"Why are you arresting me... Bleurgh..." Tian Shu Lishi could not get out more than a few words before he vomited.
Wang Qi's expression was equally unpleasant.
"Sorry, the smell is too much... Bleurgh..." Tian Shu Lishi seemed to feel that being so rude to these possible "law enforcement officers" was inappropriate, so he struggled to raise his head and offer an explanation.
But that explanation would have been better left unsaid.
This plant woman could indeed be called "beautiful." By human standards, the light-sensitive leaves shaped into phoenix eyes were long and narrow. Together with the deliberately cultivated smooth contours of her face, she could even be called delicate and refined from a distance.
But there was one problem: her scent was, to the Soapfolk, somewhat... stimulating.
Wang Qi could tell that, aside from using this world's primary cultivation method as her foundation, she had retained a cultivation method inherited from her own civilization as a secondary practice. To human senses, this method carried something of the flavor of Gu Dao Xian Fa. This sort of method, which incorporated external living beings into one's cultivation, was unmistakably Gu Dao.
But what she cultivated was not insects, but a fungus-like organism—a nitrogen-fixing bacterium that lived in symbiosis with her.
This fungus-like organism possessed a peculiar chain of material transformations. It took molecular nitrogen as nitrogen nutrition, passed it through a series of chemical reactions, then synthesized amino acids and Path of Living Beings Source.
In Divine Land, such nitrogen-fixing bacteria generally lived symbiotically with leguminous plants.
But the final products of this nitrogen-fixing process included ammonia.
To the Soapfolk, that smell was truly horrifying.
Wang Qi could attest to it. For one instant, he had even wanted to slaughter every witness around him.
He deeply regretted it now. He had