Chapter 498 Unprecedented Shock! The Southern Heavenly Gates Project! (Two In One)
“Elder Zhu Chuan, the territory of the human Su Mo has been slow to let us in. Is it because their strength hasn’t even reached one tenth of ours……” “These sentry clansmen, none of them look like strong men, be it the looks or the weapons they use, could it be…”
The weather in the basin had turned into a gratifying sunny day. Yet strangely, it was still pouring rain along the boundary of the basin. Standing in the torrential rain, the six treefolks shook off the acc.u.mulating water on their bodies from time to time and whispered into each other.
The shortest among them was also more than seven meters high, and the leaves were shattering and falling wildly as they spoke, making a rustling sound. The tallest was the tree man called Elder Zhu Chuan, who seemed to be at least twelve meters in height, and his body was covered with broad, green leaves. “Zhu He, you idiot, I think you’ve forgotten the pain of the healed scars, right? How many times have I said that the fighting power of humans and dwarves is not determined by their physical appearance, their real strength is the use of tools and weapons! Use your stupid brains to think about the appearance of us coolie treefolks then think about what weapons they are holding and how they are dressed! These days, I have done a lot of research on the structure of human society. None of you should have the slightest bit of contempt, these people are the bottom feeders of the human race. They are beneath even us coolie treefolks! Besides, if Su Mo’s strength was just as what we could identify through his looks, how could those vengeful dwarves stay put after their pathway got destroyed by him the day before yesterday?!” Pulling out a thick branch, Elder Zhu Chuan slammed it on treefolk Zhu He, making a deep mark.
The latter was in pain, groaned, and did not dare to speak again.
Depending on the height of the trees, it was easy to tell the status and strength of everyone among the treefolks. Just like animal groups, in the group structure of the treefolks, the hierarchy structure was something to be followed strictly!
The moment Zhu Chuan got mad, all the other treefolks also hurriedly shut their mouths, for fear that they would be whipped too.
Fortunately, this stalemate did not last long.
After receiving the order, Su Yuan returned with a full smile.
Treefolk Zhu Chuan also put on a self-kind smile and hurriedly greeted him. “My esteemed king of human beings, Su Mo, I, the ancient treefolk Zhu Chuan, once again apologize for our abrupt visit.” “Please forgive our rudeness!” After learning the ways of humans, Zhu Chuan was like a gentleman who taken straight out of a textbook, full of elegance. On his tree face, a huge amount of apology could be seen. “Dear treefolk ally, your politeness is really surprising. Compared with the rude foreign races, you are the most elegant gentleman.” Seeing that Su Yuan also greeted him with a smile on his face, and seemed not to understand the meaning behind those words, Zhu Chuan was stunned, “Human ally, may Lord Su Mo agree to our visit request, if not, it’s okay to…”
Su Yuan, “Oh, Brother Zhu Chuan, we are all allies, how can there be any disagreements to be made?”
“As the first ally of our basin to visit, our director very much welcomes your visit, and has prepared a very high-level reception ceremony for you.” “But…”
“We have a rule in Huaxia, this is something you must have since it’s your first visit here, or the rule will be broken…”
With a wave of his hand, Su Yuan put on a warm smile.
By the way, from the angle that only Zhu Chuan saw, Su Yuan rubbed his thumb and index finger with his other hand a few times, the meaning was very obvious. With the mission of delaying time, he was not worried that the treefolks would not understand.
On the contrary, he still had a lot of time to explain the ancient culture of mankind.
Unfortunately…
“Oh that, yes I know that this is your unique rule, and we treefolks shall naturally follow the customs of the territory.”
“Here, Brother Su Yuan, this is a gift for you!”
Benefited from studying human culture for a long time, seeing Su Yuan’s performance, Zhu Chuan was not angry but happy, and hurriedly laughed and winked at the dazed treefolks behind.
“The h.e.l.l King is easy to mess with, but the little devils are hard to deal with. These greedy scavengers must be fed, otherwise we will have to pay more if we ruin the overall situation! Hmmph, those old folks in the clan don’t know anything about human culture but expect to trade valuable things with the other party? Fortunately, I am smart enough to prepare everything beforehand.” Zhu Chuan did not pause his movements despite feeling triumphant. He immediately took over the gift that was being taken out by one of the treefolk from the storage s.p.a.ce on the branch. “Brother Su Yuan, this is a piece of rice leaf produced by the best part of our plantations. It might look ordinary, but it holds a huge amount of energy, and it is the most popular item among the foreign races. Ten pieces of rice leaves are more than enough to replenish the daily energy usage of us treefolks; and this one piece here, should be more than enough to sustain for two days. Even if it’s during the cold winter, as long as you eat this rice leaf, you won’t need to eat any food to keep your body warm for two days!” The rice leaf that Zhu Chuan mentioned was only the size of a palm. Different from the large leaf letter that exuded green light before, the color of this rice leaf was dark red, and it looked abnormally thick. Plus, its efficacy was surprising enough. Just an ordinary leaf yet it could support the consumption of a normal human for two days. Such a ‘precious’ gift could definitely settle the ‘little minions’!
Two steps forward, and one step back, Su Yuan had a ‘surprising’ expression on his face, “Oh, this can’t be done… Such a precious gift…”
Zhu Chuan laughed, “Oh please don’t refuse my gift…” Su Yuan continued to wave his hand, “I can’t do it, if the Chief finds out that I took such an expensive gift, I can’t…” Zhu Chuan understood, “Brother Su Yuan, if you don’t tell me, I won’t say it, no one knows about it, just relax, Lord Su Mo will never blame you for accepting gifts…”
One side was a treefolk with a height of more than ten meters.
The other was a human being with a height of 175cm.
Looking at the human and the treefolk, it looked like the scene of refusing each other’s New Year money in Huaxia. Neither party felt anything strange in this way, but others only feel that it was weird. Under these circ.u.mstances, the villagers who followed Su Yuan were dumbfounded and the treefolks standing behind were also stunned. “Brother Zhu Ling, this gift… I’ve accepted it!”
After two or three minutes of refusal, seeing the back and forth of several pulls, the treefolks were so slick that it was difficult to get rid of them.
Su Yuan rolled his eyes and took the gift, seemingly showing off to the villagers in the back, but in fact he quietly winked at Zhang Liang, the deputy team leader behind. They all came from the same dormitory back then, the latter understood immediately and stood up happily.
“Brother Zhu, we have an old saying in Huaxia called… whoever sees it has a share, since our team leader has a gift, how about…” “Yes, you have it too!”
Zhu Chuan threw out a branch and touched his ‘leaf beard’ on the chin, he then showed an expression indicating that he was in control of the situation. The next second, another rice leaf was handed over.
“Oh, I can’t take this, it’s a gift for our team leader, that’s too precious. Brother Zhu Chuan, please take it back…”
“Don’t worry about it, everyone should be treated equally…”
It was another familiar refusal.
The treefolks in the back were still stupid, but some of the villagers had come into their senses, and there was a sudden realization in their eyes.
Because of the example from Su Yuan, Zhu Chuan was very familiar with the process of refusal.
This time, Zhang Liang only persisted for two minutes before he got defeated and took the rice leaves.
However, the villagers who followed did not even wait for Zhang Liang to turn around, and then greeted him again.
This gesture instantly made Zhu Chuan’s face, who was still smiling, stagnate. Fortunately, the treefolk rice leaves were originally an item that replenishes energy, and there was no shortage in terms of the stock. Wait until the forty-sixth person in the group comes forward, seeing Pei Shao rus.h.i.+ng from behind appeared at the end of his field of vision, Su Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and winked at the remaining four. “Brother Zhu Chuan, you are really generous allies, and we will definitely become best friends in the future!”
Watching Zhu Chuan cooperating very well and distributing rice leaves to the remaining four, even Pei Shao’s share was ready, Su Yuan laughed and hurried forward.
In the next second, he took the paper that Pei Shao handed over and gently tossed it at Zhu Chuan, the treefolk.
As Zhu Chuan received the paper, both sides showed satisfied smiles.
“Please!”
“Thank you!”
Just like the leaves used by the tree people to send messages, this paper was ordinary, but it was filled with Su Mo’s will and is protected by the game. Sticking the paper on his chest, Zhu Chuan walked into the territory first.
Surprisingly, the huge pressure imagined did not appear at all.
Although, there was a hidden warning telling Zhu Chuan that once he launched an attack, he would be severely punished. However, the original purpose of the treefolks was to investigate, and they did not intend to do damage at all.
From the northeast boundary of the basin, back to Iron Rock Mountain, the distance in the middle was about 100 kilometers.
As there was enough time, there was no need for everyone to delay.
Leaving the remaining forty people to continue to clean up the salt that had precipitated out of the basin, Su Yuan and Pei Shao took the lead and hurried away with the treefolk.
“This place is really barren, how can there still be such an ordinary area in the new world? I really don’t know why Su Mo chose this poor place!”
“Although the trees are lush, they are ordinary plants and have no value at all.” “Even if it regains its vitality, this land is still not suitable for any large-scale high-level plant cultivation, which is a pity.”
“Could it be that Su Mo is only faking his strength with his looks? Otherwise…”
The more he walked into the basin, more doubts began to appear in Zhu Chuan’s heart.
Although he spoke plausibly when he was teaching other treefolks before, his ideas were also based on Su Mo’s prestigious deeds, and he had not witnessed it with his own eyes.
At this time, after walking a full half of the journey, and yet to see any improvement, Zhu Chuan’s facial expression suddenly sank.
“Ally Su Yuan, may I ask how far we are from the territory?!”
Between the words, the friendly brother’s name disappeared instantly, and Zhu Chuan also brought a hint of coldness in his tone.
“Come on, we are almost there, go over this mountain, and you’ll be in the territory soon!”
Zhu Chuan was in a bad mood, as expected.
Yet what he did not know was that Su Yuan, who was comforting him, actually turned up a storm in his heart.
If it were not for Pei Shao next to him still leading the way with a calm look, watching the dozens of mountains that suddenly appeared in the basin, he would definitely exclaim immediately. ‘How is this even a basin!’
‘This is clearly a reduced version of… the Qinling Mountains!’ “Stop, honored guests, please hold on and wait for the Chief’s decree!”
This was after the group climbed over a mountain again and turned abruptly. Standing in front of an unremarkable mountain rock wall, Pei Shao stopped, with a serious look on his face.
Subconsciously, Su Yuan, who had been looking around all the time, quickly stopped his footsteps. However, several treefolk who had thoughts in their hearts, including Zhu Chuan, did not react in time, and slammed into the cliff.
Bang!
The imaginary cliff wall collapsing did not happen, on the contrary, all the treefolks bounced off more than ten meters away as if being struck by lightning. In the panicked eyes of all the treefolks, a stream of golden light appeared on the cliff that had no response initially, and a gap opened from it. Two voices came out one after the other, “Hey, how bold of you!” “Which being dares to break my Heavenly Southern Gates, report yourselves!” Like thunder, the 30-meter-high cliff opened up bigger.
After the entire rock wall was completely dyed with golden light, two figures came out. Different from ordinary humans, these two figures were extremely tall, even Zhu Ling, who was 12 meters tall, was one head shorter than them
“This… Zhang Long, Liu Neng…” Su Yuan had never heard of the figure’s appearance, but he was extremely familiar with their faces.
It’s just that before Su Yuan made a sound, Pei Shao on the side moved forward respectfully again. “Reporting to the Northern and Southern Heavenly Generals, the trespa.s.sers are not intentional. They are really unfamiliar with the terrain of our territory, which is why they committed such a reckless move. They have already been approved by the Chief and they have the decree!”
He turned his head quickly and winked at the treefolk Zhu Chuan.
“Oh, we have a decree, we are allies, this is the order issued by Territory Lord Su Mo!” Suddenly, Zhu Chuan climbed up from the ground, took off the paper on his chest, and handed it over respectfully. In front of the other treefolk, he was a prestigious elder. Yet in front of these two figures, he became a ‘dwarf’ again. The suppression brought about by height and power eroded Zhu Chuan’s entire mind in an instant.
The previous speculation was also dissipated at this moment.
“Even if you have the decree, you can be forgiven for the death sentence, but you shall still receive punishments.”
“Wait…”
Seeing that the figure in the golden armor also made a ‘familiar’ gesture like Su Yuan, Zhu Chuan, who was still smiling, nodded crazily after being taken aback for a moment. “Understood, we understand!”
The rice leaves given to the villagers before were all provided by ordinary treefolks. Yet for the needs of Zhang Long and Liu Neng, Zhu Chuan quickly cut open his storage compartment and took out a thick stack.
At first glance, there were more than 50 pieces of rice leaves. As if afraid that it was not enough, with a hint of pain, he took out ten light purple leaves again and took them together.
“Very good, worthy of being an ally of our heavenly court!”
“Please come in!”
Stuffing the thing into their chests, the two golden-armored men gave way to the door.
This time, all of the treefolks did not move forward in a panic but turned their attention to the ‘short’ Su Yuan and Pei Shao who were standing in front. “Let’s go, we have the decree from the Chief, rest a.s.sured!” They took the paper back and handed it to Zhu Chuan.
Seeing the latter sticking cautiously to his chest, Pei Shao was amused, but his expression remained serious and continued to walk forward.
Buzz~
Buzz!
The golden Southern Heavenly Gates seemed to have extraordinary detection technology, exuding bursts of roar. With anxiety, looking at the two who had disappeared in front of the door, Zhu Chuan was nervous and walked in bravely.
The treefolks behind him looked at each other and had no choice but to follow along.
At this point, there was no turning back. After seeing the Southern Heavenly Gates and the golden-armored figures, everyone no longer had any doubts about the strength of Su Mo and the basin. If it was not for their mission, they even wanted to run back to the territory and quickly tell the patriarch Zhu Ling of this important discovery.
Among the treefolks, Zhu He, who had ridiculed the strength of the depression before shutting his mouth completely and fell silent. It was a pity that the silence did not last for long when he really stepped into the gate and got to see things clearly again. He exclaimed in reflex!
“This…this is…”
“The Heavenly Court?” Unlike the barren outside, everyone was stunned as soon as they entered the world inside the door.
It was like stepping into a paradise. Outside was the ‘barren’ land with dark yellow mountains and full of dilapidation everywhere.
Yet when you went inside, you could only see…vitality!
“It’s this kind of power, it’s this kind of feeling… The G.o.d of Tree, the vitality of this Heavenly Court can actually reach such a level!”
From the distance, you could see the huge lake, with smoke rising from the village. On the ground, you could see herds of cattle and sheep, grazing and walking leisurely. The imaginary darkness did not happen, and the sun was still there overhead!
Even the clouds were floating in it!
Standing in this place, Zhu Chuan could feel the excitement of his whole body and the slight increase in strength with every breath he took.
If not for the warning and deterrence of the previous golden armor figure. At this moment, he even wanted to take root on the ground and feel the terrifying vitality force ten times that of his own territory, and the strength growth brought by it! “I’m sorry to ask you to hide your divinity, this look may scare our residents.” “Our Chief doesn’t like to look up to others as well, please forgive me!” After a while, in the field of vision, the two teams of guards in cyan armor holding the ‘Ordinary Long Spears’ came from afar. As if being stared at by a poisonous snake, he glanced at the spear in the guard’s hand. Zhu Chuan’s heart sank again, and he quickly took the lead in shrinking his figure.
Eight meters.
Five meters.
Three meters.
1.7 meters!
Not knowing how tall Su Mo was, and with the height reference of the guards, Zhu Chuan lowered himself as much as possible before stopping. Behind him, the other treefolks also had a similar appearance, reducing their height to 1.5 meters!
“Generals who work hard to convey information, this is a little courtesy, please accept it with a smile.”
Seeing that he and the others had lowered their heights, the guards were still standing in place, Zhu Chuan felt bitter in his heart, and repeatedly signaled to the rear of the tree.
All of them gave whatever they had where possible.
Five stacks of rice leaves were handed over, and the number was not less than three hundred, which was extremely precious! “I didn’t even see him yet, but I already gave half the expected supplies. Fortunately, I prepared in advance and brought a lot!” “Su Mo’s subordinates are indeed a group of greedy monsters!” The guards smiled and began to lead the way. Zhu Chuan complained wildly in his heart, but his footsteps did not change. He was indeed still too ‘young’. In the next half hour, on the way to meet Su Mo, the visiting team met successively… Claiming to be practicing the formation technique, t.i.tled Thirty-six Heavenly Gang, Seventy-two Earth Demon, but in fact it was just a group of entertaining women. ‘Eight Immortals’ who looked even worse than the scavengers, their bodies were in tatters, but their weapons exuded deadly threats.
‘Four Heavenly Kings’ with a 100-person phalanx that were practicing the formation. “Five Star Lords’ who fell gently from the sky but could not even carry a trace of dust.
The four-to-five kilometers “visit” road into the village, a group of people walked “live like a year”.
As if he had obtained ptsd, every time he saw a group of people, Zhu Chuan trembled and handed gifts mechanically.
The expected gifts were all delivered.
The rations on the way back and forth had also been delivered.
Even some of the supplies at the bottom of the box were about to bottom out, under Zhu Chuan’s almost crying expression. At the gate of the village, four people came out.
“It’s a great pleasure to have friends from
afar!”
“Three people… treefolks walking, one of them must be my teacher!”
“Generous ancient treefolk allies, welcome you to… my territory!”
It was like a voice from the sky, at the same time as a magic voice that filled the ears, watching Zhu Chuan’s feet soften, and he fell to the ground straight.
Su Mo quickly stepped forward with a kind smile and kindly ‘helped him up.
“Allies, look at my Southern Heavenly Gates plan!”