23: Millennium Second Ring, External Soul Bone
The pain made the Everlasting Spirit Banyan even more violent.
Countless paper strips danced in the air, pushing Sui Hua and the others back over ten meters in an instant.
The next second, hundreds of wooden spikes burst from the ground.
Xiao Ze, seeing this, immediately dodged and moved, avoiding one wooden spike after another.
Sui Hua and the others were even faster, especially the Earth Potato King, who simply rolled on the ground, making it very easy to dodge.
Yu Jin floated in the air, and seeing this, released corn silk to Bind the Everlasting Spirit Banyan; her Binding Skill was not an ordinary Binding Skill.
It had a stunning effect.
The Everlasting Spirit Banyan was stunned, and Sui Hua immediately used rice whiskers to connect Xi Mang, the three Sprites, and Xiao Ze.
This was Sui Hua's epic Skill, Grain Chain Resonance, which was extremely effective.
It evenly distributed damage and removed one debuff per second. If one person received healing, the other four also received healing.
Then, she scattered rice seeds, and upon Xi Mang's touch, everyone's injuries began to slowly recover, and their spirit power also began to recover.
The next moment, 8 rice spike illusions appeared, continuously attacking the Everlasting Spirit Banyan, but they only had 30% of Sui Hua's own combat power, so their power was average.
After a round of attacks, the Everlasting Spirit Banyan also recovered.
Its crown shot out countless leaves, piercing through the rice spike illusions.
When one illusion died, it released a healing wave, healing the surrounding rice spike illusions.
"This Everlasting Spirit Banyan is indeed very strong," Xiao Ze nodded.
Grandpa Xiao saw Xiao Ze's smooth and unhindered fighting style, and with no signs of discomfort, he nodded in satisfaction.
"Sui Hua, Xi Mang, Bond Skill!"
Among the Agricultural Sprites, suitable Agricultural Sprites would develop Bond Skills.
The Bond Skill between rice and wheat, Sui Hua and Xi Mang's 'Dynasty Flourish', was automatically born after Xi Mang appeared.
It was like a Spirit Master's Spirit Fusion Skill.
However, the Earth Potato King and Yu Jin had not developed one, and it was possible they needed other Agricultural Sprites.
In an instant, a phantom of a golden field appeared in the sky.
Rice spikes and wheat awns intertwined, and spirit power surged through the field.
Emerald green and golden yellow swayed like waves in the wind.
The next moment, a phantom of a rice plant and a wheat plant appeared above the golden field.
One rice plant, verdant and slender, with spikes like beaded curtains.
One wheat plant, with awns like swords, their sharpness contained.
Their roots intertwined, their stems and leaves merged, and then, the entire sky began to tremble.
Immediately, rice waves rolled, wheat fields undulated, and countless grains detached from the spike heads, floating in the air.
They gathered, condensed, and finally transformed into a phantom spanning heaven and earth.
It was an ancient scene of farming.
People walked barefoot on fertile soil, tender green sprouts breaking through the ground behind them, and five grains growing in front of them.
The turned black earth, the earthy smell blended with the fragrance of rice and wheat.
In the distance, wisps of cooking smoke rose from thatched roofs.
Favorable winds and rains, grains piled up like mountains.
Grandpa Xiao looked at this scene in shock: "Is this a Spirit Fusion Skill?"
"Hiss…"
Xiao Ze was also using this Bond Skill for the first time, and it looked truly magnificent.
This 'Painting of Rivers and Mountains' depicted how civilization began with a single seed.
The wind blew, rice spikes bowed low, wheat waves surged, and grains rained down like a shower.
Dynasty Flourish was an amplification Skill.
It had three effects.
Effect 1: All allied normal attacks gain the "Sowing" effect, growing one auxiliary combat plant, either wheat or rice, with each attack.
Effect 2: All enemy non-plant type Spirits are weakened by 50%, and plant type Spirits are weakened by 25%. It can also weaken plant type Spirit Beasts.
Effect 3: The surrounding terrain transforms into "God-given Fertile Soil"; standing on the fertile soil allows for rapid recovery from injuries, making it essentially impossible to be killed.
With these three effects, Sui Hua and the others continuously attacked the Everlasting Spirit Banyan, not defending at all.
With the healing from the God-given Fertile Soil, they simply couldn't die.
Wheat and rice plants appeared one after another; although their combat power was not strong, their sheer numbers were overwhelming.
They blocked most of the Everlasting Spirit Banyan's paper strips.
The Everlasting Spirit Banyan had no ability to counterattack.
It was finally cut down by Sui Hua.
A dazzling purple spirit ring floated in the air.
Xiao Ze found that his Agricultural Sprites' combat power was still quite strong, but this Everlasting Spirit Banyan was difficult to deal with.
With less than two thousand years of cultivation, it could exert the combat power of four thousand or five thousand years, or even more.
And Sui Hua and the others were only at level twenty.
Generally, Spirit Masters of this spirit power level might even struggle to deal with a Spirit Beast of nearly a hundred years.
"Xiao Ze, start absorbing the spirit ring."
"Mm."
Xiao Ze sat cross-legged, his spirit power guiding the thousand-year spirit ring.
Since the thousand-year spirit ring had no mental impact, absorbing it was relatively easy for Xiao Ze.
Night gradually fell.
It wasn't until evening that Xiao Ze absorbed his second spirit ring.
With the second Spirit Ability concluded, a smile appeared on Xiao Ze's face.
With this Spirit Ability, his own combat power would no longer be lacking.
"Hmm?" Xiao Ze saw a jade-colored light emanating from the Everlasting Spirit Banyan's corpse.
"No way…" Xiao Ze's face was filled with excitement as he carefully had Sui Hua move the Everlasting Spirit Banyan's body aside.
Grandpa Xiao also walked over.
"Is this a Spirit Bone?"
"Most likely."
Soon, a jade-colored Spirit Bone appeared, with golden patterns on it.
"An external Spirit Bone! A spinal bone."
Upon seeing the Spirit Bone, Xiao Ze's hands trembled with excitement.
An external Spirit Bone could be said to be one of the most precious Spirit Bones.
"Xiao Ze, your luck is truly good. You've only killed two Spirit Beasts in total, and you actually got an external Spirit Bone," Grandpa Xiao exclaimed.
"Night brings many dreams; absorb it quickly."
"Okay."
Xiao Ze immediately absorbed the external Spirit Bone into his body.
After absorbing the Everlasting Spirit Banyan's spirit ring, the absorption of this external Spirit Bone was much faster.
It was completed in an hour.
Xiao Ze's spinal bone was now jade-colored. With a thought from Xiao Ze, eight translucent energy vines appeared behind him.
This was the most basic use of the Spirit Bone; when used, Xiao Ze's spinal bone emitted a warm green light.
This external Spirit Bone now possessed two Skills.
Limit of Life and Calamity of Death.
Limit of Life was a defensive Skill.
Calamity of Death was an offensive Skill.
It was very suitable for Xiao Ze.
"Grandpa Xiao, let's leave here quickly. It's already dark."
"Okay."
Xiao Ze's second spirit ring lit up, and Yu Jin transformed into a stream of light, entering Xiao Ze's body.
Xiao Ze floated directly in the air.
This was Xiao Ze's second Spirit Ability, Sprite Transformation.
He could choose to have an Agricultural Sprite possess him, fully utilizing all of the Agricultural Sprite's abilities, and even gaining comprehensive amplification.
Xiao Ze pulled Grandpa Xiao, flying at an extremely fast speed.
Grandpa Xiao's face held a smile.
In fact, he himself could run faster on the ground, but he knew that Xiao Ze wanted to show him his second Spirit Ability.
It had to be said that Xiao Ze's second Spirit Ability was very useful to him.
It ensured his own safety.