CHAPTER 343: CHAPTER 290: SUGGESTION TO WATCH TOMORROW

After a brief farewell, Yu Xiaoyu took out the Jumping Device and transported away.

Phoenix Mountain stood dazedly, silently watching the spot where he had stood before leaving.

He didn’t know what was wrong with him. Despite being annoyed with Yu Xiaoyu and Yan Guang, he felt empty inside when someone left, like a piece was missing.

He hadn’t felt this way when Feng Qiwu left.

"What’s the matter? Can’t bear to part?" Yan Guang said with a meaningful look, while secretly contemplating whether to take advantage of Yu Xiaoyu’s absence tonight to get closer to Phoenix Mountain.

"Who... who can’t bear to part?" Phoenix Mountain, having his thoughts uncovered, retorted angrily, "I wish you two would leave quickly, I’m just wondering when you can scram!"

He released the capsule residence and stormed inside, not wanting to pay attention to Yan Guang behind him.

"Hah, low EQ straight guy," Yan Guang sneered, watching Phoenix Mountain enter his residence, he murmured softly, "You can’t escape! I’ll have you sooner or later!"

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Li Zheng returned to the previous room with his two followers; he still had ten exploration opportunities left from the Mysterious Declaration, so he could gather more resources.

Checking the time, it was only a bit past four in the afternoon, nearing the daily potion selling time.

Releasing the residence, Li Zheng went in to check on the growth of the Arctic Cattail and found it had matured and been picked by No-Face, put aside.

However, the second batch hadn’t started growing yet because the temperature had again dropped below minus one hundred. If the temperature isn’t low enough, the Arctic Cattail will stop growing, determining it would never yield as abundantly as Flame Flower.

This Cultivation Dish was placed in isolation in a corner of the residence because the low temperature inside the dish would influence the surroundings; if placed with other dishes, crops like Fragrant Sticky Rice might not grow.

A lonely Arctic Cattail was left lying on the ground near the Cultivation Dish, having not triggered a mutation chance, which slightly disappointed Li Zheng.

He had hoped to develop two Diamond Level Genetic Abilities today after trading with Luo Aiman.

"Platinum it is, Platinum will do," Li Zheng picked up the Arctic Cattail and the Thunder Element from Luo Aiman and walked out of the residence.

"First eat the Arctic Cattail to prevent washing away the Thunder Ability." Sitting cross-legged at the doorway, Li Zheng placed the items on the ground and took a bite of the Arctic Cattail.

Platinum Level tool success rates are much higher than Silver Level, but there is still a significant chance of failure, so Li Zheng wanted to play it safe by first eating the Platinum Level Ice Element. If it doesn’t succeed, it’s not a big loss, at least it would prevent a failure later from washing away the Diamond Level Thunder Ability.

Li Zheng had eaten an Arctic Cattail before, but that time he had used Extreme Isolation to resist the severe cold, so he only tasted a refreshing and sweet flavor.

This time eating it again, the flavor suddenly changed a lot, chilled upon entry, like taking a bite of non-greasy ice slush, cooling from the tongue’s taste buds.

Combined with the original sweet taste, the flavor level increased more than tenfold!

"Delicious!" Li Zheng was somewhat pleasantly surprised; he was not a big fan of sweets and had never had much interest in sweet foods.

But the icy feeling of the Arctic Cattail, complemented with a sweet and fresh aroma, was not cloying at all when sweet, instead giving him a feeling of being completely purified, instantly capturing his heart.

In the future, even if the Platinum Level ability isn’t very useful, he would find a way to develop some high-tier Ice Abilities and treat the Arctic Cattail as a snack fruit to eat.

Taking a few bites, he ate the fruit clean, leaving only a useless seed pod in his hand.

The tools to develop Genetic Abilities are not like ordinary fruits; they can’t be viewed with common sense. Only the specified method’s obtained seeds can be planted.

The seeds of the Arctic Cattail are seed pods, but not entirely so.

According to the information, during the growth of the Arctic Cattail, there’s a chance at the moment of maturity to create an "Elemental Vortex" that absorbs surrounding cold air.

The cold air will gather inside the seed pod, changing the seed pod structure into plantable seeds.

Don’t think that producing a seed is a good thing.

If an Arctic Cattail produces a seed, the fruit will become a super hard ice lump due to concentrated cold air within.

Even if you use high heat to thaw it, you’d just end up with a rotten fruit, and even the seeds inside would be rendered useless.

Although the seed pod obtained this time is useless, Li Zheng still collected it.

"Smaller than a walnut, I’ll make another one later to play with."

Just as he tossed the seed pod into the residence, Li Zheng suddenly felt a surge of cold air in his stomach, separating into two paths along the demarcation of his chest and abdomen; one path heading upward to the throat, the other downward to the lower body.

At the moment the two cold airs split, a familiar progress bar lit up before Li Zheng’s eyes, and as the cold air slowly moved within, the progress bar gradually increased.

Over twenty minutes later, the cold air moving to the throat suddenly sped up and burst from Li Zheng’s mouth, like a burp, expelling a puff of blue gas.

The gas temperature was not very low, and the amount expelled wasn’t large, not enough to freeze the moisture in the air.

The path to the lower body also sped up at the threshold, becoming a cool gust of wind expelled suddenly.

Simultaneously, the progress bar completed its reading, successfully developing the Platinum Level Ice Ability.

Seeing the general information of the ability provided by the system prompt, Li Zheng couldn’t help but smile wryly, "Why is it another auxiliary-type ability?"

[Ice Element - Shaping

Tier: Platinum

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