Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 1027 - 304: [Slaying the Serpent] (3)

The fallen head had already rolled off to the side!

The Wooden Mask Man was quite cautious, summoning that millstone-sized seal, smashing it onto the serpent’s head several times.

Only when the serpent’s head was smashed to pieces and almost deformed did he wave his sleeve, retracting the seal magical treasure.

After killing the strange serpent guarding the exotic treasure, the Wooden Mask Man laughed heartily, flying towards the purple vine. Landing beside the vine, he observed it up close, nodding approvingly: "Good stuff! With six nodes, it’s already Upper Grade, though it’s a pity there’s one fruit missing."

But he soon sighed, "Beasts are just beasts, what would they understand of the wonder of heavenly and earthly treasures!"

He didn’t even look at the remaining few fruits, only staring at the very top of the purple vine.

At the very top, there was a tiny flower bud.

It was only about as thick as a finger, and compared to the vine’s bulk, it would be easy to overlook without careful observation.

This small flower bud wasn’t purple, with six petals in a pale red hue, while its inner stamens were purple.

At this moment, with the treasure right in front of him, the Wooden Mask Man couldn’t help but feel a little excited and delighted!

This Glazed Purple Treasure Vine is an extremely rare heavenly and earthly treasure in the Domain Realm!

This thing is naturally nurtured by the heavens, appearing unpredictably, neither can its location be calculated nor can it be artificially cultivated. It is purely descended at random by the Heavenly Dao, nurtured from the geospatial energy.

It takes a hundred years to form one node, another hundred years for one fruit. Only after one node and one fruit are fully developed is the second node born, followed by the second fruit.

This item has developed six nodes and six fruits, which means it is at least twelve hundred years old.

In the realm of Glazed Purple Treasure Vine, this is an exceedingly rare Upper Grade.

The fruit of this item, if compounded with auxiliary medicines and refined into elixirs, fully enhances its medicinal properties, and with suitable techniques to dissolve and absorb the medicinal power, it can greatly increase cultivation and Taoism practice.

— However, this is not what the Wooden Mask Man truly cares about.

He actually comes from an extraordinary background, and although such heavenly spiritual medicine that can enhance cultivation and Taoism practice is valuable, it’s not something unreachable for someone of his status.

What he truly values is that small flower bud at the top.

With the vine having six nodes, so too does the bud have six petals.

This is the most precious part of the Glazed Purple Treasure Vine!

Above the Celestial Human Realm is the second tier of cultivation, the Extraordinary Tier.

This tier has three realms: Celestial Being, Golden Body, Guiyuan.

In previous cultivation, there’s only one tribulation crossing when breaking through from Ascension Realm to the Celestial Human Realm.

But beyond the Celestial Human Realm, each realm is a major peril, each a great tribulation!

Each realm breakthrough tribulation is far more difficult and dangerous than the Realm-Breaking Celestial one.

Moreover, in the Extraordinary Tier, each realm’s tribulation emphasizes "perfection."

Noble sects have various secret techniques to enhance the success rate of tribulation crossing, even if one’s ability is slightly lacking (and it really might be, considering who in the Extraordinary Tier isn’t extraordinarily gifted?), as long as the family invests an enormous amount of resources regardless of cost, one can cross the tribulation, though it won’t be quite perfect.

The key to cultivation in the Extraordinary Tier is: if the tribulation of the previous realm isn’t crossed perfectly, the next realm’s tribulation will be even harder!

Therefore, every great cultivator in top-tier noble sects strives for perfection in each realm’s tribulation after entering the Extraordinary Tier.

And this small flower bud on the Glazed Purple Treasure Vine proves useful during each realm tribulation in the Extraordinary Tier! It can reduce the difficulty of tribulation crossing, ensuring a more perfect outcome for the cultivator.

There are plenty of treasures in the Domain Realm to increase cultivation and Taoism practice.

However, treasures that are beneficial for great cultivators of the Extraordinary Tier during tribulation crossing number only seven or eight in the entire Domain Realm.

Each is extremely rare, a fortuitous encounter, and cannot be sought out intentionally.

Seeing the Wooden Mask Man reaching out to pluck the flower bud...

Suddenly, his body jerked violently!!

He emitted a muffled groan from his mouth, then his body swayed, and he fell from above, crashing onto the ground!

He shockingly couldn’t stand steadily, tumbling to the ground, he staggered up and fiercely pulled up the sleeve of the hand he used to reach for the bud...

On his exposed arm, there were two symmetrical, rice-grain-sized teeth marks!!

A small object, about the size of a regular person’s fingernail, rolled off his body, sticking to the ground and crawling away at lightning speed!

Taking a closer look, it was a spider with a faint purple hue!

This spider crawled onto the rock wall, gazing from afar at the Wooden Mask Man, whose body stood stiffly, suddenly burst into a series of mocking laughter, speaking human words in a derisive tone: "You’re just too greedy, losing your caution. Did you ever think, the Glazed Purple Treasure Vine, such a rare and precious heavenly and earthly treasure, how could the beast guarding it be just a dumb snake?"

The Wooden Mask Man trembled, then plopped onto his knees, clutching at his bitten arm’s elbow, speaking in a deep voice, "You... you..."

"That dumb snake is just a servant I raised." The purple spider chuckled lightly.

"You’re... a Parasitic Spider!" The Wooden Mask Man’s voice was heavy, his breath unstable.

"Correct, I parasitized that dumb snake, guarding this purple vine.

The first fruit was eaten by me, though I painfully withheld it, feeding it some fruit juice, giving it some strength and benefit, so others who see it would just think it’s the guardian exotic beast here.

Using it as a blinding technique, it already fooled two cultivators who found their way here, both carelessly assuming they had defeated my servant snake, became overconfident, and after being bitten and poisoned by me, became my blood food.

And you... are the third fool."

Speaking, the spider’s tone was somewhat regretful: "However, you were more ruthless, and your skills greater, actually managing to kill my snake.

What a pity, I’ll have to find another suitable servant to take its place.

Still, since you’ve killed my snake, using your body as my blood food could barely count as compensation."