Just then, the system popped up with a "ding," excitedly announcing, "[Host! I think I've sensed a signal from another system! It's in that person!]"
Chapter 119
chaos
The system's words made Shen Nong glance at Mu Qing again, "Can you communicate with his system?"
After a series of beeping sounds, the system finally replied to Shen Nong, "No, I've tried many times, but all have failed. It seems like something is blocking the signal transmission over there, and we can't detect any signal anymore."
Shen Nong thought for a moment and said, "Just now, he suddenly shouted 'Shut up!' His system must have said something to him, and then you sensed the signal from that system. It seems you can only detect signals when the other person's system is online and communicating with him."
"I'm going to report to the main system first. Hold on, host." The system then logged off.
Shen Nong was still wondering what the system meant when she felt a burning pain on her face.
"Smack—"
Shen Nong touched his left cheek with the tip of his tongue. He didn't know where this person had gotten the whip from, but it came straight at his face.
"Do I have a pretty face?" Mu Qing asked coldly.
Faced with Mu Qing's neurotic questioning, Shen Nong chose to remain silent. He was at Mu Qing's mercy; anything he said would only provoke the other party, so it was better to keep quiet.
The whip lashed down on her face and body. Shen Nong knew that her opponent was venting his anger by whipping her, but he controlled his strength. She would be hurt, but she wouldn't be killed.
Knowing he wouldn't die immediately, he quickly manipulated the nano-camera to check the cave where Lei Tribe lived. The vines had all retreated, and Shen Nong used the camera to move into the cave, feeling no pain at all. His heart pounded; he was terrified of seeing Ze's corpse.
Shen Nong held her breath and took in everything inside the cave. The large amount of blood on the ground had dried, so Ze was not here.
No members of the tribe were found in the other cave either, suggesting they had taken Ze away. However, their whereabouts are currently unknown.
Shen Nong uploaded the facial data from the previous camera scan, allowing the nano-camera to locate the person.
After finishing, he immediately went to the message platform and discovered that Shen Yi had sent him many messages that he had not received.
After glancing at the date, Shen Nong realized that she had been unconscious for three days. During those three days, the system was also offline, and all of Shen Yi's messages were piling up in the message board.
The latest message indicates that Shen Yi has noticed something amiss, saying that all the orcs in the tribe are ready and can come to the beast city to provide support at any time.
Shen Nong thought for a moment and realized that since things had already turned out this way, the previous path was no longer viable.
He left a message for Shen Yi, instructing him to bring all the priests with awakened abilities, as well as all orcs of level five or higher. He wanted the orcs of the Feather Tribe to send them over as soon as possible.
Upon arrival, the first step was to capture all the tribal chiefs and priests surrounding Beast City. Since they couldn't be allowed to join forces against Beast City, they also couldn't be allowed to ally with Beast City.
Mu Qing noticed Shen Nong was lost in thought, and his grip tightened considerably. How dare someone defy him to this extent! So what if he's a god! He'd make the god kneel before him! Become his slave!
The vines climbed up Shen Nong's body, wrapping him up completely.
Shen Nong didn't know what was wrong with this person again. As the vines wrapped around her, the whip wounds hurt even more, and Shen Nong couldn't help but gasp, "Hiss."
After the vines wrapped around Shen Nong, Mu Qing left for a while. When she came back in, she was dragging something in her hand. As she walked closer, Shen Nong saw that it was Mo.
Mu Qing held a needle-like object in his hand, dipped it in ink, and pressed it against Shen Nong's left forehead. The sharp pain made Shen Nong instinctively try to pull back, but the lower half of his face was also wrapped in vines and fixed to the wooden stake, making him unable to move.
Shen Nong gritted her teeth and told herself that the superpowers could be eliminated once they were restored.
Mu Qing looked at the two characters "lower slave" on Shen Nong's left forehead and finally smiled.
They used vines to capture people out of curiosity about their wood-based abilities, but they never expected to end up capturing a god in this world who had not yet awakened.
What about God?
He's still just a lowly slave. The entire beast world will belong to him; he's the true god!
——
"Go in!" Shen Nong, with her hands and feet in iron shackles, was pushed into the salt field.
Shen Nong stood at the edge of the salt field, holding a small shovel and a small wooden bucket, frowning in disgust.
Everywhere he looked was excrement and filth, and his job was to clean it up. According to the high and mighty Beast City Priest, Shen Nong was not worthy to clean the filth of the orcs, much less him, the High Priest; she was only worthy to clean the filth of the lower-class beast slaves.
Shen Nong almost fainted from the smell, but fortunately, because the place was too dirty, no more orcs came after Shen Nong was brought here.
Those beast slaves were limited to using the toilet only once a day; if they exceeded that limit, they would be beaten.
Shen Nong walked further away, where the smell was less intense, and there was a clear stream not far behind him. He sat down on a rock by the stream, opened the system, and used his base points to have the system clean up the filth.
This is very simple for the system; it's just a matter of manipulating the data.
Shen Nong ignored the filth and began trying to absorb wood-type energy. After a while, she opened her eyes, sighed, and realized there was no wood-type energy around her at all.
Without a doubt, this strange event must be related to the High Priest of Beast City. No wonder the other party dared to release him so easily; they were certain he couldn't absorb any energy.
Shen Nong stared at his palm, sighed softly, and didn't take it too seriously. He was more worried about Ze and Lu Shuang now.
“Oh right, system.” Shen Nong suddenly remembered the fragments he saw when he was unconscious. He said to the system, “When I was unconscious, it seemed like I entered a parallel universe. I saw me and Ze in another universe, and it seemed like we were both dead.”
The system's data manipulation commands paused for a moment before immediately resuming normal operation. "Oh? Really? Can you enter a parallel universe while unconscious? I haven't heard other hosts mention that."
Having dealt with the system for so long, Shen Nong had long since figured it out; one could say he understood the system better than the system itself.
The system's reaction now seemed particularly suspicious, and Shen Nong suddenly asked, "What are you so nervous about?"
The system's voice involuntarily rose, "I didn't!"
Shen Nong snorted softly, "Hmm, you didn't... So, I didn't enter a parallel world, and what I saw was just my own memories, right?"
The system remained silent, displaying a generic reply: "Permission denied."
As soon as those three words appeared, Shen Nong knew what was going on; it was probably pretty close to his guess.
Over the next few days, Shen Nong tried to absorb wood-elemental energy every day, but the nano-camera still couldn't find them.
Late at night, on the fringes of the tribe, the tree tribe.
Tree Fruit was awakened by the sea of fire in her dream. She sat in her treehouse, breathing heavily, gasping for fresh air, unable to recover for a long time. The pain from the burns on her skin seemed to still linger.
As a large amount of air finally filled her chest, dispelling the suffocating pain, she noticed a dreamlike green light drifting across the horizon.
The Divine Tree!
Tree Fruit ran barefoot all the way to the forbidden area of the Divine Tree. The Divine Tree continuously emitted light, its green glow enveloping the entire tree. Tree Fruit stared at the Divine Tree and noticed that the light emanating from it all seemed to be drifting in one direction.
The sacred tree had been dormant for a long time, only beginning to show some signs of life after the summer before last. The tree fruit had never seen the sacred tree look like it did today.
And Shuguo soon discovered that only she could see the strangeness of the divine tree. Shuguo stared at the divine tree for many days, and the light continued to drift towards one place.
She was certain she wasn't seeing things, nor was she imagining them. She simply couldn't comprehend such a breathtaking sight.
——
As usual, Shen Nong was sitting by the stream, preparing to try to absorb wood-type energy, when she received a message from Shen Yi.
arrive.
Shen Nong instructed him to proceed according to the plan, secretly controlling the tribal chiefs and priests of each tribe, so as not to alert the people of Beast City.
When Shen Nong watched Lei Qiu and Mu Qing's fight last time, she noticed that Mu Qing's superpower seemed unusual. Given Mu Qing's personality, if he were capable of fighting back, he wouldn't just stand there and get beaten.
Suo Muqing didn't fight back before because he didn't have the ability to fight back, and he was also waiting for an opportunity to draw on all the wood-type abilities around him.
Shen Nong thought about how his special ability had been suddenly taken away and there was no sign of it recovering. It was also because of Mu Qing's troublesome ability, but fortunately he could only extract energy of the same type.
The night sky of the beast world is filled with stars, and it has a beauty that is different from that of the interstellar world.
Shen Yi sent a message to Shen Nong, saying that everything was ready. Then he sent another message, "Shen Liu knows that you, Priest, are trapped in Beast City and your powers have disappeared, so he temporarily extracted saltpeter to make homemade explosives. To enhance the attack power, he also added iron pieces. Priest, remember to stay away and don't get cut by the shattered iron pieces."
Shen Nong thought for a moment. Shen Liu seemed to be a chemist, so it was no wonder that he could figure it out so easily.
Previously, Shen Nong had intentionally avoided creating explosives in the Beast World, but now that her own life was in danger, since Shen Liu had already created them, Shen Nong wouldn't be so foolish as to ask Shen Liu to destroy them.
However weak it may be, it's still explosives, and Shen Nong can only wait until after this incident to strictly control it.
With Shen Liu's homemade explosives, combined with the previous plan, even without the help of other tribes, the Wood Tribe, despite the strength of the Beast City's hunting and guard teams, still had a chance to win by taking shortcuts.
He sat by the stream, listening to the babbling sound of the water, and took out a tinderbox from the warehouse.
Once a fire breaks out in the Beast City, the crossbowmen of the Wood Tribe, who are hiding nearby, will take advantage of the chaos to infiltrate the city and break through from the inside out.
Shen Nong held a tinderbox in one hand and tung oil in the other. Without oil to help the salt field burn, it was impossible to start a fire.
"Fire! Fire!"
Shen Nong poured out almost all the tung oil stored in the system's warehouse, as the salt field was extremely important to the Beast City. Shen Nong had barely uttered those two words when orcs arrived carrying wooden buckets.
Seeing that the fire was quite large, one of the orcs quickly said, "Go and call the Ninth Young Master over. He can control water. Go now!"
The "beast slaves" also stopped working and were captured to put out the fire. Shen Nong was mixed in with them and was about to take advantage of the chaos to run away when he suddenly realized that his superpower seemed to be slowly recovering.
The depleted spiritual core was becoming fuller. After checking, Shen Nong confirmed that his senses were correct and his supernatural energy was indeed recovering.
Shen Nong calmed herself down and sensed it again. This energy was very abundant, and it was stronger and purer than the wood-type supernatural power she had absorbed from nature before. It also felt like it was inexhaustible.
But Shen Nong didn't sense any fluctuations in wood-type energy around her. So where did this powerful and pure wood-type energy come from?
Shen Nong clenched his fist and chuckled softly. He didn't care where it came from; now that his abilities had returned, he was determined to cause a huge uproar.
There were no flammable materials in the salt field, so Shen Nong poured tung oil all the way to keep the fire burning. He manipulated the vines to encircle the animal slaves. When Xiong Lei felt the vines wrapping around his waist several times, his face instantly darkened.
This is the thing that killed their Lei tribe's priest!
He raised his hand to grab it, but the vine suddenly pulled him back, causing him to lose his balance and fall flat on his face.
Shen Nong dragged the animal slaves out of the area where the fire was most intense. His commotion was quite loud, and the salt field foremen noticed it. However, they had no choice but to leave it alone, because putting out the fire at the salt field was the most important thing at the moment.
If the salt fields are gone, everyone will die.
Shen Nong shouted from the shadows, "Run!!"
He didn't say much provocative; instead, he smashed the wooden door to pieces.
From the moment Xiong Lei was branded with the mark of a beast slave by the people of Beast City and thrown into the salt field, he constantly thought about how to escape.
The other orcs of the Lei tribe were also imprisoned at the salt field, but not in the same group. Xiong Lei didn't know where his people were. He took a deep breath and shouted, "People of the Lei tribe! Come with me! Kill that man!"
Shen Nong, who was hiding in the shadows, then learned that the beastmen of the Lei tribe had also been imprisoned in the salt field.
After Xiong Lei shouted, the voices of Lei tribe members echoed from different locations around him.
"We must avenge the priest!"
"Kill them!"