Chapter 135 : Chapter 135

The two little white mice were trapped in the Fox Immortal’s giant hand of spiritual power, unable to escape.

As Spirit Demons, the two little white mice were not particularly strong in combat. Their only advantages lay in their speed and a few special skills.

When dealing with those Wildlands warriors, they had at least been able to rely on their speed to keep running for a while...But in front of the Fox Immortal, under techniques empowered by both telekinesis and spiritual power, speed alone was completely useless.

The two little white mice raised their front paws to their chests in a pleading gesture.

“Please do not kill us...”

“We do not give much experience. Killing us would just be a waste of your mana!”

Their will to survive was on full display!

Looking at the timid way the two little white mice behaved, the Fox Immortal and Ye Ze exchanged a glance and could not help smiling faintly.

Ever since arriving in this conquest-type Secret Realm world, everyone they had encountered, whether demons or the Wildlands race, had been fierce and aggressive, ready to fight at the slightest disagreement.

This was the first time they had seen anything like these little white mice, whose survival instincts were overwhelmingly strong.

Still, that was only natural.

The demon race and the Wildlands race both belonged to chaotic and disorderly camps, and most of them were violent and overbearing by nature.

On top of that, both races had deep foundations and supreme experts backing them, which made them all the more lawless when outside their own territories.

These two little white mice, however, clearly did not have that kind of confidence.

“Hand over the Star Core first.”

Ye Ze looked at the two mice and spoke with certainty.

The reason he was sure that 【Destiny Treasure Hunt】 had worked was because the squirrel had smelled the aura of a great treasure on them!

The Star Core was tied to Blue Star’s very first mission. There was no way Ye Ze would let it go.

The two little white mice, meanwhile, did not hesitate in the slightest and nodded frantically.

“I will hand it over! I will!”

With that, the slightly plumper of the two little white mice suddenly opened her mouth wide and started pulling something out from her stomach...A moment later, she spat out a pale blue crystal more than ten centimeters long, clear and sparkling, suffused with starlight.

Ye Ze: “...”

Fox Immortal: “...Good thing she did not spit it out onto my hand.”

“How could such a tiny body swallow something that big?”

Ye Ze had originally been wondering how a little white mouse could possibly hide something. Now he understood...He then glanced at their racial branch—Treasure-Seeking Mice.

This ability to hide things and run away really could be considered a racial gift.

It was somewhat similar to the squirrel’s.

After spitting out the crystal core, the little white mouse’s belly visibly shrank a little.

She lifted it up with both front paws, shut her eyes, and held it above her head. “The crystal core you wanted.”

“I did not play any tricks!”

She handed over the crystal so decisively that she was clearly very quick to read the situation.

Even so, Ye Ze still examined it with the Eye of Insight first. After confirming there was no problem, he took something out, wiped off the crystal core, and held it in his hand.

【Ding! You have completed Blue Star’s civilization mission!】

【Mission reward — Starrealm City. Please return to Blue Star’s teleportation gate to activate it!】

Hearing those two prompts, Ye Ze nodded to himself. Destiny Treasure Hunt really was useful!

Although it consumed Source Power, this method of gathering the power of heaven and earth to seek treasure was indeed formidable, using all sorts of means to bring the treasure right to Ye Ze’s side.

That said, Destiny Treasure Hunt still had its flaws.

If Ye Ze had not been strong enough to kill the Wildlands pursuers, or had been unable to stop these Treasure-Seeking Mice, then he probably would not have obtained the treasure either!

At that moment, the two little white mice were still sprawled atop the giant hand of spiritual power, waiting for Ye Ze’s verdict.

Seeing how cooperative they were, Ye Ze decided to spare their lives.

For one thing, these Treasure-Seeking Mice belonged to the Spirit Demon race. Unlike the Monsterfolk, Spirit Demons cultivated by borrowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and most of them belonged to lawful good races.

According to certain records, some Spirit Demons were far kinder than humans.

For another, these two little mice were pitifully weak... They posed no threat at all.

If he kept them around, they might even be able to provide some useful information about this conquest-type world.

As for taking their crystal core, Ye Ze thought that was perfectly normal. In a conquest-type world, if you were not strong enough and still wanted to keep a treasure?

You were overthinking it!

If they understood that, staying alive would not be a problem. But if they wanted revenge, Ye Ze would not mind killing two more mice.

“I can spare your lives.”

“But you will have to come with me...”

Hearing Ye Ze’s words, the two little white mice exchanged a glance, their faces full of the joy of surviving a brush with death.

The truth was, the two of them had entered this conquest-type Secret Realm by mistake, and then gotten lost inside the Secret Realm world, unable to find the main Spirit Demon force.

Now that they had a chance to live—and to follow someone clearly powerful—they agreed at once without hesitation.

“Yes, Boss! We will follow you!”

Ye Ze nodded in satisfaction, then sent out the squirrel to keep an eye on the two little white mice...And so the two Treasure-Seeking Mice fell in behind the Destined Treasure Squirrel, even developing a certain sense of closeness toward it.

After obtaining the crystal core, Ye Ze checked his gains as well.

After killing Lie Qing and the other three Wildlands warriors, his experience had risen by about 20%, slightly more than what he had gained from the three demons.

【Slaughter’s Gift】 had also accumulated another 80 attribute points. Together with what he had already saved before, he now had a full 240 usable Free Attribute Points!

The dropped items, however, were pitifully poor.

Perhaps because the Wildlands World was relatively barren, and because the Wildlands race specialized in blood aura, their equipment was badly worn...In that regard, they were very similar to the demon race. Both came from worlds where equipment materials were scarce.

There were only three passable Epic pieces of equipment. Other than that, there were three unique materials:

【Beastbone Rune Stone】, 【Tribal Emblem】, and 【Secret Art Totem】.

Of the three, only the totem piqued Ye Ze’s interest:

【Secret Art Totem: Created by a Blazing Sun Tribe shaman healer. Once activated, it continuously restores vitality and grants ancient natural power through the totem.】

Its effect was the same as the one the final three Wildlands warriors had displayed.

At the time, if they had not happened to be standing inside the Martial Saint Domain, where all four of their attributes had been reduced by nearly seven hundred points, then the totem’s effect actually would have been fairly decent.

Ye Ze put it away.

Other than that, killing that Wildlands squad had also earned him 3 Conquest Points.

But Blue Star still remained in fifth place on the Starrealm Stele’s overall conquest rankings. There had been no change at all.

The higher the rank, the greater the chance of obtaining a Myth-grade item...

That current fifth place made Ye Ze feel that he had no choice but to move a little faster.

Outside the stone cave, there was thick white mist in every direction, and nothing beyond it could be seen clearly.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Ze first took out the 【World Tree’s Crown】.

He might as well first search for the place where its second effect could be activated.

At that moment, the World Tree’s Crown was still emitting a red glow, but compared with before, it had dimmed slightly.

“Could it be that the farther I move away from the place where its second effect can be activated, the dimmer it becomes?”

Ye Ze let out a helpless sigh... He had gone the wrong way!

This World Tree’s Crown was not like a compass. It was more like a detector. It could not point out direction, only indicate distance.

“Forget it. I will head back first.”

Ye Ze made up his mind. He could also stop by the teleportation point on the way and build Starrealm City.

But at that moment, the expressions of the two Treasure-Seeking Mice suddenly turned astonished as they stared at the World Tree’s Crown in Ye Ze’s hand.

“Boss, I think our Shanhai World has one of those too!”

The moment Ye Ze heard that, he stopped in his tracks, utterly incredulous.

“The World Tree’s Crown? Your world has one too!?”

This was the relic left behind by the World Tree of the Myriad Spirit World before its death. How could there be a second one?

Yet the little white mouse who had spat out the crystal core nodded firmly.

“That is right. I have seen it once before! It looked exactly the same!”

Ye Ze was stunned. It was real?

A second World Tree’s Crown?

This was a Curio-grade treasure! Just the 100% experience bonus alone was enough to show how astonishing its effects were!

If he could get his hands on a second Curio like that...Ye Ze rubbed his hands together. “Little white mice, where is the Shanhai World located?”

“Y-you... why are you asking that!?”