Cultivation begins with the Druid panel

Upon seeing the scene in the hidden compartment, Xiao Hei began barking fiercely, appearing extremely agitated and restless. In the end, it actually jumped down, and Lu Lin couldn't stop it in time.

Lu Lin didn't rush in. Instead, he stuck his head down. Although it was dark inside the compartment, the druid's natural senses didn't give him any danger signals, so there shouldn't be any danger down there.

"I wonder what's in this hidden compartment." Lu Lin took out another yellow talisman, lit it, and then jumped down into the compartment.

The light in the dark compartment was dim; without the yellow talisman, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was pitch black.

All around were skeletons, but strangely, there was no stench in the air. Instead, there was a peculiar fragrance. Lu Lin found a wall with a torch stuck in it and lit it with the yellow talisman in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, the flames began to spread along the wall, eventually illuminating the surroundings, and the scene in the hidden compartment finally came into full view.

This space is about ten feet wide and three feet deep, with bones scattered everywhere. However, these bones have been cleared to the sides and piled up against the walls. In the middle, there is a two-foot-wide passageway that leads to the deepest part of the space.

At the end, there was a tree only about seven feet tall, surrounded by a circular stone trough. Blood flowed in the trough, and the faint smell of blood from earlier came from there.

These guys at the post station are actually using human blood to stimulate the growth of spiritual plants!

Lu Lin had read about this method in a book. It was an unorthodox technique that used human blood to nourish spiritual plants. The fruits produced by these plants could help cultivators improve their cultivation level. Because they were nourished with human blood, there were no side effects after the cultivators consumed them.

As for the effects of this type of fruit, they depend on the source of the human blood. If the source of the human blood is a cultivator below the fifth level of the Qi Refining stage, then the effects of this fruit will mainly be effective on cultivators below the fifth level of the Qi Refining stage.

In the cultivation world, these kinds of fruits are quite valuable, often worth hundreds of low-grade spirit stones.

Later, because this method was considered to be against the harmony of heaven and humanity, it was jointly condemned as an evil art by the three great cultivation holy lands of Cliff Academy, Heavenly Fire Cliff, and Ancient Spirit Mountain, and disappeared from public view.

"A few cultivators at the third level of Qi Refining would definitely not have such a large scale of operation..." Thinking of this, Lu Lin felt a bit apprehensive and turned his gaze away from the tree in front of him to Xiao Hei under the tree.

Amidst the pile of bones, a woman lay unconscious on the ground, her face deathly pale. Her wrists had been cut open, and her blood was slowly seeping into the stone trough.

Lu Lin quickly stepped forward, reached out, and checked the woman's nose; she was still alive.

Beside the woman lay three other figures, two men and one woman. They didn't look very old, and their wrists had also been cut, but they were no longer bleeding. Lu Lin went forward to examine them and found that all three were dead.

Judging from the residual aura on them, their cultivation level in life should have been at the first or second level of the Qi Refining stage.

"Woof woof woof!"

Xiao Hei barked twice at Lu Lin, who then snapped out of his daze. He quickly stopped the bleeding from the unconscious woman and took out a large number of wood-attribute yellow talismans from his Qiankun bag to restore her blood and energy.

With so much blood lost, the damage was already severe, and such simple methods could not help her much. The woman would not be able to wake up for a while, but fortunately, her life was saved.

Xiao Hei seemed to recognize the woman and, upon confirming that she was still alive, immediately expressed joy, wagging its tail like a windmill.

Lu Lin didn't investigate the relationship between Xiao Hei and the woman for the time being. After rescuing the woman, he turned to look at the tree surrounded by the stone trough. The tree had already blossomed and borne fruit, and the strange fragrance in the air earlier had come from the ripe fruit.

The fruits were plump and colorful; upon closer inspection, there were five of them. As soon as Lu Lin got closer, the pores on his body opened up on their own, greedily trying to absorb the power contained within these fruits.

Presumably, as long as Lu Lin eats these fruits, he will be able to break through to the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage on the spot, and without any side effects.

Lu Lin looked at the tree in front of him with a conflicted expression.

Without a doubt, this is the item that the "young master" mentioned earlier. In the cultivation world, each one of these items would be worth no less than one hundred low-grade spirit stones. Five of them would be worth five hundred low-grade spirit stones. This would be a huge sum of money in the hands of any Qi Refining cultivator, enough to make them guilty of possessing a treasure.

Moreover, judging from the skeletons in this hidden compartment, the fruit on this tree has definitely not ripened for the first time, and the profits generated from it are far beyond what five hundred spirit stones can describe.

"Is it going to be ruined?" Lu Lin's expression was uncertain.

The mastermind behind this tree is someone he absolutely cannot afford to offend right now. If he destroys this tree, his future cultivation path will definitely be difficult.

But if he doesn't destroy it, although he can protect himself, but...

Lu Lin turned his head and glanced at the skeletons around him. But if he left this tree, it would surely bring endless sins in the future. Could he really live with himself?

"I'm only at the third level of Qi Refining..." Lu Lin lowered his head, walked to the tree, and placed one hand on the trunk.

As a druid, he could feel the tree's life force; if he placed his hand on it, he could even feel its heartbeat. But it was also because he was a druid that he could sense how many lives this tree had taken as it grew to its current state.

It is not the fault of the spiritual plant that it absorbs human blood.

But human nature is unpredictable.

Lu Lin raised his head again, summoning a folding fan with his other hand: "No matter what, this spiritual plant cannot be kept!"

Even if it means he has to provoke an enemy he can't handle, this tree must be destroyed!

Lu Lin withdrew his hand, grabbed the folding fan with his other hand, and suddenly stuck it into the tree trunk.

"Pfft!"

Blood-like sap gushed from the wound. Lu Lin mobilized the power of fire in nature and instantly ignited the sap. The flames immediately spread along the wound all the way into the trunk, becoming unstoppable.

"Hiss hiss hiss—"

In the dim light, Lu Lin could even hear the tree's screams through the druid's senses.

Spiritual plants are also living things.

Druids can hear the thoughts of spirit plants.

but……

Lu Lin put away the folding fan in his hand, jumped out of the stone trough, and watched as the fire gradually devoured the spiritual plants in front of him. A complex emotion welled up in his heart.

A panel also refreshes in front of you:

[You used nature magic to burn the Earth Yang Spirit Fruit Tree. Nature Magic Proficiency +10, Heart of Nature Experience +10, Divine Intervention Experience +10]

Burn the man-eating spiritual plant—the Earth Yang Spirit Fruit Tree

Light up the Evil Spirit Encyclopedia: Earth Yang Spirit Fruit Tree (Evil Spirit)

Evil Spirit Compendium has no attribute absorption

Acquired Fusion Point: 1 (can be added)

Lu Lin looked at the panel in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had definitely offended the mastermind behind the tree, he felt relieved.

Lu Lin stepped forward, carried the woman on his back, had Xiao Hei transform into a bracelet on his wrist, and then leaped away, leaving the hidden compartment.

Shortly after Lu Lin left, the flames in the hidden compartment gradually died down. The Earth Yang Spirit Fruit Tree, which had grown with human blood, was left with only a withered, carbonized trunk, with no possibility of revival. The five fruits were also completely devoured and refined by the flames, turning into ashes and vanishing into thin air.

After Lu Lin came out, he glanced behind him, and the firelight was reflected in his pupils.