Open A Clinic To Cultivate Myself Chapter 221 An Odd Dream

That Shennongjia wild man was sitting on top of a pile of rocks, carrying a huge club the size of an arm. Its face had a 50% resemblance with human beings, and was covered in black hair. Despite being seated, it was already at a height of about two meters, which was taller than Ning Tao who was standing up.

Despite it being the second time seeing a wild man, Ning Tao was still mentally overwhelmed. What could be the energy which had nurtured such a strong being? If the wild men of Shennongjia could also grasp the power of technology, then there would no longer be any place in the world for human beings.

“Oo…” The Shennongjia wild man snored.

That sound had given Ning Tao a fright, but he recovered very quickly. His power of sight was still activated, and could immediately tell that the Shennongjia wild man had a very slow pulse, equivalent to that of humans in deep sleep. The rock pile beneath its rear was like a “guard post”, but the guard was clearly not a good guard.

Ning Tao carefully walked by the Shennongjia wild man, and continued his way forward.

The wild man “guard” was still soundly asleep, completely unaware that Ning Tao had walked past him.

Ning Tao walked ahead for a short distance before stopping. Before him was a relatively open area, completely different from the heavily fogged mud swamps behind him. There were many hot spring spots scattered over the area, so the temperature of the atmosphere had increased significantly. The heat had also dispelled the fog, allowing Ning Tao to observe the environment clearly.

There was a forest. Due to the prolonged absence of sunlight, the leaves on the trees were a tender yellow, like the color of young saplings. However, those were definitely not saplings, but rather, most of them were great ancient trees which had been living for hundreds or thousands of years. Their extensive canopies were like umbrellas held up high, vaguely hidden among the thick fog, resembling houses suspended in mid-air.

Beside one of the hot springs was a cliff, which had a huge cave in it. Some light from a fire could be vaguely seen flickering from within. Apart from light, Ning Tao could see a few bodies of strong innate aura beside some bonfires. If he were not wrong, that was the habitat of the Shennongjia wild men. While humans had already landed on the moon and had probes sent to Mars, they were still living in caves like prehistoric men.

Ning Tao looked at his phone, which displayed the time as 4:42 a.m. It would be dawn soon. He kept his phone, and quickly entered the hot springs zone.

Bloop… bloop…

He glanced at the bubbling hot springs. The air was filled with odors from a variety of minerals. Some of the hot springs were colorful and vibrant, shallow enough to allow an immediate view of their bottom. Others were a deep blue color like that of the deep sea's oceanic trench, so deep that you could not see the bottom of it. The hot springs were scattered extensively across the area, up until the edges of the forest, like stars in the night sky. They were of a myriad of colors, forming a wondrous and fantastical image, resembling a dreamscape.

The water of the hot springs flowed towards the forest, forming a river, but it was unknown where it was headed towards.

Ning Tao followed the stream which was formed by the hot springs, approaching the edge of the forest. His shoes and pants were drenched by the spring water and the hot steam, but he could no longer be bothered by it.

Once he had entered the forest, he could see how a small river had formed by the congregation of the small Springwater streams, which continued running deeper into the forest. There were moss-like bryophytes growing by the riverbank. They were fully soaked. Once Ning Tao stepped on them, a milky white liquid would be squeezed out, like latex flowing out from a rubber tree. It did not smell pungent, but rather, pleasant and refreshing.

Ning Tao's eyes had also detected the strands of spiritual energy distributed across the forest. His heart beat fast. “The moss produced in such an environment must be extraordinary, it most likely is a spiritual material. I'll take some back to plant in the spiritual field; it could be useful for elixir cultivation in the future.”

Ning Tao casually grabbed a handful of moss and put it into the small medicine chest. Then he continued heading forward.

The spiritual energy ahead was growing stronger, and sound of roaring water could be heard.

“Could it be a waterfall?” Ning Tao was surprised. That was already an abyss. If there were another waterfall within an abyss, at just how many meters of sea level would the base of the waterfall be situated?

The further he walked, the roar of the water grew louder. Ning Tao paused in his tracks. His jaws dropped when he saw the wide piece of field before him. It was a field of over tens of square meters within the forest. Numerous dark blue flowers grew across it. Those flowers looked like lilies, yet there weren't any. It was the Flower of the Night. Their petals were the dark blue of the night sky, with silver polka dots on them. It was as if a deity had made the petals out of pieces of the starry night sky. It was breathtakingly beautiful.

The Flower of the Night was only recorded in the Compendium of Spiritual Materials as a legendary spiritual material, yet there were so many present. It was hard to say that it was not shocking. Yet, the appearance of an outstanding amount of Flowers of the Night there was actually normal, because the Compendium of Spiritual Materials had stated that the Flower of the Night needed an environment completely deprived of sunlight and abundant with spiritual energy. Also, the strictest condition was that its soil needed to be maintained at above 86 degree Fahrenheit throughout the year. Only that place was able to meet all three conditions.

Without even caring whether it would live, Ning Tao plucked off a few Flowers of the Night, then immediately returned to the Sky Clinic through the convenient door. Then at the Sky Clinic, he used the door again to go to the House of Sword Pavilion Cave. He planted the moss and the Flower of the Night in the spiritual field. Right after, he returned to the strange forest. The entire process took less than three minutes.

When he was leaving the “flower field”, Ning Tao picked up a piece of flat rock. He drew blood from his finger and made a blood lock on it, then stuffed it beneath the roots of one of the ancient trees. How would it be enough to visit such a place just once? He would definitely return often in the future.

He continued a distance forward. The forested area before him had suddenly sunk down; a huge cave suddenly appeared in the ground of the forest. The small river flowed into it, forming small little waterfalls. Ning Tao carefully walked around the edges of the cave while inspecting downwards.

It was pitch black; he could see nothing at all.

That time Ning Tao did not dare to throw a piece of a blood-drawn prescription slip down the hole and open the convenient door through the Sky Clinic as a “checkpoint” to go down the hole. He looked away, then took out the Soil-seeking Inkstone from the small medicine chest, then poured 30 milliliters of ink into the Soil-seeking Inkstone.

Ripples started forming in the ink in the Soil-seeking Inkstone, but it did not surge to any particular graduation. Rather, it had concentrated in the center and then collapsed.

It meant that there was spiritual soil beneath.

Ning Tao looked into the bottom of the cave. He could not help but get excited. “Could it be that the legendary city of the Feminine-moon people is just below? Right, feminine-moon. The Feminine-moon people could be like the plants here, and they can't be exposed to sunlight?”

Ning Tao poured the ink into the waterfall, and kept the Soil-seeking Inkstone. He then picked up a piece of rock and threw it into the cave.

Yet, the echo he was expecting never came.

Ning Tao was shocked. Just how deep was that cave?

Suddenly, an odd noise came from behind.

Ning Tao's sixth sense was instantly awakened. The sense of impending danger was incredibly strong!

Whoosh!

It was the sound of something shooting rapidly through the air.

There was no time for Ning Tao to look back, he simply darted sideways. When he had just dodged, a rock the size of a human head flew by the position where he was initially at.

Ning Tao collapsed on the floor on his side. He propped himself up against the ground with his right arm which he had landed on. Just then, he saw a face completely covered in black hair. The person who had attacked him was a Shennongjia wild man. It was at least 4.5 meters in height, taller than two Ning Taos stacked together. It was staring at him with a pair of ash grey eyes. Both its iris and sclera were of the same color. Its gaze was incredibly ferocious and frightening!

Ning Tao said, “I have no ill intentions. Let's have a chat, what do you think? Can you understand me?”

Even though he knew it was probably useless, he still wanted to give it a try.

“Roar—” the Shennongjia wild man suddenly let out an angry roar, pounding his chest, then made a frightening bellow.

That was a declaration of war.

“Roar!”

“Roar—Roar—”

“Roar! Roar! Roar!”

There came a chorus of angry roars from outside the forest. The Shennongjia wild man who had attacked Ning Tao, had summoned its companions.

Heavy footsteps and angry roars grew louder; they were getting closer. Even though Shennongjia wild men had been living in the forests, they were not apemen, and ran no differently from human beings. They also did not charge over by hanging from tree to tree like monkeys. It was precisely because they were running with their huge legs, the heavy footsteps felt like a whole army charging to the front lines. It was overwhelming!

In that instant, Ning Tao wanted to leave by activating the blood lock, but having gone that far, he did not want to give up so easily. Yet, during the time when he had hesitated, the group of running Shennongjia wild men had already raised their arms.

“f.u.c.k!” Ning Tao could not help but curse. He had already sensed what was about to happen.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Many rocks of the size of human heads started raining down; their speed was comparable to that of bullets!

Ning Tao drew his pistol, and shot at a rock which was flying towards him.

With a bang, that piece of rock was disintegrated by the bullet. The impact of the explosion and the debris of the rock flew in all directions. The rocks in the vicinity had been blown away, diverting from their original “course”.

Small and big pieces of rocks were flying past him. Ning Tao had an odd feeling. It was like facing a fleet of tanks, all firing their cannons at him, instead of a huge group of Shennongjia wild men.

Not only did the intense explosion not scare off the group of Shennongjia wild men, they continued charging over, and rocks and wooden sticks rained down on Ning Tao. One of them had even leaped forward, with a single foot; it stepped right onto Ning Tao's head.

Even though he had mastered the Powerful Tolerance to Beating, Ning Tao did not dare to force himself to endure that kick. Subconsciously, he raised the Mauser pistol in his hand and aimed at the Shennongjia wild man which had stepped on him. Unless there was no choice, killing Shennongjia wild men was not an option for him, but that was his last resort.

Suddenly, a black shadow came charging over and kicked at Ning Tao. His body was sent flying off the ground ten meters away, right into the bottomless pit and he began falling…