"Actually, there's nothing much to say. Luo merely happened to learn of a long-standing scheme the Flowing Fire Sect had in Blood River Valley."
Since he no longer had any designs on the Blood Pill Flower King, Luo Hong immediately told Silver Fairy everything he had learned in a relaxed tone.
"They actually plotted for two hundred thousand years over a single spiritual herb. It's truly the handiwork of immortals!"
After hearing this, Silver Fairy first sighed in amazement, but then she frowned and asked in great confusion:
"But if the Blood Pill Flower King is truly so precious, why didn't the Flowing Fire Sect confine those Blood Eye Sables near their sect?
They even allow True Immortals from the other sects to enter periodically and pick Ten Thousand Year Blood Peonies.
Aren't they afraid someone might accidentally discover the secret and beat them to it?"
"If they could, the Flowing Fire Sect would naturally do so. But Luo guesses that to cultivate the Blood Pill Flower King, aside from the Blood Eye Sables' Blood Path Law and immense Demonic Power, a vast amount of pure Five Elements Immortal Spiritual Energy is likely also required.
If the Flowing Fire Sect had to provide it all themselves, the cost of cultivation would be far too great."
Luo Hong shook his head as he spoke.
Everything came down to investment and return. The Blood Pill Flower King might have some unique use, but compared with the resources required to cultivate it from nothing, the returns were far too meager.
Thus, the Flowing Fire Sect had devised a way to make the various sects contribute for free.
"This Fairy understands now. The flower-picking mission held roughly once every thousand years was deliberately arranged by the Flowing Fire Sect to replenish Blood River Valley