Chapter 94 The Cowardly Beast From Within <TOC> Chapter 96 Deduction of Energy Techniques
Translator: SumTLMan
【Source essence +18.7】
Cedric, struggling on the ground, finally died. Li Mu could feel the joy and excitement coming from the Blade of Annihilation.
A small portion of the scattered source essence was absorbed by the blade.
He hoisted the Blade of Annihilation onto his shoulder and walked towards the greenhouse in the farm.
The remaining armed cultists looked at him with fear. They never expected that the Ten Pines Farm, where the Soul Cult had deployed a large number of forces, would be so effortlessly defeated by a single person.
Li Mu kicked open the door of the greenhouse.
Unlike small farms that use plastic film to build greenhouses, Ten Pines Farm employed a framework structure, covering a large amount of high-transparency low-iron glass, and directly constructed one large greenhouse after another.
Entering it felt like walking into a palace made of crystal.
The air inside the greenhouse was somewhat turbid, filled with the smell of soil, but the radiation dust was gone. The constant slight stinging sensation caused by radiation dust had disappeared.
Large swaths of lush green plants were grown in the palace. This greenhouse was filled with vegetables. The tomatoes were ripe, hanging heavily on the branches.
Celery and cabbage were neatly arranged on the ground, with asparagus nearby.
Li Mu roughly scanned the greenhouse and found that there were about twenty different kinds of vegetables, most of which were not present in the Exile Realm.
He pressed his hand on the ground, and all the vegetables, along with the topsoil, were collected into the Exile Realm.
A wave of dizziness came from his brain.
Loading too many things into the Exile Realm at once still placed a significant burden on the soul.
He checked the other greenhouses, and all the remaining greenhouses were filled with wheat.
Except for one small greenhouse.
Inside, there was a peculiar tree over ten meters tall.
The strange tree somewhat resembled a pine tree, with bark that looked like snake scales and a twisted trunk resembling a large python. Its condition was not very good; the needle-like leaves were drooping and somewhat withered.
Small pinecones hung between the branches.
Li Mu grabbed an armed cultist and entered the greenhouse.
“What kind of tree is this?”
He sensed an unusual aura from this tree, similar to the Giant’s Blood in the Exiled Realm.
The armed follower trembled in fear, barely managing to maintain his sanity.
“This… this is a Soul Pine. The reason why the farm is called the Ten Pines Farm is because the cult discovered ten psychic-endowed pine trees here, their roots entwining the corpse of a monster. A mutation occurred.”
“Eating the pine nuts of the Soul Pine can cleanse the soul and enhance its resilience. Unfortunately, the Soul Pines have been dying one after another in recent years. This last one probably won’t last much longer.”
The Ten Pines Farm was built around the ten pine trees.
Regrettably, the Soul Pine’s pine nuts ripen only once every ten years. The Soul Cult predicted that this Soul Pine would wither and die within three years, so they reduced the defensive power of the Ten Pines Farm. Otherwise, Li Mu wouldn’t have been able to conquer it so easily.
Casually killing the follower with his blade, Li Mu collected the entire Soul Pine into the Exiled Realm.
【Soul Pine: Rated as Rare, a pine tree that grows on the corpses of monster Dream Giants. Its pine nuts can enhance the soul’s resistance to the indescribable, and the high resistance of the Soul Cult’s High Priest’s soul is a significant reason why they can communicate with the Soul Lord Dalopitda without going mad from incomprehensible profound knowledge】
He planted the Soul Pine next to the Giant’s Blood and irrigated it with the Sun Spring.
The pine nuts of the Soul Pine can enhance the soul’s resilience, a very practical effect.
Awakeners using psychic energy put a burden on their souls, especially when using advanced holy relics. Powerful awakeners like Shen Luoyan often find their souls unable to support the burden even if their psychic energy isn’t exhausted yet.
Li Mu collected all the glass in the farm into the Exiled Realm. The value of this low-iron glass is also quite high. Even now, only poor-quality glass can be produced in the Exiled Realm.
The generators and water purification equipment in the farm were also dismantled by Li Mu.
Having completely emptied the Ten Pines Farm, Li Mu set fire to the hay, causing the entire farm to be engulfed in flames. The plumes of smoke could be clearly seen from several kilometers away.
The source essence provided by Cedric and the armed followers allowed him to participate in the lottery once more.
Li Mu first took a bath in the Sun Spring, changed into loose clothes, and then began the lottery.
【Civilian Group 5】
【Civilian Group 5】
【Gemstone Mine: Rated as Excellent, the glittering stones are buried deep beneath the rocks】
【Qingluo River: Rated as Excellent, a river created by a great being, containing spiritual veins】
【Brain in the Vat: Rated as Rare, a creation of a lost civilization. They meticulously extracted the brains of alien awakeners, cultivated them in nurturing nests, processed them through multiple steps, and created the Brain in the Vat. A biological computing device used for high-speed calculations, capable of numerical and logical calculations, as well as memory storage. It is a biological device that can operate according to programmed instructions, automatically processing vast amounts of data at high speed. Note: Mining with the Brain in the Vat is strictly prohibited, as it will cause irreversible damage to it.】
The Gemstone Vein was placed by Li Mu at the foot of Xianyang Mountain.
Qingluo River was a wide river spanning tens of meters, with abundant water flow. The water that flowed out of the Exile Realm disappeared and returned to its source in an instant, as if it were a giant Mobius loop, quite magical.
Li Mu placed it in a valley of Xianyang Mountain, and once there were enough people, they could construct a dam and build a hydroelectric power station.
The strangest thing was the Brain in the Vat. It looked like a huge square glass tank, the crystal-clear glass body encased in an exquisite wood frame carved with intricate patterns, resembling some sort of luxury item.
Inside the tank, stones and sunken wood were harmoniously stacked, replicating the scenery at the bottom of a mountain stream.
Unfortunately, the creatures swimming in the viscous yellow-brown culture fluid were not fish, but a gigantic brain.
It probably wasn’t a human brain because its size was simply too large, with a diameter of about half a meter, and its shape was quite different from that of a human brain.
The skull that could accommodate such a large brain must be astonishingly massive.
Li Mu placed the Brain in the Vat in the main hall of the Holy Demon’s Nest, watching the brain swim back and forth in the tank.
“Lia sincerely serves you, my noble master, requesting access to the mental operating system.”
A pleasant female voice suddenly emanated from the tank; it was the brain speaking!
“Lia?”
“That’s the default name for the Meyer Biological Operating System, master. You can also give me a new name if you wish.”
Chapter 94 The Cowardly Beast From Within <TOC> Chapter 96 Deduction of Energy Techniques