84 Chapter 84

Chapter 84

After thinking about some random things, Ying Huai looked down at the small pile of spirit stones that had been released and began to practice.

It’s useless to think more now, strength is still the most important thing.

Not only because his strength has recovered, Ying Huai can better protect the people in Daxi Village, but also because his strength is stronger, it will be easier for him to do what he wants.

The most important point is that once his strength recovers to a certain level, he will be able to successfully transform!

This last point needs to be emphasized.

Although he was a tree before, he was a tree that had experienced the catastrophe of transformation and was the kind that could run around in the Tianyuan Secret Realm!

He had been able to move freely in the past, but now he has returned to being unable to move and can only stay in one place. Even though he has not adapted well until now, he always wants to go out and see the world.

This is why Ying Huai was very active when the villagers were playing with their mobile phones and gossiping under his tree. He even delayed his cultivation and lowered his head to watch or listen to the gossip.

So the reason why Ying Huai is so anxious to find Tiandao now is not only because he wants to put the Tianyun Fruit next to Tiandao, but also because Tiandao will not come out and Ying Huai cannot ask him for the transformation tribulation.

Don’t even think about the fact that in this world where heaven and earth have undergone tremendous changes, the mutated plants and animals still have such an evolutionary direction.

This is impossible. Unless it is approved by the Heavenly Dao, no matter how strong the mutant animals are, how diverse their evolutionary directions are, or how many abilities they possess, it is impossible for them to transform directly.

It can be considered a restriction specially set by the way of heaven.

Back to the present, the Heavenly Dao has not yet appeared, and the direction of evolution on the Blue Planet is a mess. There is no regularity of normal evolution at all. This is not normal at all.

Even if it was not for the Tianyun Fruit, just for Ying Huai himself who was now recovering his strength, he was eager to find the Heavenly Dao.

"Hey, where is this?"

Ying Huai casually threw aside a spiritual stone that had been completely absorbed of spiritual energy by him and turned into an ordinary stone. Thinking of the way of heaven, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

At this moment, Tiandao, who was being thought of by Ying Huai, was happily doing the same thing as Ying Huai.

The difference is that Ying Huai absorbed the spiritual energy in the spirit stone, while Tiandao absorbed the fragments of the cage condensed from the force he had hit with great effort.

Looking at the fragments in his arms, Xiao Tiandao looked up at the cage that had several large holes in it, and smiled triumphantly while absorbing the power.

"Tsk, you still want to lock me up? I'm not someone who will just sit there and wait for death. Look, I've knocked a hole right through you!"

He spoke to himself, his voice full of laughter.

Unfortunately, there is only Tiandao in this caged space, and no one else can hear His voice, let alone contact the humans outside.

"I don't know where those humans took the first piece of debris I knocked off. If I absorbed the power in that piece of debris, I should be able to communicate with the outside world now, right?

That demonic plant is really restless, speculating day after day, yet it hasn't gotten to the point in such a long time!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Tiandao couldn't help but feel a little angry.

He had been sleeping in this cage until he woke up, and he only got to know about the humans outside after he woke up.

So until now, he still doesn't know how to get the official to return the fragments that were inexplicably stolen from him after he is able to contact the outside world.

That fragment is of no use to humans.

Only Xiao Tiandao, who is of the same lineage as the power in the fragment, can use the power in the fragment for his own benefit. Therefore, the people from the official research institute took the fragment back for so long, and after discovering that they could not research anything, they found the best isolation equipment to preserve the fragment.

Why can’t the research institute figure it out now? What if they can figure it out in the future?

This is what they are thinking now. They have never thought about whether they can put the fragments back into the pit and restore them to the state when they first appeared, even though they cannot figure it out on their own.

No matter what use this has for the spiritual energy pit that has already appeared, it is better to try than to do nothing.

The research institute has been very persistent in this regard because they haven't figured out anything about the fragment yet.

Many people, after deciding to give up on this research for the time being, will still take the time to do their own research in this direction, but unfortunately, it is of no use.

Originally, they all thought that there would be no progress in their speculation about the fragment.

However, a piece of news brought back by the front-line staff completely diverted their minds.

"Since we can now discover spirit stone veins, is that fragment also a kind of spirit stone? They are all dug out from the soil, and the level of the spirit energy in the pit should be even higher, right?"

A researcher looked at the gap in his hands that he had already studied and was currently checking, and he could not hold back his words and began to tell his new colleague next to him about his guesses.

"Maybe. What do you want to do by coming here?"

After hearing what he said, his colleague turned around and asked seriously.

"I was thinking, since our users can't use the energy here, can we find a way to use the power here on our new weapons?"

As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on the isolation box containing the fragments.

"You mean to have the higher-ups specifically research this stone and utilize its energy? Do you know how many of these stones there are? Do you know how much manpower, material resources, and time it would take? Do you know that if we truly research it, our frontline will need weapons a lot, and our resources will be stretched, won't we have enough?"

His colleagues were speechless after listening to his fantastic words.

The researcher lost the desire to continue studying the stone after being asked a series of questions by his colleagues. Thinking of the stingy look of the deputy director of his own research institute, he put his little idea aside dejectedly.

Xiao Tiandao had no idea.

Because there was only one fragment released, the humans above gave up on researching and using it because they felt that although it had strong energy, it would not be used much in various fields.

He successfully saved the fragments from disaster, so that when he came out later, he would still have the strength to absorb.

Ying Huai practiced slowly by absorbing the spiritual energy in the air. Although he absorbed it sparingly, he still used up all the spirit stones that he had specially set aside for absorption.

After absorbing all the spiritual energy from the last spiritual stone he could use and throwing away the useless spiritual stone, Ying Huai felt the spiritual energy of the tree and his current strength.

Hey! It's about the same as when he was 600 years old, and a little taller.

Now, he is stronger!

Well... actually, he is not very strong. Compared with those human cultivators in the world of cultivation, his strength is only at the middle stage of foundation building.

But it doesn't matter! In this world, his strength is currently the strongest! Even if he is not good at fighting, he is still the strongest!

Thinking of this, he picked up the waste spiritual stones beside the tree to make sure it would not look messy. From a distance, the locust tree looked clean and upright, and the entire trunk of the locust tree seemed to have been upgraded to a higher level.

"What is godmother doing? Cleaning up?"

Zuzu was staying under the locust tree, half lying on a recliner and watching the villagers' actions from afar. When Ying Huai was clearing the stones piled under the tree, he turned his attention over.

After watching the whole thing, I asked curiously.

Ever since Ali and Hu Hu brought back the spirit stones from outside, not only are there always some waste stones around the godmother, but the people with special abilities and mutant animals in the village also always carry a spirit stone with them to absorb the spiritual energy. Once they have absorbed all the spiritual energy in the spirit stone, they will become the stones piled under the godmother's tree.

These waste rocks seem to be of no use, but the villagers still think they should not be moved casually.

I thought that even if the spiritual energy inside was absorbed, there would definitely be some residue left.

The villagers were thinking about using it elsewhere, so even though they saw a pile of it under the locust tree, no one went to collect it.

Now the godmother was disgusted with the mess and cleaned it up herself. Grandma watched the whole process with a frown on her face.

He lowered his head and fumbled in his pocket, found his phone, and called the village chief.

There were not many people at the village entrance today. Almost everyone went to help the village chief harvest the mutated crops in the fields.

Because the grain seeds distributed from above are mutated, they grow much faster than normal grain seeds, and their quality is stable, so there is no need to worry about tasting different flavors while eating them.

The villagers harvested the grain from the fields some time ago, and the bitter grains were mixed with the sweet, sour, bitter and spicy flavors that lasted for a long time.

So after confirming that the taste and quality of the village chief's mutated grain were stable and there would be no extreme taste, everyone went to the village chief's own fields to help.

This was so that after the village chief had paid the prescribed amount, he could use the remaining grain as seeds and distribute it to them.

Because of this, the village entrance became a little quieter.

As for the more noisy children, they made mistakes and were caught by the third son of the Wu family and his wife, and had to spend a long time with homework.

"What's wrong with you? You are so busy with your own things that you don't care about your godmother?"

As soon as Zuzu heard the village chief pick up the phone, he started asking a barrage of questions.

The areas near the godmother at the village entrance were cleaned by the village chief, and only the areas farther away, where the villagers often stayed, were cleaned up by the villagers after they saw them.

So when the village chief saw the stones piled under the godmother's tree, he did not take them away or put them aside. The villagers thought that the godmother wanted to make these waste spiritual stones look good.

After all, although the spiritual energy in these spirit stones is gone, their colors are indeed beautiful, comparable to the jade stones outside, and they look very crystal clear and beautiful from a distance, so they are piled up like that, and the villagers have no intention of asking the village chief why he doesn't want to collect them.

Before, my grandmother didn’t notice anything wrong because her eyesight was not good. From the angle she looked at it, under the sunlight, it seemed that my godmother’s side was glowing, and it looked very beautiful.

But when godmother cleaned up the mess herself just now, grandpa finally realized what was happening.

It seems that my godmother doesn't want those things to pile up around her.

Since it was not the godmother's idea, the village chief was wrong to pile up the things.

The village chief who was questioned finally realized what the old lady was asking and felt a little confused.

"I was thinking of letting the waste rocks sit for a while longer to see if anyone in the village wanted them. They'd look great in the fish tanks. Who would have thought that the villagers, who hadn't been polite to me before, would be so clean these past few days?"

The village chief was speechless as he spoke.

The food and toys that I used to offer to my godmother would end up in someone’s stomach or home within two days.

This time he thought that those waste spirit stones were so beautiful and probably still had some spiritual energy left in them. The villagers would probably take them home and use them as ornaments.

Who would have thought that the villagers were so obedient this time and had no intention of reaching out to the waste spirit stones piled at the foot of the Godmother Tree.

If his old lady hadn't called him specifically, he wouldn't have known.

He is not obedient when he should be, and pretends to be obedient when he shouldn't be.

The village chief was speechless. He gave his eldest son a few words of advice, asking him to look after the crops in the fields, and then turned and walked towards the village entrance.

"Godmother, this is pretty neat."

As soon as he arrived at the village entrance, he saw the pile of waste spirit stones that Ying Huai had cleaned up.

Because these spirit stones were not specially selected, some were big and some were small, and they looked very messy.

Unlike the spiritual stones in the world of cultivation, they are specially divided after being mined. Those with dispersed spiritual energy are made into spiritual beads, and those with concentrated spiritual energy are made into spiritual stones.

Those spirit stones have been mined without affecting the spiritual energy inside the spirit stones, and they all look very beautiful.

Unlike the spirit stones piled under Ying Huai's feet, which were brought back directly as raw stones, they were of different sizes. Even after Ying Huai had simply cleaned them up, they still looked a bit messy.

At least it's much better than the messy look before.

"Godmother, don't you want these waste spirit stones to pile up here?"

The village chief looked at it and immediately asked Ying Huai how to deal with these waste spirit stones.

"Are these waste spirit stones still useful? If godmother doesn't want to keep them, I'll take them away and put them somewhere else."

[There are still some spiritual corners left in them, but they are useless. They can only be used to make these stones look pretty and serve as decoration.]

Ying Huai had just finished cleaning up his natal space when he looked up and saw the village chief standing in front of his tree. After hearing the question, he answered directly.

Anyway, in his opinion, these spirit stones are of no use.

"Well, it's okay if it's useless."

The village chief thought about the information that appeared in his mind, nodded, took out a large plastic bag from his pocket, walked forward and started picking up the waste spirit stones.

Zuzu sat up from the recliner when the village chief arrived here, and now after seeing the village chief's actions, he was giving orders from behind.

"Why are you carrying such a small bag? Go over there and collect the smaller stones first. Once you've collected the small ones, you can collect the big ones."

Zuzu squinted his eyes and looked carefully in the direction of the waste spirit stones, then instructed the village chief on how to collect the stones.

"I don't have much ability to do this. Even if I bring a big bag, I can't carry it if I put everything in it."

Hearing the old lady's words, the village chief replied with a smile, without stopping the action of picking up the stones. After hearing the words of the grandfather, he stopped picking up the spirit stones, moved to another place, and picked up the stones where the grandfather pointed out.

Ying Huai watched and thought that if he could transform into a human form now, he would probably be like Zuzu, sitting on the side and watching the village chief's actions with a smile on his face.

After collecting a bag, the village chief picked it up and prepared to leave.

Since my godmother doesn't like these waste spirit stones being piled up next to the other person, it would be the same if I put them in the fish pond next to the village office.

There are no fish in that fish pond now. It's just a pool of flowing water. It's just right to pile these waste spirit stones in it now. It looks nice.

Just as the village chief turned and walked towards the village, he heard a voice coming from far behind him.

"Grandpa! Village Chief! Why are you the only ones here today~"

As Tang Tang's cheerful voice rang out, she ran like a happy puppy, and the path leading up from the mountain came all the way towards the village entrance.

"Didn't Mei Zi call this kid down the mountain to play a while ago, and he never came back? How come he's free to come back today?"

The village chief saw the happy puppy. Although Zuzu’s eyesight was not good, his ears were fine, so of course he could hear Tangtang’s voice.

Just as he finished muttering, Tangtang was already approaching.

Seeing Tang Tang approaching Zuzu, the village chief quickly stretched out his hand to stop him.

"You better take it easy. You're trying to get close to Zuzu without even checking if your turtle shell is soft enough."

After hearing the village chief's reminder, Tang Tang looked down at the protective shield on his body that was still on. He indeed had not put it away, so he stopped in embarrassment.

If this were to happen, I don’t know if Zuzu would be in trouble, but she would definitely be beaten eight miles away by her godmother!