The Great Wild God - Chapter 32

Chapter 32 Head South
Su Tang?

Another Su Clan member?

Chen Xun thought to himself, other than the Heavenly Barbarians from the large clans, it was probably only the Su Clan from the Azure Water Clan that had produced such a young expert within a radius of several thousand kilometers, wasn’t it?

“My name is Chen Xun.” Chen Xun used his fingers to write the word “Chen Xun” on the snow, and then casually wiped it away.

He didn’t have much favorable impression of the Su Clan’s disciples. Although Su Tang was not a bad person, compared to the two of them, one was in the sky and the other was on the ground. There was really nothing to talk about. He squatted on the ground and observed the footprints of the three people before and after, in order to see more information from them.

Su Tang sat at the side and patiently watched Chen Xun squatting on the ground to examine the tracks on his left and right.

The once-in-a-decade cold wave would sweep across Xi Ling in the autumn and sweep across the lake wasteland north of Python Teeth Ridge. This was no secret to the xiuzhe in Azure Water City.

Su Tang had already reached the critical stage of cultivating her natural spiritual energy, so after autumn, she entered the depths of the lake, wanting to absorb the rich spiritual energy of the heavens and earth to cultivate.

It was exactly as Chen Xun had said. She cultivated alone in the depths of the lake wasteland. It was extremely boring. Normally, she could watch an ant fight for half a day.

That night, he saw the blood energy at the peak of Lonely Peak soar into the sky. He ran over to see what was going on. He failed to save those barbarians from the wolves, but he also saw Chen Xun collecting corpses in the valley.

At that time, she was curious,

How could the barbarians of Python Fang Ridge allow a youth who was not yet an adult and had decent talent to enter the wasteland of Lake Zone to cultivate alone during the cold winter when the cold wave struck the south?

She also wanted to know how a fellow with such a low cultivation dared to enter the lake wasteland alone. Wasn’t he really afraid of those wild beasts?

After that, she intentionally or unintentionally followed behind Chen Xun.

Even with Chen Xun’s low cultivation, he couldn’t sense her following behind him, so she used this as a conditioning for her cultivation in the depths of the lake wasteland.

At first, she had helped him chase away a few evil birds, but she had never imagined that his ability to conceal himself would be so great. In the end, she had to rely on him to save her from the lake wasteland.

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Three days later, Chen Xun and Su Tang finally broke through the Baixi tribal clan’s encirclement search circle and entered the lake wasteland five hundred miles away from the Xi Ridge.

Chen Xun thought to himself that the Baixi tribe should also give up the idea of killing and seizing treasures after failing to find Su Tang’s people for three or four days.

However, the threat posed by ferocious birds and beasts was even greater when they traveled south through the lake wasteland.

In the past, as long as it wasn’t a particularly tyrannical desolate beast, Chen Xun wouldn’t be able to defeat it, and he could even use the terrain to escape. Now that he was carrying Su Tang on his back, he had no choice but to be more cautious and slow down.

Su Tang’s injuries did not ease along the way.

Her spiritual sea of consciousness was shattered in the fierce battle with the giant ape, and she was severely injured. The profound aperture was withered and silent, and there was no Dao Connotation True Yang in it.

Even with the Yuan Gathering Ointment to nourish her qi and blood, Su Tang could not completely resist the penetration of the extreme cold profound energy, and her injuries became even more serious.

Su Tang would never complain to Chen Xun who was two or three years younger than her, but looking at Su Tang’s increasingly pale cheeks and her dull eyes, Chen Xun knew that her injuries were worsening.

Fierce birds flashed across the horizon, and they couldn’t speed up their descent to the south.

Chen Xun was also worried that after spring, the ice sheet on the wasteland would melt, poisonous insects, snakes, dragons, and other vicious creatures would emerge from the muddy hole in the ice layer, and he and Su Tang might even be trapped in a desolate mountain range, unable to go down south.

Chen Xun raised his head to look at the distant Lonely Peak, which was three to four thousand meters long. It was like a stone pillar that towered over the snowy plains of the forest sea. It was incomparably magnificent.

The primeval forest was like a giant carpet hanging down from the mountainside of the Great Lonely Peak, extending to the edge of the lake where Chen Xun stood, called the Extremely Thick Ice Cover.

In the past, Chen Xun would not have easily ventured into the dense forest to search for spiritual medicines, but the few remaining Essence Gathering Paste could not stop Su Tang’s injuries from worsening.

For the sake of Su Tang’s injuries, he had to take a risk.

‘”Don’t go there. There are several beasts in that mountain. Even if you have the Heavenly Savage Cultivation base, you may not be able to escape completely.” Su Tang saw Chen Xun dig open the snow cave and wanted to hide her in the snow cave and go up the mountain alone. She pulled him back. “Now you go up the mountain and ask those beasts to crash into him. There’s absolutely no reason for survival.”

“It’s not like I’m going to barge in. It’s not like I don’t have a chance at all.” Chen Xun said, letting Su Tang tell him about the nests of those ferocious birds and beasts.

The stronger the ferocious beast was, the stronger the concept of territory was.

Since these ferocious beasts were able to live peacefully in a mountain, which was also the balance of years of fierce battles, there would most likely be enough buffer zones left between their territories. It would be much safer to walk from there.

Su Tang had never heard of Chen Xun’s thoughts, but on second thought, it did make sense.

This was not only the case with wild beasts, but also with the tyrannical forces of the Western Wilderness. Wasn’t the Lake Wilderness north of Python Fang Ridge and south of Xi Ridge the buffer zone between Su and Mystical Frost Sect?

If she was in Su’s sphere of influence, even if she was seriously injured, she would not be in such a sorry state. And if they accidentally fell into the hands of the Baixi tribe, even if the five Baixi Empyreans didn’t dare to kill her and seize her blood, they would most likely give her to Mystical Frost Sect …

“Then I’ll go with you.” Su Tang said. If anything unexpected happened to Chen Xun, she definitely couldn’t walk out of the lake wasteland alone.

Although her profound orifices were withered, unable to produce the Dao Containing True Yang, and unable to resist the penetration of the Qi of Profound Cold into her internal organs, she had once reached the peak of the middle stage of the Reincarnation Realm. Her entire body’s spirit orifices were mixed together, and the strength of her body tempered with spirit energy was actually slightly stronger than Chen Xun’s.

Otherwise, even if her final attack sent the ape flying for more than ten kilometers and relied on the broken armor to unload most of its momentum, it would not be able to escape the fate of its limbs shattering into pieces.

She did not start with martial cultivation, but after entering the Reincarnation Realm, she had also learned martial cultivation techniques. As long as her injuries did not worsen dramatically, she would follow her up the mountain. If she really encountered any accidents, it would not be useless at all.

Chen Xun handed her the Iron Embryo Bow and the quiver and asked, “Why are you fighting that evil ape in Xi Ling?”

He had always been curious. With Su Tang’s strength, it wasn’t difficult to avoid that evil ape from afar. Why did he have to fight that evil ape to the death?

“That evil ape led dozens of snow apes from the ice plains to the north of Xi Ling. He likes to eat people’s brains. Along the way, several strongholds in Xi Ling were not spared,” Su Tang said. “I didn’t expect to be able to kill it. I thought I would be able to drive it back …”

Chen Xun remembered the thousands of broken skulls and flesh that he had seen in the nameless mountain when he first entered the Lake Wasteland. All of them were eaten clean by the pack of wolves. He was also speechless in his heart. Could he say that Su Tang was stupid?

Chen Xun was even more shocked when he heard that the giant ape had led dozens of snow apes through Xi Ling. He never thought that the giant ape would not fight alone.

The giant ape was already so powerful. Even though the dozens of snow apes weren’t as powerful as the giant apes, they were both mutants of the Wilderness. Their strength wasn’t far off.

If the giant ape led dozens of malicious apes that loved to eat human brains into Python Fang Ridge, how terrible would it be?

Seeing the worry in Chen Xun’s eyes, Su Tang said,

“Don’t worry, I didn’t expect that the Ancient Desolate Bloodline within that evil ape would actually produce a trace of divine power, so I was carelessly heavily injured by it. However, in the final strike, I also shattered that trace of divine power within its body. Perhaps this evil ape has already been cleared up by the Five Paragons of Baixi …”

The Canglan Miscellaneous Records recorded endless battles between the Baixi tribes in Xiling. If not for the fact that the five experts belonged to the same tribe, it was hard to imagine that they would work together to deal with that evil ape.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have a better chance of winning if they had already joined forces with Su Tang?

In the past few days, the five Baixi Empyreans hadn’t personally come out of the Xi Ridge to chase after Su Tang. It was very likely that the five Baixi Empyreans had restrained each other, so they could only send out barbarian martial artists from the clan to do some sneaky business.

From the looks of it, he still had to save Su Tang back to Cang Lan.

If that giant ape led dozens of evil apes into the Python Fang Ridge, he could only save Su Tang, so that the Su Clan would have no reason to ignore those dozens of evil apes.

However, thinking that the giant ape wasn’t fighting alone, which was beyond Chen Xun’s expectations, he was somewhat worried.

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The ferocious birds and beasts had their own nests. Su Tang had already found out the nests of the few ferocious beasts in the Mysterious Lonely Peak when she passed by here last time. This gave her and Chen Xun great convenience to enter the mountain at this time.

Some impatient fierce birds and ferocious beasts had long since gone south to avoid the cold currents. The poisonous snake flood dragon was even hiding under the ice cover of the mud cave in its winter eyes. The dense forest seemed particularly empty.

Chen Xun and Su Tang carefully climbed up the mountain, searching for spiritual medicines along the edge of the wild beasts’ territory in the mountain.

Other than occasionally passing cultivators who would enter the mountain to gather spiritual herbs, there might not have been any Wildlands tribes living there for thousands of years.

After the spirit herbs had grown up, they would emit spirit herbal energy and lure the nearby wild beasts over. However, some of the common herbs in Lin Jian Valley grew exceptionally luxuriant.

There were quite a few medicinal herbs needed to refine the Origin Gathering Paste that had actually grown to the point where they could condense spiritual energy. Chen Xun thought to himself, Next time there was a chance, he would come over and look for them carefully. He immediately marked this Great Lonely Peak on the map.

However, Su Tang’s injuries were very serious. Ordinary medicinal herbs and even the Origin Gathering Paste that Chen Xun regarded as a precious medicine could not alleviate her injuries. Chen Xun could only follow Su Tang up the hillside.

When Su Tang saw Chen Xun and her go into the mountains to look for medicine, she constantly looked at the water potential and the terrain. She was extremely orderly. When she hid in a cliff cave to rest, she couldn’t help but ask him, “Who did you learn about your ability to find medicine from? According to your ability to find medicine, you should be able to refine higher-grade pills, right?”

Grandpa Zongtu had also taught him everything, but after Chen Xun had mastered the Western Desolate Scripture and the Canglan Miscellaneous Records, he was able to identify less than forty to fifty kinds of medicinal herbs.

However, when it came to the knowledge of finding medicines, Daoist Greenwood spoke more thoroughly in the Dao Accumulation Paraphrase.

Chen Xun knew that what Su Tang had learned would definitely be a hundred times better than him. There were some things that he didn’t need to hide. He told her some of the medicine-seeking experiences he had summed up over the past few years, and then showed her the [Dao Connotation Paraphrase] in his arms.

“…” Su Tang had been talented since childhood. Although the Dao Accumulation Paraphrase was written in Man Wen, she was able to finish it very quickly with a single glance. What the book said was only the lowest cultivation methods. Chen Xun, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, had never imagined that he would be able to comprehend so many things from it. He asked in surprise, “This book doesn’t talk about how to find medicine. How did you comprehend the logic of finding medicine from it?”

Chen Xun said, “Vegetation cannot be moved, but if spiritual medicines want to grow, they must grow in places where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is abundant.” The Qi of Profound Frost was Dao Connotation Spirit Qi. Moon Radiance, Dawn Sunlight, Cloud Rain Miasma were Dao Connotation Spirit Qi. Mountain Wind Mist, Earth Cold Heaven Summer were also Dao Connotation Spirit Qi. They were all generated by the Heavenly Mark Topography and flowed and converged due to the Heavenly Mark Topography. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is easier to generate, accumulate, and become denser in mountains and rivers. Although I can’t sense it directly, the principle of ‘Heavenly Marks and Taoist Connotation and Heavenly Cheng’ should be interlinked. When it comes to Heavenly Marks, Shannan Chaoyang, Shanbei Bei Yang, Star Lie Zhao, Yuehua Yao Valley, Mountain Left Upwind, Mountain Right Frost, Water Round Mountain, and Cliff Mountain Ridge should all be relatively common Heavenly Marks, right? “Grandpa and I have been collecting herbs in Python Fang Ridge for four years. Which kind of terrain is easier to produce spirit herbs? It can also be considered as finding out some rules …”

Su Tang shook her head. These principles were simple to say through Chen Xunzhi’s mouth, but how many of the experts of the Su Clan who regarded themselves as superior to all living beings could think of them so thoroughly?

Su Tang was stunned for a moment before she said to Chen Xun, “Your perception is really high, but there are some things that you must not casually say to others …”

Grandpa Zongtu was also shocked by his high perception. Chen Xun laughed in his heart,

Although he had only graduated from a second-rate university on Earth, how many sets of math problems had he done and how many reading comprehensions had he done since he was young? If his high comprehension meant that he had a strong logical ability in induction and deduction, he was indeed a little higher than that.