Chapter 49 Returning to Old Habits
"Holy Maiden...you can also cultivate?" Li Meng asked in shock.
“That’s right, I’m quite good at it,” Yu Shan nodded.
The Holy Witch tribe chose to live in seclusion, and their territory was usually located deep in the mountains and forests. Therefore, they relied on hunting for generations and did not know how to farm.
The only people who have studied plants are the witch doctor and the tribe's holy maiden, but they only study medicinal plants for treating diseases and expanding their meridians and improving their cultivation.
Even though they were forced to move to a place far from the temple of the witch god and closer to the town, they still followed the tradition of hunting, and no one knew how to cultivate crops.
But what did they hear now? The Feather Fan Saintess, who had returned after being missing for five hundred years, had actually learned how to cultivate crops?!
The Holy Witch Clan rarely leaves their territory. From time to time, powerful families from Five Elements City send people to their territory, bringing spirit rice, spirit wheat, fruits and vegetables to exchange for their prey.
But they were good at bargaining, and the food they got in exchange was still not enough to last the whole winter.
If the tribe can really learn how to farm, will they no longer go hungry from now on?
Seeing the excited expressions on Li Meng's and the warriors' faces, Yu Shan finally understood what she should do most after returning to her clan's territory.
Isn't it just teaching the tribesmen how to farm?
She was already very skilled at this job in District 40; she was just going back to her old ways.
With a goal in mind, she felt much better and her steps became lighter as she walked.
Now she was no longer in a hurry to reach her destination; instead, she began directing the warriors to collect various grass seeds.
Although many plants in the Misty Heaven are different from those on Blue Star and Green Algae Star, there are some plants that are the same.
For example, shepherd's purse, purslane, wild arrowhead, locust flowers, wood ear fungus, raspberries...
A warrior, seeing her pointing at the dark, soft, mushy thing among the decaying leaves, frowned so deeply it could trap a fly: "Saintess of the Feather Fan, is this thing really edible?"
"Of course you can eat it! You can even take it back, dry it, and store it. When you want to eat it, just soak it in boiling water, and it will taste just as good as fresh!" Yu Shan said with a smile.
Although I still have doubts about whether this stuff, which can often be found in the woods and on the hillside after every rain, is really delicious.
But the saintess said it was edible, so let's collect it.
Feather Fan couldn't help but sigh, she never expected that after finally getting away from a famine-stricken area, she would have to face food shortages for her people.
However, the advantage is that the ingredients that can be gathered here are not only pollution-free, but also contain a faint spiritual power because they are constantly nourished by spiritual energy.
Consuming these spiritually potent foods over a long period is even more effective than taking elixirs, at least because the spiritual energy in these foods is pure and free of impurities.
After collecting at least tens of thousands of wild vegetable seeds, seventy or eighty kilograms of wood ear fungus, and a thousand kilograms of wild vegetables, Yu Shan and his group finally arrived at the Temple of the Witch God.
The warriors were all shocked. They never expected that several kinds of these weeds, which they usually trampled underfoot and didn't even bother to look at, were actually edible.
If they had known this earlier, they could have gathered a lot of prey every time they went hunting, instead of having to use the game they worked so hard to hunt to exchange for food with the city people.
Thinking of how they had so much food in the mountains and forests, yet they were still suffering from hunger year after year, they were all filled with regret and despair!
Yu Shan instructed Xiao Bai and the warriors to guard the front gate, while she led Elder Li Meng to the rear of the Witch God Temple via a detour.
Although Xiao Bai was worried about her, he was not a high-ranking member of the Holy Witch Clan, nor was he even a member of the Holy Witch Clan, so he had no right to enter the Witch God Temple.
However, he made a prior agreement with Yu Shan that if she did not leave the Witch God Temple within three days, he would disregard the rules and go in to find her.
Feather Fan naturally trusted him, so she drew a map of the secret passage and gave it to him early on.
This is actually breaking the rules, but compared to not being able to get rescued after losing contact, sometimes the rules don't have to be followed.
On the other side, Yu Shan finally led Li Meng to the entrance of the secret passage, but unfortunately it was blocked by volcanic rocks after the eruption.
The advantage is that Li Meng has already reached the eighth level of the Spirit Realm, and among the magic seals she has practiced, the one she is most proficient in is the Teleportation Seal.
In fact, this magic seal is very similar to the Mountain Moving Technique cultivated by spiritual cultivators. The ancestors of the Holy Witch Clan comprehended the Teleportation Magic Seal, while spiritual cultivators comprehended the Mountain Moving Technique. They are simply different paths leading to the same goal.
When our ancestors cultivated this magic seal, the world was newly created, and the spiritual energy was so abundant that it was beyond imagination. Therefore, they were truly able to use this magic seal to move mountains and fill seas.
Unfortunately, as time went by, the power of the magic seal became weaker and weaker. Now, Li Meng's teleportation magic seal can only move large rocks, and even those large rocks that are separated from the mountain.
However, Yu Shan was prepared for this. She took out her spirit beast bag and woke up the sleeping Xiao Bao.
Li Meng was surprised when she saw Xiao Bao.
The Holy Witch Clan has always relied on their own communication with the energy of heaven and earth, and has never relied on spirit beasts or spirit plants for assistance.
The spirit beast in front of me doesn't seem to have any signs of being contracted. Why would it willingly lie in the spirit beast pouch of the feather fan and sleep soundly?
"Little Bao, wake up and eat! It's a big meal!" Feather Fan pinched its ear, and Little Bao finally woke up.
Since arriving in the Misty Heavenly Realm, its body has absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy, and it has passively advanced.
Most spirit beasts advance by stabilizing their realm through sleep, and Xiao Bao was no exception. Especially after Yu Shan put it into the spirit beast bag, it found that the spiritual energy inside was denser and more suitable for it to absorb, so it slept peacefully.
Awakened by the feather fan, it immediately climbed onto the rock in front of it and began to melt the various metals contained in the volcanic rock.
Xiao Bao's control over metals has reached a new level. He can directly melt metals from rocks, remove impurities, and then absorb the pure metals into his body.
Although it usually likes to mooch meals from Yu Shan and the others, for it, the most nourishing feast is still various metals, especially the metals in front of it that contain spiritual power.
After Xiao Bao melted and absorbed the metal from the rock layer, the hard rock layer became loose. It raised its paw and slapped it a few times, and the rock layer shattered into stones.
Li Meng quickly conjured a teleportation seal and moved all the broken stones away.
Finally, the blue stone tablet with dragon, phoenix, cloud and bird patterns that Yu Shan remembered appeared before her.
The stone tablet had become somewhat pitted and uneven due to erosion by lava, but Yu Shan and Li Meng still recognized the familiar dragon, phoenix, cloud and bird patterns on it at a glance.
When Yu Shan came out of here, he found that the location of the stone tablet was very hidden and that it was covered with countless vines.
Even if someone discovers that the dragon, phoenix, cloud and bird patterns carved on it cannot be seen unless all the vines are carefully removed, they will think that it is just an ordinary rock.
"Saintess Feather Fan, is this really a passage left by our ancestors? With this passage, will the elite members of our clan be able to enter the Temple of the Witch God at any time and comprehend the inherited magic seals on the murals?" Li Meng asked excitedly, her eyes brimming with tears.
The Holy Witch Clan has endured immense hardship over the past few centuries. Each time these elders, who voluntarily dedicate themselves to their clan, are severely weakened after jointly opening the gates of the Witch God Temple, they are unable to advance in rank ever again.
But now that we have this secret passage, no elder will ever again be hindered in their cultivation because of it.
This means that more and more people in the clan will be able to break through to the Heavenly Questioning Realm, and even the Heavenly Connecting Realm!
Just thinking about it made Li Meng tremble with excitement.
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