At this moment, what made Dongfang Wunian even more curious was one thing, and she asked, "Are you really willing to give up the ten-thousand-year ginseng for your little spirit pet? You need it yourself, and you're still only at the Human Level, you need this kind of medicine to improve your own strength."
"I can improve my strength myself, at most it'll just be a bit later. That's not important to me. In comparison, what the little glutton wants is more important. I'll just pretend I never found this ten-thousand-year ginseng," Xiaoyao smiled and replied.
"..." Dongfang Wunian couldn't understand Xiaoyao's thinking. Could he really give up a heavenly treasure that others could only dream of for the sake of a small spirit pet?
Yes, Xiaoyao would, because Chi Chi wasn't just a small spirit pet in his heart. At the same time, Xiaoyao felt that the ginseng was originally found by Chi Chi anyway, so it didn't matter even more.
"Where did you find it? Are there any more?" At this moment, the medicinal garden supervisor asked this question, a question he himself felt was a bit foolish, but couldn't help asking anyway.
How could there possibly be more? Such a rare and precious thing that could only be encountered by chance. And even if there were more, how could anyone tell you about it? So you could go steal it?
"I found it just now at the cliff. There was only this one ginseng plant, no more," Xiaoyao replied very directly. He wanted people to know that this was something he had just obtained by luck, not something he had been hoarding privately. This way, others would think it was just his good fortune.
If he had been hoarding it privately, people would suspect his identity. If he could privately hoard such a thing, could he still be an ordinary herb gatherer?
Xiaoyao's words, combined with confirmation from Cui Xu and Dongfang Wunian, plus recalling the freshness of that ginseng, no one doubted he was lying. It was indeed as he said.
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At the same time, everyone seemed to understand why Xiaoyao could be so generous, because he had just obtained it and didn't spend money on it, so he could treat it as if he had never gotten it at all.
Indeed, Xiaoyao did have this thought, but with just this thought alone, who would be willing to take out such a precious ten-thousand-year ginseng?
No matter what, Xiaoyao's matter with the ten-thousand-year ginseng had now come to an end. No one continued with this topic anymore, because saying anything more would be useless, that snow wolf had already eaten the ginseng.
Now they needed to focus on recovering from their injuries. Xiaoyao's earlier first aid hadn't fully healed their wounds, so naturally they needed to strengthen their recovery now. They would still need to deal with the battlefield later. Regardless of which side handled it, they definitely couldn't clean up this battlefield completely. Even if they all worked together, it would be the same, this battlefield would still have quite a few remnants.
Although monster beasts of a certain level would definitely have inner cores, sometimes some monster beasts would also have inner cores. Among these black tigers, there would definitely be some. Even if it was just one or two, it would be profitable.
An hour passed. Xiaoyao was still treating the snow wolf's injuries, while the other people from Heavenly Gate had already started collecting materials. They had processed about half of the black tigers, only half, because they had nothing left to store more in. After all, this was just a small training squad.
After that, they could have left, but because Xiaoyao was still continuing to channel Divine Farmer True Qi to the snow wolf, they waited nearby. After all, Xiaoyao had saved them this time.
They could only wait at the periphery, unable to get close to Xiaoyao and the snow wolf, because the wolf-type monster beasts nearby were blocking them. Although these wolf-type monster beasts were injured, they weren't easy to mess with. Most importantly, no one felt there was any need to conflict with them.
During this time, these wolf-type monster beasts also searched for some black tiger corpses, ate the meat and drank the blood, and seemed to have found some inner cores to swallow. Monster beasts were much more sensitive to inner cores, they could easily find corpses that had inner cores.
Then they began their cultivation, digesting the inner cores, recovering from their injuries. These wolf-type monster beasts that could survive were almost all elite among elites. After this war, plus consuming inner cores, their strength would surely make great leaps forward.
If their strength fully recovered, this training squad might not be their match. Of course, at this moment, neither side showed signs of conflict.
The people from Heavenly Gate were too embarrassed to conflict with them. They had already taken advantage this time, so many black tiger corpses had been processed by them, when originally these should have been the wolf pack's spoils of war.
Several more hours passed. By this time, the sky had already begun to darken, and Xiaoyao still seemed to be adjusting that snow wolf's meridians and treating its injuries.
"Strange, why can Xiaoyao treat others for such a long time with his energy circulation?" Dongfang Wunian discovered this problem. According to her thinking, Xiaoyao was just a Human Level martial artist, how could he have such strong endurance? After so many hours, even she would find it difficult to continue. How could he do it?
Could it be that this was a characteristic of the Divine Farmer's Art?
"Wunian, you noticed it too?" the elder said to Dongfang Wunian.
"What?" Dongfang Wunian was a bit slow to react.
"His true qi seems to flow continuously without end. Without King Level cultivation, it would be very difficult to achieve this. But he seems to be only Human Level. Could it be because of the Divine Farmer's Art?" The elder looked toward Xiaoyao's direction and said.
"It should be. We'd have to ask the medicinal garden people about this, they should understand the Divine Farmer's Art situation," Dongfang Wunian shook her head and looked at the medicinal garden supervisor who had come along this time, not far from them.
"Well, the Divine Farmer's Art indeed has very strong sustained ability. It's probably because Divine Farmer True Qi has healing properties, when healing others, it also heals oneself. However, it doesn't seem to have such high sustainability. We have people in Heavenly Gate who've cultivated the Divine Farmer's Art to General Level, but they can only sustain for two hours," The medicinal garden supervisor frowned. Regarding Xiaoyao's situation, he felt it was a bit strange, but felt this couldn't be explained clearly either. After all, the Divine Farmer's Art was too special, just because you couldn't do it didn't mean others couldn't.
"So he's a bit different!"
"Different, yes, but perhaps he cultivates a different focus of the Divine Farmer's Art, or perhaps he's cultivated a different version of the Divine Farmer's Art."
"That's right, the Divine Farmer's Art is a miraculous technique under heaven, hard to explain."
"Mm, that's how it is."
Dongfang Wunian and the others ended their discussion, attributing Xiaoyao's special situation to the mystique of the Divine Farmer's Art, not paying it much attention. After all, it was just the Divine Farmer's Art, no matter how sustained the Divine Farmer's Art was, it had no attack power.
After waiting for a long time more, the sky had already darkened. The Heavenly Gate people lit bonfires, while the ground was still covered with tiger and wolf corpses. Fortunately, this was deep in Heavenly Heart Mountain with no one passing through, otherwise this scene would surely frighten countless people to death.
"Awoooo!!"
A high-pitched howl emerged from the wolf pack, and along with the howl, an aura also surged outward at the same time, allowing nearby people to feel that powerful presence.
This aura let people know one thing, that snow wolf's injuries seemed to have recovered. Xiaoyao had actually managed to save the nearly-dead snow wolf back to life. Although it was mainly due to the ten-thousand-year ginseng's effect, Xiaoyao's contribution was equally indispensable.
Moreover, the elder seemed to notice that this snow wolf's aura was stronger than before, possibly more than one level stronger. If previously he could only be taken down by it in a short time under a sneak attack, then now even without a sneak attack, even in a frontal battle, he wouldn't last long. This time might even be shorter.
With the snow wolf's current strength, if it faced that black tiger again, there would be no need for mutual destruction, it could already completely defeat the black tiger.
"This... this power..." The snow wolf also seemed a bit surprised by its own power advancement, looking somewhat incredulous. No wonder it had such a reaction, originally it thought that even if it broke through, it would only advance one level, but the current situation seemed like it had advanced three levels in a row.
The snow wolf could also be certain that with its current condition, as long as it went into secluded cultivation, it could transform into human form.
"Very surprising, isn't it? Because of me, I brought out the ginseng's medicinal power to its limit, which is why you have this breakthrough now. But it's still a pity, if it had been combined with other medicines to refine into pills, the effect would be several times this. At the very least, I could have given the boss a pill. Too bad there wasn't enough time," Xiaoyao stretched his body. Although his words mentioned it was a pity, no one could hear any sense of regret in his tone.
"Human, you helped me this time. If there's anything you need, you can tell me," the snow wolf said.
"There's nothing I need. This time doesn't count as me helping you, it's this little glutton who wanted to help you. By the way, are you female?" Xiaoyao asked.
"..., Yes..." The snow wolf was silent for a moment before answering.
"No wonder. This little glutton, I couldn't tell that besides eating, it actually likes beauty..." Xiaoyao said to Chi Chi.
"Chi chi!" Chi Chi jumped and called out.
"..." The snow wolf was silent.
"What are you calling about? Want me to make a request for you to have this white female wolf follow you?" Xiaoyao snapped his fingers at Chi Chi.
"Chi chi..."
"Alright, it's already getting late. How about everyone going to rest. You have your wolf pack clean up the corpses here. Oh right, I need to deal with the black tiger corpses. You do your thing," After Xiaoyao finished speaking, he ran toward the black tiger corpses. Although the battlefield had been cleaned once, there were still quite a few spoils of war here waiting for Xiaoyao to collect.
When Xiaoyao ran over, those wolf-type monster beasts seemed to respectfully make way automatically, seeming to have a different attitude toward Xiaoyao. This point went unnoticed by Xiaoyao, right now, all he could see were those black tigers.
Soon, Xiaoyao's blade rose and fell, dismantling several black tiger corpses. What surprised Dongfang Wunian was that among the black tiger corpses Xiaoyao dismantled, all of them seemed to have inner cores.
At this moment, Dongfang Wunian followed Xiaoyao. She wanted to ask Xiaoyao why he could sustain for so long, and she had already asked this question. Xiaoyao had also answered.
(End of Chapter)