Chapter 24 Ascending to the Hall of Justice

  It's strange to say, but when the wild chicken's fresh blood sprayed out from its broken throat, the originally noisy monkey group suddenly became quiet, with a hint of fear in their expressions.

  "Clang clang clang......"

  When the wild mountain chicken let out a miserable cry, the group of white apes across from it suddenly erupted into chaos and then scattered in an even faster speed than when they came. The originally noisy riverbank was instantly left with only the wild chicken's miserable cry and the gentle flowing water sound of the Lijiang River.

  "Is that all it takes to scare him off?" Li Mang felt incredulous.

  In real life, someone had tried "killing a chicken to scare the monkey", but it didn't necessarily work. He had also heard of failed experiments and never thought that this attempt would have such a huge and obvious effect, with immediate results that were astonishing.

  The principle of 'killing a chicken to scare the monkey' is to utilize animal instincts? That's not right, in reality killing a chicken to scare a monkey doesn't necessarily work. Is it a matter of species? Or is it due to other reasons? It's just like saying that only this peculiar space in front of us can achieve it? Li Mang feels perplexed.

  While thinking, Li Mang had already punted the bamboo raft to the opposite bank and tied it to a rock with a rope to prevent it from being washed away by the water. He didn't want to swim back.

  After some thought, he put the wild mountain chicken that had already stopped breathing on top of the bamboo raft. He was worried that the white gibbon would come back and destroy his raft.

  With his right hand grasping the mountain-opening giant chopper and his left hand holding a live wild pheasant, Li Meng finally set foot on the land of the second hall of Nanshan Jing. At this moment, Li Meng had an inexplicable sense of conquest, thinking that he would continue to conquer one mountain after another, and suddenly his heart was filled with hot blood!

  The plants on Mount Zhaoyao are scarce, with only cinnamon, honeysuckle and Xiangfei bamboo, and there is not even a single weed left over. This was quite disappointing to Li Mang at first.

  Now the second temple courtyard mountain is even 'cleaner', at a glance, there is only one kind of tree. This tree grows very densely and is very tall, each one has a height of about 20 meters, with branches and leaves on the trunk, giving people a feeling of being very large and ancient.

  This is a fruit tree, and you can see the red fruit hanging on it. It looks a bit like an apple, but upon closer inspection, it's not. The size is bigger, and there's a strong fruity aroma that's very enticing.

  It's amazing that these fruit trees are divided into two parts, with the east side bearing fruit and the west side blooming. It looks like one tree is alternating between the two sides, creating a strange and wonderful scene.

  "This is a Tongmu." Li Mang said the name of this fruit tree, these days looking at Shan Hai Jing was not in vain, although he looked at Shan Hai Jing records vaguely, many things were given 'ordinary'. Just like saying that Tongmu fruit, the book only says it's "a kind of fruit similar to apples, red and edible", a light brush-off.

  If it were in the past, Li Meng would not have doubted anything, but now that he knows that the contemporary "Shan Hai Jing" has been altered by Yan Huang, he naturally no longer believes in the narrative of the text.

  Looking at the heavy fruit above, Li Mang really had a craving, and after checking that there were no white apes around, he found a withered branch on the ground and knocked down a ripe one.

  "Whoosh!"

  The ripe loquat was crisp and juicy, but the moment it was bitten open, it burst instantly in the mouth, sweet and with a strong fragrance, which made Li Mang drunk and closed his eyes.

  After the juice seeped into his stomach, it made him feel warm and cozy, a feeling he was actually quite familiar with. In the past, after eating meat from the Mountain Sea Realm, he had also experienced this same warm and fuzzy sensation. So, the true nature of this fruit was now on the verge of being revealed - it was actually a Spirit Fruit!

  "It's actually a spirit fruit, and it tastes so delicious!" Li Mang exclaimed!

  Perhaps this is just a low-level spiritual fruit, but it's undeniable that it really has the effect of washing and purifying the body. Compared to meat, its digestion speed will be faster, and with an extremely good taste, it's not a bad food for Li Mang. Imagine eating well and then having a Lingguo fruit dessert, isn't this life wonderful?

  "This group of monkeys is really happy, with such spiritual food to eat for a long time, no wonder they all grow tall and powerful!" Li Mang couldn't help but envy the white apes on Tangting Mountain.

  But he didn't think that since their birth, the food of these white apes was only bamboo shoots, and it was their only food. Can this be considered happiness?

  In addition, these ancient white apes have a very long lifespan. If nothing unexpected happens, they can live for over 200 years. For more than 200 years, they eat this stuff every day and still don't know what happiness is.

  Then Li Meng began to explore the Dongting Mountain. Compared with the first Zhaoyao Mountain, the territory of this mountain is larger, but most of it is a dense forest, and there are several small stone mountains.

  The entire Dongting Mountain has only one kind of plant, the tung tree; as for animals, there are two kinds, one is the ancient white ape that was seen before, and the other is the indispensable honey bee for fruit trees. Mineral resources are abundant, with crystal stones and gold, but these things have no great use for Li Mang. At least not for now, it's hard to say if they will be useful in the future!

  "What am I supposed to eat? Am I supposed to eat the white ape or something?" Li Mang quickly became disheartened, subconsciously thinking that he had come here to find food.

  It's not that Li Meng is greedy, but eating has become a way of cultivation for him. In Zhaoyao Mountain, he has encountered a bottleneck and urgently needs higher-level food to 'cultivate'.

  Although the fruit is delicious, its effect is only ordinary and not enough to promote his cultivation. As for the apes... it's not that they can't be eaten, but please forgive Li Mang for being unable to bring himself to do so. This has nothing to do with the law, after all, the law doesn't reach into the space of Shan Hai Jing, but because apes and humans are both primates and extremely similar in appearance, eating them would give people a cannibalistic illusion, just thinking about it makes one feel nauseous.

  "Unwilling!" Li Meng was annoyed.

  "Buzz, buzz, buzz..." A bee flew in front of him, the buzzing sound seemed to be mocking him, at least making Li Meng feel annoyed, and he cursed: "If you buzz again, I'll eat... eat... bees? Honey!"

  Li Mang nervously rubbed his hands together, a greedy energy brewing from the tip of his tongue and rapidly spreading to his heart, it was an exciting feeling. This honey is really something good, especially in this environment, its value and function are immeasurable!

  Bees' nests are naturally not built on the fruit tree, after all, this is not a mountain peak, but a kind of bee similar to the Chinese honey bee, just with a bigger head and more ferocious horns. However, their nests must also be built in the stone crevices, and only a few small stone mountains in the Tangting Mountains have the conditions for building nests, so they are not difficult to find.

  Whether it was Li Meng's hand holding the chicken or other reasons, Bai Yuan retreated when he saw him, allowing Li Meng to move freely in Tangting Mountain and soon found the shadow of the beehive.

  Just as he had guessed, the beehives were built in the crevices of the rocky mountain, but every time he approached, he would retreat. Because these beehives were a continuous stretch, all the usable caves on the entire mountain top were occupied by them, and from afar, you could already hear the buzzing sound, a large patch of black bees that inspired fear.

  Don't mention what to wear, even if it's an ordinary beekeeping tool, it's hard to say how to die. But after searching through several stone mountains, not a single beehive was found, which made Li Mang feel annoyed. The honey fragrance that could be smelled from afar was not ordinary, and it even shocked his spirit, but he didn't give up.

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  P.S: The recommendations for these two days have been a bit scarce...