Chapter 861: The Vegetable-Planting Knight

Leaving the Dark Side and arriving at a place where sunlight could shine, the two-legged giant bird couldn't wait to *caw caw caw*: "Release, run."

Great Xiao Gu slapped it impatiently, then untied the rope, threw it together with the bones, and casually stuffed a soul crystal to it.

The giant bird's soul was too weak; it would fall apart if it couldn't reach the sunlight. Originally, Great Xiao Gu wanted to use it as a mount, but most of the time it was a burden. Should he just throw it away?

The giant bird didn't know that Great Xiao Gu had already considered throwing it away. After reassembling its body, it happily 'licked' away the soul crystal.

The giant bird's method of licking the soul crystal was quite fun: it would bring its head close to the soul crystal, and a faint blue flame would emerge from its nostrils. After touching the soul crystal, the soul crystal would emit the same flame and then gradually shrink.

After licking the soul crystal, the giant bird's soul grew a bit stronger.

Unfortunately, digesting the soul crystal required a process; otherwise, Great Xiao Gu might have stuffed all the soul crystals to it, letting it get full, to avoid it falling apart when the sun went down.

Seeing that it wasn't early, Great Xiao Gu rode the horse, led the other horse, and walked back the way he came. The giant bird, having finished licking the soul crystal, looked up and found that Great Xiao Gu had walked far away, so it *cawed* and chased after him.

After walking for a while, both horses refused to walk anymore, sticking out their tongues, panting heavily, licking their dry horse lips, shaking their heads, and nudging Great Xiao Gu with their heads, just refusing to walk.

Seeing Great Xiao Gu poking the horses with the bone club, and just about to poke their butts, Adams, who was attached to it, finally couldn't help but say: "They are thirsty."

Thirsty? Oh, these are living things. Before, it was Silver Ingot and the others who were feeding them. Living things need to drink water and eat food.

Water... Great Xiao Gu raised his hand and summoned—Rain Spell.

The water elements in the wasteland were very thin, but they still existed. As long as there were water elements, they couldn't escape Great Xiao Gu's Rain Spell. Very quickly, the water elements in the surroundings were drained, and a layer of dew condensed on Great Xiao Gu's palm.

The horses, which had long been thirsty, hurriedly stretched out their tongues and licked away the water droplets on his hand.

Great Xiao Gu repeated the trick, repeatedly condensing water vapor, and finally managed to feed both horses. Then he flipped onto the giant bird: "This, good."

The giant bird was bewildered, not knowing what Great Xiao Gu was saying. Adams, however, understood: he was saying that the giant bird didn't need to be fed water or food, which was better.

"Didn't you just feed it a soul crystal?" Adams said.

It seems so. What a hassle. Great Xiao Gu walked for a while in distress. There were some half-dry, half-withered haystacks on the ground. The two horses refused to walk again, stretching their necks to gnaw on the dry hay.

"They are hungry. You only feed them water but no grass; they won't have the strength to walk," Adams said. "Feed them something to eat. These haystacks aren't even enough to fill the gaps in their teeth."

Great Xiao Gu thought for a while, stretched out his finger, and pointed at the haystack. The originally withered haystack suddenly expanded.

Plants in the desert, in order to resist high temperatures and evaporation, would shrink themselves, cover their surfaces with hard shells, or even dehydrate. Usually, they looked like a lump of dry hay, but as soon as it rained, they would immediately grow wildly.

After Great Xiao Gu cast Accelerated Death, he immediately began to condense water vapor and pour it onto the haystack. The haystack quickly turned green and grew rapidly, sprouting tufts of tender grass.

The two horses couldn't hold back anymore, stretching their heads to gnaw on the grass leaves.

Great Xiao Gu stopped them, quickly reached out to pluck the tender leaves, and stuffed them to the horses, but let the main plant continue to grow, and kept pouring water on it.

Repeating this several times, Great Xiao Gu cast three Accelerated Deaths on the haystack, forcibly urging the ankle-high haystack into a three-meter-tall grass stem. It's just that the leaves had all been plucked, leaving only bare stems standing on the ground, finally blooming and bearing grass seeds.

Great Xiao Gu happily collected the grass seeds, cut off the remaining grass stalks, and stuffed them to the horses.

The horses had eaten the continuously growing tender leaves; how could they look at the stalks that were old enough to bear seeds? They turned their heads and snorted.

Great Xiao Gu had no choice but to throw away the grass stalks and lead the horses to continue forward. However, the sun had already set to the horizon, signaling that the giant bird would fall apart soon; it couldn't go far.

Not long after Great Xiao Gu left, a man dragged his feet, stumbling to the side of the haystack. Seeing that grass stalk that was so old it bore seeds, a desire for survival erupted in his eyes.

He tried his best to control his body, letting himself fall beside the grass stalk. In his current state, if he fell down and couldn't replenish moisture, it would be difficult to crawl up again.

He reached out to touch the grass stalk, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed forcefully, trying his best to squeeze out that little bit of juice. In his current state, a little bit of moisture was enough to sustain his life, let alone such a long stalk.

After chewing the three-meter-long grass stalk, the bitter juice filled his mouth and nasal cavity, making him feel a little more energetic. Forcing himself to lie flat, the man folded his hands on his chest and chanted hoarsely: "Equality, Justice, Compassion, Glory, Vegetable Planting..."

Following his prayer, a faint white light shone on his body, and some power seeped into his body, healing his wounds. It was by relying on his pious faith and the protection of the god that he could persist until now.

However, that was probably about it. He understood his state; he had basically reached the point of exhaustion. Without water or food, relying solely on the god's protection, there was no way for him to walk out of this desert, unless the god sent an envoy to save him.

Dazed, he felt several black shadows come to his side, one of which even squatted down and poked his face with a hand. However, before he could distinguish whether this was an illusion or real, everything went black, and he fainted.

Aemil was choked awake by something. Subconsciously, he took a bite and immediately felt a mouthful of bitterness, all grass juice, but it was a bit more tender than before.

A voice rang out beside him: "I say, can't you feed him some water, or dried meat, fruit, vegetables, or rice balls? Why stuff grass to him?"

Another voice rang out: "He, eats grass."

Aemil frantically wanted to shout in his heart: No, I don't eat grass, I can eat dried meat, fruit, vegetables, rice balls, I can eat them!

Unfortunately, his mouth was stuffed with tender grass, and his body hadn't recovered yet. After this tossing, he fainted again.

When he woke up again, Aemil discovered he was lying between two horses. The horses' bodies blocked the cold wind of the night for him and also warmed him with their body temperature.

Aemil felt his state was very good. The most obvious thing was that his throat didn't feel like it was going to crack from dryness.

Struggling to sit up, there was a campfire in the direction of his feet. A person wearing armor was sitting opposite the campfire, tilting his head and looking at him.

Seeing the armor of the other side clearly, Aemil jumped up in fright: "Scale Knight? Heavens, Scale Knight! In the Land of Death, under the seat of the God of Equality and Scales, % (whisper) Knight Aemil, pays respects to you, my lord!"

Aemil struggled to get up in a flurry, knelt on one knee, and paid respects.

"What knight?" Great Xiao Gu tilted his head. The first two sounds of the knight were too small; he didn't hear them clearly.

Aemil's face flushed red, and he said somewhat coyly: "Vegetable... Vegetable-Planting Knight."

"Pfft—planting what? Why would it be called vegetable planting?" Another voice rang out.

Aemil looked up and didn't see where the other person was, so he could only say coyly: "I am a Vegetable-Planting Knight of the Fundamentalist faction under the God of Scales of the Church of Light. The title is... is Vegetable Planting."

Great Xiao Gu didn't feel there was any problem with this title, nodded, patted his own breastplate, and said: "I, plant trees." ===== CHAPTER 862 =====