The Second Assignment

Dayi by one, the little tree spirits that had scattered earlier gathered around the pool, and those who were injured followed the example of the freshmen and soaked themselves in the pool.

Several uninjured tree spirits sat down by the pool, hugging their tree roots, watching their tribesmen recover in the pool.

A little tree spirit whispered, "Do you think our boss will come back?"

The other little tree spirits asked in confusion, "It's our leader. Doesn't the leader always stay with the clan?"

All the tree spirits turned their gaze to Dayi in the pool, hoping to get an answer from him.

These tree spirits were gradually awakened to intelligence over the years and gathered here under the guidance of their bloodlines. Dayi was the first among them to awaken to intelligence and arrive here.

"Our leader was tricked by those people," the Dayi said, feeling wronged.

"Many years ago, I personally witnessed those people in yellow clothes tricking the boss into using its true form and Divine Ability to build Zhenyang City."

"They must have used some underhanded methods to seal away the boss's bloodline memories!" Dayi said confidently. "Otherwise, the boss wouldn't have been unaware of our presence and wouldn't have refused to come out and see us."

"Exactly! They must have something to hide, which is why they set up a barrier specifically targeting us to prevent us from going in to see the boss!" said one of the tree spirits who had awakened their intelligence earlier.

A small number of tree spirits have only recently gained sentience and are not very clear about the past. After listening to Dayi's explanation, they nodded in bewilderment.

A group of tree spirits huddled together, chattering away for a long time, but Lin Xiao could only glean very limited information from their conversation.

Although Lin Xiao didn't recognize the specific species of these tree spirits, their condition was similar to when Xiaoluan Spirit Opening, suggesting that these tree spirits were all quite young for their species.

However, Zhenyang City, which they just mentioned, is worth a visit.

The city built upon a tree spirit is of unknown appearance.

Seeing that although many of the little tree spirits were injured, they did not appear to be seriously injured, Lin Xiao stopped listening to their accusations against the Zhenyang Sect, withdrew his Divine Sense, and quietly left.

The Spirit Plant in this area seemed to grow much more luxuriantly and in greater variety than those in other areas Lin Xiao had passed through, so quite a few cultivators came to pick them.

Cities are generally not too close to each other, so Lin Xiao estimated that most of the cultivators who came out to pick fruit were probably from Zhenyang City.

He didn't even need to ask anyone for directions; he could find Zhenyang City simply by following the majority of people returning home.

Although Lin Xiao had the map given to him by the Yuan Household, the map mainly marked the situation in the South Spirit Domain and North Spirit Domain. As they went deeper into the Mysterious Extreme Domain, the map became increasingly vague.

The cities marked were only a few of the most famous cities in the Mysterious Extreme Domain, and the terrain was also only approximate.

On Lin Xiao's map, Zhenyang City wasn't even a tiny dot; the entire area was a blank space.

Lin Xiao strolled leisurely with several groups of Qi Refining cultivators who had just finished their harvesting tasks, while receiving the Yuanling City Yuanling City map assignment that his sect's eight-person team had worked together to create over the past five days.

After careful inspection, I found that they did a very good job, with attention to detail and comprehensive information for each area.

Lin Xiao was very satisfied and immediately sent a group message to them, assigning them a new round of homework.

The second task is to create maps of the wilderness area from Yuanling City to the next city, as well as maps of all the low-level dungeons that have recently opened around Yuanling City.

The time required to complete this assignment will not be as short as it was in Yuanling City. After all, not to mention that each secret realm requires exploration time, even the recently opened secret realms have different opening times. Some secret realms have longer opening times and more frequent openings, while others have shorter opening times and fewer openings. However, these low-level secret realms will generally open at least once a year.

To complete this assignment with maximum efficiency, careful planning is necessary.

Lin Xiao didn't care about any of that. He set a deadline of one year for them to hand in their homework, told them to memorize the safety instructions in the summer camp handbook, and then he became a hands-off manager.

After following those Qi Refining cultivators for a day and a night, Lin Xiao finally saw Zhenyang City built by the tree demons' leader.

There's no other reason than that this city is exceptionally unique.

It is a huge tree.

It's so large that just looking at it from afar evokes a sense of inexplicable awe.

The trunk was as thick as a city, and its dense canopy soared into the clouds, making it almost impossible to see its entirety with the naked eye.

The branches on the tree trunk crisscross, forming city walls and streets with the lush, thick green leaves.

The entrance is a city gate formed by thick, gnarled tree roots at the very bottom.

Large foliage above blocked Lin Xiao's view of the interior. Although there was an array outside to prevent his Divine Sense from probing, the array did not seem to be particularly advanced, so it wouldn't be too difficult for him to break through if he really wanted to.

However, Lin Xiao did not intend to do something as unfriendly as forcibly breaking through the formation just to probe with his Divine Sense, given that this large tree demon could become a city on its own.

Just follow the crowd and enter the city.

Before even entering the city, Lin Xiao saw many low-level cultivators setting up stalls and hawking their wares outside the city gates. Some were looking for people to dig for Spirit Plant and herbs together, some were looking for low-level Alchemist, and others were simply trying to avoid paying the city entrance fee and selling some low-level herbs outside.

Many cultivators even meditated and cultivated directly under the Dashu.

Most of these cultivators were at the Qi Refining Early Stage, and they seemed rather poor. Even if they meditated and cultivated outside, no one would want to take advantage of them.

Because they all looked like people whose pockets were emptier than their faces.

The closer you get to Zhenyang City, the denser the Wood Spiritual Qi becomes.

Moreover, this Wood Spiritual Qi is unlike mixed Spiritual Qi; it seems to have been preliminarily processed and is quite docile, making it much easier for cultivators to absorb than ordinary Spiritual Qi.

This is probably the fundamental reason why Zhenyang City was able to be established.

This alone is enough to imagine how attractive this city is to cultivators with Wood Spirit Root; any cultivator with Wood Spirit Root Spirit Root likely want to cultivate here.

As more people gathered around, Lin Xiao adjusted his Peach Leaf Pendant to make himself appear as a Qi Refining Late Stage cultivator.

After all, he has to pay the city entrance fee to enter the city. If his cultivation level is set too low, it would be bad if others saw that he was young and could pay the entrance fee on his own, which would cause trouble.

Although he had already Nascent Soul stage and wasn't afraid of trouble from these Qi Refining cultivators, there was no need for it; he didn't want to attract attention whenever possible.