The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#489 - Flower Rain

Lu Jing didn't know how much time had passed, but the sky had completely darkened. A'bao was probably tired too, no longer circling the grave of the Han Mountain Guest.

Instead, it lay down in front of the wordless stone tablet, and soon its snoring began.

Lu Jing also chose a small tree, leaning against it to sit down.

At first, he was still calculating what he could do to salvage his secret power realm, but after thinking it over, he not only failed to find any clues but became more and more upset. Later, Lu Jing was also affected by A'bao's snoring and became drowsy.

He simply emptied his mind, closed his eyes, and took a nap under the tree.

Lu Jing was awakened by a rustling sound. At first, he thought it was A'bao getting up to forage or move around.

However, when he opened his eyes, he found that A'bao was still in the same place, without moving at all, but its eyes were also open, and its ears were pricked up, full of alertness.

Obviously, it had also heard something.

Lu Jing's first thought was of the Han Mountain Guest who had just been buried, but when he held his breath and concentrated, he found that the sound was not coming from underground, but from the nearby... vegetable garden.

Lu Jing couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. It seemed that some wild animals from the vicinity had come here for a zero-cost shopping spree after the death of the Han Mountain Guest.

So he looked at A'bao beside him. After the death of the Han Mountain Guest, this place could be considered its territory. If a thief came to the house, the owner should naturally worry about it.

However, A'bao just kept the same listening posture as before, with no intention of getting up.

Seeing this, Lu Jing sighed. Fine, seeing that this guy had just lost a friend, Lu Jing decided to help it one more time.

He stood up from under the tree, patted the grass clippings on his body, and walked towards the vegetable garden.

However, after walking a few steps, Lu Jing finally noticed something was wrong.

Because he was going to the vegetable garden to chase away thieves, Lu Jing deliberately made his footsteps very heavy. Under normal circumstances, small animals would be startled away by the sound of footsteps.

In this way, Lu Jing didn't really have to go into the vegetable garden.

However, this time, the "little thief" who sneaked into the vegetable garden seemed to be particularly bold. After hearing Lu Jing's footsteps, the rustling sound not only did not decrease but became more frequent.

So Lu Jing also became a little curious about this uninvited guest and couldn't help but quicken his pace.

He came to the vegetable garden and first looked around, but he didn't see any suspicious figures.

However, after arriving here, the rustling sound became much clearer. Lu Jing looked directly in the direction of the sound and saw a sapling breaking out of the ground.

Lu Jing himself was a master-level druid. He had been in the academy for so long, and he hadn't learned many other spells, but he had mastered the One Hand Lush technique, and even Wu Han sighed that he was inferior.

Lu Jing had certainly observed the plants that had been catalyzed by his One Hand Lush technique.

However, no plant's growth rate could match the sapling in front of him. In just a few breaths, it grew from only four or five inches tall to a foot tall in one breath, more than doubling in size, and the trunk was also significantly thicker.

Without a doubt, the previous rustling sound was the movement it made when breaking ground.

And this was just the beginning, it was still growing wildly, with no sign of stopping.

While Lu Jing was observing it, it had already grown to Lu Jing's chest, and many branches had sprouted on the trunk, looking verdant and lush.

In his previous life, as a city dweller, Lu Jing had not seen many trees. In this life, although he had changed jobs to become a druid, he was ashamed to say that he only focused on economic crops and had not yet realized the highest mystery of the druid, the Heart of Nature.

So, judging from the appearance alone, he couldn't tell what kind of tree it was.

However, seeing it grow so rapidly, it was clear that it had deviated from the basic growth laws of plants.

According to the academy's past teachings, this was naturally not a good sign, so Lu Jing hesitated for a moment, picked up a stone beside his feet, and threw it at the tree.

Although it was just a casual throw, with the blessing of his first-class internal strength cultivation, the stone had already turned into a cannonball after it left his hand.

If it hit another small tree, it could break the small tree in half with just this one blow, but the strange small tree that suddenly appeared in the vegetable field only shook its trunk slightly when it was hit by the stone.

Lu Jing was also stunned when he saw this. He had used a full 70% of his power in this blow. Not to mention the tree trunk, even a stone could be smashed into a pit, but the newly born small tree in front of him actually withstood this thunderous blow with its weak body!

At the same time, during this period, it did not forget to continue to grow wildly. Now it had grown to be almost nine feet tall, and its waist was almost too big to be held by one hand.

Lu Jing knew that he couldn't do it without using a killing move, so he decisively gave up the idea of ​​adding 100% of his power, and instead closed his eyes and tried to calm his mind.

Then he saw a cold light flash in his sleeve, and the flying sword Lake Light shot out!

Straight towards the small tree!

The latter seemed to have sensed the danger this time and did not choose to continue to resist with its body, but tried to stretch out its branches to block the flying sword in the air.

However, the flying speed of Lake Light was very fast, causing all the branches it stretched out earlier to miss, and then it cut off seven or eight branches in one breath. It looked invincible, but after these few bumps, it also changed its original flight path.

For other sword cultivators, at this time, they only need to continue to control the flying sword to correct the flight path, and even those powerful sword cultivators can skillfully dodge the flying sword in the air before those branches intercept it.

However, Lu Jing has not yet finished cultivating the Containing Light Realm. He is now using the flying sword purely as a one-shot deal, like archery. Once the arrow leaves the string, he can no longer control it.

In the end, Lu Jing could only watch helplessly as Lake Light brushed past the trunk and stuck into the cabbage field beside it.

When Lu Jing jumped over, picked up Lake Light again, and turned around, he found that the tree had grown to almost ninety feet tall, but at this height, its growth rate finally began to slow down.

Even Lu Jing, who was planning to get rid of it, couldn't help but utter a sincere admiration in his heart after seeing these petals.

However, these beautiful little flowers existed in the world for a very short time. In just a snap of a finger, they changed from full bloom to withering, and then a rain of petals fell in the air.