Immortal Clan: I have a Tree of Creation

Wang Shuzhen is pregnant!

Zhou Chengnan was both surprised and delighted.

Several years later, the couple had another baby.

From Zhou Chengnan's own perspective, he really wanted to have more children.

Now the Zhou family has escaped the dire situation of not having enough to eat and has the resources to raise more children.

The more children a tree has, the more fruit it will bear.

With the spiritual root green fruit pearl of the third brother Zhou Yuanqing as a precedent, the Creation Tree will surely bring even more amazing benefits in the future.

However, in the past few years, due to family circumstances and the fact that his wife had already given birth to three children and needed to recuperate, he was unable to continue his work.

Zhou Chengnan never mentioned wanting to have more children, and he was very careful and attentive in his daily life.

To everyone's surprise, the fourth child arrived.

Regardless, this is definitely a good thing.

Zhou Chengnan took this very seriously, forbidding his wife from entering the kitchen again and taking over all the miscellaneous tasks himself.

They even hired a skilled cook to be in charge of the Zhou family's three meals a day.

This is the first time in many years that the Zhou family has hired a servant.

The three children in the family are very happy and are very excited to welcome the little brother or sister who will be coming into their mother's belly.

Zhou Yuanyu was the most thoughtful. In addition to serving tea and water, he often accompanied his mother on outings to relax.

With another child on the way, Zhou Chengnan felt the pressure.

If the "fourth one" that is about to be brought along also has spiritual roots... that would truly be a happy burden.

The autumn harvest is over, and there's no shortage of manpower in the county town, so there aren't many jobs available.

Although the family has enough food for the time being, they have also saved some money.

However, mindful of potential dangers even in times of peace, Zhou Chengnan was still unwilling to remain idle.

While the rice seedlings in the fields didn't need any care, he prepared his gear and went up the mountain to collect medicinal herbs.

Anshan County is built against the mountains, and you can enter Anshan a few miles north of Jinyang Village.

The mountains are rich in resources, and people can gather herbs, cut firewood, and hunt in the deep mountains, which has supported many people.

While claiming to be gathering medicinal herbs, Zhou Chengnan was actually mainly digging for Solomon's seal and yam.

And incidentally, see if you can find some wild ginseng, lingzhi or the like.

He didn't know much about medicinal herbs, and he didn't recognize many of the rare herbs, even if they were right in front of him.

On the contrary, the Solomon's seal and yam, which are buried deep in the soil, are easier to dig up.

After years of honing his skills, Zhou Chengnan has become adept at collecting medicinal herbs in the mountains.

Entering the mountain from the north, it's easy to determine where there's more Solomon's seal and where venomous snakes are found.

Normally, one could simply dig up some Solomon's seal and yam and bring them out of the mountains.

But today, to nourish my wife's body, the requirements are naturally higher.

It took half a day for Zhou Chengnan to fill his basket with only four or five pieces of Polygonatum odoratum, all of which were of excellent quality and size.

Besides that, we dug up quite a few yams.

Wild yam grown in the mountains is considered a nourishing delicacy, no less valuable than ordinary ginseng.

It's a pity that these things don't fetch a good price in Anshan County; otherwise, making a living by clearing the mountains would be a decent option.

Zhou Chengnan pulled a ginseng root, only as thick as his little finger, from the soil, patted it off, and said with some regret, "This ginseng is too small; it's not even enough for making soup."

"Fine, I'll let you go." He shook his head, bent down and dug into the soil, preparing to rebury the ginseng.

Unexpectedly, after digging a couple of times, I felt something was wrong.

Several rootlets sprouted from the soil... they were ginseng roots!

"Wait... there's a big shipment!" Zhou Chengnan immediately realized.

Pick up the shovel and dig quickly to break up the soil.

More roots appeared, and soon the main body of the ginseng was revealed.

Good heavens, this is the first time Zhou Chengnan has ever seen such a large ginseng.

The main body alone is larger than a palm, with three palmate compound leaves growing on it, and its roots are incredibly abundant.

"I've hit the jackpot today!" He exclaimed, holding the freshly dug ginseng, his heart filled with joy.

Anshan County relies on the mountains for its livelihood, so the prices of mountain products are indeed not high.

However, these aged wild ginsengs can still fetch extremely high prices. After all, medicinal herbs like hundred-year-old ginseng and thousand-year-old lingzhi mushrooms are considered spiritual medicines, suitable for cultivators to use in alchemy.

Zhou Chengnan examined it carefully, but even with his keen eyesight, he could hardly discern the specific quality of this ginseng.

However, it can be confirmed that it is at least over fifty years old.

"Great! We're one step closer to Qing'er's cultivation!"

Every year, countless people go into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs. The area around Anshan has been thoroughly searched, so it is really not easy to find an old ginseng.

According to the normal market price in Anshan County, a fifty-year-old ginseng can sell for over a hundred taels of silver.

If the item is over a hundred years old, the supply will be even more insufficient to meet the demand.

Zhou Chengnan was overjoyed and ended his herb gathering early, packing up the ginseng and preparing to head home.

The mountain path is rugged, and even martial arts practitioners must be extremely careful.

From the forest ahead, the sounds of grass and trees rustling together could be heard one after another.

It seems... something is moving around.

"A wild animal?" Zhou Chengnan raised an eyebrow, then carefully drew his machete from behind his back.

Anshan is no small hill; it's not uncommon to find animals in its deep forests.

Relying on his martial arts skills, Zhou Chengnan ventured slightly deeper into the mountains.

He had explored this area before and found no trace of large wild beasts.

But today, it seems his luck has run out.

Amidst a corner of the forest ahead, yellow and white stripes flashed by.

Zhou Chengnan was stunned. He immediately realized what he had encountered.

His whole body tensed up, and he instantly assumed a defensive stance.

—A tiger! There's a tiger in the mountains!

Sure enough, the huge tiger's head popped out again.

His forehead was adorned with a prominent "king" character, his mouth was filled with sharp, bloody teeth, and his golden eyes were devoid of emotion, radiating a terrifyingly fierce light.

"Oh no..." Zhou Chengnan's heart sank to the bottom.

He quickly calculated his battle strategy in his mind.

The fourth realm of martial arts, Bone Refinement, possesses immense power, with strength reaching hundreds of kilograms, making it easy for one person to fight ten strong men alone.

But now we're not facing people, we're facing tigers, the king of the mountains!

Regardless of past or present lives, the tiger has always been a symbol of power and might.

Without armor, Zhou Chengnan had no confidence whatsoever that he could defeat the tiger in the mountains.

"This place is uneven; we can use the terrain to our advantage to avoid its attacks..."

His eyes gleamed as he calculated every possibility.

Their only advantage seems to be their family's martial arts technique, "Tiger Subduing Skill".

The martial art "Tiger Subduing Fist," which comes with "Tiger Subduing Skill," is a technique created by predecessors who subdued fierce tigers.

It might be surprisingly effective against a real tiger.

Zhou Chengnan met the tiger's eyes, and a surge of insights arose in his heart. His fist technique seemed to be instantly mastered.

"I can blow its eyes out!"

Just then.

Click click click...

A sound of dry branches and leaves being crushed came from the forest ahead.

The tiger reacted incredibly quickly, leaping up suddenly.

They darted into the deep mountains, and soon a mournful howl could be heard.

—It's a wild boar

Fortunately, the tiger's target was not itself, but a wild boar in the mountains!

Zhou Chengnan felt a chill run down his spine and, without daring to delay, leaped down the mountain several times.

The fourth level of the Tiger Subduing Technique has reached the Great Perfection of the Bone Refining Realm, and there are faint signs that it is about to break through.