Chapter 57: Chapter 14: Spiritual Energy 2
The painstakingly accumulated Source Power Value was completely squandered.
However, Su Ziyu was in a pretty good mood. The Spiritual Enhancement System initially didn’t exist; it was only after taking down Jack yesterday that it was unlocked. It’s as if the system acquired the Spiritual Energy expansion Skill Tree from Jack. Dark Jack blocking his bullets yesterday should have been through Spiritual Armor, and Mind Suggestion also appeared in the data prompts.
When in the Wasteland World, the Space-Time Monitor System activated the ’Flesh Mutation’ Skill Tree. In this world, it activated the ’Spiritual Enhancement’ Skill Tree, and its potential for growth seems to be far from limited to this.
The ability of Spiritual Vision allowed Su Ziyu to see things differently.
Even during the day, when he activated Spiritual Vision, he could see that eerie and sinister scarecrow in the sunflower field and the towering mud dolls shrouded in mist within the town.
But this ability also brought some trouble.
When Su Ziyu used Spiritual Vision to gaze at a Great Elf, something bizarre suddenly happened to the elf. The Great Elf seemed to stiffen all over, then its face rapidly aged, skin turned shriveled, sharp teeth emerged, and long, dark, sharp nails grew, identical to the changes that happened to Pick.
Fortunately, Su Ziyu quickly averted his gaze and deactivated his ability, allowing the Great Elf to slowly return to normal, as if it had completely forgotten what had just happened and walked away.
"Can’t look randomly!"
"Especially cannot use Spiritual Vision to carelessly observe those Great Elves!" Su Ziyu said with a bit of lingering fear.
It’s not that he feared the monsters the Great Elves became; with his abilities, he could deal with such creatures. He was most afraid of triggering a chain reaction and causing something even more terrifying to emerge.
Without a doubt, Spiritual Vision is the most necessary ability for him at the moment.
Otherwise, he truly wouldn’t know whether he was dreaming or in a real world.
Over time.
There’s a chance that this place with a stark contrast between day and night might affect him.
Jack clearly believed that everything at night was real, that everyone else was dead, the surviving Great Elves had turned into monsters, and all the witches had either died or gone mad. Everything during the day was just self-deceptive illusions. In his despair, he gradually darkened, even to the point of wanting to provoke the Winter Witch to destroy it all.
But Su Ziyu didn’t think so.
If everything had truly corrupted like the night, then what would be the significance of the dream-like fairytale during the day?
This world might be polluted.
But it hasn’t reached the point of complete corruption yet, and the key to maintaining everything during the day might lie with the Winter Witch. At least during the day, scarecrows and mud dolls don’t appear, and as long as the Great Elves aren’t stimulated abnormally, they seem entirely normal.
What the Witch referred to in her words as ’He’ should have only corrupted the night.
For the past two days, Su Ziyu had been active around the town, and today he planned to explore the surroundings.
Su Ziyu’s first stop was the forest he had first passed through.
At that time, he encountered an invisible little thing, which even bit his hand at the base of his thumb.
Lush trees appeared before him.
To the naked eye, it was just a dense forest, but in the view of Su Ziyu with Spiritual Vision active, the entire forest was suffused with a grayish mist, and the trees in front of him all grew in bizarre shapes, with branches that twisted and entwined together, giving off a sinister vibe.
"Huh?"
Before Su Ziyu was a large, twisted tree with no leaves, its bark dry and gray-white, branches extending out in twining loops. This was what he saw after activating Spiritual Vision, but when Su Ziyu reached out, he touched nothing. In contrast, where his vision showed emptiness, he felt a section of tree trunk; switching back to normal vision, he found he was holding a piece of bright green branch.
"Are these things void during the day?" Su Ziyu muttered.
Buzz.
While Su Ziyu was pondering, he seemed to hear a faint sound, but when he turned his head, he found nothing.
No, that invisible little thing had appeared again.
Su Ziyu quickly switched to Spiritual Vision and immediately saw a small, swiftly moving figure, about twelve centimeters tall, resembling a human with light green wings on its back.
He didn’t bring a bug-catching net.
Su Ziyu pretended to be caught on a branch by his clothes and then, when it quietly approached, suddenly reached out and grabbed it.
Squeak.
The small creature was immediately caught in Su Ziyu’s hand. It looked like a little elf, wearing clothes made of leaves, with messy green hair and a mouth lined with tiny sharp teeth, trying to bite him. Su Ziyu quickly pinched its slender neck with his fingers, looked it up and down, and said, "What are you?"
The little creature let out a sharp scream, seemingly unable to speak, merely trying desperately to bite him.
This little thing was very weak; Su Ziyu felt that he could crush it with a single hand.
He stood there and thought for a moment.
Then he suddenly reached out and gently tore at its wings a couple of times. He didn’t tear much, not enough to render it flightless, but it would definitely be affected.
Then, pretending carelessly, Su Ziyu released his grasp and let it go.
The small creature that had barely escaped his grip wobbled as it flew in mid-air, its face full of fear, before turning and fleeing into the forest. If it were in perfect condition, Su Ziyu really might have struggled to catch up; this little thing moved incredibly nimbly and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
But now it flapped its wings with difficulty, yet it could still fly.
It just wanted to escape.
And Su Ziyu silently followed it, wanting to see where it would go.
He drew the black short blade from his waist, marking the trees he passed along the way, and didn’t know how long he followed through the dense forest until a tall laurel tree appeared in front of him, with a very elegantly crafted treehouse built on its trunk.
This treehouse seemed long abandoned.
Outside, dried yellow leaves covered the ground, and Su Ziyu glanced around. A brief lapse of attention and the little creature had vanished somewhere. He cautiously climbed up and opened the treehouse door, instantly discovering a shelf lined with books, with a faint fragrance inside, and a large light-grey cloak was placed nearby.
"The place of the Autumn Witch?" Su Ziyu cautiously observed around, casually pulling out a book from among them.
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