Holy Ruin

Chapter 37 - The Search

   Chu Feng and Huang Niu had a smooth journey and soon arrived at their first destination, which was a verdant mountain peak that was not very high in elevation.

    At the top of the mountain, the plants were sparse, there were a few old pine trees, and a few green rocks.

    There were markings on the map that read: picked.

    Chu Feng guessed that the mysterious fruit had most likely appeared in this place, but it had already been picked, but he still came by the way, wanting to see if he could find anything else.

    The yellow ox had set its sights on a plant with a single glance.

    Chu Feng also noticed it, it was clearly a bit different, green, slightly lustrous, with a vigorous life essence winding around it.

    Looking closely, it was Plantain Grass, a kind of grass that was very common on the roadside and could be seen when one looked down.

    Psyllium, with oval-shaped leaves and a lot of distinct textures, this one once bore fruit?

    "It's a little different, the blades are thicker, compared to the usual plantain grass, it's crystal clear as if it was carved out of green emerald." Chu Feng said.

    Unfortunately, there was a very obvious fruit stalk on it, and the fruit had long been picked away, so it was unknown what was so strange about it.

    Puffing!

    Just as Chu Feng was thinking, the yellow ox lowered its head and bit off this grass in one bite, and in just three or five bites, it ate it cleanly.

    "Bull Demon King!" Chu Feng was furious.

    The yellow ox turned around and glanced at him, which meant, do what?

    "An ox chewing on peonies, a waste, why did you give it to eat?!" Chu Feng glared, none of the Heavenly God Creature's people damaged the plant, but marked it down, presumably wanting to see if it would still bear fruit.

    And he also had that intention, wanting to take a look at it after some time.

    With an innocent look on his face, the yellow ox simply wrote a few words on the ground: ordinary grass mutation, only bears fruit once.

    Chu Feng was stunned and secretly sighed in pity.

    The yellow ox grinned and scoffed there.

    "What's so ridiculous?" Chu Feng glared at him.

    The yellow ox wrote more words this time, informing him of some secrets.

    This Heaven and Earth was mutating, and countless roots were waiting to be revived!

    "Waiting for recovery, what do you mean, an ancient species that existed a long time ago?" Chu Feng pursued.

    "A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." The Yellow Ox wrote this last line and said no more.

    Chu Feng still remembered the few secrets that the Yellow Ox had revealed earlier, and it seemed to have come here for the purpose of becoming a saint and an ancestor, with great plans!

    "Is it related to those roots waiting to be revived?" He was guessing.

    He was out of his mind for a while, this piece of heaven and earth seemed to have a great secret, causing all those monstrous beasts to want to rush over.

    Next, Chu Feng dug out the rhizome of the Plantain Grass, and since it could no longer bear mysterious fruits, he was no longer polite, wanting to see what was so different about it and why it could mutate.

    "Huh!"

    He was really rewarded, some of the soil on the rhizome was very special, only as small as a fingernail cap, but it was co-twined by dense roots.

    The purple soil was slightly lustrous, like grains of sand.

    "Could this be the reason for the Plantain Grass' mutation?" He was somewhat sceptical.

    The yellow ox also probed to see, but it didn't understand either.

    "Whatever, put it away first."

    Next, they went to three more places in a row, and all of them found the mutated plant, but unfortunately, the fruits had long been picked.

    Chu Feng was astonished to find that under each plant, there was a piece of earth as big as a fingernail cap, all of which were slightly lustrous, some of which were reddish-red, and some of which were blue, different from the unusual quality of the earth.

    These strange pieces of earth were all entwined by the roots of the plants, as if they contained some kind of essence.

    In this way, he collected four small pieces, all of different colours, and carefully wrapped them up.

    "With this soil, those three seeds of mine can more than likely take root and sprout." Chu Feng was slightly excited in his heart, and he wanted to know just what would grow.

    He was very much looking forward to it, after all, they came from an extraordinary source, originating from the mysterious stone box at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains.

    Chu Feng unfolded the map, and there was still the most crucial place that he had not gone to, which was also the centre of this map, where a black skull was drawn.

    Did this mean extreme danger?

    According to the news that leaked out, there was a strange little tree in the Taihang Mountains that bore fruit, but it was not yet ripe, alarming the foreigners from all sides.

    Chu Feng suspected that the location of this black skeleton was most likely the place where the small tree grew.

    "Several days have passed, it is estimated that some foreigners have already arrived, and it won't be long before many experts will definitely appear in Taihang Mountain, and it will be inevitable for the dragons to fight." Chu Feng guessed.

    He greeted Yellow Ox and continued on, wanting to see what was going on, and if the time was right, he was prepared to get involved.

    Along the way, he did find some traces of foreigners, all of which he carefully avoided.

    That fruit hadn't even really ripened yet, and it was already like this, in a few more days what's the point? This place is most likely going to be in turmoil, with foreigners from all sides of the world coming to fight for supremacy.

    After all, it was rumoured that this fruit could create top experts like the Silver-winged Heavenly God and Vajra!

    "How could it be this place?" Chu Feng was surprised.

    White Snake Ridge!

    This was a zone rich in mystery in the Taihang Mountains.

    It was rumoured that there was a white snake here that had become a climate and had lived for an unknown number of years, and there had always been legends of it.

    However, many people didn't believe it because the last witness also died decades ago, and according to what that old man said during his lifetime, the snake was too big, at the very least a hundred metres long.

    Who can believe that? The biggest python in the rainforest was only a dozen metres to the side.

    "Someone, watch out!" Chu Feng brought the yellow ox to avoid it.

    There were foreigners guarding the mountain pass, moreover, he saw an acquaintance - Zuo Jun.

    "Nine times out of ten, that little tree is here!" Chu Feng made a judgement.