“Junior Sister Su Qing, it’s Azure Grass! This kind of Grade 3 herb is probably guarded by a demonic beast nearby. Let me go take a look.” Gu Fengying said, and walked towards the Azure Grass.
Su Qing warned, "Senior Brother Gu, be careful. I just saw a Gale Fox nearby."
As they were talking, the Swiftwind Fox sensed that the two were up to no good, and it flew in an arc through the air towards Gu Fengying.
Gu Fengying was startled and hurriedly drew her sword to block, but it was too late.
Just as the Swift Fox's claws were about to grab Gu Fengying's head, Gu Fengying ignored everything and pushed Su Qing, who was next to her, back.
"Junior Sister Su Qing, run! I'll handle it."
Seeing that the Swift Fox's gleaming, sharp claws were about to pierce Gu Fengying's throat, Su Qing could no longer hide it and raised her hand to throw a talisman.
The talisman landed on the Swiftwind Fox's forehead, causing the fox's body to freeze for a moment. Then, just millimeters away from Gu Fengying, it fell down with a thud.
Um?
Gu Fengying was dumbfounded. He had prepared himself to be scratched by the Gale Fox, but he didn't expect the Gale Fox to fall down so easily without even touching a hair on his head.
"This is... a Spirit-Trapping Talisman?" Gu Fengying recognized the talisman on the Swift Wind Fox's forehead.
The Spirit-Trapping Talisman is only a second-tier talisman, not a high-level one, but it is very effective. Just like now, the third-tier demon beast, the Gale Fox, was directly trapped by the Spirit-Trapping Talisman, lying on the ground unable to move, at the mercy of others.
However, this kind of talisman has a fatal flaw: it requires extremely high skill from the person who applies it.
The cultivators who use it must be close to the demonic beast and act swiftly.
Otherwise, the talisman would have been bitten by the monster before it could even be used.
Su Qing's actions were perfectly timed, which saved Gu Fengying from a difficult situation.
"Junior Sister Su Qing, you really helped me a lot with this." Gu Fengying said, binding the Gale Fox tightly with the Spirit Binding Rope.
"Junior Sister, do you have a spirit beast cage?"
Su Qing shook her head.
"In that case, I'll keep it for you for now and give it to you when we get back." With that, Gu Fengying tossed the tightly bound Gale Fox into a small cage.
Strangely enough, once the Gale Fox was placed in the cage, it immediately shrank to the size of a palm. The ferocious beast that had been so fierce just moments before now looked rather cute.
This small cage is a special cage made by the Spirit Beast Room, specifically for capturing demonic beasts alive.
Although the Swift Fox is not a high-level creature, it can be tamed and sold as a spirit pet, which is more profitable than killing it and selling it for materials.
"Junior Sister Su Qing, you should also hurry up and pick the green grass that day. Let's continue searching for other spiritual herbs," Gu Fengying said.
Su Qing was surprised to find that Gu Fengying was such a gentleman.
Sigh, if they were fellow disciples in the previous life, they would definitely have fought fiercely over who would own the Gale Fox and the Azure Grass.
Su Qing picked the azure grass, and the two continued walking forward.
Along the way, the two encountered some first and second-tier herbs, which they collected, but they did not encounter any more monsters.
Suddenly, a wind rose in Manyun Valley.
The feeling was so familiar; Su Qing sensed that this wind was very similar to the wind she had felt in her sea of consciousness.
"The fog has thinned," Gu Fengying said.
Su Qing squinted at the scene before her.
Manyun Valley is a canyon located in the back mountains. It is shrouded in mist all year round. Now, the wind came and the mist cleared, allowing her to see more of Manyun Valley.
This Manyun Valley does resemble terraced fields, presumably built when the Xuanling Sect used it as a medicinal herb field. At this moment, the two were standing on one of the terraced fields, which was only a few hundred meters in diameter.
Su Qing saw her fellow disciples not far away, all of them still searching carefully for something.
"So this is what Manyun Valley is like." Gu Fengying was clearly seeing the entire Manyun Valley for the first time.
"Let's go over there!" Su Qing pointed in a direction, and Gu Fengying looked in the direction she pointed and saw a fruit tree covered with golden fruit.
Even through the mist, one could tell that the golden fruit was no ordinary fruit.
“A fourth-tier spiritual fruit!” Gu Fengying narrowed his eyes. He recognized it; it was the Shiluo Fruit.
The Shiluo fruit takes a hundred years to flower, a hundred years to bear fruit, and a hundred years to mature. After consumption, it is said to have the effect of cleansing the tendons and marrow.
Not only for Qi Refining disciples, but even Foundation Establishment disciples can still cleanse their marrow and make their bodies purer by taking it!
It can even alleviate the poisoning caused by pills in Core Formation stage cultivators. This kind of spiritual fruit has appeared in the trading market of Xuanling Sect before, with one Shiluo fruit costing one hundred mid-grade spirit stones.
There's a whole tree here!
A rough estimate suggests there are at least three to five hundred Shiro fruits.
Gu Fengying's eyes were red. He had tried to buy this Shi Luo fruit before, but it was always in short supply. He never expected to find it here.
"Let's go!" Gu Fengying said, and walked towards the direction of Shiluoguo.
Not only Gu Fengying's team, but other Xuanling Sect disciples also discovered the Shiluo Fruit and ran towards it.
The two outer disciples at the peak of the Qi Refining stage were closest to the fruit. As soon as they saw the Shi Luo Fruit, they rushed towards it.
As a result, before the two could even get close, a whip sent them flying!
"Oh no! There's a demonic beast guarding it!" Gu Fengying shouted. "Everyone stop! Don't go any closer! Let's go together and find out what's going on!"
When the Xuanling Sect disciples behind saw the person in front of them being sent flying, without even seeing who did it, they dared not continue forward and waited for everyone to gather together to think of a solution.
After Gu Fengying and Su Qing reunited with everyone, they saw the two outer disciples who had been sent flying, and they were seriously injured.
"Did you see clearly what kind of monster it was?" Gu Fengying asked.
The two disciples shook their heads, their eyes filled with panic.
“Senior Brother Gu, we only saw a dark shadow before we were whipped and sent flying. We didn’t even see what the beast looked like, but it looked like a whip and was smooth and hairless. It might have been a giant python,” one of the outer disciples said.
Those two are so pitiful!
One was hit in the chest, and the other in the back. Where they were hit, all the bones were broken, and a large part of their bodies collapsed inward.
If the two hadn't been peak Qi Refining cultivators, carrying top-quality medicine with them, and hadn't quickly taken it all in one gulp, it would have been enough to kill them.
"Could it be a fourth-tier demonic beast?" Ye Xinxin guessed.
"At least sixth rank," Su Qing said.
"Sixth rank?" Everyone was stunned.
How is that possible? All the demonic beasts above the fifth rank in the back mountain have been wiped out by the elders. How could there be any that have escaped?
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