Dryads

The dryad introduced herself as Leech Maple. The name sounded odd since it was the name of her origin, a bloodsucking maple tree.

Cao Mao piggybacked Maple while he walked toward the edge of the barrier. He never stopped looting the crops he came across.

Soon, the two got out of the cornfield. In front of them, orange trees and shiny fruits were visible. It was an orange farm, which extended from the edge of the barrier to the cornfields.

No sect disciples were loitering in this area as these oranges emitted yellowish poisonous miasma. Some of the fruits glowed in red light and released red smog around.

Maple jumped in joy when she noticed the yellowish gas. She leaped into the field and disappeared into the smog.

Cao Mao stood still at the edge of the cornfield, not daring to walk into the miasma farm.

'System, can you scan what the yellow fog is?'

Ding

The yellow miasma contains dense wooden and earth Qi and Essence.

The red miasma contains blood Qi and Essence.

Please avoid the field if you want to live. You're too weak to harvest the fruits of this field.

Cao Mao sighed in regret. He was still too weak to cross this mysterious farmland.

"I guess this is my limit."

The farmland beyond this point was close to the dome barrier. This might be a sign for all low-level alchemists that they shouldn't go beyond this point.

Since Maple left without saying anything, Cao Mao could only stroll at the edge of the cornfield, taking more crops into his inventory while he was waiting.

Hour passed, Maple hadn't come back. However, Cao Mao already collected 2 acre-worth of corn from the nearby area. The number of wooden corns increased to 400.

Cao Mao waited for the dryad for 2 hours. He also cleaned 4 acres of the cornfield and got 1,000 wooden corns. The fields had become empty.

Running out of patience, Cao Mao looked at the system clock to see the remaining time in this plane.

Hours remained.

"Time sure flies quickly. I'm wasting my time here. I guess this is goodbye."

Cao Mao turned around and headed toward the nearest field, planning to harvest everything in his sight since no alchemist disciples were in this vicinity.

As Cao Mao was walking away, the barrier dome shook.

RUMBLE

Cao Mao turned around to see what the commotion was. When he noticed the 100-meter tall ent on the other side of the barrier, his feet kicked the ground, running away from the monster as fast as he could.

It was a blue ent, a similar monster that Cao Mao had encountered in Jia Shan's monster realm. That thing was still too strong for a weakling 2nd-stage cultivator like him.

BOOM

The ent punched the barrier and caused a small crack. The dome quickly restored its barrier power and mended the crack within a second.

Cao Mao didn't see the shadow since he was too busy collecting crops as he ran away from the ent.

Ba-dump

Suddenly Cao Mao's right eyebrow twitched non-stop as he kept running. He stopped his feet as he thought that there might be danger ahead.

But the twitching didn't stop.

Confused, Cao Mao changed his course, running toward the left side instead of running forward, away from the ent.

Yet, the twitching eyebrow kept trembling, sending emergency alarms.

"Shit!"

No matter how Cao Mao changed his directions, his instinct cried that he should get out of here ASAP. At this point, Cao Mao took out a talisman, which had been given by Xin Pi.

It was an emergency teleportation talisman. All alchemist disciples had one, just in case they ran into trouble.

Cao Mao grabbed the talisman with both hands and was about the tear it to activate the teleportation spell.

BOOM

Tree roots emerged from the ground and grabbed Cao Mao's legs. They also snatched the talisman from his hands before it pulled him underground.

"NOT AGAIN!!"

Unlike the last time, the tree roots didn't destroy the ground and reveal an underground mine. They simply dragged him down through a large underground tunnel, which had been dug by the mysterious roots.

Since the tunnel wasn't man-made, it was bumpy. Cao Mao's head hit with rocks and hard soil as he was dragged around. He tried to activate his pseudo barrier and yang fire to free himself, but the unknown tree roots disabled his Qi and Essence flow.

Being powerless once more, Cao Mao understood why the eyebrow had been twitching. But oddly enough, the twitch stopped when the roots caught him.

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Above the ground, the ent punched the barrier with more force.

This time, the giant tree's fist pierce through the barrier, creating a strong gust of wind into the dome.

A strong wind carried the yellow miasma from the orange farms toward the inner area of the Myriad Cauldron Sect's herb farms. They covered the entire cornfields where Cao Mao had visited.

The ent used its long arm to reach for the orange trees with red fruits. It plucked a few red fruits and put them into its mouth. Then, the monster tree retreated.

The barrier mended itself again. Everything turned to normal, and the yellow miasma slowly moved back to the orange farms.

Unbeknownst to Cao Mao, he had escaped from another crisis.

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After being dragged for 20 minutes, Cao Mao's battered body was tossed into spring in an underground cave.

PLOP

The spring was icy cold. As soon as Cao Mao's grazed wounds touched the spring, his nervous system sent a torturous pain signal to his brain. It was burning and excruciating like having a thousand sharp needles piercing into his bones.

Ding

The hollowed spring has healed your internal injuries.

The hollowed spring has cleansed the corrupted vampiric Qi from your dantian.

The hollowed spring has cleansed your blood and bone marrow.

The hollowed spring has enhanced your dantian.

Your water element resistance has increased.

Your earth element resistance has increased.

Cao Mao widened his eyes in shock. At first, he thought that he would die from the pain. Instead of dying, the spring water healed and strengthened him.

As greedy as he was, Cao Mao gathered the spring water into his dummy spatial rings and his invisible ring. Two dummy rings with a space size of 100 cubic meters were filled to the brim. As for the Ring of Yin Slave Master, Cao Mao only stored the holy water in the available containers. After all, there were many grenade pills, gallons of Crimson River water, and precious treasures in there. Flooding the space was be demerit since he didn't know what the water could do to the treasures and pills.

After looting enough, Cao Mao swam up to the surface and gasped for air. When he could see everything above the water, he found himself in a dark room with nothing but a pool of underground water.

However, a dozen female silhouettes were staring at him from the cave ceiling. They latched their roots and vine arms to the surface while they hung their heads upside down like bats.

Cao Mao circulated his Qi into his eyes and activated his night sight mode. When his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he found over 100 dryads, staring at him.

"Is this the wooden corn guy, Leech Maple?"

"That's the dumb-dumb human, mama! He's a bully, but he gave me the corns!"

"Oho? Did he bully you? How?"

"That dumb-dumb burnt me."

"But you aren't injured."

"That dumb-dumb healed me and gave me wooden corns. He already apologized."

"Oho? Well, did you do something to him? I can smell his blood inside you."

"I drank the dumb-dumb's blood!"

At this point, several dryads sighed, but some of them laughed. They slowly figured out what had happened to Maple and Cao Mao.

"Did you drink his blood first, or did he burn you first?"

Maple, who was hanging her head upside down, puffed her cheeks. She looked away from her mother next to her, "I-It wasn't my fault! I hugged him, but he smelled so good! I couldn't resist!"

Everyone burst into laughter, "So you attacked him first."

"… Ugh, yeah."

Maple's mother, who had the same face as the girl, patted her newborn dryad's head and announced, "Well, you heard her. The Myriad Cauldron Sect's disciple wasn't at fault. It was one of us who provoked him, and he defended himself."

The dryads gazed at Cao Mao in the pool and nodded, "No harms done. That's good enough. Let him go and return him to the surface."

"We have to repay for what he has given to Leech Maple first. Let's give him something in return."

"Isn't he getting a lot just by taking a bath in our holy spring? The spring must have benefited him a lot. Look at his complexion and his body. His wounds are no more."

"That's our fault for dragging him here against his will. We have the obligatory to heal him and strengthen him as an apology, but we haven't returned his favor for nurturing Leech Maple."

"Umm, well, you're right."

Cao Mao swam to the wall of this underground cave while he was listening to the dryads' conversation. From their talk, these girls seemed nice and kind, opposite of what Xin Pi had told him.

Moreover, every dryad was naked. Their bouncing breasts were jiggling as they were moving on the ceiling.

'Come to think of it, I've never tried a monster girl yet. Well, Wei Yuan doesn't count. She has never revealed her true form.'

Gazing at the pack of seductive monsters for a while, Cao Mao got excited again. Because of the tattered robes and clothes, his meat slipped out and became visible to every onlooker.

"Oh my! What a nice asset."

"Huhu, interesting human."

"Before we send him home, can I extract his seeds?"

Several dryads giggled while the brave ones jumped into the spring pool. They swam toward Cao Mao without hesitation.

As perverted and shameless as he was, Cao Mao tore his ragged clothes, revealing his toned body. He opened his arms with a lewd smile.

"As long as you won't kill me, I won't resist beautiful seniors here. Please be gentle."

The dryads in the pool laughed. They pulled Cao Mao to their bosoms.

Without foreplays, one of them grabbed Cao Mao's meat and inserted it into her hole. Then, the ultimate suction began.

Also, as Cao Mao stayed longer in the mysterious spring, the hollowed spring blessed him with various buffs.

Ding

The hollowed spring has enhanced your vitality.

The hollowed spring has enhanced your stamina.

Your wooden element resistance has increased.

Your earth element resistance has increased.

Your ice element resistance has increased.

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hours later

Instead of collecting herbs, Cao Mao got stuck in the underground spring as he was ravished by a hundred gorgeous dryads.

Ding

You have dual-cultivated with Pixy Apple.

You cannot steal Yin Qi from Pixy Apple due to the environment.

You cannot share Yin Qi from Pixy Apple due to the environment.

You cannot condense essence due to the environment.

You cannot brainwash Pixy Apple due to the environment.

Your dantian has been enhanced.

Your meridian has been enhanced.

Your bone marrow has been enhanced.

Your earth element resistance has increased.

Your water element resistance has increased.

Your wooden element resistance has increased.

Your ice element resistance has increased.

Instead of getting essence, Cao Mao obtained ice, water, earth, and wooden element resistance as his rewards.

The dryads were deadly in their milking skill. Cao Mao recalled White Album's ability, which forcefully made him ejaculate until he died. But as long as he was in the pond, he would never die from snu-snu.

The happy time went on until a certain dryad showed up to inspect her clanswomen.

"What are you doing?"