Chapter 397: The Special Abilities of Small Plants

Within the domain of main god-level magical beasts, Ye Feng dared not fly quickly, as the resulting air currents would attract their attention. He carefully used short-distance teleportation across the ground—something ordinary people would never dare to do, as the spatial disturbances caused by teleportation could easily draw the magical beasts’ attention. But Ye Feng had no such concerns; his teleportation method, taught in the “Art of Combat,” caused no spatial disturbances at all.

After over an hour, Ye Feng finally managed to avoid all the main god-level magical beast groups and reached the boundary between the territory of main god-level magical beasts and that of heaven god-level magical beasts.

“I’m finally back!” Ye Feng couldn’t help but exclaim.

At that moment, the map showed a swarm of dense yellow dots rushing toward him.

Ye Feng decided to take a closer look and immediately frowned in frustration. “These wasps really remember grudges!”

It turned out that earlier, he had killed a giant insect that kept blocking his path. That insect resembled a wasp but was much larger, with curved, sharp stingers over a meter long on its rear and wings that spanned more than three meters. Ye Feng hadn’t wanted trouble, but since the wasp had already spotted him and was about to alert its companions, he had no choice but to quickly strangle it with a plant leaf and flee at top speed.

It was unclear how this swarm of wasps had found him. After escaping tens of thousands of kilometers, he thought he was safe, only to be pursued again.

“Count them—see how many there are!” Ye Feng frowned slightly.

“Eight hundred thirty-three in total, all at the early main god stage,” replied the detector. The classification of “early main god stage” was based on data scanned from Ye Feng’s records and added to the system.

“The nest we encountered earlier seemed to have thousands of wasps, right?” Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief. “Hundreds of them were at the late main god stage, and the queen was at the peak of main god level—what a terrifying swarm! Thankfully, those chasing me are only at the early main god stage.”

Still, being pursued by over eight hundred main god-level magical beasts was already a remarkable feat, not to mention that Ye Feng’s own cultivation was only at the peak of the god realm.

“It seems there’s no way to escape now.” Ye Feng stood there, looking helpless. “If we enter the Heavenly Demon Beast region and get caught, it will definitely lead to a fierce battle, attracting many onlookers. Besides, if those beasts can’t find me, they’ll surely massacre the humans in the forest, and those people will definitely figure out that I lured them here…”
“If we fight here, the chances of being seen are much lower… It’s better not to run away. Let’s give it a try here.” Ye Feng quickly made up his mind and stopped trying to escape.
Moreover, according to the detector’s readings, there were no other humans within a thousand miles. With their limited mental detection range, it was impossible for them to sense what was happening.
Ye Feng stood calmly, waiting patiently.
In less than a minute, the swarm of insects like black mist surged forward. Ye Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, splitting himself into two, then four, then eight avatars, all charging at the swarm.
The insects organized themselves in an orderly formation and rushed at Ye Feng’s avatars.
“Hehe, that’s exactly what I was afraid of—you not showing up!” As soon as Ye Feng spoke, the swarm was enveloped in a golden sphere.
Using avatars to lure enemies into one’s own domain was just an idea that struck Ye Feng suddenly. After all, it was impossible for every enemy to be inside one’s domain, so at such times, it was necessary to lure them in. Avatars were undoubtedly excellent bait.
Ye Feng slowly emerged from behind a large tree, looking up at the golden sphere in the sky, a slight smile on his lips.
After reaching the divine realm, a domain could exist independently of the body—this information came from another deity’s essence. Unlike before reaching the divine realm, where the domain had to be centered around the person, only those very close to them could be included. Now, Ye Feng could set the location of his domain at will, though it still had to be within a certain distance from his main body, which increased as his cultivation grew.
Even without entering the domain, Ye Feng could sense the chaos inside.
These insect-like demons were already extremely ferocious. Inside Ye Feng’s domain, misled by illusions, they saw enemies everywhere—how could they not go wild?

In just half an hour, over 800 magical beasts all died. Their attacks, as if suicidal, were all directed at their own companions. Such a reckless fighting style meant Ye Feng didn’t even need to take action. After entering the domain and collecting all the corpses, Ye Feng went into the Liuluan Hall. Piling up all the corpses in the hall, he began the process of dissection. Dissecting over 800 magical beast corpses—even at one per minute—would take over 800 minutes. However, Ye Feng was quite fast and finished it in just over an hour. All 833 crystal cores were stored in his ring. “In the early stages of being a God Lord, one crystal core is worth over 100,000 points. So these magical beasts are worth 83.3 million points,” Ye Feng thought with some pride. After all, this was achieved through his own efforts, and it felt different from looting in the Black Dragon Nest before. “Little thing, do you still need the corpses?” Ye Feng sent his mental energy into his sea of consciousness to communicate with the little grass. The grass shook its leaves twice toward Ye Feng. Ye Feng nodded. “Okay, come out!” Using his mental energy again to give it form, the grass promptly wrapped all the insect corpses with its nine leaves. “You have quite the appetite,” Ye Feng said helplessly before sending the grass back to his sea of consciousness. The grass threw all the wrapped insect corpses into the white ocean, leaving only the largest insect, which it wrapped up. Ye Feng also noticed that there was now a black cocoon in the white ocean. “What is this?” He used his mental energy to probe it and found that the root of the cocoon was connected to a leaf of the grass. After several failed attempts to communicate with the grass, Ye Feng reluctantly withdrew his mental energy from his sea of consciousness and entered the Void Realm. After explaining the situation to Emperor Yu, he pondered for a while before giving his answer, “Plants in the Holy Realm come in many varieties, with different evolutionary paths. Especially mutant plants, which can always produce unpredictable changes.”

“As for the situation you mentioned, I compared it with the plants in the Sacred Realm that I know. There’s one similar to the one you’ve cultivated—it’s also a mutated plant called Puppet Vines. These vines can control dead corpses to fight, just like manipulating puppets, but they can only control corpses that haven’t lost their crystal cores. Before controlling a corpse, they need to wrap it in a cocoon and inject special sap into it to connect the corpse’s brain to theirs…”
“It sounds disgusting…” Ye Feng felt nauseous after hearing what Yu Huang said. “But if that’s the case, why did it choose just one insect to control? Even if each leaf can control only one, it could still control eight insects! It casually threw all the insect corpses into that white ocean—this part puzzles me.”
“I don’t know about that. According to the habits of Puppet Vines, they aren’t picky about the corpses they can control. As long as there are any, they’ll use them. Yours might only be able to control different species per leaf! Or maybe it’s not what I think after all.” Yu Huang wasn’t entirely sure either.
“Communicating with that little thing is really tiring. I can’t understand what it’s saying at all…” Ye Feng sighed helplessly.
“That’s simple. Just find a translator, and you’ll know what it’s saying,” Yu Huang replied casually.
“A translator?” Ye Feng’s eyes lit up. “How could I forget? Although this little plant hasn’t learned human language yet, it has its own language.”
As he spoke, Ye Feng sent his mental energy into the First Realm. “I want an omnipotent translator.”
“The omnipotent translator stores tens of thousands of languages in the universe. For unfamiliar languages, it can decode and recombine sounds to restore their original meaning.”
“That’s exactly what I want!”
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Ye Feng put on a device that looked like headphones. He understood the instructions after scanning them once with his mental energy.
He sent his mental energy back into his sea of consciousness and began communicating with the little plant.
“Little guy, what do you need this corpse for?” Ye Feng’s consciousness transmitted the question.
The little plant’s chirping sounds came through the headphones again.
“Unknown language. Analyzing and decoding!”
“Decoding completed. Recombining now!”
“Recombination complete!”

A childish voice appeared in Ye Feng’s ears, “I’m cultivating these magical beasts!”
“Cultivating? What do you mean?” Ye Feng was a bit confused.
“It’s just like how you cultivated me; I’m also cultivating them! Once they’re fully developed, they can fight for their master, you!” the childish voice continued.
“But these magical beasts are animals, right? They’re very different from plants.” Ye Feng found this idea utterly bizarre. He had heard of the saying “as you sow, so shall you reap,” but he thought it was impossible for cats to give birth to cats or dogs to give birth to dogs.
“It’s possible. I just need to re-cultivate them. I can transform them into plant-like beings. Although they won’t become true plants like me, they will still have plant characteristics,” the childish voice replied.
“If that’s the case, then among all those insects, why did you choose just one? Can’t you cultivate more?” Ye Feng pressed further.
“I need to use other corpses to spur their evolution. At least they need to evolve to be as advanced as that female insect before, so that they can give birth to offspring. Otherwise, their combat strength will be too low,” the childish voice explained.
“Is it okay if the life forms you create this way don’t have crystal cores?” Ye Feng was curious about this.
“Their strength will decline significantly. It would be better if they had an energy source. It can be anything—I can modify their bodies to adapt to new energy sources.”
“In that case, top-grade divine crystals should work too, right?” Ye Feng asked further.
“Yes, they can!” The answer from the little grass made Ye Feng overjoyed.