After passing through a dense forest, the full expanse of Dusk Medicine Valley came into view.
Compared to the hundred-acre medicine gardens owned by the other families of Beiyang Dao, the Bai family's medicine garden was much smaller, totaling only a little over fifty acres. Yet it had been tended with exceptional care.
As far as the eye could see, all manner of spiritual plants brimmed with life. Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in every color drank in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, echoing the brilliant golden sunlight above. Auspicious radiance shrouded the valley, making it seem like an earthly paradise—or an immortal's grotto-heaven.
But at this moment, bands of "rough men" had barged in, ruining the tranquil, harmonious sight of heaven and earth in motion.
Everyone from Ronghua City, the Demon Suppression Division, and the Shengyun Sect had arrived before the medicine garden.
Chen Sanshi was mixed in among them as well.
He swept his gaze across the area and saw that over seventy percent of what grew in these spiritual lands were merely first-rank spiritual plants. Only the very center gleamed with dazzling spiritual light, Formation Patterns flowing through it. Many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures above the first rank grew there, but the distance was too great to discern their precise ranks or ages.
"You cannot go any farther."
"Eh?!"
Bai Linxun and the others' attempts at persuasion had no effect whatsoever.
Zhang Jinchen directly rode his flying sword into the very core of the medicine garden. The baleful aura and mana fluctuations he brought with him caused the Formation Patterns, which had resembled rippling water, to churn violently. Once they fell completely into disorder, they utterly collapsed.
The dark blue formation was interrupted, and the spiritual energy density throughout the entire area plummeted. Several crimson flowers