Chapter 258 The Strange Black Forest

This was an open space with birds singing and flowers blooming, but no tall trees. When people came out of the forest, they could see this open space from afar.

Then, Mayo stopped and told everyone, "Look ahead, that's the blessed land where all kinds of spiritual medicines grow. Within a radius of 20 to 30 kilometers, everyone can freely collect them."

"However, everyone must remember not to go too deep, because there is a dark forest deep inside. In that forest, there are many powerful beasts. Everyone must not go too deep. You can only collect spiritual herbs from this fan-shaped area."

"Yes!" everyone responded.

"Okay, now I will divide you into teams of two, one with the Eagle Country players and the other with the Saint Luo Country players."

"Yes!" Jeroen and Solas responded.

"The players from Vietnam and Korea are on the same team."

"Yes." Han Liangming and Pan Zhongyong responded.

"The Bear Country players and the Dragon Country players are on the same team."

"Yes!" Xu Shisan and Ivan responded.

"The Japanese players and the Indian players are on the same team."

"Yes!" Nohara and Imran responded.

"I am on the same team with the Siamese players and Linda." Mayo said again.

No one had any objection to this assignment, but Linda suddenly said, "Uncle Mayo, I want to be on the same team with them."

Linda pointed at Xu Shisan and Ivan and wanted to join them in the team.

Seeing this, Mayo refused without even thinking: "No, you have to stay with me all the time."

Mayo knew too well Linda's ability to get into trouble, so he didn't dare indulge her.

"Oh, Uncle Mayo, he saved me yesterday. I followed him because I wanted to thank him. I will definitely not get into trouble." Linda said coquettishly.

“No, you still stay with me.”

"Oh, Uncle Mayo, please, I absolutely won't make any trouble."

Mayo had no idea what to do in the face of Linda's persistence. He looked at Xu Shisan and Ivan and said, "My two friends, are you willing to let Linda follow you?"

"I don't want to." Xu Shisan shrugged and refused directly.

"You" Linda glared at Xu Shisan.

"Okay, brothers Thirteen, since Miss Linda wants to follow, then let her follow." At this time, Ivan came out to smooth things over and agreed to let Linda follow.

Seeing this, Mayo said again: "Thank you, my two friends."

In fact, Mayo was not too worried that Linda would cause any danger, because he had come to this herb-picking paradise several times, and there were no ferocious beasts in this area, so it was very safe.

"Captain Mayo, you're welcome." Ivan replied.

Afterwards, Linda officially followed Xu Shisan and Ivan.

In fact, there was a reason why Linda wanted to follow Xu Shisan, because Linda knew that during this herb-collecting trip, contestants from various countries could privately keep some of the spiritual herbs, which could be considered a benefit for contestants from various countries.

That's why Linda followed Xu Shisan, ready to keep an eye on him all the time, to prevent him from hiding the elixir and to prevent him from getting any benefit!
Although Linda also felt that this was a bit shameless, she was very happy to make Xu Shisan lose face!

Afterwards, under Mayo's arrangement, the eleven people were divided into five teams and went deep into the area in five different directions to start collecting herbs.

After officially entering the blessed land, Xu Shisan felt that the dimensional energy in this blessed land was extremely dense, several times that of the outside world. Practicing here would definitely be twice as effective with half the effort. Moreover, every few steps, he would find some spiritual medicines. Although the level was very low, the deeper he went, the higher the level of the spiritual medicines he encountered. There were no signs of ferocious beasts around, so it was very safe.

Xu Shisan felt extremely strange about this.

It stands to reason that where spiritual medicines gather, there must be ferocious beasts.

Because most spiritual medicines are also important things for ferocious beasts to cultivate, and the more spiritual medicines there are in a place, the thicker the dimensional energy will be. Ferocious beasts like to stay in places with rich dimensional energy.

For example, the last time Xu Shisan encountered a patch of three-leaf spirit gathering grass in the hunting competition, there lived an entire group of powerful crocodile dragon beasts, and there were two S-level crocodile dragon beasts in charge.

Logically speaking, this kind of blessed land of spiritual medicine must be inhabited by either a large number of ferocious beasts, or a more powerful ferocious beast that other ferocious beasts dare not approach.

However, when Xu Shisan arrived at the place, he found that there was no trace of any ferocious beasts here, as if it were a paradise.

According to Mayo, this blessed land of spiritual medicine has been discovered for more than 30 years. Every year, the alliance sends a team here to collect spiritual medicine. There has never been any danger and no attacks by ferocious beasts.

At the beginning, the people in the alliance had the same idea as Xu Shisan. Since there were not a large number of ferocious beasts in this blessed land, there must be an extremely powerful ferocious beast guarding it.

However, more than 30 years have passed, and the surrounding area has been explored dozens of times, but no so-called powerful beasts have been found. Only in the black forest in the distance exist a large number of beasts.

But those ferocious beasts seemed afraid to set foot in this blessed land of spiritual medicine.

Over time, the people in the alliance also became convinced that this blessed land of spiritual medicine was safe and free of potential dangers.

Xu Shisan and Ivan took Linda deeper into the cave and collected a lot of spiritual herbs along the way.

However, the deeper they went, the fewer spiritual medicines they encountered, which made Xu Shisan feel very strange.

Because before coming here, Mayo once said that the deeper you go, the more spiritual medicines there are and the higher the level.

But now, as Xu Shisan went deeper and deeper, he encountered fewer and fewer spiritual herbs, as if they had all been picked by someone.

Ivan, who was standing by, also noticed this and said to Xu Shisan, "Brother Shisan, have you noticed that the further we go, the less spiritual medicine we have. What's going on?"

"I don't know either." Xu Shisan shook his head.

"How about we go forward?" Ivan suggested.

"Okay." Xu Shisan nodded, then followed Ivan and Linda and went deeper again.

The three of them walked for about thirty kilometers. Through the surrounding bushes and a few scattered low trees, they saw a forest not far away.

The trees in that forest were very dense and black, so it was impossible to see what was inside the forest.

Seeing this, Ivan said to Xu Shisan: "Brother Xu, that forest should be the Black Forest. We should have reached the boundary of the Spiritual Medicine Land and can't go any further."

At this point, Ivan sighed again: "However, our harvest along the way is too little. We didn't collect many spiritual herbs at all. We are far from reaching the mission goal."

"Hmph! Did you guys secretly hide all the elixirs without telling me?" Linda snorted coldly.

However, Linda was still very happy when she saw that Xu Shisan failed to complete the task.

In response, Ivan said, "Miss Linda, you have seen along the way that we did not hide the spiritual medicines. It is that we did not encounter a large number of spiritual medicines along the way. I don't know if there is a problem in our area, or if the others are the same as us."

"Forget it. Why bother talking so much to a little girl like this whose eyes are on her butt?" Xu Shisan said to Ivan.

"Your eyes are on your ass! I have tolerated you for a long time, and now Uncle Mayo is not here, do you think I can beat you?"

As Linda spoke, she was about to pull out the bone whip she carried with her, but her movement suddenly stopped.

Because she saw in the dark forest in the distance
(End of this chapter)