The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 110 Mysterious Rebirth
The man lying on the ground had blood on his face, his hands and feet were pierced by chains, his collarbone was also bound by a huge dark red chain, and a stone ring was tightly fastened around his neck. His chest, abdomen and legs were all bound by crisscrossing iron chains, firmly imprisoning him on the ground.

Ling Chengen looked at the dried bloodstains on the ground, slowly squatted down, and touched the bloodstains on the ground with his fingertips.

Judging from the state and color of the bloodstains, this person has been trapped here for at least half a month.

Judging from the surrounding environment, there was no food supply.

I don't know how this person survived and persevered for so long.

Ling Chengen tentatively extended her finger, but before she could touch the man's right side of his neck, the blood-covered man suddenly opened his eyes and stared at her like a demon.

She paused, then brought the tinderbox in her hand close to his cheek.

The man immediately closed his eyes and turned his head to the side to avoid the blinding light of the fire.

But after a few seconds, he turned his head back.

In the dim light of the fire, Ling Chengen saw a pair of very clear green eyes.

"Who are you? How did you end up locked up here?" Ling Chengen asked.

The man stared at her, his gaze somewhat slow, and after a long while he slowly opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Ling Chengen frowned as he looked at his still-open mouth and discovered that his tongue had also been cut off.

The person who imprisoned him here was truly cruel, showing how deeply they hated him.

"I know you can't speak, so shut your mouth."

Ling Chengen squatted down beside him, quietly observing him.

She was also hesitant about whether or not to save this person.

If we actually save a wicked villain, that would be a real problem.

But this person could also be the victim of deliberate abuse and revenge... If left unattended, they might die in half a day.

"I'll ask you a few questions. If you answer yes, blink once; if you don't, blink twice."

"Understand?"

The man then blinked.

My brain still works, so it seems we can continue communicating.

"Are you a bad person?"

Ling Chengen's first question completely stumped the person in front of him.

A bad guy?
It seems so, but it also seems not to be.

No matter which answer you choose, they all seem fake.

So he didn't blink.

Ling Chengen stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "Then, next question. What's your special ability? Metal-based?"

He blinked twice.

"Fire element?"

Two more times.

"Wood type?"

This time, the person only blinked once.

Ling Chengen was slightly taken aback. He looked up and surveyed his surroundings. He hadn't had time to observe them before, but upon closer inspection, he could see that many inconspicuous plants were growing in the cracks of the stone walls. The ground was slightly damp because the leaves of these plants were covered with tiny water droplets.

Several vines climbed onto the rocks above, and the falling water droplets landed perfectly on his face.

Ling Chengen reached out and caught a drop of water, then stuck out the tip of his tongue and licked it.

It's not fresh water; it has a slightly salty taste.

"Your special ability is temporarily unavailable?"

Ling Chengen suddenly thought of a crucial issue.

Logically speaking, someone with superpowers shouldn't be unable to break these chains.

But seeing his miserable state, you can tell that there must be something wrong with his superpower.

Having been imprisoned for so long without regaining his powers is a very serious problem.

The man blinked.

This confirmed her suspicion.

Ling Chengen gave him no chance to resist, placing his fingertips on the exposed skin of his chest, his supernatural power probing into his heart like a hair.

Unlike Chang Tianchen, his heart was intact, and there were no signs of bloodline awakening causing a backlash.

But strangely, the superpower within him was like sand sinking to the bottom of the water, impossible to mobilize or use.

"If I remove the chains binding you, can you guarantee you won't attack me or my companions?"

The man blinked without hesitation.

"Your injuries are very serious. With my current abilities and the strength of our tribe's shaman, we are unable to heal you. Since you possess wood-based abilities, are you capable of healing yourself?"

The man blinked.

Ling Chengen watched him blink, his heart trembling.

It can actually heal itself?
This was quite unexpected for her, which showed that this person's level of supernatural ability was definitely higher than that of the old witch doctor in the stone forest.

Wood-type warriors, especially orcs who can heal, are a very valuable resource on the Beast Plains.

How did things come to this?

Ling Chengen couldn't understand it at all, but seeing that his breathing was getting weaker and weaker, she didn't care about thinking about it anymore and began to remove the stone ring from his neck.

This stone ring must have been made by an earth-type ability user. It didn't leave him much space, making it very difficult to breathe smoothly, but it was just right so that he wouldn't suffocate to death. It was very precisely positioned.

To Ling Chengen, this stone object was like a toy. He gripped the stone ring with his five fingers, his fingertips brushing against the man's neck, which was stained with dark brown blood, and his knuckles pressed against the man's protruding Adam's apple.

"Don't be afraid, it won't hurt you."

Ling Chengen felt the tremor on his skin, his beautiful and sharp eyes curved slightly, and the next second, the stone between his fingers was crushed into powder like a biscuit.

The man's eyes widened slightly, but he didn't reveal any other expression.

After the stone ring around his neck shattered into pieces, he was able to breathe freely, his chest rising and falling, and the sound of his breath coming out of his throat.

Ling Chengen pulled the bone blade out of the ground, pressed down on the corner of his eye, and the blade severed seven or eight chains.

In the end, only the chains worn inside his body remained.

"Should we just cut off these chains that are binding your bones?"

Ling Chengen wasn't quite sure, so he asked him first.

The man nodded silently, then closed his eyes, not even bothering to watch her wield the knife.

Several "crackling" sounds rang out, and the man trembled with pain, letting out a muffled groan.

Seeing the blood seeping out of the wound again, Ling Chengen felt that it was better to suffer a short pain than a long one. He pressed down on the man's body with one hand and pulled the chain off his collarbone with the other.

As blood and rotting flesh fell away, the heavy chains clattered to the ground.

Next, she repeated the process, removing the chains from the other collarbone, as well as the chains from her hands and feet. The whole process felt incredibly long, but it actually took less than ten minutes. However, she was drenched in sweat from the sight of the flesh and blood that had been torn off.

If his special ability is still unusable after the chains are removed.

That means they're probably doomed.

Besides him, there are only two other living people in Xilu Youdi, namely her and Wuzhuo, and neither of them are wood-type, nor do they know how to use instant healing techniques.

After Ling Chengen stopped, he looked at the man lying motionless on the ground with his eyes closed and was unsure whether to move him or not.

"Hey, are you still alive? Should I take you out of here first?"

The man shook his head, opened his eyes, and remained in the position with his limbs outstretched.

But soon, a terrifying force spread out from beneath him.

Ling Chengen instinctively took two steps back, turning his head to look at the rapidly growing plants around him. The leaves were quickly spreading out and growing larger, and even the vines and branches had become extremely thick.

The plants slowly extended to the man, their tentacle-like tips reaching into his wounds. As the plants withered, his wounds gradually began to heal.

Ling Chengen watched for a few minutes and found it uninteresting; at this rate, he was afraid he would have to wait a long time.

She carried the bone blade and retraced her steps, returning to the fork in the road. This time, she headed towards the cave on her right.

This time, we quickly emerged from the passage, and the view suddenly opened up before us.

After the system indicated that she had reached the most suitable location to dig a salt well, there was no further activity.

Ling Chengen looked at the terrain and found that the land was flat and the overall environment was better than the other side of the passage.

If that's the sky burial area, this place is more like a paradise.

After spreading his spiritual power, Ling Chengen found no remains.

You can even hear the sound of spring water flowing into the distance.

"The water seeping from the cracks in the stone wall where the imprisoned man was just now was salty."

"So, there are salt springs here?"

The system remained silent.

Ling Chengen touched his ear: "Do you still want the mission points for the next time?"

"If you keep trying to fool me, you'll lose what little trust I have left."

The system said unhappily, "I didn't lie to you. You were the one who asked me where the best place to dig salt wells was, and I already told you."

Ling Chengen had already figured out the little linguistic trap: "You mean salt wells that must be dug and brine extracted manually."

"But actually, there are artesian wells here, right?"

"There is an artesian well, but the brine content of that salt spring is not high. You just tasted it; it only has a slightly salty taste."

Ling Chengen did not believe it; the salt water had seeped through layers of water and may have already been partially filtered out.

"Anyway, the place I've designated for you is absolutely the most suitable place for mining salt wells, and the brine below is of very high quality. Moreover, this location is also very secluded. If you build a salt well crane here and then expand the cave in front of it, you can completely achieve on-site brine extraction and refining."

Ling Chengen knew the system was right, but she still wanted to see the salt spring, because salt well mining was not so simple.

Moreover, the construction of the derrick is also very troublesome. Generally speaking, the deeper the salt well is dug, the higher the derrick above the wellhead will be.

By then, let alone being hidden, a tall overhead crane building will stand in the desolate Xilu Youdi, and anyone who isn't blind will be able to see it.

It's extremely difficult to hide away and extract salt.

Following the sound of flowing water, Ling Chengen quickly arrived at a group of rocks. Thin white streams emerged from the cracks in the rocks, the water flow appearing very small, flowing down along the crisscrossing lines on the rocks.

"Look, the brine flowing from this artesian salt well is even thinner than a kitten's urine. It'll probably take ages to collect a bucket of raw brine..."

"Drilling wells to extract brine is still the fastest way."

Ling Chengen: "Which do you think is easier, drilling a well or digging an artesian well?"

The system suddenly fell silent.

At dawn, En collected a little bit of the seeping brine and only tasted it slightly.

It was much saltier than the water I tasted in the cave, and much saltier than the sea.

It contains very few heavy metals, making it ideal for refining table salt.

Ling Chengen glanced at the gushing crevice in the rock, took out the iron tools that Lei Sang had refined the day before yesterday from his spatial storage, and began to dig with the tools in hand.

They say that great effort can create miracles.

Ling Chengen chiseled the stone with bold, sweeping strokes, quickly opening up the crevice and making it deeper and deeper.

The brine, which initially flowed slowly, gradually became a large volume and a rapid flow, with the white brine rushing out...

Her hands and feet were soaked, and her skin quickly became wrinkled.

Ling Chengen walked out of the dug pool and picked out the larger pieces of pebbles.

Before I finished what I was doing, I heard footsteps behind me.

She was bending over, using nearby stones to plan the direction of the salt spring's waterway, and said without looking up, "You've come at the right time, come and help!"

The person walked up to her, and seeing her repeating actions, quickly understood her intention and quietly handed her the stone.

"Why have you suddenly become so quiet..." Ling Chengen looked up to his side and suddenly met a pair of calm and reserved dark green eyes. His words stopped abruptly. "Why is it you? Your injury healed so quickly?"

Seeing that she was standing still, the man placed the stone he hadn't handed over next to the stones she had just piled up, washed the grime on his hands in the salt spring, and stared at his blood-stained face, saying, "Your companion is still on the other side of the passage, pulling weeds and burning corpses."

"Are you able to speak?"

The man nodded, his expression calm, and said, "My ability level is relatively high, so I possess some rather special abilities, such as..."

"regeneration."

The lost tongue will grow back; all that's needed is for the superpowers to be restored.

"What's your name?"

The man looked at her face with curiosity; her eyes, though dangerous, revealed a gentle emotion.

“Ling Chengen, I am the young chieftain of the Shilin tribe.”

The man opened his mouth slightly, but in the end he covered his mouth and coughed lightly, saying apologetically, "Sorry, I haven't heard of it."

"Aren't you from the Northern Beast Plains?" Ling Chengen suddenly asked.

The man nodded and said, "I come from the Southern Beast Plains. I killed a few enemies there, so I was chased all the way to the Northern Wilderness. When I was wandering in the southern part of the wilderness, I encountered some beastmen with bad tempers. I didn't like the customs of the tribes there, so I headed north."

"Then how did you end up imprisoned in the Dark Land?"

Although Xiluyou is located in the central region, it actually borders the western region.

This place is very remote.

There is little interaction between the west and the central regions, mainly because the mountains here are continuous, and there are at least a hundred mountains between the secluded areas and the inhabited forests in the west.

"The reason I've ended up like this shouldn't be hard to guess, right?" The thin man sat on a rock not far away, one hand pressing down on his knee. It was clear that he was having difficulty sitting. "I was caught up by my enemies, so this is what happened."

Why didn't they just kill you?

The man suddenly smiled faintly and said, "Perhaps they don't know how to kill me?"