The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 2 Planting Trees
Huo Ying indicated that he understood, and then followed Zhang Yuqi more carefully.

"Don't be afraid. Sister Bai is not a bad person. She is just too cautious." Zhang Yuqi explained: "You can recover only because Sister Bai risked her life to collect herbs to save you."

"I know. I will recover my memory as soon as possible so that Sister Bai can rest assured." Huo Ying responded considerately, but he was alert in his heart.

Zhang Yuqi can't believe it completely either.

Living in such a dangerous world, Zhang Yuqi should have been familiar with her surroundings long ago.

But when she just went out, Zhang Yuqi did not remind herself that there were corpse ghosts nearby. Instead, she observed whether the corpse ghosts would actively attack her.

Corpse ghosts will actively attack humans, but will not attack their own kind. Zhang Yuqi tested again whether I was infected.

Huo Ying remained silent all the way, and the two of them soon arrived at the door of a low house.

Zhang Yuqi took out a black stone, burned it with a lighter, and the stone instantly turned red.

"This is Yang Stone. Once it is roasted by fire, it will turn red. The red Yang Stone can restrain the corpse ghost."

Zhang Yuqi pushed open the door and entered the room first with the Yang Stone, then signaled Huo Ying to follow: "It's safe, come in."

The room was even more shabby, with moldy walls and the windows were the same as the previous one, all nailed shut with wooden boards.

"If you hold on here for one night, Sister Bai will trust you." Zhang Yuqi handed the potatoes to Huo Ying, then raised the firewood in her hand.

"This is a poplar tree, and so is the wooden board nailed to the window." Zhang Yuqi said, "Both Yangshi and poplar wood are precious, and they contain the power of the sun. At night, you light this poplar wood, and the power contained in the burning poplar wood will be activated. The places illuminated by the fire of the poplar wood will not be attacked by the black fog."

In addition to the zombies, there is also black fog at night.

Huo Ying took the potatoes and firewood. Zhang Yuqi was relieved to see that Huo Ying was calm.

"Come on, I'll be here early tomorrow morning."

"Don't worry, just come over at noon when the sun is at its strongest."

"Do you remember anything?"

"Yeah, a little bit."

Huo Ying remembered nothing, but he had a rough idea of what happened through the poplar wood.

Poplar is known as the guardian of the desert. It is heat and drought resistant and possesses some of the energy of the sun.

The name of Yangshi is related to the sun.

That's why Huo Yingcai advised Zhang Yuqi to come at noon when the sun was at its hottest.

Huo Ying was very scared, he wished Zhang Yuqi would not leave, but he understood that only if he survived the night and showed some concern for Zhang Yuqi would he have a greater chance of survival.

"it is good."

Zhang Yuqi thought about it, threw the lighter in her arms to Huo Ying, then left the room and closed the door.

Huo Ying breathed a sigh of relief. He almost forgot how he could make a fire without a lighter.

Zhang Yuqi didn't mention the lighter incident either.

Did Zhang Yuqi remember this just before leaving, or did she decide to stay after hearing what I said?

Huo Ying walked to the door, locked it, and used a lighter to heat the yang stone red. Only then did he feel at ease and sat down against the wall facing the door.

Closing his eyes and concentrating his attention, Huo Ying saw the seed of the sacred tree again.

“How should I plant?”

Huo Ying tried to communicate with the seeds of the sacred tree, and sure enough, the seeds responded.

[Whether to plant]

[Note: During the planting period of the sacred tree, the effective radius is 10 kilometers. If the host leaves this range, the sacred tree will lose its protection. If the host leaves for more than 30 days, the sacred tree will dry up and the host will die.]

“Planting.”

The seed of the sacred tree in Huo Ying's mind disappeared, and he felt a force leaving his forehead. The next moment, Huo Ying realized that he had a connection with the land beneath his feet, and a mysterious energy was transmitted from the earth to Huo Ying.

Although this energy was only a tiny bit, Huo Ying still felt that his spirit and energy had been greatly enhanced. [Sacred Tree (Planting Period)]

[Sacred Tree Protection: Chakra (Weak), Wood Release (Beginner)]

Huo Ying felt a tingling sensation in his abdomen, as if there were many needles piercing his stomach, leaving countless tiny spots. Then the spots gathered in his dantian and condensed into a tiny column of air.

"The sacred tree is not actively protecting me, but giving me some abilities."

Huo Ying picked up the poplar wood on the ground.

"Wood Release, Growth."

The firewood, which was originally as long as an adult's arm, suddenly became thicker and longer, and doubled in size in the blink of an eye.

The air column in Huo Ying's body suddenly decreased by one fifth.

Afterwards, energy came from under the earth again, and Huo Ying felt the tingling and tingling sensation in his abdomen again.

But this time, the number of needle tips was very small, and only a few spots were created and rushed towards the dantian.

Huo Ying calculated that it would take about four to five hours to fill up this one-fifth of the gas column.

"That's great. This way, we don't have to worry about not having enough firewood."

Huo Ying swung the poplar wood and smashed it hard on the ground. With a crack, a crack appeared in the middle of the wood. Huo Ying held one end with both hands and the other end against the ground, then raised his foot and stomped hard on the wood.

The firewood broke with a sound.

The weak chakra and wood release technique have little effective killing power, but when used as auxiliary, the effect is amazing.

There was still four-fifths of air left in his body. Huo Ying did not continue to add firewood. Instead, he turned around and picked up the potatoes that Zhang Yuqi had asked for him.

Holding the potato in his hand, Huo Ying tried again.

He picked up the poplar wood, thinking of making it grow taller. This time, when he held the potato, he thought of making it take root and sprout.

"Wood Release, Growth."

The air column went down a little further, with only three-fifths left. Compared to making a piece of poplar wood grow thicker and longer out of thin air, the effect of making potatoes take root and sprout was more obvious.

The potatoes in Huo Ying's hands sprouted quickly, and the roots, stems and leaves spread out quickly like a peacock spreading its tail. Huo Ying also changed from holding it in one hand to holding it in both hands, and finally put it on the ground.

The potato rhizomes grew into seedlings in the blink of an eye, and the roots turned into lumps.

Flower buds sprouted from the saplings, and the lumps on the roots also expanded spontaneously.

However, the flower buds did not bloom and the changes in the potatoes stopped.

"I didn't put enough chakra into it."

Huo Ying released chakra at the potato again.

Finally, the flower buds opened and blossomed into small white flowers.

The lumps on the roots also swelled to be larger than fists, one after another, entangled together in bunches like grapes.

Huo Ying counted them and found that one potato turned into twelve in less than a minute.

Moreover, compared with the potatoes that were so small that one could hold one fist before, the twelve new potatoes looked nutritious, round and full, and each one was half the size of a fist bigger than the previous one.

From germination to fruit ripening, Huo Ying only consumed two-fifths of the air column.

Including the consumption of firewood, Huo Ying still has two-fifths of energy left in his body, and the chakra is still recovering automatically.

"There is enough food. Safety should be the priority for now."

Even though it was not yet dark, Huo Ying still lit a piece of firewood.

He was not sure whether the firewood could drive away the corpse ghost, but Huo Ying saw how much Zhang Yuqi valued the Yang Stone, so he placed the Yang Stone next to the fire and kept roasting it until it was red.

Poplar wood and yang stone are double protection. No matter which one is useful, it can increase Huo Ying's hope of survival.

(End of this chapter)