Bamboo Mound

However, in his eyes, this light blue bamboo forest showed no signs of withering!

Even the spiritual energy inside is much greater than that in the air!

"It probably hasn't started yet, or maybe this kind of bamboo won't die after producing seeds."

"But this color of bamboo is quite nice. I'll save some seeds to plant later."

I squeezed the bamboo seed in my hand; the seed coat was already a bit dry, so it must be mature.

Ning Chang then controlled his spiritual power and quickly picked a bunch of bamboo seeds, storing them in his spatial bag.

Then he selected a few bamboo stalks that looked good and wanted to cut them down for later use.

But when his blade struck the bamboo, he realized that the bamboo leaves he had prepared, even with the enhancement of the sharpness, had only left a small scratch on the bamboo!

Upon seeing this, his eyes widened in shock!

"Wow! This is a great product. It's not only beautiful but also sturdy. The bamboo leaves must be reinforced as well, right?"

With a hint of anticipation, he chopped at the base of a bamboo leaf that was relatively low to the ground.

To his surprise, even at the thinnest part, it took him several tries to cut the bamboo leaf off!

He held the bamboo leaf, which resembled a fragment of the sky, in his hand and manipulated it.

Ning Chang discovered that the leaves were far superior to the ordinary bamboo leaves he carried in terms of hardness, toughness, and sharpness!

Not only does it make a "bang" sound when you tap another bamboo leaf, but it can also be bent at will while maintaining its rigidity!

It's like combining the concepts of software and hardware!

"Ha, what a coincidence! It's an opportunity that belongs only to me!"

Ning Chang chuckled lightly. If others came here, they probably wouldn't care about these bamboos and would only explore other obvious treasures.

He decided to collect more of these light blue bamboo leaves to replace the ordinary bamboo leaves he was currently using.

After enhancing the bamboo leaf with the "Sharpening Edge" skill, he controlled it to fly around, constantly selecting the best bamboo leaves to cut off and store in his spatial bag.

These bamboo leaves are quite impressive. After being enchanted with the Sharpness Enhancement, their sharpness has increased to another level. With a light swipe, they can cut off bamboo leaves from other branches!

Before long, Ning Chang had filled both of his one-cubic-meter space bags with these bamboo leaves!

He even threw out ordinary bamboo leaves for this purpose, but even so, he still felt that he could only hold so few.

After all, once it's gone, every seed used is one less seed available, and who knows how long it will be before he has the chance to plant such a seed again.

Looking at the sparse bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest in front of him, Ning Chang shook his head and found a few more bamboo stalks that he had previously set his sights on.

Previously, his bamboo leaves were too weak to cut down the bamboo, but now that he has the bamboo leaves, cutting it down shouldn't be too difficult.

He then casually chopped off a few bamboo leaves, arranged them in a circle, and placed them on the bamboo. With a single twist, he separated the originally hard bamboo stalk!

But that's not all. After all, his space can only hold objects up to three meters long, while the bamboo here is often eight or nine meters long, and some are even twice as tall as other bamboo!

So in order to put it into his space bag and take it out, he had to cut the bamboo into three-meter-long sections.

Moreover, considering the different qualities of different sections of the same bamboo, he chose to use only the lower middle section of each bamboo, leaving the rest on the ground in the forest.

After all, the bamboo has already flowered and will soon wither away, so there's no need to worry about damaging it anymore.

Ning Changcai stopped after cutting down about ten trees.

Among the bamboos he selected, each one was about the thickness of a cup, with uniform internode length and flawless skin.

However, there was one that was a bit thinner. He had chosen it intentionally. It was just the right thickness to hold in one's hand, and it was just as uniform and flawless. It fit perfectly in his hand when he swung it!

Ning Chang put away the bamboo and leaped into the air above the bamboo forest, stepping onto a bamboo stalk.

Judging from that stone hall, this secret realm must have been inhabited before.

In bamboo forests where people are present, bamboo huts are highly likely to appear, and some traces will inevitably remain inside.

Therefore, Ning Chang only needs to find an open space in the bamboo forest.

However, perhaps because he wasn't standing high enough, he couldn't see any open space in the bamboo forest from his current perspective.

But then they discovered something that looked like a bamboo shoot standing deep in the bamboo forest in the distance.

The thing had no branches or leaves, was thin at the top and thick at the bottom, looking exactly like a bamboo shoot, but it was taller than the bamboo next to it.

Ning Chang had never encountered a bamboo shoot that had grown so big without turning into bamboo, and he couldn't be sure if it was a bamboo shoot or something else that looked like a bamboo shoot.

However, there was nothing unusual about that place at the moment, so he had no choice but to head in that direction.

Before long, Ning Chang arrived at the bamboo shoots.

Upon getting closer, Ning Changcai confirmed that these were indeed bamboo shoots, but their size was truly unbelievable.

Its diameter alone is about ten meters! And its height is close to twenty meters!

There is an open space around it, separated from the bamboo forest.

The bamboo shoot skin was also light blue, but most of it had turned a withered yellow and had some cracks.

Controlling the bamboo shoot skin to peel off along the cracks, Ning Chang discovered that the area of ​​the dried skin became larger and larger as she peeled it deeper inside.

When he peeled it to reveal the bamboo shoot flesh, he found that the bamboo shoot was completely dried out, and the entire flesh wall was cracked and wrinkled!

He could even tear the bamboo shoot flesh apart with his bare hands!

"That's strange. What's going on, something drying out from the inside?"

Ning Chang frowned, puzzled. "Isn't it always the outermost part that's dried first, and the inner bamboo shoots themselves dried last?"

"Forget it, we're already in the cultivation world, so let things be abnormal."

Unable to figure it out, Ning Chang stopped thinking about it and continued peeling the bamboo shoots.

Even though there's nothing inside, I've already peeled half of it, and I feel a bit uncomfortable if I don't finish peeling it.

Before long, they had peeled down to the tips of the bamboo shoots.

After a piece of bamboo shoot peeled off, a small thing that shouldn't be on a normal bamboo shoot caught his attention.

At the very tip of the bamboo shoot, at its thinnest point, a thumb-sized oval object grows upwards.

Except for its size and width, it is exactly the same bamboo species as the bamboo growing on the surrounding bamboo!

Upon seeing this large bamboo seed, Ning Chang suddenly felt an itch on his head.

"This... bamboo shoots are producing seeds? And they're growing at the top?!"

"Is this thing crazy?!" he couldn't help but exclaim.

But sensing that only this seed on the entire bamboo shoot contained spiritual energy, he still chose to pick it and take it with him.

After all, the seeds from bamboo shoots that grow in the bamboo forest are different from those in the rest of the bamboo forest. I wonder what special things will grow if they are planted in the future.

But just as he plucked the seed, a strange thing happened!

The surrounding bamboo forest withered in large swaths, releasing all the spiritual energy contained within, causing even the bamboo leaves and seeds to lose their color!

Then, along with the bamboo shoot beneath him, they were reduced to dust, piling up in a heap.