Time flew by like a white steed, summer passed and autumn came.
In the tunnel, Fang Yuan once again stood in front of the boulder blocking the way.
Because the weather was getting colder, he wore a simple long sleeved shirt. But his body was no longer as skinny as it was a few months ago.
His chest, arms, legs, and abdomen all had obvious muscle groups.
These muscles were not protruding like the boulder, but had a streamlined shape. Together with Fang Yuan's growing body, and his white skin, it gave off a youthful and energetic feeling.
"Since three days ago, the White Boar Gu can no longer increase my strength. That means, I already have the strength of a boar, and have reached the Flower Wine Monk's goal. Today, I will push this boulder again! "
Fang Yuan's eyes flashed, his right leg stepped forward, his left leg behind, forming a bow step.
He placed both of his hands on the surface of the boulder, took a deep breath, and exerted force.
The boulder, under the push of his hands, slowly moved, then slowly moved, and finally rolled forward.
The path blocked by the boulder was a slanted tunnel. The Flower Wine Monk had processed the boulder into a spherical shape, and was most suitable for rolling. This was probably his intention, to let the successor push the boulder, and roll it up.
"Ten steps, twenty steps, thirty steps …" Fang Yuan pushed forward step by step, silently calculating in his heart, "Last week, I pushed forty-five steps, and my stamina was exhausted, so I had to give up. This time, I wonder how far I can push it? "
Forty steps, forty-five steps …
After a while, Fang Yuan broke the original record. But he was also extremely tired.
Forty-six steps, forty-seven steps …
Fang Yuan could clearly feel, at this step, his stamina was almost depleted.
Forty-eight, forty-nine steps …
He gathered his remaining strength, and advanced another two steps. Finally, he could not walk anymore, his whole body was drenched in sweat. Using his shoulders and legs to support himself against the boulder, he took a few deep breaths.
"Should I give up?" Fang Yuan could not help but think. This was a slanted tunnel, and on the way back, he would expend a lot of stamina. After all, the round stone still had to roll down, and during this process, he still had to support it.
If he directly let go and ran, the round stone would roll faster and faster. He didn't want to be crushed into a pile of meat paste by the round stone in time.
But after thinking about it, Fang Yuan felt a little unwilling, so he pushed a few more steps.
The fiftieth step.
He suddenly felt the pressure from the boulder lessen. It turned out that the boulder had rolled up a flight of stairs.
Fang Yuan pushed a few more steps and went around the boulder. He found himself in a secret room.
This secret chamber was about the same size as the secret cave in the stone crack. Fang Yuan temporarily named it the Second Chamber.
There was nothing in the secret chamber, and the walls were made of a strange red soil that emitted a dim red light. On the other side of the secret room was a crude gray stone door. It should be the work of the Flower Wine Monk in a hurry.
Fang Yuan rested for a while and did not immediately push open the stone door. Instead, he made a new discovery.
He noticed that the ground in front of the stone door was wet.
"Could it be …" A thought appeared in Fang Yuan's mind. He squatted down and stretched out his hands, pushing aside the soft and wet soil.
The second Earth Treasury Flower!
Fang Yuan laughed heartily and carefully pushed aside the petals, taking out the Gu worm that was soaking in the golden nectar.
Activating his primeval essence, it was instantly refined.
This was a Jade Skin Gu. It looked like a bug, flat and wide, with a small head. Its light green body was oval in shape, emitting a layer of jade light.
"After I got the White Boar Gu, I was still thinking about where to get another Jade Skin Gu. That way, I can fuse it into the White Jade Gu. To think that the Flower Wine Monk had already prepared one for me. "Fang Yuan's thoughts moved quickly, thinking about the effects of this Jade Skin Gu.
This was already Fang Yuan's sixth Gu worm.
Although he had five Gu worms before, none of them could be used for defense. With the Jade Skin Gu, he could finally fill the gap in his defense.
Sometimes, defense often meant offense.
This was not hard to understand. Take Fang Yuan for example, he used the White Boar Gu to raise his strength to the strength of a boar. Logically speaking, this kind of strength could allow him to smash soft rocks with one punch, but Fang Yuan had never done so before.
Because he knew that his defense was not strong enough. If he punched, the rocks would shatter, but his fist would also be a bloody mess.
Now that he had the Jade Skin Gu's defense, he could fully display his strength.
Of course, there were good and bad sides to the influence.
The Jade Skin Gu's value was high, and its defense was one of the best among the Rank one Gu worms. But it was not easy to feed. Every ten days, it had to eat two taels of jade.
Jade was more expensive in the market, so let's not talk about it. The main problem was the source.
Fangzheng also had a Jade Skin Gu, but he had the support of the clan leader, who provided him with jade. If Fang Yuan wanted to obtain jade, he could only buy it, but it was too easy to give himself away.
"Originally, to feed the White Boar Gu, I needed to kill wild boars regularly, and that was already troublesome. Now that I have this Jade Skin Gu, am I supposed to go mining everywhere? "Fang Yuan laughed bitterly, as a new problem appeared in front of him.
Keeping the Jade Skin Gu and keeping it in his aperture, Fang Yuan slowly pushed open the stone door.
The stone door was heavy, and if Fang Yuan did not have the White Boar Gu to increase his strength, he would not have been able to push it open. But now, with Fang Yuan's two hands pushing, the stone door slowly opened.
The scene outside the door appeared in front of Fang Yuan, and his field of vision suddenly expanded!
This was no longer a narrow tunnel or a secret cave, but a spacious underground stone forest.
Fang Yuan roughly estimated, and with just a rough estimate, he knew that this underground stone forest had an area of at least thirty mu! On Earth, a standard football field was only eleven mu.
"I should be inside Qing Mao mountain, and this space should be naturally formed." Fang Yuan looked at the surrounding stone walls.
The stone walls of this space were all above sixteen meters, and the ceiling was naturally a stone wall.
From the ceiling, huge dark red stone pillars hung down. Every stone pillar emitted a faint red light, and so did the surrounding stone walls. Just like the tunnel and the secret cave, although the light in this space was dim, it was enough for Fang Yuan to see some things clearly.
Fang Yuan looked around, and saw that the stone pillars were like inverted trees, with no branches, and only a lonely trunk was left.
The surface of the stone pillars was not smooth, and was filled with small black holes. Countless stone pillars of different sizes hung down, forming an inverted stone forest within the mountain.
Nature was such an uncanny workmanship.
Fang Yuan was knowledgeable, and was not surprised. He only stared at the black holes on the stone pillars, and his brows furrowed.
He somewhat understood the Flower Wine Monk's intention in setting up the Jade Skin Gu.
"If I'm not wrong …" Fang Yuan flipped his right hand, and shot out a moonblade.
The eerie blue moonblade drew a straight line in the air, and accurately shot into one of the black holes on the stone pillar.
From the black hole came a sharp and angry cry.
With a swoosh, a grey monkey flew out of the hole, and suddenly pounced towards Fang Yuan.
Chi chi chi.
Fang Yuan shot out three moonblades in a row.
The monkey could not borrow strength in the air, but its tail was extremely agile, and as it swung, it actually caused its body to somersault in the air. After dodging two moonblades, it was finally hit by the third moonblade. With a plop, it fell to the ground, dead.
It died, but did not shed a single drop of blood.
The grey body suddenly turned to stone, and in an instant, it turned from a body of flesh and blood into a stone monkey statue.
The statue's posture, the expression on its face, was exactly the same as the monkey's before it died, lifelike.
After two breaths, the stone monkey's surface made a cracking sound, and cracks rapidly spread from inside to outside of its body. Then, with a crack, it broke into small pieces of stone.
"It really is an underground beast horde, jade eye stone monkey." Fang Yuan walked closer and squatted down, pushing aside the rubble, and took out two jade green round beads. These two round beads were the eyes of the jade eye stone monkey.
After this strange creature died, its body would turn into grey rubble, and only its eyes would turn into two jade round beads. Every jade bead was extremely heavy, weighing at least one tael.
This meant that as long as he killed the jade eye stone monkey, the Jade Skin Gu's food problem would be solved.
"But I not only need to feed the Jade Skin Gu, I also need to continue inheriting the Flower Wine Monk's legacy. The next clue to the Flower Wine Monk's legacy should be somewhere in this stone forest. "
Fang Yuan frowned. This was troublesome.
He tried to take a few steps forward, his gaze focused on the stone pillar.
On the seventh step, on the stone pillar closest to him, in the densely packed stone holes, pairs of green eyes gradually lit up.
Immediately, a drop of cold sweat flowed down from Fang Yuan's forehead.
He quickly retracted his foot, and the countless green eyes in the small black hole dimmed again.
Obviously, each pair of eyes represented a jade eye stone monkey.
The jade eye stone monkeys were extremely agile, and Fang Yuan had to use four moonblades to kill one.
On each stone pillar, there were at least a hundred jade eye stone monkeys. And in the entire stone forest, who knew how many of these monkeys there were.
With Fang Yuan's current strength, if he were to be surrounded by four monkeys, he would die with a grievance. If the defense of the Jade Skin Gu was included, Fang Yuan alone could at most deal with twelve jade eye stone monkeys.
But luckily, these monkeys usually slept in the black hole, and when they were hungry or thirsty, they would gnaw on the stones around them. The stone pillar was their home, and also their food. Unless one was within ten meters of them, or provoked them, they would not come out.
In the words of Earth, they were a group of house monkeys.
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