CHAPTER 358: CHAPTER 358: THE SEVEN COLORED TREE FRUIT

Seeing that it couldn’t beat the group of humans, the fire lizard let out one last roar before turning around and disappearing into the darkness of the night.

Everyone heaved a sigh of relief when they saw it leave and collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.

Chu Miao erected the previous barrier and let everyone enter their tents to meditate and recover.

For those who had suffered from severe injuries such as broken bones, she gave them spiritual water to hasten their recovery.

Everyone actually had spiritual water but mainly the diluted version. This time she also gave everyone a bottle of undiluted spiritual spring water in case they got separated by accident.

She also gave everyone a jade pill bottle with two healing pills each in case they encountered a situation where they needed to get treatment immediately.

Even though Chu Miao’s light element had the ability to heal, it was mainly related to injuries caused by death energy.

Therefore, she couldn’t help with ordinary injuries. Unlike her mother who had the wood energy that carried life force, her light energy was different.

However, its attack and defense ability were still strong. Today, she had utilized her elemental energy through a sword instead of just fighting that beast head-on like that.

However, she also realized that the battle had been very beneficial to her. She had completely stabilized her cultivation and even her fast advancement hadn’t affected her foundation at all.

After tending to the wounded and making sure that they were regulating their Qi to recover, Chu Miao also went back to her tent to change her torn clothes and recover as well.

Even though she had suffered any severe injuries, that beast had still done a number on her. After a few hours of cultivation, everyone had basically recovered and they could continue with their exploration.

It was already 7:00 in the morning when everyone finally walked out of their tents.

Like magic, Chu Miao took out two long tables and chairs out of her space ring and placed several dishes on them.

Even though they were undergoing training, that didn’t mean that she was going to treat herself badly.

When the others saw the spread of dishes on the table out in the wilderness, they were shocked. Moreover, those dishes were still steaming hot.

These were the dishes Chu Miao and her family had her servants cook the last month before the apocalypse.

They had a truck load of food made everyday for almost a month. Moreover, others were bought from restaurants and others cooked in the space by Mother Chu when she was free.

There was a variety of dishes and Chu Miao made sure to add a couple that had spiritual energy to help them improve their cultivation while they fill their stomach.

After their breakfast, the team set out and headed deeper into the forest. This forest seems to be quite big. It wasn’t known when it would come to an end.

However, Chu Miao also knew that such forests might hold more than what was visible on the surface.

The appearance of the magical beast the previous night shows that the forest held more than just extinct herbs and some spirit stones.

They had walked for two hours when they smelled a unique and intoxicating fragrance coming from somewhere in front.

Taking a deep breath, Chu Miao knew that whatever that was, it was something good.

"Let’s speed up and see what is giving off that fragrance. If it can be smelled all the way here, then it must be something extraordinary." Chu Miao said as she picked up speed and turned into a blur.

Instead of teleporting, she chose to run because she didn’t know the situation in front. What if she teleported into the lair of a high-level magical beast? She didn’t want to take that risk.

Ye Xuan looked at her with a doting smile as she began to run and followed her closely behind. Chu Hao was the third to react and began to run before the others came to their senses and turned into shadows, disappearing into the forest ahead.

Chu Miao followed the fragrance and the closer she got, the stronger the fragrance. It smelled as if something incredible had ripened and for some reason, she felt a faint feeling in her heart.

It felt like something was pushing her to get whatever that was giving out such fragrance.

She didn’t understand this feeling, but she never ignores her gut, and at that moment, her gut was telling her to get whatever that was.

Little White was running a little ahead of her as it had smelled the fragrance before anyone else. Seeing how excited it was, Chu Miao couldn’t help but wonder if it knew what that was.

Thus, she asked through their contract spiritual link if it knew what the fragrance was.

As expected, the little tiger knew.

"It’s the fruit of the seven colored tree. The tree takes a thousand years to mature after it’s planted, another thousand years to bear fruit, another thousand years for fruits to ripen.

Moreover, the fruits must be picked within an hour of ripening or they will start to rot, then they will become useless." Little White explained as it picked up speed. It could tell that the ripening process was coming to an end.

"What is the use of these seven colored tree fruits exactly?" Chu Miao asked in awe when she thought that one would actually have to wait for three thousand years to get the fruits of this tree.

How many people can live that long? This was indeed a treasure, but she wasn’t naive enough to think that a treasure like that would be sitting there waiting for them.

"It can purify talent. Cultivators who had their talents purified would experience twice the speed of their cultivation.

Moreover, others who are lucky might have their talent increased. For instance, if someone was a level five talent, eating a fruit from this tree would cause their talent to increase to the sixth level.

This was a fruit that could sell for a lot of wealth in the ancient era. Even immortals would fight for this fruit." Little White explained as it felt the fragrance nearly intoxicate it completely.

"Master, let’s hurry, the ripening process should be ending and that fragrance must have attracted magical beasts from other parts.

Moreover, the tree must have a guardian. So, it’s better for us to get there soon and take down the guardian and grab the fruits before other magical beasts get to the location.

If the beasts get there before us, then we can forget about getting even a share of a single fruit." Little White was really worried. It could eat the fruit and its cultivation would indeed increase faster, but it had just broken through that morning after eating the superior-grade spirit stone the previous day.

Now, it just wanted its master to get something good.

When Chu Miao heard this, she ran faster than before. This time, she even utilized her space element.

A technique she had seen in a book in the library within the space but had never tried using.

This technique required her to use the power of space to shorten a distance between two points.

Kind of like shrinking the earth where ten meters turned into one step. In this way, she moved faster than before using the same pace.

As she appeared in front of a cave, she could tell that the fragrance came from within the cave.

She didn’t know what was inside but she could feel some oppression from the cave. This meant that the guardian was inside the cave. Moreover, since the fruits ripening was practically over, the beast inside must want to eat the fruits immediately after they were ripe.

"Master, the guardian beast is that fire lizard you fought last night. I’ll go inside and provoke it and get it out so that you can sneak inside and get the fruits.

Your friends are arriving, so they can keep it busy, but you must hurry because I can sense more beasts heading this way from different directions." Little White said and before Chu Miao could reply, it had already shot into the cave.

As it entered the cave, it enlarged itself and became several times the size of a normal tiger. The fire lizard felt the intruder coming into the cave as it was about to eat the fruits.

It turned around and let out a warning growl towards the entrance of the cave, but the intruder didn’t stop.

Thus, the fire lizard got up and headed to the passage leading to the entrance to meet the intruder.

The beasts met and a fight started without much of a warning. However, the fire lizard was no match for the tiger, especially after its advancement the previous night.

The enlarged tiger was at the late stage of the golden core realm. Such strength was not something the fire lizard could compete with.