Second-tier mutated plants

He found that the pile of ash was nothing but ordinary ash, without the slightest special effect.

Tang Zhixue couldn't help curling his lip. "Still a litterbug. Annoying."

He walked out of the forge and looked outside, only to be greeted by a wooden door with a huge hole in it.

Tang Zhixue was beside himself. "Seriously? You're a weird entity! Why the hell are you tearing down people's doors?"

He stamped on the ashes beneath his feet in exasperation. "Can't you learn something decent? Now that you've wrecked the door, what am I supposed to do tonight?"

This was another thing that troubled Tang Zhixue. He hadn't seen any information on the Shelter panel just now, which meant he most likely couldn't use the panel to quickly repair the Shelter.

And because of the fireplace, Tang Zhixue wouldn't be returning to his bedroom to sleep anytime soon. He still lacked the materials to tan the tiger and pig hides, so he could only preserve them with salt for now.

But with a huge hole in the door, Tang Zhixue would feel much less secure when resting at night.

Besides, Weird Erosion had just occurred. Who knew whether something similar would happen at night when the Purification effect wore off? With a hole in the door now, those weird entities would have an even easier time getting inside.

"What a headache..."

While Tang Zhixue fretted over his Shelter, outside, in the woods shrouded by the Silent White Fog...

Splash!

A series of sounds suddenly came from the stream that had once again been engulfed by the white fog.

The white fog covering the stream gradually began to disperse, and a head the size of a basketball slowly rose from the water.

Its triangular shape made it clear that this was not something to be trifled with.

"Hiss..."

A sudden hiss rang out, accompanied by a dark red forked tongue.

"Hiss..."

It didn't move, simply remaining there in the stream with its head raised.

Its tongue flicked in and out constantly, as though gathering some kind of scent particles from the air.

Only after a long while did it slowly turn its head, its eyes fixed on a certain direction in the woods.

Had Tang Zhixue been there, he would certainly have recognized that the giant snake was looking toward his Shelter.

"Hiss..."

Another hiss rang out.

Splash!

Four grotesquely bloated corpses emerged from the water and stood obediently around the giant snake.

"Hiss..."

At the giant snake's command, the four bloated-corpse weird entities walked into the Silent White Fog along the bank.

Notably, however, they seemed to deliberately avoid the direction of Tang Zhixue's Shelter.

Inside the Blazing Sun Shelter, Tang Zhixue stood beside his Shelter's front door, fretting.

"For now, all I can do is cut down some trees to block the hole."

With a helpless sigh, Tang Zhixue picked up his tools and left the Shelter.

Fortunately, with his Vitality Absorption talent, it wasn't long before Tang Zhixue dragged back three tree trunks, each seven or eight meters long.

He cut the trunks into suitable lengths and left them beside the door. Whenever necessary, he could simply use the wood to plug the hole.

Yet even after doing all this, Tang Zhixue still felt unsure. "Why do I still not feel much safer? Am I going to have to go back to the bedroom to sleep tonight?"

Suddenly, Tang Zhixue looked at the trees outside the Shelter, and an idea quietly surfaced in his mind.

"Why didn't I think of this sooner?"

Hurrying along, Tang Zhixue soon brought back a number of branches from the woods. These were all leftovers from trimming the excess branches off the Clear Spirit Trees.

Beside the Shelter, Tang Zhixue stuck the branches into the soil one by one, spacing them a certain distance apart.

Tang Zhixue had cut down many Clear Spirit Trees, but he hadn't brought back many branches this time-only twenty-three.

After sticking all the branches into the soil, Tang Zhixue immediately absorbed Plant Vitality from the surrounding Thorned Strange Black Trees and used it to nourish the Clear Spirit Tree branches in the ground.

His plan was simple: first, grow tall Clear Spirit Trees to cover the hole in the door; second, grow mutated trees.

The former could wait until evening. Right now, Tang Zhixue was more interested in growing mutated trees.

Perhaps Tang Zhixue was lucky, because three trees actually emerged from these branches.

[Mutated plant: Mist Spirit Tree (seedling)]

[Level: first tier]

[Description: Can release a mist covering a three-meter radius. Creatures within the mist will lose their sense of direction.]

[Mutated plant: Martial Arts Tree (seedling)]

[Level: second tier]

[Description: A special mutated plant that can bear a special kind of fruit. When used by applying a drop of blood, it will produce a Martial Arts Clone of equivalent strength.]

[Mutated plant: Spirit Clarity Tree (seedling)]

[Level: second tier]

[Description: Grants a certain increase in comprehension within three meters of the Spirit Clarity Tree.]

"This luck is unbeatable! Two second-tier mutated trees!"

Looking at the three distinctive trees, Tang Zhixue fell into thought.

Although the Shelter currently had only ten energy points, he could already start preparing. After all, energy points weren't hard for him to obtain.

After comparing them repeatedly, he turned his attention to the Spirit Clarity Tree with its yellowish-white trunk.

Honestly, he had become rather captivated by that state of complete immersion and rapid comprehension when practicing the Blazing Tiger Fist in the Martial Arts Space.

"Since it can improve comprehension, it should make pretty good building material for the Shelter."

He uprooted the Martial Arts Tree and transplanted it into the Planting Cottage, then absorbed Plant Vitality from the woods outside to nourish both the Spirit Clarity Tree left outside and the Martial Arts Tree inside.

As for the Mist Spirit Tree?

Come on, isn't there enough fog outside already?

Besides, the Mist Spirit Tree's mist didn't distinguish friend from foe. It was only a sapling a little over half a meter tall, yet it had already nearly made Tang Zhixue lose his way.

Whether because of the Martial Arts Tree's special nature or the Planting Cottage's influence, it stopped growing after reaching a little over two meters tall. Under the effects of Plant Vitality, however, it bore more than twenty small green fruits on its branches.

Meanwhile, nourished by the same amount of Plant Vitality, the Spirit Clarity Tree grew to three or four meters tall.

For the next stretch of time, Tang Zhixue kept absorbing Plant Vitality to nourish the two trees.

By the time the Spirit Clarity Tree reached around ten meters tall, the Martial Arts Tree's fruits had grown to the size of fists, their color changing from green to dark brown.

If the information panel hadn't told him the fruits were ripe, Tang Zhixue wouldn't even have known they had ripened.

[Item: Martial Arts Fruit]

[Level: second tier]

[Description: Drip blood onto the fruit, and it will transform into a Martial Arts Clone of equivalent strength (not exceeding the second tier). However, this Martial Arts Clone will regard you as an enemy and attack you relentlessly.]