Chapter 158 Picking Ice Luan Flowers, the Mammoth Transforms!
After Cao Xing left.

Xu Haocheng gritted his teeth and said, "How despicable! We were the ones who gave him the information, otherwise how could he have found this forest?"

"Damn, what a stinky boss, I think he is an ungrateful guy!"

"You Shengwu is right. He is a villain who has gained power. He relies on his own strength to act like a master in front of us."

You Shengwu, who was standing next to him, chuckled and said, "I know from the look on his face that if he were in Blue Star, he wouldn't even be qualified to be a security guard for my company."

"I guess he didn't dare to go into the forest anymore, so he found an excuse to leave."

"That's it!"

Qiu Yating was just about to tell them to shut up.

And just at this moment, the mammoth returned.

Boom!dong dong!

The heavy footsteps made everyone's face change.

After a moment, Cao Xing came back to them.

Sitting on the mammoth, Cao Xing squinted his eyes and looked at the two guys, "Do you think I can't hear you?"

"Or do you think I'm easy to talk to, so you can talk about me behind my back?"

Cao Xing is now an 18th-level frost mage with extremely sharp hearing, and he also has Sarah, a third-level leader, under him.

Naturally, they heard these guys talking about them.

When they saw Cao Xing's figure, Xu Haocheng and You Shengwu were so frightened that their faces turned as pale as death!
"Cao... Boss Cao Xing... We were just joking, that's not what I meant..."

"I mean……"

Xu Haocheng hasn't finished speaking yet.

The next moment, a flash of cold light flashed across his neck.

【-twenty four】

Critical attack!

A terrifying injury number appeared.

Xu Haocheng's head tilted and he died on the spot.

[Your territory member: Sarah Blade Dance killed the survivor Xu Haocheng...]

Then, Cao Xing looked at You Shengwu next to him.

This boy with a proud expression had some unconvinced look in his eyes.

And now, after seeing Cao Xing kill Xu Haocun, he instantly realized that he was in danger of death!
But he knew that Cao Xing killed Xu Haocheng without hesitation, and his begging for mercy was of no use!

So You Shengwu turned around and ran away without hesitation.

However, how could his speed possibly compare to the attack speed of Cao Xing and others.

"call out!"

There was a sound of breaking air, and an arrow flew out instantly.

Then, it hit him directly on the back of the head.

puff!
【-1224! 】

Blood splattered as the arrow shot directly into the head.

[Your territory member: Renis Hawkeye killed the survivor You Shengwu...]

The situation changed so quickly that they didn't expect Cao Xing to take action as soon as he said so.

Looking at the two cold bodies on the ground, everyone on the scene gasped!

The look he gave Cao Xing was also filled with fear!
Cao Xing said nonchalantly: "This forest is very dangerous. If you stay with people like this, you will be dragged to death by them sooner or later."

"Not everyone can be recruited into the team."

Cao Xing's last words were addressed to Qiu Yating, and could be considered as a piece of advice.

After saying that, Cao Xing took his men and turned around and left again.

Until a few minutes later.

The group of survivors breathed a sigh of relief.

Qiu Yating had a complicated expression, and she understood in her heart that what Cao Xing said made sense.

These two people have always been the cancer of their team, but due to the friendship between classmates and lack of strength, Qiu Yating has no way to drive them away.

Now that Cao Xing had killed them, Qiu Yating felt fortunate.

A little girl in the team looked at Qiu Yating with a pale face.

"Squad leader, Xu Haocheng and You Shengwu are dead. They were killed by Boss Cao Xing!"

After a moment, Qiu Yating took a deep breath and said, "I know."

"These two idiots, I told them that their mouths would cause trouble, and they asked for their own death."

"Boss Cao Xing is right. Those who cannot see the situation clearly will die sooner or later, and may even drag us down!"

Hearing this, several other survivors also nodded.

"That's right, these two guys are too stupid. Although Boss Cao Xing is easy to talk to, he can survive in this world and develop so well. He must not be as kind as he looks."

"That's right, they deserved to die!"

"But fortunately, Boss Cao Xing did not implicate us..."

The survivors gradually calmed down.

After all, in this world, death is too normal.

At the same time, they couldn't help but feel fortunate that they didn't speak rudely to Cao Xing like these two idiots.

Another girl next to her said, "Class monitor, what should we do now?"

Qiu Yating said: "What can we do? Either we keep going forward, or we go back the way we came."

The girl quickly said: "Let's go back now, it's too dangerous here!"

Qiu Yating was about to nod.

At this time, another girl raised an objection.

"How can we go back? We have finally got here!"

"That native said that if we can complete the task, he will give us an epic item!"

After hearing this, the other survivors seemed to have some hesitation.

After all, the epic level is an orange item, and I haven’t seen this thing in the entire trading channel. It’s too tempting!
The girl struck while the iron was hot and said, "After what happened just now, haven't you figured it out? In this world, having power means having everything."

"If we don't fight, we will soon die worthlessly in this world just like Xu Haocun and the others..."

The girl next to her retorted, "Epic items are powerful, but you have to be alive to get them. I don't agree with moving on."

As time went by, the two sides started arguing.

A look of helplessness appeared in Qiu Yating's eyes again.

This is the disadvantage of having more than a dozen lords in one territory...

After all, they were all boys and girls around seventeen or eighteen years old.

Qiu Yating became the captain of the team because of her status as the class monitor.

But now, it is obvious that they do not quite agree with Captain Qiu Yating.

In desperation, Qiu Yating could only let them vote.

Should we continue to move forward or return to where we were?

...

At this moment, Cao Xing continued walking in the forest.

As mentioned before, the lives and deaths of those survivors had nothing to do with him after they fulfilled the agreement.

It's just a matter of cleaning up some idiots.

This incident did not cause any psychological fluctuations to them, including Liu Muxue behind them, who was also looking around vigilantly.

They continued searching in the forest.

At this time, Renis pointed to the front and said, "My Lord, there are a few Ice Luan flowers there too!"

Cao Xing immediately perked up and followed the direction that Renis pointed. He really saw several ice phoenix flowers growing next to a giant tree!

The giant tree was bigger than any they had seen before.

And below, there are at least a dozen ice phoenix flowers growing.

Just as Cao Xing was about to approach.

A thick branch suddenly shot over!
The previous waves of battles have already given everyone experience.

I realized instantly that there might be an ice crystal human-faced tree nearby!

Braum used [Flying Guard] and jumped directly in front of Cao Xing.

Bang!
The branch hit his shield directly.

But it only shattered one layer of the holy shield.

Bron laughed.

"Don't try to hurt the Lord while I'm here."

When the man-faced tree saw that its attack failed, its branches began to fly.

Not only that, more human-faced trees awakened nearby.

Cao Xing also saw that the giant tree several hundred meters high in front of him was slowly turning its body.

"Crack! Click!"

The sounds of branches breaking were heard one after another.

A painful human face appeared on the tree trunk.

At the same time, others quickly entered combat mode.

Cao Xing took a quick glance at the properties of this human-faced tree.

[Ice Crystal Human-Faced Tree Guardian]

[Race: Human-faced Tree]

[Level: Level 28, third-order elite creature]

[Health Volume: 22150/22150]

[Attack power: 1132~1178]

[Skills: Strong Branches, Frost Touch, Frost Dance (same attributes as above)
Bloodsucking vines (extend multiple vines to bind the enemy tightly for 1 to 20 seconds, and absorb 1% of the enemy's health per second through the vines. Cooldown time is 5 minutes). 】

【Talent ①: Longevity】

【Talent ②: Vitality】

[Bond: Human-Faced Tree (20 activated)]

...

"Hey, an elite-level human-faced tree?"

Cao Xing's eyes lit up.

No wonder this human-faced tree looks much taller and its branches look thicker and tougher.

"An elite-level human-faced tree should be able to drop higher-level items, right?"

Thinking of this, Cao Xing became excited.

Then he gave a direct order: "Kill it."

Following the order, Cao Xing's eight generals and a mammoth all rushed forward.

As for himself, he entered the [Demon Transformation] state.

He continuously threw out balls of evil fire, and then began to bombard wildly.

Bang! Bang! [-554]

【-twenty four】

【-twenty four】

Even after the defenses of these human-faced trees were reduced, they still caused considerable damage.

When his mental strength was running low, Cao Xing simply took out a drop of sap and drank it.

The refreshing taste instantly rushed to his head, making him full of energy again!

Every time those branches tried to attack Cao Xing, they were stopped by Liu Muxue.

Otherwise, it would have been blocked by the holy shield on Cao Xing's body and he would have been unharmed.

A few minutes later, all the dozen or so human-faced trees here were killed by Cao Xing and his men.

Cao Xing exited the demon transformation state.

He couldn't wait to get to the elite human-faced tree and collected all the things on the ground.

[Obtain: Elite Human-Faced Tree Heart (Blue)*1]

[Obtain: Elite Human-faced Tree Bark (Blue)*1]

[Obtain: Medium-quality sap (blue) * 7]

[Obtain: Intermediate Element Crystal*3]

[Obtain: Medium Power Book *1]

...

"Haha! As expected, the materials dropped by the elite-level human-faced tree are also of higher quality!"

Cao Xing was not in a hurry to check.

Instead, he collected all the ice luan flowers on the ground first.

He shoveled down the ice phoenix flowers one by one along with the surrounding frozen soil, and put them all into his backpack.

[Get Ice Flower (Blue)*13]

Cao Xing clapped his hands.

He glanced at his backpack and saw that the number of ice phoenix flowers in it had reached 27.

The harvest this time was quite good.

Then, Cao Xing asked Assam and others to cut down the vines of the elite human-faced tree first.

Compared to ordinary human-faced trees, the vines of elite human-faced trees are indeed more resilient.

It even took Assam two or three strikes of the sword to cut through a vine.

After a moment, hundreds of vines fell to the ground.

He walked forward and collected them all.

[Obtain: Strong Human-Faced Tree Vine (Blue) *87]

"Not bad, not bad, these vines are thicker and longer!"

"87 vines, more than a thousand meters long!"

Then he started looking at the properties of the materials he had just obtained.

[Elite Human-Faced Tree Heart (Blue): A tree heart that contains a lot of vitality]

[Effect 1: After taking it, it can increase the upper limit of life by 500 points, and it can take effect once at most]

[Effect 2: Accelerates the growth time of some magical plants or special creatures by 1 to 3 years.]

...

[Elite Human-Faced Tree Bark (Blue): A tough material that contains some of the life force of the Human-Faced Tree.]

(Can be used to make leather armor or other items of excellent quality, with a chance of adding special effects)

...

[Medium-quality tree sap (blue): A leaf with a bit of magic, with a clearer taste.]

(After taking it, you can restore a moderate amount of mental strength.)
...

[Tough Man-Faced Tree Vine (Blue): A tougher vine that contains a hint of vitality]

(This vine contains the life force of the human-faced tree, and can slowly recover after being injured.)
...

After reading the properties of these materials, Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction.

"Not bad, not bad. This human-faced tree heart can actually increase its growth cycle by one to three years. It's almost as good as a snow demon's heart."

"According to Juliette, the same item can be effective three times."

“If we bring back a few more human-faced tree hearts this time, maybe we can make the pale tree grow directly.”

Not only that, other materials have different effects.

What surprised Cao Xing was that the blue vines actually had the ability to heal themselves, which was amazing!

At this moment, Dabai looked at the pale human-faced tree heart in Cao Xing's hand, and desire appeared in his eyes.

Then, it walked over and rubbed Cao Xing's arm gently with its head.

Cao Xing was stunned, "Dabai, you want to eat this?"

"Woo..."

Dabai nodded.

Cao Xing held the heart and fell into deep thought.

Because according to the system's introduction, this human-faced tree heart can be used not only on plants, but also on special creatures.

Does this special creature refer to creatures like Dabai?
You know, even though Dabai is now five meters tall, it is still in its growth stage.

An adult mammoth can be more than ten meters long!

So, Cao Xing directly threw the blue heart in his hand to Dabai.

Dabai swallowed it in one gulp.

The powerful vitality contained in the heart of the human-faced tree takes effect in Dabai's body.

After a while, Cao Xing could feel that the mammoth had grown in size again.

It has grown from its original length of more than five meters to almost six meters!
The height also increased by a dozen centimeters.

A system prompt appears.

[Your pet Dabai has grown to a new stage: health increased by 10%]

Cao Xing's eyes lit up. "Oh my god, growing to a new stage actually increases health points. This is too powerful!"

Including other people, they looked at Dabai's changes in surprise.

Andrew said devoutly: "The child of nature has grown up..."

Dabai himself seemed very happy and made a low 'woooo' sound.

At this moment.

Cao Xing glanced at his backpack. There was no blue-grade human-faced tree heart left, but there were still many green-grade ones.

But when he took out the green-grade human-faced tree heart, Dabai seemed not interested in it.

Cao Xing nodded and said, "Only the blue-grade heart of the human-faced tree can make a beast like Dabai gain growth effects?"

This also gave Cao Xing new inspiration.

Because in his territory, there is a growing bear cub.

As long as Cao Xing brings back more blue-grade human-faced tree hearts, Volibear will soon be able to fight!

Cao Xing was delighted.

"Go, keep going!"

"Today's mission is nothing else. Just killing these human-faced trees will bring a huge improvement."

They began to search in this vast witch forest.

After advancing about five or six kilometers, they encountered another attack from three waves of ice crystal human-faced trees.

During this period, there was also a wolf attack.

The beasts in the forest seemed to gradually notice Cao Xing and his group of intruders.

Among these three waves of ice crystal human-faced trees, two are elite-level human-faced trees.

The deeper you go, the higher the level of the monsters inside.

However, for them, as long as they don’t encounter fourth-level creatures, they can deal with them easily.

Then Cao Xing walked over and picked up all the materials dropped by the elite human-faced tree on the ground.

[Obtain: Strong Human-Faced Tree Vine (Blue) *91]

[Obtain: Elite Human-Faced Tree Heart (Blue)*1]

[Obtain: Elite Human-faced Tree Bark (Blue)*1]

[Obtain: Medium-quality sap (blue) * 6]

[Obtain: Medium Power Book *1]

...

Looking at the human-faced tree heart in Cao Xing's hand, Dabai's eyes once again showed a look of desire.

Cao Xing was also generous and fed the second human-faced tree heart.

Dabai swallowed it in one gulp, just like eating a snack.

"Gulu...Gulu..."

The life force contained in the heart of the human-faced tree began to take effect in Dabai's body.

The mammoth's body grew about half a meter again.

A system prompt appears.

[Your mammoth has grown to a new stage, and its maximum health has increased by 5%]

...

Cao Xing's eyes showed a thoughtful look, "This time it only increased 5% of the health points. It's just like what Juliette said. The same thing works best the first time it's used."

"Will it gradually weaken later on, and will it be completely ineffective by the fourth time?"

However, Cao Xing did not feel any regret.

After all, the elite-level human-faced tree heart is ineffective, but don’t we still have chief-level and leader-level human-faced tree hearts?
The forest is so big, and so far they have only been wandering around the periphery!

So, Cao Xing gave the third blue-grade human-faced tree heart to Dabai.

Cao Xing is never stingy with his own people.

After a while, the system prompt appears again.

[Your mammoth has grown to a new stage, maximum health +3%]

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction.

The three human-faced tree hearts together increase Dabai's maximum health by 18%.

I glanced at Dabai’s current health level.

[HP: 41480/41480]

"Haha! It's actually over 40,000!"

A look of surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes!
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