The vine wrapped around a wolf carcass, and Little Medicine Deer placed it on its back.

After Li Cunxu collected the scattered wolf claw skill seeds, he saw this scene and asked in confusion:

"What are you doing?"

Chen Lu said, "I'm planning to move the wolf carcass to the wolf den to prevent it from polluting the land into corrupted soil."

Because too many evil beast carcasses eaten by the wolf pack were buried in the wolf den, the land around the den had transformed into corrupted soil.

"No need for such trouble, just leave it to the Slime to handle."

"The Slime? It can handle this?"

"Yes."

Under normal circumstances, it couldn't. For example, the Garbage Slimes that had eaten the Wolf King's meat before couldn't withstand the pollution of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Evil God in the wolf meat and died.

"Then why isn't it written in the textbooks?"

"Because the Slime capable of decomposing evil beast carcasses was born not long ago."

"Huh?"

"Do you know the Spirit Separation Technique?"

"Yes, I do."

"First, remove the wolf skin, and I'll show you."

An unusual spiritual power surged into the wolf carcass, and in the next second, the wolf skin slid off as smoothly as taking off clothes.

With a wave of his hand, Li Cunxu summoned the Bully Slime.

However, the Bully Slime's teeth were inadequate and couldn't bite through the wolf meat.

Unable to watch any longer, Li Cunxu had Xiaoruan use the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade to disassemble the wolf meat into smaller pieces.

Chen Lu noticed that after the Bully Slime digested the small pieces of wolf meat, its level increased.

The wolf meat contained a lot of spiritual energy, and as the Bully Slime absorbed it, it naturally became stronger. Other pet beasts couldn't absorb it because this spiritual energy was tainted with the power of the Evil God, and any other pet beast that digested it would become corrupted.

There are only three results from the corruption.

The first is: Death due to an inability to withstand the corruption.

The second is: Being assimilated and turning into an evil beast.

The third is: Surviving the erosion of corruption, barely clinging to life.

The Bully Slime would also be corrupted, but under Xiaoruan's vassal mark control, the Bully Slime wouldn't lose control.

Feeding on the wolf meat made the Bully Slime's level soar. At this moment, Li Cunxu threw out a multi-seed durian.

The Bully Slime split into several small Bully Slimes, and because too much power was divided, its level dropped several levels. After eating wolf meat again, its level soared back up, then after eating the multi-seed durian, its level dropped again...

In this cycle, the number of Bully Slimes rapidly increased.

Then, Li Cunxu sent out the Bully Slimes to scout ahead.

Whichever direction had more dead Bully Slimes indicated danger.

Chen Lu squatted, watching the Bully Slime eat wolf meat, and Li Cunxu waved his hand in front of her eyes, getting no response.

"What are you thinking? You're so absorbed."

Chen Lu snapped out of it and said, "I was thinking, since the Bully Slime eats the Evil Big Wolf's meat, couldn't it eat the corrupted soil and solve the pollution problem?"

Li Cunxu said, "Don't bother thinking, I've already tried. The Bully Slime likes corrupted soil but doesn't eat it. The Bully Slime's diet consists of things containing spiritual energy or the meat of evil beasts."

Another day passed.

The smoke in the west rose as usual the next day.

There was more good news today; the Golden Slime that Li Cunxu had spent a lot of effort trying unsuccessfully to mutate last time finally mutated today.

"It's nice to have good luck on your side."

"With luck on our side, we should try to mutate more Slimes," Li Cunxu mused.

He summoned a Durian Slime of the same level to have it face off against the Golden Slime and test the Golden Slime's skills.

The Durian Slime donned its Durian Armor and started ramming, while the Golden Slime conjured a phantom Golden Shield to block it and countered with a Golden Shield Strike, sending the Durian Slime flying.

Calling upon other Slimes to battle the Golden Slime, none managed to best it.

Besides its superior skills, one a gold skill - Golden Shield, and the other a silver skill - Golden Shield Strike, the Golden Slime boasted superior base stats compared to other Slimes.

To illustrate: If a Black Iron level 1 Durian Slime had strength of one, speed of one, and constitution of one, then a Black Iron level 1 Golden Slime had strength of five, speed of three, and constitution of eight.

A true statistical anomaly among Slimes.

Excited, Chen Lu ran into the tunnel, shouting, "The smoke from the west is rising again for the third day in a row."

"Smoke rising for three consecutive days means there's a strong Beast Master over there."

Li Cunxu set down the wooden Gold Panning Basin he was carving and dusted off his pants, "Let's go! We're heading over there."

Chen Lu hesitated.

"I want to go too, but we have to pass through a forest full of Desperate Spiders."

The territory of the Desperate Spiders was terrifying, harboring countless Desperate Spiders. Previously, if not for Little Medicine Deer using Crystal Light Escape thrice, she would have been done for over there.

Long Xiaoxiao was terrified regarding her perilous encounter and the opening of her eyes, "How about we dig a tunnel and go underground?"

"Good idea."

But Li Cunxu rejected the plan.

"Not a good idea, Desperate Spiders are semi-subterranean creatures and could dig lairs underground. Digging a tunnel could very well lead us into a Desperate Spider's nest."

Don't ask how he knew; just know he had attempted it and ended up disturbing a spider's nest.

Chen Lu asked, "Then what do we do? Go around?"

"We don't even know how large the forest inhabited by the Desperate Spiders is. We have no idea how long it would take to go around."

After all, all the Bully Slimes Li Cunxu sent out heading west were completely wiped out.

"This won't work, and that won't work either. We can't possibly just go straight through, can we?"

"The direct approach is somewhat more plausible than the previous two options."

"Huh? Why?"

Chen Lu asked with confusion.

Li Cunxu explained, "Desperate Spiders fear light and are less active during the day."

"So, we go straight through during the day?"

"I said it's somewhat plausible, not perfectly plausible. The tall trees in the forest block sunlight, so Desperate Spiders are not entirely inactive during the day. Moreover, going straight through will undoubtedly cause a commotion. If at any point during the process, we harbor even a hint of despair, Desperate Spiders will chase us like dogs scenting meat. Surrounded by a forest full of Desperate Spiders, even a Silver Beastmaster would perish."

"So, we can't make it?"

"We can make it, follow me."

In the open space at the wolf den, there was a pile of wolf skins sewn with holy silk.

Chen Lu and Long Xiaoxiao were puzzled about why Li Cunxu brought them over to see the wolf skins.

He wheeled over a basket capable of fitting five people and attached ropes made from wolf tails to its four corners.

Chen Lu finally realized.

"Is this a hot air balloon?"

"To be precise, it's a wolf skin hot air balloon."

"What about the heat source? We don't have fuel."

Li Cunxu had initially intended for Xiaoruan to be the heat source, but realized it wouldn't work.

Xiaoruan could breathe fire, but as a skill, it emitted fireballs, not continuous flames. Fireballs would ricochet inside the hot air balloon.

His solution: a bunch of Black Iron level 9 Fire Slimes.

Fire Slimes had flames on their heads, and the flames on the heads of Black Iron level 9 Fire Slimes burned more fiercely. A group of these flames is enough to lift the hot air balloon into the air.

How did the Fire Slimes reach Black Iron level 9? And a whole bunch of them?

It was all achieved by consuming massive amounts of Cyan Spirit Fruits.

It's just that Slimes are so weak that leveling them up was simple. For any other pet beast, no amount of Cyan Spirit Fruits could elevate them to Black Iron level 9.

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