When the demon wave had been completely extinguished, Red Thorn reluctantly gave up on a portion of Class 4 demon flesh which it couldn’t digest for now.
These Class 4 demons’ flesh and blood, which were equivalent to Platinum feys, had withering and scorching effects. Even Red Thorn wouldn’t be able to endure the consumption process.
Back then, Red Thorn had merely used the ramets as storage to store these Class 4 demons’ flesh to prevent them from being consumed by Class 3 demons, forming a threat on the battlefield. Red Thorn would then accept the ramets’ tributes, allowing it to absorb the flesh and blood energy through the ramets.
When large numbers of ramets withered, the massive energy would be transferred to Red Thorn’s ortet roots from the ramets. The massive amount of energy placed Red Thorn in an immediate hibernation state.
At that moment, Lin Yuan could feel Red Thorn’s Mouth of Relinquish releasing a rumbling sound that was like an active furnace. Furthermore, the 12 multi-flora flowers surrounding the Mouth of Relinquish were channeling the stored digestive fluids.
When these acidic digestive fluids flowed into the Mouth of Relinquish, it allowed the Mouth of Relinquish to digest to the greatest extent. Even though Lin Yuan was standing a distance away from the Mouth of Relinquish, he could still feel the Mouth of Relinquish constantly emitting boundless blood and flesh energy.
Red Thorn was rapidly digesting the massive blood and flesh energy within its body, converting them into its strength. Lin Yuan believed that after Red Thorn’s one week of hibernation, it should be reaching the Bronze X/Legend.
Afterward, once Red Thorn’s quality upgraded from Epic to Legend, Lin Yuan would be able to upgrade Red Thorn into a Fantasy Breed. If Red Thorn was upgraded to a Fantasy Breed, Lin Yuan’s combat capabilities would have another significant increase.
However, Lin Yuan had yet to decide which Willpower Rune he should use to fuse with Red Thorn. Those two Willpower Runes were both very suitable for Red Thorn.
When a Willpower Rune was fused with a fey to create a Fantasy Breed, the fey would go through a thorough transformation. Therefore, different Willpower Runes would cause the fey’s future path to have a drastic difference.
As such, one should not be careless with this matter. However, Lin Yuan felt that it was still too early to think of this problem now.
After all, it wasn’t such an easy thing for Red Thorn to upgrade from Epic to Legend quality. It was due to the fact that Red Thorn could only rely on the consumption of blood and flesh, using the energy to increase its grade and upgrade its quality. As a result, the path that Red Thorn was walking on right now was almost similar to how other spirit qi professionals enhanced their feys.
When nurturing Red Thorn, Lin Yuan understood how arduous it was for other spirit qi professionals to nurture their feys.
Lin Yuan sensed Red Thorn’s current state and couldn’t help letting out a sigh. The massive amounts of blood and flesh energy that had yet to be digested was obviously not enough for Red Thorn to upgrade from Epic to Legend quality. Lin Yuan could feel a thick layer of obstruction between Red Thorn’s Epic and Legend quality.
It was totally insufficient to break through this obstruction with the undigested energy. It seemed like Lin Yuan had to think of another method to help upgrade Red Thorn from Bronze X/Epic to Bronze X/Legend.
Red Thorn’s quality upgrade was probably the greatest challenge for Lin Yuan when nurturing feys. However, Lin Yuan wouldn’t be willing to act like other spirit qi professionals who would waste their feys’ potential, allowing Red Thorn to evolve to Silver first before thinking of how to break through to the Legend quality.
In Lin Yuan’s opinion, since it was something he could achieve, no matter how hard it was, he had to do everything he could and make it the best.
When Red Thorn entered the hibernation state, the Gold I/Legend Acid Corrosion Queen Bee had already been evicted out of the Mouth of Relinquish. Therefore, the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee could only reside in a giant red multi-flora flower corrosive cavity.
The Acid Corrosion Queen Bee pitifully crawled out of the giant flower’s corrosive cavity and landed on Lin Yuan’s palm. Lin Yuan saw how the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee was trying to gain his favor and realized that it was the same as how the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee tried to gain Red Thorn’s favor. However, Lin Yuan felt there was an objective.
The Acid Corrosion Queen Bee had been trying to become Red Thorn’s bootlicker, but Red Thorn had always been indifferent toward the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee. Red Thorn was extremely reliant on Lin Yuan and treated him as its everything. Therefore, when the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee understood this point, it immediately changed its bootlicking tactics and started to cross-lick[1].
It was trying to gain favor with Lin Yuan in order for Red Thorn to have a good impression of it.
It was a little like someone pursuing their goddess, but the goddess would be totally indifferent. Therefore, the next method was to gain the goddess’ parents’ favor before obtaining the goddess’ preference.
At that moment, the hibernating Red Thorn seemingly felt something. It extended out the thornless vine and wrapped it around Lin Yuan’s wrist. Then, the vine shook and sent the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee away from Lin Yuan’s palm.
The bootlicker, Acid Corrosion Queen Bee, never would have expected that its goddess was actually a fathercon[2].
Lin Yuan stored the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee and the hibernating Red Thorn back into the leaf-shaped fey storage box. He then entered the Spirit Lock spatial zone to check on the Phoenix Perching Chinese Parasol Tree and Twin Red Pagoda that he had obtained due to unexpected incidents.
Once Lin Yuan entered the Spirit Lock spatial zone, he looked at the view and felt that this Spirit Lock spatial zone was rather small, even with its 80-square-meter size. That was especially the case when Lin Yuan made full use of the surface area inside the Spirit Lock spatial zone. The place looked abnormally congested.
Lin Yuan had plenty of things to do this time.
Since he had been away for over a month, the rare wooden materials that had been placed on the giant platane wooden racks were already jade-textured. Therefore, Lin Yuan was going to remove these jade-textured pieces of wood and replace them with a new batch.
Lin Yuan had meticulously picked all these jade-textured pieces of wood. Now that they were completely jade-textured due to the spirit qi’s extreme effects, they were all glistening with various colors of halos, making them extremely good-looking.
Lin Yuan looked at the five different kinds of jade-textured wood: yellow rosewood, wenge, ebony, green elm, or phoebe zhennan. If any piece of jade-textured wood were to be placed on the market, it would cause a frenetic competition between those prestigious clans.
Furthermore, Lin Yuan’s jade-textured pieces of wood were massive and had a regular structure. They were all very suitable for making sculptures, furniture, and carvings.
[1] meaning to bootlick other targets
[2] someone who is extremely fond and protective over their own father, treating the father like a lover