I Can Edit Skills

Chapter 22: The Knot On the Root of the Tree

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Zhou Ji did not act rashly. He did not know what danger was here. Although his daughter had stayed here for a long time yesterday, no one knew what had happened during that time.

How long had the spirit origin pond existed? Had the tree been absorbing the spirit origin pond to grow here? Could it have become a monster?

As he thought about it, he felt that this place was a little strange. The hole under the tree root was blocked by the tree branches, so there was no spirit origin seeping out. This was also the reason why this place had not been discovered.

It was just that…

Zhou Ji suddenly stopped and looked at a protrusion on the ground. It was only then that he realized that there were many large and small bumps on the ground. The closer he got to the spirit origin pool, the more bumps there were.

This is…

Zhou Ji’s gaze fell on Little White who was sleeping next to the spirit origin pool. Looking at the sleeping position, his pupils constricted slightly.

“Xiao Rui, how did you get out yesterday?”

Zhou Ji asked without batting an eyelid.

“It was Little White who woke me up. At that time, I fell into this pool and was extremely sleepy, so I fell asleep in it.”

Xiao Rui bit her finger and tried to recall.

Was she sleepy?

If she absorbed too much spiritual essence all of a sudden, the living creature would enter a state similar to being “intoxicated in spiritual essence”, just like what was said on Earth in her previous life. The living creature would unconsciously fall asleep.

So this was what she felt was wrong?

Zhou Ji’s feet gently rubbed against the bump on the ground, and finally revealed something inside. It was a small knot that grew out of a root. It looked like a tumor. This was the outline of the tumor, and it looked like a small rodent. Zhou Ji took two steps back and used his Object Control Spell to bring Little White to his side. Then, he used his wind blades to cut open the bulge.

What was inside was the decomposed corpse of a fat rat!

So the old tree had occupied the spirit energy pool for many years, and had evolved some kind of predatory instinct? Zhou Ji subconsciously looked at the place where Little White had just fainted. There were already dense buds growing there, looking like newly-grown branches. But he could confirm that there was nothing here just now!

Now he finally understood. Zhou Ji was glad that he held back his desire when facing such a large spirit pool. If he had just entered it, his entire family would probably be buried here!

But that was a large pool of spiritual essence. If Zhou Ji entered a treasure mountain and returned empty-handed, he would probably regret it to death.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Ji took out the big pot that he used to cook vegetables at home from his storage bag.

After all, he was poor. Since there was space for pots and pans, Zhou Ji chose to bring all of them. He did not expect that he would actually use them here.

Under the control of the Object Control Spell, the big metal pot slowly flew to the sky above the spiritual essence pool. It adjusted its angle and fell, and the entire pot was immersed in it. Soon, a pot full of spiritual essence flew in front of Zhou Ji and flew out of the hole that was neither too big nor too small.

Zhou Ji was also holding Xiao Rui, and Xiao Rui was holding Little White. The two of them and the dog walked out of the hole.

Since there was a risk in using the spiritual essence liquid inside, then there should be no problem outside, right?

Zhou Ji thought and casually cast the Earth Digging Spell a hundred meters away from the old tree to dig a big hole. After soaking the pit wall with a water spell, he controlled the kitchen knife to cut down every part of the pit. After that, he used an ignition spell to start the fire and dry the water completely.

After everything was done, Zhou Ji then filled half of the pit with water. After making sure that it would not leak into the ground, he poured a pot of spiritual essence into it. Just like that, Zhou Ji controlled the large iron pot to run back and forth a few times and created an open-air pool.

At the last moment, Zhou Ji, who did not have the slightest awareness of his act of robbery, did not forget to fill Xiao Rui and his own kettle, as well as the two thermos flasks used at home with spiritual essence liquid. Pots, bowls, ladles, and basins were indeed useful.

In the end, Zhou Ji left the old tree with a thin spiritual essence pool that was ten centimeters deep. Looking at the bottom of the spiritual essence liquid pool, there seemed to be a thin spring. Zhou Ji did not dare to probe further and walked out of the hole. The last time he left the open-air pool that he had dug, the tree whiskers that Zhou Ji had cut off to block the spirit essence from spreading had already grown a length. The dense canopy of the old tree rustled as Zhou Ji left, as if saying that it would welcome his next visit.

When he returned to the side of the pool, Little White was still sleeping, while Xiao Rui had already dozed off on the picnic mat.

Zhou Ji thought for a moment and decided to sit cross-legged on the side first. He opened the spell that had exploded from the second-in-charge’s body and closed his eyes gently.

[Flying Needle Spell]

[When controlling a magic artifact, the flying speed of the magic artifact would increase by 200% , and its sturdiness would increase by 200%.]

The cultivation method was slightly better.

[(Green) when controlling a needle-shaped magic artifact, the flying speed of the magic artifact would increase by 233%.]

[(White) imperial needle-shaped magic tool. The magic tool’s sturdiness increased by 114%.]

[(Blue) imperial needle-shaped magic tool. The magic tool’s concealment increased by 378% . Imperial needle-shaped magic tool. Magic Tool’s agility increased by 333%.]

What a godly skill!

Zhou Ji didn’t know how to describe this spell. If this spell was used for himself and all the entries were refined to the highest level, then there wouldn’t have been so many things going on last night!

Unfortunately, Zhou Ji’s affinity with the metal attribute was his eternal pain. Even with the cultivation technique editor, he could only watch and drool.

After spending a certain amount of comprehension points, Zhou Ji pulled the cultivation technique’s entry attributes to the highest level. After familiarizing himself with it, he added, added, and modified the original entries. In the end, he improved the cultivation technique to three blue entries, the effects of all the entries increased by nearly a third.

“Xiao Rui, in order to celebrate your successful qi refinement, I will give you a gift, okay?” Zhou Ji interrupted his daughter who was meditating cross-legged beside the pool.

“Okay, okay! Thank you, daddy! What gift is it?”

Xiao Rui replied very happily.

“It’s a defensive magical artifact!”

As Zhou Ji spoke, he took out the flying needles that he had obtained from the second-in-charge and placed them in the hands of the expectant Xiao Rui.

“This is…”

Xiao Rui gently fumbled around with a blank look on her face.

“This is a magic tool that can be used in conjunction with the Object Control Spell. It’s very powerful. In the future, if I am not around, you can use it to deal with the bad guys yourself!”

As Zhou Ji spoke, he took the newly copied version of the traveling needle technique to his hand. The completion of this intermediate level technique directly rewarded him with 11 magical points.

“Daddy, next, tell me about the improved version of the Object Control Spell, how about the Flying Needle Technique?”

At a certain moment, Zhou Ji felt like he had become one of those parents in his previous life who coaxed their children to study hard. “I bought you an Olympian math analysis, how about I teach you?”

However, in comparison, Xiao Rui’s face was already red with excitement.

“Okay, okay!”

Thus, Zhou Ji’s explanation of the technique soon rang out in the forest. Fortunately, the only camp of the bandits nearby had already been uprooted by Zhou Ji. The wild beasts in the forest all knew their place and did not dare to approach. The surroundings became much quieter..