After cleaning the jade artifacts and having the red fox inspect them several times to ensure that there would be no more strange energy affecting people's thinking, Fang Qingdai and Jing Yi left the oasis to bring in the team members outside.
"We've inspected these buildings, and most of them are very sturdy and reliable. Everyone, clear away the mutated plants, and this will serve as our initial base!"
There are nearly a hundred halls of various sizes. Apart from some small halls whose wood was severely rotten and collapsed, many others are still well preserved.
Instead of building from scratch, tidying up these palaces and then having earth and metal elemental ability users reinforce them would save a lot of manpower and resources.
This is a pleasant surprise!
The team members were shocked to see the vast palace complex. When they heard that the danger that had been feared by the major bases had been eliminated and that the only threat to the oasis forest now posed by mutated plants, the team members were even more astonished.
Facing the admiring gazes of his teammates, Jing Yi looked at Fang Qingdai and said, "I didn't do anything. The problem was solved entirely thanks to Qingdai's abilities."
He didn't reveal Fang Qingdai's solution, but his attitude demonstrated Fang Qingdai's strength and his respect for her.
Upon seeing this, the team members were surprised, but they still respectfully expressed their respect to Fang Qingdai, showering her with compliments for quite a while.
Fang Qingdai smiled but didn't say anything.
Her role is different from Jingyi's. Jingyi is more suitable for leading people, and he is the one who should be involved in battles. She is more suited to developing in the rear.
Therefore, there is no need to choose a king or queen. Any faction that becomes a one-man show is not conducive to long-term development. Only by having equally powerful partners to move forward together can we ensure that the whole thing will not be lost because of one person's wrongdoing.
Even under the ancient imperial system, there were left and right prime ministers who consulted with all the civil and military officials; it wasn't truly a case of one person making all decisions.
The premise is that the two can work together and will not scheme against each other for power.
So even though Fang Qingdai didn't intend to divide the roles of king and queen, Jing Yi did it, subtly pushing her into a decision-making position, and she didn't object.
Jing Yi's men stayed behind at the palace complex to clear out the stronghold, while Fang Qingdai and Jing Yi, accompanied by two battle pets and a killer vine, swaggered around the city, scouting the area and trying to get a feel for the situation within the Immortal Burial Oasis.
The animals we encountered along the way avoided us like the plague, and there were basically no animals that took the initiative to provoke us, unlike the super-male beasts in the wilderness.
But mutant plants are different.
With abundant water and fertile land, the mutated plants in the oasis grow very well.
Towering trees can move their roots and stems to easily capture passing creatures, and their thick roots penetrate into the creatures' bodies to absorb nutrients.
The vast thorn bushes are not only covered with sharp thorns, but the thorns also secrete a venom that can paralyze living creatures. If a creature is accidentally scratched by the thorns, it will quickly suffer from nerve poisoning and convulse uncontrollably!
The creature that convulses and collapses will be corroded and rotted by the thorn toxins while still conscious, turning into a puddle of mud that will be absorbed by the thorns!
There are also vines as flexible as snakes, flowers that release strange fragrances to bewitch people, and mushrooms that spray spores that cause people's bodies to fester...
If Fang Qingdai hadn't had her spatial ability, they would have been attacked at least two or three times along the way, and wouldn't even know how they died!
Jing Yi was also covered in sweat, his brow furrowed: "The mutated plants in the oasis are too dense, and there are many varieties that I have never seen or heard of before. The safety is really low."
But Fang Qingdai didn't think so.
"The more powerful the creatures within the oasis, the less likely we are to be attacked from the outside. We don't need to confront those mutated plants head-on; clearing out the palace complex and building a wall around it will isolate these mutated creatures."
"Then we'll have people clear a passage to the outside world, making it easier and safer for our people to come and go."
Jing Yi was still somewhat worried: "If we clear the passage, we can access the outside world, and people from the outside world can also safely enter through the passage."
"Even if we send people to guard the passage, we can only prevent small forces from invading. If a team with sufficient firepower tries to force its way in, we don't have enough manpower to stop them."
If they could freely manipulate jade artifacts that could affect the minds of living beings, they could bury the jade artifacts around the oasis to form a natural defense.
The problem is that once the jade pendant leaves Fang Qingdai's spatial barrier, it will indiscriminately affect all living beings.
We can't expect Fang Qingdai to put away and collect the jade pendants every day, can we?
She's not a security guard who has to guard the door every time someone comes in or out. Does that mean she has to do her own thing?
Fang Qingdai was also a little worried. Jade artifacts were really difficult to control, but she was quite reluctant to let such good defensive equipment be absorbed by the paulownia wood.
After thinking for a moment, Fang Qingdai called for the red fox.
"Do you have any way to control those jade artifacts?"
The red fox possesses psychic abilities, and the energy contained within the jade artifacts is almost identical to psychic energy. This is why the red fox was able to extract all the jade artifacts by following the fluctuations in its abilities.
The red fox's eyes sparkled, as if to say, "You've finally asked me!"
Fang Qingdai became interested and stared at it longingly.
To everyone's surprise, the red fox arrogantly declared that it had learned a trick from the paulownia tree: it could absorb the energy within the jade and use it for its own benefit!
Fang Qingdai was speechless: "What do you mean? Are you trying to steal nutrients from the paulownia tree?"
Did Wutongmu ever imagine that he would teach his apprentice to starve his master to death?
The red fox hurriedly shook its head, then said that it could advance by absorbing more energy. Once it reached level eight, with the special power returned by the paulownia wood, its divine sense would be able to cover most of the oasis!
Then it will be like the imperial seal, able to monitor the movements within the oasis at any time, and it can use its mental power to launch a remote attack on any creature that approaches without permission!
Although it's not as powerful as the Imperial Seal, it maintains the previous Oasis model, making it less likely for people to suspect changes in the Oasis.
Fang Qingdai was pleasantly surprised after receiving the feedback.
The area of most of the oasis was sufficient. She could bury some jade artifacts to interfere in places where the red fox couldn't reach, while leaving the passage in a place where the red fox could reach. Her own people could simply have the red fox open the door to enter and exit.
The area defended by jade alone might not be secure enough, so we can have the cat patrol it every day.
When Jingyi and Fang Qingdai scouted out the oasis, they discovered that the cat was thriving there.
It is fast, it is a wind-type plant, and mutant plants can hardly touch it. Regardless of whether it is poisonous or not, if you can't touch it, you can't use poison on it.
What's even more amazing is that the cat can also cast a wind escaping spell around itself. Even if mutated plants release toxic gases, they will be dispersed by the cat's wind escaping spell when they get close.
Therefore, cats are the true sacred bodies of the Oasis, able to come and go as they please!
With these two mythical beasts around, the safety and defense of the oasis are guaranteed!
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