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Chapter 2017: Chapter 200: Shouzhe Obtains Another Immortal Plant! World Tree_4

Its originally withered vine body gradually became plump, and the withered yellow vine skin began to turn green again, slowly unfolding in Wang Shizhao’s palm, regaining its vitality.

Suddenly.

Tender green shoots emerged on the vine, then quickly grew larger, transforming into new vines that wound around in all directions.

Within a moment, Wang Shizhao’s arm was entwined with several furry, slender gourd vines.

Subsequently, smooth heart-shaped leaves grew from the new vines, lush green and swaying in the wind, looking extremely charming.

The slender gourd vine exuded a very special spiritual charm, seemingly resonating with some kind of law between heaven and earth.

Seeing this, Wang Shizhao stopped the input of Mysterious Energy.

He was not like his grandfather Wang Shouzhe, who possessed an immensely powerful catalytic life origin Mysterious Energy. His energy’s catalytic ability was only slightly stronger than that of the average wood-type cultivator, and catalyzing the gourd vine to regain life had already consumed a large amount of his Mysterious Energy.

From now on, making it grow quickly would be a gradual process over time.

Nonetheless, Wang Shizhao still felt very happy, caressing the heart-shaped leaves of the gourd vine with great affection.

According to the Artifact Spirit Ai Pan, it is still young, and in the early stage, it will first grow vines. Only when it reaches Level Nine will it start to blossom and bear fruit.

Its flowers are white with tiny, inconspicuous petals, but the gourds it bears, depending on the type of Spiritual Energy absorbed, will have different colors and attributes, truly a peculiar half-immortal gourd vine.

Following tradition, Wang Shizhao adopted it as his foster son, naming it [Wang Anhu], naturally adding a younger brother to Wang Anye and Wang Anxin’s siblings.

Emperor Zi’an watched helplessly as two half-immortal plants emerged, the joy of just obtaining an Azure Dragon cub was immediately diluted significantly.

He looked at Wang Shouzhe speechlessly.

Everyone said this guy had a good temperament, gentle and elegant like jade, but who would know, his vindictiveness in private was very strong.

Didn’t Emperor Zi’an just get a little full of himself and neglect him? And now he’s starting to make things difficult for him.

So childish~

Emperor Zi’an murmured to himself and muttered for a long time, yet Wang Shouzhe’s counterattack continued.

He heard Wang Shouzhe ask Wang Ningxi, “Then, regarding that Immortal Plant, who does your team think is most suitable to raise it?”

“Of course, it should be raised by you, Old Ancestor.” Wang Ningxi said, “Normally, one can only have one life-bound spirit plant. But your bloodline is special, Old Ancestor, and your aptitude has reached Grade A for sons of heaven, awakening the Eighth Level Bloodline while at the Purple Abode Realm. The Eighth Level Bloodline is also known as [Spiritual Body] (previously misstated, now corrected), and there is a high probability you can contract another life-bound spirit plant.”

“I have already consulted with Miss Ai Pan before, she said that the ’Little Holy Emperor’ Yu Wushuang at that time, also contracted two Immortal Plants. There’s no reason he could, but you, Old Ancestor, cannot.”

The reason one can only contract one life-bound spirit plant largely lies in inadequate bloodline strength. Sons and daughters of heaven, as favored by the Heavenly Dao, are an exception.

“I see.” Wang Shouzhe realized, “Since Yu Wushuang could, then naturally I can as well. Alright, then I will raise this Immortal Plant.”

The people of the Wang family certainly had no objections to Wang Shouzhe contracting the Immortal Plant.

In the present day, the Wang family had almost been entirely developed by Wang Shouzhe himself, and his prestige within the Wang family was unimaginably high. As long as he said the word, countless clan members would be willing to go through fire and water for him.

Not to mention, the Clan Leader was now a Grade A aptitude of a son of heaven, a character difficult to find a match for throughout history. How could such a world-class figure not be worthy of two Immortal Plants?

They only hoped the Clan Leader grew stronger, for only then would the family be safe, and he could lead the family to continue its breakthroughs and development, carving out a glorious future for the Wang family.

This time, the Immortal Plant was again a tree. When received, it was a black-brown seed.

The seed was slightly larger than a fist, not the usual oval shape, but one end was pointed and the other blunt, looking somewhat like a sunflower seed at first glance. Its seed shell was far harder than usual, even with his hand strength as a Purple Abode Realm son of heaven, it didn’t budge, much harder than ordinary Xuan Iron.

According to the simple introduction from Artifact Spirit Ai Pan, this is a [World Tree] seed, also a seed of the Immortal Plant discovered by the Saint Emperor in a foreign territory.

It is said that once a World Tree grows, it will form an independent space similar to a Secret Realm.

And when grown to its extreme, a World Tree can even support a small world. Even after its death, the energy from its remnants can maintain the space from collapsing for a long time.

Artifact Spirit Ai Pan clearly had high praise for this [World Tree], her words full of admiration.

Having heard this, Wang Shouzhe understood somewhat.

The space opened by the [World Tree], since it can be called “a small world,” is clearly not comparable to the small spaces artificially created by military officer training cadets.

Just wondering how big it is exactly—is it as big as a Da Qian? Or as big as a Frost Moon Immortal Dynasty? The difference is significant.

Wang Shouzhe did not delay, immediately channeling life origin Mysterious Energy into the seed.

Instantly, the dormant “it” came to life, and its consciousness awakened with it.

Seemingly instinctively sensing the benefits of life origin power, the seed trembled slightly, as an awareness emerged from within, sending out signals of excitement and desire.

“Hmm?”

Wang Shouzhe was slightly surprised.

This little fellow is quite clever~

He immediately increased the input of his Mysterious Energy.

As the seed absorbed more life origin power, gradually, a mysterious and subtle energy fluctuation spread out, as if a space vortex enveloped it, forming an invisible space barrier.

But perhaps the seed shell was too hard, or maybe the energy required for the Immortal Plant to break its shell was too much. In the same amount of time, the half-immortal plant had long since broken its shell, but the World Tree seed continued to absorb Wang Shouzhe’s life origin Mysterious Energy, showing no signs of breaking its shell.

Nonetheless, Wang Shouzhe was very patient, continuously channeling Mysterious Energy into the seed shell.

Unknowingly, another cup of tea’s worth of time passed.

Finally.

“Crack!”

With a crisp sound, a tender green shoot broke through the seed shell and stretched out. In Wang Shouzhe’s palm, the tender shoot swayed gently, appearing full of vitality.

All the people around couldn’t help but show joy on their faces.

Under the effect of the life origin power, the shoot grew rapidly, soon reaching the height of a person.

Its trunk was straight and hard, with a mysterious black sheen, and a surface texture like that of Xuan Iron, faintly showing mysterious patterns at intervals.

Its leaves were long and stretched, hanging like feathers on both sides of the leaf stalk, the veins on the leaf surface shimmering with a silver sheen, resembling mercury flowing, mysterious and unpredictable.

Though just a small seedling, it already showed a noble, mysterious, and distinguished temperament, likely to become an elegant and noble boy or girl in the future when it takes form.

Due to its inherent space attribute, it could already fly in the air just after being born.

It floated like this in front of Wang Shouzhe, its slender branches and leaves gently caressing Wang Shouzhe’s arm, expressing a feeling of gentle intimacy and admiration towards him.

Wang Shouzhe touched its straight dark trunk, feeling a sense of bloodline connection. “Hmm, this little guy is full of vitality, must love life.” He mused.

However, he was also somewhat conflicted in his heart.

Now that the Immortal Plant was nurtured, and the life-bound contract signed, should it be cultivated into a son, or a daughter?

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