"Wait a moment."
Just as Lin Xiuyuan was about to leave with everyone, Zheng Yuwei suddenly spoke up.
"kindness?"
Curious, the group looked over and saw Zheng Yuwei looking ahead with excitement in her eyes, as did Ding Min beside her.
In the far distance, at a small medicinal field, two groups of cultivators were facing off, seemingly from the Nine Kingdoms Alliance and the Northwest Demonic Path.
On the Nine Kingdoms Alliance side, there were about ten people dressed in the same attire as Zheng Yuwei and the other two, wearing pale yellow robes with maple leaves embroidered on the sleeves and front of the robes.
“Fellow Daoist Lin, Fellow Daoist Zhong… they are from our Falling Maple Sect.”
Zheng Yuwei said with a hint of joy, "It seems that the formation of the medicine garden they are fighting over is about to be broken, and it seems that our Nine Kingdoms Alliance has more people and has a slight advantage."
As she spoke, she turned her gaze to Lin Xiuyuan and said, "Fellow Daoist Lin, why don't you join in? With your combat strength, you can add to this advantage, and you will surely be able to get a lot of spiritual items."
Upon hearing Zheng Yuwei's words, Zhong Jiajia and the other woman couldn't help but turn their gazes to Lin Xiuyuan with a hint of anticipation.
Just as Zheng Yuwei said, it seemed that the Nine Kingdoms Alliance had some advantages there, and with Lin Xiuyuan's combat strength, if he joined them, he would definitely expand this advantage and could almost secure the ownership of that medicinal field.
At that time, I'm sure I'll be able to get a lot of spiritual items.
With no harvest to be found, encountering such a likely scenario is undoubtedly tempting.
All the resources and benefits for the two of them would fall on Lin Xiuyuan, or they would have to wait for the main group to harvest the harvest and get a share of it.
At this moment, the two women couldn't help but look at Lin Xiuyuan with some attraction.
However, Lin Xiuyuan gently shook his head, cupped his hands in greeting, and said, "No, I still need to go and meet with my sect, so I won't stay any longer. Now that we've met people from your Luofeng Sect, it must be time to part ways. I wish you both safety and success in capturing this medicinal field!"
Although that medicinal field contained many rare spiritual items, they were not the kind of aids Lin Xiuyuan needed to break through his cultivation realm, so there was no need to risk competing for them. Lin Xiuyuan's purpose in coming to this secret realm was very clear: apart from the spiritual items to aid his breakthrough, everything else was secondary, and naturally he would not risk his life for anything else.
Seeing this, Zheng Yuwei couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Lin Xiuyuan's combat strength was obvious to all, and he could be considered one of the most invincible in this realm!
If he were to join them, he would surely help them seize this medicinal garden.
It's a bit of a pity.
Zheng Yuwei had no choice but to cup her hands and say, "Since that's the case, then Fellow Daoist Lin, Fellow Daoist Zhong... let's part ways here. Thank you all for your help. We, the fellow Daoists, will always remember Fellow Daoist Lin's great kindness. If you ever need our help, we will certainly not refuse. These are the spiritual items we obtained in the secret realm. Knowing that Fellow Daoist Lin and the others did not participate in the earlier competition, we offer them as a small token of our appreciation."
After saying that, Zheng Yuwei took out a Qiankun bag and handed it to Lin Xiuyuan.
Lin Xiuyuan scanned the area with his divine sense and found three rare thousand-year-old spiritual herbs inside. He immediately took out his quota token and stored them inside.
Each token is like a storage bag, a kind of treasure chest. Its main purpose is to store these rare spiritual herbs, because each herb is protected by a layer of restrictions. If one were to ingest it rashly, these restrictions would fall upon one's soul and be easily detected.
What Zheng Yuwei mentioned earlier about Gu Wenbai and his two companions wanting to secretly consume the spiritual medicine meant that they had a way to break the restrictions on it and quietly ingest the medicine to enhance themselves. This, of course, was not allowed.
These rare and precious medicinal herbs are mostly suitable for powerful cultivators at the Purple Mansion, Golden Core, or even Nascent Soul stages. They are crucial to the overall development of the sect and far beyond the reach of those at their current level. Otherwise, they wouldn't have attracted the convergence of countless sects from three different forces.
The disciples who enter the secret realm are merely thugs... After they leave the secret realm, their records will be submitted to the sect for statistics, and rewards will be distributed based on their merits.
He didn't refuse and readily accepted the gifts, mainly because he didn't expect them to repay this kindness in any way. This time, he was just doing it on a whim, especially since two of them were his fellow disciples.
After watching Zheng Yuwei and the others leave, Lin Xiuyuan turned around and said, "Let's go too. This valley is not a place to stay for long. Let's go to the center of the secret realm and see if our sect's people are there."
Zhong Jiajia and the other two women naturally had no objections and followed Lin Xiuyuan out of the valley.
After flying out of the valley, there was a vast, boundless plain. On the horizon, a mountain range could be faintly seen, seemingly forming a barrier between heaven and earth.
That place is the very heart of the secret realm.
It is a place where top-notch medicinal gardens, spiritual fields, and dragon veins converge, and should be the most fiercely contested area among various sects and forces.
The Hengyang Secret Realm opened ahead of schedule this time, and most of the spiritual herbs are not as old as before. For example, the spiritual plants in the ordinary herb gardens and spiritual fields in the secret realm are mostly only about a thousand years old. The three plants that Zheng Yuwei gave him earlier were slightly better, but still less than two thousand years old.
Such a age is clearly inconsistent with the reputation of being one of the three top secret realms in the Southern Continent. This is because it opened early, unlike in the past when spiritual herbs were often thousands of years old. Top-tier herb gardens primarily produce spiritual herbs that are ten thousand years old!
Nowadays, it is estimated that only in the core areas can one find rare medicinal herbs that are over five thousand years old or even close to ten thousand years old.
Furthermore, with the righteous and demonic factions currently engaged in a major war, one can imagine how fierce the competition for the central location will be.
Originally, Lin Xiuyuan's plan was to obtain the spiritual item he needed, then hand it over to the sect. With his status, position, and background, it shouldn't be difficult for him to get the spiritual item back from the sect.
In this way, these dangers can be avoided, and a place can be found to hide and wait for the ten-year period to leave the secret realm.
But now that the plan has been disrupted, there's nothing we can do but bite the bullet and go for it.
Now that things have come to this, there is naturally no room for retreat.
Lin Xiuyuan remained calm, his eyes filled with determination. He led Zhong Jiajia and the other two women, swiftly across the plains, heading towards the mountain range.
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