“Ah!!! Why? I refuse to accept this!!!”
Layer upon layer of vines suddenly burst out from Shen Qingyao’s body, wrapping her into a huge ball. The vines even pierced through the Butterfly Queen’s body, pinning it to the flower tree. Shen Qingyao’s hands were tightly gripping the proboscis embedded in her forehead.
“Who gave you the right to control my fate? I refuse to accept this!”
“The ones who deserve to die are Zhou Mingli! Xu Yiyi! The Butterfly Queen! Not me, Shen Qingyao! I refuse to accept this!”
Energy swirled around her body. The power that had been sucked away by the Butterfly Queen was actually forcefully reclaimed by her!
Even the Butterfly Queen’s own power was continuously being drawn into her body!
The Butterfly Queen trembled violently, letting out waves of mournful cries, as though begging her for mercy.
“Heh! Too late!”
Where had that mercy been earlier?
If it dared to hurt her, it should have been prepared for her to kill it in return!
The people who had been watching the battle from the void had originally been preparing to leave, but now they suddenly sat back down.
“What an interesting youngling!”
“As expected of a White Tiger youngling. Turning the tables in a desperate situation—you have quite the bearing of your lordship!”
“Hehehe, she’s still far from it!”
Although the person said that, the delight in their eyes was completely undisguised.
“Ding! Congratulations, Host! You have killed the Butterfly Queen!”
The system’s notification finally brought Shen Qingyao back to her senses.
“System, what was that just now?”
“Host, congratulations! You have awakened a mental power attribute!”
“Huh? What does a mental power attribute mean?”
“Host, please explore it yourself!”
That again!
How annoying!
She opened the system interface and, sure enough, found that a new mental power attribute had appeared on her status panel:
Mental Power Attribute: Wood
So… what was it useful for?
She tried summoning the vines again, but only a short section of vine appeared in her palm. Nothing more came out.
How could it have gotten weaker?
However, she no longer had time to worry about it. The secret realm had begun shaking, and her time was almost up!
Shen Qingyao pulled out her Spirit-grade hoe and swung it repeatedly. Finally, she managed to dig the flower tree out of the ground.
“Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained one Rank-7 ordinary locust tree!”
It was actually a locust tree. No wonder its blossoms had looked as white as snow and so breathtakingly beautiful!
If she planted a locust tree and paired it with a hive of bees, wouldn’t she be able to have locust blossom honey?
In the blink of an eye, she returned to her shelter.
Shen Qingyao opened her eyes and stretched out her hands. Sure enough, she had transformed back into her human form!
She breathed a sigh of relief.
No matter how good her beast form was, she couldn’t accept actually turning from a human into a monster!
A human body was simply the most convenient!
“Ding! Congratulations, Host! Butterfly Valley Secret Realm exploration progress: 100%! Rewards: one Spirit-grade shovel and one Spirit-grade Butterfly Wing Set.”
A Spirit-grade shovel!
It had finally arrived!
At last, she wouldn’t have to exhaust herself digging up the land by hand!
As for the Butterfly Wing Set, it was actually a gorgeous suit of armor!
Her combat suit was already damaged in several places, and she had no way to repair it. She had been worrying about that!
Perfect!
She wouldn’t mind entering a few more secret realms like this!
After being busy all day, she was already starving.
Fortunately, before leaving that morning, she had put some meat on to simmer in the pot. It was still warm now.
Together with some lettuce, she ate a whole wolf leg, and only then did she finally feel alive again!
When she stepped outside, she saw that an entire yard of lettuce had ripened again!
She hurriedly harvested it, then replanted the fields with vegetables. This time, she decided to plant cabbage. Although its maturation cycle was somewhat longer, its yield was extremely high!
After finishing her work, she squatted in front of the workbench and made some more fences, exhausting all her stamina.
Only then did she have time to check the system.
Wang Guodong and Li Hanyue had both contacted her through the system, asking to purchase vegetables. She readily agreed.
Wang Guodong’s order was particularly large. She guessed that he was probably buying on behalf of other people.
Shen Qingyao understood. He was an official, after all, and naturally carried a certain sense of responsibility.
She didn’t have that kind of worry.
As long as she was fed, there was no one else to worry about!
Thinking of this, she habitually checked the public channel to see if anything interesting had happened.
Everyone was talking about secret realms too. Apparently, she wasn’t the only one who had encountered one.
However, it seemed that everyone’s secret realms were different!
“I just went into a secret realm filled entirely with mud frogs. Oh my god! It was so disgusting I almost threw up!”
“Do you know what kind of secret realm I got? It was a desert secret realm! I walked around for an entire day, damn it, and couldn’t find a single oasis! I got absolutely nothing and was just teleported back!”
“You guys got off easy. I entered a volcanic secret realm, and it sent me straight to the hospital! I’m lying in bed right now, and I have to spend three days in a weakened state!”
“Good heavens! Are the secret realms really that dangerous?”
“Are the secret realms everyone goes to solo instances?”
“I went into a multiplayer secret realm, but my teammates screwed me over and got me killed! @Qian Ye @A Qiqi @Qing Liu, you bastards! Everyone, watch out for them! They’re scumbags who steal opportunities and kill their own teammates inside secret realms!”
“Tch! This is a survival game. The strong prey on the weak. If you’re not as skilled as others, you have no right to complain!”
The person who replied was the one called A Qiqi. Shen Qingyao glanced at his affiliation. There were the most Huaxia survivors in the survival game, and they knew how to band together for warmth. Yet these three actually dared to be so arrogant?
“Hmph! I have no objection to the strong preying on the weak, but anyone who stabs their own teammates in the back—do you have the guts to meet me in a life-and-death arena three days from now?”
Shen Qingyao glanced at the person’s name: Xia Xingwang.
What a coincidence!
He was from Huaxia!
He didn’t seem to have ever appeared on the rankings, so his abilities were probably fairly average.
But having that kind of courage and fighting spirit was enough to make Shen Qingyao look at him with newfound respect.
A Qiqi quickly replied:
“Who wants to fight you in a life-and-death arena? I’m busy! I don’t have time to bother with a loser like you!”
“You! Coward! Gutless bastard!”
Xia Xingwang was furious!
The two of them started arguing right there in the public channel.
The three foreign survivors even arrogantly declared that they would kill Xia Xingwang again if they encountered him in the future.
Shen Qingyao hadn’t intended to get involved, but Wang Guodong stepped in:
“You dare hurt someone from Huaxia? Wash your neck and wait!”
Qin Lie followed with:
“Heh! You dare bully people from Huaxia? You three scumbags—every time I see you, I’ll kill you!”
Even Li Hanyue, who seemed to have a rather good temper, issued a warning:
“You’d better pray you never run into me!”
At this point, if Shen Qingyao still didn’t say anything, she would probably seem too cold-hearted.
“1,000 heads of lettuce as a bounty for killing any one of Qian Ye, A Qiqi, or Qing Liu. Provide proof and claim your reward! Bounty remains active indefinitely!”
“1,000 heads of lettuce as a bounty for killing any one of Qian Ye, A Qiqi, or Qing Liu. Provide proof and claim your reward! Bounty remains active indefinitely!”
“1,000 heads of lettuce as a bounty for killing any one of Qian Ye, A Qiqi, or Qing Liu. Provide proof and claim your reward! Bounty remains active indefinitely!”
She sent it three times in a row, making sure everyone watching would see it!
“Holy crap! 666 actually spoke!”
“In my lifetime! Brothers, I thought the big shot was so aloof that she couldn’t even be bothered to talk to us!”
“1,000 heads of lettuce—is that what I think it is? Brothers, I’m practically sick of eating meat!”
“No! I’m practically sick of eating roots!”
“Who has it worse than me? I’m practically sick of eating moss!”
“M-Me! Me! I’m surviving on poisonous mushrooms! Who has it worse than me?”
“666 is seriously loaded! She offered 1,000 heads of lettuce without even blinking!”
“Exactly! This is a unique vegetable!”
“@666, Big Shot, tell us, where do your vegetables come from? Don’t tell me you just happened to get lucky and have a vegetable garden right next to your shelter?”
Shen Qingyao watched for a while before closing the channel. She didn’t bother responding to them anymore.
1,000 heads of lettuce. She meant every word.