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When Endless Summer saw Lin Yuan rushing over with Mystic Moon, all its worries melted away.
With renewed focus, it went back to gathering the broken Enlightenment Law.
With Mystic Moon around, it could just do its best to gather the Enlightenment Law and await the next two trials of the Trial of World Creation.
Endless Summer sighed to itself. Lin Yuan has now granted me two opportunities to save myself. I’ll never be able to repay Lin Yuan even if I give up my life. All I can do is spend the rest of my life fulfilling my duty of protecting Lin Yuan and Sky City.
At that moment, the chained-up Kill Food Worm struggled wildly and let out a cry.
It continuously spewed brown and black energy at the chains around its body. But despite its best efforts, the Kill Food Worm could not get free of its binds. Instead, it had ended up injuring itself further.
The Kill Food Worm’s cry made the old woman want to scream vulgarities.
She was already trying to make her presence less noticeable. Yet, this Kill Food Worm was out to incur the Young Lord of the Radiant Moon Palace and Mystic Moon’s ire again.
The silver-haired old woman felt that the Kill Food Worm she had valued so much was now her bad luck charm.
The Kill Food Worm could not be contracted before it evolved to the Kill Food Sky Butterfly.
Moreover, the Kill Food Sky Butterfly was a butterfly-species fey that continuously tried to become more beautiful. It would only submit to a butterfly-species fey that its genetic model deemed to be beautiful enough. The Kill Food Sky Butterfly would then service that beautiful fey for the rest of its life.
The silver-haired old woman had put so much effort into nurturing the Kill Food Worm because Cage of Brahma Insects had once nurtured a Blue Flash Butterfly that mutated into the Purple Light Goddess Butterfly.
The Blue Light Goddess Butterfly was one of the most beautiful butterfly-species feys. Amongst butterfly-species feys, the purple ones were considered more elite than the blue ones. The Purple Light Goddess Butterfly would even earn the protection and adoration of the Blue Light Goddess Butterfly.
The old woman felt that this Purple Light Goddess Butterfly would be able to gain the acknowledgment of the Kill Food Sky Butterfly.
However, the mutated Purple Light Goddess Butterfly could not compete with the genetically improved Blue Flash Purple Butterfly.
This was the difference between nature and nurture.
It was rumored that the Blue Flash Purple Butterfly would evolve into the Purple Afterglow Beauty Goddess Butterfly, which had the ability to win over the entire butterfly colony.
Even the three most elite bloodlines of the butterfly-species fey would succumb to the Purple Afterglow Beauty Goddess Butterfly. However, the old woman did not know if this rumor was true.
As the Kill Food Worm continued to struggle violently, the silver-haired old woman made a decision. She felt that this was the only way to earn the Young Lord of the Radiant Moon Palace’s forgiveness.
The old woman had noticed how this young man in the Moonbeam Coronation Costume had the authority to order Mystic Moon around.
She shook her hand, and a tree core that emanated strong plant energy appeared in her hand.
The silver-haired old woman timidly padded over to Lin Yuan with her head lowered and presented the tree core to him with both hands.
“Lord, this is the tree core from the Creation Breed Sky-Covering Weeping Willow. If this little tree… I mean Lord Tree uses this tree core, it might be able to transform further after evolving to Creation Breed.”
The silver-haired old woman had lived long enough and was also a thearch-class expert. Hence, she knew how to handle most situations.
She had not done anything to the tree or spider yet, so there was still a chance to salvage the situation.
Giving up the Sky-Covering Weeping Willow made the old woman feel like she was being stabbed.
But if it would save her from being blamed by the Young Lord of the Radiant Moon Palace for provoking him before she fully understood the situation, sacrificing this Sky-Covering Weeping Willow would be worth it.
She might even be able to use the opportunity to curry favor with the Young Lord.
The old woman did not put all her eggs into the basket of this Sky-Covering Weeping Willow.
Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes at the old woman.
She had kept her head lowered, but thearch-class experts had strong perceptions. As such, she did not miss Lin Yuan’s eyes on her, and her chest throbbed.
Mystic Moon had been waiting for the Trial of World Creation’s second attack to help Endless Summer over it. However, it was not such a simple matter.
Although it was possible to do so, Endless Summer would not be able to use the Trial of World Creation’s attack to temper the spliced Enlightenment Law.
Mystic Moon needed to receive the Trial of World Creation’s second attack and split it into hundreds of smaller attacks that could refine the Enlightenment Law one by one.
The Trial of World Creation Cloud would be launching the second attack in less than a minute. Bright silver patterns appeared all over Mystic Moon’s exposed skin, and a wave of power that seemed powerful enough to attack the Trial of World Creation Cloud radiated from him.
An unspeakable might was intermixed with this wave of power.
This might was similar to that of dragon-species feys but much stronger than the might that Lin Yuan had experienced from main dragon-species feys.
In fact, they were leagues apart.
The aura emanating from Mystic Moon made the Dominate Sky Snake Dove anxiously transform into its human form, and it landed on the ground in a prone position.
Even the thrashing Kill Food Worm dared not move. However, it was not as submissive as the Dominate Sky Snake Dove as it stole glances at Mystic Moon.
Mystic Moon saw the Sky-Covering Weeping Willow’s tree core and said to Lin Yuan, “Young Lord, this Sky-Covering Weeping Willow’s tree core will be of great help to Endless Summer. Endless Summer was lucky enough to fuse with a Lifeform Sacrificial Fire and grow a new tree core. The new tree core formed a special cycle with its previous tree core.”
Mystic Moon scoffed and said, “With double tree cores, it’s no wonder that it overestimated itself as being able to overcome the Trial of World Creation.”
Although Mystic Moon spoke to Lin Yuan amicably, he was not warmly looking at Endless Summer.
In Mystic Moon’s eyes, Endless Summer was a trouble-starting burden that did not know how to stay within its capabilities.
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When Lin Yuan told himself that he won, a wistful expression appeared on his face.
Back when he had been running the spirit lifeform store on his own in the Xia Region, Lin Yuan struggled to even move an Usnea.
He had had to grit his teeth and push himself every time he buried energy ores with the Usnea.
A Normal quality Usnea that was not even a fey was not heavy. However, the Usnea’s roots were thick, and a big pot was required for the Usnea to grow well.
Combined with the soil, one pot of Usnea weighed about 12.5 kilograms. It had been a huge struggle for Lin Yuan, who at the time did not even have spirit qi.
Lin Yuan would need to pant and rest every time after lifting one Usnea onto the shelf. That was how he would spend his days.
At that time, Lin Yuan’s dream and motivation had been to properly run his store and earn enough to keep food in his stomach and support Chu Ci through her education.
Since she was his sister, Lin Yuan would overcome any obstacle in order to pay for her education.
Although running the small store would not allow him to provide Chu Ci with strong feys, it would have been possible for him to save up to buy her a defense-type fey.
But who would have thought that he would be standing amidst cheers and applause on the Martial Stage during the Guard Ye Banquet as the winner eight months later?
Lin Yuan felt that his entire journey had been a miracle.
Although luck had played a major role, Lin Yuan still wanted to go back to comfort his past self.
In the past eight months, Lin Yuan had not stopped to rest at all and spent all his free time in the Spirit Lock spatial zone evolving feys.
Regular people would not always be regular, and victors would not be satisfied with their achievements.
Lin Yuan did not look down on himself. However, he felt that he could no longer describe himself as a regular person.
But no matter what, he would remain the same person he always was.
The last eight months were just the beginning, a stepping stone that allowed him to gain more power and broaden his horizons.
While Lin Yuan was lost in his thoughts, he suddenly felt someone grab his limbs and lift him up into the air.
He looked down to see Liu Jie, Gao Feng, Long Tao, and Li Xuan.
Given all the combat skills and fighting abilities that he had gained, Lin Yuan only needed to roll over, and he would be able to land back on the ground safely.
But instead of doing that, he smiled and enjoyed being celebrated by his friends. He felt his tightly wound nerves loosen and relax.
Gu Lang did not immediately follow Liu Jie, Gao Feng, Long Tao, and Li Xuan onto the stage, but he eventually made his way up as well.
He walked over to Zong Ze and said calmly, “Your loss was inevitable. Even if you used the Heaven Crimson Fire at the beginning to release a sea of flames, you still wouldn’t have won. If Lin Yuan had used his final move right at the start, you also wouldn’t have been able to fight back because Senior Zuo Ming would have stepped in to protect you and declare you the loser.”
From the moment the fight ended, Zong Ze’s eyes had been fixed on Lin Yuan.
After he heard what Gu Lang said, Zong Ze replied, “He’s better than me! But I’m thankful for him. Without him, my Heaven Crimson Fire would not have been able to grow to adolescence. If I had missed this opportunity, I don’t know when the next one would appear.”
Gu Lang was stunned when he heard what Zong Ze said. After so many years of friendship, he knew that Zong Ze was stubborn from the inside out.
He never expected someone as arrogant as Zong Ze to admit that someone was better than him.
Because of this fight, the Heaven Crimson Fire had evolved to 4 Stars and grew to its adolescent stage. Zong Ze’s power was about to skyrocket, and he would be able to use resources to further increase the Heaven Crimson Fire’s Stars.
During the fight, Zong Ze had noticed that Lin Yuan started to become affected by the fire-elemental energy even with his strong resistance to fire after Zong Ze summoned his sacred source lifeform.
Lin Yuan had relied on his unknown source of vitality to continuously heal his injuries.
If the Heaven Crimson Fire’s Stars had been higher, Lin Yuan’s resistance to fire and waves of vitality would not have been so impactful.
Just as Gu Lang was about to comfort Zong Ze, he saw Zong Ze marching over to Lin Yuan.
Zong Ze inserted himself amongst Liu Jie, Gao Feng, Long Tao, and Li Xuan. Gu Lang could not help but be troubled by this scene.
It was already extremely out of character of Zong Ze to have taken the initiative to introduce himself to Lin Yuan.
How were they already so close after one fight?
Sheng Yin sighed as she gazed at Lin Yuan being lifted into the air.
No matter what Lin Yuan’s background was, he now had an Order of Radiant Light and had the opportunity to become either a Radiance Envoy or Radiance Knight.
In recent years, Sheng Yin had been working hard to become a Radiance Knight.
She knew that it was unrealistic for her to aim to become a Radiance Envoy with her purely healing-type abilities.
Now that Lin Yuan had the Order of Radiant Light, she had another strong competitor.
If Lin Yuan aimed to become a Radiance Envoy, someone would fall through the ranks and increase the competition for aspiring Radiance Knights.
If Lin Yuan failed to become a Radiance Envoy, he would take up one of the spots to become a Radiant Knight.
There were still two years to go before the selection for Radiance Envoys and Radiance Knights. It would be easy for Lin Yuan to clinch one of the Radiant Knight spots even if he did not increase in power at all in the next two years.
As the pressure continued to weigh down on Sheng Yin’s back, Zhuang Qianhui said, “Sister Sheng Yin, I’ve decided! Lin Yuan shall be my man from now on! I’ll get my father to approach Lin Yuan for marriage the moment I return home.”
Sheng Yin stared in shock at Zhuang Qianhui and said solemnly, “Qianhui! You can’t just approach anyone for marriage. Where will your father even go to find Lin Yuan?”
Sheng Yin always knew that Zhuang Qianhui was spoiled. Not only was she used to being a princess, but she was also ditzy to boot.
But was she really so silly?
As such, Sheng Yin wanted to test to see if Zhuang Qianhui had guessed Lin Yuan’s identity.
