Chapter 89: The Use of the Baleful Energy Devouring Worm
Si Er felt extremely satisfied watching the predicament of Si Ran and his sister. One had been expelled from the Si family with nothing to her name, and the other had been drained of his savings by Yu Bei Tiger. Both were now living in tight circumstances.
Especially Si Jiaojiao—she was practically on the verge of begging.
After finally finding Si Ran, she hadn’t even managed to open her mouth before Si Ran asked her to lend him money first. Si Er had nearly burst out laughing on the spot.
Si Jiaojiao had been completely dumbfounded. In her memory, Si Ran had always been wealthy.
As the young master of the City Lord’s residence, his regular allowance had never been small. The clan also distributed additional resources based on status and talent.
More importantly, Old Master Si favored Si Ran and had privately given him many valuable items.
City Lord Si, feeling guilty for being too busy and neglecting his three sons, would give them soul stones and cultivation resources every time they met.
With that kind of background, how could Si Ran possibly have no money?
Si Jiaojiao believed he was simply selfish—unwilling to support his full-blooded younger sister.
He even claimed that all his storage artifacts had been stolen. How could that be possible? The security at Azure Dragon Academy was so strict. If students were so easily robbed there, how could it still be ranked among the Four Great Academies?
Watching the siblings nearly come to blows, Si Er was even more delighted.
Forget fighting—Si Ran now probably had the urge to kill Si Jiaojiao. He had never expected her to be so stupid that she couldn’t even placate their usually easygoing uncle and had ended up being expelled with nothing.
These days, he had been relying entirely on Di Lintian and Yu Feiqing for support, already feeling miserable enough. And now Si Jiaojiao had come to drag him down further.
Seeing them quarrel like that, Si Er once again sighed that even heroes are defeated by a lack of money. Even if Si Ran was the chosen protagonist of an external Heavenly Dao, without money he couldn’t get anything done.
But he was different!
Si Er quickly thought of the two mines under his name, and of how his two older brothers and Xuanxuan constantly found new ways to give him gifts. He felt that he could now be considered a little rich.
Still, he felt that constantly accepting others’ generosity wasn’t good. He ought to give something back.
But most of what he had were things given to him by others—what could he personally gift in return?
He agonized over it all night without finding an answer. Unexpectedly, a turning point arrived the very next day.
During Beast Studies class, Instructor Yan Bo handed each student a nest of caterpillars.
Several classmates immediately changed expressions. Only Si Er’s eyes lit up.
“Ahhh! Aren’t these Baleful Energy Devouring Worms?”
“They’re incredibly powerful after emerging as butterflies—but before that, they’re just useless little trash except for absorbing baleful energy!”
“Hahaha! I didn’t expect the academy to have researched them so quickly—and even handed out a nest to everyone!”
Instructor Yan Bo: …If you’ve already said everything, do I still need to teach this class? Why don’t you just teach it?
Remembering that he couldn’t let Si Er notice anything unusual, Yan Bo took a deep breath, stepped onto the podium, and explained how to use the Baleful Energy Devouring Worms.
He always taught in a rigid, methodical manner, his face stern and serious.
But the students below couldn’t help secretly laughing. They all felt that teaching Si Er was far too difficult for Instructor Yan.
There was probably no one who understood the origins and usage of the Baleful Energy Devouring Worms better than Si Er—and he had already “revealed” everything in his mind.
Instructor Yan clearly knew that Si Er had already “said” it all, yet he still had to explain it again.
And they, who already knew everything, had to pretend to be surprised and listen attentively once more.
Most of the students felt that they had it hard too—attending Beast Studies class now required acting skills.
Seeing everyone cooperate so well, Instructor Yan secretly let out a sigh of relief.
He continued, “Once these worms break out of their cocoons and become butterflies, their danger increases hundreds or thousands of times. So the alchemists of our academy, together with those from the other three great academies, researched them for nearly a month.”
“We have finally developed a potion that can delay their growth rate. For now, it’s temporarily called ‘Broken Butterfly No. 1.’”
“Since you are the most outstanding students of this cohort, and your performance this past month has been excellent—”
“As a reward, the academy is giving each of you five Baleful Energy Devouring Worms and ten tubes of Broken Butterfly No. 1.”
“If you need more in the future, you’ll have to exchange academy contribution points for them.”
After saying this, Instructor Yan personally demonstrated how to use them to absorb baleful energy.
“As long as they detect baleful energy, they will continuously absorb it. So it’s best to keep them sealed in airtight containers and only take them out when needed.”
He had sealed his own worms in separate test tubes. Now, when needed, he took one out and placed it on the table.
The baleful energy remaining in the tube had already been devoured clean. Once released, the worm immediately began greedily absorbing the baleful energy in the air.
But after less than a second, Instructor Yan covered it together with a spirit fruit under a glass dome.
Everyone watched as the worm first absorbed all the baleful energy inside the dome before slowly crawling toward the spirit fruit.
The Baleful Energy Devouring Worms loved baleful energy and detested spiritual qi. Spirit fruits naturally contained far more spiritual qi than baleful energy.
Thus, after absorbing the baleful energy within the fruit, the worm crawled away in disgust, keeping a wide distance and refusing to spare it another glance.
Instructor Yan opened the dome, took out the now-cleansed spirit fruit, wiped it twice, and popped it into his mouth.
While chewing, he said, “Once a spirit fruit is exposed to air for more than five minutes, it will begin absorbing baleful energy again. So after cleansing it, eat it as soon as possible.”
“Although these worms are useful for absorbing baleful energy, they do take time.”
“And the more baleful energy they absorb, the faster they grow. So you must exercise restraint when using them.”
“Don’t let them absorb everything out of curiosity. Before you’re sure you have enough Broken Butterfly potion, make your own plans carefully.”
The students obediently nodded and began planning how to use their worms. Only Si Er was planning what gifts he could give.
With these worms, he could finally take out the strange melons stored in his space!
Si Er felt that his eldest brother sometimes acted a little unhinged, as though his soul had once been damaged—he could gift him some Soul-Nourishing Hami Melon.
His second brother’s soul power talent was slightly inferior to his and his eldest brother’s, so he could also benefit from Soul-Nourishing Hami Melon.
His father had split his soul to accompany him and would definitely need Soul-Nourishing Hami Melon as well.
On the Continent of Ten Thousand Beasts, Soul-Nourishing Hami Melon was a gift you could never go wrong with—far more useful than soul stones.
As for Xuanxuan… he probably didn’t need it, right?
Xuanxuan was born with stronger soul power than most people, and his talent was the rare Gold Grade. If he also ate Soul-Nourishing Hami Melon, how would anyone else survive?
He’d think about what would be suitable to give him instead.
Hearing Si Er’s thoughts, Yu Beixuan was overjoyed.
Was he finally about to get to share Er’er’s melons?
