243: The vast and boundless world

The long blade and the spider legs collided, producing a clanging sound of metal.

Tang Ping was sent flying backward, crashing into the tree hollow. The sharp spider legs stabbed down again. Tang Ping's Wings of Flame vibrated behind him, and he quickly fled, a foot-long flame palm striking down at the giant spider.

Accompanied by a sharp shriek that almost pierced Tang Ping's eardrums, shaking his wings, he quickly retreated.

The spider's black and red eyes stared intently at Tang Ping with savage killing intent. At this moment, its forehead was like a red-hot branding iron, and both of its eyes were already blind.

Almost the next instant, two sharp spider legs stabbed towards Tang Ping. He swung his long blade, blocking one spider leg's attack. Beneath him, Green Lotus Birth bloomed with all its might, layers of petals appearing and disappearing, finally stopping the other spider leg from piercing him.

However, the impact of the immense force still churned his internal organs, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. Tang Ping felt the almost dry Exotic Energy within him and smiled bitterly. "What kind of hellish world is this? Can't it give me something a little less challenging? I feel like I'm not even as good as a bug here."

Fortunately, the Mystical Arts could all be used, and the power of Mystic Light of Flora was surprisingly good. He estimated that if Mystical Arts were re-ranked in this world, Mystic Light of Flora would definitely be in the top five hundred.

Tang Ping took a deep breath, and several emerald green Mystic Lights were absorbed by him. His injuries recovered instantly, but the energy within him... It seemed that his previous success in killing that large bug was mostly due to luck.

Retreating to the tree hollow entrance, Tang Ping had already decided that if he really couldn't win, he would run. "Where there's life, there's hope." He couldn't possibly know he couldn't win and still consume a huge amount of experience stones, could he? He also didn't know if he could find other ways to recover energy.

Suddenly, Tang Ping's heart stirred, and he remembered something: the Xuan Yuan Breathing Technique!

He immediately began to breathe and circulate, and the energy within him slowly began to recover. Tang Ping was greatly surprised, "It really works!"

What puzzled him, however, was that this was clearly not the Exotic Energy of a Talent User, but another kind of energy that, with his breathing, flowed into a certain position in his abdomen.

As for the Exotic Energy of a Talent User, on Blue Star, even without using experience stones, it could slowly recover. Later, after obtaining meditation methods from the level six shelter, recovery could be accelerated. But in this world, that was clearly not feasible.

Yet now, the Xuan Yuan Breathing Technique could absorb the energy of heaven and earth to recover!

Tang Ping's heart was filled with joy. Suddenly, the hairs on his body stood on end, and almost subconsciously, he released the Green Lotus Birth Mystical Art. The originally ordinary green lotus suddenly became incomparably mystical and lifelike.

Mystic Light flowed, and emerald splendor scattered. The green lotus, which had barely been large enough to envelop Tang Ping, was now ten feet in size. Its petals appeared and disappeared several times, easily blocking the spider legs.

Tang Ping, inside the green lotus, looked at the scene before him in astonishment.

"This, what is this?"

This was the Green Lotus Birth Mystical Art, activated by that mysterious new energy within him!

Tang Ping's spirits instantly soared. The Xuan Yuan Breathing Technique circulated, and a continuous stream of mystical power flowed within him. The fire of his Wings of Flame blazed brightly. The previously blurry wings now had every feather clearly visible, as if they were real wings.

He flapped his wings, easily dodging the ancient spider's attacks. Tang Ping continued to dodge, but the flames in his palm continuously condensed.

The Golden Glazed Flame, accompanied by the Red Lotus Demonic Flame, all intertwined in his palm. The Mystical Art perfectly fused the two flames, and the mysterious power made them erupt with unimaginable might.

Thirty minutes later, Tang Ping stopped dodging and, looking at the ancient spider, unleashed a palm strike.

"Flowing Flame Palm!"

A nine-foot giant palm descended towards the ancient spider's head with an inescapable speed.

Boom! The exploding flames instantly engulfed the giant beast before him.

After a violent struggle, the ancient spider, whose head had been burned with a large hole, finally fell.

A ball of bloodline essence, under the effect of the mini-game, floated in place, and the ancient spider's corpse disappeared with it.

Tang Ping instantly collapsed to the ground. The continuous high tension and consumption for over half an hour had left him utterly exhausted. At this moment, he only wanted to sleep soundly, but he knew it was not the time to sleep.

He got up, preparing to pick up the bloodline of this ancient spider. Unexpectedly, a purple shadow darted past him and directly swallowed the bloodline.

"..."

Tang Ping stared at Little Lion, who was looking at him with adorable wide eyes... "Forget it, forget it. It's not easy for anyone. Eat if you want to eat. At worst, I'll just work harder."

"You fellow, you didn't eat the bloodline of this ancient spider and awaken its bloodline, did you?" He immediately looked strange. A Little Lion awakening a spider bloodline, what kind of situation was that?

Little Lion seemed to understand and immediately looked disdainful, patting its belly with its little paw, as if to say that the bloodline was just food.

However, it seemed to have eaten too much, as Little Lion began to doze off. It jumped onto Tang Ping's shoulder, ready to fall into a deep sleep.

Tang Ping, helpless, picked up Little Lion and put it back in the Shelter. He planned to rest for a while before continuing to hunt.

Since acquiring this mini-game, he had entered this tree hollow three times, hunting two large bugs and one large spider. The bloodline of one ancient tree worm had already been given to the first customer in Simulation Management, and now another had been eaten by Little Lion.

He still had one bloodline left. To complete tomorrow's transaction, he needed to get two more bloodlines.

Lying in the tree hollow, rubbing his head, Tang Ping planned to rest for a while, eat something, and then continue. However, this tree hollow was not safe, so he simply went to the happy farm to rest.

Two days had passed since he acquired the happy farm. Potatoes had already been harvested several times, and several more plots of land had appeared. However, without the 10% discount, accumulating land by planting would be much slower, but there was no helping it; the starting phase was always difficult.

After resting for an hour in the small wooden house, Tang Ping had already recovered his energy and spirit, ready to continue searching for large bugs. After arriving at the tree hollow, he once again walked out of it.

Outside, there were towering ancient trees that truly blotted out the sky, not just figuratively.

Tang Ping couldn't even see the boundary of the tree's canopy at a glance. The entire tree seemed like a small world. If not for the tree appearing to be on a high mountain peak, from where he could see the distant undulating vast mountains, he might have truly believed this was a world of a single tree.

A leaf, like an aircraft carrier, fell. Tang Ping's Wings of Flame quickly flapped, narrowly avoiding it. He was originally preparing to leave to search for bugs, but a glance revealed a golden, semi-circular giant beast crouching on the leaf. Buzz! The golden giant beast's back opened, and a pair of translucent insect wings popped out!

And behind him, two grass blades, like buildings, rotated and crossed, twisting towards him.

"Damn!"