Chapter 477: Chapter 477 – Inferior World Tree ‘Sap’
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
The further they walked, the brighter the seven-colored radiance. At one point in their journey, it was so bright that they couldn’t even see the leaves beneath them.
Fortunately, Wei Xiao Bei wasn’t using his eyes to examine his surroundings. Otherwise, there might even be a possibility for them to fall through the gaps between the leaves.
After the most difficult portion of the journey, it became much easier. The radiances were still as bright as ever, but at least they could now see with their naked eye. Moreover, the brightness of the light was slowly decreasing as they walked forward.
When he stood at the edge of the World Tree’s canopy, he finally saw the full appearance of the Bifrost.
It wasn’t exactly right to say that the Bifrost had collapsed, but it wasn’t right to say that it hadn’t either.
At this moment, the Bifrost was a broken bridge.
The portion of the Bifrost on the World Tree’s canopy was still here, but the middle of the bridge had broken off. Several portions of the bridge simply hovered in the air, without any signs of falling. The destination on the other end was shrouded in mist.
Even when Wei Xiao Bei opened his eyes and activated [Eagle Eye], he still couldn’t see what lay beyond the mist.
When he approached the Bifrost, he couldn’t help but let out a gasp of surprise.
The Bifrost was made of rainbows!
The seven giant block-shaped pillars of different colors formed the body of the bridge. The characteristics of these pillars were extremely strange. When he bent down to touch the Bifrost, his hand went straight through.
Yet, when he carefully placed his feet upon the bridge, he felt a tough surface.
This meant when touched with the hand, the Bifrost was nothing more than light. However, when someone stepped upon the Bifrost with their feet, it was as if they were stepping on solid ground.
There was truly nothing as wondrous as this.
“Wow, this is amazing! Say, if I plunge my head into the Bifrost, what will happen? Do you think I will fall straight through? Or will my legs get caught on the bridge? ”
The talkative Andre suddenly blurted out this shocking yet surprisingly constructive question after staring at the Bifrost for a while.
Wei Xiao Bei almost spat blood when he heard this. He glared at Andre. He wasn’t like this before. How is he getting more and more out of hand?
“Mm. This is a good suggestion. Why don’t you try it out?”
He reached out to Andre with his right hand, a strange smile fixed on his face.
“Don’t! I will fall. I’m too heavy. Oh, god! Don’t! She’s about to fall!”
Andre was shocked.
Damn, it was just a joke. Did he have to be this serious?
However, Andre’s voice quickly turned into a panic shout near the end.
Wei Xiao Bei felt like something was wrong and immediately looked away to see a shocking sight.
Babe was actually about to fall, just like Andre had said. She was holding on to the edge of the leaf and trying to run her head through the Bifrost.
He wouldn’t be worried at all if Babe was still a swan.
The problem was that Babe had mysteriously lost her ability to transform into a swan after losing her memory.
Which is to say, if she were to fall off, she would be freefalling.
What troubled him the most was what Kashmir was doing. She had established a pretty good relationship with Babe over the past few days. She was now hovering beside Babe, her hands in fists as she cheered Babe on in her stupid endeavor.
M***********!
None of these people could let him relax.
Wei Xiao Bei immediately reached out and lifted Babe away from the Bifrost.
Babe appeared unhappy when she was put down on the leaf. She pouted and went to the side to throw a tantrum.
“Alright, time to eat! ”
He couldn’t get angry at the little girl either. As such, he just took out his killer technique- food!
The high and rare quality roast meat that Wei Xiao Bei made was fatally attractive to Babe.
She immediately started jumping up and down in joy upon hearing this. She ran to his side and looked at his right hand with puppy eyes.
There was a simple reason for this. Every mealtime, the delicious roast meat would appear from the storage bracelet on Wei Xiao Bei’s right hand. That was why Babe, not understanding what the storage bracelet was, practically treated his right hand like a magical hand that could conjure meat out of thin air.
Her eyes would be staring at his right hand whenever they ate as if she wanted to take a bite out of the hand at any time.
The meal was simple. Everyone got two pieces of meat. Wei Xiao Bei helped them warm it up to improve the flavor.
After everyone had finished eating, he stared at the Bifrost in frustration.
He had already examined the broken portions of the rainbow bridge.
The broken portions of the Bifrost were a sort of strange light. He couldn’t put them in his storage bracelet even if he tried.
In all honesty, Wei Xiao Bei didn’t want the Bifrost to be like this. He had no way of fixing it at all.
He had originally intended to weave vines into a bridge to connect the broken portions of the Bifrost and climb into the mist.
Unfortunately, his experiment quickly failed.
There was no issue with the weaving of the vines. Even Andre, Babe and Kashmir helped. The rope bridge they made was tough. However, the problem came when they tried to fix the rope to the bridge. Much like their hands, the vines simply passed through the Bifrost, as if it didn’t exist.
Fly over?
Wei Xiao Bei looked at Babe. Disregarding the fact that she couldn’t turn into a swan, the Bifrost’s existence wasn’t something this simple.
It was obvious even if you were thinking with your ass.
Who knows if the Giants could fly, but the gods had to be able to fly, couldn’t they? Would they need to build a rainbow bridge like this then?
After thinking it through, Wei Xiao Bei sprinted a few dozen kilometers to go catch some birds. He then returned to the Bifrost’s remains and let one of the birds go.
The birds immediately turned and flew away from the Bifrost once they were released, almost as if they knew there was danger there. He almost coughed up blood at that moment.
Since this was the case, he decided to just place a bird on the surface of the Bifrost.
The bird wasn’t a fool either. It refused to fly and instead started jumping about the bridge.
In the end, Wei Xiao Bei struck out, reaching with his middle finger and flicking the bird over the edge.
Whoosh!
The bird whistled through the air and flew out of the bridge as if it was in a game. Then…it beat its wings desperately to no avail and continued to fall downward.
It was almost as if this area of the Bifrost had been enchanted with magic. Trying to fly was impossible here.
Wei Xiao Bei finally understood.
Much like he had theorized earlier, this place was a no-fly zone. Perhaps it was naturally created by the World Tree, or perhaps it was created by Odin with his divine power. Either way, they would have to walk across the Bifrost if they wanted to cross from the World Tree to the Valhalla or find a way to build a bridge themselves.
As simple as that.
Wei Xiao Bei gave up on his thoughts of traveling to the Valhalla and instead focused his attention back on the World Tree.
Mm, the Bifrost’s material was unique. He could not knock a piece of the bridge off no matter what he tried. As such, he had to give up on it.
Instead, the World Tree’s sap caught his attention.
Didn’t the introduction of the Boston ivy clearly state how it came to be? It was fortunate enough to obtain the sap of the World Tree and thus mutated because of it.
This was more than enough proof that the World Tree’s sap was extremely beneficial.
“Don’t slack off! Everyone must dig together! I’ll make teppanyaki rice for you later.”
Wei Xiao Bei encouraged everyone with all he had and tempted them with teppanyaki rice.
In truth, the teppanyaki rice was just made out of spirit rice, minced meat, and some other spices, with the iron slate made out of the top layer of the World Tree’s leaf.
Its quality was Rare at the very best, but it was the most delicious and fragrant dish of all his Rare dishes. It was a massive temptation.
Either way, Andre and the others started drooling in anticipation at the thought of being able to eat something else other than roast meat after so long.
The few of them followed the leaf down until they hit a tree branch before they started digging.
Apart from him, Andre, Babe, and Kashmir all couldn’t put in much strength.
It couldn’t be helped. The branch of the World Tree was far too hard and tough.
Wei Xiao Bei was only having them work with him because he didn’t want to get bored.
He was attempting to harvest the tree sap by drilling.
Much like how they excavated oil in the real world, he used the Divine White Mist Great Spear as a drill and started rubbing it between his hands.
Andre and Babe were slowly drilling after he handed each of them a partner spear from the Great Spear. Of course, Kashmir could only cheer them on from the side.
After all, the smallest tool that Xiao Bei had was a dagger and that was a whole size larger than Kashmir herself.
Every twenty minutes of drilling, Xiao Bei would take out the spear to examine if the bark had been drilled through.
After wasting two hours with no results, Xiao Bei lifted his spear once again and discovered viscous green liquid at the spearhead.
Hmm?
Xiao Bei felt joy run through his heart and he quickly investigated the attributes of this liquid.
Name: Inferior World Tree Sap (Normal Quality)
Description: This item contains a small amount of the essence inside the World Tree’s branch. Its quality is not high.
Effect 1: Life Force. Consume this item and obtain the replenishment of the World Tree’s life force, accelerating the rate of healing.
Effect 2: Mutation. As the World Tree is the mother of a world and creator of many races, consuming this item will provide a chance of race mutation. The effect is random and unpredictable.
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Hmm?
Inferior World Tree Sap? Normal?
This couldn’t help but dampen Xiao Bei’s excitement slightly.
This was the first time Xiao Bei saw a normal quality item appear amongst treasures.
The Inferior World Tree Sap had two effects. The first was Life Force. Its healing effect was about the same as the Secondary Spring Water of Youth. The second one was the crucial one, however, as it was Mutation.
