As the party ventured deeper, they encountered Evil Spirits noticeably less often, but everyone grew more vigilant instead.
That meant each Evil Spirit had a larger territory and would naturally be stronger.
After half a day of traveling, the party had passed through the initial stretch of Dense Forest and reached a valley tangled with green vines. Shadows lay scattered across it, and a curved mountain on one side was covered in vines and foliage.
"This used to be an airport before the Spiritual Qi Catastrophe." Fat Auntie pointed at the mountain beside them. "Later, vines and trees grew over it, climbing and piling up on that foundation until it became a mountain."
Yue Wen glanced over, finding it quite astonishing himself. "So the whole foundation of a mountain this big is made of plants?"
"Monsters, strictly speaking," Luo Bawen said solemnly. "Ordinary trees could never grow this big. A tree Monster settled here and grew, but later, because it was too close to the city, a Forging Realm expert killed it, leaving only its corpse here. Yet for some reason, even though the tree Monster is clearly dead, its body is still growing."
"Wood spiritual qi is the most abundant kind in the Wasteland Zone outside Jiangcheng City. There are forests everywhere, and far more trees become Monsters here than elsewhere. It might have something to do with the properties of the earth veins," Fat Auntie said.
The spiritual qi environment differed between the Wasteland Zones outside different cities, and the Evil Spirits that grew there varied greatly too. That was why experience gained in one Wasteland Zone did not apply to every other.
Vines and branches hung everywhere in the valley, packed together like enormous green pythons, coiling beneath the dim daylight and occasionally writhing.
"Don't attack carelessly