Chapter 529: Chapter 13: Baining’s Offspring

In the dark mist, Baining and its offspring were going all out. The needles on their canopies were all wide open, unabashedly releasing natural energy.

The virus in the air was like a tide, entering their bodies through the needle-like conduits on their crowns, where it was swiftly digested and converted into nutrients for their own growth.

Countless viral creatures from underground were also ceaselessly attacking these mutated great trees.

However, the evolutionary path of these controlled Undead Virus creatures wasn’t focused on physical offense or defense. They conquered the planet’s lifeforms by evolving the virus itself to be extremely infectious and, as long as Undead Energy was present, nearly indestructible.

Therefore, their attacks weren’t very strong, well within the mutated trees’ range of tolerance.

Moreover, the goal of these viral creatures wasn’t to eliminate lifeforms, but to latch onto them as parasites and reproduce.

So, once the mutated trees were covered in wounds, the viral creatures stopped attacking them.

Instead, they relentlessly leaped onto the trees, clinging to them and injecting all the virus within their bodies into them.

Faced with this kind of violent feeding for the first time, Baining’s offspring, after an initial period of discomfort, soon fell still. They quietly waited for the viral creatures to feed them, focusing all their energy on digesting the virus using the method Baining had taught them.

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When light dispelled the darkness, Baining and its offspring in the canyon no longer had a single patch of undamaged bark. Some of the smaller trees even had a white sap constantly oozing from their wounds.

"Baining, how are you all feeling?"

Lin Yu walked into the canyon with his subordinates.

"We feel great! Sweet revenge, Lin Yu! Let me tell you, I was still young the last time I came here. I was hoping for a buffet, but I almost got fed until I burst!"

"If I hadn’t run so fast, I would’ve been a goner! It’s a shame about my friend, though. He got overfed until he burst and lost his consciousness."

"What exactly does ’bursting’ look like? I’ve heard you mention it so many times, but I still don’t understand if you mean ’bursting’ in a physical sense, or something else."

Lin Yu asked curiously.

"It’s, it’s..."

Baining’s roots tangled together into a circle as it thought for a moment before answering, "It should be when the concentration of the virus in the body gets too high, causing it to leak out. At the same time, you lose control of your body, and your consciousness starts to fade."

"Hmm?"

Lin Yu blinked, looked at Baining’s body, and then at the bodies of its offspring.

He pointed at the small trees that were oozing white sap from their wounds. "You mean like that?"

Baining rushed over to the small trees Lin Yu was pointing at, touching their wounds with its roots. It then used its racial ability to call out to them, and a moment later, it cried out in alarm, "Lin Yu, this is bad! I misjudged my children’s tolerance! They’ve been overfed! They’re about to burst!"

"Don’t panic, don’t panic! I’ll have someone take a look for you!"

Lin Yu soothed Baining, then instructed Chenxi, "Chenxi, take your people and check on these small trees. See what their current condition is and what needs to be done."

Chenxi immediately called her Druids over to surround the small trees oozing white sap. Before long, they had a conclusion.

"Sir! The digestive abilities of these small trees are a bit too weak."

"The rate at which the virus is entering their bodies exceeds their ability to digest it, leading to a large amount of active virus currently inside them."

"This virus is invading their bodies, though, of course, their bodies are also doing everything they can to digest the virus."

"It’s now a race to see whether their bodies can finish digesting the virus first, or if the virus will take over their bodies first."

Lin Yu didn’t ask what would happen if the virus completely took over the small trees’ bodies. He just had to look at the severed limbs controlled by the virus to know it wouldn’t be anything good!

"Lin Yu, what do we do? Save my children!"

Baining had also heard Chenxi’s report. Chenxi had specifically used Magic to communicate her report to its consciousness, saving her the trouble of repeating it.

"Calm down, calm down!"

"If they have too much virus in their bodies, then we just need to reduce it, right?"

"This is a perfect opportunity to test the actual effectiveness of yesterday’s Healing Array."

"Chenxi!" Lin Yu called out to Chenxi, who was standing behind him.

"Yes, Sir! I’ll go prepare the Healing Array at once." Chenxi immediately complied, then took her people to repair the Healing Array that had been inscribed earlier.

While Baining was pacing around anxiously, the Healing Array was repaired and then successfully activated.

Baining immediately moved its children who were in worse condition into the Healing Array. Under the array’s effects, the virus within their bodies was rapidly expelled.

Baining, standing guard nearby, hatefully brandished its roots and absorbed the expelled virus into its own body.

With the viral corrosion gone, the small tree’s consciousness returned, and it responded weakly to Baining’s call.

"Papa, what happened to me?"

"It’s okay, it’s okay. Papa misjudged the virus’s strength and almost got you hurt..."

"Papa, don’t be sad. I’m fine now. I just feel a little weak, and my body is a bit hard to control."

...

Lin Yu wasn’t aware of the conversation between Baining and the little tree. He was busy helping his people move the small trees that were in poor condition into the Healing Array one by one.

Under the effect of the Healing Array, one small tree after another regained consciousness.

Meanwhile, Baining was busy comforting its offspring, who had been pulled back from the brink, while absorbing the virus being expelled from their bodies.

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