Chapter 353 - 349: Breaking the Patterns and the Forest
Before Bai Qi could clearly see the creature beneath Delta, the Nine-Heart Flower Demon let out a harsh wail. Several thorns twisted towards the pair in an attempt to ensnare them.
However, Delta’s reaction was not at all inferior to that of a King Creature. It skillfully dodged, while Bai Qi finally got a clear view of their opponent.
“A Nine-Heart Flower Demon? It really has evolved.”
Bai Qi smacked his lips, and Wu Yi instantly became enraged, saying, “You knew? The Association even keeps secrets now? I’m going to report this!”
Seeing Wu Yi’s furious likeness, Bai Qi rolled his eyes, saying, “Don’t you guys ever read the mission briefing? It clearly stated the probability of evolution and suggested teaming up with a high-stage Beast Master.”
Wu Yi’s face froze. It seemed that indeed, the mission brief had mentioned that. However, in his mind, he was a high-stage Beast Master. He had gotten so angry earlier that he had completely forgotten about it.
It wasn’t just Wu Yi, Wang Yun and Li Shi were also somewhat embarrassed.
They, of course, had noticed that detail but had not expected the stated evolution to be an advancement to the King-level.
Seeing the predicament of the trio, Bai Qi shrugged helplessly, enthusiastically turning his attention towards the Nine-Heart Flower Demon, which was cautiously monitoring them.
“Since it has upgraded to the King-level, the material level would also have elevated.”
Bai Qi’s anticipation grew as he watched the Nine-Heart Flower Demon, radiating with a nine-color glow. Sensing Bai Qi’s malice, the Nine-Heart Flower Demon shrieked, and the surrounding purple snakes as well as various large and small poisonous insects surged towards Bai Qi and the others.
At the same time, a nine-color halo emerged as the Nine-Heart Bewitching skill was activated once again, clearly intending to reuse its strategy to confuse them.
“Bai Qi, be careful. This is the Nine-Heart Bewitching. Unless it’s a Super Energy creature, it’s hard to resist.”
As soon as Wang Yun spoke out, she regretted her words.
Other people would have heeded her advice, but not Bai Qi, who had easily defeated their Six-Eyed Monkey before. He would surely not be scared of this.
As expected, upon hearing Wang Yun’s words, Bai Qi patted a golden beetle on his shoulder, saying, “Wake up, it’s time to get to work.”
“Hmm… Boss, have we reached our destination?”
The beetle, which had been immersed in its daydreams, leisurely woke up. The sun wheel pattern on its shell became even clearer, reflecting a soft golden light under the sunlight and discoloring the surrounding nine-color halo to gold.
Skills gained from a Mythical Creature were not comparable to ordinary ones.
“Yes, that’s your target this time, the Nine-Heart Begonia, or rather, the Nine-Heart Flower Demon.”
Following the direction of Bai Qi’s finger, the insect herb saw the Flower Demon-like Nine-Heart Flower Demon anxiously watching him, causing it to shudder instinctively.
“Boss, assigning a King-level creature to me might be a bit too challenging.”
Bai Qi rolled his eyes, saying, “It’s only just evolved into a King Creature, it can’t be that strong. Moreover, it’s a plant attribute. There’s nothing to be scared of.”
As Bai Qi spoke, the trio behind him suddenly fell silent.
So a just-evolved King Creature wasn’t worth noting? If they couldn’t beat even this, did that mean they were simply useless?
Obviously understanding Bai Qi and the insect herb’s conversation, the Nine-heart Flower Demon, which just advanced into a King Creature, shrieked. Some vines rushed towards Bai Qi, and at the same time, an army of ferocious beasts sprung out from the sea of flowers, akin to a small beast tide.
However, before the purple snakes could approach, two tornadoes appeared in front of Bai Qi and the others, lifting these ferocious beasts into the sky.
“The Association actually leaves creatures outside that can organize beast tides? It seems they really must be stretched too thin.”
Beast tide, one of the infamous disasters in human history.
Before the Snare’s inception, all cities dreaded beast tides the most. After all, if a creature with a group control skill emerged among the ferocious beasts, it would easily trigger a beast tide.
However, after that, under the Snare’s monitoring, such beasts were all blacklisted and targeted for extermination. He didn’t expect to encounter one now.
“The Nine-Heart Begonia’s controlling skill can’t control so many beasts. It should have controlled a Lord snake indirectly.”
Li Shi timidly explained. Bai Qi immediately understood and said, “Epsilon, try to find the controlled Lord purple snake.”
“Understood, boss.”
The insect herb nodded. As its wings vibrated, colored phosphor entered the sea of flowers. The beast tide, which had been controlled by the Nine-Heart Flower Demon, attacking them became docile, as all the beasts entered into a deep sleep.
To put the Desert Ghost Frog King to sleep might have required Jerry’s help, but for these purple snakes, these elite creatures, it was instantaneous.
Seeing the beasts under its control put to sleep, the Nine-Heart Flower Demon instantly felt challenged. Its nine-color halo once again shone in an attempt to outshine the insect herb’s sun wheel. At the same time, it let out a screech.
Hiss…hiss…hiss…
With a unique sound of its snake species, the flowers in the sea of blooms was crushed to the ground. A giant purple serpent burst out from the sea of flowers and bit at the insect herb in the air.
“It really did control the Lord.”
Bai Qi nodded slightly at the sight, unphased by the sight of the consumed worm grass.
“Uh, Bai Qi, aren’t you a little too composed?”
Seeing this, Wang Yun frowned and reminded him.
Death of a pet beast would be a huge blow to a Beast Master, losing a contract slot. Even if he recovered, he would find it hard to improve. Hence she found Bai Qi’s nonchalance quite incomprehensible.
“It’s okay, it’s just a Lord creature. Epsilon will be fine.”
Bai Qi smiled. If it had been before the Sun Secret Realm, Bai Qi would never have been so relaxed, but after obtaining the blood of the Sun Beetle, his worm grass’s carapace was as hard as gold and iron. Bai Qi had tested this: ordinary Lord creatures could never destroy it.
Moreover, it was not yet determined who would consume whom.
As expected, not long after swallowing the worm grass, the Purple-Spotted Snake Lord suddenly fell to the ground, writhing in pain. No matter how much the Nine-Heart Flower Demon urged it, there was no response.
However, this situation only lasted for a moment, and the Purple Spotted Snake Lord soon stopped, raised its body silently, and swam over to Bai Qi.
“Damn, this guy really can’t be trusted.”
Seeing this scene, Wu Yi cursed under his breath. He wanted the Goddess of Light Butterfly to defend, but the secondary effects of using the copy skill affected him, causing the Goddess Butterfly to fall to the ground with him.
“Why are you suddenly exhausted? Young man, you should pay attention to your hell pace.”
Seeing Wu Yi’s condition, Bai Qi gave him a serious lecture, then summoned Gamma to help him regain his energy.
At this moment, the Purple Spotted Snake Lord had already reached Bai Qi.
“Bai Qi, are you sure this is okay?”
Wang Yun looked uncertainly at the Purple Spotted Snake in front of her. Bai Qi, however, just grinned and said, “Epsilon, it’s just a Lord creature. Is it really necessary to parasitize it?”
No sooner had Bai Qi spoken than a golden beetle crawled out from under the scales of the Purple Spotted Snake Lord, its mouth still hanging a strange seed-like material.
“Report to the boss, I was just looking for the medium through which the Nine-Heart Flower Demon controls this snake, and now I’ve found it.”
Bai Qi nodded. The Nine-Heart Begonia and the Dream Vine were somewhat similar, they didn’t have many direct attack skills. However, compared to the Dream Vine’s routine of hypnotizing and directly attacking the spirit, the Nine-Heart Begonia preferred to control creatures to help itself fight through seed parasitism.
Moreover, its own combat ability was actually not that good.
This was one of the reasons why Bai Qi let the worm grass fight alone without summoning a King Creature.
Yah!!!
Seeing that the medium controlling the Purple Spotted Snake Lord was found by the worm grass, the Nine-Heart Flower Demon grew even more angry. Its slender arms shook, and the remaining nine-colored petals that looked like a flower skirt spun and flew out.
These petals seemed soft, but the sound of breaking the air when they spun showed that they had a strong cutting force. They directly severed the body of the Purple-Spotted Snake and slashed towards the worm grass.
“Damn, why didn’t I hear that the Nine-Heart Flower Demon was so good at fighting?”
Bai Qi was somewhat surprised, quickly dodging on Delta, while the worm grass flapped its wings to evade gracefully.
But the Nine-Heart Begonia’s attack was far from over, accompanied by endless petals and blade-like petals. It didn’t appear helpless and furious once it had lost control of its puppet, as the records had indicated.
“Seems like Epsilon is having a bit of trouble.”
Seeing the increasingly skillful Nine-Heart Flower Demon, Bai Qi knew that the opponent was gradually adapting to his King-level ability. If this continued, the worm grass wouldn’t be able to keep up.
“Epsilon, use your special move!”
Bai Qi shouted into the air, the worm grass seemed to understand, and suddenly sped up towards the sky.
The Nine-Heart Flower Demon still wanted to catch the opponent, two thorns whistling out, apparently intending to pull the worm grass back.
But the worm grass moved extremely quickly, and soon ascended to the high sky. From a distance, the golden silhouette of the worm grass seemed to overlap with the sun.
In an instant, the worm grass glowed brightly with gold, the surrounding sunlight seemed to be distorted and began to gather towards the worm grass. Flames of gold appeared to have been ignited around the worm grass, burning up all the thistles and petals that were coming at it.
The worm grass, now incarnated as a Super Saiyan, also began to move. Its golden wings flapped quickly, sprinkling golden phosphorus powder. The Nine-Heart Begonia immediately felt drowsy, both its spirit and body were involuntarily wanting to fall into a deep sleep.
But the Nine-Heart Flower Demon was after all a King Creature and, moreover, was of the spirit type. After a brief stupor, it came to its senses and quickly tried to counterattack. But it only saw a flash of golden light, and the worm grass had already appeared before its face.
Yah!!!
With the screaming of the Nine-Heart Flower Demon, the worm grass, radiating flames of gold all over its body, directly bit through the Nine-Heart Flower Demon’s body and crawled bit by bit into the control center of the Nine-Heart Flower Demon.
“Didn’t you know that ‘Super’ under the sun is invincible? Serves you right!”