Along the way, Shen Sanruo also found some Wanhua Wood, but they were all only a hundred years old and their cores had not yet formed inside the tree.
The two people and the bear searched continuously within the Illusory Realm and finally began to find the Myriad Transformation Wood, which was over a thousand years old.
Chen Sangruo stopped in front of a giant tree that required more than a dozen people to encircle. This was the oldest Wanhuamu tree they had found so far, which had been growing for five thousand years.
"Search for two more days. No matter the outcome, return to Wuqing Village first," she said in a deep voice, touching the texture of the tree.
The old wizard will reappear in a few days, and she needs to get back before then.
If she could find the Ten Thousand Year Wood, that would be best; if not, it wouldn't be a big deal, since her purpose in coming here was to scout the way.
She now knows where the Myriad Flower Tree community is located and has marked it on the map.
Fang Yu nodded; he would follow Shen Sangruo's arrangements in any case.
The two bypassed the myriad-colored wood and searched forward. The bamboo bear hanging behind her neck twitched its nose and suddenly opened its eyes.
He bit her shoulder and pulled her in another direction.
Shen Sanruo looked surprised, picked it up and held it in front of her, staring at it with wide eyes.
Meanwhile, the little guy's body kept twisting in the direction where it had just tugged at the clothes.
"Strange, it's been so quiet these past few days, why is it suddenly making a fuss?" she wondered.
Ever since that day, the bamboo bear has really been like a pendant. If it weren't for the occasional patting with its thick paws to indicate that it wanted bamboo, she would have completely ignored it.
"Could it be that it wants to eat bamboo? Does it want us to take it over there to find bamboo?" Fang Yu speculated.
"Look, there's some good food here, can we skip going over there?"
Fang Yu took out a section of Blood Tear Jade Bamboo and handed it to the bamboo bear, but the bamboo bear swatted it away with its chubby paw.
"Hey you..."
The bamboo bear didn't stop moving; it even slid down her body to her feet, grabbed her skirt, and pulled it in that direction.
The little guy put all his strength into it and almost pulled her down.
After pulling for a few seconds, he plopped down on the ground, panting heavily.
After resting, he got up again and continued to pull her, as if he absolutely had to make her come with him.
"What do you mean by insisting on going over there? Who's there anyway?" Fang Yu said sarcastically.
The little guy ignored her and stubbornly insisted that she go that way.
Seeing its unusual behavior, Shen Sanruo pondered for a moment before saying, "The Illusory Realm is a mysterious and magical place. Bamboo Bears are often referred to as spirits of the mountains and fields there. Perhaps it has discovered something. Let's go over there and take a look."
The chances of finding the ancient wood in two days are slim, so let's see what the little bamboo bear wants to do.
Then she took a step and walked over there.
When the bamboo bear saw that she moved, it slowly crawled back onto her, unwilling to take even one more step.
If Shen Sangruo spoke, Fang Yu naturally had no objections and followed suit.
Along the way, the bamboo bear guided her by tugging at her clothes, making the path exceptionally clear.
Shen Sanruo increasingly felt that it wasn't just a spur-of-the-moment decision or a sudden burst of fun, but rather that it had a real purpose.
Bamboo Bear led the two through many twists and turns, taking strange and unusual paths that ordinary people would never take.
After walking for almost half a day, they had gone further and further away from the myriad-colored forest behind them.
"Sister Sang Ruo, is this chubby little dumpling trying to trick us?" Fang Yu asked doubtfully.
After marking the map in her hand, Chen Sanruo looked up and said, "No need to take another look. If we haven't found anything after half a day, we'll head back."
Little Bamboo Bear nodded in agreement, then rolled its eyes at Fang Yu, indicating that it couldn't handle him, really couldn't handle him.
After walking for about two hours, the little bamboo bear stopped pulling her in other directions and instead gestured for her to look up.
The trees here are not so lush. Through the gaps above, Shen Sangruo could see a tree in the distance that was significantly taller than the others.
But the treetops were turning yellow, which was why she noticed them at a glance.
"That's... the Myriad Transformation Wood?" Shen Sanruo's voice was somewhat surprised. She withdrew her gaze and turned her head to look at the little bamboo bear on her shoulder.
The little bamboo bear sat on her shoulders, its chest puffed out, looking arrogant.
"You've been dragging me here all this time, are you trying to help me find the Myriad Transformation Wood?" she asked.
Moreover, she estimated that the myriad-colored tree was taller than any of the myriad-colored trees she had encountered before, and its age was very likely close to ten thousand years.
The little bamboo bear nodded, giving her a relieved and approving look, as if to say that she had finally understood bear nature.
Fang Yu's attitude towards Little Bamboo Bear underwent a complete 180-degree change. "Brother Bear, I admire you greatly."
The little bamboo bear didn't argue with him. It nudged its nose, sensing a strange smell.
A look of joy appeared on Shen Sangruo's face as she patted the little guy on her body, "Thank you."
The two quickened their pace and hurried towards the direction of the Myriad Transformation Tree.
Soon a towering tree came into view.
"Good heavens, this tree trunk is big enough to build a three-bedroom apartment inside," Fang Yu exclaimed.
Shen Sanruo didn't say anything and walked straight over. This must be a Wanhua Wood that is over ten thousand years old.
However, her joy was short-lived, quickly replaced by a solemn expression.
She discovered that on the other side of the myriad-colored wood, a large pit had been dug out, with wood chips piled up all over the ground.
That place was where the core of the Myriad Transformations Wood was located, but the core is no longer there.
"We're too late. The core has already been taken." She frowned.
Judging from the marks of the excavation, it must have happened in the last few months. It's impossible not to feel regret and disappointment.
Such a rare and ever-changing tree is hard to find; who knows where the next one will be?
Little Bamboo Bear sneezed, rubbed his nose, looked into the big pit, and the next moment, DouDou's eyes were filled with anger.
Sensing its emotions, Chen Sangruo turned her head and asked, "What's wrong?"
The little bamboo bear angrily stretched out her hand and pointed to the depths of the large pit. Only then did she see that the lifeline of the Myriad Transformation Wood had been severed.
If the lifeline is severed, the myriad-colored wood cannot live.
“Normally, when extracting the core, they wouldn’t carve such a large pit, nor would they sever its lifeline,” she said in a deep voice. “That person’s method was extremely brutal, as if it was done on purpose.”
No wonder she saw the treetops turning yellow in the distance.
This is a myriad-year-old tree that has grown for tens of thousands of years. She stroked its seemingly strong trunk, unaware that its vitality was gradually fading away, and her eyes were filled with regret.
"Who's so heartless as to take someone's core and then try to kill them?" Fang Yu curled her lip, strongly condemning this kind of behavior of eating and then smashing the bowl.
Shen Sanruo followed the large pit into the inside of the tree trunk, heading towards the lifeline.
As they drew closer, the little bamboo bear on my shoulder sneezed several times in a row.
As she approached the lifeline, a familiar scent entered her nostrils.
Her expression suddenly changed.
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