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Chapter 754 Only You Can Help With This: A Surprise Arrives in the Dense Forest at Night
"Alright." Yue Qingfeng nodded, seeing that Jiang Hanying looked somewhat displeased, he decided to make a promise first, "Once Miss Jiang helps me with this favor, I will send Miss Jiang to see the person she wants to see."

Jiang Hanying's expression softened. "What kind of help is it? Tell me."

"The tree in front of you has become like this in order to guard this gate. It has been severely polluted by energy from outside the gate over the years, and you should be able to tell that it won't last much longer."

Jiang Hanying: "Oh, I see."

Yue Qingfeng: "..." Since he received no questions, he had no choice but to continue, "The purplish-red sphere you got earlier is actually the heartwood of this tree."

"Well, its heart has wandered quite far, you little rascal! Instead of staying in the tree, it's run into the rocks!"

Yue Qingfeng: "...I took the tree heart with me."

"Tree heart dealer! So this time he had a change of heart and decided to use me to return the tree heart he stole from someone else."

Yue Qingfeng: "..."

That's exactly what happened, but the way this girl said it made it sound so unpleasant!
"There was a reason for it back then."

"Yue Qingfeng".

Jiang Hanying suddenly called out the old man's full name.

Yue Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, then nodded when he came to his senses. "It's me."

"Besides being Yue Zhuo's third grandfather, who else are you?"

"I... I can't say right now, but I can assure you that I have good intentions towards you and Xiaozhuo."

"Well, if you say it's out of kindness, then it's out of kindness." Jiang Hanying waved her hand dismissively. What did she care about kindness or not? It was something she could say to anyone; the important thing was how to do it. "And then?"

According to Yue Qingfeng, the tree is indeed dying, having been contaminated by external energy.

The most crucial part, the heartwood, had been missing for a long time, and she only managed to bring it back this time.

Now let's deduce Yue Qingfeng's purpose.

Can we save the tree?
How can we get the heartwood back into the tree?
Is this something she can do?

She's really good at cutting down trees!

"I would like to ask for your help to get the tree heart back into the tree. Miss Jiang, only you can do this."

"why?"

"Go forward and gently touch the tree trunk, and you'll know."

Jiang Hanying glanced at the tree roots still gathered in front of her feet, then lifted her foot again. She saw the tree roots begin to recede and no longer block her way, allowing her to walk unimpeded to the tree trunk.

He reached out and touched it.

The moment I touched it, a chill ran through my fingertips.

It wasn't just ordinary cold; it was a chill that could instantly penetrate to the bone marrow, like a maggot clinging to the bone.

When I pulled my hand back, I saw that my fingertips had turned bluish-gray. Only after I forced out the lingering chill did my fingertips return to their pinkish-white color.

A sudden inspiration struck.

This tree is indeed untouchable by ordinary people or tools. Even the slightest contact will cause the external energy absorbed by the tree to kill a person or corrode the tool!
But she was different.

She is Han Yingjian from the Canglan Realm.

Let's consider it as a kind of external energy.

Moreover, it is a foreign energy with a strong killing aura.

We really shouldn't be afraid of this.

However, Yue Qingfeng even knew this, as well as the fortune telling he gave her when they met a couple of days ago.

The old man's background is also unclear.

A purplish-red, spherical tree heart quietly floated to her side, where Jiang Hanying reached out and grabbed it.

With his other hand, he held his fingers together like a sword, the sword's edge piercing straight into the hollow of the tree trunk.

Once it reaches a certain depth, it suddenly glides horizontally.

The sturdy tree trunk was instantly torn open with a diamond-shaped notch by the external force. When the widest part was about the diameter of the heartwood, Jiang Hanying quickly stuffed the heartwood into the notch and withdrew her hand at the same time.

The tree heart was immediately and firmly stuck in its original place, waiting to heal little by little over time, just like a human wound needs time to heal.

Done!

But don't underestimate this simple act of stabbing, tearing, and stuffing; the price was that the two fingers she stuck into the tree trunk remained numb and unresponsive even after several breaths.

Who knows what this so-called external energy might actually be?

Turning her head to look at the phone screen held up diligently by the phone stand beside her, she asked, "Is this okay?"

Yue Qingfeng took a deep breath, and immediately felt a sense of relief as if a heavy burden was being lifted from his body. "Thank you, Miss Jiang. Please don't hesitate to ask if you ever need the Boundary Gate again."

Jiang Hanying frowned in disdain, "I'll only use it this once. This door is so far from where I live, and it's even at the bottom of the lake..."

Before I could finish my complaint, I felt a sudden weight on my wrist.

Jiang Hanying looked down and saw that there was a ring on her left wrist.

It was the round female buckle that the Yun family uncle and nephew found.

"This ring is also part of the boundary gate and can be carried as an accessory. I wonder if Miss Jiang is satisfied?"

Jiang Hanying then gave a haughty snort, "That's more like it."

Yue Qingfeng: It seems this step was the right one.

You have to be willing to give away good things to please someone!

"In that case, I won't bother Miss Jiang any longer. Oh, by the way, I've left a surprise for you to discover yourself."

"Hey, You……"

The screen went dark.

Jiang Hanying picked up her phone and pressed the power button.

"Damn it, it's off!"

I don't know how Yue Qingfeng managed to connect to the signal and video chat with her for so long.

However, one thing is certain: this person is definitely related to this gate!
As for a surprise... well, she was still somewhat looking forward to it.

I put the phone, which was turned off, into the plastic bag, and looked up again. Finally, the tree that looked like a piece of dog-skin plaster was gone.

The bright moon overhead... has changed too!

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The bright moon was obscured by the dense foliage, leaving only scattered silvery spots of light on the ground.

Animals that are active during the day and rest during the night still hunt in the darkness, and occasionally, sparse patches of light will shine on a patch of spotted fur.

The owl crowed, and the small animal that had been targeted immediately looked around like a startled bird, then hopped and skipped to find a place to hide.

The chirping of various insects rose and fell in the grass, forming a symphony in itself.

Even in the dark forests, life is still bustling and fraught with danger, as the food chain relentlessly hunts and kills in order to survive.

No one would have imagined that a small human tribe still exists deep in such a primitive jungle.

There aren't even proper houses in the tribe; the people live in a large, naturally formed cave.

Along the way, Li Chengxiao experienced being chased across two mountains by large wild beasts, being chased into a river by swarms of venomous bees, and encountering poisonous insects, snakes, and ants was commonplace. He even killed several people who had come into the mountains with him but wanted to kill him because they couldn't find food or water. Finally, he reached the depths of the jungle and met his father, who was no different from a wild man, as well as the person his father had been searching for all these years.

However, that person was still asleep, and had been asleep for over twenty years!
Even though they presented evidence that they were a family of three, they were not allowed to enter the tribe. At most, they were taken in for a quick visit, and at night they had to find a place to rest outside the tribe on their own.

The father and son made two hammocks out of vines and hung them on the trunks of large trees near the tribe. During the day, they continued to work tirelessly to gain the tribe's recognition, and at night they would lie in the hammocks and fall asleep listening to the various sounds from the mountains and forests that never ceased throughout the night.

He's been listening to this noise for days now, and he can use it as white noise to help him fall asleep.

Until the constant chirping of insects in my ears suddenly and completely disappeared.

Li Chengxiao, who was lying in the hammock, suddenly opened his eyes, sat up and looked down, only to meet a pair of extremely familiar smiling eyes.

"Hey, are you surprised? Unexpected?"