These things may not seem strong, but there are many of them. In comparison, the group that Xiao Yu encountered at the beginning was definitely a blessing from heaven.
The two searched for three sunsets, but Su Lin and others still didn't show up.
On the fourth day, Zhou Yanzhi decided to move forward in the direction of rich spiritual energy.
I don’t know if it’s because of the richness of the spiritual energy, but the further I go, the bigger the lotus leaves become, and gradually I can see lotus flowers and lotus pods.
Xiao Yu took a look and was pleasantly surprised: "It's a spiritual fruit that can be eaten directly." He tasted one and said, "It's quite sweet."
Seeing him eat, Zhou Yanzhi ate one too. The taste was similar to the fresh lotus seeds in his memory, but the spiritual energy contained in it was definitely the first choice for cultivators.
"You can pick more." Since these are spiritual objects that do not need to be tempered, the more the better.
For a moment, the two of them were no longer in a hurry to get going, and they went looking for lotus pods and picking lotus seeds. The lotus pods here were huge, some as small as washbasins and millstones, with lotus seeds in 18, 36, or 54 pieces; the large ones were as big as millstones, densely packed with 72, 81, and 108 lotus seeds.
After picking for a while, the two decided to pick while walking.
"Brother, look." Xiao Yu handed Zhou Yanzhi a lotus seed the size of a ping-pong ball. "The ones we just picked were at most the size of a green date. The smallest ones here are the size of a ping-pong ball. Do you think the ones further ahead should be the size of apples or watermelons?"
Zhou Yanzhi's eyes were full of smiles. The child had quite a lot of imagination and delusions.
He took the lotus seeds, which were the size of ping-pong balls, peeled them open and tasted them: "The spiritual energy is even richer."
Xiao Yu also ate one and found it incredibly delicious. The two of them then proceeded to pluck lotus seeds from the surrounding area. Not content with just picking the seeds, Xiao Yu, with his unparalleled strength, found a lotus leaf that had just emerged and plucked it up.
"Lotus stem?"
"Yes." Xiao Yu broke off the lotus stem, which was at least as thick as his arm, and put the lotus stem back, while also exerting a little wood power.
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Lotus stems can also be eaten raw. Xiao Yu used the power of the divine seal to check and found that they were not poisonous. He gathered a handful of water and washed them. This time he broke off a section to taste.
"So sweet and crispy!" Xiao Yu said as he shared it with Zhou Yanzhi, "It's like the tip of a tender lotus root."
Zhou Yanzhi took a bite with a smile and commented: "Not bad, crispy and sweet."
"This will definitely be delicious when used to make pickled pepper lotus stems." Xiao Yu put away the rest and said confidently, "The water is hard to drain, so we can just use the lotus stems."
Zhou Yanzhi didn't object. They had actually thought about looking underwater before, but the world beneath the lotus leaves was even more lively than above. The water striders they had seen were just the tip of the iceberg of this "lotus pond." Beneath the lotus leaves, a variety of aquatic life densely packed together, it was a completely different world.
Water snakes, water striders, leeches like pythons, water snakes like dragons, poisonous frogs, toads, etc., appear in endlessly.
It can be said that if there were no lotus leaves, this "lotus pond" would be a complete human restricted area. It is because of the inherent protection of the lotus leaves that humans can move around on them.
The two of them didn't stay in one place. The more spiritual energy there was in an area, the more numerous the dragon-like water snakes and leeches were. There was also an endless stream of poisonous frogs of all sizes and species.
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After nearly two months of travel, they arrived at a lotus patch that had grown as large as a square in the human world. Piled together, it formed a vast mountain whose end seemed unseen. A mountain of poisonous frogs, toads, thousand-meter-long water snakes, leeches, centipedes, and the like peeked out from the lotus leaf mountain, stealing the lotus seeds.
The lotus seeds the size of watermelons that Xiao Yu had mentioned before were finally realized here.
Just seeing the large and small, human and animal-shaped bones scattered all over the ground at the "foot of the mountain", Xiao Yu felt that if he ate the lotus seeds here, he might have psychological trauma.
"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh--" The two of them were hiding a thousand meters away from the mountain, observing the "mountain". They accidentally saw several tentacle-like lotus stems and vines appear out of thin air, and in the blink of an eye they caught a toad that was eating lotus seeds seriously, a water strider the size of a truck, a kilometer-long centipede with an unknown number of legs, and a dragon that had already emerged.
The moment they caught these giant beasts, dense lotus stems emerged from the "mountain" and tightly bound their prey.
The dragon struggled desperately, lashing the lotus leaves with its tail. It might have been able to break free at first, but as long as there was a lotus vine still attached to it, it would soon be bound by more lotus vines. The vines not only sucked its blood, but also devoured its flesh.
In just a short time, the thousand-meter-long dragon was reduced to a skeleton with little energy.
The next second, hundreds of lotus stems suddenly sprouted from the bone field, each bearing a bud. The buds absorbed spiritual energy from the outside world, quickly blossoming and bearing fruit, soon reaching maturity.
Xiao Yu: ...
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When the dragon died, the water striders, toads, and centipedes, which could swallow venom in their mouths, also died after using all their skills.
Compared to the dragon, after these things were absorbed by the lotus stems and vines, fewer lotus flowers bloomed.
A strong wind blew by, sweeping away the last trace of blood left by the "battle".
After witnessing a feast of lotus stem devouring, Xiao Yu had the urge to throw away what he had picked with great effort.
"This lotus stem is at least at the peak of the Divine Wandering Realm, otherwise it would not be possible to take down the dragon so easily." Zhou Yanzhi analyzed.
Xiao Yu saw him eager to try and thought to himself, "It's not easy either. Just when the dragon swung its tail, hundreds or even thousands of lotus stems broke. The problem is that there are so many of them, and the dragon is weak and alone. In the end, it will only be swallowed up."
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