu Hao and Jin Rui.
Jin Rui quickly burrowed into Liu Hao’s arms but peeked out curiously toward Big Willow.
Liu Hao stared blankly at the Weeping Ancient Willow over there; he’d only seen Big Willow’s mini form before, so he wasn’t familiar with it.
“Bai Bai, is this the willow tree you contracted?”
Deeply shocked by Big Willow after it flung a Wind Blade followed by several Willow Whips, Liu Hao’s speech was incoherent.
“I, I thought this was an Ornamental Spirit Plant.”
Ge Bai packed up the lunchbox and laughed helplessly.
“Haozi, don’t you know me? How could I contract an Ornamental Spirit Plant?”
Big Willow could hear the commotion over there.
Having practiced until tired, and hearing Liu Hao call it an ornamental plant, it got mad and yelled, running toward Ge Bai and them with whipping willow whips.
“You’re the ornamental plant!”
“Your whole family are ornamental plants!”
“Your monkey is an ornamental monkey!”
From Liu Hao’s perspective, it was a Big Willow tree shouting “Liu Gu, Liu Gu” while whipping its Willow Whips as it charged over.
It looked imposing, but Big Willow was sensible and didn’t really fling Wind Blades at Liu Hao.
Ge Bai hurried forward two steps to hug Big Willow’s trunk.
“Okay, don’t be mad; Haozi doesn’t know you.”
“Who has seen such an awesome Big Willow? It knows both Willow Whip and Wind Blade—how could it be an ornamental plant?”
“Not to mention Spirit Plants; little monkey Jin Rui definitely couldn’t beat you!”
Ge Bai showered it with rainbow farts.
Actually, Spirit Planters, Beast Tamers communicating with their own Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts is very common.
Though not as clear as Ge Bai hearing every word of the Spirit Plant, through spiritual power communication and long-term interaction, roughly understanding each other’s meaning is possible.
Seeing Ge Bai and Big Willow like this, Liu Hao felt a bit awkward.
Holding Jin Rui, he took two steps forward and cautiously said to Big Willow.
“You’re called Big Willow, huh? Sorry, I said it wrong; you’re awesome!”
Big Willow snorted: “This kid really has bad eyesight!”
Anyway, Liu Hao couldn’t hear what Big Willow said, so Ge Bai pretended not to hear and stroked her own willow tree.
At this moment, Ge Bai’s spiritual sense stirred; she felt Little Peach had woken up and wanted to come out.
So with a thought of her spiritual sense, she summoned Little Peach.
The tender pink Little Peach had just solidified when Ge Bai was about to place her on Big Willow.
She noticed Jin Rui staring fixedly at Little Peach, his dark big eyes entranced.
