<h4>Chapter 150: Chapter 150: Start nting Trees</h4><h4></h4>
"It might not necessarily be high-star Fog Corpses," Mo Jiao sneered coldly.
Having discovered that this world had be a breeding ground for the Terminal, he was willing to specte with the greatest malice, "Maybe the apocalypse and the Fog Corpses were created by it?"
After all, the Terminal feeds on the emotions of its food.
The Terminal had been managing Mist Continent for seventy years and already had a well-established automated breeding system.
The Terminal’s food would even raise itself well for its ultimate purpose.
Only when their strength increased would they be brought to the Terminal’s dining table.
"Fog Corpses consume humans, and the Terminal consumes humans too," Xiao Jinsheng nodded in agreement, "This would make sense."
If the existence of Fog Corpses was indeed rted to the Terminal,
Xiao Jinsheng felt immense pressure.
This would mean that the enemy they were facing had be even more formidable.
Bai Yan, Insect Brain.
The Terminal.
And the Fog Corpses controlled by the Terminal.
"Simply suppressing our power growth won’t work," Xiao Jinsheng sighed in frustration, "We need to find a way to deal with the Terminal—or a way to dispel the Poisonous Fog."
"Given the Terminal’s nature, it needs to consume the Star Stones of Beastmen, and Mist Continent hasn’t had any newborns in five years because of the Poisonous Fog," Li spoke up.
"I think the Fog Corpses may be rted to the Terminal, but the Poisonous Fog might not be," Li spected.
"As things stand, the Terminal might also be trying to find ways to eliminate the Poisonous Fog," Shi Xie chimed in.
"Whatever the Terminal wants to do, it just assigns us tasks," Yu Yunxiao casually guessed, "Even if it has a way to dispel the Poisonous Fog, it would probably issue it as a mission for us to do."
But as he was speaking, he realized something was off.
He looked at Xiao Jinsheng in shock, "After the Cloud Indpetition, the Terminal’s missions became focused on nting trees."
"Could the method of dispelling the Poisonous Fog be... nting trees?" Yu Yunxiao asked, even as he felt his own theory was somewhat absurd.
But sometimes,
The truth is indeed absurd.
"The more I think about it, the more usible it seems," Xiao Jinsheng nodded in astonishment.
Su Ye, always action-oriented, looked at Xiao Jinsheng, "There are still Terminal task-issued tree seedlings left in my mission box. They’re located in Mist West—why don’t we try nting them?"
"Let’s give it a shot," Xiao Jinsheng agreed.
Li withdrew his Domain, and Xiao Jinsheng retrieved the tree seedlings provided by the Terminal from its dedicated spatial box for storing them.
In the box and in Mist East, they had been ordinary seedlings.
Yet now, as they emerged from the box and came into contact with the Poisonous Fog, they instantly transformed.
The seedlings, with brown trunks and green branches and leaves, emitted a faint, luminous green glow all over their surface.
"Turn off the Fog Dispersing Lamp and let’s see," Que Zelian suggested upon seeing this.
Mo Jiao reached out and immediately turned off the Fog Dispersing Lamp hanging on Xiao Jinsheng’s backpack.
With themp off and in the depths of Mist West, the Poisonous Fog thickened; visibility dropped to less than half a meter.
It was thus easier for the group to observe how the small seedling radiated green light, driving away Poisonous Fog within a 30-centimeter radius around it.
"I... I think I’m the Prophet!" Cat Cat eximed in shock.
"I can’t believe it works!" Xiao Jinsheng said, stunned.
The Terminal had sent many such seedlings, so Xiao Jinsheng took out several more and had the Beast Husbands nt one every meter.
What they found was that the range of Poisonous Fog dispelled varied based on the rarity and size of the seedlings.
"So, your Mist Continent really does need tree nting to clear the poison," Caicai eximed.
"Are only the Terminal-provided trees effective, or could other trees work as well?" Huaiqing wondered aloud, "Why don’t we try nting trees from the Space?"
Arger sample size would help withparison.
Besides, the trees from his Space were random specimens collected from Mist West and Mist East.
Xiao Jinsheng took out samples of each type.
Alongside seedlings, Mo Jiao nted mature trees with several years of age into the Space.
Of course, not just trees—Xiao Jinsheng also retrieved some flowers and nts from the Space.
When these were released from the Space, they burst into a dazzling cyan glow amidst the Poisonous Fog.
The Poisonous Fog surrounding these nts instantly dissipated faster than with the Terminal-issued seedlings.
Exmations followed one after another in astonishment.
Chen Yunji couldn’t help but use Elemental Superpower to witness the Poisonous Fog clearing through the transparent veil covering his eyes.
"The trees in my Space are more effective than those from the Terminal," Xiao Jinsheng said in surprise.
"The seedlings issued through Terminal missions were originally meant to be nted on Cloud Ind," Chen Yunji noted, sensing the seedlings still carried Elemental Power unique to Cloud Ind.
"That reminds me of something," Xiao Jinsheng reflected, "Back when I was doing missions on Cloud Ind, I felt the ind’s power was simr to my Space."
At that time, he had thought Cloud Ind was where the Terminal imprisoned Beastmen who had uncovered the truths of Mist Continent.
And the Northern Territory had no surviving inhabitants.
Surely Cloud Ind was purely the Terminal’s private territory.
His Space, after all, hade from opening boxes issued by the Terminal.
So it felt normal for his Space to share power simrities with Cloud Ind.
Now, whether it was the Terminal-issued seedlings from Cloud Ind,
Or the seedlings from his Space,
Both could clear the Poisonous Fog.
And the ones from his Space did so more effectively than the ones provided by the Terminal.
Turning to Mo Jiao, Xiao Jinsheng asked, "Have you nted the seedlings you dug up recently?"
She wanted to see whether the effectiveness of the Space trees stemmed from their age or their prolonged presence in the Space.
"I’ve nted them at the snow mountain summit—some seedlings of snow pine," Mo Jiao answered.
Xiao Jinsheng immediately brought him into the Space to retrieve the seedlings.
Comparing seedlings of the same age—one from the Space after two days of nting, and one from the Terminal task box.
The seedling from the Space emitted cyan light, while the Terminal’s seedling radiated green.
The Space seedling cleared Poisonous Fog within a one-meter radius.
The Terminal seedling cleared it within a 30-centimeter radius.
At that moment, Xiao Jinsheng realized the truth.
She quickly had Caicai investigate the differences between her Space seedlings and the Terminal seedlings.
Caicai was baffled, experiencing this for the first time.
After all, as a new system, their missions primarily involved Interster conflicts against the Insect n.
It had little expertise regarding an apocalyptic world like Mist Continent.
Caicai hurried to run a system analysis; Matchmen alternately nodded and furrowed their brows.
"I’ve got the results. It’s not due to the Space," Caicai announced grimly, turning to Xiao Jinsheng with conviction, "You’re definitely the Star Stone Origin referenced by the Fog Corpses."
Though Caicai was an outsider to Mist World and might misanalyze data,
Fog Corpses, rooted in Mist Continent for decades,
Whether with or without sentience, they couldn’t possibly mistake the Star Stone Origin—a treasure that could boost their power.
"The differences in data between the seedlings from your Space and those from the Terminal stem directly from you," Caicai said.
"Because your Space is bound to you, the seedlings nted there inherently carry a purification power."
"Does this mean the seedlings in the Space are drawing energy from Little Jin?" Que Zelian frowned, "Could this harm her in any way?"