Immortal Path Space

Chapter 216: Gifted Pill

Chapter 216: Gifted Pill

Wang Hong opened the door once again and handed the successfully refined pill to Wu Dayong. However, along with this, he received some unsettling news the bodies of Demonic Beasts outside their temporary residence had vanished once more.

This piece of information quickly spread within the temporary camp, sparking widespread discussions. Many cultivators personally went to investigate the scene but returned empty-handed.

After a day had passed, all fifteen Golden Core Cultivators came back, bearing some injuries but with no casualties.

Led by several late-stage Foundation Building Cultivators, they had traded the demon core of the Demonic Serpent with the Golden Core Cultivators, acquiring over a hundred high-quality Spirit Stones.

However, distributing these three hundred plus Spirit Stones among three thousand people proved to be a challenging task and took considerable effort.

Wang Hong didn't pay much attention to these matters. Although the value of a third-tier demon core was high, when divided among three thousand people, the share for each individual wasn't substantial.

Later, someone sent him a few thousand Spirit Stones as a gesture of goodwill, which could be considered better than nothing.

After a few days of rest, ten Flying Boats set off again, this time in two groups, to hunt down Demonic Beasts outside two cities.

Learning from a previous setback, they now divided into two groups, each with five boats, maintaining a distance of no more than an hour's flight from each other.

After two months of sweeping through the areas outside Boundary City and Jin'an City, there were no traces of Demonic Beasts left. They had successfully driven them into hiding.

During this period, the Demon Clan attempted a few counterattacks, but the human cultivators, having learned from their losses, engaged only when they were sure of victory. If the odds were against them, they fled without hesitation, never pursuing the enemy.

Moreover, the flying Demonic Beasts had suffered substantial losses in the previous encounter. They were no match for ten Flying Boats and three thousand Foundation Building Cultivators in a direct confrontation.

Once, the Demon Clan located the temporary residence of human cultivators, organizing Demonic Beasts from two cities to attack simultaneously. However, the cultivators abandoned the fight, retreating into the Flying Boats and soaring away.

Seizing the opportunity, the ten Flying Boats circled to Boundary City, wreaking havoc with a frenzy of attacks, causing chaos through burning, killing, and looting.

When the horde of Demonic Beasts hastily returned, the ten Flying Boats were already gone.

The high-tier Demonic Beasts howled in anger, while the low-tier ones, with limited intelligence, were oblivious to the meaning behind their actions, merely following orders.

After two months of such activities, they refrained from going out to hunt Demonic Beasts. The large Flying Boats consumed Spirit Stones during flight, and since losing Jin'an City, they had run out of supplies. Though the first batch of reinforcements brought some resources, it wasn't enough.

After this period, they had accumulated a substantial amount of Demonic Beast materials, with the Flying Boats now filled with these materials, seemingly discarded like garbage with no one paying them any attention.

Other essential supplies were also running thin. In the past, many cultivators queued up for Wang Hong's refined pills, but now, there were none.

Because the Spiritual Herbs had been completely depleted, although they could gather some wild Spiritual Herbs in the Boundary Mountain Range, it was like a drop in the bucket and didn't solve the problem at all.

Currently, healing pills and second-tier Spirit Wine were in short supply. Just yesterday, Wang Hong had used a healing pill to exchange for a piece of third-tier snake skin.

Now, even ordinary Spirit Stones were running out quickly. Wang Hong dared not make any moves to exchange for more Spirit Stones to expand the Space.

They had already moved their temporary camp in the direction from which the second batch of reinforcements was expected. This served both to assist incoming cultivators and to await supplies.

Wang Hong spent every day secluded in a temporary Alchemy room, crafting talismans and occasionally preparing some delicacies for himself.

Little Peng was also released and often wandered around the temporary camp. People, aware that it was Wang Alchemist's Spirit Pet, treated it with respect, sometimes even offering it food.

Today, a cultivator brought out a Spirit Wine that had been hidden for a while, pouring half a cup and savoring it slowly. Though it was only a first-tier Spirit Wine, in their current situation, once it was consumed, there was no place to buy more.

Little Peng happened to pass by, caught a whiff of the wine, and couldn't resist. It walked up to the cultivator, fixating its bird eyes on the wine cup, its saliva dripping.

The cultivator, finding the bird's behavior amusing and already having a desire to befriend Wang Alchemist, poured a cup of Spirit Wine and placed it in front of Little Peng.

Using its wing, Little Peng grabbed the wine cup, brought it to its mouth, tilted its head back, opened its beak, and gulped down the Spirit Wine.

After downing the cup, Little Peng smacked its beak, expressing that the wine wasn't as good as Wang Hong's. Then, its vitality surged, and it became lively.

Proudly, it approached the cultivator, extending its wing to embrace him. Although it couldn't speak and lacked expressive abilities, it conveyed a sense of friendliness. If it could, it would have definitely bowed, burned incense, and paid respects to this cultivator.

Though the cultivator was somewhat perplexed, he could sense Little Peng's friendly intentions. Little Peng felt this wasn't enough to express its gratitude, so it flipped a Storage Bag out of its feathers.

This Storage Bag was obtained after many pleas to Wang Hong. It contained items collected by Little Peng in its daily life and some snacks given by Wang Hong.

From the bag, it took out a shiny crystal, wanting to give it to the cultivator. However, after some hesitation, it tucked the crystal back in.

In reality, this was an ordinary ruby in the mortal world. Though beautiful, it was no different from common stones in the eyes of cultivators.

After putting the stone back, Little Peng retrieved a pill from the bag, which was its snack. It used its wing to pick up an Essence Core Pill and offered it to the cultivator.

Initially hesitant, the cultivator intended to refuse, but Little Peng insisted. Finally, unable to refuse the bird's persistence, he accepted the pill.

Examining the pill closely, the cultivator realized it was a type he had never seen before. Speculating that it might be a pill specifically refined by Wang Alchemist for Spirit Pets, he nonchalantly put it away, thinking it wouldn't be too valuable.

At this moment, Wang Hong was in the Space collecting seeds from the demon-hunting tree. During this period, he could harvest a large pile of golden seeds every day.

As the seeds of the demon-hunting tree matured, they would shoot out a great distance. Due to the nature of Space's soil, once the seeds landed, they would root and sprout.

To accommodate this, Wang Hong had prepared many pieces of cloth, covering the entire area designated for planting demon-hunting trees on the ground.

After collecting the seeds on the ground, he went and brought some demon corpses for the demon-hunting tree to absorb.

Now, the demon-hunting tree was covered with various-sized green cocoons. Whenever a few branches were free, Wang Hong would bring more demon corpses to replenish them.

The demon corpses collected in the last round in the Space were not yet used up. With the current rate of absorption by the demon-hunting tree, it would take a long time to consume all of them.

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