983: Chapter 611 983: Chapter 611 There was a certain sternness in the air, in the mountains that carried a hint of immortal qi, where temples, sects, and Taoist Temples could be found!
There were also uninhabited mountains with ranges that stretched on and on, relatively remote, where formidable animals frequently appeared!
Hunters dared not venture deep into the old forests, while capable beings would enter to train, hoping to find some heavenly treasures.
Oftentimes, upon entering, one would encounter formidable animals and face life-and-death situations, and later no one dared to enter such continuous mountain ranges!
It was for this reason that many more heavenly treasures remained unexplored!
Jiang Tang looked down and spotted a range of mountains, then he lowered the Flying Artifact a bit and entered deep into the mountains!
He didn’t land the Magic Artifact, as there was mist in the mountains here, a kind of poisonous fog that would potentially kill an ordinary person upon entry!
Perhaps, one would inhale such qi and die because there was no way to breathe!
Perhaps someone would have prepared antidotes, covering their qi as they entered!
However, in such continuous mountains, venturing inside might result in not finding a way out in the pitch black, getting lost within!
Jiang Tang was not afraid of this poison.
This fog did not affect his sharp senses; even the least able Green Ox had already used Divine Sense to scout around.
They discovered that the continuous mountains housed formidable animals such as tigers, leopards, and wolves!
But these were merely animals, not Demonic Beasts.
To their surprise, within the continuous mountain range, the most formidable was not the tiger, wolf, or leopard, but a Millennium Snake Demon!
Where there were formidable animals, there could also be heavenly treasures guarded.
In such continuous mountains with so many animals, and with no humans entering the deep forest for a long time, there were many Soaring Trees that several people could not wrap their arms around!
Jiang Tang used the Flying Artifact to stop above where the Snake Spirit resided, also parking not far from the top of a towering tree in the mountains!
While the Magic Artifact was stationary, Ye Tian and Green Ox aboard had also noticed the Snake Spirit!
This snake, perhaps having consumed too many heavenly treasures, had grown to a thousand years old, already possessing a Demon Core, and was just a step away from transforming shape.
Having discovered the Snake Demon, Jiang Tang knew the air was unusual.
He climbed nearby Soaring Trees, finding that the body of the Snake Demon was as thick as the trunk.
At first glance, it looked like a dragon!
One could even mistake it for a Vine Whip lying on the branches, causing such a large tree to sway under its weight!
This tree, which had the power to withstand, was no ordinary tree.
Jiang Tang saw many similar trees nearby, initially mistaking them to be common towering ones!
In fact, these trees, too big for several people to embrace, were Jingtian Wood, emanating strong Spiritual Energy, and even the leaves were dense with qi!
Such large trees were definitely over a hundred years old, and unexpectedly, this uninhabited mountain range contained such Spirit Plants.
This kind of tree could be used for construction, building wooden houses filled with dense Spiritual Energy!
Jiang Tang thought about his base, or the wooden houses and furniture he would use for future residence—owning dense and qi-rich furniture would be wonderful, even better than the sandalwood that people often considered most valuable!
The seeds produced by these trees could grow many saplings, but with so many large trees nearby, there were few new saplings, suggesting to Jiang Tang that maybe the saplings were used by the Snake Spirit for cultivation!
With many seeds on these large trees, Jiang Tang waved his hand and collected many seeds into the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space, planting such trees on the mountains there to enrich the space with even denser Spiritual Energy!
It also allowed for better growth of beings inside, especially the Moonlight Spirits and Sun Stone Elves which loved these types of trees!
As he scattered the seeds, they sprouted immediately in the mountains, and the Moonlight Stone Elves, along with the Sun Stone Elves, came flying over smelling the scent, instead of going to the moon or the sun!
Jiang Tang also provided for the space within his body; the mountain ranges in the space teemed with demonic beasts, which could make good use of these trees to grow better!
He not only collected seeds but also uprooted a whole area of soaring trees and planted them all in the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space; the Artifact Spirit of the Hell Palace also planted some smaller trees!
He placed some of the towering trees into the space within his body, planning to build wooden houses there and make some small gadgets and furniture in his spare time.
However, he harvested more trees into the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space, where he intended to let his two pets, in their free time, process these soaring trees into lumber, to better harness their potential.
The reason for uprooting is that these trees are already sentient; once their trunks are cut, their roots would quickly sprout into gigantic trees!
It was just like how spellcasters could grow towering trees from seeds with their spells!
The Snake Spirit discovered that the tall trees nearby had suddenly vanished, as well as some of their seeds, and knew someone must have used spells!
Having lived here for a millennium, no formidable figure had ever emerged!
In the past, it sensed the presence of weaker beings entering, who were either scared off by the animals or eaten!
It was guarding the Immortal Spirit Fruit tree that only blossomed every 200 years and bore fruit every 300 years; the reason it had advanced from a small snake to its current form, on the verge of Transform Shape, eating the fruit only twice in a thousand years.
The first time it found this fruit tree, its fruits were nearly ripe; it was its mother that was guarding it; back then, it was just a small snake that had lived for 100 years, being told by its mother that it takes 300 years for the tree to blossom and bear a single fruit.
Having witnessed the fruit tree bloom, it waited for 100 years with its mother, who mentioned how the previous fruit was nearly eaten by an eagle, and only through a deadly struggle between its father and the eagle were they able to save it.
Both sustained fatal injuries and perished in the fight!
Its mother was very sorrowful when saying this, and then when it was its turn to guard, it was lucky enough to eat the ripe fruit, biting it just as an eagle swooped in, so it hurriedly swallowed the fruit and fought with the eagle.
After eating the fruit, its body brimmed with vigor, and it did not even know how the fruit was digested; falling into its mouth, it turned into Spiritual Energy!
In the fight with the eagle, the fruit gave it an edge, ultimately allowing it to kill the mighty eagle, despite the eagle’s more profound cultivation.
It was because of this fruit that it leaped from Spirit Awakening to Insight and then to body tempering; after waiting for another 300 years, as the fruit was about to ripen again, various flying creatures approached, yet it protected the fruit fiercely and ended up consuming it!
It immediately ascended to the level of Demon Core; after cultivating for several hundred years, now that the fruit was nearing maturation again, eating this fruit would allow it to Transform Shape and possibly reach even greater heights!
At this critical moment before the fruit’s maturation, it was most vigilant, guessing that its fragrance would surely attract numerous demonic and flying creatures!
This time, however, it sensed flying objects carrying unfamiliar human Qi!
When did humans become so powerful?
Possessing such fast and potent spells?
It witnessed the silence of its surrounding trees, as many towering trees were uprooted without a trace!
Unaware of the trees’ destination, the Snake Spirit trembled with fear, intending to descend and protect the fruit tree!
Yet it found that its towering tree was being uprooted too, and it suddenly spat out green venom!
It sprayed around the tree base, failing to find its target and shooting upward, assuming the flying object must be high in the sky!
Jiang Tang detected the Snake Spirit spitting poison; he was not afraid of its venom but simply did not want his Flying Artifact to get dirty!
The Flying Artifact swiftly relocated, and with quick movements, Jiang Tang uprooted the Snake Spirit’s tree and placed it inside the Hell Palace, marking the only soaring tree collected there.
This towering tree was planted by the riverside, where the rich water source would encourage better growth!
At this point, Jiang Tang also extracted the fruit tree guarded by the Snake Spirit and planted it within his internal space!
He knew this fruit tree was certainly a Heavenly Treasure; it was not that he didn’t want to share it with others, but if he later turned the fruits into Pills, he could share them then.
He had yet to learn of the medicinal effects of the entire fruit tree!
He also hoped that the branches of this fruit tree could propagate through cuttings!