21 Prairie's Shame (3)
The intensity of the Infused Juniper Oil puzzled him. Unable to withstand the flavor, he started to boil a small pot of soybeans for the sake of tasting how good is this Juniper Oil, since it was already so enticing while inside the gourd bottle.
But the steam from the boiling water brings him back to sanity.
"I actually went to cook some food for the sake of tasting the Juniper Oil! How desperate am I to do it on purpose?" Mu Qing Lang notices something was off, and landed his butt on the chair along with the Demonic Seed and Infused Juniper Oil in hand.
[Toot!]
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[*Infused Juniper Oil*]
[*Demonic Seed*]
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"Go. Let's go for Juniper Oil first." Mu Qing Lang tapped on the first option.
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Infused Juniper Oil [Unranked]
Condition: Edible Flavoring
Benefit: Enhance appetite, heighten sense of flavor, resistance to smell-based attack.
Side Benefit:
[1] Rejuvenate stamina / alleviate mood swing due to mental trauma
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Item Description: made from extracting the oil from the Demonic Juniper Fruit. This flavoring oil enhances the sense to smell if consumed occasionally, brings positive energy to day to day workers, and capable of mild sedation that alleviates traumatic mood swings. Overall evaluation of this product is beneficial and essential for day to day life.
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Demonic Seed [Unranked]
Condition: Unhost Seed
Benefit: Increases thirst towards a certain matter, sedating effect towards mental stress, increases libido and production ability
Side Benefit:
[1] By taking host in a living creature, the Demonic Seed can start germinating and grow using the host's life-force. Demonification ends the moment Host body void of life-force.
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Item Description: A seed of Lesser Demon once slain by the hand of Chang Emperor. Unwilling to succumb to that fate, the Lesser Demon spreads his blood, flesh, and Spiritual Energy all over the prairie so he could return into this world once more. Unfortunately, the effort is wasted with the prairie left barren for millennia.
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"No wonder I am so into trying that Juniper Oil earlier. It was caused by the Demonic Seed which I am holding in my hand while smelling the Juniper Oil's fragrance. But what kind of thing will come out from the dead host after this seed germinates? Baby Demon? Demon Tree? Demon Insect?"
Mu Qing Lang is curious about the possibility. But in his current situation, the Demonic Seed belonged to the Storage Chest until Mu Qing Lang had a better target to become its host. With 130 for the fruits to go, Mu Qing Lang processed two additional bottles of Infused Juniper Oil.
Resisting the anticipation to enjoy the Juniper Oil, Mu Qing Lang went to bed with the two pills dissolving inside his stomach.
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Day Nineteen.
The existence of two stone hoes made everything better. Almost all of their farming task is completed before the afternoon meal, allowing the goblins to have their own fun before lunch. As for the girls, they head to the pond for a hair wash.
Today's harvest yield Mu Qing Lang 2,000 stalks of Xian-Ren Grass and 1,000 Amber Roots like usual, with the addition of 38.4kg of Herbal-Cress and 1,000 fruits from the Demonic Juniper Flower. At this stage of their farm, the Demonic Juniper Flower can yield him 1,000 fruits every day, similar to the Amber Root's field.
When everyone is back for lunch, Mu Qing Lang took out his new treasure, the amazing Infused Juniper Oil for each of them to take a sniff. The situation is similar to how a drug addict did it, but instead of drugs, it's edible Flavoring Oil.
His main intention to do this was to make sure everyone knows what kind of product was made out of, along with a word of mouth that can be used to persuade others to join his camp. With only 38 members in his Mu's Camp, he must find some idea to increases their numbers.
By that time, his Mu's Camp will be renamed as Settlement, with more than fifty members living inside. For a camp that started at a woodless prairie, this can be said as too successful in their starting point.
[GUA!]
The group of goblins is the first to react to the smell. It was too tempting for them to keep waiting, hence that soft cry. In reply to their request, Mu Qing Lang gives them his nod and it was added into their soybean meal.
Including himself, everyone had their hunger sated for the first time. Although it was just a flavoring oil, the taste it brings out from the soybean meal is much better than the grilled rabbit leg sprinkled with salt.
About the salt, Mu Qing Lang amassed quite a weight of the Sodium Deposit Crystals scattered around the area. It is possible to increase his stash, but that will require him to possess a proper tool for digging.
It was an excellent meal for everyone.
Accompanied by Ka-Ba and Yulin, Mu Qing Lang left the camp to somewhere further this time. The camp's safety is left to the three hobgoblins, while the goblins are helping Luoli and Luoyi to prepare the necessary products for their day to day usage.
As for Tasi, Remi, and Fengbu, they decided to make a group and headed for a trip to Ka-Ruo Settlement. From what Fengbu said, the product gathered for now is enough for him to bring back, hence the business trip.
Surprisingly, the satyr showcases his specialty once again. This time, weightlifting. The item that supposed to be carried by three people is handled by a satyr. This made the trio happy, but for Mu Qing Lang, he smiled.
"A walking goat coolie. I want a few of them in my camp." he thought.
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Inside the Namu's Settlement.
"Say! Where is my seventh child and Old Jili!" the master of this camp screamed at a kneeling hunter. He's Namu Mayue, the respectable leader of this 400 members large settlement.
Additionally, he's also a cultivator, two to threefold stronger than Ka-Ruo, Ka-Ba's father. Although the Namu's Settlement is known as one of the three worlds in this Chang Emperor Prairie, it was, in fact, the smallest and weakest between them.
It was due to his title as the Namu Berserker attracts so many people to follow him. Of course, half of them were forced by the continuous plundering on the settlement and villages around him.
Namu Mayue has three wives and two lovers. The five of them gave birth to a total of ten children, with the first to seven already at their youth, and the eighth, ninth, and tenth child are still infants.
Five days ago, he allowed his seventh child, Namu Mubi, to expand his horizon outside of their settlement. But on the fourth day outside, a hunter comes back with the report about the entire seventh young master entourage is slaughtered.
The Hunter saw what the goblins are doing. Only after all of them left he dared himself to dig out their burial pit. To make sure his leader believe his words, this hunter brought the head of Namu Mubi back.
That was his cause of death.
Looking at the head without a body, Namu Mayue raged. His sword swung across the hunter from one side of his head to another, and it immediately rolled on the ground and smearing them with blood.
"Call... Here..." Namu Mayue speaks.
"Call... Muli here..." he repeats.
"Understood!" the guard beside him immediately left, with the others guarding outside came in to handle the body. Not too long after, his sixth child, Namu Muli came inside his camp.
"Muli! Your younger brother Mubi is dead! Bring your people and go out to deliver fear to our enemies!" Namu Mayue ordered his sixth son to take action.
"Father, leave this matter to Muli! I will make sure to bring their head back with our brother and give him a proper burial! He will come back as the Namu's Berserker in his reincarnation!" Namu Muli shouts to motivates his father once again.
"Good! Leave quick and come back early." Namu Mayue said and swung his palm outward. With the order has been issued, Namu Muli left with his fifteen best fighters. Each of them carries a proper wooden javelin on their back, with a short sword length about their elbow to the middle finger.
They headed southward in haste, but in the middle of their journey, three of the fifteen fighters spotted the peeing Ka-Ba not too far from them!
"Sixth Young Master! We found a brat not too far from our route, shall we catch him and question?" one of the fighters asked for Namu Muli's permission, which was granted with a nod.
Shivered twice to indicates the end of his underpart blessings, Ka-Ba gets himself ready to return. The Straw Basket beside him is filled with odd-looking rocks, with two kinds of plants in his hand. From how it looks, the trio must be separated from each another to collect things before grouping up and return.
"Stop right there!" one of the fighters shouted at the ready to leave Ka-Ba. It shocks him straight into his core, and that shout made him run as fast as possible! This action and response immediately got them entangled!
The two sides start their fight before they know each other background!
