Chapter 31 - Rare Treasure (2/2)

Zhou Ji said ‘I’ll be waiting for you’ with such an attractive face… Xiong Ye felt his heart fill up with warmth and go soft even as strength surged up through his entire body.

Shi Li had constantly been watching Xiong Ye.

Previously, he had been busy cultivating and hadn’t come out much, so he hadn’t paid much attention to Xiong Ye’s and Zhou Ji’s interactions. Only now did he discover that… All the care and attention that Xiong Ye had once shown to him as well as Xiong Ye’s smiles, had already become someone else’s.

How long had it been since they separated? Yet Xiong Ye had already turned his back on him and found a new sweetheart?

Shi Li felt an incredible hatred in his heart. When he looked at Zhou Ji, his eyes were full of killing intent.

He wanted to kill Zhou Ji.

However, people were always coming and going around the tribe, and he had no way to quietly kill off Zhou Ji. If anyone found out… In two months, Zhou Ji’s Beast King father would come looking for Zhou Ji and his mother.

If Zhou Ji’s father learned that Zhou Ji had died at his hands…

Shi Li could only force back his surging killing intent.

He would kill Zhou Ji sooner or later!

Shi Li’s killing intent wasn’t discovered by the others, but Zhou Ji noticed it.

He felt that Xiong Ye’s ex-boyfriend was really very irritating.

He had broken up with Xiong Ye because he wanted children, but he actually still wanted Xiong Ye… Zhou Ji hadn’t felt much goodwill towards Lang Yin before, but now he had some sympathy for her.

If he hadn’t guessed incorrectly, this Shi Li should be interested in men, which meant that Lang Yin had actually been cheated into marrying a gay husband… Well, they weren’t married, so he couldn’t be considered a husband.

A man with such double standards like Shi Li was really unlikable… Zhou Ji sprouted a flower that was very popular with little insects, then blew the pollen at Shi Li using his spiritual strength.

What the forest lacked the least was all sorts of insects. He hoped that Shi Li would have a great time hunting today.

With that thought in mind, Zhou Ji whisked a little more pollen in Shi Li’s direction.

After the hunting team left, the gathering team also departed. Seeing that both teams had gone, Zhou Ji left the tribe as well.

He still hadn’t found the wedding present he was searching for, so he needed to keep looking.

If he really couldn’t find anything, he would only be able to make up for it in the future.

Zhou Ji had lived for over ten years in the apocalypse. During the end of the world, all the plants were basically contaminated by the zombie virus-even the plants he produced using his own powers had been affected.

Humans and animals had been on the brink of extinction. Towards the very end, it was difficult to even find a living person.

By then, his abilities had grown very powerful, and his spiritual powers could spread out to cover a radius of about one kilometer.

Inexplicably, his powers had become a lot weaker after he transmigrated into this era. Right now, he could only cover an approximate range of 50 meters with his spiritual powers.

However, with his spiritual and plant abilities on hand, his senses were very keen, and his sense of smell was just as sharp.

Zhou Ji hadn’t understood why this was the case before, but now, when he thought about it, it was most likely because he had awakened an animal form.

Everyone in the tribe who had awakened an animal form had much sharper senses than those who hadn’t.

Today, Zhou Ji went in a different direction.

The direction he decided on this time took him further into the forest, and the trees clustered very, very densely all around him.

This world was quite similar to the environment of ancient times back on Earth.

During ancient times on Earth, many animals grew to be very tall because of the high oxygen content and luxurious vegetation. It was the same case here.

This time, when Zhou Ji went deep into the forest, he saw many huge trees that would take several people with linked hands to encircle completely.

Presumably in order to compete for sunlight, these trees were each taller than the next and stretched all the way up into the clouds. At the same time, their leaves were also spread out in such a way that they solidly blocked out any available sunlight.

No sunlight was able to reach the ground at all.

There were many low shrubs in the forest near the tribe, but it was very difficult for those low plants to grow on ground where all sunlight had already been blocked out by these giant trees, so not only was there no shrubbery here, there weren’t even any smaller trees. There was only a very, very thick layer of leaves spread out on the ground, as well as various plants that didn’t require much sunlight, such as moss, ferns, and mushrooms growing on some of the trees.

In an environment like this, even dinosaurs were absent-the majority of dinosaurs survived by eating the plants and shrubbery that grew low to the ground and were unable to reach the leaves that grew so high up on these giant trees.

There was no prey here, so the people of the tribe naturally wouldn’t come here either, making the forest seem very tranquil.

Zhou Ji walked along leisurely. He occasionally saw some insects that were thicker than his thighs crawl out from under the leaves-those were an unpleasant sight.

The trees here contained a lot of energy, but he couldn’t just go and eat trees… Zhou Ji quickened his pace, wanting to hurry up and pass through this stretch of forest.

However, this forest seemed to be rather endless… He walked on for an hour and still hadn’t reached the end.

Zhou Ji was no longer interested in continuing forward and had just planned to turn back around when he suddenly felt that something was strange. The energy around him had abruptly become much richer, and the energy contained in the trees nearby was much denser than the trees from before.

Zhou Ji carefully spread out his senses to explore the area and headed in a certain direction. After walking for a while, he heard the sound of running water.

He raised his eyebrows in surprise, then jogged towards the source of the sound, which turned out to be a pool.

The pool was about the same size as the valley in the Big Bear Tribe. It couldn’t be considered small, but it wasn’t particularly large, either.

And it was because of the existence of such a pool that there was a stretch of sky that wasn’t blotted out by trees, which in turn allowed a large variety of plants to grow by the edge of the pool.

Right now, the light from the spring sun was just right, and entire swathes of flowers were blooming brilliantly.

Zhou Ji stopped at the edge of the pool and had a mild ‘this is the place’ type of feeling-the energy here was incredibly abundant!

He felt that if he were to cultivate in this place, he would definitely grow strong and powerful very quickly.

With this in mind, Zhou Ji looked towards the place where the sound of water could be heard-water flowed out of a crevice in the stone next to the pool.

This stretch of forest was actually located on the sun-facing side of a huge mountain. The slope of the mountain was very gentle, but there was indeed an incline. The stone crevice was part of a cliff approximately seven or eight meters high, and the water flowing from it should be groundwater that had made its way here from the mountain slope above it.

He called it a stone crevice, but in fact, the gap was large enough for a person to enter. Strong energy leaked out from the gap.

Zhou Ji considered it, then headed towards the stone crevice and arrived at the entrance that led to the cave within.

This stone crevice faced south. Sunlight shone through the gap and left a patch of light inside. Zhou Ji couldn’t make out what was inside, so he used his spiritual strength to explore.

Zhou Ji’s heartbeat quickly sped up.

There was a plant inside this cave. It wasn’t very big, and there was a tiny fruit sprouting at the top. It looked very common, but it Zhou Ji could clearly feel the strong energy emanating from this exact plant.

Even the rich energy in this stone crevice and around the pool had most likely been collected here by this plant.

It was because of this plant that there was so much energy here!

This was definitely a rare treasure!

Although Zhou Ji had long suspected that there would be rare natural treasures in this world, he was still surprised when he actually managed to encounter such a treasure. At the same time, he also made a decision-the plant inside would be his wedding gift to Xiong Ye!

Only, that plant wasn’t very easy to obtain.

There was actually another reason why Zhou Ji’s heartbeat had sped up after he finished exploring the cave with his spiritual powers-he didn’t know if they were millipedes or centipedes, but there were a lot of them inside the cave.

In any case, they were all arthropods.

These arthropods were very, very big, and they encircled that plant and its fruit, practically filling up the entirety of this very spacious cave.

As for how big these arthropods were… Most of them appeared to be about two meters long and thirty to forty centimeters wide, while some of them were about six or seven meters long and one meter wide!

Those few extremely long centipedes had traces of energy in their body. There was no doubt that they had mutated after spending so long in a place that was brimming with energy, and they were already different from common centipedes.

Well, those two meter long centipedes couldn’t be regarded as common either. No matter what, this was the first time he had ever seen such large centipedes!

Zhou Ji felt that he had seen and experienced a lot, but he still felt his scalp go numb when faced with so many huge centipedes.

The thing he wanted to have, really wasn’t so easy to obtain…

The author has something to say:

The devil frogs and other things in the story have all existed on Earth at one point. That also holds true for the centipedes mentioned here. Earth once had these two or three meter long ‘arthropleura’. Those who are interested can look them up on Baidu!