Astral Cockroach

Banbu soothed it for a long time, until dawn, feeling the sunlight, the Rain Bamboo Tree Spirit's emotions finally calmed down.

"Banbu, I'm injured. Banbu, Banbu…"

"I know, Rain Bamboo, don't be afraid, sense carefully, can new bamboo shoots still grow from the bamboo base?"

"Banbu, I'm scared! I feel like they'll hurt me."

Banbu quickly ordered the Iron Saber Mountain Master, Yellow Stripe Mountain Master, and other red ant warriors guarding nearby to move further away.

Only after all the red ant warriors had moved far away did it quiet down.

The situation might not be good; the Rain Bamboo Tree Spirit showed obvious soul weakness. It was unknown whether it was due to the damaged bamboo culms or crying for too long.

The Rain Bamboo Tree Spirit was quiet for a while, then suddenly asked, "Banbu, why didn't you protect me?"

Banbu said, "There were too many beast warriors attacking the mountain peak, I couldn't handle it all. Look, I'm also injured."

In Banbu's collision with the Mountain Master-level forest wolf warrior, there were slight cracks in its head and back armor, which had just healed, leaving traces of injury. More than half of its foreleg was broken, and without timely feeding to replenish, the regeneration rate was very slow.

The Rain Bamboo Tree Spirit was quiet again for a while.

Banbu was anxious and asked again, "Rain Bamboo, have you sensed clearly? Can the broken bamboo culms regrow?"

"I don't know," Rain Bamboo said, "Banbu, I'm also injured, I feel very uncomfortable, I need sunlight."

"The sun is out, then you should rest well first," Banbu said, worried and helpless, only able to offer a comforting word before silently leaving.

It fiercely cut the saber-toothed tiger's corpse and ate.

With the replenishment of nutrients and energy, the broken foreleg grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

…

At noon, County Princess Youli returned with the pursuing team.

They also brought back the corpse of a Hooked Sentence Mountain python warrior. The pursuit only killed one; County Princess Youli had to track it down by scent and personally take action to kill it.

A total of 21 beast warriors attacked Lizhu Peak. These guys were very cunning. The 8 who were responsible for attracting attention from the south side were all beasts that were fast and good at running away in the jungle. They had a good plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. If there had been a few more pursuing warriors, or if County Princess Youli and her team's support had been a little slower, they could have succeeded – destroying the Rain Bamboo God-given Seed and the Wind Chime territory, seizing the Origin Stone food, and then leaving gracefully.

Thinking carefully, Banbu couldn't help but feel a burst of fear. Fortunately, that raccoon cat warrior had warned them in advance!

Big Bear followed them back, staring blankly at the messy Rain Bamboo forest, realizing that he might have made a mistake.

"Banbu…"

Banbu asked, "Big Bear, you're big and not good at pursuing in dense forests, why did you chase after them?"

"I…" Big Bear held it in for a long time, then lowered his head and said, "They ran away, so I chased them."

They ran away and you chased them? Can't you use your brain?

Banbu was quite helpless with Big Bear's dullness: he could only be a thug in this life, and a substandard one at that.

A total of 144 Rain Bamboo culms were broken by the saber-toothed tiger warriors, all torn and twisted by their mandibles, shattering the bamboo culms.

County Princess Youli watched for a while, unable to contain her anger, and grabbed Bai Rong to question, "Bai Rong, why did you chase after them?"

"I…" Bai Rong drooped its antennae and said, "I didn't expect that there would be so many beast warriors sneaking up on Lizhu Peak from the north side."

Yellow Stripe Mountain Master quickly said, "County Princess Youli, we were all careless about this matter. That raccoon cat warrior gave a warning in advance… but we didn't expect there would be so many beast warriors."

Banbu also persuaded, "County Princess Youli, the matter has already happened, and it was completely unexpected. There's no point in pursuing responsibility now."

Yellow Stripe Mountain Master asked, "Banbu, you said the Rain Bamboo God-given Seed… it's a God-given Seed, if the bamboo culms are broken, can they still grow back?"

"If ordinary bamboo culms are broken, the bamboo base can resprout and grow into new bamboo culms," Banbu said anxiously, "The God-given Seed should also be able to. When I was promoted to a high-level warrior, the culms of the Emerald Bamboo God-given Seed naturally withered once, withered and reborn, growing stronger bamboo culms."

Banbu looked down at its foreleg, which was almost completely regenerated, and looked up at the sky, saying, "I'll go ask the tree spirit again."

"Banbu, I hope your decision at that time wasn't a mistake," Yellow Stripe Mountain Master sighed.

Banbu's decision at the time was to abandon the Rain Bamboo God-given Seed and protect Wind Chime's territory.

144 Rain Bamboo culms were destroyed, and the annual income of one bamboo culm is currently 72 Origin Stones. The output of Wind Chime's territory in 50 years is not comparable to the annual output of this batch of Rain Bamboo culms.

But they can't be compared. If a large number of Wind Chime's life-seed plants are destroyed, its soul will be severely damaged, it will quickly enter a period of decline, and then die.

In fact, when Yellow Stripe Mountain Master listened to Banbu's words, gave up the Rain Bamboo God-given Seed, and guarded Wind Chime's territory, he also felt a little unbearable, a little unwilling to see a fellow warrior fall.

…

Banbu entered the Rain Bamboo God-given Seed territory.

"Banbu, I think I need a batch of Origin Stones, do you have any?" The Rain Bamboo Tree Spirit's emotions had completely calmed down, and it had picked up its set of self-proclaimed clever ways of talking again.

Banbu's heart lit up and said, "Yes!"

The Rain Bamboo Tree Spirit didn't trust Banbu very much now. It used to think Banbu was very powerful, but now it seemed that it wasn't powerful at all. It added with some worry, "Banbu, I think I need many, many Origin Stones."

Banbu spread out its mental power, scanning a broken bamboo culm, carefully inspecting it.

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The bamboo culm was hollow and very tough, just broken and tilted, but still connected, not completely broken. At this time, the nutrients contained in the tilted bamboo culm were being transported to the underground stem, and the leaves began to turn yellow.

There were small bulges at the bamboo base, which seemed to be brewing bamboo shoots.

Sure enough, the bamboo God-given Seed, the bamboo life-seed, and the ordinary bamboo species were all the same. The underground stem was the key to life, and the bamboo culm was just an extension tool for photosynthesis and nutrient synthesis, and it was also renewable.

Banbu carefully inspected it again and made a new discovery. The golden bamboo base had two rings, a total of 16 yellow spots. The bamboo shoots were developed from these small spots.

That meant that the bamboo culms were not infinitely regenerated, but only had 16 regeneration opportunities. Now, the first opportunity was being used.

Banbu went up the mountain and asked Datou to transport some Origin Stones down the mountain to replenish the Origin Power for the Rain Bamboo God-given Seed.

Then it came to the Emerald Bamboo God-given Seed territory and inspected it with mental power. It was the same. Each bamboo base of the Emerald Bamboo God-given Seed also had two rows of 16 pale yellow spots. Last time, it had already used one, that is, it had used one bamboo culm regeneration opportunity, and now there were 15 opportunities left.

Banbu calculated that there were still many opportunities, and it shouldn't matter to lose one or two times, so it completely relaxed. It then observed the other bamboo life-seeds and ordinary bamboos on the mountain and found that the number of pale yellow spots at the bamboo base varied among different bamboo species, which meant that the number of opportunities for culm regeneration was not the same.

Returning to the mountain cave where it lived in the north of the mountain, the place was too small, and the other warriors had left one after another, leaving only County Princess Youli, Iron Saber Mountain Master, and Yellow Stripe Mountain Master, who were looking down the mountain.

The ant colony was taking action, using Origin Stones, so there shouldn't be anything too serious.

Iron Saber Mountain Master was no longer as nervous as before and asked, "Banbu, how is it?"

Banbu said, "It's okay. The bamboo God-given Seed is the same as ordinary bamboo. As long as the underground stem isn't damaged, it's fine, the bamboo culms can regenerate."

Hearing this, County Princess Youli and Yellow Stripe Mountain Master were relieved.

Iron Saber Mountain Master exclaimed, "Banbu, your choice at the beginning was indeed correct. Bamboo is a tough plant, which is perfect for planting in the dangerous borderlands of the Jinping Mountains."

Yellow Stripe Mountain Master suddenly understood something and said, "I heard that the previous Golden Silk Mountain Master also planted bamboo species on a large scale? So that's how it is!"

…

Continue to observe for two days.

The Rain Bamboo God-given Seed sprouted bamboo shoots, the tilted bamboo culms withered and turned yellow, their vitality lost, while the bamboo shoots developed and grew at an extraordinary speed.

County Princess Youli and Iron Saber Mountain Master said goodbye and left one after another.

In this battle, 15 beast warriors were killed, and they were the most rampant ones. The Jinping Mountains were obviously much quieter.

The loss was only a little more than 4,000, less than 5,000 Origin Stones, a completely acceptable result.