125: North Ridge Peach Blossom Paradise, Farewell

“Do you have a good name?” Tao Yumian asked indifferently.

At this moment, a twenty-meter-tall peach tree had already grown on the island in the middle of the lake.

Tang Ping thought carefully: “How about calling it Peach Blossom Spring Wonderland?”

“Peach Blossom Spring Wonderland.” Tao Yumian smiled faintly, “A very good name.”

“From now on, this place will be called Peach Blossom Spring Wonderland.”

The sacred spirit peach tree swayed, seemingly very satisfied with the name.

“When do you plan to leave?” Tao Yumian brewed a cup of tea, and as the peach tree above her swayed, a few peach blossoms fell into the tea.

“The day after tomorrow, I’ll help you plant the collected herbs, then I’ll prepare to leave.” Tang Ping looked up at the peach tree, then at the lush green island. For a moment, he thought it wouldn’t be bad to live in seclusion here forever, like Tao Yumian, observing the world calmly and watching the mundane go by. Unfortunately, he knew he couldn’t make that choice.

Tao Yumian nodded gently, reaching up and beckoning towards the top of her head, and a peach branch fell: “This is an original peach branch from the sacred spirit peach tree. Whether you plant it somewhere later or carry it with you for protection, it’s a good item.”

“I also have something for you,” Tang Ping said, taking out three plants.

“Peashooter, Chomper, and Puff-shroom. I’m giving them to you as guardians. They can also relieve boredom, and if cultivated well, their combat power might not be bad.” Tang Ping spent all the sunlight he had accumulated over the past few days.

“These are? Plants from plants vs. zombies?” Tao Yumian asked in surprise.

Tang Ping proudly waved his phone: “This is my Shelter’s characteristic, a plants vs. zombies mini-game. Every day, I can use sunlight to exchange for some plants.”

“A plants vs. zombies characteristic? What a strange and peculiar Shelter characteristic.” Tao Yumian found it unusual, looking at the three plants on the ground, and nodded: “Then I’ll accept these items.”

“Oh, right.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Help me plant all these herbs, and also help me cultivate twenty acres of land using your Great Emperor Moth.”

“…”

The day after tomorrow.

Tang Ping rode the Great Emperor Moth, leaving the depths of North Ridge, that place called Peach Blossom Spring Wonderland.

After half a day, Tang Ping had already flown out of the current North Ridge.

It was only the twenty-fifth day of the early years of the apocalypse. Although North Ridge had changed a lot, it was far from being as vast and boundless as it would be in later generations.

While flying on the Great Emperor Moth, Tang Ping’s phone vibrated, and a voice sounded.

“Your believer, Magical Girl, has sacrificed a Holy Stone of Dawn to you. Do you wish to accept it?”

“Magical Girl.” Tang Ping then remembered the mini-game he had forgotten about for over ten days, and the Magical Girl in the other world connected to the mini-game.

Counting it, one day here was one month there, so almost two years had passed in the Magical Girl world.

He opened the mini-game, clicked to accept, and was curious about what this Holy Stone of Dawn was.

“Holy Stone of Dawn: A sacred object from another world that can emit holy light, expelling darkness and evil. It has a fatal effect on creatures of darkness and also possesses the ability to purify contamination and darkness.

Note: The rose of light grows under its light.”

“So this is the Holy Stone of Dawn.” Tang Ping looked at the stone in his palm. The stone was transparent and pale gold, with a seemingly tangible halo flowing within it. The light from this stone was roughly equivalent to a 100-watt light bulb, and the effective area it could cover was actually not very large.

Tang Ping suddenly had an idea: he wondered how this thing would be for refining Gu insects. Ever since he got the Five Poisons Nest, he had become somewhat addicted to refining Gu insects, always thinking about what strange Gu insects he could refine.

These days, during his journey to North Ridge, he had been collecting poisonous insects and herbs while refining Gu insects, and had already obtained many Level 1 Gu insects.

Although the poisonous insects and herbs in North Ridge were far inferior in both quantity and quality to those in the mountains of Nanchuan Province where Zhang Xile was, he had still collected quite a few these days.

He successfully refined many Level 1 Gu insects.

The level of Gu insects in the Five Poisons Nest does not represent their realm, but rather the highest life level they can threaten.

A Level 1 Gu insect means it can threaten up to a Level 1 life, and so on.

They are divided into Levels 1 to 5, and after Level 5, there are the Spirit, Profound, Earth, Heaven, and Saint grades.

His Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu was of the Profound grade, meaning it could already affect Level 7 powerhouses, though perhaps not as strongly.

Gu insects do not have realms because each type of Gu insect is different. If one were to speak of realms, it should be that each metamorphosis counts as a realm, and theoretically, there is no upper limit to a Gu insect’s metamorphosis as long as it has suitable good materials. At the same time, the direction of metamorphosis is also variable.

Perhaps after metamorphosis, the grade of the Gu insect may not improve, but the intensity of its ability’s influence will definitely increase exponentially. For example, his Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu might still be Profound grade after metamorphosis, but before metamorphosis, it could only weakly affect Level 7 powerhouses. However, after several metamorphoses, even Heavenly King and Heavenly Queen level powerhouses might suffer the backlash of misfortune, experiencing a series of setbacks.

Moreover, the range of its ability’s influence will continuously expand with metamorphosis.

For example, the Ghost Spider Gu can currently only control one person, but after one metamorphosis, it might simultaneously affect ten people, then a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, eventually becoming catastrophic, easily able to control the people of an entire city.

As for metamorphosis, it might also lead to an improvement in the Gu insect’s grade, but the higher the grade of the Gu insect, the harder it is to improve its grade after metamorphosis. For example, the Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu, which could affect Level 7 powerhouses at birth, indicates that the Gu insect’s inherent ability level is extremely high. Future metamorphoses will primarily deepen its influence, making it extremely difficult to break through its grade.

However, the Ghost Spider Gu, which is only Level 2, has a much higher probability of improving its grade during metamorphosis. Perhaps after a few metamorphoses, it could reach the Spirit grade.

Tang Ping had learned all of this in the novice Gu Master manual of the Five Poisons Nest mini-game.

And now, Tang Ping wanted to use this Holy Stone of Dawn to cultivate another high-grade Gu insect!

A treasure whose light could cultivate something like the rose of light, how could it be anything less?

Looking at the various Gu insects he had cultivated over the past eight or nine days, Tang Ping hardened his heart and directly threw all the Level 1 Gu insects into a Gu insect cultivation slot.

Finally, he added the Holy Stone of Dawn. For treasures of this level, it was basically guaranteed that a Gu insect would be cultivated; the only difference would be between good, better, and super good.

“I hope it brings me a surprise.” Tang Ping greeted the Three Pure Ones, Sakyamuni, and everyone else, then put in the Holy Stone of Dawn and clicked start.

Inside the Gu insect cultivation slot, countless insects instantly began to tear at each other, various bodily fluids splashed, and severed limbs flew about, creating a gruesome scene that made one’s scalp tingle just to look at it.

This was the mutual devouring among Gu insects; only the last victorious one would survive.