Chapter 68: Full Team Assembled With Time Soil, Preparing For Cross-level Challenge! [2-in-1]
Qian Dai smugly looked at Big Willow, the delicate little flowers on the Flower Sword blooming even more brilliantly.
Big Willow remained steady, glancing at the complacent Qian Dai without arguing with her. Time Soil was an advanced resource, and he was indeed tempted by it.
Over here, Ge Bai couldn’t stand it anymore and lightly tapped Qian Dai’s flower bud.
“Stop showing off already, get to business.”
As she spoke, Ge Bai looked around. This training room was called one room, but it was semi-open with a very large area. The people and pet beasts in the venue were sparse, making it very spacious, and no one was paying attention to their side.
This made Ge Bai even more at ease.
After being told off by Ge Bai, Qian Dai behaved a bit better. She was genuinely trying to help Big Willow use the Time Soil and explained the usage method without reservation.
“It’s super simple. Big Willow, just treat this portion of Time Soil like land and try rooting into this soil.”
Big Willow looked at the portion of soil, which wasn’t large in volume or quantity, then at himself, and asked Qian Dai doubtfully, “Do I need to root in mini form?”
“No, no! Transform back to normal size.”
Qian Dai shook the Flower Sword vigorously.
“You sure? Is this amount enough? Then put the Time Soil on the ground.”
Qian Dai nodded vigorously at first, then shook her head vigorously. Ge Bai looked at her Flower Sword, thinking that the clusters of orchids were quite sturdy, not falling off even with all that shaking.
At this moment, Qian Dai was using spiritual power to levitate this portion of Time Soil in mid-air. Ge Bai watched in some confusion, let alone Big Willow.
“You won’t even use up this portion of Time Soil. Just like this, trust me!”
Qian Dai pointed at the Time Soil floating in mid-air. “You have to imagine that you can root here—no, you really can root in this soil.”
Big Willow quietly glanced at Ge Bai, feeling that Qian Dai wasn’t very reliable.
Ge Bai smiled at him, giving him an encouraging look.
“Give it a try, Big Willow. It’ll be fine.”
Although Ge Bai could call Professor Luo Wan right now to ask about the detailed usage method for Time Soil, seeing Qian Dai so excited and so confident, she really couldn’t bear to interrupt her enthusiasm.
Seeing Ge Bai say this, Big Willow relaxed, took a deep breath, first transformed back to normal size, then looked at the thin layer of soil suspended in mid-air right in front of him, circulated spiritual power, lifted his roots, and lightly touched the Time Soil.
As soon as Big Willow’s roots touched the Time Soil, he sensed its wonder—a grounded feeling after spiritual power communication.
Qian Dai was right; it really was possible to root here.
Big Willow followed the sensation, shifting his center of gravity to the first cluster of roots he had extended, then effortlessly took a small step upward into mid-air.
The Time Soil controlled by Qian Dai wasn’t floating too high, just over 10 centimeters from the ground, so from afar, this scene looked fine and didn’t attract onlookers from various parts of the training ground.
“Don’t stop, keep circulating spiritual power, gather the spiritual power in your roots, and absorb the power of time and space from this soil.”
Qian Dai kept watching closely, not forgetting to remind him at all times. Big Willow nodded and followed Qian Dai’s instructions confidently.
The Time Soil glowing with a halo shone even brighter. After communicating with Big Willow’s spiritual power, the halo and spiritual power intertwined, and a rich power of time and space surged into Big Willow’s body.
This process took over 10 minutes. After fully absorbing it, Big Willow directly transformed into mini form, jumped onto Ge Bai’s shoulder, and felt the new power within him.
He looked at his Willow Threads for a moment, then at his branches, with spiritual power circulating nonstop around him.
“Bai Bai, it’s really different now.”
“I feel like standing on your shoulder is no different from standing on the ground now, that grounded feeling—you get it?”
Ge Bai smiled and twirled a Willow Thread with her finger, though she didn’t get it at all.
She didn’t have roots, and couldn’t use this material either.
What surprised Ge Bai even more was that Big Willow, experimenting back and forth, directly unleashed a small Wind Blade from mini form while standing on her shoulder, and the power looked pretty good.
This wouldn’t have worked before; she didn’t know if it was the boost from Time Soil or Big Willow’s skill proficiency having increased.
The Willow Threads filled with spiritual power brushed past Ge Bai’s cheek.
“My goodness, Big Willow, be careful! Don’t scratch my face!” Ge Bai tilted her head slightly away from Big Willow’s side.
Qian Dai, floating in mid-air, saw Big Willow’s worldly inexperience and couldn’t help rolling her eyes.
“I told you it would work, and you didn’t believe me!”
Big Willow, who had just used the Time Soil, was immersed in feeling the new power in his body and was delighted, not wanting to pay attention to Qian Dai.
Ge Bai had to smooth things over. “Yes, yes, Qian Dai is the best.”
Hearing Ge Bai’s praise, Qian Dai contentedly raised her head. That was more like it.
Ge Bai thought for a moment and still summoned Little Peach from the spiritual consciousness space.
Might as well get it all done at once. Though Little Peach didn’t really need Time Soil right now, it wouldn’t be fair to favor one over the other.
“Peach!”
“Ge Bai, why are you calling me? So sleepy.” The groggy Little Peach muttered as soon as she came out.
Seeing the soft and cute Little Peach, Qian Dai disdainfully pursed her lips, thinking that this team still had to rely on her.
No one knew where Qian Dai got such baffling confidence.
Little Peach looked around; she had clearly just been sleeping in the spiritual consciousness space.
Ge Bai glanced at Qian Dai, sensing she was having some weird ideas, but ignored it and directly had her take out another portion of Time Soil, then turned to Little Peach. “Come on, got something good for you. Listen to your big sister Qian Dai.”
“Okay!”
Hearing there was something good, Little Peach thought it was food and instantly perked up a bit.
She looked at Qian Dai eagerly. This cute expression pleased her greatly, and she was much more patient teaching Little Peach to use Time Soil than she had been with Big Willow, guiding her step by step with gentle tone and hands-on help.
Under Qian Dai’s guidance, Little Peach transformed into normal form.
Come to think of it, Ge Bai hadn’t seen Little Peach’s peach tree form many times either.
With a flash of spiritual power, Little Peach transformed from a round plump peach into a peach tree similar to Peach Yao Niang, just shorter and slimmer.
Little Peach didn’t overthink like Big Willow and obediently communicated spiritual power, standing onto the Time Soil.
But her spiritual power circulation wasn’t as proficient as Big Willow’s, so absorbing the energy from Time Soil took longer.
Glancing at Little Peach, who still needed some time, Ge Bai didn’t idle and turned to brief the tree and flower on precautions for the next match.
“Our next opponent is a bird, a Level One Transcendence Realm bird, as we just heard.”
“Big Willow, Qian Dai, take it seriously.”
Big Willow tilted his head and thought. “Transcendence Realm, huh? Is it as strong as Silver Armor Vajra?”
As he spoke, Big Willow looked a bit worried. Though he had progressed a lot recently, recalling his battle with Silver Armor Vajra, he shook his head dejectedly.
“I think I still can’t beat Vajra now.”
Ge Bai stroked a cluster of Willow Threads.
“It’s okay, Big Willow. That bird definitely isn’t as strong as Vajra. Vajra is Level Three Transcendence Realm, and now it’s not just you—Qian Dai will help too.”
“You two together, I think it’ll be fine.”
Qian Dai was far less anxious than Big Willow, swaying around, flashing left and right in mid-air using her Spatial Teleportation skill in small ranges.
This was also what Ge Bai had instructed earlier: when idle, practice skills more to improve skill proficiency.
“No problem, beat it down.”
One overly anxious, one overly confident.
“Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng is a parrot family pet beast. I just looked it up—this pet beast usually has Sonic Wave, Feather Attack, and Vajra Beak skills.”
Ge Bai leaned against the training ground wall, a bit headache-inducing watching these two, but she continued talking about the battle.
According to the info Ge Bai found, Sonic Wave was a far-to-ultra-long-range attack. Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng emitted sharp bird cries to cause mental tremors and dizziness in opponents.
“You two haven’t encountered this skill before, so be careful. Especially Big Willow, since your level difference with that bird is greater, pay more attention. Qian Dai, no getting careless.”
Big Willow listened intently, while Qian Dai casually nodded her Flower Sword.
Ge Bai continued explaining Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng’s remaining skills.
Feather Attack was a mid-to-close-range attack, requiring Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng to hover in mid-air, flap its wings to form feather-shaped air blades shot at opponents. It was similar to Big Willow’s Wind Blade, so Ge Bai didn’t say much.
The final Bird Beak skill was a standard close-combat attack.
“Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng is a very agile pet beast, with flight speed and evasion as its strengths.”
Ge Bai added, “So, when it’s time to go on stage, Big Willow attacks first, Qian Dai supports. Hold the line at key moments and listen to my instructions.”
The two little ones saw Ge Bai’s detailed arrangements and obediently nodded.
Just then, Little Peach finished absorbing. She probably didn’t like her peach tree form much and transformed back into peach form without a second’s delay.
The power of time and space could clearly be felt lingering around Little Peach; absorption successful.
Ge Bai picked up Little Peach, not mentioning Time Soil, but instead talked about the next matchup.
Though Little Peach might not need to appear, it was still good to brief her for insurance.
“Peach, if I call you out from the spiritual consciousness space later, you’ll need to make Spirit Recovery Peaches for Big Willow and Qian Dai.”
Hearing this, Little Peach glanced at Big Willow, nodded without hesitation, then glanced at Qian Dai and pondered for a moment.
Seeing this, Ge Bai held Little Peach higher, blinked at her and Qian Dai, and started persuading.
“Now, Qian Dai, Big Willow, Little Peach, and Ge Bai are all good friends, right?”
Qian Dai didn’t know Little Peach’s obsession with her fruit, nor why Ge Bai suddenly said this, but she had already boldly included Little Peach in her sphere of influence and agreed without hesitation.
Hearing Qian Dai’s affirmation and glancing at Ge Bai, Little Peach pondered a moment and nodded too.
“Good, now we’re all good friends.”
Ge Bai secretly breathed a sigh of relief; finally, one more who could use Little Peach’s fruit.
Little Peach was still sleepy and yawned big. Ge Bai let her tough it out a bit longer before sending her back to the spiritual consciousness space.
Now, Ge Bai finally had time to check her mobile terminal; it had been vibrating nonstop in her pocket earlier.
As soon as she opened the screen, 6 or 7 messages popped up, all from Xiao La Jiao.
Looking at the timestamps, they started coming during Ge Bai’s battle.
“Awesome, Ge Bai! Such a clean win.”
“Big Willow progressed again!”
“The surrounding audience was shocked.”
“Where are you?”
“Who are you fighting next?”
“Reply, sis! I’m still waiting at the original spot.”
After a few messages
Another string of missed calls from Xiao La Jiao.
Too focused on handling the Time Soil, Ge Bai had completely forgotten about Xiao La Jiao in the stands.
She quickly called her back and briefly explained the situation.
“What? You’re doing a Challenge Higher Level today? So soon? Don’t you need a couple days to adjust?”
Xiao La Jiao’s clear voice came through the phone.
Though she knew Ge Bai came to the Arena Competition for Transcendence Realm opponents, she hadn’t expected it to be arranged so quickly. In her view, Ge Bai would need a few days to adapt.
“Yeah, the battle is scheduled in over an hour.”
Ge Bai replied calmly.
“Who’s the opponent? Hao Hao, right? Wait, I think I saw that name on the battle list.”
Hearing this, Ge Bai patiently waited for her to confirm.
“Yes, yes, I didn’t misread. It’s this Beast Tamer, pet beast Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng. His match is next.”
“Hurry back to the spectator area.”
Ge Bai didn’t hesitate, agreed, hung up, called Big Willow and Qian Dai, and headed straight to the spectator area.
There were quite a few spectators in the area, with matches one after another, most attention on the venue. Ge Bai, who had just sparked discussion on stage, didn’t cause much stir when she actually appeared in the spectator area.
Though powerful Spirit Planters were rare, Ge Bai, having just fought one match, wasn’t at star level yet. Only a few spectators recognized her and whispered about it.
Ge Bai plopped down next to Xiao La Jiao and saw she had called out King Kong too.
Even in mini form, King Kong was half a person’s height, sitting obediently in a seat like a giant plush toy monkey.
“You’re back! Perfect timing, look—that venue over there.”
Xiao La Jiao got straight to it, pointing to the venue ahead to the left for Ge Bai.
Ge Bai looked closely and saw Hao Hao and Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng already on the field, their opponent a spotted black panther.
“I just checked their battle info closely. It’s probably a random matchup. The spotted black panther’s ranking is around 130, a bit lower than Yellow-collared Golden King Xuanfeng.”
“That Hao Hao seems to be a student from some high school, but definitely not ours.”
Hao Hao looked young, so Xiao La Jiao added that, though she didn’t know much more.
