The Eighth Hundred and Seventeenth Chapter: The Spirit Herb Takes Human Form

Seeing the five spirit lotuses glowing with five-colored light in the mouths of the five little beasts, Qin Fengming was instantly rooted to the spot. His mind reeled, and he felt as though he had fallen into a dream.

Within the five-colored radiance enveloping the five lotuses before him, there was now a phantom five-colored little person inside each one. The five little figures had vivid, lifelike features, their bodies and facial features exactly like those of shrunken infants.

Such a bizarre scene appeared before Qin Fengming's eyes, making him so excited that he could barely steady himself. A name that thrilled him beyond measure emerged in his mind: the spirit herb taking human form.

A spirit herb taking human form meant that, after absorbing the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth on its own for countless tens of thousands of years, a spirit herb had cultivated a true body by itself. If that true body continued cultivating, it could produce intelligence of its own. Given the right opportunity, it might even cultivate into a Heavenly Immortal.

However, a spirit herb taking human form was incomparably difficult. It was not enough for a spirit herb to have existed for hundreds of millions, or even a billion years for it to take form and gain sentience. It also required tremendous opportunity, and the necessary conditions were beyond what humans could accomplish.

Not to mention the Human Realm—even in the Upper Realm, instances of spirit herbs gaining sentience and taking human form were exceedingly rare.

Although Human Realm cultivators had never seen a spirit herb take human form, this matter had been mentioned in quite a few ancient texts.

With Qin Fengming's knowledge, the state displayed by the five spirit lotuses before him could only be explained by the spirit herbs having