"Does the Holy Light Vine Staff of Lord Red Sword have any special meaning?" As Dox walked away, Kaier immediately asked Vay with curiosity.
Vay hesitated for a moment: "There is indeed a story behind it, but from my position, it’s not my place to tell. Why don’t you ask Dox directly later?"
Kaier quickly waved his hand: "No need, no need, I was just casually asking... really just casually asking! I absolutely, absolutely didn’t mean to dig into Lord Red Sword’s gossip."
Vay: "..." You’ve already revealed your intention, hey!
At this moment, Angel, who had just finished setting up the last corner of the barrier, stood up, dusted off his hands, and casually said: "The Holy Light Vine Staff is a good choice in the middle and early stages for apprentices. It contains a fixed energy structure that corrects Healing Technique and Guiding Technique. Even if your skills in Healing Technique and Guiding Technique aren’t that great, you can still perform them smoothly with the staff, without any backlash."
"If you’re already good at these two tricks, the Holy Light Vine Staff can greatly amplify their effects. It’s very useful in dangerous situations or when in pain, a healing-type alchemy staff."
Healing Technique is a level 1 trick, and Guiding Technique is a level 2 trick. Despite Healing Technique’s lower level, it requires a comprehensive understanding of the human body structure, involving a broader and more extensive field of knowledge, which generally takes apprentices a long time to learn.
Spending time learning Healing Technique can also delay one’s own cultivation, so in a way, Healing Technique is similar to Shapeshifting Technique. Neither is of a high level, but because of various reasons, it’s something desirable, yet unattainable.
However, due to the high learning requirements of Healing Technique, staffs like the Holy Light Vine Staff, which can correct its structure, were created.
Of course, this might also be a work of compassion by the ’Holy Light Walker’ Gandolf after seeing the current state of apprentices.
"The effect of the Holy Light Vine Staff is indeed very useful for apprentices... But how come I feel that this staff doesn’t quite match Lord Red Sword’s character?" Kaier wondered.
Angel’s intention in explaining the function of the Holy Light Vine Staff was actually similar to what Kaier said. However, it’s not that the staff doesn’t match Dox’s character, but that the staff was of no use to Dox at all.
Why are Bloodline Wizards considered the strongest at the same level? It’s not just because of their high explosive combat ability and terrifying mobility, but also because of their strong recovery ability after activating their bloodline.
It can be said that after activating their bloodline, Bloodline Wizards, even as apprentices, have a recovery ability far surpassing the insignificant Healing Technique.
After all, despite the learning difficulty of Healing Technique, it’s still just a level 1 trick.
Angel: "Maybe that Holy Light Vine Staff wasn’t even Dox’s in the first place."
Kaier: "Huh?"
Angel: "What’s surprising about that? Your piece of parchment wasn’t originally yours either."
Kaier scratched his head, seeming to agree.
After a moment of silence, Vay spoke again: "The master is right, that vine staff indeed isn’t Dox’s. It belongs to a good old friend of ours and is kept with Dox. The staff holds great significance to our old friend."
Kaier: "So, the vine staff doesn’t hold much significance for Lord Red Sword?"
Vay: "You can’t say it like that. It’s just that it holds more significance for our old friend."
Upon hearing this, Angel roughly understood the situation with Dox. It was, in a sense, a gift borrowed from someone else.
Not willing to part with his own items, Dox simply resorted to using someone else’s. And judging from Vay’s tone, it’s a vine staff kept by Dox for a friend they had a good relationship with.
Tsk, tsk.
Angel couldn’t help but shake his head privately. Although Dox often takes unorthodox paths and has a very peculiar train of thought, this move was rather... ungentlemanly.
Giving away something entrusted by a friend for safekeeping is something Angel would never do.
After hearing Vay’s explanation, Kaier exhibited shock, astonishment, and disbelief.
Vay hesitated for a bit: "There’s actually more to this story, but it’s not really my place to say because..."
Vay stopped mid-sentence, his gaze suddenly focusing as if he’d seen something, quickly closing his mouth and pretending nothing had happened.
Kaier turned to look back and saw that Dox had already returned from the vicinity of the Alchemy Golem.
Dox hummed a tune as he walked over leisurely, looking entirely at ease. By now, the Holy Light Vine Staff was no longer in his hand, and instead, the red light symbol representing the "ticket" was being juggled up and down by Dox with energy tendrils.
When Dox walked over, Vay asked: "Succeeded?"
Dox rolled his eyes: "If your eyes aren’t blind, you wouldn’t ask such a stupid question."
Vay was momentarily silenced: "I mean, did you really hand over her vine staff?"
Dox nodded: "Of course, it was of no use to me and was just taking up storage space."
Though Dox spoke nonchalantly, Vay’s gaze was complex, sighing deeply without saying more.
Dox also didn’t want to dwell on the topic of the Holy Light Vine Staff any longer, as it involved a past he preferred not to recall. He looked around: "Hey, where’s Angel?"
Kaier instinctively turned to point to where Angel had been, but upon looking back, found Angel had disappeared, leaving only a shadowy dome in place.
Others also noticed the dome composed of shadows.
As everyone’s gaze fixed on the dome, the shadows suddenly shifted, revealing a pair of cold eyes within, responding to all gazes with indifference.
Under that cold gaze, Kaier and Vay felt a chill down their spines, quickly turning away and not daring to look back. Even Dox sensed a hint of threat.
The shadow was none other than the Demon from the Panic Realm, Earl Mi.
Undoubtedly, Angel had already entered the protection barrier of Earl Mi.
"Master Chaowei must be conducting alchemy inside, right?" Vay speculated, knowing of the deal between Cicia and Angel, and with Angel being able to prepare on-site, alchemy seemed the only explanation.
However, while everyone speculated that Angel was conducting alchemy under Earl Mi’s protection, Angel was actually just yawning and entering a state of rest...
...
Angel’s rest wasn’t truly sleep, but rather a step through the door bridge, pushing open the Gate of Dreams, arriving at the Wilderness of Dreams.
What he meant by "preparing in advance" as he told Cicia was to inform Popota about Cicia’s situation and discuss response strategies.
Yes, for this long-awaited Baiyuanian "meeting" over millennia, Angel intended for Popota to represent them and meet with Cicia.