114: Chapter 114 Extracting from the Mother Plant

Spiritless Ruins, Fourth Underground Level, the deepest part of the ecological planting zone.

The dark red mutated Mother Plant was like a massive heart, pulsating violently amidst pools of blood and white bones.

It sensed the thunderous killing intent on Gu Shen's blade.

Boom.

From a gaping crack in the Mother Plant, hundreds upon thousands of pale wood thorns poured out like a rainstorm.

The surface of every wood thorn was quenched in a highly toxic acid capable of melting Magical Artifacts.

"Master, high-frequency kinetic strike!" Crab's startled shout rang out from his shoulder.

Gu Shen's eyes were like ice.

Instead of retreating, he advanced. He raised his left hand.

Hum!

The ash-gray black turtle shield instantly expanded, transforming into a thick stone wall half a person tall, blocking firmly in front of him.

Bang, bang, bang!

The dense sound of impacts was like a rapid drumbeat.

The wood thorns carried terrifying kinetic energy, slamming fiercely against the face of the shield.

The top-grade Magical Artifact, infused with stone armor essence, erupted with dazzling earthy-yellow spiritual light, forcefully deflecting all the wood thorns.

A massive counter-shock force surged in along his arm. Inside Gu Shen's body, his dark golden iron bones emitted a muffled low hum, discharging all of this force into the mud beneath his feet.

Two deep pits were stomped into the ground.

The moment the rain of wood thorns ceased.

"It's my turn."

Gu Shen exerted force with his legs, and his entire body, like a cannonball fired from its chamber, charged out fiercely.

The Mother Plant was enraged.

Five dark red main root stems, each requiring three people to embrace, whipped out from the ground with a piercing sound, like five mad pythons, sealing off all of Gu Shen's paths.

Gu Shen did not swing his blade.

He suddenly splayed the five fingers of his left hand.

"Soul-Pulling Threads!"

Three extremely yin, transparent threads, difficult to discern with the naked eye, shot out instantly.

The threads crisscrossed in mid-air, like an invisible cutting net, strangling toward those five thick main root stems.

Chila!

The edge capable of cutting gold and severing jade, under the enhancement of the extremely yin energy, sliced through the Mother Plant's tough epidermis without any resistance.

The three main root stems snapped simultaneously in mid-air, and foul-smelling green sap sprayed out like a waterfall.

"Screech—!"

The Mother Plant let out an extremely sharp wail. Its massive trunk twisted violently, and the remaining two main root stems whipped madly toward Gu Shen.

Gu Shen was in mid-air, with nowhere to dodge.

He had absolutely no intention of dodging.

"Soul-Shocking Spike!"

In his Sea of Consciousness, a transparent spike shot out with a boom, plunging directly into the gaping, pulsating core crack of the Mother Plant.

The mutated plant's intelligence was extremely low, possessing only a pure instinct to devour. But under this strike specialized in severing Divine Sense, that instinctual consciousness instantly fell into a brief blankness.

The two whipping main root stems suddenly stiffened in mid-air.

Taking advantage of this moment of stagnation.

Gu Shen gripped the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade tightly with both hands, his magic power surging wildly, and the power of his Thunder Bone erupted completely.

Zhing!

The blinding, deep blue thunder light illuminated the entire dark dome.

Gu Shen, like a thunder god cleaving through Chaos, descended from the sky and slashed fiercely into the core roots at the very bottom of the Mother Plant!

That was its lifeblood, connecting to the underground toxic water pipe network!

Ch— Boom!

The top-grade fierce gold severed the roots, and the violent Thunder-Magnetic Force exploded inside the Mother Plant.

The extremely rigid and yang thunder raged wildly along its massive body, burning all the internal toxins and mutated tissues into charcoal.

Bang.

The massive, ten-zhang-tall Mother Plant collapsed with a crash.

Having lost its core support, the surrounding mutated blood vines, which were previously violent, seemed to have been drained of their vitality, wilting and collapsing to the ground one after another.

Gu Shen landed, propping himself up with his long saber, panting heavily.

Consecutive use of Soul-Pulling Threads and Soul-Shocking Spike had consumed a vast amount of magic power and Divine Sense. But the fervor in his eyes was palpable.

"Master is mighty! Its vital signs have completely vanished!" Crab's voice rang out at the right moment.

Gu Shen did not waste words.

He walked quickly to the massive wreckage of the severed Mother Plant.

From the severed surface of the wreckage, extremely thick, sticky fluid emitting a blinding green light was seeping out.

Within it contained terrifying world-extinguishing poisonous light, but it also concealed the most massive life Origin of this ecological zone.

Gu Shen pressed one hand onto the wreckage.

"Refine."

Boom!

Deep in his Sea of Consciousness, the [Heaven and Earth Furnace] emitted an extremely vast and ancient resonant sound.

The pale white flames of the rules, like an inverted sea bowl, instantly engulfed this hill-like wreckage of the Mother Plant.

This was an extremely massive refinement.

The Mother Plant's body was too large, and it had absorbed too much world-extinguishing poisonous light from underground. Gu Shen's complexion turned pale bit by bit, his Divine Sense being severely squeezed.

Without hesitation, he took out a drop of essence white dew (inferior) and a drop of soul nourishing dew from his Storage Ring.

He swallowed them simultaneously.

With his magic power and Divine Sense replenished, Gu Shen held on firmly to the operation of the Great Furnace.

A full hour passed.

The massive wreckage in front of him turned into ashes filling the sky.

At the bottom of the furnace, three things remained.

Gu Shen opened his eyes, waved his large sleeve, and took the refined items into his palm.

First were ten droplets emitting a faint glow.

[Obtained: 3 drops of essence white dew (medium).]

Next was a fist-sized black crystal, like charcoal.

[Obtained: Mother Plant Poison Wood Crystal. Top-grade poison-type spiritual material. Contains high concentrations of world-extinguishing poisonous light and wood-type toxins.]

Finally.

Gu Shen's gaze was fixed firmly on the mass of liquid floating in mid-air.

It was a large mass of dark green liquid, as crystal clear as jade and as viscous as mercury. No poisonous light leaked out, only vegetation vitality that was pure to the extreme.

The quantity was too large.

It was more than ten times the amount refined from the vines earlier!

Gu Shen immediately took out three empty large jade bottles.

He used his magic power to guide it.

That massive mass of mutated wood marrow was divided equally into three parts and dropped into the bottles. It completely filled three jade bottles!

[Obtained: Top-grade mutated wood marrow.]

Holding these three heavy jade bottles, a smile finally curled on the corner of Gu Shen's mouth.

"Enough."

"This massive amount of mutated wood marrow is not only enough to etch the spirit pivot array patterns for those fifteen Iron Corpse Puppets, but there will even be plenty left over to serve as a foundation for me to Cultivate the Bone Refining Art."

Scarcity of resources in the Cultivation World?

Here, he was an upstart sitting on the entire world.

Gu Shen solemnly stored the jade bottles and the Poison Wood Crystal into his Storage Ring.

He turned around and glanced at the Fourth Underground Level ecological zone, which had completely turned into a dead zone.

Without the Mother Plant, only a pile of withered wood that had lost its vitality remained here, devoid of any value.

"Let's go. Back to the first level."

Gu Shen picked up his saber, the dark light flowing on his shadow shoes.

Following the slag discharge shaft he had come from, Gu Shen climbed upwards all the way.

When he returned to the first-level hall, the three simple armored puppets were still tirelessly moving the scrap metal in the ground area.

Everything was orderly.

Gu Shen did not disturb them and went straight back to the security room on the second underground level that he had sealed off.

Gu Shen sat cross-legged on the cold floor.

He did not rest.

The gate to the Myriad Insect Tomb had already opened, and the death trap of Wei Lingfeng and the Blood Fiend Sect was right before him. He had no time to waste.

He waved his large sleeve.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Fifteen broken Iron Corpse Puppets were lined up in the secret room.

Their hollow eye sockets stared directly at the dome, like a legion of the dead waiting to be awakened.

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

He flipped his left hand, and a jade bottle filled with mutated wood marrow landed beside him.

He slightly splayed the ten fingers of his right hand.

Three transparent, extremely yin Soul-Pulling Threads silently drilled out along his finger bones.

"The array diagram as the bone, the wood marrow as the blood."

A sharp light exploded in Gu Shen's eyes.

The Soul-Pulling Threads, like an extremely precise scalpel, pierced into the chest of the first Iron Corpse.

The Thousand Mechanisms Spirit Pivot Array Diagram spun rapidly in his mind. Gu Shen discarded the cumbersome formalities of the Cultivation World and, with the extremely rough and practical industrial logic of the Wasteland, quickly etched energy circuits onto the bones of the Iron Corpse.

One. Two. Three.

Inside the secret room, there were only the extremely faint sounds of bone etching, and the muffled sound like a heart pulsating when the mutated wood marrow dripped into the array slots.