Namu Jin (2)
"Chief Mu. How many guts of the Iron Skin Boar had you eaten to dare to provoke the Namu Settlement?" Mu Qing Lang's direct provocation is taken offensively by Namu Jin! This means that the relationship between them can no longer be reconciled.
"Should I send the head of 150 people back to the Namu Settlement? I don't mind helping you other brother and sisters to get rid of a competitor for the position of Settlement Chief." Mu Qing Lang continued.
"Humph! Men! We're leaving!" although hot-tempered and reckless, Namu Jin still knows how to differentiate the situation between them. Placed in between a Goblin Champion like Guan Yi with an unknown number of Ashen Wolves and Tiezu-Orcs, leaving in peace is the best choice he could make.
His retreat made those sneaking outside of the Northern and Southern Gate followed along and revealed themselves. As for Mu Qing Lang's side, none of them exposed themselves to preserve their secrecy on their total numbers.
"Chief Mu! I pray that your life is long enough to escape from getting slaughtered by the Namu." Namu Jin warns him for the last time before they left.
Only almost ten minutes from their departure the Ashen Wolves and Tiezu-Orcs came back to the settlement.
"Master, should we kill all of them before they reach Namu Settlement?" TIezu-Wu and Gu suggested that they cut off these loose ends before allowing them to escalate into trouble.
"No. No matter we agree or not, the three worlds will not allow us to grow stronger. The example can be seen from how Yelu Settlement attacked your previous Tiezu-Orcs Village. Even with the mean of cooperating with other power, they will not allow anyone to expand faster than them."
"WuGu, both of you should focus on expanding your numbers. Do not worry about food. As for Bai-Wang, you should do the same. Run when you're cornered, attack when they're alone. Always remember that you'll have to return to this settlement anyway." Mu Qing Lang suggested them to start expanding their numbers without any control.
Be it in food matter or overpopulation, Mu Qing Lang is confident that he and his agriculture prowess can handle it. Instead, the differences in number cannot be reduced in days, which was the main issue troubling him.
That night, after dinner, Mu Qing Lang distributed another set of 183 bottles of Recovery Ointment to be applied on their body to promotes their evolution possibility. This became crucial if he wished to survive against the three worlds that might come at him later.
After taking his usual medicine, Mu Qing Lang headed to his bed after putting the troublesome matters aside.
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Day Twenty-nine.
Although heavy-hearted in their work, the dull atmosphere did not delay them in their day to day harvest. With 6,000 stalks of Xian-Ren Grass, 1,000 Amber Roots, and Demonic Juniper Fruits, the group also collected another batch of 150kg of Herbal Cress along with 900 rhizomes of Prairie Sugar Roots.
As for the remaining 100 rhizomes, they are divided into another batch of a thousand parts to for next day's yield. With nothing else to plant in the meantime, those from Mu's Settlement went to the Tiezu-Orcs section to learn about animal farming.
And at the same time, two evolved goblins made pay their master a visit with Guan Yi accompanying them.
A Hobgoblin and a Goblin Gatherer. To commemorate their evolution, Mu Qing Lang gave the Hobgoblin name Dou Liu and Jiang Er for the Goblin Gatherer. Both received a Small Xian Pill and Xian-Qin Pill as their advancement gift.
With the rewarding and other matters is settled, Mu Qing Lang returned to his stuck inside his house youth. Heading straight to the Material Preparation Shelf, Mu Qing Lang opened the option for the new ingredient, Prairie Sugar Root.
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[Toot!]
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[New Ingredient Found!]
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[Type: Plant]
[Name: Prairie Sweet Root]
[Amount: 1,600 units]
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[Please choose from the following option:]
[1] Refine (50) rhizomes into (10) ml of Root Sucrose.
[2] Refine (200) rhizomes into (1) Pure Growth Crystal.
[3] Refine (3500) rhizomes into (1) Spirit Crystal Root Seed.
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"What the heck? You need fifty whole rhizomes to made a puny 10ml of Root Sucrose, 200 into a Pure Growth Crystal that god knows what can it be used? Worst of all, you need 3,500! 3 damn thousand and 500 to make a hell know what is that Root Seed."
"Carriage... You're scamming me, you know?" Mu Qing Lang wished he can complain about the ridiculous cost he needs to pay to refine even the lowest tier product.
But looking at how fast can he start producing a large amount of the Prairie Sugar Roots, Mu Qing Lang's heart softened. It won't hurt for him to invest everything from the harvest next morning for a return of tenfold.
"I'll make 200ml of Root Sucrose first. For the remaining 600 rhizomes, I'll refine it into three Pure Growth Crystals." Mu Qing Lang processed them without hesitation. After tapping the first option for ten times and second option thrice, the products appeared in his Storage Chest.
"How can I have so much to do?" Mu Qing Lang complained about how busy is his daily schedule. Shouldn't the settlement chief be the one with the freest time to take care of his own matters?
Based on how much he remembered, Mu Qing Lang still left with the Prairie Herbal Solution, which is impossible for him to produce because lacking Prairie Sugar Root once again. Furthermore, the information about Dou-Xian Pill and Suqin Pill is still untouched.
This means that his work is getting more and more by day, without enough time to handle all of them.
Perhaps only at this moment, Mu Qing Lang understands the importance of Amber Root is processable by the mortals. But weren't him one of them?
He did not put this matter in mind for too long. After taking out the four unread product in his Storage Chest, Mu Qing Lang seated on the Information Table for their information to pops up.
[Toot!]
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[Dou-Xian Pill]
[Suqin Pill]
[*Root Sucrose*]
[*Pure Growth Crystal*]
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"I'll go for the pills first." Mu Qing Lang tapped on his first choice.
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[Toot!]
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Dou-Xian Pill [Unranked]
Condition: Stimulating Pellet
Benefit: Double Fitness & Force Stats for (30) minutes
Side Effect:
[1] User will suffer (-2) health every minute for 1 hour after the beneficial effect ends
[2] When taken during the battle, increases (1) stats of focus until the medicinal effect ends
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Item Description: Made from the formula of (1) Fighter Extract with (5) portion of Xian-Qin Pill ingredient. Effective immediately, the Dou-Xian Pill enhanced the user's Fitness and Force Stats to overturn the defeat in exchange for suffering later. Due to the excessive damage from over-stimulation, the user will start to develop a reliance on this medicine.
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Suqin Pill [Unranked]
Condition: Cultivation Pellet
Benefit: Increase (0.5) points on Control Stats
Side Benefit:
[1] Enhance spirit and mental strength, help to resist the Inner Demon when cultivating
[2] Freshen user's mental state once taken. Greatly helps in understanding control stats
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Item Description: Although Fighter Extract is added in this concoction, it did not depreciate, but strengthened the medicinal properties inside of this pellet. The Suqin Pill also known as Noble Pellet, a medicine that may turn you from a worthless individual to a capable king. (Only when used by human cultivator)
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"So... The Suqin Pill is something that can remold a person mentally while increasing his or her control stats? Does that means the goblins, Ashen Wolves, and humans followed me due to my 10.5 points of Control Stats?" the description indeed confused him.
The longer he stares at the pill, the more it becomes interesting. Uncontrollably, Mu Qing Lang placed the Suqin Pill inside his mouth and enjoyed the medicinal bitterness. Soon, he felt like entering a different dimension, where time flows slower than this world he's taken to.
This time slowing sensation continued as he starts meditating.
[Heaven blesses the Earth with life, Earth breaths the spirits back to Heaven]
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[Continuous exchange creates a cycle. The cycle repeated to open Qiankun]
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[Qiankun exist with two different cores. Each core embraced one wisdom]
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[Wisdom separated to Rightful and Evil. But they were never ever a whole]
The meditation lasts for thirty minutes before everything including time returns to normal. During this time, the feel of deciphering the meaning behind the Wheel of Cause Sutra comes and go continuously, but each time he felt he grasp them, it failed.
But he did not realize that during that half hour meditation, 0.5 points are added into his Control Stats. Freshened up and ready to continue with what he was doing earlier, Mu Qing Lang returned to the Information table and moved his hand back to the Root Sucrose option.
"Will they knock my door, or will it not happen this time?" the occasional interruption all the time made Mu Qing Lang expects somebody to knock his door.