Chapter 387 - 226: Endless Wood Demon with 3 Pairs of Wings

Chapter 387: Chapter 226: Endless Wood Demon with 3 Pairs of Wings

"They are ruthlessly efficient. Give them a task within their abilities, and they are guaranteed to complete it."

The people Flower Venerable brought were all her personal confidants.

Flower Venerable held their abilities in high regard. Otherwise, she would never have made such a promise to Zhong Yi.

Zhong Yi’s heart leaped with joy. Fifty combatants at Mythical Tier or higher were more than enough to help him capture Bizarre.

Zhong Yi told Flower Venerable what he needed.

Flower Venerable was somewhat surprised that Zhong Yi required such a large number of Extraordinary and Fantasy Tier Bizarre.

She wondered what value these Extraordinary and Fantasy Tier Bizarre could possibly have.

However, Flower Venerable didn’t press the issue and immediately made the arrangements.

"Xiaoyi, I’ll have the thirty-five Mythical Tier combatants use Starlight City as a starting point. They will begin capturing Extraordinary and Fantasy Tier Bizarre that have a history of harming Guardian Beast Masters and devouring Lifebound Guardian Beasts."

"As for the other fifteen combatants, who are at Mythical Tier or higher, I’ll have them form pairs and do their best to capture even stronger Bizarre for you."

"It will also be a good opportunity to hone their combat skills."

Zhong Yi thought to himself, ’With these fifty experts from Flower Venerable, I can not only raise Hong Ji quickly, but also provide a massive amount of raw material for the Fertility Creation Ant Queen to produce Ant Successors.’

"Aunt Ying, let me take you to see Grandmaster Tao En."

"Grandmaster Tao En also harbors ambitions of breaking through to the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations."

"For now, just focus on peacefully increasing your strength. I’ll take good care of Suxin."

"I’ll even bring Suxin along when I explore Secret Realms."

After taking Flower Venerable to Tao En’s cultivation chamber, Zhong Yi arranged for Zhao Kai to sort through the materials Flower Venerable had brought.

He had Zhao Kai register and categorize the materials for quick and easy access later on.

Zhao Kai called over all the Craftsman Apprentices under both his and Wu Qing’s command.

They sorted for an entire afternoon and had only managed to get through less than half of the materials Flower Venerable had brought.

Many of these materials were high-end.

Among them, Zhong Yi found materials for cultivating the Endless Wood Demon and the Rejection Crystal Bee.

As a Fairy Guardian Beast, the Endless Wood Demon possessed an extremely high-level Fairy Bloodline.

In terms of its Bloodline, it could only achieve further breakthroughs by advancing along that same Fairy Bloodline.

To cultivate the Endless Wood Demon, one actually only needed to use Flowing Soul Soil to have it evolve along its current Bloodline.

The goal was to get it to grow a third pair of wings as quickly as possible.

The Endless Wood Demon’s abilities weren’t just about using Endless Wood to construct scenes; it also possessed powers of concealment and detection.

This led Zhong Yi to decide to use a type of lumber called Illusory Spirit Hundred-Change Wood to cultivate the Endless Wood Demon.

Among the materials Flower Venerable had brought were not only dozens of logs of Illusory Spirit Hundred-Change Wood...

...but also a single seed from an Illusion Spirit Hundred-Change Tree!

If he fed the Endless Wood Demon these logs of Illusory Spirit Hundred-Change Wood and the tree seed while it used Flowing Soul Soil to raise its Tier and Quality, the Endless Wood Demon’s abilities in concealment and detection would undoubtedly be enhanced even further.

Zhong Yi had already personally experienced the benefits of the Endless Wood Demon in the 100-person Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm.

The Secret Realm opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company would have a full 3,000 participants—thirty times the number in a typical Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm.

This meant the battlefield in the Wanyu Gambling Company’s Secret Realm was bound to be far more complex.

And the more complex the battlefield, the more effective the Endless Wood Demon would likely be.

Cultivating the Rejection Crystal Bee only required Repulsive-Attractive Red Crystal and Magnetic Tourmaline.

Both Repulsive-Attractive Red Crystal and Magnetic Tourmaline were exceptionally rare materials.

A single, fingernail-sized piece of Repulsive-Attractive Red Crystal could fetch a seven-figure price at auction.

Even a Magnetic Tourmaline with more internal impurities could sell for four million Federation Coins.

To cultivate the Rejection Crystal Bee and ensure it gained sufficiently powerful Skills and Exclusive Traits upon Evolution, one was fated to need a massive amount of Magnetic Tourmaline and Repulsive-Attractive Red Crystal.

These resources could be acquired in small quantities from the Craftsmen’s Guild. To obtain a large amount, one could only try their luck at auctions or exclusive private trade meets.

Finding the amount of Magnetic Tourmaline and Repulsive-Attractive Red Crystal that Zhong Yi needed at auctions and private meets would have taken months of searching, at the very least.

Among the materials Flower Venerable brought were over a hundred pieces of Magnetic Tourmaline and nearly a hundred kilograms of Repulsive-Attractive Red Crystal.

This supply of Magnetic Tourmaline and Repulsive-Attractive Red Crystal was enough for Zhong Yi to use until he had raised the Rejection Crystal Bee all the way to Mythical Tier.

Right now, in his room, Zhong Yi had shut out the rest of the world, single-mindedly focusing on strengthening his Guardian Beasts.

Besides the Rejection Crystal Bee and the Endless Wood Demon, Zhong Yi just had to finish cultivating Ice Glaze, the newly-contracted Golden Iron Drifter, and the Order Beast, Resurrection Celestial Lord.

Then, he could go and test the strength of the major factions and the Second Level prodigies on the Virtual Source Network.

Zhong Yi started by cultivating the Endless Wood Demon. When the Endless Wood Demon saw the Illusory Spirit Hundred-Change Wood, the normally reserved little creature showed immense interest.

Upon seeing the seed of the Illusion Spirit Hundred-Change Tree, the little creature even became a bit frantic.

It constantly begged Zhong Yi, desperate to absorb the Energy from the Illusory Spirit Hundred-Change Wood and its tree seed.

Zhong Yi couldn’t help but marvel internally. ’Guardian Beasts really do know exactly which materials will help them improve.’

In the wild, any valuable material was usually guarded by wild Guardian Beasts nearby.

The Illusory Spirit Hundred-Change Wood was a unique silver-brown color, shimmering with a mirror-like iridescence.

After getting Zhong Yi’s permission, the Endless Wood Demon immediately began to dance and fly around the logs of Illusory Spirit Hundred-Change Wood.

Zhong Yi could faintly see a silvery Energy being drawn out of the wood by the Endless Wood Demon and absorbed into its body.

As for the seed of the Illusion Spirit Hundred-Change Tree, the Endless Wood Demon swallowed it whole.

While the Endless Wood Demon absorbed the Energy from the wood and the seed, Zhong Yi provided it with an ample supply of Flowing Soul Soil.

The Endless Wood Demon’s body was almost completely covered by its cloak, so even though Zhong Yi couldn’t see the specific physical changes, he could feel that its aura had changed dramatically.

A new pair of wings suddenly unfurled from its back.

The Endless Wood Demon was now, like the Thousand-Eyed Moon Demon, a Six-winged Fairy with three pairs of wings.

A large amount of Endless Wood materialized behind the Endless Wood Demon, periodically morphing into various shapes.

Zhong Yi used All Things Exploration to inspect the Endless Wood Demon, which had just grown a new pair of wings.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Endless Wood Demon

[Guardian Beast Species]: Wood Ancestor Species/Illusion Wood Species

[Guardian Beast Level]: Extraordinary Tier (1/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Demon Spirit Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: Gold Quality

Skills:

[Fantasy Combination]: Constructs scenes from imagination. The scene’s strength and stability depend on the amount of Endless Wood used; the amount of available Endless Wood increases as the Guardian Beast’s Level and Quality increase.

[Wood Casting Concealment]: When constructing a scene, can choose to consume more Endless Wood to enhance the scene’s concealment effect within the environment.

Exclusive Traits:

[Endless Mark]: Places a unique mark on a designated target. If the Endless Wood Demon actively triggers the mark while the target is in the same world, the target will be directly pulled into a scene constructed by it.

[Wooden Eye Peeping]: Forms a Wooden Eye on a target marked with the Endless Mark. The Wooden Eye provides a complete, 360-degree view, allowing the Endless Wood Demon to share the marked target’s vision. The Endless Wood Demon can also perceive what the Wooden Eye sees.

[Wood Realm Prison]: Actively creates a new scene for targets who step into the current one. If multiple targets enter the scene simultaneously, it can isolate them from each other. Within the created scene, the Endless Wood Demon can freely teleport and move targets.