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Chapter 97 The essence of Geng metal is obtained, and the eggs of the sword butterfly are also obtained!

As soon as He Guangda finished speaking, golden light spots gathered from mid-air and gradually formed the outline of the sword butterfly.

"My sword butterfly can self-destruct and then re-form."

"Don't you just want me to fight with the Burrowing Rat King so you can benefit from the conflict?"

"When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

"By the same token, when you are scheming against me, I am scheming against you."

He Guangda sneered, but he didn't notice that Big Gray had appeared behind him at some point.

A sharp claw pierced He Guangda's back, blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, He Guangda's eyes gradually dimmed, and his body convulsed.

He stretched out his hand, staring blankly in the direction where the sword butterfly had materialized, and shouted with his last ounce of strength, "Sword, sword butterfly, escape quickly!"

More blood spilled from He Guangda's mouth, and finally his hand fell limp.

At this moment, the sword butterfly reformed, its eyes piercingly fixed on Big Gray.

Sword Butterfly had already sensed that its pet master was dead, and it wished it could tear Big Gray to pieces at this moment.

It charged forward frantically, its crescent-shaped sword energy condensing and about to shoot out.

Big Gray swung his big shovel at her again.

With a sharp crack, the sword butterfly was sent flying, crashing heavily against the rock wall. Its wings were twisted to varying degrees, and it seemed that more air was expelled than inhaled.

"Big Grey, grab it."

Big Grey pinned the Sword Butterfly down with its claws.

Ye Bai was being cautious, fearing that the Sword Butterfly might unleash a powerful attack, forcing him to die alongside its pet master.

Ye Bai took out a beast card and placed it not far from the sword butterfly.

Countless chains burst forth from the beast card, gradually pulling the sword butterfly into it.

Only then did Ye Bai pick up the beast card, which showed a broken-winged butterfly sealed by chains.

The Fire Poison Giant Scorpion's body was also blown into countless fragments along with the Sword Butterfly clone's self-destruction.

The fourth-order crystal core fell to the ground, covered in a lot of dust.

However, Ye Bai, who possessed the Eye of Insight, picked it up from the ground.

Its crystal core is purplish-red and contains poison and fire energy.

Dual-attribute crystal cores are far more valuable than single-attribute crystal cores.

Just then, Ye Bai noticed that many things had appeared next to He Guangda's body, including various household items and several large metal statues.

It's like looting equipment, and inside there are unwashed boxer shorts and smelly socks.

With his Eye of Insight activated, he discovered that only the metal statue's belly was emanating gray mist.

"Could it be?"

Ye Bai thought of the metal statue he was about to search for in the He family's courtyard. Could it be that statue?

Could He Guangda have become so poor that he stole the metal statues?

No wonder the intelligence said that He Guangda discovered the Gengjin essence in the statue's belly; it must have been his sword butterfly that discovered it.

Ye Bai pointed to one of the statues, specifically the Sunflower King.

The Sunflower King nodded, and with its steel-like roots, it pierced through the statue, forcefully splitting it in two.

They found a palm-sized piece of golden metal and an ancient parchment scroll inside the statue.

The parchment scroll appears to have been cut in half; only one-third remains.

The golden metal is the essence of Geng metal, a fifth-tier treasure, which is extremely attractive to metal-type pets.

The flesh and blood of the Burrowing Rat King and the Fire Poison Giant Scorpion were entangled by the roots of the Sunflower King. Currently, only pets of this level are worth the Sunflower King's attention, as their flesh and blood contain extremely large amounts of energy.

After absorbing everything, the Sunflower King's body became incredibly bloated, like a giant female bodybuilder.

The core of the burrowing rat king is the size of a pigeon egg and emits an earthy yellow luster.

"Thank you to the acting head of the He family for making the trip to deliver this treasure."

"They even delivered the essence of Geng metal to me."

"Now all that's missing is the shell of the Destiny Turtle."

The sword butterfly was also about to die. After it died, Ye Bai had another fourth-tier gold-type crystal core in his hand.

"Let's go, King of Sunflowers."

Looking at the remaining timid Drill Rat King and the third-tier Drill Rat, Ye Bai had no interest in making a move.

He kept the burrowing rats, not out of kindness, but because he saw them as leeks to be harvested.

Ye Bai would patrol regularly, and once a fourth-tier burrowing rat king appeared, Big Gray would use its powerful arms to directly kill the burrowing rat king.

A fourth-order crystal nucleus is equivalent to one hundred third-order crystal nuclei, and it is often in high demand but not readily available.

After Ye Bai disappeared, the mole rats all turned their attention to He Guangda's corpse and the things he had dropped.

They swarmed away, and soon the sound of crunching and gnawing on bones could be heard.

After Ye Bai emerged from the burrowing rat's secret realm, he used hacking techniques to erase He Guangda's clumsy concealment methods.

Fortunately, He Guangda chose to act at night, a time when almost no one passes by.

In this way, everyone would assume that He Guangda left Jiaying City to avoid debts, and that his death had nothing to do with Ye Bai.

When Ye Bai arrived at the research institute, Zhang Lingxue lazily replied, "You're back. Did you catch the mole?"

She crushed the roots of the thunder alfalfa. The purple thunder alfalfa released a bluish sap, which Zhang Lingxue extracted for testing.

Zhang Lingxue frowned and explained to Ye Bai, "Thunder Alfalfa does have a problem. It contains a special ingredient that makes the negatively charged rabbits increasingly irritable."

"However, this component is very difficult to separate, and I haven't been able to extract it completely yet." Zhang Lingxue felt a sharp pain in her brain; she had a terrible headache.

"Teacher, have you ever thought about this?"

"Since there is a negatively charged rabbit, will there be a positively charged rabbit?"

"Could there be any connection between them?"

Ye Bai asked tentatively.

Zhang Lingxue put down the test tube in her hand.

"Of course we've considered that. The Western Research Institute once conducted a very thorough search for it."

"This incident has caused a great stir, and almost all researchers know about it."

"After a long and arduous search, they finally came to the conclusion that there are no longer any positive electric rabbits in the world."

"Actually, I can understand the people at the Western Research Institute. They really invested a lot of manpower and resources in this project."

"They must have tried every possible avenue and struggled for five years before finally deciding to give up."

"If my master and I were to figure it out, we might go down in history."

"But if we can't figure it out, we'll only get a lot of criticism."

Zhang Lingxue said with some helplessness, "The negative electric rabbit research project is a bottomless pit."

"By the way, deal with He Guangda cleanly. Get rid of his personal belongings and such."

"You don't need to explain, it's definitely He Guangda who's here to cause you trouble."

“My mental energy is attached to the spatial key, and I can sense who you brought in.”

“Your Totoro is very strong, so He Guangda, that weakling, is no match for you.”

Zhang Lingxue added one last thing.

Ye Bai shrugged and took out a beast card.

"This is He Guangda's sword butterfly."

"Teacher, see if it's useful. If it's not, I'll destroy it and take out the fourth-order crystal core."

Zhang Lingxue raised an eyebrow: "Sword Butterfly, He Guangda has kept this rare beast well hidden."

"Quickly check the sword butterfly's stomach for any worm eggs."

"If there are insect eggs, then we'll make a fortune."

A glint of shrewdness flashed in Zhang Lingxue's eyes.

"The sword butterfly mates only once in its lifetime, and lays only one egg at a time."

"Its eggs are more valuable than those of the sword butterfly."

"It can be used to cultivate a sword butterfly that is loyal to you, or it can be used to summon spirits."

Zhang Lingxue casually opened the beast card, and the dying sword butterfly emerged from it.

Its wings were broken, and it was too weak to repair them.

Sword Butterfly felt all its life force rapidly draining away. Just as it was about to struggle, Zhang Lingxue pierced its head with a scalpel.

Zhang Lingxue dug a crystal core the size of a thumbnail out of Jian Die's head. She looked at it for a few moments in her fair, jade-like hand before tossing it to Ye Bai.

"Take this crystal core and use it to train your gold-type pet."

"Of course, we can't spare Sword Butterfly's body either."

"It devours a lot of metal, and with just a little fire, it becomes metal of extremely high purity."

Zhang Lingxue used a scalpel to cut open the abdomen of the sword butterfly, and sure enough, there was a silvery-white insect egg the size of a chicken egg inside.

She carefully cut open the blood vessel connecting the insect eggs and placed the eggs on her palm.

"Good, the eggs are in very good condition."

"Perfect for summoning spirits."

"Ye Bai, it's normal that you don't know about spirit summoning. This kind of knowledge is never mentioned in books."

“Spirit summoning can bring forth the dormant soul of an ancient artifact; the older the soul, the easier it is to successfully summon it.”

Zhang Lingxue handed the insect eggs to Ye Bai, and at the same time took out a yellowed ancient book from her pet space.

"It might be a bit difficult for me to explain it to you, you should just look it up yourself."

Zhang Lingxue stretched her muscles and bones.

"I'm currently leading the negatively charged rabbit experiment, but I'm completely clueless. How about we switch, Ye Bai?"

"I'll do the research on the burrowing rat, and you'll do the research on the negatively charged rabbit."

"If you don't understand something, just ask me."

"This is your opportunity to grow rapidly."

Zhang Lingxue looked at Ye Bai with utmost sincerity: "You won't refuse your teacher, will you? This is the first request your teacher has made to you."

"If we don't figure it out yet, it's on me. If we do figure it out, it's on both of ours."

Ye Bai blinked, and finally nodded in agreement.

He has already seen the evolutionary path of the negatively charged rabbit through the Eye of Insight.

As for burrowing rats, he wasn't really interested.

Please vote! I reflected on yesterday's chapter and realized I shouldn't have given too much screen time to unimportant characters. I padded the word count, and I feel deeply ashamed. I've been reflecting on it all day, but I don't know what to change.

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