As he watched the information popping up in his field of vision slowly fade away, a trace of gravity appeared in Wang Chen's eyes.
Though he had killed the black snake with apparent ease, it had actually cost him no small amount of effort.
And this was only the first underground palace monster Wang Chen had encountered.
Countless strange Evil Creatures dwelled within the Nine Dragon Underground Palace, and they were undoubtedly the greatest threat to explorers.
Over the past several centuries, no one knew how many sect disciples and Rogue Cultivators had descended here, never to return.
Most had fallen prey to these monsters.
Wang Chen could not name this kind of black snake, but dealing with three to five, or even a dozen of them, would not be a problem.
But if their numbers surged to dozens or hundreds, things would become exceedingly dangerous.
The underground palace prohibited flight and suppressed Purple Mansion cultivation. Even escaping would not be easy; one misstep, and he could fall into a bottomless abyss!
As he reminded himself to stay vigilant, Wang Chen began digging up the Star-Shattering Grass by the pool.
He guessed that the black snake he had just killed had been the guardian of this Star-Shattering Grass, much like an Elite Monster guarding a checkpoint.
One snake alone had earned him over a hundred Human Virtue points.
Among the Star-Shattering Grass here, Wang Chen found as many as six mature plants. Judging by the measure of one inch per hundred years, the oldest was more than five hundred years old!
Wang Chen did not know how many Spirit Stones such a Star-Shattering Grass plant could fetch in Myriad Spirit City, but it surely would not be a small sum.
He carefully dug up the plants, roots and all.
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