On one same night, three parties are making the Mu's Settlement their destination. The first belonged to Tiezu-Wu and Gu. The second followed the leadership of five Prairie Black Wolves. As for the third, its the Ashen Wolf King and the remaining followers.

The first group came with good intention, but the other two came for something else. Lack of wood and strong barricades, those staying inside of the Mu's Settlement can be said to be sitting ducks waiting for the wolves to maul them.

At the end of this all, the survival of Mu's Camp is heavily depending on the Goblin Champion, the seventeen humans, and the lonely satyr. Without their chief, Mu Qing Lang protecting them, they are all by themselves at this point.

With the moon as the indicator, the Ashen Wolf King took the lead.

"AOU!!! AOU!" the remaining group of six hundred Ashen Wolves left from the earlier battle prepared to attack. Different from the lousy leadership from the five Prairie Black Wolves, the Ashen Wolf King directed the wolves to separates into three attacking points.

The south gate, west gate, and east gate.

To counter their attack, the defending force if Mu's Camp behaves similarly and splits into three teams. One with Qing Yi and Xiao Qing as the leaders, the second with Guan Yi, and the third with Han Xi and Han Yu. Everyone is armed to the toe, with the human girls, Luoli, Luoyi, Tasi, and Remi remained in the stone house.

Confidently, they attacked the Ashen Wolves in succession, with a team of sixteen people, they attacked the wolves in a three rows formation. Six people will guard the first vanguard line, with the middle six people ready to replacement. As for the four backline members, they're the healer and direction maker.

The three rows formation not only capable of offense but defensive as well especially when they're surrounded. It was supposed to be activated during the first attack when the humans were surrounded by the wolves but failed to do so because lacking self-defensive weapon.

But now, this formation is capable of performing at their 100% thanks to the astonishing leadership from their leaders. The defense remained strong as time past, with one or two people got injure occasionally. Even that did not stop them from getting up a minute or two later, due to the magical Recovery Ointment.

It became one of the more relied commodities stronger than drugs. Even Mu Qing Lang did hold the intention to stop the distribution of this medicine too much to his people. Unfortunately, Mu Qing Lang has no other way to motivates his people except giving them something to depend on.

The fight continues. Although the camp seems to be winning, the stress placed on them mentally is more exhausting than everything else. At the second session of their battle, the number of injured started to get higher, with some of them already almost used up their Recovery Ointment.

The battle only entered their second round, but almost half of the members were left with the last bottle of Recovery Ointment. Before leaving, Mu Qing Lang issued two hundred bottles to them, where it was divided into five bottles per member.

Without the almighty ointment in their hand, the members started to fight with a hint of cowardice. This wasn't a mistake if Mu Qing Lang were to comment about their action, but their previous recklessness is. One that unable to preserve their life-saving treasure has no right to talk about their precious life in danger.

They grit their teeth together and continue. Every action they made here grooms them into a better warrior. While they're almost out of Recovery Ointment, the group is still left with Small Xian Pills and Xian-Qin Pills.

They took their medicine more carefully compared to before. Without backup forces helping them, they're on their own in this battle. And at the end of the second round, the Ashen Wolf King ordered a full retreat.

One hundred and seventy Ashen Wolves sacrificed themselves to exhaust their enemy's resources. And it was a very successful attack on top of that.

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Day Twenty-Five

Having no idea about what happened to his camp, Mu Qing Lang wakes up at the twenty-fifth morning. As he trusts the members will repeat their daily works without him having to monitor them, Mu Qing Lang did not have the intention to rush home.

Instead, he spent his time leisurely for a proper bowl of hand-kneaded noodles topped with Infused Juniper Oil, grounded salt, and a grilled Prairie Horn Rabbit's leg. The meal was superb, almost to the point he's intended to make his people double the Demonic Juniper Flower and extend the breeding for the rabbits.

The end of his meal also means its time for some proper works. Yesterday, just before he's making a bonfire beside the carriage, Mu Qing Lang spotted a kind of ginseng plant, which already half dead due to his carriage's wheel running across the upper part.

[Toot!]

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[*Prairie Sugar Root*]

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"Let's see what you got, alright?" Mu Qing Lang tapped into the only selection, hoping for the best.

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Prairie Sugar Root [Unranked]

Condition: sapling / one of five miraculous medicine found in Chang Emperor Prairie

Maturity: 1 day in a natural condition (2 hours if nourished by Spiritual Thread)

Harvest: one single rhizome / can be cut into ten parts to be replanted

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Item Description: One of the five naturally grown Prairie herbs. Although it was a root crop, the Prairie Sugar Root is fragile in nature, hardly survive through three days after maturity. The plant is almost considered as a replacement for Prairie Golden Potato if not due to the extreme sweetness. Can be produced into sugar, starch, or Adrenaline Shot when concocted with Fighter Extract. This plant's quality is too low to be graded but has great potential.

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"Hahaha! For the sake of the gods, I found something that can be made into adrenaline injections. In a word like this, won't this medicine become a drug that gave them a 100% increase in all stats?" Mu Qing Lang jokes, but inside him, he's glad he's the only one that can utilize this plant to the best.

"I'm not going back that early anyway, let's try nourishing this root and see if it can be harvested two hours later." Mu Qing Lang took the copper knife out and cut the plant into ten parts. By practicing the meditating method of Wheel of Cause Sutra, ten strands of Spiritual Threads went inside the ten plants. Sprouts immediately pop out from the rhizome along with their new roots.

Mu Qing Lang did not continue holding them on his hand but planted the ten parts before he continues with his meditation.

Meanwhile, back to the Mu's Settlement, their situation did not become better. Although somewhat exhausted, the goblins continued to guard the humans as they work with the Opium Poppy Fruit.

Under the harassment from the Ashen Wolves, they still continue with the usual farm works. With Guan Yi taking care of the situation, they managed to complete their task, though there are a few injuries that required some assistance.

The people living in this camp did not relax even a little while hoping that their chief can come back a little earlier. Time past along with the movement of the sun, and before nightfall, their hope crushes.

Led by five Prairie Black Wolves, the second pack of five hundred Ashen Wolves is here! The Mu's Settlement is put in a dangerous precadiment now!

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"I did not think that we managed to chase up with the group of human slaves we sent earlier. Make haste, everyone! We have to reach the Mu's Settlement earlier and request for Chief Mu's help!" Tiezu-Gu found the group of slaves the sent earlier that day along with fifty orcs.

As for Tiezu-Wu, he took the quickest way heading to Mu's Settlement, and already three hours away from the settlement. Although exhausted, Tiezu-Wu is happy that he became the fastest person to reaches their destination.

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"Are we ready!" Namu Mayue is gathering his people to launch an attack towards the northeast, with the nest of the Ashen Wolves as their destination. In his eyes, this fierce cultivator is not only aiming to destroy the Wolves Den but targetting the person that rumored to sell this immortal ointment.

One string entangled with another, the Chang Emperor Prairie is no longer remained peaceful! With both Namu Settlement and Yelu Settlement had made their move, only the Wuhan Settlement remained quiet.

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"Everyone! Today will be the day we destroy the Tiezu-Orc Village!" the cultivator from Yelu Settlement is preparing for their final attack, which only guarded by Tiezu-Yu. The latter is too composed in his position and did not flinch no matter how he was provoked.

Unfortunately, the situation is not that positive to his side. Surrounded in all four directions, the Tiezu-Orc Village is fated to fall here today. The only choice left for Tiezu-Yu is where to attack, and who he wanted to kill before he met with his ending.