Wang Laoshi

Huainan Prefecture, Huashan County

Wang Laoshi, his clothes appeared somewhat tattered and a Snake-Beating Staff in hand, emerged from the dense forest outside the city. Seeing the sunlight overhead again and feeling the jade box in his arms still warm, a smile appeared on his honest face.

But he quickly looked around vigilantly. Only after confirming that no one was nearby did he draw back his smile.

Revealing a troubled expression once more.

Wang Laoshi was a Low Spirit Essence Realm treasure hunter. His main work was to travel through the mountain forests, searching the vast mountains and rivers like a hunter for Spirit Items that might exist within.

Such people were not uncommon. Or rather, they made up the majority of Huashan County's cultivator community.

With their cultivation, they did not dare enter the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

They only dared travel through the Vast Mortal Woodlands where spiritual energy was scarce, using the Crude Spiritual Power Application Method they had mastered, relying on their Cultivator-Enhanced Physique and the martial arts learned from the mortal world to deal with wild beasts such as black bears and tigers.

Facing Demonic Beasts would simply be courting death.

Though the vast mortal mountain forests had barren and impoverished Earth Veins, with few places where spiritual energy gathered, there would occasionally be mountain ranges threaded with faint Earth Vein extensions. Some hollows and Mountain Streams would also gather essence due to their terrain, producing thin spiritual energy and allowing Spirit Herbs and Medicinal Materials to grow.

These Spirit Items and Spirit Materials were exceedingly scarce. Finding even one was like stumbling into great fortune.

Yet they were safe—far safer than places like demonic beast forests, where danger lay everywhere. The mortal mountains and rivers and woodlands were numerous and vast; if one kept