Chapter 392: Wood Realm Descent, Transformation into Tree Man (Requesting all as per custom)

The next moment, Kailan landed on a large tree in the backyard and slowly closed her eyes, as if she had fallen asleep.

Li Zhangsheng looked at Kailan without much nervousness; given Kailan's intelligence and Aixi's experience, he believed Kailan would likely have a good harvest.

Amidst a dizzying spin, Kailan discovered her consciousness had entered an inexplicable space.

The scope of this space was vast, generally appearing as a nebula where thousands of ten-colored orbs of light orbited like celestial bodies—stars, planets, meteors, and comets.

They varied in size; some were like stars, eternal and motionless, emitting light and heat; others were like planets, constantly revolving around stars, with streaks of light occasionally flying into the stars or planets, vanishing in the blink of an eye; and there were massive comets with long tails, wandering rapidly through the nebula.

In this unknown space, Kailan's consciousness transformed into a huge orb of light, larger than a planet but smaller than a star.

Kailan had long heard Aixi describe the scene after eating the Dragon Whisker Grass, so she did not feel surprised; she tried to move, immediately heading toward the largest golden orb of light.

This was the largest star in the entire nebula, and even if the probability was low, she had to try; if it didn't work, she would switch to a green star closer to her.

Like Aixi, Kailan discovered that her movement speed was very slow, and the location she had randomly appeared in was relatively far from the golden orb, though slightly closer than Aixi's had been.

While dodging planets and comets, Kailan continued to move forward; as time slowly passed, the orb of light representing her gradually dimmed.

During this process, she also gradually felt a sense of powerlessness, and her forward speed began to show a downward trend.

"This won't do. Based on the distance calculation, I will probably only reach halfway before my consciousness disappears from this space!"

Kailan looked longingly at the distant golden orb, then had to settle for the next best thing, flying toward a slightly smaller green star nearby.

According to her calculations, she was confident she could touch that green star before her consciousness vanished.

Closer, even closer!

As time flew by, Kailan grew closer and closer to the green star, but the orb representing her became increasingly dim and weak, and her speed began to grow slower and slower.

Meanwhile, during this process, Kailan's consciousness gradually became drowsy, but her willpower was strong, and she stubbornly refused to lose consciousness completely.

Suddenly, a comet with a long tail crashed toward her; Kailan hurriedly moved to the side at top speed, completing the evasion by a hair's breadth.

The next moment, Kailan entered the region where the green star was located, where dozens of green orbs of varying sizes orbited the largest green star.

Relying on her strong willpower, Kailan continuously avoided the orbiting green orbs, suffering no interference along the way, and rushed toward the green star with maximum efficiency.

At this moment, a black orb of light happened to rush toward Kailan; as the black orb approached, a feeling of rage instinctively welled up in her heart.

As the black orb drew nearer, this feeling of rage showed a trend of surging even higher.

"This must be the Negative Characteristic—Rage; it's easy to lose oneself in battle, or even fail to distinguish friend from foe!"

Kailan became alert instantly and hurriedly circled around the black orb to rush past it.

Soon, Kailan approached the green star; no further accidents occurred during this time, and she made contact with the green star.

In that instant, as if enlightened, Kailan received a special power that surged into her body, yet her consciousness did not receive any information.

Amidst a dizzying spin, Kailan's consciousness returned to her body; she rubbed her eyes with both hands and flew in front of Li Zhangsheng.

Li Zhangsheng hurriedly asked with concern: "Kailan, how was it?"

"I don't know either!" Kailan spread her hands and continued: "Let me try it first!"

As soon as she entered a battle stance, a rich green light automatically emerged from Kailan's body, and countless green specks of light scattered onto the ground.

The earth began to revive; like bamboo shoots after a rain, tender sprouts emerged from the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed from sprouts into small trees one or two meters tall, but they did not stop growing, eventually all growing into large trees over ten meters high.

Within two or three breaths, the backyard of the Number One Courtyard had directly turned into a lush forest, looking quite spectacular.

"This is..."

Li Zhangsheng vaguely guessed what this trait was, a hint of excitement appearing on his face; he immediately took out the "Complete Collection of Traits" and began to search for the relevant Wood Element trait.

There were over a hundred Wood Element traits, but there were only a few field-type Wood Element traits, namely Green Grassland and Wood Realm Descent.

The Green Grassland trait went without saying; the effect of this trait was the same as the Grassy Terrain skill—it could create a patch of grassland upon appearing, significantly increasing the power of Wood Element skills and recovering a certain amount of injuries every short interval.

The Wood Realm Descent trait could be said to be an advanced version of the Green Grassland trait; it could create a forest upon appearing. It not only possessed the two effects of the Green Grassland trait but could also manipulate trees at will for offense and defense, and could even combine them into Tree Man Mode.

"This is the Wood Realm Descent trait!" Looking at this lush forest, Li Zhangsheng revealed a smile.

Like the Wind Speed Characteristic, this could be said to be a quite powerful trait and was recognized as one of the strongest traits; the only drawback was that it could only be maintained for a period of time, unlike the Wind Speed Characteristic, which could be maintained as long as one was in a battle state.

"Kailan, Tree Man Mode!"

Under Li Zhangsheng's command, Kailan moved her hands, and under the influence of an invisible force, these trees were directly uprooted and flew toward Kailan.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of countless trees breaking rang out; like building blocks, these trees combined at an extremely fast speed, eventually forming a thirty-meter-tall tree man.

The strong and tall Adai looked like a child compared to an adult in front of the tree man.

The tree man had many advantages, possessing strong offensive and defensive capabilities, while also being able to protect Kailan's safety well; as the core, Kailan could freely manipulate the trees to combine or separate to conduct attacks and defenses.

However, the tree man's shortcomings were also very obvious: its speed was very slow, and it was extremely inflexible; once it encountered a fast enemy, it was often a case of using an anti-aircraft gun to hit a mosquito.

Li Zhangsheng specifically waited for a period of time until Kailan's Wood Realm Descent disappeared.

"About three minutes!" Li Zhangsheng muttered to himself; although three minutes was short, it could often determine the outcome of a battle, and he believed that as Kailan leveled up, the duration of the Wood Realm Descent trait would also receive a certain increase.

"Roundy and Adai, come together!"

Li Zhangsheng summoned Roundy, but he did not let Roundy try immediately; instead, he let Kailan tell them about her experience and insights regarding the Characteristic Space.

Roundy was a bit lazy, but it was not stupid at all; on the contrary, Li Zhangsheng felt it was very smart, only that its mind was almost entirely focused on how to get more rest time and more food.

Adai, on the other hand, was dull and honest; it would just fall into a daze when it had nothing to do, and one didn't know what it was thinking about all day long.

After listening to Kailan's insights, Li Zhangsheng handed the last two Dragon Whisker Grasses to them.

After chewing repeatedly and swallowing them, the two Demon Pets entered the Characteristic Space almost at the same time.

A strange thing happened: their consciousness orbs appeared in this space at the same time, and they were not far apart, even capable of communicating between their consciousnesses.

Additionally, Adai's orb was quite peculiar, vaguely wrapped in seven-colored clouds, and one didn't know what function it had.

Upon sensing each other, both sides subconsciously approached; perhaps because of the seven-colored clouds, Roundy was astonished to discover that Adai's speed was slightly faster than its own.

When the consciousness orbs of the two made contact, Roundy tried to Devour the power of Adai's consciousness orb, but unfortunately, it had no effect whatsoever.

"Adai, you try it too!" Roundy subconsciously transmitted this thought to Adai.

Suddenly, a suction force came from Adai's consciousness orb; Roundy's consciousness orb shook violently and began to weaken at a speed visible to the naked eye.

On the other side, Adai's ball of consciousness suddenly lit up.

However, the suction came and went quickly; upon discovering that it could Devour the power of the round ball of consciousness, Adai hurriedly stopped this action, for even though he was dull by nature, he knew this was very disadvantageous for the round one.

Once the power of the consciousness ball vanished, the round one would be kicked out of the Characteristic Space and ultimately return empty-handed.

The round one's thoughts turned quickly, "Adai, don't stop. If you possess the power of both of us, with your speed, you can completely attempt that largest golden star!"

"That wouldn't be good!" Adai subconsciously wanted to refuse, feeling that taking advantage of others was not right, let alone a companion.

"What's not good about it? If you succeed this time, maybe I'll have such an opportunity next time. How about this: if you feel bad about it, remember to share some food with me in the future?"

To tell the truth, the round one was not keen on becoming stronger or not; what it cared about most was the quality of life.

Like the round one, Adai's appetite was equally large, and it was entirely for meat.

Seeing that Adai was still hesitating, the round one hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, don't waste time!"

"Alright!" Adai finally agreed; he wanted to know what kind of characteristic the largest golden star was.

The next moment, a suction force emanated from Adai's ball of light, and the round one's ball of consciousness dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, soon becoming very faint, looking as if it were translucent.

"Suck it all up, don't waste it; ordinary characteristics are of little help to me!"

The round one only felt dizzy, but it still endured the fatigue and transmitted its final thought to Adai.

Soon, the round one's ball of consciousness disappeared, and amidst a dizzying spin, its consciousness returned to its own body.

"Eh, why so fast?"

In the backyard, seeing the round one wake up, Li Zhangsheng's expression was very unpleasant; he subconsciously assumed the round one was afraid of trouble and had just absorbed the nearest celestial body.

In this way, the round one's harvest would definitely not meet expectations, and how could Li Zhangsheng be happy about that?

Li Zhangsheng asked with a dark face, "Round one, what characteristic did you obtain?"

Roar-woo-woo-woo~

The round one seemed to sense the murderous aura, shuddered all over, and hurriedly recounted what had just happened in the Characteristic Space.

Of course, the round one naturally branded itself as noble and upright, talking about sacrificing the small self for the greater good and such.

This fellow was not stupid at all; on the contrary, it was very smart, just not focused on the right path.

Beside them, Kailan acted as a translator with a strange expression.

"Seven-colored cloud cluster, the speed is a bit faster than yours, and it can also Devour your power!"

Li Zhangsheng was visibly surprised; he had not expected such a situation to occur.

First, both Demon Pets were in that same Characteristic Space, which indicated that the Characteristic Space was real and that there was only this one.

Second, Adai's seven-colored cloud cluster, such an obvious sign, was likely inseparable from the Seven-Colored Rainbow Pearl, and he had not expected that this item's power could also be used in the Characteristic Space.

Finally, there was Adai's power of Devour, which might be related to the Seven-Colored Rainbow Pearl, or perhaps to the Life Essence or the Life Jade, and even more likely related to Adai himself; it would require testing one by one.

As for directly stuffing two or three Dragon Whisker Grasses into a Demon Pet, that was not even worth thinking about; this was clearly recorded in books, as no matter how many Dragon Whisker Grasses were fed to a Demon Pet, the effect was no different from one, because some predecessors had already experimented with this.

In this way, Li Zhangsheng became increasingly expectant of Adai.

Devouring the round one's power, even with some loss, could definitely increase Adai's speed and endurance; after all, the brighter the ball of light, the faster the speed in the Characteristic Space, not to mention the speed boost from the seven-colored cloud cluster for Adai.

No matter how one looked at it, Adai had hope of touching the largest golden star, and one wondered what kind of characteristic that was; it was possible that it was a characteristic not recorded in the *Complete Collection of Traits*.

In the Characteristic Space, Adai transformed into a bright ball of consciousness, flying toward the largest golden star at top speed.

Adai's speed was very fast, almost double that of Kailan.

During the advance, Adai followed the experience and insights of Kailan and Aixi, constantly dodging the planets, meteors, and comets along the way, not giving them any chance to make contact.

In order to minimize loss as much as possible, Adai relied on his speed and always bypassed them at the lowest cost.

Time passed slowly, and the ball of consciousness representing Adai was also dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his forward speed inevitably suffered some adverse effects.

Soon, Adai began to approach the area where the golden star was located.

This area had a full two or three hundred planets, like stars surrounding the moon, constantly revolving around the golden star or large planets.

Due to the density, Adai became visibly vigilant and continued to rush toward the golden star; in this process, his speed inevitably dropped a bit more.

However, judging by the distance, Adai believed that before his consciousness completely vanished, he had the confidence to touch that golden star.

Adai was getting closer and closer to the golden star, while at the same time, his ball of light became increasingly dim, his speed became slower and slower, and dodging became significantly more strenuous.

At the same time, his consciousness became increasingly drowsy, with a feeling of being unable to keep up with his intentions.

It was unknown how much time had passed, but Adai approached the golden star; at this moment, only the final hurdle remained before him, which was also the largest hurdle.

Nine large planets revolved around the golden star; their size was enormous, and their rotation speed was fast. If Adai were in his prime, he would naturally have full confidence, but now Adai's speed was only thirty percent of his prime, so the difficulty naturally became extremely high.

Among these nine large planets, there was a pink planet that could even influence Adai's mind.

Upon seeing the pink ball of light, scenes of lustful, lewd nature involuntarily surfaced in Adai's consciousness.

The closer he got to the pink ball of light, the stronger this feeling became.

This was a Negative Characteristic—Lust; in battle, if the opponent were the same sex, it would be fine, but if it were the opposite sex, one would definitely be greatly affected!

Unfortunately, just like Rage was to Kailan, for the dull-natured Adai, Lust had a negligible effect on him.

From birth until now, Adai had only been around for a month or two; his size was indeed a bit larger, but certain parts had not yet fully developed, and he was completely ignorant of matters between male and female, having no desire whatsoever.

Adai stared intently at the nine constantly revolving planets, trying to find a flaw among them.

These nine planets looked large, but added together they did not equal the golden star in the center; it was just that the distance between them was relatively balanced, and their speed was fast, which gave Adai a feeling of being difficult to break through.

Within a few breaths, these planets completed one revolution; during this period, Adai discovered that it was not without opportunity, because at a certain time interval, a relatively large gap would appear.

With his current speed, he had a good chance of breaking through.

"Now is the time!"

When the opportunity arrived, Adai, who was on the edge, immediately took action, resolutely rushing in, brushing past a cyan planet, and then, just as the next red planet was about to hit him, he completed the evasion narrowly and finally rushed into the golden star.

At this moment, time seemed to stagnate, and a piece of information was transmitted into Adai's mind, accompanied by a special power as vast as an abyss, which poured into Adai's body continuously, constantly transforming his physique.

Amidst a dizzying spin, Adai's consciousness began to return, but he still kept his eyes tightly closed, while his whole body trembled violently, emitting cracking, cracking sounds of bones.

Rip~ Rip~

Under this force, Adai's muscles were forcibly torn apart, revealing bright red flesh as if he had been sliced by a thousand knives, and his entire body became riddled with holes at an extremely rapid speed, looking quite heart-stopping.

What was eerie was that despite having so many wounds and such heavy injuries, not a single drop of blood flowed out.

Sigh, it won't be a good new year this year; I don't even dare to go out.

(End of this chapter)