The First Legendary Demonic Scholar

Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Divine Rebirth Fruit

Instead of picking up the technique instantly, Shen Yuan looked for the clipper.

It took him some time because the details about the clipper were in the description of another item.

Divine Rebirth Fruit: A miraculous fruit that allows you to reforge your body into the best possible physique suited for your soul.

This miraculous fruit can be taken at any time, but it can only be consumed twice by someone.

The fruit can be used once to reforge the body and a second time to temper it.

Note: You won’t be able to pick the fruit with your cultivation. So use the clipper for it. Once again, do not take it out of this place.

Do not pick the fruit unless it’s ripe or else it would be useless. Green is Unripe and Red is ripe.

If it’s not ripe when you are here, leave it.

It only means you were not destined for it.

Shen Yuan looked up around the stems of the trees. ’Where is it? Did whoever came before me take it as well?’

It was harder to spot the fruit in the middle of so many glowing trees, but he finally did.

It was the only thing about the tree that did not change colors.

The size of the fruit was as small as a tennis ball or a plum.

But its shape was like that of a mango.

As for its color...

"It’s red." Shen Yuan’s voice came out rough, surprising him a little. "The description of the fruit is nothing short of a treasured elixir."

And then Yuan needed an elixir.

"But will this elixir be able to help me with my problem?" Restoring the dantian was no small problem. It needed powerful elixirs or pills to repair it. ’There is only one way to know.’

Shen Yuan jumped up the tree like a monkey and arrived on a branch near the fruit and reached out to pluck it.

He tried pulling on it, but no matter how much strength he put in, the stem attached to the fruit did not even crack under his pressure.

’What a powerful tree.’ Shen Yuan wondered if his axe could even put a dent in the stem. But he was not an idiot to test the strength of the tree twice.

After finally believing the words of the mysterious ancient figure who wrote the slab, he jumped down and picked up the clippers, which were heavier than his axe.

Shen Yuan almost dropped it out of surprise, but he did not let go and held it firmly.

His eyes flickered between the clipper in his hands and the book lying before him while radiating powerful auras.

A thought arose in his heart as he looked at them: ’Can I store them in the inventory without exposing their presence?’

The moment the thought arrived, he tried it out. Both the items disappeared without leaving a single trace, and the moment Shen Yuan did that, something happened.

The still surface of the lake. Which had not moved more than a ripple, suddenly tumbled.

From the middle, a surge of ripples occurred as if something were pushing it up from the inside.

Shen Yuan’s instincts flared. He snapped his head towards the center of the changes and saw a black surface surging upwards.

It was a small patch at first.

Then its size increased and so did its height.

Soon Shen Yuan dropped the idea of it being a small fish-like beast. The size of the surface had already crossed ten feet, and it did not show any signs of stopping.

’It has to be a beast. Did it come out because I took those things? Shen Yuan frowned. He thought of putting the items back, but soon he rejected the idea.

The only reason he had not run out of there was because he did not seem to sense any direct danger directed at him. There was only a threat in the air. ’Which means it can kill me as easily as breathing, but it has not targeted me just yet.’

The beast stopped rising once it had covered half of the lake.

But even then, Shen Yuan could not see any parts of its body.

It had a humped back with thick, cracked, and slimy skin.

There were scales covering its back; maybe they were all over the body from what he could see.

He also noticed some cracks on its side; inside them, he could see a thin lining that looked like some sort of filter. It was pulsing up and down.

’Is that gills?’ Shen Yuan could only guess. Right before his eyes the beast started moving around. It was slow enough for him to notice its movements, but this was the first time Shen Yuan felt a threat like this, and it was not even directed at him.

’It’s just like the...’ he could not help but recall the huge mouth that had consumed Chang Shi. ’Is it the same beast? I hope not. That would be bad news for me?’

After looking around for a while, the beast did not seem to find what it was looking for and sank back down the leak.

But even then he did not move. He waited for ten minutes, hoping that the beast had gone far away.

Only then did he move.

Going back to the Divine Rebirth fruit, he hesitated. For him to cut the fruit, he would have to bring out the clipper.

But if he did that...

Shen Yuan glanced at the silent lake for a second before flexing his fingers. He did not need to perform a gesture to access the inventory, but for some reason he still did it.

Woosh!

The clipper was in his hand, but his eyes never left the lake. A second passed.

Then another.

And another...

But nothing happened.

Clank!

Not waiting anymore, he raised the weapon with great strength and pushed the handles towards each other, and the fruit was severed from the tree instantly. He did not need to exert as much effort with the weapon as he had without it, which had previously yielded no results.

Before it could fall, Shen Yuan stored the Clipper and caught it.

He came back down and removed his clothes. ’If it’s anything like body tempering, this is the right thing to do.’