Chapter 611: Discovery! Vine-Type Plants!

Xu Jingming used the Breath-Concealment Art, drawing his own presence down to an extremely faint level.

Even his heartbeat dropped to fewer than ten beats per minute.

For an ordinary person, this would undoubtedly be courting death.

But for Xu Jingming, aside from a slight discomfort in his body, there was no other notable sensation.

This was the formidable physique granted him by the SS-grade body-tempering art *Doushen Shenlei Indestructible Body*.

And so, trailing behind Eileen the entire way, the other party remained completely unaware.

What pleasantly surprised Xu Jingming was that Eileen really did seem to have her own method for finding plant lifeforms.

It just didn't seem very accurate—every time she found one of those strange plants with no spiritual-power fluctuations, the same kind they had encountered earlier.

Even so, this was still far more efficient than Xu Jingming aimlessly searching the forest on his own.

Time flew by, and it was soon past two in the afternoon, reaching nine at night.

The world of Qingfeng Secret Realm had no division between day and night—it was always daylight.

By nine at night, the forest was still bathed in light.

During this stretch, Eileen had found a full five special plants.

But regrettably, not a single one of them was a plant lifeform.

And at this moment, Xu Jingming's patience was nearly exhausted.

"I'll follow for two more hours. If we still haven't found a plant lifeform, I'll give up on the spot."

Xu Jingming said to Eva in his heart.

"Hm? Giving up just like that?"

Eva was a little puzzled, thinking Xu Jingming was doubting her judgment, and pledged earnestly:

"Keep following this Eileen, I guarantee we'll absolutely find a plant lifeform!

If we really can't find one... I'll cook and do your laundry for a whole month!"

"Whether we find one or not, you're still doing it." Xu Jingming said flatly.

Every time he came back from the wilderness, his bloodstained combat suit was left for Eva to wash.

Sometimes, when he didn't feel like eating at the martial-arts hall cafeteria, he'd also have Eva cook—even though the fellow was always very reluctant.

"Other people treat their intelligent lifeforms with the utmost care and delicacy.

Where would you find anyone like you, dumping every dirty, tiring job on me, working me to the bone!"

Eva grumbled indignantly.

Although she could casually delegate any one of these tasks to a sub-body and have it all done, she still felt a bit annoyed.

As if she were some cheap floor-cleaning robot or washing machine.

Clearly, intelligent lifeforms across the entire Blue Planet were pitifully few.

"What? Getting picky now? How about I send you back to Mo Da?" Xu Jingming arched a sword-shaped brow.

"No, no, no, my dear master, I was only joking just now.

From now on, whatever you tell me to do, I'll do—no complaints whatsoever!"

Eva hastily switched her tone, clearly well-versed in the art of changing faces.

"That's more like it."

Pushing off with his feet, Xu Jingming leapt nimbly from branch to branch among the trees.

While continuing to tail Eileen ahead, he explained in his heart:

"Tailing wastes too much time. If it takes seven or eight days of tailing to find a plant lifeform, I'd rather not bother."

To avoid exposing his presence, over the past few hours he hadn't slain a single fierce beast.

In other words, the ability points on his system panel hadn't risen at all.

A short while like this was fine, but over the long term it definitely wouldn't work.

The importance of plant lifeforms was far less than that of ability points.

Although Eva really wanted to ask what the point of killing so many fierce beasts was.

After all, most fierce beasts were obliterated by Dou Tian Shen Lei, leaving no beast materials to collect.

Apart from venting the desire to kill, it served no purpose at all.

But in the end she didn't press further, simply replying obediently:

"Understood."

After another hour or so, the two tree-men behind Eileen let out strange sounds.

Eileen seemed to have received some information, a look of pleasant surprise appearing on her pretty face.

She then set off at a brisk pace, her long slender legs carrying her toward a certain direction in the forest.

"S-grade! Something's happening, hurry and follow!" Eva's excited voice rang out in his heart.

Xu Jingming sped up as well and followed.

As a sixth-tier mid-rank ability user, although Eileen's ability wasn't a reinforcement type, her sprinting speed was still extremely fast.

Even in this dense jungle, she exceeded thirty-odd meters per second.

But Xu Jingming was much faster than her, following along with ease, keeping the distance at roughly five hundred meters.

The passive perception of Heart Web reached as far as two thousand meters; despite being several hundred meters apart, Xu Jingming could still keep track of Eileen's situation.

Cutting through the jungle for roughly three or four minutes, Eileen's graceful figure entered a cave and vanished from sight.

And Xu Jingming's Heart Web perception cut off right then and there.

Heart Web's passive perception wasn't invincible—just like a Wi-Fi signal.

When it encountered someone with formidable spiritual power, or certain thick mountain bodies or walls, it would lose perception.

Swoosh—

Ailin vanished, and Xu Jingming no longer needed to conceal his figure.

The Thunder Dragon Wings unfurled behind him, and his whole body shot skyward, instantly flying several hundred meters.

He landed before the cave Ailin had just entered.

But the moment Xu Jingming's combat boots touched the ground, he heard a startled cry from within!

It sounded as though she'd run into some danger.

"Caves like this usually have fierce beasts dwelling inside—Ailin may have stumbled right onto the owner."

Crackle-crackle—

Thunder rumbled. Xu Jingming entered the Thunder Pole state without hesitation, pushed off hard with his feet, and his whole body became a golden phantom that vanished on the spot.

The cave was dark and damp, visibility was poor, and it even blocked his Heart Web perception.

On top of that, the tunnels branched out in every direction—he had no idea where led where.

Fortunately, Ailin's voice kept coming. Following the sound, Xu Jingming quickly rushed into the deepest cavern of the cave!

As Lei Guang flickered, the entire cave was lit up.

The walls of the cave were seen to be covered in green vines, with some liquid clinging to them.

In the very center of the cavern, two tree-men were bound tightly to the spot by vines.

Ailin herself was bound by vines and suspended in mid-air, the vines tightening around her without pause.

Combined with the indignant, embarrassed expression on her pretty face, it inevitably reminded Xu Jingming of certain scenes he'd seen in manga in his previous life.

"So it's not a fierce beast—it's a special plant. Lei Yu!"

Thoughts aside, Xu Jingming's movements were anything but slow. Golden thunder erupted violently!

Crackle-crackle—

The binding-type combat skill 'Lei Yu' was being used as an offensive combat skill—lightning spread everywhere.

Every vine in the cave, along with the slime, was annihilated in one stroke!

The original dark, damp atmosphere vanished, replaced by the vast, radiant might of thunder!

Boom!!

Freed from the vines' restraint, Ailin dropped from mid-air and tumbled onto the ground.

She still seemed a little shaken, didn't get up, and was panting heavily.

Her graceful figure's curves rose and fell gently along with it.