Wild wind howled, fine rain scattered. The thick thunderclouds pressed lower and lower, creating a suffocating oppression!
"Are... are you kidding me..."
Li Jiayu, currently performing the third summoning ritual, felt his fingers stiffen. He stared blankly at the magic circle before him, a sense of absurdity rising in his heart!
What on earth is happening?
Am I blind, or did my brain get clamped by a door?
Why... after rebirth, do the things summoned always defy the common sense of summoning?
The mating Red-Crested Beetles released a large amount of life essence, along with many fertilized Red-Crested Beetle eggs. Calculating it this way, this offering should contain hundreds of attached new lives. Although their individual quality was low, their sheer number compensated. Overall, this offering should barely approach a Tier 2 offering!
So, logically, Li Jiayu should have summoned something close to Tier 2. If luck was good, he might summon low-Tier 2 consumables, like Exploding Tags from the Naruto plane, Thunder Pills from the Yulgang plane, Impact Dials or Usopp's special Firebird Stars from the One Piece plane, Mana Gems from the Fate plane, Repeating Crossbows from the Dynasty Warriors plane, Invisibility Potions from The Elder Scrolls V plane, or Master Balls from the Pokémon plane!
But, why did such an utterly broken situation occur?
The summoning magic circle was still blooming with dazzling rainbow light. Countless profound patterns connected into an incomprehensible diagram. Yellow sand rolled within the room – wait! Where did the yellow sand in the classroom come from?
How could the magic circle emit a large patch of yellow sand?
This is too illogical, right?
Even summoning undead creatures should at most be accompanied by foul smells of blood and corpses, right?
At least, in his past life, Li Jiayu summoned so many otherworldly creatures and had never seen yellow sand appear!
Unexpectedly, the summoning speed this time was extremely fast. Before Li Jiayu could remain shocked for long, a gap had already split open within the rolling yellow sand, revealing a human figure. It was a young man wearing desert nomadic attire, with red hair!
His skin was fair, his features delicate and refined, except for his drooping eyelids and deep dark circles under his eyes. A red character for "Love" was written on the right side of his forehead. Paired with the large, turbid yellow gourd carried on his back, he looked strange no matter how you looked at him.
But his appearance wasn't the main point. What caught everyone's attention was this red-haired young man's eyes – lifeless, emotionless, yet implicitly containing restrained brutality, like a powder keg. Anyone who crossed his bottom line would trigger a sky-high explosion!
Even more incredibly, the turbid yellow gourd carried on his back seemed alive, inhaling and exhaling the rolling yellow sand from the void. In the eyes of Xiao Wanqing and the others, it was simply as magical as a magic trick, completely subverting their known scientific views!
"Legendary figure?"
Li Jiayu felt greatly astonished in his heart!
What exactly is this situation?
All along, he had summoned dark-type summoned beasts. Liches, Death Gods, and the like also possessed legendary-level power, but they all came from the deepest parts of the Abyss Realm. Strictly speaking, they weren't legendary figures, but legendary undead. And each summoning consumed a mountain-sea amount of mental power!
The red-haired young man before him was the first legendary figure Li Jiayu had ever summoned. Li Jiayu racked his brains but couldn't figure out why such a trash offering would summon a legendary-level master capable of intimidating heaven and earth!
The last time summoning "Hyorinmaru" was already a super incredible low probability event. This time... heavens, Li Jiayu really didn't know whether he should laugh out loud in relief or cry his eyes out!
Summoned beasts that were too powerful... their destructive power was awesome, true, but the fear was that they wouldn't obey commands, acting on their own. If the summoned beast was a bit more shameless, it might even turn around and devour the summoner who couldn't control it!
"The one who summoned me... was it you?"
The red-haired young man looked emotionlessly at Li Jiayu. The yellow sand rolling around him also stopped.
Swept by the gaze of the legendary figure, Ran Hongxia and the others behind Li Jiayu all felt their breath catch, their bodies stiffening, as if being watched by an extremely dangerous natural enemy, filled with indescribable terror!
But Li Jiayu, directly facing the legendary figure's gaze, showed no panic at all. He merely nodded slightly, performed a summoning circle etiquette, his gaze peaceful, neither servile nor overbearing:
"Yes, it was me. Guardian of the distant Sand Village 'Gaara,' I wonder if I have the honor of inviting you for a brief cooperation? I, Li Jiayu, an apprentice summoner of this native plane, will forever remember every single second we fight side by side!"
The yellow sand continued to roll. An invisible mental energy emanated from the red-haired young man. He stared silently at Li Jiayu, then slowly opened his mouth, his voice muffled like stone:
"I'm sorry... your strength is too weak, unable to sustain my consumption on this plane... Besides, in my dimension, my village still needs me to guard it..."
So that's a refusal?
Right... legendary figures, all have their eyes on the top of their heads, arrogant beyond measure. How could they lower themselves to take orders from an apprentice summoner?
Li Jiayu sighed inwardly. Looks like... this third summoning was a complete failure, suffering a double loss!
However, what "Gaara" said next gave him a glimmer of hope:
"In fact... I am just a 'Sand Clone.' My main body remains on my plane. If you need my help, sorry, even as a clone, I still cannot do it. But my 'Sand Gourd' can be lent to you. Although it only contains one percent of the chakra energy of the main body's 'Sand Gourd,' it should be enough for you at your current stage."
Li Jiayu looked at the turbid yellow gourd "Gaara" carried, smiled slightly, and said sincerely:
"Your 'Sand Gourd' should be a treasure that grew symbiotically with you since childhood, right? Tempered by your mental power, it has likely already advanced to a legendary weapon... Thank you very much for your help, Desert Prince Gaara. I will remember this favor. When my summoning arts reach mastery in the future, I will definitely find a way to repay this favor."
Li Jiayu naturally knew how precious the "Sand Gourd" Gaara gifted him was!
Legendary weapons, each one earth-shatteringly terrifying, possessing unparalleled special abilities and destructive power, extremely formidable. Even undead creatures at the level of Corpse Dragons and Bone Dragons, if hit by a legendary weapon's attack, would be severely injured if not killed!
Even if what Gaara gave him only possessed one percent of the "legendary weapon's" power, it was still immensely precious. Calculating it down, it probably had the level of a peak low-Tier 2 weapon!
Compared to "Hyorinmaru," this Sand Gourd clearly had more combat significance!
Although "Hyorinmaru" was a legendary weapon, that bastard thing didn't recognize Li Jiayu as its master. Its sword spirit slept, entering a self-sealed state. The power of the legendary weapon couldn't be unleashed at all. Besides being a bit sharper and having a slight "freezing effect," it couldn't even compare to ordinary magic weapons!
"Favor or not... I don't mind it. As long as it can help you... After all, you consumed an offering to summon me here. I can't let you gain nothing, making a losing business deal."
Gaara still spoke emotionlessly. Suddenly, his expression sharpened, his ears twitched slightly. After a moment, he uttered a sentence:
"My chakra fluctuations are too conspicuous... attracted some trouble for you. But please rest assured, I will clear up this trouble for you."
"What? Attracted insects?" Li Jiayu naturally knew this summoning caused a huge disturbance; it was absolutely impossible not to attract the attention of insects. He was just pondering quickly leading people away from this classroom to avoid being swarmed by insects, which would leave jumping out the window as the only option.
"My 'Sand Eye' tells me, four red insects are coming this way... Sand Burial!"
As soon as his voice fell, Gaara clenched his five fingers together. The "Sand Gourd" behind him suddenly spewed out a large patch of yellow sand, forming a stream of yellow sand in mid-air. Its speed was extremely fast, instantly rushing out the classroom's wooden door. In less than a second, four shrill insect cries came from the corridor outside!
At this time, Dragonoid Chu Xiang had just run to the doorway. Looking down the corridor, he happened to see, sixty meters away at the stairwell, a large patch of yellow sand surging over four unidentified objects. Then those four objects, the size of Spanish bulls, suffered terrifying compression force. With a splat, a large amount of green insect blood spurted out from the yellow sand!
The next moment, they were actually crushed forcefully until they were only the size of sows!
Their volume reduced by threefold!
The yellow sand dispersed from the targets, re-condensed into a stream of yellow sand, and rapidly shot back. Chu Xiang stared blankly at those four unidentified objects, simply unable to believe those were the arrogant Red-Crested Beetles that required immense effort to kill!
Minced meat!
Four piles of minced meat!
Their hard red shells were completely crushed and deformed. The insect meat wrapped inside couldn't withstand the pressure either, squeezed out like paste smeared onto the shells, their forms extremely twisted. If Chu Xiang hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would absolutely not associate these four piles of rotten meat with insects!
Such terrifying power!
That red-haired young man Li Jiayu summoned... what kind of sacred being was he!
"This clone's chakra is used up..."
The yellow sand shot back into the Sand Gourd. Gaara stared at Li Jiayu and said:
"Then... I should return too. This is for you, keep it safe..."
Saying this, Gaara untied the gourd from his back, held it in his hands. Yellow light flashed past. The "Sand Gourd," originally as tall as an ordinary person, rapidly shrank, finally becoming the size of a normal gourd. Then Gaara tossed it into Li Jiayu's hands.
This gourd felt rough like gravel, but holding it gave off a warmth. Vaguely, one could feel sand swirling inside.
A peak low-Tier 2 treasure!
Li Jiayu shouted excitedly in his heart!
Even though he had snatched countless treasures from Abyss Corpse Kings and Liches in his past life, that was, after all, the past life; he couldn't bring them here. Now he was just a poor and destitute struggler. Having such a low-Tier 2 treasure for self-defense greatly increased his safety; many dangerous places could now be visited!
"Desert Prince, farewell, I won't see you off."
Li Jiayu replied. Gaara inside the magic circle had already transformed into a streak of cold light, rapidly sinking down. A few seconds later, not only Gaara disappeared, but also the magic patterns, magic light, and the two Red-Crested Beetle offerings vanished completely!
The classroom once again returned to suffocating silence!
If it weren't for Li Jiayu holding a turbid yellow gourd in his hand, and four more piles of meat dregs appearing downstairs, Xiao Wanqing and the others would really think everything that happened was just an illusion.