Chapter 194: Are You Trying to Make a Fool of Me?
After entering the Blue Silver Forest, Lin Mo and Charizard no longer used their flight abilities and chose to continue on foot instead.
The air was filled with the fresh scent unique to vegetation, while dense life qi permeated the surroundings.
Lin Mo had to admit that he quite liked this environment filled with vitality.
The life attribute possessed a nourishing effect on practically every other attribute.
Even though Lin Mo was not a life attribute Spirit Master, simply being surrounded by such dense life qi made him feel relaxed and refreshed.
After traveling rapidly for more than an hour, Lin Mo and Charizard finally reached the depths of the Blue Silver Forest and saw the target of their trip.
The eighty five thousand year Blue Silver King.
At this moment, the humanlike face formed at the center of its vines was staring fixedly at Lin Mo and Charizard, the two intruders who had entered its territory.
Lin Mo stopped.
He calmly observed the Blue Silver King before him.
The aura radiating from this plant type Spirit Beast was indeed powerful, far surpassing that of ordinary ten thousand year Spirit Beasts.
The Blue Silver King's gaze rested on Lin Mo for a moment before shifting toward Charizard beside him.
The instant it saw the six spirit rings slowly rotating around Charizard, unprecedented solemnity appeared on its humanlike face.
Two yellow, one purple, three black.
"Human."
An aged voice directly echoed within Lin Mo's mind.
The Blue Silver King was communicating with him through mental force.
"You are not welcome here. Leave."
Lin Mo did not answer.
He simply patted Charizard beside him and signaled it to move.
Charizard let out a low roar and exhaled a puff of white smoke.
Then it spread its wings and charged straight toward the Blue Silver King.
Its speed was astonishing.
Its crimson figure left behind an afterimage as it tore through the air.
Seeing Charizard charging aggressively toward it, the Blue Silver King naturally could not simply wait for death.
Anger flashed across its humanlike face.
The next moment, the dense Blue Silver Grass covering the surrounding ground suddenly erupted into motion.
Countless strands of Blue Silver Grass grew wildly.
Their blades became thick and tough as they twisted toward Charizard from every direction.
Charizard did not slow down.
With a violent flap of its wings, several wind blades formed out of thin air and shot toward the approaching Blue Silver Grass.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Wherever the wind blades passed, the Blue Silver Grass was severed instantly.
However, even more Blue Silver Grass surged from beneath the ground, rushing toward Charizard wave after wave.
This was probably one of the greatest limitations of plant type Spirit Beasts.
Even with extremely high cultivation, they could not move freely like animal type Spirit Beasts.
Once their roots were established, they were forced to remain in the same general location.
Lin Mo watched from the side for a while before taking several steps backward.
Then he reached into his Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse, pulled out a chair, and sat down comfortably.
Although the Blue Silver King's cultivation had reached eighty five thousand years, its plant type body placed significant limitations on its actual combat ability.
Moreover, its attribute was severely restrained by Charizard.
Because of this, Lin Mo was not particularly worried about its resistance.
In fact, to avoid going too far, Lin Mo had deliberately forbidden Charizard from using its fire attribute abilities.
Otherwise, with the quality of Charizard's current flames, burning the entire Blue Silver Forest to the ground would not be particularly difficult if it truly went all out.
But setting fire to an entire forest was obviously unnecessary.
The Blue Silver Forest had existed for tens of thousands of years.
Destroying it just like that would be a pity.
More importantly, for Charizard, the Blue Silver King could be considered an extremely rare sparring partner among plant type Spirit Beasts.
Since there was still some time before the Spirit Master Competition began, Lin Mo might as well let Charizard use the Blue Silver King for practice.
To be honest, Charizard had very little experience seriously sparring with Spirit Beasts.
Unlike Spirit Masters, most Spirit Beasts would never repeatedly spar with Charizard after realizing they could not gain any advantage.
That was precisely why most of Charizard's self-created Spirit Skills had either been comprehended independently or developed through repeated battles and exchanges with human Spirit Masters.
Most Spirit Beasts would simply leave once they realized they could not win.
There was almost no possibility of fighting them repeatedly.
The Blue Silver King, however, was different.
As a plant type Spirit Beast, even with eighty five thousand years of cultivation, it could not easily abandon the place where it had taken root.
That gave Charizard the opportunity to repeatedly spar with it and perhaps comprehend new self-created Spirit Skills in the process.
Besides, Lin Mo would lose nothing by trying.
The scenery within the Blue Silver Forest was quite pleasant anyway.
He could simply treat this as a temporary place to rest for a while.
It could even be considered the final period of relaxation for himself and Charizard before the Spirit Master Competition officially began.
Unlike Lin Mo and Charizard, who were behaving as though they were on vacation, the Blue Silver King being used as their target was already seething with frustration.
As a plant type Spirit Beast that had lived for tens of thousands of years, it had encountered many human Spirit Masters before.
But never had a human left it feeling so horrified and aggrieved.
The human before it clearly possessed only the cultivation of a six-ring Spirit Emperor.
Converted into Spirit Beast cultivation, that would amount to little more than twenty thousand years.
Logically speaking, the difference between their cultivations should have allowed the Blue Silver King to overwhelm him completely.
Yet in terms of actual combat strength, the exact opposite was happening.
Even without using those hateful fire attribute abilities, the dragon beast beside the human placed enormous pressure on it through its other abilities alone.
Wind blades.
Lightning.
And that strange Teleportation ability.
If not for its deep cultivation and extraordinarily tenacious vitality, the Blue Silver King felt it would have collapsed long ago.
What made it even more furious was that the opponent clearly had no intention of killing it.
The human Spirit Master had even taken out a chair and sat to the side, casually watching the battle with a relaxed expression.
They were clearly treating it as a sparring partner!
The Blue Silver King had lived for eighty five thousand years.
Never before had it suffered such humiliation.
Three days later.
The Blue Silver King had completely abandoned the thought of resisting.
Its humanlike face was filled with exhaustion.
Even the blue gold halo surrounding its main body had dimmed significantly.
The surrounding ground was covered with severed Blue Silver Grass and broken vines, leaving the entire area in complete disorder.
Meanwhile, Charizard was still full of energy as it circled through the air.
"Stop... stop now."
The aged voice once again echoed within Lin Mo's mind.
This time, the exhaustion in its voice was impossible to hide.
Lin Mo raised his head and looked toward the Blue Silver King.
"Human, I surrender."
"What exactly are you trying to do?"
"If you came here to kill me and obtain my spirit ring, then do it."
"If not, please leave immediately."
The Blue Silver King's voice carried deep resignation.
It finally understood.
This human and dragon had come here purely to make a fool of it.
If they had genuinely wanted to kill it, then when that dragon beast had displayed the full power of its fire attribute three days ago, the Blue Silver King would already have been reduced to ashes.
Lin Mo stood up from his chair and slowly walked toward the center of the clearing.
"We won't kill you," Lin Mo said calmly.
"We simply want to borrow your territory for a while and spar with you along the way. You can also treat it as helping improve your combat experience."
Of course, Lin Mo silently added one more sentence in his heart.
They simply would not kill it yet.
The Blue Silver King froze after hearing his answer.
It had lived for eighty five thousand years, yet this was the first time it had ever heard such an outrageous request.
Borrow its territory for a while?
Use it as a sparring partner?
After a long silence, bitterness gradually appeared on its humanlike face.
"Do I have a choice?"
"No."
Lin Mo answered truthfully.
The Blue Silver King let out a long sigh.
"Then... do as you wish."
Lin Mo nodded.
He walked back to his chair and sat down again.
Charizard immediately flew back into the air, preparing to begin another round of "sparring."
The Blue Silver King helplessly mobilized its spirit power to meet the attack.
However, this time, it had learned its lesson.
It no longer attempted to counterattack.
Instead, it focused entirely on defense and evasion.
Since it could not win anyway, it might as well properly play the role of a sparring partner.
At least this way, it could suffer a little less.
That was the only consolation the Blue Silver King could give itself.