And what stood before Qin Jie at this moment was that enormous black flower bud.
[Insight]
Name: miranda (Bud Form)
HP: ???
MP: ???
Awakening Progress: 56%
Strength: 30
Agility: ???
Stamina: ???
Intelligence: ???
Charm: 40
Luck: 10
Skill One, Seed Parasitism: miranda parasitizes the target's body in seed form, then enters a dormant period. The dormant period is highly secretive and difficult to detect. After the dormant period, miranda will root itself in the target's vital organs, then enter the bud stage.
Skill Two, Brood: miranda will generate a large number of broods on the surface of the parasitic target's body. These broods will spread pollen at the cost of the parasitic target's life force. The pollen also has parasitic abilities and will cause unpredictable mutations in inhaled creatures.
Skill Three, Assimilation: During the parasitic process, miranda will gradually deduct the target's maximum HP. When the maximum HP is reduced to 40%, miranda will bloom and assimilate with the host.
Skill Four, World-Eating Flower: After blooming, miranda will parasitize the world as its host, then ?????
Note: This skill will be activated after blooming.
Skill Five, Symbiotic Contract: ???
Skill Six, ???
Skill Seven, ???
Skill Eight, ???
--- A large number of question marks appeared, indicating a huge gap in strength between miranda and Qin Jie. Fortunately, miranda was currently in her bud state, so no matter how strong she was, the only things that could threaten Qin Jie were the black flowers on the Sakura Dragon's body.
It seemed that it was a good thing the Sakura Dragon had high HP, so it hadn't entered miranda's assimilation stage and could keep holding on.
Otherwise, Qin Jie couldn't imagine what would happen if he entered this world after this flower bloomed.
After all, this "parasitizing the world as its host" looked too terrifying.
At this moment, the bud's root system was directly embedded in the Sakura Dragon's body. Looking at the dense roots, it was not hard to imagine why the Sakura Dragon couldn't deal with this thing.
After all, many roots were drilling into its brain, making them impossible to remove.
But this had nothing to do with Qin Jie. He directly stood up and stomped on the flower bud, which was inextricably linked to the Sakura Dragon's life.
Qin Jie took out the devouring abyss, switched it to greatsword form, and then directly slashed at the flower bud's root system with a single sword.
This one sword cut through one-third of the huge black flower bud's thick roots. This blow was extremely vicious; Qin Jie even saw the Sakura Dragon's HP drop by about 18%.
But the Sakura Dragon was the source of all Immortality. It immediately consumed Immortal power to replenish the lost HP.
However, its HP could only recover to about 76%.
It seemed that the Sakura Dragon's HP was not at its normal 100% because this huge flower bud had consumed a lot of its maximum HP due to long-term parasitism.
With its roots severed, the Sakura Dragon wailed in pain. The huge black flowers on its body suddenly swayed in unison, and a large amount of pollen was sprayed from the flowers, instantly enveloping the surroundings.
But Qin Jie had already activated his shield, isolating the pollen from his body. These pollen, however, could not parasitize Sword Shadow, who was an illusion.
These pollen were very powerful; the entire world was turned into this ghostly state because of these pollen spreading through water, air, and living creatures. But at this moment, these pollen clearly had no effect on Qin Jie.
Moreover, the main bud had not yet bloomed, so it couldn't stop Qin Jie for a while.
Slash!
Qin Jie maintained his balance, performing a heavy one-armed chop. The roots of the huge flower bud were directly severed by him, and the spherical huge flower bud fell directly from the sky.
As the huge flower bud was cut down, the black flowers on the Sakura Dragon's body also withered and fell at the next moment. Although the roots inside the Sakura Dragon's body could not be pulled out, because the main bud's root activity was severed by the devouring abyss, the roots embedded in the Sakura Dragon's body would only slowly wither away.
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Upon feeling the strange plant parasitizing her body slowly disappearing, the Sakura Dragon fell into a brief daze. She could clearly sense her body slowly recovering its life force.
But the next moment, the Sakura Dragon's eye felt a sharp pain. Qin Jie had pulled out the Immortal Severance, directly making a wound under the Sakura Dragon's eye, and then took out a small bottle to collect the blood flowing from the wound.
This was Dragon's Tear, which could sever the Immortal contract when consumed.
The pain made the Sakura Dragon instinctively want to get angry, but seeing Qin Jie's cold eyes, the Sakura Dragon chose to pretend to be busy looking left and right.
She was being honest.
Originally, Qin Jie's plan was to kill the Sakura Dragon along with it, but the Immortal power on the Sakura Dragon dispelled his idea.
After all that trouble, the Sakura Dragon's Immortal power had only dropped by 13 points, 11 of which were consumed by that single Immortal Severance strike.
And the Sakura Dragon still had thousands of points of Immortal power remaining, and because the flower bud was removed, several of the Sakura Dragon's skills were slowly recovering at this time.
So Qin Jie had to give up on killing the Sakura Dragon.
After all, only the Immortal Severance could effectively damage the Sakura Dragon; other damage would be largely offset by the Sakura Dragon's Immortal power. Qin Jie would probably have to grind for a very long time to kill her.
In any case, this was the Immortal power the Sakura Dragon had accumulated over decades; it would be difficult to deal with it in an instant.
Of course, this didn't mean Qin Jie had no way to deal with her. Don't forget, Qin Jie still had the flesh of hunger in his hand.
flesh of hunger
Origin: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Quality: Green
Category: One-time consumable item
Effect: After eating, there is an 80% chance to increase Strength by 4 points and Stamina by 4 points, and permanently gain 10 HP recovery per second, but there is a 10% chance of being eaten by this meat, and a 10% chance of becoming an unknown race.
Rating: 13
Description: This is the flesh of hunger, and it has no relation to mysterious meat. Feel free to eat it.
--- Qin Jie couldn't believe this so-called chance, after all, several consecutive uses made Qin Jie realize that the actual chance of mutation for this thing was very likely 100%.
The flesh of hunger could directly turn any creature that consumed it into a secondary Abyssal Derivative. It should be noted that the Sakura Dragon's abilities had not yet recovered, so forcing her to consume it would not be difficult.
Unlike the flower bud, which required the Sakura Dragon's maximum HP to drop to 40% before assimilation, the flesh of hunger would cause mutation as soon as it was swallowed.
But Qin Jie thought about it and decided against it. He was saving his flesh of hunger to synthesize Endless Hunger, so he couldn't waste it here.
Moreover, now was not the time to deal with the Sakura Dragon. The flower bud, after falling to the ground, had directly shattered. At this moment, miranda's flower bud was shrinking from the outside in, with its outer layers rapidly peeling off, revealing the core part.
Qin Jie vaguely saw that in the core part, a humanoid outline was faintly revealed.
And that humanoid outline was wriggling and constantly moving at this moment.