"That Ancient Ruins' owner was very likely a Dou Sheng. There are plenty of methods to preserve medicinal ingredients and keep their potency from dissipating for a long time."
Luo Zhen smiled. "If there really are medicinal ingredients inside, they can most likely still be used."
Did you really need to tell me that?
I could already see it!
If this place had not been so complicated, I would not have needed Zi Yan to find the way. After stepping forward to inspect the stone door and finding no traps or mechanisms on it, I reached out and pushed it open.
"Rumble!"
Amid a deep rumble, the heavy stone door, covered in a thick layer of moss, slowly opened. A dense medicinal fragrance, sealed away for countless years, immediately billowed out from behind the door, rousing everyone's spirits.
I was the first to step inside. As I looked around, although I had already known what to expect, seeing it with my own eyes still made me suck in a cold breath in shock.
Behind the stone door was not the large Stone Chamber Xiao Yan and the others had imagined, but a medicinal garden... a vast medicinal garden composed entirely of all kinds of rare medicinal ingredients!
This entire layer of the mountain had probably been hollowed out and used solely to cultivate medicinal ingredients. The garden was enormous, nearly thirty meters high. Countless rare medicinal ingredients grew here: flowers, grasses, berries, nuts, ginseng, vines, shrubs... it had everything imaginable!
"Th-this..."
Xiao Yan was thoroughly stunned by the enormous medicinal garden. As though he had seen a peerless beauty, his eyes filled with infatuation. In his excitement, he rushed into the garden and gazed at the rare medicinal ingredients around him, his eyes dazzled by the overwhelming abundance as he