Chapter 984: Save a Soul
Ning sensed the bamboo’s cultivation base and was surprised to find it was around Golden Core.
“Now that’s something you don’t see every day,” he thought. Even in the other universe, he had been to, he had maybe seen 2 or 3 trees that could cultivate. Normally, plants just collected Qi to improve themselves, not their cultivation base.
“Since this plant has a cultivation base, that means it is intelligent enough to do it,” Ning said. “Which means… there is a soul inside here.”
“A soul?” Blue asked with a fascinated expression. He had never seen a plant be able to cultivate, so seeing one was already amazing.
Ning hesitated a bit. “I can’t just uproot it or cut it in half, I will kill the soul inside,” he thought.
“Master, that thing is getting angry at us, it seems,” Blue said.
“Hm?” At the same time, Ning looked at the top of the bamboo plant to look at the beast that was eating all the bamboo leaves. He smiled a bit when he saw the intelligent eyes of the beast and realized it wasn’t a normal beast either.
“Are you worried that I’m here with bad intentions?” Ning asked. “Don’t worry, I’m not here to take away your food.”
The beast growled a bit. It could tell that a very strong beast was below, not to mention the fact that it was wrapped around a human who seemed to be far more terrible.
If it was anything like the other human, the beast did not want to push its luck. “Please don’t hurt it,” the beast said.
Ning smiled and couldn’t help but think the beast was a little cute.
“Right, Golden Core should be around which most beasts are intelligent enough to talk, right?” Ning thought. “Can plants talk?”
He knocked on the meter-wide bamboo stalk. “Hey, anyone inside?” he asked.
Ning waited for a bit, but nothing really happened. “Is the soul inside here not aware or what?” he thought. “System, can plants not communicate?”
“So this one is just choosing not to?” Ning asked. That was certainly frustrating.
“Suppressed? By what?” Ning asked.
Ning couldn’t help but frown when hearing that answer. “His soul is being suppressed by a system? Can you explain a bit more?” he asked.
Ning got angry when he heard that. “Do we know who the owner of this system is?” he asked.
“Wait, so this system is to go back to another Universe? Can it even do that?” Ning asked.
Ning stayed quiet for a while as he thought about the information he had just heard. “Can I do anything about it? Or can I simply not interact anymore now that the system has attached itself to the soul?” he asked.
“Wait, I can do that?” Ning couldn’t help but ask. “Any downsides?”
Even if Ning wanted to help this person, he had to be careful as to not weaken himself in the process. He couldn’t just be a person that would let himself take the bullet for someone random.
Still, it just didn’t feel right to leave someone so vulnerable when he had the ability to help them.
“Okay, what are my chances of successfully separating the soul and the system?” Ning asked.
Ning took a deep breath. There was still a chance of failure then. One in ten thousand was a very minuscule chance, but it was a chance nonetheless.
“Screw it, what’s the point of having all this power if I can’t help the ones in need. I have Space stones, so returning won’t be a problem at all. As for the loss of energy, I will just take it away from one of the Constellations back on earth,” he said to himself.
“Master, are you alright?” Blue asked. Ning had been lost in his own thought for a while now, mumbling something from time to time, so Blue was a little worried.
“Yes, I am fine,” Ning said. “Can you go a little further away? I have to do something that might be dangerous.”
“Okay,” Blue said and flew away. He went away to outside the forest and used his senses to watch back at what was happening.
“Alright, system. Tell me exactly what I need to do. Do I grab the soul with my hand? Is there a sort of linking process? What?” Ning asked.
Ning closed his eyes as the mountain of knowledge entered his mind and to his surprise, he learned a new skill, one that he had witnessed being used by the system a very, very long time ago.
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