Chapter 266: Change

【The Blood Marrow Tree emits a strong mating signal. Accept?】

【The Blood Marrow Tree desires contact with the friction of your sole. Accept?】

"Reject the latter one. If the matter is settled, it's not impossible."

His right hand pressing against this Blood Marrow Tree made it tremble even more excitedly.

The hanging vines coiled together, spiraling taut.

The trunk suddenly split open into a huge mouth, panting heavily with a hissing sound, while pale yellow stinking water flowed from the corners of its mouth.

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Hmm.

Why do I feel like I've become dirty?

"What are you doing?"

Sharon glanced at the condition of the Blood Marrow Tree, then at Rod's right hand rubbing finely.

Her expression immediately turned strange: "You—"

Rod twitched the corner of his eye.

"Just watch."

Having said that, he stepped onto the trunk with one foot.

The hissing sound grew heavier.

And by the pond, a change immediately occurred.

They did not separate; they drew close together.

The bald student fetching pond water didn't dare use 【Mage Hand】, fearing he might alert the Gardener, so he bent his body down to scoop.

A tentacle swaying upward not far away suddenly displayed an unusual movement—a horizontal sweep aimed straight at them.

The five were shocked and terrified.

Everyone except that bald student threw themselves backward to dodge the sweep.

As for the bald student, he was already bent over; the sweep couldn't reach him at all.

This was a strike that returned with no result.

But at this moment, a dramatic scene appeared.

Because the five were very close, and the bald student was bent over with his butt sticking out scooping pond water, while the other four behind him, to dodge the sweep, all chose to lean backward.

They directly shoved the bald student out.

Splash—

A considerable splash was stirred up in the yellow-green feces pool.

"Ugh—"

The Gardener dozing in the pond opened his eyes groggily.

(°﹃°)

Although his innate laziness wanted him to continue sleeping, when he saw a figure covered in fecal water climb out of the pond and then sprint away at high speed, he instantly flew into a rage!

"ROAR!!!"

He suddenly unleashed a mighty roar!

The ripples shook his fleshy lumps and fat, along with the pond itself.

The Blood Marrow Trees seemed to respond to his call, trembling with a rustling sound, though the target of their trembling might not be because of him.

The next moment.

Countless miniature versions of the Gardener beasts swarmed over from the other side of the botanical garden.

The fat Gardener stood up, dragging a trail of disgusting slime, and walked toward the position where the Bahadur student was fleeing.

Watching a mass of army-like disgusting creatures pass not far in front of them.

Sharon looked at Rod with great astonishment.

"You can even control plants? Don't tell me you actually have Tree Spirit bloodline. No wonder Vivian likes you so much."

Rod, while stepping on the huge mouth of the Blood Marrow Tree beside him, cursed:

"I'm pure human. Damn it, the trees here are seriously ill; they actually have a hive mind, and now they're demanding I step on every single tree."

Damn it!

It reminds me again of my experience with Eva, the Ancient Sky Tree, in the Emerald Domain!

The two wasted no more time.

Immediately, using this feces pool as the center, they began to arrange the destruction ritual.

Rod had no time to attend to her.

Right now, every single one was acting spoiled and demanding he step on it, with the 【Tree Blessing】 prompt constantly flooding the screen.

Sharon, however, had time to talk.

She squatted down while casting a spell:

"This is actually Amel's ritual. He should have been among the first group to discover the botanical garden, and it was because of the garden that he acquired the 【Ke Yin】 of the plague."

"He believed all 【Ke Yin】 were bindings, and since long ago he had been plotting to destroy the botanical garden. He seemed to think this would allow him to break free from the 【Wen Yi Ke Yin】, but this plan was soon vetoed by him... Afterwards, he shifted to researching 【Ke Yin】 transfer."

Rod fiercely kicked, snapping off a tooth of a Blood Marrow Tree.

Crack! The sound made people's hair stand on end.

"This 【Ke Yin】 isn't a good thing; it's normal for that guy to want to get rid of it."

However, the creature beneath his foot was extremely excited.

Its tongue lashed wildly, frantically curling around the sole of Rod's shoe.

Ugh. Truly disgusting.

He secretly glanced at the werewolf girl's peach-shaped buttocks.

Excellent, the eyes have been cleansed.

"I don't know about the others, but the 【Wen Yi Ke Yin】 is definitely a good thing."

Sharon was unconvinced:

"Perhaps you don't know, but Amel gained quite a lot of knowledge about Aether and Psionics within the 【Ke Yin】, which is also why he possesses such a high understanding of soul and flesh creation spells."

"I have witnessed it; this fellow is hard to kill."

She smiled: "I heard from Dimia that you led six girls to ambush him, and you fought for several hours."

The two walked and talked.

After about half an hour, they finally finished setting up the ritual to destroy the botanical garden.

The botanical garden was vast, but the ritual did not need to surround the entire area; it only needed to encircle the pond before them.

Sharon said this was the core point, the water source center of the entire botanical garden; destroying it would mean the plants in the botanical garden could not survive within the Fear Field of the mental dimension.

"People like me are not few; they treat the 【Ke Yin】 as a book of knowledge. Since Amel was killed by you, Rod, those two 【Ke Yin】 stripped from his soul are naturally in your hands. You had better dispose of them properly, otherwise, they might attract some people coming for this reason."

The werewolf girl patted the silver dust off her hands and casually tossed aside the silver knife used for carving.

Rod nodded.

He thought for a moment, then said: "I know a my lord who can handle the influence of the Ke Yin. Sharon, would you like to—"

"Stop talking about this, okay? I've said it many times, I need the Ke Yin very much."

Sharon's expression grew a few degrees colder.

She adjusted her mood.

She pulled a staff out of her spell satchel.

It was made of dark red wood, with several strands of mana-enhancing crystal chains wrapped around it.

She added: "The botanical garden has very strong regenerative abilities; ordinary spells are hard to destroy it, but Amel specifically spent a large sum to buy the ritual of the 【Ultimate Annihilation Orb】 from a ninth-tier mage, which has a strong disintegration effect and is very suitable for here."

Ultimate?

That name sounds so awesome.

"But won't this disintegrate the 【Fu Yue Zhong】 along with it?"

"Of course not. The 【Fu Yue Zhong】 is not an actual existing mental creation or physical object; it is similar to the 【Ke Yin】, appearing only after specific conditions are met. The Great Cultivator of the botanical garden relied on the 【Fu Yue Zhong】 to migrate the botanical garden into the Fear Field... Amel calculated that when the botanical garden is destroyed, the 【Fu Yue Zhong】 will definitely appear."

Having spoken, Aether energy was infused into that dark red staff.

Immediately, it floated in place and began to rotate slowly.

Sharon and Rod stepped back together.

"It's ready. We can finish it once the ritual runs to the one hundred and second circle. Coincidentally, no one is here at this moment; after we snatch the 【Fu Yue Zhong】, we can leave immediately."

Rod smiled, hands in his pockets.

He couldn't help but say: "Unexpectedly smooth."

Sharon turned her head to look at him, a mischievous smile appearing on her beautiful face: "Don't always say such things; they are all foreshadowing. In novels, unexpected changes arising from this are endless."

As she spoke, her voice gradually faded.

Her expression also grew fainter and fainter.

The prophecy bracelet in Rod's hand suddenly vibrated.

This bracelet had broken once before, but later Miss Xiao Ke repaired it and added several effects.

He immediately looked at Sharon.

At this moment, the werewolf girl's expression was somewhat shocked.

Then came curiosity; she looked around, and immediately afterwards, she let out a relieved, light laugh.

"A Fear Field that makes people feel nauseous."

She spat out a few words; her tone and speech habits were completely different from Sharon's.

Rod's mouth twitched.

He drew his sword and struck.

(End of this chapter)