The City of Terror

Chapter 478: Chapter 478 – Inferior Sap

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

The description of the mutation’s effects was already very detailed. The question was how large was the chance of mutation and how beneficial were the mutations?

Wei Xiao Bei hesitated for a moment. It would be good if the Life Altar was awake now. It could simply cultivate a creature and he would be able to try the effects of the sap.

If he wanted to obtain more details on the effects of the sap now, he would have to try it himself.

In all honesty, being a guinea pig was not a good thing.

Of course, it was true that one of the ancestors of the Chinese people, Shennong had tasted hundreds of herbs to learn their effects. In doing so, he had founded Chinese medicine, but it was said that Shennong had died from a poison herb in the end.

The main reason he was hesitating was that he was worried he would mutate into something inhuman after eating the sap.

Though he was very much different from an ordinary human, at least he still looked like a human on the outside.

Wei Xiao Bei looked around him. Andre and Babe, who were busy drilling away at the branch, felt a chill run down their backs.

Fortunately, he gave up on the plan to have them try the sap. After all, they didn’t have [Precise Calculation] and other similar skills. They would have a hard time determining the specific effects of the sap.

He extended his tongue and licked the spearhead. A faintly sweet taste spread through his mouth.

Then, as he activated [Deductive Reasoning] and the effect of [Precise Calculation], he started to analyze the Inferior World Tree Sap.

This ability was mostly useless back when Wei Xiao Bei did not have a lot of knowledge. However, the knowledge in his mind could easily compare to that of several doctorate holders now.

In particular, he had been spending a lot of his time recently studying biology. This came in useful when his ability was analyzing the World Tree’s sap.

The first analysis was that the Inferior World Tree Sap had a fairly high sugar content. It was close to beetroot and other similar sugar crops.

There were many types of sugar in the sap. Apart from the eight different fructose found in the real world, there were thirty-one other types of sugars that did not exist in the real world. Twelve of these were fructose, while nineteen were polysaccharides.

Also, there were seven amino acids that didn’t exist in the real world, along with one hundred and seventy-eight special active substances that even Xiao Bei didn’t know how to categorize.

Of course, a supernatural plant like the World Tree couldn’t possibly be analyzed entirely with the scientific knowledge of the real world.

Wei Xiao Bei then analyzed the life force replenished by the sap. Its effect was slightly lower than the Secondary Spring Water of Youth and did not possess the effect of extending lifespans.

Meanwhile, the mutation effect was extremely weak. He could feel a mysterious force attempting to disrupt his genetic sequence after he consumed the sap. Still, it failed to cause a mutation as it was simply too weak of a force.

Xiao Bei did some estimations. A mutation force this weak couldn’t even affect an ordinary human, let alone him.

That said, there seemed to be a lot of this stuff.

Once he picked the spear out of the branch, plenty of sap surged out of the hole he had drilled. Of course, the hole was quickly healing as well.

He stopped analyzing and instead started to collect this sap that had welled up.

This stuff might not compare to the Secondaryy Spring Water of Youth, but it was still a rare treasure. Disregarding all its other applications, he could simply dilute it with water and it would be an excellent and nutritious medicine in the real world.

He could even use it on his subordinates. After all, those guys were not too powerful. Their regenerative ability was also far too weak.

In all honesty, even if they could evolve to 3-Star, they might not have as powerful of a regenerative ability as Wei Xiao Bei.

He had a pretty good understanding of the situation now.

Not all humans and monsters would gain new abilities every time their sub-attributes were increased by 20 points.

The majority of monsters couldn’t do so.

This was perhaps the advantage of owning a status panel.

He would most assuredly obtain a new ability for every 20 points his sub-attributes were increased.

The hole finally healed completely after he had collected 3700 milliliters of sap.

He didn’t continue drilling in this hole. This would make it a lot faster to find sap again, but that was not what he wanted to do. His [Response Search] indicated that there wasn’t too much sap in this branch of the World Tree.

This small branch might have a total of thirty thousand milliliters of sap at best. Wei Xiao Bei had already collected over ten percent of its sap. If he continued to collect the sap, it was very likely to cause problems for the branch.

To avoid creating more problems, he switched to a new place and continued drilling.

The small branch from earlier was only ten meters in diameter. The new branch he had chosen was much larger.

Its fifty-meter diameter made it look like a small mountain that ran right before Wei Xiao Bei and the rest.

The larger the branch, the thicker the bark. This was an indisputable truth.

A fifty-meter thick branch was not too bad. After wasting twelve hours, he finally pierced through the bark with his three-meter long Great Spear.

The sap he obtained this time was better than the Inferior World Tree Sap from before.

It was still Inferior Sap, but its quality had risen from normal to high.

After tasting the sap, Wei Xiao Bei concluded that it was indeed much stronger than the sap from before.

He had not managed to collect as much sap this time. As the bark was too thick, he only managed to collect a liter of sap, before the hole healed.

He switched to a new location again.

There was no doubt that his greatest interest now was whether there was a better sap to be found on the World Tree.

The tree branch he chose this time was over three hundred meters in diameter. Its location was no longer at the canopy, but over ten kilometers beneath it.

Thus, Wei Xiao Bei started drilling.

This one drilling process took him three days and nights.

It wasn’t until emerald sap started seeping out of the hole that he understood why they said the job of an oil worker was difficult.

Living out in rural lands, working an extremely boring job with no entertainment to be had. Any other modern person would not be able to tolerate such a lifestyle.

Name: Excellent World Tree Sap (High-Quality)

Description: This item contains a small amount of the essence inside the World Tree’s branch. Its quality is ordinary.

Effect 1: Life Force. Consume this item and obtain the replenishment of the World Tree’s life force, accelerating the rate of healing.

Effect 2: Mutation. As the World Tree is the mother of a world and creator of many races, consuming this item will provide a chance of race mutation. The effect is random and unpredictable.

The sap that had appeared this time was finally Excellent World Tree Sap. Though it was still only a high-quality item, Wei Xiao Bei immediately knew upon tasting it that this sap was much better than the previous two. It had undergone a massive improvement.

If the first Inferior Sap only had ten percent of the Secondary Spring Water’s life force effect, then the high-quality Inferior Sap had fifteen percent. This Excellent Sap, on the other hand, had twenty percent of the Spring Water’s effect.

Moreover, its mutation effect was much more obvious now. Though it could not affect his genetic sequence, it would affect ordinary creatures.

Wei Xiao Bei didn’t hold back now. He collected two hundred and thirty milliliters before the hole healed. He then continued drilling upon the same hole.

After drilling three times, he collected a total of seven hundred and fifty milliliters of sap.

Of course, even if he was drilling in the same hole, it still took a lot of his time.

It was an entire day by the time he was done.

It simply took too much time to drill a hole in the World Tree’s branch.

In all honesty, Wei Xiao Bei had always felt a mysterious sense of frustration all this time he had been traveling in the World Tree. After attempting to sort out his emotions several times, he realized that this frustration came from his concern for reality. It was a mysterious and inexplicable worry as if something bad was about to happen in the real world.

As such, he could not let his plan of staying in the World Tree for two entire months come to fruition.

Thus, he chose a thicker branch below the World Tree’s canopy as the location for his last drilling operation.

This branch was several times thicker than the one the Valkyrie had cut off. Simply put, the branches that Wei Xiao Bei had been drilling into were all branches that had sprouted from this one.

Of course, the best sap of the World Tree had to be within the tree trunk. However, just one look at the diameter of the trunk and he had no intention of attempting to dig through it soon.

Even making a hole in the bark of the World Tree would take as much time as one would need to dig to the heart of Earth with an iron shovel.

Who knows how much time would have passed in reality if he attempted to dig out the sap in the trunk.

Wei Xiao Bei couldn’t even pierce through the bark of this branch when he stabbed with his spear.

He couldn’t even drill through the bark of this branch, let alone the trunk.

The bark of this branch was over ten meters thick. Moreover, it was constantly healing. He almost failed to retrieve his spear from the bark.

There will always be a solution in the future.

Wei Xiao Bei sighed and gave up on the idea entirely.

Next, he had to consider his preparation for returning to the real world.

Firstly, how could Kashmir follow him back to reality?

If there was anything you didn’t know in the real world, you simply asked Mr. Baidu.

In the Dust World, he could only summon the clone of Ge Da Tian sleeping within him.

Fortunately, the process of summoning Ge Da Tian’s clone wasn’t too complex.

After yelling in his mind for a bit, a cloud of white smoke emerged from his hand and landed, turning into Ge Da Tian’s clone.

It couldn’t be helped. According to Ge Da Tian, ever since he was promoted, he gained the ability to create clones.

Of course, these clones were all weak. However, they all had their consciousness and could help Ge Da Tian accomplish many things.

“Why did you summon this god? Don’t you know that this god has to exhaust power every time he comes out?”