Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 1747 - 1308: What is this old vine?

The White Crystal has now become the foundation for Ange’s reincarnation system. The Star God’s Body it forms is solid, powerful, and highly adaptive, capable of surviving in the Void without air, in extreme temperatures, and even on God Star’s surface in temperatures of thousands of degrees.

In the past, even a Truth Mage like Tyrone couldn’t survive in the Void for long, let alone on God Star’s surface.

Therefore, even if Ange’s true body were to appear here, he wouldn’t choose to bring people out from the Dimensional Space directly; instead, he would reincarnate them as Star Descendants, granting them a greater ability to survive.

However, the number of White Crystals is still too limited. Hundreds of White Crystals were excavated in the Star Progeny Master’s Dimension, but all of them lacked the ability for Star Shifting. Ange only has five or six White Crystals with Star Shifting ability, which have all been allocated, leaving Anthony and Negris without Star Shifting capability.

The quickest way to obtain White Crystals with Star Shifting capability is by slaughtering a few Star Descendants with Star Shifting ability, though this is not guaranteed as some Star Descendants don’t possess this ability, such as the low-level Jie Bamboo Worm Monster.

Almost all the Star Descendants below Sky Level lack Star Shifting ability, making it a troublesome task to sift through them to find those that can.

Now, they have found a third method to obtain White Crystals? And it’s from digging on the trunk of the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms? Ange couldn’t contain his excitement upon hearing this and quickly Soul Shifted to Anthony’s location.

With Ange present, tracking Olette became much easier. Ange didn’t need to get too close to the opponent; he could discern the opponent’s location just by the spatial distortions caused by their form.

Not worried about losing track or being discovered, Anthony and the others even found the time to chat: "Is it harvesting White Crystals? It pauses briefly in each place, some places longer than others. Could it be searching and digging?"

Lightning wondered aloud, "The way you describe it, it sounds like mushroom hunting."

"The fact that White Crystals grow on the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms is strange by itself. Do White Crystals grow on the Little Sapling?" Negris asked.

Ange shook his head.

"What about the Little Tree Man or the Little Fireman? Where did you leave them? Ask them about it." Negris glanced at the top of Luther’s head, asking.

Luther replied, "The Little Angel took them away. I wouldn’t dare take them around. They could be recognized easily."

As they spoke, Ange stealthily approached the spot where Olette had last paused. There he saw a hole dug out, very small, about the size of a fist, on the trunk of the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, which wasn’t noticeable at all.

The trunk of the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms was covered in grooves like a heavily fissured surface, each groove akin to the trenches in the seas of the Master Plane. To find a fist-sized spot in such grooves was an almost impossible task.

If Ange hadn’t been following closely, he wouldn’t have noticed Olette had stopped here, nor would he have discovered this ordinary little hole, which was crudely made without neat edges.

After a while, Olette shifted to a new position, and Ange, following his memory, came to its previous pause location, finding another crude hole dug out, similar to the last one in quality.

Following these movements, after six or seven attempts, a smooth polygonal surface was finally found at the bottom of the eighth hole.

"It looks like it found a White Crystal here. Look at these smooth surfaces, don’t they seem like something once embedded here, now dug out? It’s indeed capable of finding White Crystals," Negris stated.

Anthony was equally shocked, "By what method does it locate finger-sized White Crystals in such complex terrain? By scent, energy field, or does the trunk undergo special changes?"

Negris reflected and found no commonality in the eight prior collection points, merely saying, "Why does it harvest so many White Crystals? Is it planning to trade a hundred and eighty with us?"

Anthony paused, then said, "There’s a real possibility. What’s the function of White Crystals?"

"They enable us to upgrade," Negris answered, perplexed.

"Yes, they enable upgrades for us, but what about them? What function do they serve?" Anthony asked.

"For them? Perhaps upgrades as well?" Negris thought of Gangpasa among other bamboo stick insect monsters but quickly recognized their status. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

These low-level Star Descendants are akin to slaves here, mere beasts in the Slave Market, even bought and eaten by higher Star Descendants. Who would use White Crystals to upgrade them?

Despite Olette’s apparent ability to find White Crystals, it only holds a single White Crystal, clearly not valuing them. Now suddenly focused on digging White Crystals, it may genuinely be excavating them for us.

After all, the proposal was for a hundred and eighty, and instead of apprehending the opponent, a trade with obtainable White Crystals might be feasible, especially when pleasing the God of Tree outweighs obtaining a hundred and eighty White Crystals. Who knows what rewards might be given by the God of Tree?

However, collecting White Crystals is not so easy. Out of ten holes dug, nine and a half may be empty. Over three or four days, Olette might only excavate three or four White Crystals. To collect a hundred and eighty, it may take three or four months.

"This is too slow. Such that Kadiz would receive rewards from the God of Tree before enough are excavated here, which would be a waste. And if it really collects enough White Crystals, would we actually give it the Power of Fall? What about Kadiz?" Negris questioned.

"Uh, Lord Nage, what I mentioned was ’clue,’ not the Power of Fall. Don’t mistake it," Anthony promptly denied.

Negris paused, cursed, "You merchant!"

"If you feel uneasy, find something else that can pollute energy to give it, like Baptism Water, to imbue a holy aura? Or...?"

Anthony was just saying this when Ange suddenly shrank to the side, signaling everyone to stop talking, as something seemed to have happened. Simultaneously, the Little Sapling atop Ange’s head swiftly stretched out, leaned against the God of Tree’s trunk, expanded, and enveloped Ange and the group within it.

Ange had Soul Shifted over, not projected, and his body wasn’t the Star Flame’s body, so the Little Sapling rested on his head. Enveloping everyone seamlessly merged them with the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms.

Soon after hiding, an old vine slowly ascended from below, curving its front end like a snake, silently watching Olette’s direction.

After staring for a while, it headed towards Olette’s direction, and soon, a scream came from that direction, then silence ensued.

The old vine slowly retracted below, and after a while, Ange moved, dispelling the disguise, floating towards Olette’s last known position.

Upon reaching the location of the scream, Olette was nowhere to be seen, only scattered White Crystals remained in a groove, the largest one shattered into seven or eight pieces.

Negris couldn’t help but marvel, asking, what manner of thing is this old vine? A Void-level Star Descendant met an effortless demise at its hands?

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