Meteor Star Grass

In the vast and desolate divine wilderness, on Tai'a Medicine Mountain, a small figure climbs and leaps among the mountains!

Wearing the Flowing Silver Shirt weighing two hundred ding (a unit of weight), Yi Yun had to be extremely careful with every step. He could hardly step on the mud; he had to step on the rocks with every step, otherwise his entire leg would sink in.

This desolate mountain range is full of rocks, many of which are hard enough to support Yi Yun's weight.

Yi Yun stepped firmly onto a stone and was about to take his second step when suddenly the large bluestone he had just used for leverage overturned, as if it had been pried out of the soil by Yi Yun's immense weight.

The sudden change startled Yi Yun; the bluestone he was standing on tipped over, and he was about to tumble down with it.

Wearing Flowing Silver Shirt weighing two hundred ding (a unit of weight), if you don't adjust your weight in time, rolling on a rock is no joke.

Ordinary rocks would have been shattered long ago if Yi Yun had rolled them over them, Yi Yun himself would have been injured.

Just as he was about to fall onto a large rock, Yi Yun did not change the weight of the Flowing Silver Shirt. Instead, he forcibly twisted his body in mid-air and drew the Thousand Army Saber from behind him!

Snap!

The Thousand Army Saber, longer than a man, sliced into a large rock in the mountain wall as easily as cutting tofu. Using this force, Yi Yun's body swung and tumbled in the air. With the force of the backward roll, Yi Yun's body, which originally wanted to fall backward, was forcibly swung to the side.

Like a nimble ape, he shifted his body a full ten feet to the side, then lightly touched the ground with his toes, using the momentum of another large rock. With this light touch, Yi Yun shattered the rock into pieces.

In this way, Yi Yun finally gained enough strength and landed steadily on the mountain rock.

The series of movements just now were the result of Yi Yun's recent efforts to reach the Subtle Movement of the subtle realm. Otherwise, he would have only been able to lighten the weight of Flowing Silver Shirt and fall off the cliff.

Carrying a 200-ton weight while climbing a mountain is incredibly difficult; one wrong step could crush the rocks.

Yi Yun has been exploring and experimenting. Through these experiments, he has gradually made his control over power more and more precise. Every bit of power must be just right, neither too much nor too little, like dancing on the edge of a knife.

Bang, bang, bang!

Yi Yun climbed the mountain step by step, each step quick yet careful.

Wherever he went, it was as if Giant Beast had trampled him, leaving behind pits and holes wherever he landed.

Several times, when he encountered problems with the stones under his feet, Yi Yun cleverly used his movement Movement Technique to avert danger each time.

"Um?"

Suddenly, Yi Yun noticed that a large tree a hundred meters ahead was shimmering with tiny lights, like tiny specks of starlight.

The Purple Crystal within Yi Yun's body began to pulsate slightly, sensing the presence of that light and reminding Yi Yun of it.

Now, as Yi Yun's cultivation level increases, his mental strength also becomes stronger and his perception becomes more acute. Every bit of energy fluctuation within a hundred-meter radius around Yi Yun is clearly visible to him.

However, if it's an existence of the level of Ancient Remnant Species, containing incredibly pure energy, then Yi Yun can sense it even from a distance of several miles. This is true even if the energy is sealed. Of course, sensing sealed energy is one thing, but absorbing it is quite another!

This is the wondrous vision that the Purple Crystal brought to Yi Yun —a world composed of energy.

Guided by the Purple Crystal, Yi Yun easily found the source of the energy.

Pushing aside the tangled bushes, Yi Yun found a flower the size of a fist hidden in a crevice in the tree trunk.

"Star-Gleaming Flower?"

After identifying the flower's color and comparing the luster of its petals, Yi Yun determined the flower's origin.

When he first arrived in Tai'a Divine City, he read a book called "Divine Wilderness" which contained a record of the Star-Gleaming Flower. The Star-Gleaming Flower absorbs the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi and rain and dew to grow. The big tree on which it takes root seems to be the object parasitized by the Star-Gleaming Flower, but it is just an ordinary tree.

In reality, this large tree is a mimicry of the root system of the Star-Gleaming Flower. Once the Star-Gleaming Flower is removed, the tree will slowly wither.

In the Divine Wilderness, there are many spiritual treasures of heaven and earth, all of which have the ability to hide and protect themselves; otherwise, they would easily be eaten by ferocious beasts or taken away by humans.

The Star-Gleaming Flower, a high-grade Yellow-rank spiritual herb, can probably be exchanged for three Dragon Scale Rune.

"Having traveled so far, I've only found one high-grade Yellow-rank Star-Gleaming Flower. If I were a trial participant from another divine city, without the help of Purple Crystal, I'd have to weed and turn over rocks, making my herb-gathering efficiency even lower. In a day, I'd be lucky to find a dozen or so Yellow-rank spiritual herbs. If I'm lucky, finding one or two Profound-rank spiritual herbs would be a great harvest."

"Low-grade Yellow-rank spiritual herbs can only be exchanged for one or two Dragon Scale Rune, while Profound-rank spiritual herbs yield a little more, but only a dozen or so. Considering this, a trial participant gathering herbs can only manage to collect forty or fifty Dragon Scale Rune a day, which is considered quite good!"

"However, those who come to work as herb gatherers must also hand over herbs containing twenty-five Dragon Scale Rune every day. This is to create resources for the divine city, and secondly, to prevent anyone from slacking off. After deducting the twenty-five Dragon Scale Rune, there will be even less left!"

Considering all this, it's no wonder that people are unwilling to come and collect herbs; it is indeed a lonely, desolate, and dead-end job.

After picking the Star-Gleaming Flower, Yi Yun continued on his way. He deliberately chose to walk on piles of loose stones, using those easily rolling and slipping stones to test his Movement Technique and control over his strength.

This naturally slowed down Yi Yun's speed.

Trial participants who come to gather herbs usually start searching for medicinal herbs all over the mountains as soon as they arrive at the herb mountain. They don't have time to care about anything else. If they can't even pay the rent for twenty-five Dragon Scale Rune, their Dragon Scale Rune may become negative.

If someone has a negative number of Dragon Scale Rune for more than two days, the Divine City will take back the free accommodation they were previously allocated, leaving them to sleep on the streets.

For martial artists, sleeping on the streets isn't a big deal; it might not sound like a punishment, but... the shame is unbearable.

Those who come to Tai'a Divine City are all proud and arrogant, yet they can't even get a free room in the city and have to sleep on the streets. When word gets back to their Lineage, it's laughable. They might as well just kill themselves.

So when everyone was gathering herbs, no one dared to slack off. But Yi Yun, after arriving at the herb mountain, moved forward slowly, spending most of his time practicing his Movement Technique. As for gathering herbs... he could just pick them casually; with the Purple Crystal, Yi Yun could pick them accurately every time.

Soon, Yi Yun's medicine basket contained more than a dozen kinds of medicinal herbs, all of which were of the Yellow Rank.

Yi Yun estimated that these medicinal herbs were only worth about thirty Dragon Scale Rune.

"Hmm? That's...?"

Yi Yun looked up and discovered that several hundred meters away, there were faint energy fluctuations, several times stronger than the energy fluctuations of the yellow-grade medicinal herbs he had previously sensed.

"It should be a Xuan-rank medicinal herb."

Yi Yun licked his lips, unleashed his Movement Technique, and like a nimble and agile ape, rushed towards the point of energy fluctuation.

Yi Yun connected his spiritual power to the Purple Crystal. In his current vision, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi gathered here into a huge ball, like a burning flame, clearly indicating that there was a spiritual entity here.

However, once he was out of Purple Crystal's sight, Yi Yun could only see a large black rock. The rock had a rough surface and was covered with small pits and holes. It looked no different from an ordinary rock and there was no trace of any medicinal herbs.

Yi Yun stroked his chin, pondering the records in the book "Divine Wilderness," and soon he understood what the large rock in front of him was all about.

Yi Yun suddenly drew his Thousand Army Saber and slashed down with it!

"Snap!"

With a soft sound, a large section of the black boulder was sheared off!

"So hard! Looks like I was right."

Yi Yun's eyes gleamed. His Thousand Army Saber iron like mud, and with the added strength of his own body, he could easily cleave through not only a rock, but even a thick steel wall.

As for the stone in front of him, Yi Yun cleaved it in two with a single stroke, but his hand was numbed from the impact.

This is no ordinary rock; it's a piece of Meteorite Iron!

"As expected of extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron! During its fall from the sky, the Meteorite Iron ignites due to the high temperature generated by friction with the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, burning away impurities. At the same time, Meteorite Iron meteorite iron incorporates the essence of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi. The hardness of the meteorite Meteorite Iron after being forged in this way is on a completely different level from ordinary steel. It's like iron refined by a blacksmith forging it thousands of times!"

After Yi Yun cut the Meteorite Iron open, the cut surface was very smooth, and the inside was a grayish-white area. In this grayish-white texture, there was a hole about the thickness of a thumb, which looked very conspicuous.

Yi Yun stuck his finger into the hole and fiddled with it, a smile appearing on his lips.

He quickly pulled a fleshy "worm" out of the hole!

However, this is not actually an insect; it is called "Meteor Star Grass," a type of rhizome plant.

The seeds of the Meteor Star Grass can fly tens of thousands of miles to find a place to take root in this vast Great Wilderness.

It is attracted by the scent of meteorites, especially Meteorite Iron, and eventually lands on the surface of Meteorite Iron.

The seeds of the Meteor Star Grass secrete a corrosive liquid that slowly penetrates into the interior of Meteorite Iron over several years, taking root and sprouting!

After that, the Meteor Star Grass will slowly wriggle inside the Meteorite Iron, like a worm in an apple, drilling out tunnels about the thickness of a thumb, absorbing the iron essence within the Meteorite Iron to fuel its growth!

These amazing plants made Yi Yun marvel at how truly wondrous this desolate place was, with life forms here far exceeding his previous understanding.

"Meteor Star Grass! A mid-grade Xuan-rank spiritual herb, close to high-grade Xuan-rank. Because it is rare and difficult to find, the Tai'a Divine City Handbook gives a reward of eighty-two Dragon Scale Rune!"

After learning martial arts, Yi Yun developed an excellent memory; he could basically memorize the Dragon Scale Rune rewards recorded in the manual.

The reward for Xuan-rank herbs starts at ten Dragon Scale Rune. Depending on the value of the herb, a few rare top-grade Xuan-rank herbs can be worth hundreds of Dragon Scale Rune, even more valuable than some Earth Tier herbs.

"Well... let's call it a day. It's time to get ready and head back. It's my first day gathering herbs, so there's no need to overdo it."

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...(To be continued~^~)