Su Haoyang’s best items were a red shortsword and a golden straw doll.
The sword was barely six inches, transparent, and barely weighed a thing. No matter what cultivator held it, a simple flick would be sending a Spirit Strike.
This red shortsword was a rare spiritual sword, one that could use one’s soul.
A ten millennia old jade birthed a jade spirit that hovered between material and immaterial. Using it to forge weapons would allow the user to channel his soul through it.
This spiritual sword wasn’t quite up to Li Mo’s standards in power, but it’d easily dispatch with fist and second level cultivators.
As for the golden straw doll, it was in fact the most precious of the two.
The straw doll was made from the body of a rice plant demon. This item had a more common name, effigy.
When suffering a deadly blow, this effigy would take the fall instead of you.
More aptly put, the effigy was an extra life.
Rarely did a rice plant became a demon, making the effigy a thing of great rarity and value. The detriment laid in being made from a third level demon, thus only capable of withstanding a deadly blow from a cultivator below the fourth level.
Robb had a lot more things. Besides junk, three had the best value.
An unknown fourth level beast demon’s crystal, a top piece of scarlet gold, and an oddly shaped fruit.
A demon core and a demon crystal were intrinsically different. One appeared naturally at birth while the other had to be formed through cultivation.
The top scarlet gold was a great material for drawing talismans. This was one of the few items that could contain its power.
As for the weird fruit, Li Mo held no interest whatsoever in it.
This fruit had an overbearing name, God Fruit!
Regardless if a cultivator or a normal human ate it, it would greatly boost one’s power and even had a certain chance of granting a trait.
It was also graded, with the poorest being at the fourth level. The highest however was spoken in legends to grow at the peak of the God Tree and that went even beyond the tenth level. Although the God Tree was mere hearsay, unclear if it existed or not, the God Fruit was very much real, and not that rare one might add. Li Mo himself saw five of them.
Be it your average human, or a wild animal, all would gain the God Fruit’s level as cultivation. This was one item that was famous throughout the universe’s races.
As far as legends went, the God Tree was said to grow in the Eternal Danger Zone and that it was the root of the universe. It didn’t end here, however, with wild stories speaking of trait God Fruits and even longevity God Fruits…
Since forever, the universe’s races had vied for supremacy and, at some point, rumors of God Fruits were being spread.
Li Mo held the God Fruit startled, “How did Robb get to have such a thing?”
The shape and lines of a God Fruit were never similar to another. It was said that they contained the information on God Fruit’s level and ability.
In the long six centuries of war, Li Mo had stumbled upon three such fruits, but no matter how he scrutinized the design of the God Fruit, not once did he uncover its secrets, only its level since it was easy.
“Fifth level God Fruit!”
Li Mo was overjoyed.
“What a stroke of luck! Even more so when Su Mingyuan didn’t know its use when he got it from Robb or he might have eaten it.”
“Congratulations, master.”
If Li Mo was happy, so were Mite Snow and Millie Snow.
Li Mo smilingly caressed Millie Snow’s head, marveling.
The God Fruit worked on any that had spirituality. Be it grass, or a tree, they all had their cultivation spike when taking it. But there were exceptions, the snow people.
In a rich spiritual qi environment, humans needed but a few years and entering the Spirit Driving Stage was a done deal. While snow people, even cultivating without rest, needed two thousand years to reach such stage. They could never use supplements to aid them and were forever stuck in this stage until death took them.
‘Are the snow people the most godforsaken race to not even be able to use God Fruit?’
Li Mo put the fruit in his ring and went to the stone golem planet through the Stellar Orientation Array.
Wei Jianguo and Du Fei were sparring. Du Fei grew in power daily while the panda had much slower progress.
It worked hard as well, but even after all this time it still didn’t manage to form its demon core.
Du Fei and the panda rushed Li Mo the moment he landed.
“Eat.”
Li Mo gave the panda the fifth level God Fruit.
Du Fei said, “Bro Mo, what is that? What does it do? Looks tasty.”
“Only have the one.”
The panda bit with some hesitation.
Hum~
Black and white lights flashed on and off the panda as it roared.
Crack~
Even space split.
Du Fei jumped in fright, “Holly hell, what kind of steroids were those?”
Li Mo pulled Du Fei away using Warp.
With the panda at the center, for fifty miles around, the earth shook and the sky darkened.
“Heavens, how does Jianguo have such power?” Du Fei yelled.
“Never mind him and listen well.”
“To what?”
“The magical art Warp.”
The phenomenon around the panda went on for ten minutes before vanishing like it never happened.
Li Mo returned with Du Fei to see the panda holding a white and black demon core doing a victory dance.
The power jumped to the fifth level so of course the demon core was formed!
Li Mo watched the panda with a feeling he couldn’t quite place it. He now finally understood master’s meaning of fostering.
A demon formed its demon core when it awoke its spirituality. Since it didn’t happen to the panda, the chance of forming the demon core later was next to nil. Without the God Fruit, the panda would’ve been a coreless demon all its life.
The panda ran to Li Mo, wildly gesticulating and roaring at the demon core.
It was overjoyed.
“Fifth level in a blink? Just what godly fruit is that…” Du Fei was bug-eyed.
“God Fruit. They say there’s a God Fruit out there that can grant eternal life.”
“Eh? Ah? Huh? For real?”
“That’s as far as the legend goes.”
Li Mo smiled, “This place is no longer suited to you to train in. Let’s go.”
The panda was in the fifth level and Du Fei was in the Life Spring Stage. This unranked planet had no more use for their training.
“I worked so hard and I’m still the weakest. Ahhh! Damn, I’m pissed! Just you wait, Jianguo. In half a year I’ll overtake you.”
“Roar~”
The panda was flaunting the black and white demon core in a flourish dance right in front of Du Fei.
Du Fei blew a gasket, “Do it one more time and I’ll eat it instead!”
The panda hugged its core and dodged behind Li Mo.
Whoosh~
The trio vanished from the Stellar Orientation Array who soon after fell apart…
Just then, an inch-sized man with a tiger head and shining in a rainbow light squeezed out from underground
The gnome looked gleeful at the ruined Stellar Orientation Array and patted its round belly…
If only Li Mo knew this little creature existed, he’d stop at nothing to get it.
That was because it was a sacred grade earth qi jade, true qi taking form!
