Peace returned to the cave.
Pang Jian sat on the mat with a worried look on his face. He drank the wine Qi Qingsong left for him sip by sip.
His deep gaze occasionally glanced at the blue clothes and the silver token placed on the wooden table by Qi Qingsong.
"Stay out of it? Pull yourself away?"
Shaking his head, Pang Jian's face was gloomy, and he looked violent and cold.
Cao Mang, the controller of Yuanmang Shattered Land, the Nine Yuan Elders of Blood Moon, the unknown elders of Yinling Temple...
One after another, shadows, some clear and some blurry, emerged in his mind.
After a while.
"One million spirit stones."
Pang Jian shouted softly, the murderous intent in his eyes seemed real.
Thinking that Luo Hongyan, who had been with him for so long, had fallen into the hands of Cao Laoguai because of his negligence, and was treated as a commodity by Cao Laoguai, who planned to let the elders of Blood Moon and Yinling Temple draw lots for her at a price of one million spirit stones, Pang Jian's heart was filled with anger.
He kept taking deep breaths, frowning and forcing himself to calm down, thinking about how to deal with it.
After pondering for a long time, he had an idea.
“Wow!”
He removed pieces of crystal jade from his bracelet and piled them in front of the cushion.
Four thousand spiritual jades, minus the eight hundred and eight for the Great Fortune Holy Body and the five hundred and fifty for the Soul Nourishing Pill, there are about two thousand and five left.
If he wanted to participate in the lottery, he must have a million spirit stones in his hand. If he wanted to exchange them for spirit jade... he was still short of 7,500.
"Seven thousand five hundred spirit jades, seven hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones..."
Pang Jian pondered and silently took a tranquilizer pill, immediately establishing a connection with the dark giant anaconda of the fifth realm.
The scene changed quietly, and he found himself in a forest with many hideous plants and trees that covered the sky.
The man-eating giant trees in the fifth realm are dozens of feet tall, and the shrubs and flowers are also bloodthirsty and terrifying.
"Yuxin!"
"Goddess of Heaven!"
A group of people suddenly flew out from the tree house hanging on the towering ancient tree.
After landing, most people knelt down, as if... worshiping him.
Only an old woman, leaning on a green wooden cane, walked over tremblingly.
Everyone else called her Tiannv, except for this old woman, who was known to be Yuxin. It was obvious that she had a close relationship with the traitor's new master.
After looking carefully, Pang Jian noticed that although the people who fell from the tree house had human limbs and appearance, their skin was like tree bark.
Young people have greener skin color, while old people's skin is dry like old tree bark.
The color of their eyeballs is also different. The younger ones have emerald green eyes, while those with dry skin like old tree bark have dark brown eyes.
The hideous plants and flowers that can be found everywhere live in harmony with them, seem to be able to communicate with them, and will never attack them.
"Grandma Muyuan!"
A foreign woman named Yu Xin flew up from the dark giant anaconda, walked towards the old woman with a green wooden cane with a smile, and said kindly: "I haven't come to the Wood Tribe to pay my respects to you in many years."
She walked forward affectionately, took the initiative to support the old woman, and said coquettishly: "You too, when I was a child, you often came to the Celestial Clan to see me, but you haven't appeared in these years."
"Yuxin, grandma, I'm really too old, and the life energy in my body is almost exhausted."
Mu Yuan smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Her face, like old bark, was cracked in many places, like a dying tree.
"You know that we, the Wood Tribe, have lost our faith. The sacred tree we serve... has long since withered. Because of its deathly silence, it is difficult for us to continue living for long."
"It's a good thing you came to see me this time. If you had come a few years later, you would only see my dry bones."
Mu Yuan held Yu Xin's hand tightly and sighed.
When talking about the sacred tree they believed in, Mu Yuan sighed deeply, looking extremely lost and helpless.
Scattered among the numerous towering ancient trees, hundreds of members of the Wood Clan still remained in a kneeling position.
Hearing this, they all looked up at the clan elder Mu Yuan, also with sad expressions on their faces.
The sacred tree was the pillar of faith for the Wood Clan, and their collapse dealt them a heavy blow.
"Grandma Muyuan, your Eclipse Realm... The sacred tree you serve, the Celestial Clan is also trying to find seeds."
"Unfortunately, we, the Celestial Clan, have searched all seven continents of the Fifth Realm, but have not found the seeds of the sacred tree."
Yu Xin said regretfully.
"I know. It's because the sacred tree has become extinct that our Wood Clan... has become the weakest clan."
Mu Yuan sighed and said sadly: "We are too dependent on the sacred tree. The continuation of life of our entire tribe, including the improvement of strength, has always been closely related to the sacred tree."
"Without the sacred tree, we have become devastated and it will be difficult to regain our former glory."
"Why."
She recalled the time when the Wood Clan was strong and prosperous, and said how glorious their tribe had been under the protection of the sacred tree.
The other end.
Pang Jian, who was secretly watching Yu Xin and Mu Yuan through the dark anaconda, was slightly shocked by their conversation.
Yu Xin of the Celestial Clan did not say the three complete words. When she realized that it was disrespectful to the Wood Clan, she quickly changed her words to "sacred tree", but she still uttered the word "Erosion Realm".
"Erosion Vine!"
The Wood Clan had been anxiously waiting in the lower world, while the Sky Clan had been searching everywhere for the Erosion Vine in vain. Now, one of them has grown vigorously in Yunze!
The Wood Tribe worships it as a sacred tree, saying that the strength and continuation of life of the entire tribe are closely related to their sacred tree.
Due to the complete extinction of the sacred tree, the life of Mu Yuan, the clan elder, will come to an end very early.
"I still need to confirm whether it is true or not. I also need to be responsible for Xiaoshu."
Pang Jian hesitated for only a moment, then immediately ordered the traitor to get closer to Muyuan.
then…
The dark giant anaconda was lazily crawling in the grass, not caring at all about what Yu Xin and Mu Yuan said, and its eyes suddenly showed reluctance.
It swam slowly to Yu Xin and Mu Yuan.
Its dark eyes looked dimly at the old garden, wondering what to do.
"Don't worry, Grandma Muyuan and I haven't seen each other for a long time. We need to chat for a while."
Thinking it was anxious, Yu Xin smiled and touched its forehead, saying comfortingly, "You, when your intelligence improves significantly, I will have a good talk with you."
"What is there to talk about with this dark giant anaconda?"
A strange path in the wooden garden.
In their fifth realm, dark anacondas are not rare. With Yu Xin's status and position, she can capture higher-level dark anacondas as mounts.
Mu Yuan didn't know why she thought so highly of the man in front of her.
Yu Xin said proudly: "It is my best friend. It has many strange features and is different from the dark giant anaconda you know."
Mu Yuan was speechless, thinking: "It's just an ordinary dark giant anaconda, how magical can it be?"
Although she thought so, Mu Yuan naturally would not spoil her interest. She squinted her eyes and looked at the dark anaconda curiously.
The next moment.
"ah!"
Mu Yuan suddenly exclaimed.
She was leaning on a wooden crutch, and suddenly a green wave of light appeared, covering an area of a hundred miles. Thousands of flowers, plants and trees instantly showed strong malice towards the dark anaconda.
The dark anaconda was so frightened that its body trembled.
"Grandma Muyuan! Xiao Hei!"
Yu Xin shouted hurriedly.
She saw her Xiao Hei opening his bloody mouth towards Mu Yuan's hand without crutch, as if he was going to swallow it in one gulp.
The startled Mu Yuan instinctively took precautions, which resulted in all the flowers, plants and trees in the area where the Mu tribe lived locking onto Xiao Hei and trying to strangle him on the spot.
However, she did not see a trace of malice in the depths of Xiao Hei's eyes.
Yu Xin suddenly thought of the magical Xiao Hei. All the golden obsidian, lightning-struck wood and sunstone he created passed through his bloody mouth.
"Grandma Muyuan, Xiao Hei has no ill will towards you. Put your hand on the tongue in its mouth. Believe me, Xiao Hei will listen to me and will not hurt you."
"Xiao Hei, maybe I can give you a surprise, Grandma Muyuan, you have to believe me."
Yu Xin begged.
A look of surprise appeared in the depths of Mu Yuan's dark brown eyes.
After thinking for a while, she smiled calmly and said proudly: "I was also frightened by it. At this level... it really can't hurt me."
That’s all.
Mu Yuan's arm, which was as thin as a dead tree, stretched into the open mouth of the Dark Anaconda and landed on the tongue of the Dark Anaconda as instructed.
"Yuxin, is it seriously injured and needs my treatment?"
Mu Yuan pondered and frowned, saying, "I don't feel any wounds either. I'm too old to heal my wounds, so I can leave it to someone else..."
"ah!"
As Mu Yuan was speaking, he was shocked.
She realized something, and her body, which seemed to be about to wither, began to tremble violently!
"Life, life, life energy!"
"It can extend the life of our Wood Clan, improve the bloodline level of our Wood Clan, and even bring us back to life!"
"Only the sacred tree can condense the life energy!"
Mu Yuan's eyes suddenly filled with tears.
One of her hands was still in the dark anaconda's mouth, and her body was trembling as she knelt down in an awkward posture.
With her other hand, she threw away the crutch, placed her hand on her chest and bowed devoutly, crying and saying, "I believe that the sacred tree that our Wood Clan worships has been reborn in a certain world! The dawn of our Wood Clan's rise has appeared!"
All the members of the Wood Tribe knocked their foreheads to the ground, their bodies trembling with excitement, and they uttered strange mumblings in praise of the sacred tree.
"Thank you, Goddess, for bringing the good news!"
"Thank you, Goddess!"
I don't know who started it, but the Mu tribe members who were kneeling on the ground were all kowtowing and cheering.
Yu Xin's eyes were dull, and she looked in disbelief at the dark giant anaconda with Mu Yuan's hand stuck in its bloody mouth.
An extremely obvious life energy was emanating from Xiao Hei's mouth and injected into Mu Yuan's body.
Mu Yuan, whose skin was like old tree bark, exuded a faint green glow. Her old face was becoming younger at a speed visible to the naked eye.
…
(End of this chapter)