I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 216 - 214: Xi Yuan Tournament (Part 40)

"Song Shurun, did you bring your Battle Pet Spirit Plant?"

"I-I brought it."

Song Shurun’s Battle Pet Spirit Plant is a Double-Layered Garlic, and its only function is poison detection. Why is Li Xing asking about it? Could it be to identify if the transparent fish is poisonous?

"Take it out, take it out!"

With Li Xing’s undeniable tone, Song Shurun dared not ask more questions. He took out a medium-sized flower pot, inside which there was a fifteen-centimeter-tall pink little flower.

Li Xing took the pot, didn’t even look at the Double-Layered Garlic inside, but carefully examined the pot itself, occasionally dissecting the steel plating to check the runes beneath.

Song Shurun really spared no expense on his Battle Pet Spirit Plant, buying the most expensive Baoyong Brand pot. The cost of one medium pot was enough to buy two cheap versions used by Hui Hui.

Just as Song Shurun worried that Li Xing would dismantle his flower pot, Li Xing waved her hand and summoned Hui Hui.

The Big-mouth Flower, more than person-height, paired with an extra-large flower pot, was quite imposing. Plus, it appeared so unexpectedly that everyone in the Tu Ling Team, including Lin Yin, was startled.

They weren’t unfamiliar with the Big-mouth Flower; it’s just that seeing it up close was even more terrifying than in videos.

As soon as Hui Hui appeared, she coquettishly spoke in her Divine Sense to Li Xing, "Master, why haven’t you let me out for so long? It’s so boring without you!"

"The desert climate is too harsh; I couldn’t bear to let you endure it outside. Just stay in the space and rest. Once the competition is over, I’ll accompany you!"

Others couldn’t hear the master-servant dialogue; they only saw the big flower’s slender stem twitching and its slug-like tongue licking its lips, making it quite scary. Despite the protective shield, everyone subtly stepped back, trying to distance themselves from it.

Li Xing lifted the protective shield of the Double-Layered Garlic, gently took it out, and was about to place it inside Hui Hui’s flower pot.

Song Shurun panicked, spreading his arms to block her: "Li Xing, what are you doing?"

"I’m commandeering your pot. The Double-Layered Garlic will stay with Hui Hui for now."

"W-what? No way, what if the Big-mouth Flower eats it?"

"Hui Hui only eats Crystal Stones."

"Still, it’s impossible..." Different Battle Pets need different nutrient soils; they can’t just be mixed!

The desert temperature is too high, and the Double-Layered Garlic is a plant from the cold zone. Once out of the pot’s protection, it’ll quickly wilt.

Ignoring Song Shurun’s powerless protest, Li Xing bypassed him, opened Hui Hui’s protective shield, and put the Double-Layered Garlic inside. Delayed by Song Shurun for over ten seconds, the Double-Layered Garlic visibly wilted.

"Hui Hui, let this flower stay with you for now. Share some Spiritual Energy with it, and I’ll make it up to you later."

"No problem, master. Hui Hui will take good care of the little one!"

Hui Hui’s pot was custom-made, with the original space for nutrient soil transformed by Li Xing into a storage for Spirit Stones.

The pot was rich in Spiritual Energy, practically a paradise for all plants in the Qianyuan realm. It was a stroke of luck for the Double-Layered Garlic to spend even a short time there.

To prevent any leakage of Spiritual Energy, Li Xing quickly closed the protective shield, just in time to block the approaching Song Shurun.

"Li Xing, don’t mess around! I’ve been nurturing this Double-Layered Garlic for a long time, if—" Song Shurun tried to argue that switching pots could affect the Double-Layered Garlic’s growth state, but he was stopped short by the sight before him.

The Double-Layered Garlic’s flower, initially a soft pink, had now turned a more vibrant peach pink, indicating robust health and vigorous life force. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Song Shurun had tried hard to achieve this coloration to no avail, and yet it was realized in Li Xing’s cheap pot? Unbelievable!

"If what?"

"N-nothing." Since the Double-Layered Garlic seemed to like the flower pot, what was there to protest?

Li Xing stored Hui Hui back in space and then took out the small tools she used when dismantling appliances for her money-making ventures to efficiently remove the control panel of the high-end Baoyong pot.

"Li Xing, what are you doing?"

"I’m going to enhance the pot’s suspension and propulsion systems so it can hold the weight of at least eight people while flying in the air."

Her declaration left everyone in shock. Li Xing was turning a flower pot into a small Flying Device!

Ye Qingting remembered Elder Chen Luxi’s words at the end of the last competition and couldn’t help but worry.

"Ah Xing, Elder Chen said that anyone using a Flying Device during the competition would be disqualified, you—"

Li Xing tapped the pot with a small screwdriver and replied, "Who said I’m using a Flying Device? It’s just a flower pot. Elder Chen didn’t say we can’t ride in a flower pot."

Ye Qingting reconsidered and agreed. Modifying the pot into a tool for crossing the lake was Li Xing’s skill; even Elder Chen Luxi himself wouldn’t find fault with it, but rather admire her expertise.

At this moment, everyone hoped Li Xing could successfully modify the pot, but only Song Shurun felt uneasy.

"Li Xing, you have a pot too, and it’s several times larger than mine. Why don’t you use yours?"

"My model’s power system isn’t as good as yours."

Displeased, Song Shurun countered, "You’re modifying anyway, what’s the big difference?"

Li Xing raised her head, staring at him as if he was an idiot:

"Are you foolish? Using your pot, the Double-Layered Garlic can stay in Hui Hui’s nest; both have the pot’s protection, safe from the harsh climate. If we used my pot, where would you put Hui Hui? With her plus our eight people, would it even be able to take off?"

Right, why hadn’t he thought of that? The Big-mouth Flower’s intimidating appearance made Song Shurun forget it was a non-desert plant needing the pot’s temperature control system for protection.

Cui Tianxiao caught onto Song Shurun’s underlying message and sarcastically remarked, "All this fuss over a pot! How petty! Name your price; I’ll reimburse you!"

"I... It’s just, Baoyong pots are hard to buy; you need to reserve them a year in advance, I—"

"Don’t worry, I won’t damage the pot’s life-support system. The modified pot won’t affect your Battle Pet Spirit Plant at all, plus it comes with flying capabilities, you’re actually gaining here."

With Li Xing’s explanation, Song Shurun finally relaxed, joining the rest to observe Li Xing’s process of modifying the pot.

Even Lin Yin had to admit that Li Xing had such a wide range of skills, and her handiwork brought significant changes to the pot’s internal runes.

After the final stroke on the runes, Li Xing attached the control panel and borrowed a Crystal Stone from Chou Xiaoyuan, placing it in the energy slot.

Li Xing handed the remote control to Song Shurun, saying, "The pot is yours, so you should be the one to control it. Give it a try."

Song Shurun hadn’t expected to be given such an honor, excitedly pressing the button to ascend. The pot shot up to five meters in the air, twice its previous height. Song Shurun then tested its forward, backward, and turning functions, finding them all very responsive.

Everyone was astonished to find that the pot, in terms of flying height and speed, was nearly indistinguishable from a small Flying Device.

Li Xing had crafted eight slots onto the pot, each one with a rope trailing out. Each of the eight people grabbed one rope, hanging beneath the pot as they gradually flew toward Lake Heart Island.