Heavenly Treasures

When the thought of recording the Lava Giant Ape's Divine Markings sprang into Lin Yi's mind, even he froze for a moment.

"...This is a little nerve-racking."

Nerve-racking or not, his mind was already calculating at high speed.

This troop of giant apes was clearly far beyond his current level. The only thing he was unsure of was—

Would they notice if he used Spirit Eyes to peer into the structure of the Divine Markings within their bodies?

That was how webnovels had always written it before his transmigration: powerful beings could sense it when someone spied on them. But then he thought about how he had been crouching here watching for so long, and they had not reacted at all.

"To hell with it. I've already watched this long."

Lin Yi gritted his teeth and activated Spirit Eyes. A faint platinum glow lit up deep within his pupils.

When he had been chased through the Dark Forest by more than a dozen spiders, he had already verified that Spirit Eyes could penetrate flesh and directly observe the unactivated Divine Marking structures within living Ferocious Beasts.

Now, his gaze passed through the giant ape's hide and saw the thing hidden amid the texture of its flesh.

Then Lin Yi fell silent.

It was too complicated.

The Divine Markings were densely packed and layered upon layer, like a crimson net woven over and over a thousand times. Countless hair-thin lines intertwined, coiled, and connected. They did not seem the slightest bit chaotic, yet their complexity was enough to drive one to despair.

Lin Yi felt like an elementary school student staring at the design equations for an atomic bomb.

"...Damn, it's this complicated?"

Though he cursed inwardly, the recording process in his mind never stopped. Super Brain spun madly, desperately imprinting the direction, nodes, and curves of every crimson line in his field of vision.

But the troop of giant apes did not wait for him.

With every step, their enormous bodies crossed several zhang. Sparks drifted down from their lava armor as they gradually moved farther away.

Before long, even the back of the last giant ape had left the limits of Spirit Eyes' vision.

Lin Yi had no choice but to stop recording.

He did not dare chase after them. If they discovered him, not even dregs of him would remain.

"...Fine. One-tenth. I only remembered one-tenth."

Lin Yi withdrew Spirit Eyes, slumped onto a rock at the mouth of the cave, and sighed.

"But then again, what use would it be even if I remembered the whole thing? At my current level, it'd be wasted on me. I simply can't comprehend it."

He paused, then rubbed his face in self-consolation. "At least it counts as some foundation. Once my comprehension gets higher and higher, and I see more and more Divine Marking diagrams, there'll come a day when I understand it."

He had originally been considering whether to take advantage of the night to explore the Great Wilderness after dark. But after the giant ape troop's appearance, all such thoughts had gone cold.

That night, Lin Yi remained especially alert inside the cave. Yet perhaps because the giant apes' pressure was too overwhelming, all the Ferocious Beasts within several li had tucked their tails between their legs. Outside the cave, it was unnaturally quiet.

The night passed without incident.

When daylight fully broke and sunlight slanted in through the cave entrance, Lin Yi finally relaxed completely. After roasting and eating another bear paw, he packed up and stepped out of the cave.

"That direction leads toward the Dark Forest. I can't go there for now. I'll head somewhere else."

He scanned the terrain, casually picked a direction, and set off.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour and passing through a patch of low shrubs, a tree suddenly appeared within the range of Spirit Eyes.

It was a short tree, bearing more than a dozen bright red fruits. They were round and plump, gleaming enticingly beneath the morning light.

"Hm?"

Lin Yi stopped, narrowing his eyes slightly.

Heavenly Treasures? His heart skipped a beat, but he quickly calmed down.

The novels had made it crystal clear: wherever Heavenly Treasures grew, Ferocious Beasts would surely guard them. That was an iron law.

He immediately activated Spirit Eyes. Platinum Divine Markings surfaced in his eyes as he swept every inch of ground around him.

Beneath the soil beside that short tree lay a creature more than half a meter long.

It resembled a wild boar, with short, thick limbs and dark earth-brown fur that almost blended into the dirt.

There was no Divine Marking structure inside it, nor any Innate Divine Ability. It was merely an ordinary Ferocious Beast that survived by camouflage alone.

From aboveground, it was nothing more than an utterly unremarkable patch of dirt, without the slightest flaw.

"You sneaky bastard." Lin Yi's mouth twitched, then he broke into a wicked grin.

"Fine. Today, I'll teach your kind a lesson."

He concealed his aura and put on a relaxed, defenseless expression. Then he swaggered toward the fruit tree and reached out to pick one of the red fruits.

Three zhang.

Two zhang.

One zhang.

The fruit's sweet fragrance was already at his nose. Just as his fingertips were about to touch the fruit—

Boom!

The soil exploded, and that dark earth-brown figure burst from the ground. Its sharp claws swung straight for Lin Yi's head!

Fast, tricky in angle, and ruthless in execution—it was enough to kill an unsuspecting prey in a single strike.

Too bad!

The Savage Bull Diagram lit up around Lin Yi in an instant, blood-gold lines covering his entire body. He tilted slightly aside, and the claw's edge brushed past the loose hairs by his ear. At the same moment, he raised his right leg high, twisted his waist and hips with explosive force, and used the momentum of his turn to bring down a high axe kick.

Bang!

His heel came down like a battle axe, striking the Ferocious Beast squarely on the spine. A force of one hundred and sixty thousand jin was enough to kill an ordinary Dragonlike Realm brown bear on the spot.

The half-meter-long boar-like Ferocious Beast did not even let out a cry before it was smashed into the ground. Its limbs twitched once, and it died on the spot.

Lin Yi still had his left foot planted on its head. Looking down at its dark earth-brown fur, he said, "Little punk, trying to play dirty with me? I specialize in dealing with sneaky bastards."

He chuckled, bent down, and picked the red fruits from the tree one by one. After counting them carefully, there were nine in total. They felt warm in his hand and gave off a faint fragrance.

"Just don't know what they do. Better not eat them recklessly," Lin Yi muttered as he carefully put away the nine fruits. "I'll ask the village chief when I get back. That old man might know."

After collecting the fruits, he glanced at the Ferocious Beast's Corpse on the ground and casually hoisted it onto his shoulder.

Just as he was about to turn and return to the cave, his gaze drifted back to the short tree.

The tree was not tall, only reaching his chest. Its trunk was sturdy and its roots well developed. The fact that it could grow Heavenly Treasures in a place like this proved that it was no ordinary tree.

"I've already taken the fruits."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yi set the Ferocious Beast's Corpse down, bent over, gripped the base of the tree trunk with both hands, and exhaled with a shout.

Hey!

A force of one hundred and sixty thousand jin erupted. Along with the soil and roots, he uprooted the entire short tree.

"One more tree won't make a difference. I'll carry it back and let the village chief take a look. Maybe he can plant it."

Lin Yi patted the dirt from his hands and nodded in satisfaction. He slung the Ferocious Beast's Corpse back over one shoulder, propped the fruit tree on the other, and swayed toward the cave.

"I came out without telling the village chief I'd be staying overnight. Better get back quickly. That old man is probably worried sick." Lin Yi chuckled.