Chapter 342: Chapter 342

On both sides were towering mountain ranges that stretched endlessly, forming a so-called mountain gully in the middle.

This gully is filled with various poisonous plants.

They depend on each other yet devour one another.

Over the years, this place has become a paradise for toxic beings.

Poisonous snakes, venomous beasts, toxic insects, poisonous flowers, poisonous grasses, toxic numbers... all are present.

In the Exotic Battlefield, this place is a famously dangerous land.

After discovering anomalies in this place, the Human Federation has ventured here many times, but those who enter never return.

Gradually, the name of Grassland Gully spread.

Zhu Henian seemed to notice the fear among the Level 9 Martial Artists in the team, but he said nothing and led the way in.

In the forest, it was silent.

There seemed to be no danger visible.

Suddenly, a Martial Artist in the team fell silently with a thud.

"Oh no, he’s been poisoned."

"Old Zhu, Chen Yu is poisoned."

Exclamations echoed through the crowd.

Zhu Henian had sensed it when Chen Yu fell, teleporting immediately to his side.

At this moment, Chen Yu’s face was ashen, his lips quivered continuously, his breathing erratic, eyes tightly shut.

Even though Zhu Henian had practiced medicine for many years, it took him over half a minute to determine what poison Chen Yu had.

"Four-leaf Harmony Flower Grass."

"Quick, slice open the tips of Chen Yu’s ring fingers, let him bleed."

Zhu Henian instructed, gathering a ball of white light in his hand to Chen Yu’s forehead.

The white light slowly fused into Chen Yu’s body, and the fingertips that had just been bleeding red now oozed a pale pink fluid with a faint scent of lotus leaves.

The pale pink fluid hit the ground, instantly soaking into it, disrupting the roots of nearby plants and the soil structure.

"Be careful, the Fracture Snake is coming out, prepare for an attack."

Zhu Henian knew the characteristics of the Four-leaf Harmony Flower Grass.

To a Fracture Snake, the blood of someone poisoned by it is a great supplement.

Just as the many Martial Artists around reacted and gripped their weapons, the ground began to writhe, and a snake’s head popped out, spotting the terrifying aura of so many Level 9 Martial Artists staring at it.

Fracture Snake: Oh, crap.

Just when the Martial Artists were preparing their Star Skills to deliver a fatal strike to the Fracture Snake.

The Fracture Snake retracted its head suddenly.

It’s a highly poisonous viper.

Its venom can quickly destroy prey’s blood vessels and shatter their heart.

With so many targeting just itself, how could it dare to confront them directly?

It quickly scurried away.

Zhu Henian didn’t mind this since their purpose for coming to Grassland Gully was not to hunt poisonous snakes for venom, finding Lu Lin was the primary goal.

Shortly after, as the Fracture Snake retreated, Chen Yu’s eyes slowly opened.

Besides a bit of pain at the tips of his ring fingers, he felt no other issues.

After expressing gratitude, everyone again set off on the quest to find Lu Lin.

However, with the incident of Chen Yu, everyone was now extending their Spiritual Strength as they moved to avoid being unknowingly harmed by the poisonous creatures here.

But, before long, a buzzing sound reached their ears.

Hidden under the cover of green poison, a terrifying swarm of venomous bees was flying towards them.

"It’s the Absolute Destruction Swarm."

Zhu Henian hesitated momentarily, then directed everyone to fly into the sky to avoid the swarm’s attack.

The Absolute Destruction Swarm is said to be certain death on sight, but only for Martial Artists below the Seventh Level.

As long as they could ascend to the high sky, they would be safe.

These swarms, though terrifying, generally do not fly higher than thirty meters.

So long as Martial Artists flew above this height, there would be no danger.

However, once they flew high, Zhu Henian’s team now faced a new crisis.

One by one, poisonous seeds shot up from below.

These were seeds of the Shooting Poison Pearl Tree.

In mid-air, they had to evade to avoid being hit.

The Shooting Poison Pearl Tree is a rare poison-element plant that can grow to Level 9, and some say they’ve seen a demon-level version of the tree.

This Shooting Poison Tree at the demon beast realm, except for immobility, has almost no weaknesses.

Even fire-elemental Martial Artists using Star Skills can’t significantly harm it.

"Fly forward, and after evading the Absolute Destruction Swarm, descend quickly."

"Everyone stay alert."

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In just three days since entering Grassland Gully, even with his protection, the team faced crisis after crisis.

In such an environment, can Lu Lin really survive?

After reporting the situation here to Lv Susu stationed in Food God City, they quickly received notification to approach Mo Bai Mountain.

Standing on the outskirts of Mo Bai Mountain, Xing Fang sent a message; she spotted the MH-370 Starship and the six mountain peaks that had been smashed open.

Unless unexpected, Lu Lin should be nearby and not too far.

Haven’t yet reached the Cliff of the Alpine Cloud Sea, Zhu Henian was suffering tremendously in Grassland Gully when receiving orders to quickly approach the outskirts of Mo Bai Mountain.

Two days later, they joined with Xing Fang and saw the MH-370 Starship.

"It seems the starship hasn’t suffered much damage."

Duan Ya hovered in the air, looking up and down as he spoke.

"Indeed, it hasn’t. Over the past two days, I’ve roughly examined the starship’s condition. Most of the food inside has been taken away."

"Additionally, through scent analysis, we’ve identified the races involved in the pursuit of Lu Lin this time."

"The Black Eagle Tribe, Black Dog Tribe, Crane Feather Clan, Earth-Breaking Tribe...and among the Eight Great Clans, there are as many as four to five hundred high-level Star Soldiers with combat power present."

"It’s truly...incredible that Lu Lin managed to escape their pursuit."

Xing Fang also sighed.

She could hardly imagine how Lu Lin, relying only on Zhang Xianzhi and Bao Hu’s Bao Hu, could escape from the hands of so many elite alien warriors.

"So what do we do now?"

"No rush, Lu Lin is very safe for now. Let’s report the situation here and see how Lv Susu arranges things."

"Our movements may have already been detected by the alien races, and they will surely reinforce their forces here."

Zhu Henian and Duan Ya agreed and then temporarily settled down with the warriors from their team within the starship.

This place has plenty of living supplies, and aside from not being able to use any electronic devices, it’s no different from living in the Human Federation.

At this moment, Lu Lin was not as calm as they imagined.

The food in the Soul Sealing Space Crystal was running out.

Over a thousand people were in the Soul Sealing Space Crystal, including a number of Star Core Warriors. Their daily food consumption had to reach at least five tons.

The food taken from the starship was barely enough to last this thousand people for ten days.

If not for conserving food, they might have starved to death long ago.

Even so, a food shortage was still occurring.

Upon receiving the news, Lu Lin immediately sent a message to Lv Susu, asking her to send people with a large amount of food for support.

During these days at Bu Ming Villa, Lu Lin didn’t waste any time.

He not only learned about the history, culture, and races of the Exotic Battlefield from General Yu Long but also spent a considerable amount of time sparring with Yu Long.

Yu Long truly lived up to being a rare Knife Way master among the alien races. In just these ten or so days, Lu Lin had already mastered the Han Yue realm of the Ten Steps Kill.

He even made significant progress beyond.

Additionally, he tried to integrate the three saber moves of the Bright Moon Slash into Ten Steps Kill, but so far, there hadn’t been much progress.

Apart from these, every day Lu Lin would continuously weaken the spiritual strength of General Yu Long.

Causing his spiritual strength to decline gradually yet steadily.

At this point, General Yu Long didn’t care anymore.

He knew he was bound to die.

He knew he would definitely die at Lu Lin’s hands.

Yet, Yu Long felt no anger or sadness.

This emotion had disappeared long ago, back in those months when he first entered Bu Ming Villa.

Now, when he looked at Lu Lin, not only did he not feel repulsion or anger, but faintly, there was even a hint of...affection.

He had come to see Lu Lin as his own disciple.

He couldn’t help it; Lu Lin’s talent in Knife Way was so exceptional.

Yu Long’s greatest wish was to find a disciple worthy of inheriting his legacy.

But among the young people of the Extraordinary Species, their minds were filled with thoughts of how to enhance their bloodlines, how to comprehend more innate skills.

Body cultivation, and Star Skill cultivation, were largely abandoned by most.

After all, cultivating the body, cultivating Star Martial took too much time.

From the beginning, to minor achievement, major achievement, and perfection, it required going through four stages.

As for what comes after, that’s something ordinary people can’t achieve.

Rather than spending so much time on cultivation, it was faster to enhance bloodlines and comprehend skills, which was a quicker way to increase combat power.

Though Yu Long was resentful, he finally resigned himself in the face of Lu Lin’s Knife Way talent.

He accepted Lu Lin as his disciple.

To inherit General Yu Long’s legacy.

These past days, regardless of whether Lu Lin was willing, he taught him his proud saber methods "Heavenly Saber Art," "Chaotic Wind Blade," "Leave a Line," and "Break Nine Layers," all of which were Star Soldier level sabers.

He even taught Lu Lin "Wind Whirling Clouds," which could only be wielded by a Star General level, without caring if Lu Lin could handle it.

Moreover, in combat, he would proactively feed Lu Lin moves. In just ten days or so, Lu Lin had already reached a minor achievement stage with the four saber methods.

This was achieved without dedicating himself fully to cultivation.

"What should I do about this?"

Once he left General Yu Long’s position, Lu Lin couldn’t help but sigh.

The graciousness General Yu Long showed made it hard for Lu Lin to carry through with the idea of killing him.

If they were in an adversarial state, Lu Lin certainly would not hesitate.

But after spending so many days together, Lu Lin felt that General Yu Long was not bad.

In fact, if he were given a human identity, Lu Lin might not even feel such hesitation and discomfort.

However, being an old Star General of an alien race, Lu Lin couldn’t feel secure without killing him.

Letting him go was out of the question for Lu Lin.

With those not of our race, their hearts are different.

Yet, truly killing Yu Long left Lu Lin feeling a bit reluctant.

Faced with this dilemma, Lu Lin decided to maintain the status quo.

After all, as long as Yu Long didn’t emerge, he wouldn’t assist the alien races or oppose the Human Race.

At this time, the people Lv Susu sent to purchase food had finally returned from Chongnuo City.

Next, two Title King level masters would escort the rations to rescue Lu Lin.

They were carrying enough food for over a thousand people for more than three months.

Zhao Lei and a Title King named Guo Yuan quickly set off, rushing towards Mo Bai Mountain’s direction.

Heading towards the same destination as them were...

Gan Yu, who had recovered from his injuries, and three alien Star Generals departing from the endless sea.