Chapter 1170 – Nourishment
After strolling around in Sand City and making sure that she had bought everything she needed to buy, Xu Chuniang returned to the city gates, returned the entry order, and planned to leave the city.
The people guarding the city still have an impression of her, remembering that she is a first-time cultivator in Sand City, kindly asked one more question.
“Have you considered where to camp? You newcomers are inexperienced in dealing with dust storm turbulence and sand beast tides, so it’s best to choose a place closer to Sand City.”
“Thanks for the reminder, I’m planning to camp three hundred feet away.”
Upon hearing this, the cultivator guarding the city gave her an odd look, but didn’t say anything more.
Every year, there were quite a few people that chose to camp in a free place.
These people all felt that three hundred feet would be there in no time, so there was no need to spend more money, and when the dust storm turbulence and sand beast tide came, running faster would be the way to go.
However, the truth was that when the dust storms and sand beasts came, the laws of heaven and earth were in chaos, and they could devour people’s lives in an instant.
By the time they realized the danger, it was too late to regret.
Xu Chuniang went out of the city and walked all the way to 500 feet away, finding a secluded place with few people before she started to set up camp.
A place too close to Sand City was relatively safer, but there were simply too many cultivators gathered here.
With her divine soul perception, she could sense an extremely wide range, and was able to detect the dust storm turbulence and the sand beast tide before they came, so she could avoid them early on, so there was no need to crowd with the others.
Xu Chuniang set up her tent and confirmed that the formations on the tent were working properly before stepping into it and starting to check the state of the Soul Breath Vine.
In this battle, a total of four or five Soul Breath Vines had died from their injuries.
Of the nearly sixty vines that were still alive, quite a few of them suffered minor injuries, and as they were still in good condition and didn’t require any extra effort to care for them, she simply sent them to stand guard outside the tent.
The Soul Breath Vines used divine souls as nourishment, there were many sand beasts in the Prisoner Sand Mountain, consuming the divine souls of the sand beasts would help them recover from their injuries.
There were a total of seven or eight of them that had suffered heavy injuries and broken into several pieces, and Xu Chuniang took them out individually, carefully warming them with the power of her soul talisman.
Only after placing the Soul Breath Vine did she begin to check the wounds on her back that had been scratched by the wolf’s claws.
Although the wound on her back wasn’t deep, it contained a higher level of law power, and if she couldn’t dissolve a thousand of the law power contained within it, the wound would continue to deteriorate.
Therefore, even though Xu Chuniang had control over her Chaotic True Qi, she still didn’t dare to be careless when dealing with the injury on her back.
She first used her Chaotic True Qi to generate the Law of Purification, little by little purifying away the power of the Laws contained in the wound, before switching to the Law of Healing to begin healing the wound.
The process was a long one, and by the time Xu Chuniang finished healing the injuries on her back, it was already more than three months later.
During these three months or so, several waves of people had successively set their sights on her tent, attempting to lay their hands on her.
Unfortunately, before these people could even get close to the tent, they were detected by the Soul Breath Vines hidden beneath the sand and strangled clean.
After several times like this, the remaining people finally realized that this tent was inhabited by a tough guy, and since then, no one dared to come close to the tent.
In addition to the cultivators with ulterior motives, the sand beasts that came to attack the camp were also in the minority.
Unfortunately, in front of more than fifty Soul Breath Vines, these sand beasts are simply not enough to look at, how many deaths come.
At the back, when the Soul Breath Vines got a taste of the sweetness, they would even take the initiative to attack, looking for sand beasts that had fallen alone.
Xu Chuniang looked at the severely injured Soul Breath Vines that were placed in the corner of the tent.
After more than three months of nourishment, they were already out of their near-death state, only looking sickly and very weak.
After a little thought, Xu Chuniang planned to leave the tent and take the Soul Breath Vines out to hunt sand beasts. The divine souls of the sand beasts were tonic to the injured Soul Breath Vines.
Eating a large amount of Sand Beast divine souls would allow these injured Soul Breath Vines to recover faster.
Xu Chuniang took the injured Soul Breath Vines with her, stowed her tent, and set off towards the closest sand beast gathering place to Sand City.
Sand Beasts were a kind of group living beasts unique to the Prisoner Sand Mountain, not only were they extremely aggressive, they were also able to use the yellow sand to conceal their forms, and acted in a very stealthy manner.
Once they appeared, they were often in groups of three or five, and each sand beast had the strength of at least the beginning of the Heavenly Demon realm, which was one of the biggest dangers in the Prisoner Sand Mountain.
Therefore, the cultivators stationed near the sand city, unless they are extremely confident in their own strength, will rarely leave the sand city alone and go out to look for treasures.
This was also the reason why when Xu Chuniang first entered the Prisoner Sand Mountain, the Guan surname cultivator saw her and didn’t hesitate to run away.
The person who has the strength to walk alone in the Prisoner Sand Mountain is by no means a generalized person.
The Prisoner Sand Mountain is filled with yellow sand, if not for the topographical map firmly memorized in the mind in advance, it is simply impossible to distinguish the location.
Despite this, Xu Chuniang still spent five days on the original two-day journey, making half the detour.
After this, she finally understood why she had to follow the merchant caravan if she wanted to safely leave Prisoner Sand Mountain.
The fierce winds and quicksand in the Prisoner Sand Mountain were always changing the terrain of the mountain.
Without an experienced cultivator to lead the way, it would be difficult to find the right path even with the guidance of a topographical map.
In fact, for Xu Chuniang, if she wanted to leave the Imprisoned Sand Mountain, apart from following the merchant caravan, there was another faster method, which was to tear through space and walk away.
However, leaving with this method had great disadvantages.
With her current strength, she was unable to accurately control the direction and distance of the teleportation in the void, and she could not independently choose her destination with great uncertainty.
Moreover, walking in the void was not without danger.
Therefore, she would rather spend more time and choose a safer approach, and in the meantime, hunt sand beasts in this Imprisoned Sand Mountain and feed the Soul Breath Vine properly.
As the distance between Xu Chuniang and the Sand Beast Gathering grew closer, the more Sand Beasts she encountered along the way.
Five or six sandworms that were the thickness of a bucket and more than ten feet long set their sights on her as they tumbled through the yellow sand, attacking from different directions.
However, the speed of the Soul Breath Vine was faster than the sandworms.
At the sight of the sandworms, the Soul Breath Vine got excited and frantically danced to meet them, tangling with the huge sandworms.
Fighting for numbers, these few sandworms weren’t enough to stuff their teeth!
The battle ended very quickly, without the need for Xu Chuniang to make a move, the Soul Breath Vine neatly disposed of the sandworms and presented the three not-so-complete sandworm souls as if they were treasures.
This was what she had ordered beforehand, all the harvests from this trip needed to be shared out in half, for the injured Soul Breath Vines to nurse their wounds.
The rest will be shared by the rest of the Soul Breathing Vines.
After receiving the divine souls and throwing them to the injured Soul Breath Vines, she flipped out an axe and gouged out the eyes of all the sand worms.
This axe, or when she left Crown Mountain City, she encountered an attack and recovered it from the cultivator who sneaked up on her, the grade was Heavenly Demon mid-grade, and it was still quite handy.