The golden leaf... was just like an inanimate object. It was as if he’d never claimed ownership of it.
He could clearly see it idling there, yet he couldn’t sense it, much less direct or command it. It felt extremely frustrating!
“Who can tell me just what the heck that thing is?!”
Meng Lei attempted to touch the gold leaf with his spiritual power, but the golden leaf stayed still and motionless.
He applied a bit more force... But it still stayed motionless.
He then struck at it forcefully, but it simply didn’t budge.
Even when he smashed madly at it, it stood its ground steadfastly and remained unmoving.
“Are you a goddamn inanimate object?!”
Meng Lei was going crazy. He finally knew a tiger’s pain when eating a hedgehog—wanting to eat it yet unable to, and wanting to discard it yet couldn’t bear to part with it. He could only stare at it helplessly, unable to do anything about it!
“Get lost, get lost! What a weirdo! You sh*tty divine weapon!”
Meng Lei was fairly incensed, and he withdrew from his sea of consciousness indignantly.
Ol’ Amos gazed at Meng Lei anxiously and asked with a face full of concern, “How is it? Did you find it?”
“I did, but...”
Meng Lei told him what had taken place inside his sea of consciousness with a shake of his head.
“What?! Really?”
Ol’ Amos frowned deeply. After musing for a long while, he finally said, “This situation is honestly surprising, but it’s nothing more than two possibilities.”
“What does that mean?”
Meng Lei perked up.
“The first possibility is that this divine weapon is damaged, or maybe it’s defective from the get-go and is a spare part of another divine weapon.”
Ol’ Amos twisted his beard as he mused with an intelligent gleam in his eyes. “Although a divine weapon’s ingenuity is indeterminable, in essence, it’s still a magic device. When a magic device cannot be used, there’s a high chance that it’s because it’s damaged.
“Reasons like damaged internal parts, depletion of energy inside its magic core, its magic circle breaking down, and so on. All these can cause a magic device to become unable to function properly.”
“What about the second possibility?”
“Now, the second possibility is a complicated one!” A sharp glint flashed across Ol’ Amos’ eyes. “The golden leaf itself is a divine weapon of extremely high quality, but you are too weak, so you’re not qualified to use it at all!”
Chapter 83: Wood-Elemental Magic Talent, Pummeling A Gigantic Python
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The Milky Way dazzled as it hung suspended in the sky. Sparkling and brilliant, it was vast and boundless.
Meng Lei sat cross-legged on a large tree fork as he did his daily meditation. Cultivation was a process akin to rowing against the tide—one must constantly forge ahead, or else they would be driven back. One must be diligent and relentless with their cultivation.
The forest in the night wasn’t a quiet and peaceful place, and beast roars distracted one’s mind every once in a while. Meng Lei had already gotten used to it by now, though, and he concentrated on refining his magic power and improving his spiritual power.
Little Teddy lay sprawled on the tree branch beside him, deep asleep. Its snores thundered all the way up to the skies, but in spite of this, its sense of vigilance was exceedingly high. Not even the slightest bit of activity escaped its ears and nose, proving itself to be even more useful than an actual poodle. As a result, Meng Lei could meditate at ease.
“How strange!” Meng Lei suddenly opened his eyes. “Why am I able to sense Wood Elements all of a sudden? This shouldn’t be happening. Are the Wood Elements especially rich and abundant here?”
Countless magic elements floated in the air around him. Dense and packed as if stars in the night sky, they sparkled brilliantly and spread everywhere in a vast and boundless manner.
There were fiery red Fire Elements, silvery-white Thunder Elements, and ocher-yellow Earth Elements. The three different types of magic elements added radiance and beauty to each other, and they looked as if they were fairies.
Prior to this day, Meng Lei had only been able to detect these three types of magic elements, and he’d also been meditating and refining these same three types of magic elements. But now, it’d actually increased by another type!
Green magic elements!
They were obviously Wood Elements!
Now, mixed among the Fire, Thunder, and Earth Elements were countless Wood Elements. Much like a myriad of green fireflies, they circled around Meng Lei as they danced.
Even if Meng Lei didn’t actively try to absorb them, they made their way wave upon wave into his body anyway. He was just like a magnet or a whirlpool that was continuously attracting them.
This scene practically couldn’t get any weirder because Meng Lei didn’t have any wood-elemental magic talent at all!
Besides, he had never been able to attract Thunder Elements and Fire Elements in the same way as this, despite his superior-grade thunder-elemental affinity and fire-elemental affinity!
“When did I gain wood-elemental magic talent?” Meng Lei looked absolutely stupefied. “And the magic talent is so crazy, no less. It’s even more terrifying than my thunder-elemental and fire-elemental affinity?!
“But this shouldn’t be happening...
“This didn’t happen at all when I was meditating last night!
“Could it be because of that golden leaf?”
Meng Lei suddenly thought of the golden leaf that had forcibly taken up residence in his sea of consciousness. Thinking back to the events from the day before and today, the biggest change that had taken place was that there was now an
