Ye Xiao went near it and extended his hand toward Little Yellow to wake it up but just as its hand was about to touch the Little Yellow, four thorns was thrown toward his hand from the four flowers at lightning speed.
"Damn it!"
"Ahh!"
Ye Xiao cried out in pain. This never happened to him before. When he was planting the Jade Lotus there, he touched some flowers at that time, but nothing happened at that time. And now, as if these four flowers were treating him as an enemy.
His both hands was pierced by the thorns and he felt like thousands of ants were biting him. And what is most terrifying about this was that he felt like not only his physical body, his soul was also being bitten.
The pain was unbearable. He was agonized by the pain and was suffering. He felt like he was about to die but some mysterious force suddenly entered his body and in that instant, all the pain disappeared.
After a moment, when he felt some strength coming to him, he can opened his eyes and saw that Little Yellow was beside him and staring him with somewhat worried face.
Only when he felt like he can move his body did he stand up and looked at those flowers with terror. When he looked at his hands, he found something sticky on the wounds there. When he touched those sticky things with his hands and probed it only then he found out that it was the saliva. Saliva of Little Yellow.
Yesterday, when he was still in the forest, at that time he saw with his own eyes that the saliva of the Little Yellow was very beneficial for the growth of plants and herbs but he never thought that it can even heal the injuries.
Sometime later, all the wounds of his hand recovered and his hands become like what it was before the thorns from flowers pierced.
"Little fellow, thanks a lot. Otherwise I would have died from that unbearable pain." When Ye Xiao talked about the pain, there was still a lingering fear in his eyes.
"Chii chii!"
Little Yellow prattled a little and raised his head with a proud look and then waved its little hand. At that time, those four flowers, that was still looked like a guard, without any motion returned to normal. It began to move right and left just like all other flowers.
Seeing this Ye Xiao, who just thanked and prised Little Yellow, erupted with anger. He suddenly understood that all of these things happen because of Little Yellow. He endured those unbearable pain and suffered from it only because of Little Yellow.
"You....I just suffered so much because of you." Ye Xiao shouted in anger.
"Chii chii!"
Little Yellow acted as if he didn't understand what Ye Xiao was shouting.
"You are very good. I know you have very high intelligence unlike those magical beast in the forest. You understood very well what I am telling."
"Chii chii!"
"Stop acting like this. I don't know how you changed the nature of those flowers but.." Ye Xiao was still shouting at Little Yellow when he realised something and stopped.
"But...wait. You...you changed the nature of those flowers." Ye Xiao said lightly.
"Chii chii!"
Little Yellow nodded its head this time in agreement. It accepted that it changed the nature of those flowers for some time.
"Didn't it mean that you can create many traps with those type of thorns. If it is really like this, we can hunt not only rank two magical beast with ease, we can hunt even third rank and fourth rank magical beasts. At that time, after devouring them, my cultivation will increase by a who knows how many times. Hahaha."
Ye Xiao immediately began to imagine many things and started laughing like a madman.
"Chii chii!"
Little Yellow pulled Ye Xiao cloths and shook its head.
"What? What are you trying to say?" Ye Xiao looked at Little Yellow but he didn't understood what it was trying to say so he asked again.
Little Yellow, after seeing that Ye Xiao didn't understand him, it pointed toward the flowers and then pointed at his hands and then nodded his head and then again shook his head.
"What are you telling? Say it clearly." Ye Xiao still didn't understood what Little Yellow was trying to say so he felt annoyed.
Seeing this reaction from Ye Xiao, Little Yellow also felt a little bit angry. Its hand instantly transformed into vines but this time, the top of vine was like a thorn, it rose up and pierced into Ye Xiao's hand.
"Ahh! What are you doing?"
Ye Xiao shouted in pain. But then again he felt as if something was trying to communicate him. When Ye Xiao carefully concentrated and tried to listen, he felt an unclear thought in his mind. He was shocked to find that this unclear thought belonged to the Little Yellow.
He looked at little Yellow who was staring at him and then again tried to concentrate on listening what Little Yellow was trying to say.
"I...flower...trap...thorn...yes...other...no...only...thorn...here...special...different."
Ye Xiao was shocked to find out that by piercing its vine in his hand, Little Yellow was able to communicate with him in human language.
I don't know what type of creature is Little Yellow but it is really very amazing and mysterious creature.
He listened to it for ten or twelve breaths of time and finally deduced out something from it.
"So you are trying to tell me that you can only form this type of trap here, from these flowers because they are special and different from any other things. And you can not create this type of thing outside from ordinary plants and flowers. You can only change their nature a little bit." Ye Xiao said after understanding it from what Little Yellow was trying to tell him.
"Chii chii!"
Little Yellow nodded its head and confirmed Ye Xiao words.
"Oh! so it is like this." Ye Xiao felt a little disappointed but again he felt happy because he gained a mysterious follower.
"Forget it. Let's go. Today is the last day of the first round of the competition and we are far away from the periphery of the Cloudsmoke Forest. We will first rush toward outside and if we encounter any magical beast that we can hunt, we will kill them and you can devour them. Ok." Ye Xiao said and looked at Little Yellow.
"Chii chii!"
Little Yellow nodded his head and again jumped on his shoulder with the help of vine hands.
Ye Xiao then took his leave from the world inside the Heavenly Pearl and appeared again in the small cave. Then he rushed toward the outside of the Cloudsmoke Forest with his full speed.
In his path, whenever he encountered any second rank magical beast, he will kill them. Then he will take out the beast core from the body of the magical beast and store it and let Little Yellow absorb them and whenever he encountered any third rank or above magical beast, he would always avoid them. Because of the aura of stronger magical beasts, there were no ordinary creatures and first rank magical beast here.
When it was about to be evening, he finally crossed the wall of fog and then again rushed toward the outside of the forest.
"BOOM!"
When he was about to exit the Cloudsmoke forest, he heard a loud explosion from a certain direction. Ye Xiao stopped in his track and after hesitating for a while, he decided to look for it and ran toward that direction.
In his way there, he met many other participants including Chen Xiang, Xu Qing, Feng Lin, Lu li and many other participants but he didn't saw Lin Hao.
All the other participants also saw him but they ignored him and continued on there way toward the direction from where that explosion sound came. Only Chen Xiang, after seeing Ye Xiao, looked at him with hatred in his eyes.
When they reached at the place of explosion, he saw that around the fifty meter of radius, everything was destroyed. Be it trees, grasses or any magical beasts, nothing was there. Only two figures were present and fighting with each other in the sky.
"Look they are flying in the air. They are Martial King Realm experts."
"No, they are Martial Emperor Realm experts."
"How do you know?"
"Look at their terrifying battle strength. Everything is destroyed here. I once saw the fight between two peak Martial King Realm experts but they were not as powerful as the two of them. Clearly they are cultivators above the Martial King Realm. What does it mean? It means that they are Martial Emperor Realm experts."
"Oh!, so that's how it is."
"Yes."
"But why are they fighting?"
"You asked me, who would I ask? How would I know why fighting?"
Participants present there began to talk about the two experts who were fighting.