123: Heart of Plants

“Awesome!”

Seeing that the attack was effective, Mu Feng was overjoyed.

After entering the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could finally unleash the full power of the Azure Dragon Flag.

Whether it was close combat or long-range attack!

“Retrieve!”

After a successful strike, Mu Feng grabbed his palm, and the silver spear stuck in the Willow Tree Spirit's body immediately returned to his hand.

Just as he was about to press his advantage, the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit's green flying leaves attacked first.

With no other option, Mu Feng had to pull out the Qingguang Mirror for defense.

After Foundation Establishment, the power of the Qingguang Mirror also increased significantly.

Dealing with Spells from the same Foundation Establishment Stage basically consumed very little Magical Power.

Moreover, the range of its illumination had also become larger.

“Condense!”

With a flash of green light, all the leaves that swept towards him immediately solidified in mid-air.

This thing was truly useful for combat.

While Mu Feng pulled out the small mirror for defense, on the other side, the severely injured Willow Tree Spirit had retracted all its branches and was now rooted underground, absorbing energy to heal itself.

In less than a moment, the areas on its body that had been pierced by the silver spear recovered visibly to the naked eye.

“What astonishing recovery ability!”

Mu Feng exclaimed.

“No, I can’t let it continue to recover, otherwise, it will be difficult to deal with once it's at full health!”

He had painstakingly inflicted heavy damage on the opponent.

If he let the opponent recover completely, it would be very troublesome to deal with them again.

“Go, attack!”

The Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit’s flying leaf attack was still ongoing, and he couldn't simultaneously control two top-grade Magical Artifacts.

He could only order the Puppet Giant Apes below to attack the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit.

He, on the other hand, simultaneously fended off the opponent's flying leaf attacks while activating the Cloud Stepping Boots and Flying Talisman, circling back to the front of the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit.

“Thump, thump, thump!”

The two Foundation Establishment Puppet Giant Apes swung their iron fists, hammering the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit.

However, the effect was very mediocre.

The branches of this Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit were too strong defensively.

The Puppet Giant Apes' damage was insufficient to break through its defense.

The damage they caused was less than the energy it absorbed.

“Hmph!”

“Break for me!”

Mu Feng waved his palm.

More than twenty almost-solid Verdant Sword Mangs immediately slashed towards the branches of the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit that were rooted underground!

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Under Mu Feng's full-power attack, the sword light easily severed the Willow Tree Spirit's rooted branches!

With its branches severed, the Willow Tree Spirit's injuries worsened.

“Thump! Thump! Thump!”

Without energy to recover, the attacks of the two Puppet Giant Apes became deadly.

Every punch caused real damage.

“Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!”

Mu Feng provided the sound effects for them.

At the same time, he distanced himself from the Willow Tree Spirit to prevent a desperate counterattack.

Anyway, this Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit was already at the end of its rope; even if he didn't intervene, these two Puppet Giant Apes could easily deal with it.

“Wuwu…”

After taking another punch, the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit could no longer hold on.

It let out a painful wail, then crashed to the ground.

Completely dead.

After letting the Puppet Giant Apes confirm that the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit was completely dead, he slowly flew over.

“Well done!”

Mu Feng praised.

These two Puppet Giant Apes were quite useful.

It was just a bit strenuous to control them simultaneously.

“I need to quickly Cultivate the Divine Origin Skill to the second layer, otherwise, having a treasure trove of items but being unable to unleash their full power is too frustrating.”

If his Divine Sense were stronger, he could have performed four or even five-line operations just now.

He could have simultaneously focused on commanding the two Puppet Giant Apes to attack, used the Qingguang Mirror to defend against the green flying leaves, and continued to assist in the attack with the Azure Dragon Flag and Azure Origin Sword Light.

“Fortunately, with these essences of vegetation, I’ve finally gathered all the Materials for the Soul Cleansing Pill!”

Mu Feng dispelled the effect of the Flying Talisman.

He landed and squatted down to collect the corpses of the Essence Spirits he had killed.

[System Notification: essence of vegetation x1]

[System Notification: essence of vegetation x1]

[System Notification: essence of vegetation x1]

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In a short while, Mu Feng had nine green orbs in his hand.

These were the essences of vegetation he had been searching for.

With these nine essences of vegetation, he now had twenty-one in total.

That was completely enough to refine the Soul Cleansing Pill.

After putting all the green orbs into his Storage Pouch, Mu Feng walked towards where the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit had fallen.

He looked expectant.

“I wonder what a Foundation Establishment Stage Essence Spirit will drop!”

When he first entered, the red prompt said that killing this Willow Tree Spirit could yield a wood heart.

He didn't know the difference between this wood heart and the essence of vegetation.

With curiosity, Mu Feng squatted down and began to collect from the corpse of the Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit.

[System Notification: wood heart x1]

[System Notification: millennial willow wood x5]

[System Notification: millennium willow fluid x300ml]

Mu Feng collected a total of three items.

They were a green spherical orb, five tree trunks glowing with golden light, and 300ml of green liquid.

“This should be the wood heart.”

“It looks quite similar to the essence of vegetation, but it’s more condensed and solid.”

Mu Feng first picked up the green orb and squeezed it; it was very resilient.

It was somewhat like a Yao Beast's inner core, but softer than a Yao Beast's inner core.

[wood heart: Obtained after killing a Essence Spirit that has formed from vegetation at or above the Foundation Establishment Stage in the Cave World. It can be used to promote spiritual plant growth to a thousand years. Besides this, it has other uses.]

“Holy crap, it can promote thousand-year spiritual plant growth!”

Mu Feng was ecstatic!

One must know that the effects of spiritual plant changed every ten, hundred, and thousand years.

The older the spiritual plant, the more valuable it was, and the better its medicinal effects.

Many Advanced Medicinal Pills in the Cultivation world required spiritual plant that were over a thousand years old.

But the previous essence of vegetation could only promote growth up to one hundred years.

After a hundred years, it would stop growing.

This had greatly frustrated Mu Feng at the time.

He had even thought that all future Spiritual Plant could only be grown to a hundred years.

Now, with this wood heart, if needed in the future, he could promote some important spiritual plant to a thousand years.

This was very crucial.

After carefully putting away the wood heart, Mu Feng felt delighted and continued to look at the remaining items.

[millennial willow wood: wood cut from the main trunk of a Thousand-Year Willow Tree Spirit. It is incredibly tough and can be used to refine Advanced Puppets or directly integrated into finished Puppets to increase their flexibility.]

“Materials for refining Advanced Puppets?”

“And it can even be directly integrated into finished Puppets!”

“That’s great, good stuff!”

This item was good.

He would study it later to see how to integrate it into the Puppet's body.

He would prioritize using it for Little Lizard.

If there was any left, he could add some to these two Puppet Giant Apes as well.

In Mu Feng's heart, Little Lizard's status was higher than that of these two Puppet Giant Apes.

Moreover, Little Lizard's plasticity was much higher than these two Puppet Giant Apes.

These two Puppet Giant Apes could only ever be at the Foundation Establishment Stage.

But Little Lizard was different.

He was a growth-type mutated Puppet.

As long as he found the Materials for it, it could continue to grow.

“I wonder how Little Lizard is doing now.”

Only a day and a half had passed.

Little Lizard still needed to sleep for over thirty more hours before waking up.

He hoped that when it woke up again, it would have entered the ranks of Advanced Puppets.

After playing with them for a while longer, Mu Feng placed these millennial willow wood into his Storage Ring.

These were all Materials that could enhance Little Lizard's combat power.

They were very important.

After putting away the millennial willow wood, Mu Feng looked at the last item.

The last item was a green liquid. Mu Feng picked it up, and a refreshing fragrance immediately wafted towards him.

“Hmm?”

“How come I feel my Magical Power has recovered a bit?”

“Is it a misconception?”

“Or is it…?”

After entering Foundation Establishment, Mu Feng's control over Magical Power also became more proficient.

He had only picked it up and smelled it, and the Magical Power he had lost during the previous battle had actually recovered a bit.

This greatly surprised Mu Feng.

He became even more curious about the effects of this millennium willow fluid.

And, he vaguely had some conjectures and expectations in his heart.

[millennium willow fluid: A spiritual liquid drawn from the ground by a thousand-year willow tree. Drinking it can immediately heal injuries and restore Magical Power.]

“Heals injuries and restores Magical Power!!!”

“Indeed!!”

When he felt his Magical Power recover just by smelling it, Mu Feng immediately had a guess.

But when he truly saw its effects, Mu Feng couldn't help but feel excited.

Such a Heaven And Earth Treasure that could instantly restore Magical Power in battle was truly too rare!

Any one of them was a rare find.

He hadn't expected this millennium willow fluid to also have this effect.

Moreover, its effect was even stronger than he had imagined!

Not only could it restore Magical Power, but it could also heal injuries.

How could he not be excited by this?

“I wonder how effective the recovery is?”

“Let’s try it.”

Mu Feng curiously dipped a finger into it and put it into his mouth.

Soon, a vast spiritual power spread from his mouth, surging into his Dantian to restore and replenish the Magical Power he had lost earlier.

In just a few seconds, more than half of the Magical Power he had consumed earlier had recovered.

“This effect is good!”

“Just one drop can recover so much!”

Mu Feng's eyes lit up.

The Magical Power recovery effect of this millennium willow fluid was even stronger than he had imagined.

Just one drop recovered most of the lost Magical Power.

Mu Feng estimated that about ten milliliters would be enough to bring his Magical Power from exhaustion back to full.

There were three hundred milliliters here.

In other words, these millennium willow fluids were enough for him to restore Magical Power thirty times in battle.

Note, these thirty times were the number of times after his Magical Power was completely depleted.

If he used it sparingly, using it fifty or sixty times was not impossible!

This was simply too powerful.

With this, he would no longer have to worry about prolonged battles in the future.

He could confidently unleash the full power of the Magical Artifacts in his hand.

His combat power would increase by at least several layers.

Just like today, if he had had the millennium willow fluid earlier, he could have used the Azure Dragon Flag to cast a powerful move right away.

He wouldn't have to worry about unexpected events after running out of Magical Power.

Fighting without worries—that would definitely boost his strength by more than just a little.

“Awesome!”

“It’s a good thing I insisted on choosing this Secret Realm, otherwise, missing out on such a treasure would have made me miserable for days.”

Mu Feng secretly congratulated himself for persevering in the end.

Otherwise, the loss would have been huge.