Chapter 450: Chapter 450

The golden light was particularly dazzling, and Qian Qi couldn’t help but close her eyes as the light struck her directly. She didn’t notice that the layer of golden light bathing her was seeping into her face like molten, scalding gold, leaving a faint golden burn mark on her pale cheek.

Qian Qi only felt a slight tingling on her face. She reached out to scratch it, but because the combat armor was connected to her gloves, she couldn’t touch anything.

The golden light didn’t last for a few seconds and quickly subsided. The sky darkened again, and the root of the Nine Lives Grass, which had successfully evolved, became even more massive, as if it were a blossoming golden rootless otherworldly flower. It lazily stretched like a sleeping beauty who hadn’t yet regained her strength, its nine golden thorn stems stretching and twisting slightly in the air as they adapted to their newly evolved bodies.

At this moment, the energy of the Nine Lives Grass was particularly thin.

This was also the Nine Lives Grass’s most fragile moment.

After landing, Qian Qi rolled lightly forward, stopping in front of one of the thorn stems.

The golden light just now might have attracted the Family Army, and she needed to finish this quickly.

Flipping open a pocket on the lower left of her combat armor, Qian Qi took out a small sample of red acrylic paint.

She dipped her two slender fingers into the bottle, then gently smeared the thick red paint on the thorn stem before her. Dodging the stem’s unconscious attacks, she busied herself marking each of the nine stems with numbers, much like a painter at work.

Once finished, she rapidly retreated, pulling out a brilliantly hued and strange scale fragment from the right pocket of her waist.

She had found this unexpectedly among Er Ya’s dowry. The point of the scale was extremely sharp, its attack power rivaling any A-level knife on the market, and she was temporarily using it as a backup weapon.

Lightly pinching the scale fragment with two fingers, Qian Qi darted around the edge of the Nine Lives Grass, her slender form leaving a fleeting, radiant black shadow on the ground. At a certain moment, she narrowed her eyes and suddenly flung the gleaming scale, hitting one of the thorn stems precisely!

"Let me see, which stem contains your demon core!"

The sharp scale left her long fingers, spinning with a sharp whistle as it powerfully struck the golden thorn stem. Like an extremely sharp blade meeting the hardest steel, if the Nine Lives Grass were at its peak state, this kind of attack would be evenly matched with its defense, unable to resolve the outcome.

But the energy consumed by evolution was immense, making this its weakest and most fragile moment. Thus, the scale blade actually pierced right through the thorn stem, with its high-speed rotational force tearing into the stem’s flesh!

Immediately, as if hitting something, a massive shockwave of energy rippled outward like water, causing the ground Qian Qi stood on to tremble as she staggered back over ten steps!

She looked up and saw, to her astonishment, countless tiny fragments of the demon core falling like a localized shower into the ground...

The system mercilessly mocked her: [(´థ౪థ)σ Haha~ Our Qiqi’s luck is as great as ever; she pierced the demon core in one go~]

Qian Qi: #￥%...@#*...#￥%...

What kind of dumb luck was this, to shatter the demon core in one strike!

The demon core fragments sank into the ground and quickly vanished, and at the same time, the recently injured thorn stem healed at a visible speed. The Nine Lives Grass’s nine thorn stems suddenly twirled and danced like a girl wearing red dance shoes, moving so fast it was impossible to distinguish which was the golden thorn stem she just attacked.

Then, they suddenly swarmed toward Qian Qi’s direction as if equipped with surveillance!

She glanced at the red paint she had marked on the base of the thorn stems, noting the attacked "1" stem was right before her eyes.

In general, the Nine Lives Grass would not place the demon core back into a stem that had been attacked, so she could rule out the 1 stem.

"Ya Ya, go retrieve the scale blade!" With a wave of her small hand, Moyu flew out from the Beast Taming Space and quickly darted toward the ground to fetch the fallen scale blade.

Meanwhile, Qian Qi dodged the Nine Lives Grass’s descending hammer strikes. Her agile figure and nimble steps allowed her little hand to grip one of the thorn stems’ protruding spikes, and the gauntlet’s friction was powerful enough to lift her into the air.

Moyu deftly weaved through the nine thorn stems, holding the scale blade in its beak, and handed it back to Qian Qi.

"Let me see if it’s you!" Qian Qi raised the scale blade and fiercely stabbed at the thorn stem beneath her!

The massive energy impact sent Qian Qi’s small figure flying through the air. Dazed from the impact upon landing, she looked up to see demon core fragments scattering like a divine flower scattering, and she cursed angrily, "Damn! Hit it again? What kind of rotten luck is this?"

Once is a coincidence, twice is suspicious!

If it happens a third time...

This time, Qian Qi didn’t retrieve the scale blade. Instead, she directly punched the base of the nearby 3 thorn stem.

This time, forewarned, Qian Qi was only pushed back two or three steps by the energy. Watching the demon core fragments burrow into the earth yet again, she swept aside the fringe that obscured her view, revealing a manic, deviously evil expression as she laughed hysterically like a lunatic at the sky.

"Hahaha! What a Nine Lives Grass! What a Nine Lives Grass indeed! Are you deliberately deceiving people to kill you nine times so you can become stronger! I hear even A-level Magic Plants have intellect, but it seems you’re smarter than I thought!"

Nine Lives Grass: ...

Liar! Don’t slander me!

After laughing, Qian Qi retracted her devious smile. She raised her hand into a fist and punched toward the 4 stem!

However, just as she was about to strike the 4 stem, she abruptly pulled back and with lightning speed redirected her punch to the 1 stem!

She couldn’t believe that this time, the Nine Lives Grass could respond quickly enough to transfer the demon core from the 4 stem to the 1 stem within a single second!

"Bang—!" The demon core exploded again!

Stunned, Qian Qi exclaimed, "Your reaction speed is actually this fast?"

This exceeded Qian Qi’s understanding!

Qian Qi’s brain was about to overheat. She swung her tiny fists, ignoring the thorn stems lashing against her, and furiously smashed at the just-healed wound of the 1 stem again!

"I! Don’t! Believe! You would put the demon core here again—!"

"Bang! Bang—bang! Bang—!"

Qian Qi went mad: "Hahahahaha you damn—" The source of thɪs content is novel[f]ire.net

Qian Qi went mad, and so did the Nine Lives Grass!

It had never encountered such a troublesome opponent. The first and second times it got hit on the demon core, it secretly became more cautious, thinking it better hide the demon core at the base of some thorn stem, assuming the opponent wouldn’t guess.

Who would have thought the opponent guessed again!

Thus it cleverly put it back on the 1 stem, thinking since the opponent hit the 1 stem once, surely they wouldn’t do it again?

How unexpected that damn demon core got smashed again!

Fine! Good! It put it back on the original position of the 1 stem, refusing to believe she could still do it!

It put it back again!

It put it back again—

Aaaaaaaahhhhh! How could someone be so annoying! Why does she keep hitting the same spot, as if she can see through me?

The Nine Lives Grass took a deep breath of carbon dioxide, then slowly exhaled a breath of oxygen.

This time, it would place the demon core—still in the same spot!

It didn’t believe it—

She didn’t believe it—

It (she) could actually guess the demon core’s location again this time (she could actually put the demon core back in this location again) !?