Chapter 189 - Journey of the Bai Ta County in the Dust World
Wei Xiao Bei's judgement was never wrong. He would not be weaker than the Giant Boar!
If Wei Xiao Bei went all out, he may be able to kill the boar, but it was difficult to say that only one side would lose.
Was it worth it to face this kind of danger while chasing after Zhu Yi Duo? This is worth considering.
Wei Xiao Bei hesitated.
However, before he came to a conclusion, something unexpected happened that made him need not think about the Giant Boar anymore.
The Giant Boar stood up from the lake, making Wei Xiao Bei think that he had been noticed.
However, what he never imagined was that the water in the river bubbled up almost like boiling water in a pot. In an instant, huge waves formed and struck at the Giant Boar.
Boom!
The Giant Boar was not able to evade it at all and got smashed by the huge waves. Its mouth spat out blood, seeming to have received a heavy injury.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei had already quietly hid himself behind a giant rock. He only poked out his head to observe the scene.
In less than a second, a giant snake head appeared from the bubbling river water and pounced towards the Giant Boar.
The Giant Boar did not have any more strength to fight back and got dragged into the river by the giant snake, disappearing with it.
When the bubbling water eventually calmed down, Wei Xiao Bei finally came to his senses.
It was unknown how long the snake was, but its head was already several times bigger than the Giant Boar. It was easy to imagine long it was actually.
Although it was smaller than the young Fire Dragon or the Citizen of Long Bo, Wei Xiao Bei would not dare hold it in contempt.
According to the battle log, the Giant Boar was a 2-Star Terror Creature, but it was swallowed down in one bite without any chance of retaliating. How could this not let Wei Xiao Bei increase his vigilance.
This place was truly different just as Zhu Yi Duo said.
He did not know about other places, but in The Dust World's Cui Hu City, encountering such monsters was much more rare.
He felt that it was more common in a place like this.
After waiting for a while, Wei Xiao Bei guessed that the Giant Snake looked down upon such small food like him. Thus he summoned his courage and ran as far as possible from there, going along the river.
Who knew if Wei Xiao Bei's guess was correct or not, but the Giant Snake did not appear again.
Wei Xiao Bei was slightly puzzled over the Giant Snake. The river was small with a width of 5 meters. How could such a huge snake exist in there.
He knew that if he did not have the courage to jump into the lake and explore, he would never know the answer to this.
Naturally, he did not have any plans of committing suicide. As a result, he did not continue to think about the Giant Snake. In the Dust World, anything could happen, just like how earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, etc. could happen in the real world. If he kept worrying about this kind of thing, there would be no way of living properly.
Wei Xiao Bei had thought that nothing would happen anymore and he would be able to easily reach Zhu Yi Duo, but reality was cruel. Perhaps because his luck was bad today, he encountered another unexpected incident after continuing on for two kilometers.
While he was thinking, he had carelessly approached closer to the forest besides the river.
In reality, there was already not that many trees in his location. There were only about ten more trees and none further ahead.
In this way, Wei Xiao Bei had carelessly entered the range of the forest. Moreover, his foot had actually hit a protruding root.
In reality, when Wei Xiao Bei saw the root again, he already knew that the roots would come out and attack him.
At this time, he missed his machete, but it was not with him. Wei Xiao Bei would never have considered the possibility that he would need it. He immediately jumped up and dodged the incoming root. Then he waved his hand and caught the roots in his hands. He suddenly let out his strength and pulled on it, causing the part that was hidden underground to burst out from the ground.
Wei Xiao Bei's sudden display of strength was not small. In an instant, the tree root reached towards a dead tree.
The dead tree did not make any movements, as if the root did not come from it.
However, Wei Xiao Bei was not deceived by its dead appearance.
The dead tree's status immediately appeared in his head when he used [Status Appraisal].
The withered tree was called a Monster Tree, it was of the Tree Spirit race. Compared to its 2-Star Elite Creature Tree Spirit, it was only a 1-Star Elite Creature. Its status was also a lot worse. The only special about it was its [Root Bind] skill.
When Wei Xiao Bei looked at its status, it finally moved. More than 10 roots came out from the ground and threw themselves at Wei Xiao Bei.
Wei Xiao Bei pulled out his White Mist Dagger with his right hand while pulling the tree root with his left. Then he immediately jumped towards the Monster Tree, dodging all the roots.
Kill!
Towards monsters in the Dust World, Wei Xiao Bei would never take mercy on them. When he landed a few meters from the Monster Tree, he charged forward and fiercely pierced its trunk with his knife.
The Monster Tree was truly weaker than the Tree Spirit. It was also dumber by quite a bit.
At first, it did not move to deceive Wei Xiao Bei. Then when all of its roots came out from the ground, it did not even think of running away. Only when the White Mist Knife pierced its trunk did it begin to struggle. The trunk lightly swayed, attempting to pull itself out of the ground.
More roots came out from the ground and attempted to bind Wei Xiao Bei.
For Tree Spirit type creatures, being able to bind their opponent would give them a big advantage, but not being able to do so was their end.
Wei Xiao Bei moved like lightning and sliced at the Monster Tree and its roots without stopping. In a few breath's time, there were more than ten cuts on the trunk!
The speed was so fast that even his figure had almost disappeared.
Everywhere that the White Mist Dagger pierced caused the tree to let out a clear sap. The more the sap flowed, the slower its roots moved. With another cut, Wei Xiao Bei had linked up all the cuts, creating a hole.
Wei Xiao Bei immediately leapt up and punched the tree trunk, causing popping sounds to ring out.
Three Emperor Canon Fist, Bear Form!
Crack!
The tree trunk snapped, causing green liquid to spray out from the part that broke off. The roots that were moving all around seemed to have lost their life and dropped to the ground without any signs of moving.
Wei Xiao Bei immediately moved the White Mist Dagger into the green liquid.
He had already understood that the White Mist Dagger needed to be soaked in monster fluids to evolve. Everytime it was soaked, its evolution degree would increase.
The Monster Tree was a 1-Star Elite Creature, so its fluids did not have much impact.
It truly was not much since Wei Xiao Bei had only obtained 50 evolution points.
Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei cut it up.
The only useful thing he had obtained from the Monster Tree was its roots.
The Monster Tree's roots were tough and flexible. Wei Xiao Bei prepared to gather more and make ropes or bow strings.
Moreover, Wei Xiao Bei was not able to bring his bag this time, so it was better to collect other things.
Just like that, Wei Xiao Bei's gaze landed on the other Monster Trees.
Just as previously said, the Monster Trees had bad heads, or it could be said that they had no brains at all.
They did not move even after seeing one of them die by Wei Xiao Bei's hands, as if they had not noticed anything.
This gave Wei Xiao Bei a chance to kill them one by one.
Although they were 1-Star Elite Creatures, they were only prey in Wei Xiao Bei's hands.
But, if the amount of Monster Trees increased, the situation would be different.
If more than 10 Monster Trees attacked at the same time, it was more than 100 roots attacking at the same time. A small amount of inattentiveness would allow them to catch him. Although they could be thrown off, it would slow down his movements, and the trees roots would all come at once. Even Wei Xiao Bei with all his strength would be bound into a ball by them.
Wei Xiao Bei did not doubt this result at all.
Pow, pop!
Under Wei Xiao Bei's attack, the Monster Trees died one after the other. The White Mist Dagger was continuously bathed in their sap, causing changes to the cyan fog on it. The fog had turned green but also became thicker.
When Wei Xiao Bei stopped, he had killed more than 15 Monster Trees, gaining 750 evolution points and a big bundle of tree roots.
Wei Xiao Bei was a bit interested in continuing this, since the evolution points they provided was not bad at all.
Chapter 190 - This is not rational!
However when he looked at the concentrated amount of withered trees ahead, especially the biggest one in the middle, Wei Xiao Bei decided to put away this thought.
The big withered tree would be at least a 2-Star Elite Creature, in other words, it was as strong as a Tree Spirit. The only difference would be the color of the leaves.
Moreover, Wei Xiao Bei could not guarantee that the trees would not go berserk if he continued his massacre.
Although the warning coming from his intuition was very weak, he felt that there was no need to explore anymore at the moment and that leaving the place was better.
While carrying the branches which uses he still had not determined, he continued to walk along the river.
The scene in front of him became even more familiar.
In the end, he reached a bend of the river and stopped. This was the place Zhu Yi Duo disappeared from reality!
The reason was simple, the withered reeds could only be found there.
Naturally, the most direct proof was the bloody smell in the air that Wei Xiao Bei could still smell.
Zhu Yi Duo entered the Dust World and washed off the blood in the river.
However, the smell of blood in the air was impossible to get rid of!
The wind in the place was so weak to the point that there was almost none. This made the blood stick in the air for a long time.
Even if that was so, if Wei Xiao Bei had not hurried in, the smell might have completely dispersed.
He tried to inhale the smell a few times while taking deep breaths, taking in the scent of blood.
This way!
Wei Xiao Bei used his keen smell to search for the direction Zhu Yi Duo left, but he frowned when he saw where it was.
If he did not remember wrong, it was in the direction of the Bai Ta Hill!
However, he did not know if it was still the same in the Dust World. Perhaps Bai Ta Hill did not event exist in the Dust World.
No matter what was said, it was impossible for him to give up since he already made it there.
He stopped hesitating and followed the scent of blood that had not yet disappeared.
After walking a few steps, Wei Xiao Bei pushed away the tall reeds and saw the far away Bai Ta Hill!
In truth, the place where Wei Xiao Bei interrogated Zhu Yi Duo was not far from the base of the mountain. It was only about two kilometers.
However, its distance in the Dust World had been stretched longer.
In the real world, he could see that hill touch the sky and was as tall as two palms, but in the Dust World, the Hill that he could see from his position had shrunk to the size of half a palm.
This was rational in the Dust World. Wei Xiao Bei muttered this before increasing his speed.
He chased Zhu Yi Duo's tracks, but the further he advanced the more amazed he was.
When Wei Xiao Bei entered the Dust World, everything he saw was covered in dust. Even the water in the river was no longer clear.
However, Wei Xiao Bei noticed that the closer he got to the hill, the lesser the dust, and by the time he reached the end the dust had completely disappeared, becoming a green grassfield. Occasionally, there were even blooming colorful flowers.. There was also a small brook flowing from afar with carps jumping up to catch their prey. This scene had completely amazed Wei Xiao Bei.
Wei Xiao Bei tried to catch one fish and noticed that it was not a monster at all. It was the same as a normal fish from the real world and struggled in his hands, slipping from his grasp.
How can this be?
This was the first time Wei Xiao Bei had encountered such a beautiful scenery in the Dust World.
This place is simply paradise!
Wei Xiao Bei lied beside the brook to stuff himself with water. Although his special ability was capable of storing water, but this water would be immediately used up during battle.
The more he advanced towards the hill, the closer the scenery was to the real world, and was even a bit more beautiful than reality.
Wei Xiao Bei was almost completely captivated by his surroundings.
There were even butterflies and dragonflies flying around in the air.
The only unfortunate thing was that the sun in the sky was still murky. It was like the sun had contacted a cold. All of its light was dim and cold.
In the end, Wei Xiao Bei could not help but stop his footsteps.
For a few seconds he had his mouth opened wide in complete silence. Then he closed his mouth and said, "Blurry eyes?"
Indeed, the scene in front of Wei Xiao Bei would be easily mistaken by anyone as just having a blurry eyes.
At this time, he could already see the entire hill's scenery.
Fuck! This is not rational!
Is this even Bai Ta Hill?
Compared to the Bai Ta Hill in the real world, the Bai Ta Hill here could be called the true Bai Ta Hill.
The entire hill was colored red, and this time it was not due to a sleeping Fire Dragon, but it was a true red hill. It was probably made from true red soil.
The lush forest all over the mountain had disappeared, and was substituted by large old trees. At the top of the trees was something like a thick cloud.
A complicated white set stairs circled around the mountain towards the top, connecting to a white tower.
The white tower in the Dust World was more than 10 times taller than the one in the real world. The white tower stood like white jade as a white luster shined all over its surroundings.
Around the white tower were floating hills that exceeded 700 meters tall, or to be more accurate floating islands.
There were nine floating islands in total. The islands were covered densely with pavilions, deep blue pines that twisted and stretched towards the skies, hundreds of blooming flowers, and white cranes that would land on the pines from time to time.
The nine islands circled and slowly rotated around the white tower.
No matter what was said, the scene had greatly exceeded Wei Xiao Bei's imagination.
This was why Wei Xiao Bei could not help but exclaim in surprise.
In the dusty and deslate Dust World, a paradise like this would confuse anyone.
After stupidly standing there for a long time, Wei Xiao Bei finally came back to his senses.
He finally understood why Zhu Yi Duo entered the Dust World and escaped towards Bai Ta Hill. The reason was very clear.
Who would not want to come to a paradise like this. Moreover, with his cowardly nature, Zhu Yi Duo would feel that this place was the safest.
However, Wei Xiao Bei was still a bit worried when he looked at Bai Ta Hill.
His intuition was telling him to stop advancing towards the hill!
The power there was something that he could not fight against!
Naturally, this was only an intuition. Intuitions would not tell him why it was dangerous, or where it was dangerous. Moreover, he did not know if it was a hidden danger or a danger that had a possibility of appearing.
If he wanted to tell which one, he had to get a bit closer.
However, if he did that, then it was possible he would not be able to escape the danger if it suddenly appeared in front of him.
Additionally, there were differences between the types of danger.
For example, the danger found in a volcano could be the lava boiling inside the crater. It was indeed dangerous, but if he did not meet the condition of approaching the crater and jump into it, then the danger did not matter.
If he only sat at the edge of the crater, then the danger would not exist.
Sometimes, danger could also migrate. On the same mountain, it would be possible to evade the flood, but there was also a possibility of being buried alive in a landslide.
Because the danger had not yet appeared, it was difficult to see how it would affect his life.
It was that simple.
If he did not know about the existence of danger, then death would approach even faster!
However, he would probably regret it if he just gave up right there!
What should I do?
Although he had accumulated 910 evolution points, he did not plan on using any of them at the moment.
Afterall, once he did allocate them, he could at most increase a few of his skills to 20 points, gaining one or two abilities.
THough, Wei Xiao Bei still did not believe that he could overcome the danger of Bai Ta Hill with just one or two more abilities.
Without a doubt, danger and opportunity both existed in the Dust World!
Wei Xiao Bei really wished that he had a few dice and just rely on luck to make a decision for him.
When he sat back down beside the brook, he became slightly hungry.
Although he had eaten a lavish meal before he entered the Dust World, it did not mean that he would not become hungry once he entered it.
Wei Xiao Bei would normally just suppress his hunger if he was in a different situation.
But now, he felt incredible relaxed and decided to just prepare to replenish his energy.
If it was possible, Wei Xiao Bei would not reject the idea of having his stomach stay full all the time.
After collecting a pile of firewood, Wei Xiao Bei jumped down the brook and caught some grass carp.
He frowned at the fact that grass carp's meat quality was inferior to most fish, but he still had no plans of throwing them back. He pulled out the White Mist Dagger and began cleaning and cutting up the fish.
Compared to before, the White Mist Knife was a lot more sharper. When the knife scraped the fish, all of the scales were instantly removed.
However, Wei Xiao Bei did not dare to fully rely on his White Mist Knife, else the corrosive poison would eventually seep into the meat.
However, if it was just a bit, he was still able to take it.