96: Tao Yao Tianhou, Tao Yumian

Besides the red imported fire ants, Tang Ping also put other venomous insects into the Gu worm cultivation troughs, adding exotic poisons and waiting.

Among the venomous insects added, some were singular, while others were a mixture of various venomous insects.

The three Black Widows with the strongest toxicity were all added to the other Gu worm cultivation troughs.

There were also golden ringed hornets, which are also extremely venomous, but there were quite a few of them, about seventy to eighty. Tang Ping isolated sixty of them, dividing them into three Gu worm cultivation troughs. These three Gu worm cultivation troughs contained only golden ringed hornets; the rest were added to other Gu worm cultivation troughs.

There were also three exotic poisons of the highest quality. Two Level Three exotic poisons were added to a Gu worm cultivation trough containing Black Widows, golden ringed hornets, venomous centipedes, and so on.

One was added to a Gu worm cultivation trough filled entirely with golden ringed hornets.

For the last level four exotic poison, Tang Ping, for the sake of caution, thought of adding it to a Gu worm cultivation trough filled entirely with stinging nettle caterpillars. The adult stinging nettle caterpillar is a slug moth, so Tang Ping also added a special item. As for this special item, it was naturally the pupa fluid of the King Worm, adding a beer bottle's worth.

Actually, he had originally intended to add a pupa, as the level four exotic poison was considered an over-spec cultivation.

However, Tang Ping remembered that the two pupae still needed to be fed to the Great Emperor Moth to promote its advancement, so he didn't use them.

Closing the Five Poisons Nest mini-game, Tang Ping opened the other mini-games.

plants vs. zombies, his first mini-game, hadn't been opened for several days, and the sunlight had been accumulating.

Currently, the plants inside were far from keeping up with his progress.

The purpose of this mini-game now was the sunlight it provided, along with his future development of new transcendent systems using these plants.

To develop a new transcendent system using the plants from plants vs. zombies, the first thing he needed to solve was the Beast Taming Contract.

Controlling these plants could be considered a different kind of beast taming, so a contract was essential.

The person in later generations who developed the Monstrous Plant Beast Tamer system using this mini-game relied on a contract array to establish a connection between the two.

After contracting using this contract array, not only could the Monstrous Plant Beast Tamer establish a mental link with the plant, but the Beast Tamer could also inherit some of the plant's abilities.

However, this contract array required a Shelter facility, which Tang Ping currently couldn't obtain.

But he knew when and where in a dungeon this contract array's Shelter facility could be refreshed.

Although that place was very far from him, the time was also very long, so Tang Ping was not in a hurry to go.

As for Planting Oranges, it was an unremarkable mini-game.

Tang Ping watered the oranges with the accumulated water from the past few days, harvested several batches, and placed them on the living room table.

There was also the Magical Girl mini-game, which was also not simple.

It seemed to be connected to an Another world.

The Magical Girl's room was still decorated as Tang Ping had left it last time. Several months had passed in the game since he last opened it.

The Magical Girl was not in the room; she was probably busy proselytizing, Tang Ping thought.

After recharging some oranges for the Magical Girl, Tang Ping exited the game.

Tomorrow, he planned to continue searching for the future Empress Taoyao; her sacred spirit peach tree would be of great help to him.

Originally, the maximum plant level in the plants vs. zombies mini-game was actually only Level Three.

However, the player in later generations who had this mini-game used various methods and resources to raise the evolution schemes of six plants to level six, and one plant's evolution scheme to level seven.

But with the sacred spirit peach tree, this heaven-defying sacred tree, Tang Ping felt that perhaps every plant he had could develop an evolution path that could reach at least Level Five, relying on the sacred spirit peach tree.

Even a level seven evolution path was not impossible!

Empress Taoyao, named Tao Yumian, was from Han County, Pingcheng City. Before the apocalypse, she worked as a milk tea girl in Han County.

She was a university student who graduated with a bachelor's degree in Chinese language. Originally, she just wanted to survive the apocalypse uneventfully and observe the world, but for some unknown reason, a single thought led to her rise, and she established a Safe Zone.

Unfortunately, due to the beast tide and three Calamity Beasts, she eventually perished.

Of course, these were just records; Tang Ping didn't know if there were any hidden circumstances.

However, she would definitely plant the sacred spirit peach tree in the future.

The sacred spirit peach tree could only truly grow when it connected with the earth.

But if possible, Tang Ping felt that perhaps he could let Tao Yumian choose a better location.

The sacred spirit peach tree and the earth are interdependent.

If you ask where the earth is most extraordinary...

What could be more extraordinary than the land of the future forbidden zones!

It's important to know that a hundred years later, the Safe Zones where humans resided were actually the most barren lands on the blue star. Only these barren lands were not occupied by powerful Pollution Beasts.

Even if some Safe Zones had fertile land, this "fertile" was only relative to humans, referring to things like sunlight, clean fertile soil suitable for growing food, and clean water sources.

These things, for Pollution Beasts that had adapted to the apocalypse, were undoubtedly useless Wasteland, or even poison.

So, humans had never truly adapted to the apocalypse, or rather, those who adapted to use the apocalypse were no longer human.

As for Pollution Beasts, those truly rich and extraordinary lands were naturally forbidden zones.

Mysterious substances existed within them that could help them evolve better.

And the sacred spirit peach tree had another heaven-defying ability: it could convert these mysterious substances into mysterious substances suitable for the growth of "pure" plants.

"Pure" refers to plants from before the apocalypse, or plants that were not contaminated.

Although humans still couldn't absorb these substances...

But plants, the plants in Tang Ping's plants vs. zombies, how could they not be considered "pure" plants?

At that time, if he then allowed people under his influence to contract plants, wouldn't that be another clear path to success?

That's why Tang Ping was confident that with the sacred spirit peach tree, every one of his plants had infinite possibilities!

However, the prerequisite was that he needed to find Tao Yumian, gain her trust, and even become close friends in the apocalypse.

In the future, perhaps Tao Yumian would also, because of this, become a hegemon of a forbidden zone, truly achieving the goal of observing the world.