Qin Siyang picked up the crimson leaf, his brows furrowed tightly.
'Could there be a hidden paradise outside the safe zone?'
He carefully examined it again.
'No, this doesn't seem to be a leaf. Judging by the texture, it looks like a large red grass that has been digested into fragments.'
Qin Siyang took out his phone and snapped a photo.
Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!
The moment the object was identified, his screen was instantly flooded with multiple pages of information.
"Wow, this leaf is actually something significant? There's this much info on it?"
Qin Siyang scrolled to the top of the screen.
Three bold words stood out:
[Titan Foxtail Grass]
Qin Siyang's heartbeat instantly accelerated.
'Titan Foxtail Grass?'
'The thing inside the Ice Crystal Moth's stomach is Titan Foxtail Grass?'
'Does this mean there are traces of Titan Foxtail Grass nearby?'
Qin Siyang immediately continued reading.
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[Type: Medium-Sized God]
[An extremely rare and precious God.]
[Titan Foxtail Grass typically grows between ten to twenty meters in height, with broad and tough leaves arranged in three layers: inner, middle, and outer. The inner leaves are emerald green, the middle leaves light green, and the outer leaves yellow-brown, with fine serrations along the edges. It towers far above pre-apocalypse common Foxtail Grass, earning it the name Titan Foxtail Grass.]
[Unlike other medium-sized gods, Titan Foxtail Grass has no offensive capabilities and behaves like an ordinary plant. However, its inner leaves have a calming effect on gods and emit an aroma that attracts them, leading to powerful medium-sized gods gathering around it for protection.]
[The surrounding gods are mostly formidable medium-sized ones. Small-class gods lack the strength to approach, while large-class gods disdain it.]
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Reading this, Qin Siyang suddenly understood.
No wonder.
He had killed four medium-sized gods in this area.
Anyone else would have thought they had barged into a nest of medium-sized gods.
The key point was that these four medium-sized gods were of different species.
Moreover, these medium-sized gods were far stronger and more troublesome than the Ghost Faced Heron he had encountered before.
Not only were they massive, but they also excelled in both offense and defense.
If not for his [God-Eater] sequence ability being superior, he would have died here.
He had assumed that all medium-sized gods were this formidable and that the Ghost Faced Heron was just a weakling among them.
Turns out, only powerful medium-sized gods gathered around Titan Foxtail Grass.
[A single inner leaf takes a medium-sized god one to two months to digest. Since Titan Foxtail Grass produces an inner leaf every week, the supply is steady, leading to multiple medium-sized gods congregating around it. These gods distribute the leaves among themselves based on their strength.]
[To protect Titan Foxtail Grass, whenever a sequence ability user approaches, gods of different species cooperate to eliminate the intruder.]
[Research indicates that the gods residing near Titan Foxtail Grass seem to be selectively chosen. Only those that can both counter and complement each other. Essentially natural checks and balances who can stay near Titan Foxtail Grass. Weaker gods or those with overlapping abilities are driven away.]
'So that's how it is!'
Qin Siyang had been wondering why Corrosive Black Centipede, Lava Crocodile, and Ice Crystal Moth happened to perfectly counter each other.
Turns out, it was all because of Titan Foxtail Grass.
Only those of equal strength can sit at the same table to eat.
Only gods of equal strength can sit together and feast on Titan Foxtail Grass.
They could only coexist peacefully and share the inner leaves of Titan Foxtail Grass if they were evenly matched and unable to eliminate or drive each other away.
The Corrosive Black Centipede, Ice Crystal Moth, and Lava Crocodile formed an unbreakable triangular balance due to their mutual restraints.
Sequence ability users typically specialize in one field.
A single person can't simultaneously wield extreme cold abilities and molten abilities.
If a sequence ability user countered the Corrosive Black Centipede, then the Ice Crystal Moth and Lava Crocodile would step in, and vice versa.
Thus.
These three powerful medium-sized gods, when together, were practically invincible.
Except they ran into Qin Siyang—the anomaly.
Their mutually restraining relationship became the key to Qin Siyang eliminating all three of them.
Thinking of this, Qin Siyang couldn't help but feel lucky.
He had won precisely because these three gods were together.
If he had encountered only one of them instead of all three at once. Then Qin Siyang... would have to try harder in his next life.
Qin Siyang let out a long sigh, 'I really am the protagonist of destiny.'
He continued reading the Titan Foxtail Grass entry.
The next section described its uses.
[Titan Foxtail Grass produces an inner leaf every week. After three months, the inner leaf matures into a middle leaf. A middle leaf takes another five months to become an outer leaf. Outer leaves wither and die five months later, disintegrating within a day under wind and sand erosion.]
[Every part of Titan Foxtail Grass is valuable.]
[Its outer leaves are common materials for high-grade god hunting tools.]
[Its middle leaves are premium materials for various medicinal and medical applications.]
[Its inner leaves combine the effects of both outer and middle leaves. However, its unique properties are still under study. Since medium-sized gods only consume the inner leaves, and these leaves automatically age into middle leaves after three months, they are the rarest material within the safe zone.]
[Titan Foxtail Grass has a circular root core. Removing this core turns it into an ownerless treasure, similar to a Vine Heart.]
[To establish a contract with Titan Foxtail Grass, simply urinate on it.]
Qin Siyang finished reading and finally fixated on the word [urinate].
'This method of establishing a contract... is way too indecent.'
'If I form a contract and later need to share it with others, wouldn't that mean we'd have to schedule bathroom trips together?'
Qin Siyang shook his head and put away his phone.
Based on the information, Titan Foxtail Grass should be nearby.
And he had a rough idea of its location.
Encountering the Thunder Snow Wolf wasn't a coincidence.
It had likely caught the scent of Titan Foxtail Grass and wanted to snack on some invigorating inner leaves.
But it had been driven away by the three gods working together.
The Thunder Snow Wolf was probably unwilling to give up, so it lingered nearby, looking for an opportunity.
If that were the case, then the Thunder Snow Wolf's position must be further from Titan Foxtail Grass than the Corrosive Black Centipede, Ice Crystal Moth, and Lava Crocodile.
Qin Siyang climbed to a higher vantage point.
With his exceptional eyesight, he spotted the battlefield where he had fought the Thunder Snow Wolf in the distance to his right.
'If the Thunder Snow Wolf was to the right… then Titan Foxtail Grass must be to the left.'
Qin Siyang put away his storage box and strode toward the left.
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