He casually asked, "This Flowing Light Medicine Venerable was a great power ten thousand years ago. Did he pass away or ascend?"
"Not sure, it’s been too long. Perhaps only the ancient books in our valley have records, but I haven’t had access to them."
Molan shook her head, "Regardless, the Flowing Light Medicine Venerable must no longer be around; otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to enter the cave mansion space."
"Hmm, let’s cut some wood next."
Shen Wang’s gaze fell on the center’s Ten Thousand Year Peach Wood. This thing was huge. Even if he didn’t cut it all down, just taking a random branch would be more than enough.
He walked over, jumped onto a thick branch, and gripped the Black Death Blade to slash down.
The Black Death Blade was directly rebounded, as if Shen Wang had struck a hard magical treasure. The branch emitted a circle of red and white light, causing a notch in Shen Wang’s blade.
Shen Wang twitched his lips. This was the second Black Death Blade, with material at the Magical Artifact Level. Although not yet further refined, he never expected the branch would make a notch in his blade.
Molan landed nearby with a look of surprise, "The material of this Ten Thousand Year Peach Wood is incredibly durable, clearly excellent magical treasure material."
"It’s probably not just magical treasure material; my blade’s material is already at that level."
Shen Wang looked at the notch in frustration, realizing he’d likely have to replace his weapon.
"This must be genuine Spirit Wood, with material of an even advanced spiritual material level."
Molan thoughtfully, her eyes gleaming, "Although we didn’t pick any Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Peaches, this Spirit Wood is equally valuable and should be able to refine a Spiritual Artifact!"
"Makes sense, only spiritual materials could so easily damage my blade."
Shen Wang’s eyes lit up. Is this truly a cave mansion of a Divinity Transformation Power? It’s indeed a good place. Outside, it’s incredibly difficult to find such materials, yet here they encountered them so effortlessly.
He stroked his chin, "Now I need to figure out a way to cut this thing down."
The Magic Tier and Spirit Tier are two different levels. If a Magic Tier blade were to cut a Spirit Tier tree, even if it could cut through, his blade would probably be ruined first.
He looked at the faint mark left on the branch from his previous slash. Continuing , he feared the branch wouldn’t be cut down before his blade was destroyed.
As he pondered, he considered that the Tai Chi Yin Yang Mirror might work; after all, it was still a material, while the Tai Chi Yin Yang Mirror was a formed magical artifact, so it should work.
But with Molan right nearby, using the Tai Chi Yin Yang Mirror would expose it.
While he was thinking, Molan suddenly took out a black bamboo tube. As Shen Wang curiously wondered what she was doing, she opened the stopper and poured out a mass of silver balls.
These silver balls quickly came to life, turning out to be little silver beetles, only the size of a pinky finger.
Molan performed a technique, and the bugs obediently gathered at the spot where Shen Wang had tried to cut the tree. A slight cracking sound emerged.
Shen Wang saw that the peach wood, which his blade couldn’t cut, was actually being gnawed through by these bugs, digging deeper and deeper. Given time, they would certainly gnaw the branch off.
"These are Silver Beetles, with teeth strong enough to chew through metal; they have a certain restraining application on this kind of wood."
Molan laughed, "If you want some, I can teach you how to raise them."
Seeing Molan so playful, Shen Wang smirked, "What’s yours is mine, no need to raise them with effort."
"Dream on, my things aren’t yours." Molan rolled her eyes.
At this moment, the peach wood suddenly glowed, releasing a circle of red energy. The scorching heatwave made both their expressions change, and they quickly dodged aside.
The bugs biting into the tree were immediately shaken off, then turned black as if burned, most falling to the ground motionless, directly killed.
Molan’s face darkened; she had taken great effort to raise these Silver Beetles, only to have most of them wiped out in an instant.
Shen Wang was astonished as he looked at the Ten Thousand Year Peach Wood, "This thing is actually resisting the insect bites; is it about to turn into a demon?"
"It might have a bit of consciousness, which could be troublesome."
Molan frowned, "If it doesn’t work out, let’s cut some of the Thousand-Year Peach Wood outside and then figure a way out; those two Demon Kings are still watching us."
Shen Wang nodded, "Let’s get what we can first. This Ten Thousand Year Peach Wood can only be admired, not cut; let’s not end up with nothing."
He walked over to the side where the Thousand-Year Peach Wood stood. These trees were directly a head shorter, though still over ten zhang tall, and located farther from the center, with an age nearing ten thousand years.
The trunk was still too thick. Shen Wang jumped up and used the Black Death Blade on a branch. With a crunch, the blade went an inch deep and managed to cut it.
The peach tree emitted light, but the released firelight wasn’t too strong, and Shen Wang managed to withstand it, pulling the blade to strike again.
Molan also landed on another branch, using her own magical treasure to cut trees. Her magical treasure was a flying blade, smaller in size, very lightweight, and better than Shen Wang’s new Black Death Blade, being a pure magical treasure.
Outside the Peach Garden, a charming voice appeared, "Oh, there’s actually a Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Peach Wood here. Where are the peaches? I don’t see any."
The Tiger Demon King and the Monkey King, busy with the attack array, quickly turned around. A sensual woman in leather attire had somehow appeared behind them.
"Greetings, You Huang."
They hurriedly saluted.
The Monkey King said, "The peaches were picked by two Human Race cultivators. We are breaking the array." Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⚫𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢⚫𝘯𝘦𝘵
"Human Race cultivators?"
You Huang’s eyes gleamed, peering through the array into the Peach Garden. Spotting a Golden Core and a Foundation Establishment, her slim eyebrows raised, "You two are so useless? You can’t even handle these kinds of characters?"
The Monkey King awkwardly replied, "At first, I was fighting them alone, but the woman used poison, so I had to back off. I met Brother Tiger and came back only to find they had already entered the array and picked the peaches."