"Bam! Bambam!" three explosions could be heard from that 10 kilometres barren grounds. As the clouds of smokes slowly rise into the air, two shadows could be seen fighting against each other, exchanging blows through their body parts. "Poof!" Long Feng's fist came into contact with Tulujin's face and created a huge edge on the skull of this corrupted tribesman.
[Human, you are quite... Umph!] Tulujin tried to speaks, but without any intention to allow him to finish speaking, Long Feng delivers another blow to his face, thoroughly flattened the frontal skull as Tulujin falls backwards. Long Feng didn't stop at there but continues to deliver blows by blows towards the opponent like it is yet to meet its maker.
With the aid of Wind Element's turbulence resistant and Fire Element's fiery ignition, added with his own brute strength, Long Feng's Vermilion Lord Pill became like a blast of pressurized missile, as each single pill is tossed and strikes downwards, a ground shaking explosions could be felt, even when one is not standing above ground.
[Raging Wood Spears!] Tulujin controlled the Wood Element around him, added with the corrupted Essence, he delivers a rain of spears attack towards Long Feng without any space to be evaded. But in that similar time, Long Feng Fist slammed directly on the ground, creating an earthquake that causes all the ground to become uneven, and as the flow of wind starts to change, the rain of spears quickly scattered and blocked before it even reached Long Feng.
With a hop, Long Feng instantly appears behind Tulujin, and gave him a strike on the nape, causing the latter to slam on the ground face first before Long Feng continues with another punch slammed towards the ground. "Kabam!" Long Feng actually brings out the Vermilion Lord Pill within this strike, as the fist slammed on the ground, a huge explosion could be felt, as the figure that was buried deep within the rubbles starts to bleed without control.
[Rargh!] Tulujin leaps upward along with all the rubbles, as Long Feng, who was already waited too long for him to come upwards, gave a downward strike once again, as Tulujin was launching towards another direction with his head carving up the soils on the ground. Tulujin has no sense of pain, but currently, the sense of fear quickly creates the sense of pain within its body, as it starts to get weaker and tired, almost unable to continue fighting anymore.
Tulujin wakes up and prepares to face the next upcoming strike from the front, only to meet with nothing but thin air before his eyes. [Where is!!] Tulujin tried to think, but unfortunately, a claw came from upwards, and its head had been totally destroyed into a pile of compost where it will slowly vanish. Afraid of being back-stabbed once again like last time, Long Feng land a few more blows and thoroughly destroy tulujin's body.
He bend down and collects the few piece of beads on the ground, only to notice that other than the four Large Brown Bead located in its four limbs, there is actually three Brown Essence Teardrops within this tribesman. "Will the tribesmen became like them too, if they over refine the Brown Crystal Beads?" Long Feng has some suspect, but still, he felt that he standing too shallow in this waters, and instead, he should continue to hunt for the treasure first, no matter what.
He continues to proceed down to the north, and very soon, Long Feng could have a view towards the blue sea that vastly covered the whole area as he exits from the woods. Unexpectedly, there are no winds at all around the edge of this Northern side of the Continent of Mu, and as he tried to look around, not even a single shred of corruption could be seen as he exits the forest. "This area must be covered and protected by the grace of Mother Gaia if that's the case, I should quickly find out where it is kept, so I could see if I am qualified to inherit her with the grace of Ancestor Mu Dao."
Long Feng starts to look around the edge of the northern side, and in the same time, he did not forget to assist in removing the corruption as long it is within his reach. Through working hard in this matter, Long Feng quickly managed to recover a large part of the edge area, and his effort finally bears its fruit as the young tribesmen already started to slowly bloom and grows from the grace of the new Saint Tree, that fully grown after being released from the corruptions for around six hours.
[Inherited one, thank you for helping us to handle the corruptions within the forest.] the current oldest Tribesman quickly thanked Long Feng for handling the corruption on their behalf. Since if it's depending on their own power, who knows how long would it be before they managed to slowly take back some of the lands to cultivate another Saint Tree to start giving birth to new tribesmen.
[This friend, could you tell me what happened recently, that cause the Womb Woods to fall into the Wooden Beast within any news delivered towards the other Habitats? Do you know the location of the previous habitat, so we could take it back to use?] Long Feng quickly checks with the previous event, regarding what happened few suns back.
Then, the Tribesman starts to talk. It happened quite close to the moment when Long Feng and the other disciples started to being sent into this Realm. A few disciples actually being sent to the Womb Woods, and very quickly get into quite a good Pill Exchange relationship with the tribesmen along their way. Although the habitat is constantly under siege by a plenty of Wooden Beast, as their strength is rising continuously due to the help from the Pills refined by the disciples, their strength grows very quickly.
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But about the third or fourth sun later, everything had changed. Like it was properly organized, the pack of Wooden Beast attacks the habitat is a succession wave, and it continues for a whole Fourth Sun period. By the end of the Fourth Sun, the Habitat is unfortunately fallen and all the tribesmen that weren't dead are captured for god know what's the reason. The human who failed to leave should be dead by now, and that alive one is most probably either escaped or possess some special tricks to run away.
And as the updates stopped here, Long Feng roughly have an idea of what happened within this part of the continent. Based on what the tribesman had shared, it seems that the main culprit behind this attack is somebody who is along the side of this person like Tulujin, and perhaps even a stronger one. This person might have the capability to control and order the Wooden Beast, and in the same time, strong and strategic.
Facing such an opponent, Long Feng quickly to come out with a countermeasure, as this kind of opponent is the most dangerous among all. At the moment, Long Feng's attention not only needed to be put on looking for Mother Gaia, he even needed to make sure that the numbers of Tribesmen could continue to grow and quickly return to their habitats, to make sure that the Womb Woods will be able to control the population of the Wooden Beast once again.
Facing with such a difficult situation, Long Feng need some time to fully considers his option. As he is all alone by himself at the moment, so only one choice could be made, and it will over lapse the others if he chose one at the end. Long Feng could take no responsibility in this matter if he wished to do so, but since he already accepts the inheritance from the Ancestor Mu Dou, it would be offensive towards the Ancestor if Long Feng actually chose to not support and protect the people from Prosperity Tribe.
But what caused him to slightly hesitates, is because of his meeting with Tulujin. This evolved Tribesman not only possess such a large amount of Brown Crystal Beads within its body, it even stronger, deadlier to be compared to the other Wooden Beast. Possessing the ability to converse using Prosperity Tribe native language, Tulujin actually even knows about creating the [Corrupted Formation Heart] that is used to infect the woods with corrupt essence.
He considers the weight between the two choices, and finally, Long Feng decided to assist the tribesmen in obtaining and strengthening their habitat in the first place. Although the urge of him to quickly obtains the Mother Gaia is important, but as long he could assist in making the Womb Woods safe from the corruption, locating the exact location of Mother Gaia might be easier, because from what Ancestor Mu Dao says, the Mother Gaia is the only Life Bound Spirit Treasure that has a sentient minds.
In the same time, Long Feng inquiry about the person called Tulujin as well from the tribesmen. After checking for that being's identity for quite a while, Long Feng finally obtains the information regarding this exact tribesman. It is been said that Tulujin, Tulupeng and Tulukong, is the previous three strongest and oldest tribesmen protecting the Womb Woods from the attacks of Wooden Beast. The youngest among the three of them are Tulukong, a gigantic tribesman with a wolf-tooth wooden mace as his favourite weapon.
Tulupeng and Tulujin are slightly younger, but their strength is quite even when it came to competing with each other. But around ten Sun and Moon Wooden Beast Storm ago, the three of them finally went missing from the Womb Woods, where it was believed that the three had met their demise after exploring deeper into the woods. Although they are expected to be reborn once again from the Saint Tree, seems like its been quite long that none of the three of them had been revived, so the tribesmen believed that it must be reborn without any memories, thus they are not been found until date.
Since he already had new targets, Long Feng decided that he will escorts a few tribesmen personally to exits the Womb Woods heading towards the other Habitats to inform them that the northern Womb Woods Habitat had been recovered, and looking for refuge here will be made possible for any trips. Long Feng also informed the currently growing population of the tribesmen that if they are willing to assist Long Feng in obtaining the Spirit Herbs to refine more Pills for their usage.
Additionally, since Long Feng knows that he will be having more harvest in the future as long he could help the Prosperity Tribe prosper, he decided to directly use the Spirit Herbs within his inventory. In the same time, Long Feng having a flashback once again, regarding the informative collection of books he read so far to date, where it compiled different sections of the ranking, usage, speciality and also the differences of each stage of the herbs.
Within the Continent of Yan, the time flows go in a very average way, where it could aid in the formation of Essence Energy, but in exchange, the growth of medicinal plants is not extremely fertile. This caused the people start to consider the option of creating and scripting further improvement tools, to aid in the growth of the medicinal plants.
But in comparison with the fertility in the Prosperity Realm, a simple Black Bitter Mint within this Realm could grow at least 1 years old each hour pass, and even further as it was allowed to grows. For all the herbs, their differences came in their age, and their total essence energy consumed during their growth. Since the Continent of Mu is extremely fertile with strong essence energy presence, Spirit Herbs are commonly seen.
A medicinal Herb is used to label a harvest that yet to reach its complete adulthood stage. In an example, a Black Bitter Mint could be harvest at their two weeks time, in their Normal Quality. If the herb is harvested in a full month time, it would be treated as a Fine Quality instead. Of course, if the herb is left alone for about half a year, where it allows the plant to nicely reach their adolescent stage, the harvested herb will be treated as an Excellent Quality, and with a full one-year maturity, the final results of this Peak Quality herbs.
Of course, when the herb reaches its Peak Quality, a different kind of appraisal stage will follow up next. This is also the moment they will be labelled as Spirit Herb. A Spirit Herb is usually named on those herbs that managed to grow exceeds their Peak Condition or a full maturity stage. But sometimes, It depends on the kind of herbs as well. Nobody would want to grow a Spirit Herb stage Black Bitter Mint just to refine some Refinement to Practitioner Realm Cultivation Pellets.
Of course, after Spirit Herb, there would be a rank known as the Profound Herbs, and above that is known as Saint Herbs and Sage Herbs. The sage herbs are only known in rumours and used by the gods themselves. This is, of course, still depends on the kind of herbs itself. Perhaps a Bitter Black Mint would reach its Profound Rank if it managed to survive and grows more than hundred years, but some kind of herbs might take millennia to reach a simple profound stage.
"Since I have such an abundant amount of Spirit Herbs, I will refine as much Wood Fragrant Pill as I could to increase their cultivation!" Long Feng sets his mind on a track he believed to be correct, as he starts to do his preparation in order to increase the strength of the tribesmen, and quickly take back the Womb Woods Habitat before their messengers' returns from the other Habitats.