Over the years, Li Ling had continually invested all manner of resources, drawing on Little Olive Island's own reserves to nurture the Face Trees and help them flourish.
Every so often, people would come here to hunt Demon Monsters, turning them into various resources.
The Three Treasures Floating Incense Pill, now a popular treasure on the BH market for its ability to prolong life and improve cultivation, came from this very place.
What others did not know, however, was that deep within the Inner Valley, Li Ling had kept the most powerful and oldest mother Face Tree.
After years of growth, its cultivation was extraordinary, far beyond that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Though it possessed no intelligence, it strangely had the instincts and emotions of a sentient being. While it was resting here, a giant whale had fallen from the sky and smashed into it for no reason. How could it tolerate that?
Had the Face Tree not been a monster transformed from the Three Treasures Great Medicine, that impact would have shattered it to pieces.
At the same time, the One-Horned White Whale's immense reserves of blood vitality and vital essence attracted it. It stabbed wildly with its tendrils, trying to siphon them away.
If it could turn this enormous beast into nourishment, it would surely flourish, saving itself several hundred years of effort!
The One-Horned White Whale was not known for bronze skin and iron bones, and the sharp spikes soon stabbed deep like spears.
Rather awkwardly, however, this was like tiny splinters scratching skin. Beyond giving the One-Horned White Whale a little itch, they caused no real harm.
The spikes formed from branches at the tips of the tendrils were several feet long, yet they could not even pierce its hide and truly injure the