Under the scorching sun, there is not a single white cloud visible in the clear sky for thousands of miles. It is also a good day, but it is a bit depressing to put this weather in the desert. When the weather gets hot, there will be more sweat, and naturally, more water will be replenished. However, water is a precious resource in the desert, especially in large deserts like the Taklamakan. If you want to travel through this desert, you cannot bring less water, but you cannot just drink water, right? Clothing, food, shelter, transportation, and a lot of things to bring, but human abilities are limited. It is impossible to prepare everything you want, which is why hiking through the Taklamakan Desert is considered an honor!
There are many scattered oases in the Taklamakan Desert. If you can clearly know the distribution of these oases, it will undoubtedly be much more convenient to travel through the Taklamakan Desert!
The Emerald Oasis is a very small oasis in the Taklamakan Desert, so small that it can be ignored. If it weren't for the Emerald Oasis being the only oasis in this area, probably no one would remember its name!
The name Jade Oasis is very simple, because the pond in the oasis, compared to the surrounding sparse Populus euphratica, has become an embellishment!
However, that's just a thing of the past. If someone who has been to the Emerald Oasis comes here again and sees the fields of Populus euphratica and flowers all over the ground around the oasis, they will definitely not believe that this place is the Emerald Oasis. How could such fields of Populus euphratica appear in the desert? They grow extremely well, thick and large, and those who don't know may think that these Populus euphratica have grown for hundreds of years!
If all of these are not enough to surprise people, then a strange house in the center of these poplar trees, next to the pond, is strange. Why is it called a strange house? The entire house is made of grapevines, whether it's the walls, floors, or roof! If it's just withered, it's understandable, but unfortunately, these grapevines are incredibly vibrant, and the entire exterior of the house is covered in lush green grape leaves, making it hard to imagine how such a plant house made entirely of plants could have appeared!
In fact, these are all external manifestations of the house, and what's even more magical is inside the house. From the outside, the house looks magical enough, but there is something even more magical inside the house. It's a strange translucent stone that looks a bit mixed in color from the outside. Why is it called strange? Have you ever seen a stone that floats in the air and constantly emits a fragrance?
The stone floating in the house is naturally the golden jade nest of Mao Mao, which allows the stone to float without any external force. This is what Zhongyuan has gained in recent days. Although it may seem magical, in fact, even the gathering spirit array is much more complex than this!
When Zhong Yuan dug out the jade slips that remembered the floating array from the secret treasure, he couldn't believe how simple it was to make something float. After studying for a whole morning, Zhong Yuan miraculously mastered the floating array. Originally, Zhong Yuan wanted to use a piece of material to test whether the array was really that magical. But when he saw Mao Mao's little nest, he suddenly had a strange idea to arrange the array under Mao Mao Mao's little nest, using a spiritual power crystal as energy. He successfully made Mao Mao Mao's little nest float up in one go and jumped up and down happily on the spot. Unfortunately, Mao Mao is actually just an animal. Although it looks quite intelligent, it cannot perform some complex operations. Otherwise, with a little more arrangement, Mao Mao's little nest can be used as a plane to fly, but of course, if that's the case, the spiritual energy crystal in the nest that can last for more than half a year may be gone in a few days!
Not only this house, but also the changes in the entire Emerald Oasis are naturally due to Zhongyuan's reasons. When Yang Hua and the others left Zhongyuan's psychic range, Zhongyuan released the desert wolves that were imprisoned in place. However, when it comes to the vengeful nature of these deserts, although they were released from captivity, Zhongyuan did not let these desert wolves leave the oasis. Why would it take a day or two to talk about it!
Without paying attention to the desert wolves active nearby, Zhongyuan floated into mid air and began renovating the oasis. Zhongyuan had planned to spend ten days and a half months here, so he naturally needed to tidy up the oasis well. At first, Zhongyuan wanted to decorate the area with some grass seeds and flowers, but he had an idea when he saw the Populus euphratica around the oasis. Although the grass and flowers were beautiful, they couldn't survive without Zhongyuan's care. They were incomparable to these tenacious Populus euphratica. With the existence of this pond, even if Zhongyuan left in the future, these Populus euphratica could survive well!
Planting and nurturing these Populus euphratica trees is very simple. Zhong Yuan only needs to fold off the branches of those Populus euphratica trees and insert them into the desert, and then use flames to create towering trees. Every time he sees that magical process, Zhong Yuan would exclaim how amazing it is! Although it's not something out of nothing, it's almost there!
The Populus euphratica around the oasis didn't take much time for Zhongyuan to finish before lunchtime. On the contrary, the house made of grapevines caused Zhongyuan a lot of trouble for the whole afternoon. Zhongyuan had lived in any room before. The desert was covered in yellow sand, and it was easy to use his psychic power to melt some materials to make a house. However, since the environment had been changed, Zhongyuan also wanted to try a new house. Naturally, Zhongyuan thought of the grapevines he had seen before!
Very rough, Zhong Yuan directly used his psychic power to pull back the grape vine. Grapes are like poplar trees, they can be produced by folding the vine into several sections. At first, Zhong Yuan used his psychic power to weave the vines into the shape of a house, but the vines were produced. However, the house was left in a mess, with holes in the east and west. Not only was it windproof and rainproof, but it couldn't even prevent sand. As for aesthetics, it couldn't even be considered beautiful!
Leaving behind a few grape vines, Zhongyuan directly burned down the strange shaped house with a fire, as if it were fattening up the desert. This time Zhongyuan learned well, and with his aesthetic level, it was not easy to slowly weave it. Even Zhongyuan himself couldn't stand it, so Zhongyuan directly fixed a model of the house with his psychic power and used flames to stimulate the free growth of those grape vines. When those grape vines were squeezed tightly in the psychic power model, Zhongyuan's psychic power dissipated, and he used flames to stimulate those grape leaves outside the house. In this way, Zhongyuan's house was considered completed!
After being manipulated by Zhongyuan, the environment in the oasis and the desert outside became two completely different worlds. During the day, Zhongyuan wandered around in the desert while thinking about what was in his mind. Whenever he regained his senses and looked at the surrounding scenery, he continued to wander around. At night, he stayed in the grape house or lay on a hammock next to the grape house to study things. Even Zhongyuan wanted to use grape vines to make the hammock, but it couldn't withstand the disturbance and would soon be shaken and damaged. So Zhongyuan had to obediently tie the hammock to two nearby trees!
The location of Zhongyuan's hammock has been specially chosen, it's right next to the pond. If you want to fish, you can even lie on the hammock and fish. However, although it's convenient for Zhongyuan, he doesn't dare to fish too aggressively. Not to mention, the fish in this pond will not be exhausted after a long time!
I don't know if it's because of changing to a new environment, but Zhongyuan feels like his mind has opened up. He used to have a lot of confused things, but now he can even come up with some flavors after thinking about them a few times. Mao Mao's floating little nest is the biggest gain for Zhongyuan during this period. Zhongyuan has also learned a lot of other messy formations. Although individual disassembly is not very useful, it is essential for learning compound formations in the future!
This is also the reason why Zhongyuan likes to go out and explore. Whether it's learning formations or learning spells and supernatural powers, sometimes inspiration is needed. If you can't understand what you're learning today, maybe you'll figure it out as soon as you feel better tomorrow. Zhongyuan has encountered this situation many times before, not only can he run around, but he also doesn't delay his practice!
The few desert wolves had already given up their confinement by the next day, and one day was enough time for Yang Hua and the others to run a long distance. Whether to end the expedition on the return journey or continue the rest of the journey was not related to Zhongyuan. I don't know if they were scared by Zhongyuan's invisible psychic power, or because they saw Zhongyuan's amazing tricks, the several desert wolves actually stayed in the oasis!
Zhongyuan, they can't afford to provoke them anyway. In these days, when they see Zhongyuan and these desert wolves, they don't shy away. Even if Zhongyuan passes by them while they are resting, these desert wolves just go their separate ways. Sometimes Zhongyuan gets distracted while walking, and when they encounter these desert wolves, they will obediently jump aside and not block Zhongyuan's path!
Seeing these desert wolves being so sensible, Zhong Yuan gave up his plan to drive them out. He was only worried that Mao Mao, that little thing, might accidentally be injured by those desert wolves. However, when he saw Mao Mao chasing after those desert wolves and howling, Zhong Yuan gave up his intention to control Mao Mao. Anyway, just treat that little thing as a monster. It's said that birds of a feather flock together. If Zhong Yuan didn't have the ability to communicate with the heavens, he might have been isolated from such a magical creature for the rest of his life!
Trouble is something that no one likes, but not liking it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Sometimes, even if you're lying at home, trouble will automatically come knocking on your door. Although for Zhongyuan, this is just a small problem that cannot be small!