Wood Heaven Plains.
Though called a highland plateau, it was hardly flat as a board.
Mountains rose and fell across it, ravines crisscrossed the land, and rivers and streams flowed slowly beneath high peaks whose snow never melted.
This varied terrain offered the spirit medicines planted there a range of growing conditions.
Their plan called for the three of them to cross Wood Heaven Plains, but not simply fly straight over it.
According to Taisui, the Refining Void True Lord had planted vast quantities of spirit medicine there. To keep them from affecting one another's growth, he had arranged formations around each kind according to its needs.
A Flight-Ban Formation also covered the entire sky above Wood Heaven Plains.
They could skim along at low altitude, but could not race across it from on high.
For Luo Chen, now that the Five Elements Lotus Platform was in his hands, the Fallen Devil Land held far less appeal.
Even the Inheritance Land!
From what Taisui had said and what Han Zhan had deduced, the Inheritance Land was almost certainly meant for Nascent Soul True Persons. Even if a mere Golden Core Cultivator like Luo Chen entered, he would gain little.
So his plan was simple.
He would honor his promise to help Taisui escape, then wait for the Spirit Absorption Great Array in the Fallen Devil Land to shut down before finding a Teleportation Array and leaving.
If Nascent Soul cultivators clashed along the way, he would not mind stepping in to help Han Zhan seize a human Nascent Soul cultivator's body.
But now that they had reached the True Lord's Spirit Medicine Garden, Luo Chen, a Pill Refiner, naturally had no wish to leave empty-handed.
Why not gather a few spirit medicines while he was here?
Especially since—
Taisui had