Dugu Yan shuddered, her pretty face turning a deep shade of red.
She looked at the green ball of light condensing once again in Li Yifei's hand, her eyes filled with longing yet tinged with a hint of shyness.
"Brother Yi Fei... I..."
Li Yifei didn't wait for her nonsense and directly reached out to pinch her chin.
The movement was somewhat overbearing, but it made Dugu Yan's heart skip a beat.
"Open your mouth."
Dugu Yan obediently closed her eyes, feeling the warm liquid slide down her throat.
A moment later.
A brilliant green light also erupted from her body.
Her Jade Phosphor Serpent Spirit was also evolving.
Although it didn't directly transform into a dragon like Dugu Bo's, the serpent's body became translucent, emitting a sacred yet eerie aura.
That was... the Jade Sky Snake!
A Divine Rank Spirit that existed only in legends, capable of controlling all poisons in the world!
The poison in both of them was neutralized.
Both of their lives were saved.
The futures of these two were completely rewritten by Li Yifei with two casual stalks of grass.
In the Chat Group, no one was speaking anymore.
Everyone was frantically processing this scene.
This world-view-shattering impact caused their brains to nearly shut down.
Especially Bibi Dong.
She sat slumped on the Pope's throne, watching the calm young man on the live stream, a sense of defeat rising in her heart like never before.
The knowledge she took pride in, the power she took pride in.
In front of that man, it was simply like a joke.
"What... does he actually want?"
Bibi Dong murmured to herself.
Meanwhile, Li Yifei wasn't thinking about much at all.
He just glanced at the energy feedback on his wristwatch and nodded slightly.
"The conversion rate for this low-level energy is decent."
"Next..."
He looked deeper into the Sunset Forest.
According to the wristwatch's detection, somewhere there existed a source with terrifyingly intense energy fluctuations.
Alternating heat and cold, cycling endlessly.
That was a true... energy enrichment zone.
"Old man."
Li Yifei spoke, interrupting Dugu Bo's wild joy.
Dugu Bo immediately stood up, as respectful as a little eunuch.
"Your Excellency, please give your orders!"
"Take me to that place with the hot and cold springs."
Li Yifei pointed in the direction shown on the detector.
Dugu Bo was stunned.
Hot and cold springs?
Was Your Excellency talking about... that Forbidden Land of death that even he didn't dare approach?
"Your Excellency, it's very dangerous there; the spring water..."
Dugu Bo instinctively tried to dissuade him.
But seeing Li Yifei's calm gaze, he immediately shut his mouth.
Dangerous?
In front of this monster, what else in this world was dangerous?
"Yes! This old man will lead the way right now!"
Dugu Bo puffed out his chest, his whole being rejuvenated.
He now felt like he could slap a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast to death with one palm.
The three figures flickered and disappeared from the herb garden.
In the Chat Group.
[Worlds Number One Princess: Quick, follow them! Quick! Little Goose, don't disconnect the live stream!]
[Is Jade Not Jade: Holy crap, there's more? They're going treasure hunting now?]
Liu Erlong sent an emoji of rubbing hands together.
She had a premonition that what came next might be even more shocking than the Spirit evolution.
Li Yifei followed behind with a leisurely air, but his mind was reviewing the "surgery" from just now.
The old man's luck was indeed quite good.
The success rate for the gene recombination plan of the "tourmaline dragon blood vine" and "emerald divine snake marrow fruit" given by the AI was only eighty-three percent.
That seventeen percent failure rate would, at best, cause the Spirit to collapse, and at worst, cause the body to explode on the spot, turning into a puddle of green protein.
He had even prepared an emergency plan; if it failed, he would use a drop of "water of life" to forcibly pull him back from the gates of hell.
Now it seemed he had saved a drop of the water of life.
His core goal was never to save people, but to collect this world's energy system and genetic samples.
Dugu Bo and his Jade Phosphor Serpent were just the first ideal experimental subjects.
Soon, a valley shrouded in red and blue mist appeared before them.
In the live stream, everyone was shocked by this wondrous sight.
[Worlds Number One Princess: Wow! It's so beautiful here! One half is flames, the other half is ice crystals!]
[Little Ice Cube: This isn't beautiful... it's terrifying. For two extreme energies to reach a perfect balance in one space defies common sense.]
[Is Jade Not Jade: Who cares if it's reasonable? We're rich, we're rich! Anything growing in a place like this must be a treasure!]
Li Yifei had no interest in their exclamations. On his retina, countless data streams refreshed like a waterfall.
[Detected high-concentration mixed energy field.]
[Analyzing surrounding plant energy signatures...]
[Target: blazing apricot jiao shu. Energy purity: 89%. Excellent fire element affinity, can be used for fire-attribute gene optimization.]
[Target: Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. Energy purity: 91%. Stable ice element structure, can be used to stabilize mutated genes.]
[Target: Strange Velvet Sky-Reaching Chrysanthemum...]
Li Yifei's footsteps stopped at the edge of the valley, and he began to identify and collect them one by one.
He moved very quickly; wherever he went, he just reached out to pluck those immortal herbs that would be enough to cause a bloodbath in the outside world, and then... just held them in his hand.
Following behind, Dugu Bo was dumbfounded.
Does this lord not have a storage soul tool?
He hesitated for a moment but finally plucked up the courage to take a dark green silk pouch from his robe and respectfully handed it over.
"Your Excellency, this is my storage soul tool, named 'Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse'. The space isn't large, but it should be enough to hold these herbs."
Li Yifei glanced at him, said nothing, and took the pouch. His wristwatch shot out a faint, nearly invisible blue light.
[Scanning target: Low-level spatial folding device. Material: Hollow Ghost Willow Wood. Energy source: spirit power activation. Crude structure, poor spatial stability.]
Though the space was small, it was usable.
Mainly, it could store living things, which was of great value!
He casually tossed the few Immortal Herbs he had just picked into it and then continued his "harvesting" spree.
Watching his posture of sweeping through the area like a vegetable garden, Dugu Bo's heart ached with every twitch, yet he didn't dare say a word.
Soon, Li Yifei arrived beside that spring.
One half was crimson as blood, the other half was azure as crystal.
The two spring waters were clearly separated yet intertwined at the boundary, sending up dense mist.
"Your Excellency, you must not approach!" Dugu Bo's voice even changed pitch. "This spring water is incredibly overbearing. The edge is fine, but once touched, even a Titled Douluo would be instantly eroded by the extreme cold and fire poisons, leaving not even bones behind!"
Li Yifei acted as if he hadn't heard.
He walked to the edge of the spring and slowly extended his right hand, reaching into the rising mist.
[Contact with high-concentration free energy.]
[Analyzing energy penetration effect...]
[Physical cell activity increased by 0.08%... Energy penetration efficiency is low...]