At this moment, Gu Yuan was flying swiftly, and on his shoulder lay a half-foot-long centipede with a shiny silver shell.

Though it appeared motionless, its two antennae were subtly twitching, sensing danger for Gu Yuan.

"To be honest, although this small world is dangerous, it indeed has some good things."

As Gu Yuan flew, he toyed with a fist-sized black-gray object that seemed like a mix of wood and stone, appearing rather unassuming.

If tossed on the ground casually, it would be taken as nothing more than a piece of rotten wood.

However, in truth, it was something he found from within a stump.

That stump was as large as a hill and should have been a towering ancient tree with a diameter of over a hundred meters.

Yet for some unknown reason, it had withered and broken from the base.

Gu Yuan originally didn't pay much attention to it, but as he paused nearby, he sharply sensed a pure vitality hidden within the stump.

To say the least, Gu Yuan's Primordial True Qi is vibrant and most sensitive to vitality.

Had he not been so close, he might not have been able to sense it.

Afterward, Gu Yuan used his flying sword to cut open a large part of the stump. After searching for a while, he found this thing.

After pondering for a moment, Gu Yuan finally recognized its origin.

This, without a doubt, is a piece of Wood Spirit.

A Wood Spirit is the essence left after a tree demon's demise.

It is well known that all things in heaven and earth can cultivate, with cats having cat demons and dogs having dog demons. Even stones, if nurtured by heaven and earth spiritual Qi, have the chance to become demonic and turn into stone demons.

Naturally, this applies to plants as well.

However, compared to beasts like pigs, cows, sheep, tigers, leopards, and wolves, plants find it much harder to become spirits!

People living in the mountains might have heard of tiger and fox demons.

But tree and grass demons are so rare that many have never even heard of them, let alone seen them.

The piece of Wood Spirit in Gu Yuan's hand is the essence of an old tree that became a demon.

Furthermore, it should be the residual vitality condensed after it met its calamity.

When the time is right, it might sprout new buds and come to life again!

However, what happened to that old tree remains unknown, as it ultimately withered completely, leaving no potential for revival.

Only this Wood Spirit, comprising condensed vitality and life force, remains.

Though small, this Wood Spirit contains abundant and pure vitality along with the essence of wood, making it a rare wood element heavenly material and earthly treasure, suitable for both artifact refining and alchemy.

With excellent qualities, if used for refining artifacts, it could easily become an upper grade, even top-grade magical artifact, and might even have the potential to be a magical treasure.

However, after playing with it for a while, Gu Yuan flipped his other hand, revealing a palm-sized green shield.

This small shield's surface shone with abundant spiritual light, exuding a rich wood essence, clearly a rare treasure. However, in the middle of the wooden shield, there was a small hole.

This shield is none other than the Cyan Wood True Master's Lifebound Magical Artifact, the Wood Spirit Shield.

However, it had suffered considerable damage beforehand.

Though Gu Yuan intended to use Primordial True Water to cleanse all the Cyan Wood True Master's residual aura and nourish it with Wood Essence for self-repair, the effect was limited,

Primordial True Water is indeed vibrant and most nurturing, but firstly, Gu Yuan's cultivation was slightly lacking, and secondly, the grade of the Wood Spirit Shield was quite high.

If his cultivation could advance further, he might genuinely have the possibility of repairing it after a few years.

But now, with this piece of Wood Spirit, Gu Yuan could extract its essence of wood to nourish the Wood Spirit Shield, allowing it to be rapidly repaired in a short time.

This Wood Spirit Shield is of high grade, no less impressive than Gu Yuan's Silver Flood Dragon Sword. Repairing it would certainly be a fortunate outcome for him.

After all, Gu Yuan is well aware that while his overall divine techniques hold up well in attack, his defense lacks substantially, being a major shortcoming.

If this top-grade magical artifact could be repaired, it might indeed patch this shortcoming.

Gu Yuan gestured with a finger, and the Wood Spirit suddenly collapsed, transforming into streams of deep green wood essence that merged into the Wood Spirit Shield.

Buzz! Buzz!

The Wood Spirit Shield became visibly brighter at a rapid pace, as the previously dormant restrictions seemed invigorated, voraciously devouring the essence of wood.

This Wood Spirit Shield is somewhat special, being refined from wood element heavenly materials and earthly treasures, retains a part of the inherent abilities and vitality of plants, absorbing the essence of wood much like tree roots absorb earth and water.

In other words, it is a growing artifact with significant potential.

Very soon, the middle position of the spiritual shield, where the hole was, was illuminated with a faint green light, seemingly patched up.

"Not bad. As long as this piece of Wood Spirit can be completely absorbed and digested, the Wood Spirit Shield should be fully repaired and possibly even advance further."

Gu Yuan secretly nodded and put away the Wood Spirit Shield.

Once this magical artifact is fully repaired, it could be put to good use.

Suddenly.

Gu Yuan seemed to sense something, furrowing his brows as he looked into the distance.

He saw an escape light flying swiftly towards him.

"A cultivator..."

Gu Yuan was somewhat surprised.

Having been in this Red Dragon Small World for a few days, he had encountered other cultivators, although not many, and only seen them from afar without any interaction.

This is because those able to enter the Red Dragon Small World often aim to seek opportunities, busy searching for heavenly materials, earthly treasures, or Red Dragon Daoist's remnants.

Which, of course, isn't easy!

Though this small world teems with opportunities, it harbors many dangers too. Those who survive aren't simple and likely possess some good items.

Braving dangers and tirelessly seeking opportunity can hardly match the benefit gained from slaying someone else.

Therefore, Gu Yuan and all other cultivators knew clearly that within this small world, no one can be trusted and it's best not to get close to anyone.

If someone approaches, chances are they're up to no good.

This flying light approached rapidly, and Gu Yuan manipulated the clouds to speed up, avoiding the opponent.

This could be taken as expressing his intent — I don't want trouble, and you better not come close.

However, to Gu Yuan's surprise, after hesitating, the escape light continued flying toward him.

"Humph!"

Seeing that the other person not only did not avoid him but actually approached, Gu Yuan's face turned cold, and a trace of silver sword light had already spilled from his fingertips, with a chilling sharp sword intent spreading, filling the air with killing intent.

"Friend, wait! I mean no harm and, in fact, have a good proposal for you!"

A hurried voice came from the escape light, sounding somewhat youthful.

As the light dissipated slightly, Gu Yuan noticed that it was a young cultivator, fairly handsome, but his clothes were stained with blood, and his aura was unstable, evidently having suffered a not insignificant injury.

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