Chapter 907 - Origin Crystal
Panda Novel
Tang Hao stood there in a daze.
‘What just happened?
‘That guy was fine, but why did he suddenly explode? And what’s this?’
His gaze fell on the green crystal. He picked it up with two of his fingers and examined it carefully.
“This is… plant essence? No, it’s not just essence. It’s an origin crystal!”
Tang Hao’s eyes sparkled, and he gasped in surprise.
“I’ve struck the jackpot!”
He was ecstatic. Origin crystals were condensed from plant essence, and they were used to cultivate rare medicinal herbs or make pills.
He could grow any herb as long as he had the origin crystal.
“This is the best day ever!” Tang Hao looked around him. Seeing that no one was looking, he quickly put it away.
He looked like a thief when he did so.
After all, he was on academy grounds, and the original crystal was academy property. He would not be able to keep it if they found out.
After putting it away, Tang Hao began to ponder.
He was not familiar with creatures like wood elves. All he knew was that they were born out of the essence of nature and absorbed the essence to sustain themselves. Perhaps origin crystals were created from an accumulation of the essence.
Perhaps the academy raised the wood elves to harvest origin crystals.
As he thought about that, his eyes flashed with greed.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to obtain origin crystals. He could not pass up the chance.
However, attacking the wood elves was strictly forbidden. Moreover, killing them might not cause them to drop a complete origin crystal.
The woof elf earlier seemed to have gone crazy and self-destructed.
“It’s a nature spirit, so it’s not too smart… I should be able to obtain their origin crystal if I can make them self-destruct,” Tang Hao muttered to himself.
After pondering for a while, he changed his appearance and walked forward.
At that moment, all the wood elves in the illusory realm felt something. They turned to look at a corner of the realm with shock on their faces.
“Fei self-destructed! How could that be?”
“That’s impossible! How could someone outsmart Fei to the point of self-destruction?”
The wood elves were in disbelief.
They were born with the innate knowledge of herbology, and they could even outsmart level three or four pill makers. How could a level one candidate defeat Fei so thoroughly?
Moreover, Fei was one of the best wood elves. His passing rate was less than ten percent.
To be able to force it to self-destruct, a candidate must have completely solved its challenge and even stump it. How was that possible?
“What’s going on? Isn’t this the level one certification test? Do we have such a candidate?”
“I don’t know. Are they the so-called prodigies?”
“That’s impossible! Those prodigies can’t be that experienced!”
The wood elves mentally communicated with each other. They argued non-stop.
Suddenly, someone said, “Does it matter who they are? We have to avenge Fei! It can’t die in vain, and we can’t let them trample upon our dignity. That bastard must be punished!”
As soon as that was said, many wood elves responded.
“Right! Fei can’t die in vain. We have to let them know how powerful wood elves are!”
“Revenge! Revenge!”
The wood elves cheered eagerly.
Immediately, many wood elves rushed out in that direction.
Soon, they found Tang Hao.
“Hey! Was it you who accepted Fei’s challenge just now?”
A wood elf jumped in front of Tang Hao and asked sternly.
“That’s right!” Tang Hao nodded.
“Then, do you dare to accept my challenge?” The wood elf continued.
“Sure!”
“Humph! How confident! My name is Long. Today, I will let you see how powerful wood elves can be! If I win, you have to hand over Fei’s token.”
Tang Hao nodded his head decisively.
“Then let’s begin! I have a thousand types of herbs here. If you can recognize nine hundred types, you win!”
As it said that, the wood elf raised its hand, and many different types of herbs appeared around him.
Tang Hao glanced at the herbs and smiled. He took a step forward and started pointing at each of them. “This one is earth dragon root. That one is stone lotus…”
He calmly pointed at the herbs one by one.
After reading through all sorts of books on medicinal herbs and exchanging pill scriptures from the Void Realm, Tang Hao’s herbology was quite profound.
The wood elf was disdainful at first, but after Tang Hao named a hundred types, its expression became serious. After naming more than 500 types, it started to panic.
‘Oh my god, this kid is a freak! He didn’t skip a single one! Why is he taking the level one test?’
It was wailing in its heart as it wiped cold sweat off its forehead.
Tang Hao stopped after naming nine hundred types of herbs. “Is that enough?”
“Yes! That’s enough!” The wood elf hurriedly said.
Then, it took out its token in frustration and threw it over. It was about to turn around and leave.
“Wait!”
At that moment, Tang Hao shouted.
The wood elf was startled. It turned around and looked at Tang Hao in confusion.
“Do you dare to… accept my challenge?” Tang Hao said.
The wood elf was stunned.
‘He wants to challenge me?’
“What, you don’t dare? I thought wood elves are very knowledgeable in herbology,” Tang Hao tried to provoke it.
“F*ck you! I’ll accept it!”
The wood elf was furious that Tang Hao was looking down on it.
“Alright! I don’t have too many questions, only a hundred. Here’s the first one. Do you know about the herb nonamillennia? Please tell me its characteristics and medicinal properties.”
The wood elf pondered for a moment and answered.
Then, it answered the second question.
The wood elf could manage the first few questions, but toward the end, Tang Hao was asking about herbs that it had never heard of.
It became more and more anxious.
“You’re cheating. You made all this up yourself, didn’t you?” It roared.
“Am I cheating? See for yourself!”
Tang Hao took out a jade copy of the scripture and showed the entries to the wood elf.
The wood elf was instantly speechless.
“I don’t know! I don’t know! How is it possible?” It became increasingly anxious and spun around in circles. Suddenly, it exploded with a bang.
A green crystal appeared on the ground.
“That’s easy!”
Tang Hao grinned and quickly picked up the origin crystal.
“Oh my god! Long self-destructed too!”
“That guy is too powerful!”
The wood elves hiding in a corner cried out in shock.
“Fei is dead, and Long is dead too. That guy is too evil. We must defeat him and avenge our friends!”
The wood elves revealed expressions of grief and indignation.
“Yes! Defeat him!”
The wood elves shouted as they charged forward one after another.
However, all of them failed. They were outsmarted and self-destructed.
Tang Hao picked up more and more origin crystals.
