The nine-headed serpent was strong, but compared to Lin Yun it was still far inferior. Once he was poisoned and enraged, the beast could not resist at all. The fight became a completely one-sided crushing.
After killing the serpent, Lin Yun immediately checked his condition.
The serpent’s venom was extremely powerful. Not only did it invade rapidly, its toxicity was also ranked among the highest. Had his body not been strong enough, the poison would long since have inflicted devastating damage.
Even for Lin Yun, clearing this toxin proved somewhat troublesome.
“Hm?”
At that moment, he noticed the Source Tree releasing strands of green life-energy that spread throughout his body.
Under the diffusion of this vital energy, the venom was actually being purified at shocking speed.
“The Source Tree… actually has this kind of ability?” Lin Yun was stunned by the changes inside him.
This was something he had never expected.
In less than ten minutes, the Source Tree had completely cleansed every trace of poison.
“Haha, how interesting. Now that the Source Tree has revealed this function, I won’t need to fear poison nearly as much in future,” Lin Yun said joyfully.
He had discovered yet another ability of the Source Tree.
After this incident, Lin Yun could not help wondering whether the Source Tree possessed other functions he had yet to uncover.
That possibility certainly existed.
Once the poison was purified, Lin Yun was still inside the pool.
He turned his attention to the nine-headed serpent.
In the next instant, he swung his sword, split open the beast’s belly, and extracted its gall bladder.
This was the most valuable item in the creature’s body.
He then stored the entire carcass inside an empty storage ring.
“Time to go back up.”
“Hm?”
“What’s that?”
Just as Lin Yun prepared to surface, his gaze landed on a piece of ore at the very bottom of the pool.
It was a milky-white stone, roughly forty centimetres tall and thirty centimetres wide.
A single glance was enough for Lin Yun to sense its extraordinariness.
“Could this milky pool be caused by this ore?”
He quickly swam down and stopped in front of the stone.
After examining it up close, Lin Yun became even more certain that this milky-white ore was a true treasure.
He promptly placed it into his storage ring.
Only then did he swim upward and, in the blink of an eye, return to the cavern floor.
“I should harvest these crystals as well,” Lin Yun said, looking at the crystals covering the surrounding walls.
He set to work at once, stripping every crystal from the rock face and packing them into his storage ring.
When everything was finished, he changed into fresh clothes and finally left the cave.
At the top of the canyon.
“I’m back!”
Lin Yun rejoined Zou Dongsheng and the beastman Shan Qi.
“You were quicker than usual this time. I thought you would meditate down there for days again,” Shan Qi remarked.
“I found there wasn’t much worth meditating on below, so I just took a look around and came back,” Lin Yun replied with a smile.
“Let’s go. We continue the journey,” Lin Yun said.
With that, the two humans and Shan Qi set off once more.
Zou Dongsheng immediately used the communication bracelet to ask what Lin Yun had found.
Lin Yun transmitted everything that had happened below. As for the items themselves, he was not yet sure of their exact quality and would need Zou Dongsheng to appraise them later.
Now was clearly not the time to hand them over.
…
Time flew by, and another three years passed.
Lin Yun had now been away from the main tribe for three and a half years. Apart from the border regions that Shan Qi refused to visit, Lin Yun had either personally travelled to every area or passed within the detection range of the Source Tree.
Since the Source Tree’s sensing radius was considerable, he did not need to set foot in every single place. As long as a location fell within range, it counted as searched.
Although he had not detected any Source Heart, the many meditations across these wondrous landscapes had granted him abundant insights. Those realisations would undoubtedly help when he attempted to break through to the Harmony realm in future.
Upon returning to the Golden Wolf tribe, Lin Yun first visited Mu Li to report that he had come back safely.
Afterwards, he went to see Hong Yuan and Dong Jian.
According to his estimate, the formation should be nearing completion.
Sure enough, when he met Hong Yuan, the master informed him that construction was progressing smoothly and would be finished in about one more month.
