All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 403 - 46: Fantasies of Farming

Chapter 403: Chapter 46: Fantasies of Farming

Although An Jing felt that it wasn’t his job as a Seven Fiend of Heavenly Mandate to collect items like the Heaven and Earth Core, a feeling of unease still echoed in his heart.

"That’s unlikely, it should be done by the Lord of the World... not my turn, not my turn."

Grumbling to himself, An Jing landed in the ruins.

The former stronghold of the True Demon Sect had once been a local Hunting Manor, neatly located at a mid-world point between the outer and deeper parts of the Broken Blade Mountain Range.

The corpses of the Demon Disciples in the area had all been covered by snow, and the ruins were also encased in ice.

Only in the depths, where the True Demon Sect influenced the Earth Pulse Qi, borrowing the power of the Great Hui to extract Dragon Qi for its advancement, the Great Formation was still operating, revealing vortexes upon vortexes in the Spiritual Vision.

In these ruins, a Puppetry automaton was clearing away the icy debris.

The Earth Pulse Qi provided by the Great Formation allowed the True Demon Sect to carry out various experiments and to help the Great Hui advance; animating a few Puppetry automatons was naturally a piece of cake.

By now, An Jing had completely recognized the benefits of Puppetry automatons—difficult to use in the Tianyuan Realm due to the lack of Spirit Stones and Spirit Veins, but in the Embracing the Void realm, the Earth Pulse Qi surged like the sea. Not to mention a few automatons, even tens of thousands of them wouldn’t exhaust one of its tributaries.

Besides, the Evergreen Wood of Tianyuan Realm, when placed in Embracing the Void realm, was certainly a top-tier useful Spirit Plant... It could be used for alchemy, as well as talisman material; it could heal injuries, and also help Spirit Beasts like Dang Kang advance... If it could grow in Tianyuan’s harsh conditions, then in...

"Wait a minute!"

An Jing suddenly had an epiphany, realizing what previously felt off: "Can the Evergreen Wood from Tianyuan Realm really grow normally in Embracing the Void realm filled with inert Demonic Qi?"

—Damn it, it wouldn’t be the Great Demon Spirit at the peak of demonic martial prowess that I awakened, would it? If that’s really the case, I’m screwed!

"The heavenly paths of the two realms are different, I need to check... Old Teng, don’t die on me!"

An Jing thought and immediately acted, heading to check the Puppetry automaton that was operating within the remnants of the True Demon Sect.

If the Evergreen Wood here was showing abnormalities, then he would have to hurry back to find Snow Climbing Tooth to warn the beast.

Fortunately, the Evergreen Wood was still growing normally and had not mutated due to the various Demonic Qi in the area—on the contrary, it was thriving extremely well, even showing some unusually vigorous budding and growth, brimming with vitality.

This was perhaps why Snow Climbing Tooth had sensed the presence of Evergreen Wood, because the plant that had always endured hardship in the wilderness had suddenly arrived in a rich black soil land and naturally started to grow wildly.

"This Evergreen Wood has a strong resistance to Demonic Qi," Subdue Evil remarked with a glance: "I originally thought it might encounter some accidents due to the different environmental conditions of the two realms, but as it turns out, the Evergreen Wood is doing much better here than in Tianyuan."

"That’s true, after all, Tianyuan Realm is full of active Demonic Qi, whereas Embracing the Void realm, aside from the inert Demonic Qi, has a lot of unpolluted Spirit Qi."

Relieved of a false alarm, An Jing steadied his mind, feeling he might have been overly cautious, but the rapid growth of the Evergreen Wood did indeed make him wary: "Creatures from another world with such vitality really do need to be handled with care, not to mention, causing an ecological disaster would be bad."

Though it wasn’t a problem, the incident still served as a reminder to An Jing that the creations from Tianyuan Realm should not be used without caution.

However, conversely, it also meant that if An Jing could obtain some high-yielding, Demonic Qi-resistant seeds in Tianyuan Realm... Transplanted to Embracing the Void realm, he could probably easily grow fields beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.

"But not in Linjiang City."

Although An Jing was tempted by the idea, he still shook his head in denial, "After all, it’s a crop from another world, not something like the Tengshuang White or the Puppetry, which can be attributed to the Bright Mirror Sect and my master; but the crops don’t fit the narrative at all."

"It must be planted in a secluded and remote place. There are too many prying eyes in Linjiang City, and it would be discovered if planted there."

An Jing’s own thought was to wait until he went to the Bright Mirror Sect and find a valley to plant in. If he could harvest the Wood Element Spirit Plants safely, it would count as his own venture.

But while he was contemplating, An Jing suddenly thought of his father, "Right, my father is still alive... Is he now acting as the deputy to a chieftain of an Iron Li tribe?"

"If it were my father..."

An Jing lapsed into deep thought. After considering for a moment, he temporarily set aside this train of thought, "I’ll talk about it when we meet again. I hope Dad is all right."

Supressing the idea of cultivating Evergreen Wood, An Jing started planning his exploration of the Primordial Spirit Cave.

Before long, a durable and long-endurance unmanned drone took off from the ruins and headed towards the depths of Broken Blade Mountain.

Deep within the Broken Blade Mountain, where there were few human traces and little snow, the ancient and wild forests had not been fully invaded by the Frost Calamity. Towering into the clouds, the hundred-meter-tall trees stood like a forest, blocking the sky and sun. Their branches and leaves completely isolated the inside from the outside world, preventing even the slightest ray of sunlight, snow, and frost wind from seeping through, maintaining the temperature within the Broken Blade Mountain above freezing point.

On the ground, countless interlacing and serpentine roots formed pathways similar to those made by the migrating Beast Tide; this was the result of centuries of continuous mutual adaptation between the groups of Spirit Lands and ancient forests.

Of course, this was only temporary. If the Frost Calamity continued for a few more months, the Broken Blade Mountain would be completely covered in snow and ice. By then, the migrating momentum of Beast Tide would no longer be as vast, but a real flight for survival.

Unlike the forests of the previous Earth, the forests of Embracing the Void realm may indeed be like an immovable, sluggish Great Demon Spirit; An Jing understood this very well, so he didn’t enter in person at first but instead controlled an unmanned drone. Relying on the map provided by Snow Climbing Tooth, he traveled deeper into the mountains along the animal paths, bypassing traps and dead ends, surveying the terrain with a smoothness ten times that of an old hunter.

It goes without saying, the depths of Broken Blade Mountain are truly not a place for humans to linger.

Here, every ten steps held a poisonous plant, every hundred steps a malignant miasma. Various glowing and non-glowing fungi and bizarre plants hide quietly in assorted holes and corners of roots, waiting for an unfamiliar guest who doesn’t know the surroundings to step on them, and then turn them into corpses, furthering their own propagation.

Visible to the naked eye, colorful miasma lingered among the branches and fruits; usually hidden, they’d burst forth as soon as any active object passed by, even an invisible drone, instantly transforming an area into a dazzling, corrosive zone.

It was just as well that An Jing had specifically purchased an unmanned drone for long-range exploration with anti-corrosion features; otherwise, he’d have likely lost one here.

Traveling through these poisonous foggy miasmas, in the deep parts of the mountainous forests and hills, there were metal plants with peculiar shapes, resembling neatly geometric mineral veins—these Spirit Plants were the ’Ore Gathering Trees’, which aggregated the various minerals that could not be absorbed by the forest.

The root systems of those towering trees likely delved nearly ten miles into the Earth Vein, even encircling many mineral veins, containing many minerals that either weren’t needed yet or were in excess.

The turbid Qi and heavy Evil Qi of these minerals were difficult for ordinary Spirit Plants to bear, hence the forest had Ore Gathering Trees, peculiar plants made entirely of metallic minerals. They consisted entirely of various refined minerals, vibrant with life, highly spiritual, and without much toxicity—they were the favorite harvest of local Mountain Explorers, useful for forging Magical Soldiers filled with vitality and spirituality, as well as cultivating the Divine Abnormality of bones that resonated with the Wood Element metal.

The Ore Gathering Trees on the outskirts of Broken Blade Mountain had all been picked, leaving only those in the deep mountains, and within a mere quarter of an hour, An Jing spotted three.

"These Ore Gathering Trees are very useful to you," said Subdue Evil. "Although they’re somewhat less effective than Jade Cutting Steel, they are abundant. Bring them back for forging Magical Soldiers, rather than letting the wild beasts eat them and go to waste."

"Indeed," An Jing nodded slightly and prepared to mark them on the map in Snow Climbing Tooth’s Jade Slip so he could take them out after the exploration was completed.

But it was just as An Jing was distracted and not fully controlling the drone, a flash of dark shadow passed by.

In an instant, the drone exploded, leaving the screen pitch black.