Chapter 117: Python Cone Fang Effects and Trading

Having not seen each other for a long time, the two of them exchanged a few sweet words with each other, and only after a long time did they get down to business.

"I just killed a basilisk and found a magical fruit tree."

Luke gave Penny a brief description of the tree's general appearance and the effects of its fruit, going on like this and like that.

After listening to Luke's description, Penny was stunned for a moment, and then confirmed again: "The leaves of the trees have golden edges, and there is a golden apple growing on the top of the tree?"

"Yes," Luke responded, "After eating that fruit, my mental strength skyrocketed."

"Wait a minute, I'll go call someone!"

Penny didn't even care about her boyfriend. She threw the phone away and ran out. Luke could still vaguely hear her shouting in the receiver: "Elder! Elder! Come quickly!"

Two or three minutes later, Penny ran back, picked up the microphone, and said to Luke: "The tree you found should be called the Wisdom Fruit Tree. It is a very magical supernatural plant. As you said before, for ordinary people, its fruit is equivalent to the effect of gold-level supernatural seeds. For supernaturals, it can enhance their spiritual power."

"The elder is with me now, and he wants to talk to you."

"Okay," Luke roughly knew the other party's needs, but he didn't have much demand for this fruit tree, and it was impossible for him to stay here to guard the tree, so naturally he wanted to sell it at a high price.

"I'm Ojibwa, an elder of Breath of the Wild. I heard Penny talk about you, Luke."

He is a traditional Indian whose name is closely related to a specific traditional meaning, unlike fixed surnames in Western culture. His voice is very steady, giving people a sense of peace.

"Penny just told me about the tree. If nothing goes wrong, it is a tree of wisdom. This tree is very precious. If you are willing, we can trade it with some treasures."

Ojibwa told Luke the value of the tree without reservation. He also knew that since they were so far apart and Luke made the call, both parties had the intention to make a deal.

In this case, as long as you show sincerity, there is a high chance that the thing will be successful.

After a short period of friendly negotiation, Luke and the other party reached a consensus.

He provided the other party with the specific location coordinates and needed to stay in Snake Valley for a few more days. He was responsible for ensuring that the tree would not be snatched away by other organizations or damaged or even die for various reasons before the druids from Breath of the Wild arrived to take over.

The people from Breath of the Wild traveled day and night from the Everglades to Snake Valley, which took about ten hours. They also brought some treasures from the tribe with them for Luke to choose.

Luke also told the Ojibwa elders about Julia's situation. The elders said that they could talk to Julia when they arrived in Snake Valley. As long as she was not a very evil person, the Breath of the Wild tribe would take her in.

The wait was not long. After hanging up the phone, Luke came down from the tree top, told Julia the good news, and then began to sort out the spoils that had not been completed before.

Although the head of the Beauty Python is human, in addition to normal human teeth, it also retains two original snake conical teeth in its mouth. Generally speaking, these conical teeth do not have the function of chewing and biting. Their function is just to hook the prey like a hook to prevent them from escaping.

Luke picked one of them as a trophy to fill the "Bone Tooth Necklace". This is also the third third-level tooth in the "Bone Tooth Necklace".

"The Bone Tooth Necklace is equipped with the new item: Beauty Python Cone Fang, which has the effect of [Snake Shedding]."

"【Snake Shed】: Actively use this effect to generate a thin and tough layer of energy snake shed on the body surface of the Bone Tooth Necklace holder. This snake shed does not affect the holder's mobility and has extremely strong defensive capabilities, which is approximately equal to the epidermal defense of a tier 3 body-enhanced python. The duration is determined by the consumption of mental energy, and the minimum amount of mental energy invested lasts for 15 minutes."

Julia stood far away and looked at Luke. Although she knew that Luke had no reason to attack her, she had the ability to transform into a snake, so she was half snake. She watched Luke skinning the beauty python, even if the python had a grudge against her, she felt a little sympathetic for a moment, or at least she was very scared. She felt the horror of a human seeing the corpse of a fellow human being being skinned.

After peeling off the skin of the two halves of the python's body, the remaining flesh and blood was of no use.

There were still a few hours before the people from Breath of the Wild arrived, and there was nothing to do at this time, so Luke simply washed his whole body and began to tan the python skin.

After a while, Luke's phone buzzed a few times.

He took it out and saw that it was a text message from Penny.

Luke took a quick look and found a message from half an hour ago. There was no signal at that time, but for some reason, his luck suddenly improved and there was a signal, so he received the message.

"Luke, you had no signal when I called you just now, so you can only send a message. The Ojibwa elders took a lot of things from the treasury as options for exchange. One of them is an emerald green pendant called the Heart of Eternal Emerald Leaf. That one is the most valuable and the most useful, so you must choose that one."

good good!
Not knowing whether the phone was still in Penny's hand, Luke replied with a "received" and put the phone away, and continued to tan the snakeskin.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was dark. With nothing to do, Julia told Luke about her experiences during the conversation.

Originally, this place was not called Snake Valley, but an ordinary valley. When the Beauty Python came here, it already had a mind that was no less than that of humans.

The four-person camping group with Julia encountered the beauty python and started to run for their lives in panic. Julia was the calmest and luckiest. She was not the first target. After observation, she found that the faster she ran, the more likely she would become the target of the python.

With her keen observation skills, she suppressed her fear and stayed where she was. Then she was chosen by the beauty python, brainwashed by her extraordinary powers, and became her maid.

She found the fruit core about a year ago, far away from the tree. It was almost turning green when she picked it up. She didn't know whether it was left there by an animal or a human.

Although her mind was controlled, her natural keen intuition made her subconsciously pick up the fruit core and eat it.

The power of the fruit core carried the extraordinary energy that the snake demon had used to transform and control Julia over the past year. While restoring her sanity, it also gave her some extraordinary abilities similar to those of a druid, allowing her to step into the extraordinary realm in one step.

As they were chatting, a high-pitched and long eagle cry was heard in the sky. Luke, who was under the wisdom tree, stood up suddenly and looked up at the sky vigilantly. A ball of fire was already burning, ready to burst out in front of his body.

Soon, a small black dot appeared in the sky. As the distance got closer, the black dot grew bigger and bigger. With the help of mental power, Luke could already see its appearance clearly.

The thing swooping down from the sky was an eagle, with dark brown feathers all over its body, but with golden lanceolate feathers on its neck, nape and back of its head, especially on its head, where those feathers were clustered together like a golden crown. It was a golden eagle!
He looked down at the time. It had only been about six hours since he communicated with Breath of the Wild. The other party said it would take ten hours. Although this golden eagle looked very consistent with the characteristics of a druid, it was too early and Luke still had to be cautious.

Fortunately, after seeing Luke was ready to fight, the golden eagle stopped its previous speed and took the initiative to spread its wings, slightly tilting the leading edge of the wings upward, using lift and drag to slow down. When it approached the ground, it flapped its wings quickly, braked urgently, and transformed into a human form in the air two or three meters high, and landed gently 20 to 30 meters away from Luke and the fruit tree.

"Who are you?" Luke asked first.

"My name is Grace, the guardian of the Breath of the Wild tribe," the woman transformed by the golden eagle introduced herself, "We talked on the phone not long ago, and I was the first one to answer your call just now."

The voice does sound familiar.

Luke relaxed his vigilance a little and continued to ask, "Didn't you say it would take ten hours? And why are you the only one here?"

Hearing Luke's questioning, Grace was not impatient, but instead had a hint of appreciation in her eyes. After all, the other party was now guarding the tribe's property, and the more vigilant he was, the more it proved that he was reliable.

She explained seriously, "They are still on their way. They came here by helicopter. I am in golden eagle form, which is much faster than a helicopter. I left them behind halfway and flew here first."

Helicopter? Too slow?
Do you want to see what you are talking about?
However, Luke recalled that the cruising speed of his helicopter was only about 200 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed was only 300.

As for the golden eagle, an ordinary golden eagle can have a dive speed of 300 kilometers per hour if it is a transcendental one. Moreover, in Luke's vision, this golden eagle druid is at least a level 3 transcendental one, so it is normal that he does not look down on the speed of the helicopter.

His attitude softened a lot. He extinguished the blazing sun flame in front of him and pulled Julia to his front.

"Why don't you talk to her first? She ate the core of the fruit of wisdom and, under the influence of a beauty python, gained the ability to switch freely between human and snake bodies. She should be considered a druid."

"I have communicated with the Ojibwa elders before, and she may be able to join the Breath of the Wild tribe."

Luke's meaning is very clear. I have initial trust in you, but the matter is of great importance. You should wait for the main force to arrive and do something else first.

Grace understood what he meant, but she had never seen an example of someone like Julia who became a druid through the Fruit of Wisdom, so she was indeed very interested in her.

Anyway, she flew here in advance because she was worried that something might happen when the night was too long. While the main group was on the way, something happened to Luke. Since everything was safe now, she didn't need to do anything extra.

The eagle-like woman pulled the snake woman aside. The double oppression from race and class made Julia feel under great pressure, and she began to answer the other party's questions one by one.

A few hours later, the helicopter of the Breath of the Wild tribe arrived and three people got off the plane one after another.

After getting off the plane, Ojibwa did not go to see the tree of wisdom first, but came to the opposite side of Luke. Looking at the handsome and tall young man, the nearly 100-year-old old man smiled and nodded, his eyes like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law.

She took two steps forward and touched the ground with her hand. On the lawn between them, vines sprouted out. As they grew, the vines branched and bent, climbed and intertwined, and finally formed the outline of a set of tables and chairs.

"Please take a seat."

The old man gestured for Luke to sit down, and he also sat on a rattan chair in front of him.

After Luke sat down, Ojibwa wiped his palm across the rattan table, and a subtle fluctuation seemed to occur in the air.

Suddenly, a dazzling spiritual light flashed before Luke.

These spiritual lights cannot be seen by ordinary people's naked eyes, but Luke's newly acquired "infrared vision (mutation)" can easily observe them.

The rich spiritual light seemed to explode like a flash bomb in front of Luke, causing him to involuntarily close his eyes and rub them vigorously a few times.

Simply put, the treasures Ojibwa brought were so numerous and of such high quality that he was dazzled by the brilliance.

What the hell am I? A rich second generation?

Since last seeing the Southern Baptist boy lover, Luke has once again questioned his origins.

Ojibwa looked at Luke with interest. This kid, at only the second level, could sense the exact spirituality? And judging from his appearance, he could not only sense it vaguely, but he seemed to be able to see it with his naked eyes.

It seems that Penny has good taste. The lover she found is capable and knows how to think about her when there are benefits.

Luke, who didn't know that he had been given a five-star rating by his "mother-in-law", opened his eyes and turned off his infrared vision. Only then could he see the true appearance of the things on the table.

There aren't many of them, only about six in total.

Three of them are plant products, a branch, a leaf and a flower.

Perhaps it was the spiritual objects themselves that were concealed. If it weren't for the spiritual vision, Luke might have thought that they were just plant fragments that had just been picked from the tree.

The other three pieces were of a different kind: a crown made of woven feathers, a withered claw, and an emerald green pendant.

After Luke finished his observation, Ojibwa pointed at the treasures and said with a smile, "I can guarantee with my personal reputation and the reputation of the Breath of the Wild that everything here is as valuable as that tree, and some are even worth much more."

"I can't tell you what these things do, you have to choose them yourself."

After she finished speaking, perhaps because she was worried that the "son-in-law" would be dissatisfied, she explained: "This is an interesting little tradition in our tribe. Don't worry, no matter which of these things you choose, they will be very useful to you."

(End of this chapter)