Chapter 89: The Treant
As the group continued their journey through the forest, another group of black wood demons appeared.
These wood demons had black trunks, and their leaves had grown quite lush; they were no longer tender shoots. Black wood spirits were much more powerful than the green ones, with a strength equivalent to the late stage of the elementary level, causing some injuries to several people. They didn’t provide any decent spoils except for one thing.
“Black Wood Demon’s essence.” a low-grade gray item—a substance used in alchemy that had a 2% chance of increasing the quality of the final product!
Xiao Yu accepted it with a smile.
He had previously killed the dryad and received the “Century Old Dryad Essence” and some leaves as a reward. Wood demons and dryads were essentially different monsters and not at the same level. The essence of a wood demon or its leaves, unlike those of the dryad, could only be used in the process of refining first-grade items.
First-grade potions and magic items were all essential in the early stages.
This part of the forest was quite vast, and the team had been traveling for three days straight, during which they had slain numerous wood demons. Almost half of the team had advanced to the late stage of the elementary level, with dozens of people reaching the peak of the elementary realm. Everyone’s fighting power continued to improve, and they finally arrived at the edge of the forest on the fourth day.
The dense forest gradually became sparse, and the path became increasingly rugged and winding. The mountain range ahead loomed closer, and several peaks could be seen towering into the clouds like sharp swords, with enormous and powerful giant birds hovering in the sky thousands of meters above.
The furthest point that the scouts sent out by Zhao Changping had reached was probably only this far. No one had gone any further or had ever returned from deeper within, indicating the level of danger in this area. The group dared not be careless and became even more cautious as they approached the mountain range.