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

Chapter 8 Accumulation
Boiling water is a little easier than filtering water.

Put some soil on the bottom of the wooden barrel, and then put the barrel on the fire burning poplar wood to cook.

The barrel will be burned black, but because there is water inside it, it will not ignite.

According to Zhang Yuqi, Huo Ying put two yang stones in the bucket.

Sensing the heat from the fire, the yang stone slowly turned red, and some extremely faint bubbles gurgled out of the bucket, and then everything became completely calm. After about five minutes, the water began to boil.

Huo Ying tore off a thread from his clothes and threw it into the bucket. This time, the thread floated calmly on the water.

"Finally we got some water!"

After mastering this method, Huo Ying can get unlimited water. With Wood Release, Huo Ying also has unlimited potatoes. With food and drink, Huo Ying does not need to worry about food and water problems for the time being.

When it got dark, Huo Ying lit a fire, hugged five red yang stones, and went to sleep in the cellar.

The black fog and flying insects could not enter the house at all in the face of sufficient firelight, and the corpse ghost that attacked Huo Ying before had disappeared and did not come to harass him tonight.

At dawn, Huo Ying was the first to sense the sacred tree in his mind.

[Sacred Tree]

【Planting period】

[Progress: 6%]

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

After one night, the progress of the sacred tree only increased by 1%.

"It seems that progress increases with time. If it increases by 1% every day, it will take a hundred days to upgrade the sacred tree. This is too long!"

Huo Ying had only been in this world for two days. The normal progress of the sacred tree should be 2%, but where did the extra 4% come from?

If Huo Ying did anything, it was to attack the corpse ghost twice. Could it be that the sacred tree can absorb nutrients from the corpse ghost, and every time it hits the corpse ghost, the progress of the sacred tree will increase by 2%?

"Should I go kill Gui?"

Huo Ying shook his head and gave up this idea. Even if the sacred tree could absorb nutrients from the corpse ghosts, Huo Ying had no intention of hunting them now.

The most urgent task is to survive, slowly figure out the rules of this world, and then take action.

The air column had been half restored, and Huo Ying built a cover on the wooden frame of the cellar. The cover and the wooden frame were integrated, leaving only a small door.

Huo Ying put all the potatoes, firewood and buckets into the cellar, and then covered the cellar with a layer of loess on the wooden frame.

After cleaning up the traces in the room, it was noon. Ding, Huo Ying saw a red yang stone stuck in the window gap, and then he also burned a red yang stone in response.

Zhang Yuqi was outside the window. Seeing that Huo Ying was fine, Zhang Yuqi came to the front door of the house.

Taking a look at the pile of mud that Huo Ying had piled up, Zhang Yuqi shook her head helplessly: "Did you try to burn charcoal?"

Without waiting for Huo Ying to explain, Zhang Yuqi said to herself, "You failed. The few poplar trees you have are not enough. If you want to try something next time, ask me and I can tell you the pros and cons."

Huo Ying thought of many reasons to explain, but none of them worked. Zhang Yuqi automatically concluded that Huo Ying had failed after wasting a few pieces of firewood.

This is better.

Huo Ying smiled bitterly: "I just vaguely recalled something, so I tried to see if I could get my memory back." "So what did you remember?"

"No, I failed to even make charcoal, what can I remember."

Huo Ying once again emphasized his amnesiac character, especially when Zhang Yuqi thought he failed in making charcoal, which became a strong evidence.

Zhang Yuqi nodded: "Don't waste firewood next time. Amnesia is a disease. Sister Bai will treat you when she finds a way."

It’s better not to use Sister Bai to treat it.

Huo Ying couldn't help shuddering when he thought of Sister Bai's dirty nails.

Seeing Huo Ying's reaction, Zhang Yuqi was confused: "Sister Bai, she is not a bad person. Didn't you see it yesterday? She has a sharp tongue but a soft heart."

"Of course I know." Huo Ying quickly changed the subject. He believed that Sister Bai was not a bad person. He just couldn't accept that the doctor didn't wash his hands.

"Where do the zombies hide during the day? If I go out, I should be careful and avoid them."

Huo Ying asked for the coordinates of the corpse ghost and went to the low mountain yesterday. He had a safe journey and did not encounter any corpse ghost.

"The Corpse Haunter hides in the shadows during the day, usually in uninhabited houses."

"Before, there were many people in the town. In order to ensure the safety of the road to the low mountain, they gathered people during the day, holding torches and sun stones, and burned all the houses on the road. That's why we didn't see any corpse ghosts yesterday."

Huo Ying interrupted Zhang Yuqi: "Since burning down houses is effective, why not burn down all unoccupied houses?"

Zhang Yuqi had a bitter expression: "Everyone thought so at the time, but at night, all the living people encountered crazy attacks from the zombies. And not only were there zombies, but there were also several infected creatures controlled by the zombies."

"Only those who had enough Yang Stone and Poplar Wood stored in their homes survived. The rest of them were attacked by the zombies at all costs. They used up all their flames and Yang Stone before dawn, and were finally devoured by the zombies who broke into their houses and became new zombies."

"The corpse ghosts hold grudges. Since that incident, every year on that day, the corpse ghosts will attack the people in the town like crazy. This is also the reason why the population of the town is decreasing."

"Some of them ran away, and some of them hid away and will come back after the zombie riot is over."

Huo Ying was sweating profusely after hearing this: "The fewer people there are in the town, the easier it will be to die on the day the zombies riot, right?"

If there are too many people, the zombies will disperse. If there are too few people, a large group of zombies will only attack a few houses, so wouldn't the houses be consumed faster?

"When will the zombie riot happen?"

Huo Ying thought of Sister Bai's distressed look when she saw him taking away the supplies, and of Zhang Yuqi's resentment when she saw him burning charcoal, and for a moment he had some bad guesses.

"The people in the town burned down their houses on the hottest day, which was the first day of the middle dog days. The day before yesterday was the Lesser Heat, and there were still sixteen days until the middle dog days."

There are only a few days left!

Zhang Yuqi saw that Huo Ying was nervous and comforted him, "The corpse ghosts are not that scary. With the Yang Stone and the flame, the corpse ghosts can't just rush into the house to kill people. They can only use illusions to trick people out, or exhaust human resources before they can enter the house."

"The only thing that's difficult to deal with is the infected controlled by the corpse ghosts. They don't have so many rules, but don't worry, I'm here. If the infected rushes in, I can just chop it to death."

Zhang Yuqi gained strength from the infection and was not afraid of the infectious agent before the outbreak.

"Have you ever considered leaving the town?" Huo Ying wanted to leave, but he couldn't. The protection range of the sacred tree was only ten kilometers. If he left the sacred tree, all his abilities would disappear. Even if he didn't get back in time, the sacred tree would wither.

"There are not many people in the town." Zhang Yuqi looked at Huo Ying seriously. "It's the end of the world now. In places with few people, we only need to beware of monsters. But if we leave the town and go to a big city, we need to beware of humans."

(End of this chapter)