The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 566 - 324: Monster
He Lao Fourth instantly widened his eyes: "You, you are Miss Tan!" No wonder she could track down to this place. When she left the small village, the robbers had just returned and were discussing the matter of the mirror. It was around that time she took note of it. Miss Tan is skilled in Alchemy Skill, even Qing’er can’t compare to her. He was both surprised and delighted, and immediately re-examined the Jade Bottle in his hand.
"My last name is not Tan, it is Ning." Ning Xiaoxian smiled and looked at the starry sky, "I have urgent matters to attend to, and I will leave Kashna City early tomorrow. You should finish up your tasks first."
He Lao Fourth, feeling uneasy, also hurried to leave to attend to his matters. Now Ning Xiaoxian stood in front of Changtian, pinching a green spherical object in her hand.
This object was slightly smaller than her fist, round and soft, and it would even concave when pressed hard with a finger. Ali wanted to play with it, but she did not allow it. It was a dangerous toy, harmful to those who could not control it.
Although it now appeared very docile, shrinking into a meatball-like shape, it was the green vine that had just blocked Ning Xiaoxian and the others when He Lao Fourth fled from his residence. It grew upon contact with soil, had strong binding power, and could produce oil fruits to enhance the power of explosions, bringing them a lot of trouble unexpectedly. Fortunately, both she and Tu Jin had placed safeguards on He Lao Fourth, preventing his escape.
She had just taken this from He Lao Fourth’s hands. It wasn’t that she had a habit of taking subordinates’ belongings, but Changtian recognized that this green sphere was special.
He Lao Fourth had accidentally gotten this meatball, and the way to use it was to recognize a master and then throw it under the enemy’s feet to sprout a vine that would entangle the opponent. Speaking of which, it was this vine in the medicine field of Xuanji Sect that had bound Kou Yunzhi; however, he and Fu Yunzhang had coordinated well, making it seem as if Master Fu had taken the action himself.
However, Changtian told Ning Xiaoxian that this was indeed a very crude way to use it because this thing, neither like a meatball nor a plant, had a straightforward name called "Demon-binding Vine," which had its own consciousness and was a type of spirit monster. The one He Lao Fourth found was still a juvenile and had been in his hands for a long time, but it was still naive and could not yet speak, thus couldn’t tell He Lao Fourth its real needs.
Changtian didn’t say much more, plucked millennia-old ginseng, Carriage Mushroom, and Yellow Jing, each three roots, from the soil of life, extracted their essence, then took essence blood from the Rhino Demon, Bat Demon, and bile from the Bear Demon, and refined ten elixirs in a furnace and handed them to her. Since Ning Xiaoxian started practicing Sorcery, he had rarely made a move himself. Now, with a wave of his hand, he summoned the Fu Yu Tripod and acted effortlessly and elegantly, his movements indescribably smooth and fast, several times faster than hers.
The elixirs were dull in color, smelled fishy, and faintly emitted a strange blood light. However, the previously unresponsive sphere in Ning Xiaoxian’s hand seemed to smell something delicious, continuously wriggling. Simultaneously, an eager thought communicated with her Divine Sense: "This, I, want!"
Changtian seemed to know its desire and gestured for her to feed it an elixir.
How to feed? It was round and lacked a mouth. She hesitantly took an elixir close to the sphere, and surprisingly, a large split opened in the middle of this sphere, with dense sharp spikes inside that could make those with trypophobia shudder. Moreover, each spike tip flashed with blue light, likely extremely poisonous. She threw the elixir into it, and the sphere immediately closed its large mouth, wriggling for a while as if enjoying the delicacy, then sent another thought to her: "Want, more!" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
Following Changtian’s instructions, she began communicating with the sphere: "There are elixirs aplenty, but you must truly recognize me as your master." When He Lao Fourth merely dropped a drop of essence blood on the sphere in his days**)— to think mastering it was that simple! His essence blood merely awakened the Demon-binding Vine, a vine species that needs a large amount of Plant Essence and blood food to survive - essentially a omnivorous organism. It entangled enemies when thrown by He Lao Fourth merely out of its hunting instinct.
It regarded He Lao Fourth as a tool for transportation and a host for hunting, and thankfully He Lao Fourth never fed it enough; otherwise, once it grew strong enough, it would probably have swallowed He Lao Fourth as a snack. This is a mutant among Ancient Demons, which will show its power once it breaks free from its juvenile phase.
