Ancient Forest Frenzied Harvest
"Rumble..."
The moment Lin Ming forcefully pushed open the ancient Stone Door, the expected darkness did not appear. Instead, an incredibly dazzling and brilliant light burst forth from the crack in the door, like Treasure Hoard had been stored for thousands of years suddenly seeing the light!
The light was not a single color, but rather a mixture of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet...
The magnificent spectacle formed by the intertwined spiritual light emanating from countless rare medicinal herbs caused Lin Ming and the others to unconsciously squint and take two steps back. Their internal Dou Qi also reflexively began to circulate, their aura gathering, ready to deal with any possible emergencies at any moment.
For example, powerful Magical Beasts guarding the herb garden or leftover Restriction.
The light lasted for several breaths before gradually diminishing and allowing people to adjust.
Everyone's eyes were able to open fully again, and immediately, including Lin Ming, everyone involuntarily gasped softly, their faces covered with a deep sense of shock.
Beyond the Stone Door lay not the Stone Chamber, storehouse, or herb garden they had anticipated, but a vast... endless Ancient Forest!
A vibrant yet ancient medicinal forest entirely composed of rare and legendary herbs!
The robust trees were Dragon Blood Ancient Wood, hundreds of feet tall, with crimson resin, like blood, flowing faintly from the cracks in their bark, radiating a powerful Qi and Blood; the entwined vines were Star Brilliance King Vine, emitting starlight; the lush grass on the ground consisted of Soul Condensing Grass and Bone Tempering Flower, which could be used to refine Tier 7 Medicinal Pill...
As far as the eye could see, there was hardly a single ordinary plant; each one contained pure and powerful energy, and their age was at least in the thousands of years!
The rich, exotic fragrance almost solidified into a mist, drifting through the forest. Taking a breath made one feel as if every pore on their body opened up, and even the circulation of their Dou Qi quickened slightly.
"Damn it... compared to the medicinal herbs here, the herbs in my Ten Myriad Medicine Mountain Range are nothing at all..."
Xiong Zhan stared in disbelief at the vast fields of rare medicinal herbs growing like cabbages, his rugged face filled with astonishment. He muttered to himself, "I used to think my lair was a treasure trove of medicinal herbs, but now I realize what it means to be a frog in a well."
"Call..."
Lin Ming was also deeply shocked by this Ancient Forest, which was entirely composed of rare medicinal herbs. Even though he was knowledgeable and had a firm will, it took him a while to gradually recover from the extreme visual and sensory impact.
Immediately, Lin Ming reacted quickly, pulling all the still-dazed people into the medicinal forest. Then, with a "bang," he slammed the ancient Stone Door shut again, even using his Soul Power to set up a simple warning barrier behind the door.
Although he knew that this might not be much of a deterrent to the bandits who would flock to the scene like robbers, and that they would be discovered sooner or later.
But at least it can buy some time, allowing some less observant individuals to temporarily overlook it. Such a terrifying reserve of medicinal herbs, a veritable strategic resource, is absolutely irresistible to any power; they would want to monopolize it for as long as possible.
Wow! This is a really great place!
Unlike Lin Ming's caution, Zi Yan's eyes were practically sparkling with excitement, and she was almost drooling.
She wiped her mouth, finally unable to resist her instinctive longing for the treasures of heaven and earth. With a cheer, she leaped into a patch of Seven-Colored Ganoderma with energy so dense it seemed to melt away. She grabbed a Ganoderma lucidum bigger than her face, and without even looking at it, stuffed it into her mouth and began to chew it with a crunching sound.
The medicinal herbs here have grown naturally for countless years, resulting in exceptionally abundant and pure energy. For Zi Yan, Primordial Void Dragon, this is an ultimate tonic.
Although it didn't have the perfect taste and gentle energy of the one refined by Lin Ming, the direct, wild, and extremely abundant energy torrent allowed Zi Yan to completely overlook this minor flaw in "taste."
Seeing her wild behavior, like a squirrel entering a cornfield, Lin Ming and the others were both amused and exasperated.
However, at this moment, Lin Ming had no time to talk to this little foodie about the principles of "slow and steady wins the race" or "refining into Pill Formation yields better results."
His gaze, like the most precise scanner, swiftly swept across the vast medicinal forest before him. The next moment, a jaw-dropping scene unfolded—
With a thought, Lin Ming didn't take out his Storage Ring, but wherever his gaze fell, all the rare medicinal herbs in that area, whether they were towering spirit trees hundreds of feet tall or creeping exotic flowers and plants, were uprooted as if by an invisible giant hand. Then, with a flash of light, they vanished into thin air! Only fresh pits remained, as if they had never existed at all!
One after another! Lin Ming didn't move, but the medicinal herbs within a ten- or hundred-foot radius in front of him were disappearing in swathes at an alarming rate, being moved away!
For others, loading such a massive amount of medicinal herbs would require them to be dug up one by one with great care, and then lined up and stuffed into Storage Ring with limited capacity. This method is inefficient and can easily damage the medicinal properties.
But Lin Ming is different! He has created a vast real world within his body, several thousand feet in size! It is a self-contained Internal Space that can accommodate living beings!
For him, collecting these medicinal herbs was completely effortless. He only needed to use his Soul Power to cover the area, and with a thought, he could transfer batches of herbs from the entire region, along with the spiritual soil in which they were rooted, into his Inner World without causing any damage! The efficiency was so fast that it was comparable to moving mountains and filling seas!
It's safe to say that even if all the people who entered the ruins this time combined their Storage Ring capacity and collection speed, they probably still couldn't match Lin Ming's individual strength!
So much so that wherever Lin Ming's gaze swept across, and his mind stirred, the land was truly "barren," as if it had been swept away by a natural disaster, leaving only bare land!
The Five Elements Sect members, including Qing Lin, Xiong Zhan, and Di Kong, who were following behind, were dumbfounded, their jaws practically dropping to the ground.
They knew their Sect Master was unpredictable, but they never imagined that even a "relocation" could be so... domineering and thorough!
"Sect... Sect Master, what is this...?" Elder Di Kong swallowed hard and asked, somewhat stammering.
"No time to explain, keep up!"
At this moment, Lin Ming had no time to stop and explain the mysteries of his Inner World to them in detail.
While maintaining this terrifying "sweeping" efficiency, he moved swiftly, heading deeper into the medicinal forest. His Soul Perception could detect that the deeper he went, the older and higher the quality of the medicinal herbs became.
"Let's go! We'll catch up, so we don't fall behind!"
Seeing that Lin Ming had already walked quite far away like an efficient harvester, Qing Lin was the first to recover from her shock. She took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in her heart, and spoke to Xiong Zhan and the others who were still somewhat dazed.
Then Qing Lin took the lead, using his movement technique to follow Lin Ming's footsteps and carefully entered the Ancient Forest that was being rapidly "cleared out".
The vast Ancient Forest was originally filled with exotic fragrances and shrouded in a light mist of Spirit Qi. Occasionally, some small, intelligent beasts would dart out from the grass, creating a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere, like a fairyland.
After countless years of isolation and evolution, this Ancient Forest has indeed become a small world of its own. It has not only nurtured a vast amount of rare medicinal herbs, but also given birth to many native Magical Beasts that rely on the rich Spirit Qi energy and medicinal herbs to survive and possess considerable strength.
However, at this moment, several figures swept through the air at breakneck speed, like locusts swarming across the land, completely shattering the tranquility of the place. Wherever they passed, they left nothing behind, "packing up" and carrying away this ancient medicinal forest that had existed for thousands of years at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Some of the Magical Beasts that inhabited this place roared in anger when they saw their homes and food disappear in an instant. With their eyes bloodshot, they pounced out from the depths of the dense forest and attacked Lin Ming and his group with a fierce aura.
These Magical Beasts are quite powerful, with some even reaching the Seventh Order, equivalent to the level of a human Dou Zong.
Unfortunately, they chose the wrong object.
They were greeted by the cold yet powerful aura of the Five Elements Sect members, and a burly figure that flashed out like a golden lightning bolt—it was Lin Ming's Dark-Gold Heavenly Demon Puppet, Puppet One!
Puppet One made no fancy moves, just a simple punch and a kick. The attack, containing terrifying power, directly blasted the Seventh Order Demonic Beast that pounced on him into blood mist, or kicked their heads to pieces!
Occasionally, one or two exceptionally powerful Eighth Order Magical Beasts kings would appear, but under the dual deterrence of Puppet One's unparalleled power and the faint Dragon Might of the Primordial Void Dragon Royal Family that Zi Yan inadvertently emanated.
These magical Magical Beasts, possessing considerable intelligence, even with their homes destroyed and their rage boundless, ultimately chose to retreat rationally, letting out mournful cries of resentment as they turned and fled deeper into the forest, not daring to fight to the death.
This saved Lin Ming a lot of trouble during his frantic collection of medicinal herbs, making the process quite smooth.
The size of this Ancient Forest far exceeded everyone's imagination.
Although Lin Ming maintained a high speed of collecting herbs while flying forward, his speed was still quite fast. But even at this efficiency, after traversing the forest for almost the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, what lay ahead was still an endless sea of medicinal herbs, lush and verdant, with spiritual light soaring into the sky.
This shows just how vast and astonishing the work left behind by that ancient Dou Sheng Expert was! It's as if an entire rare herb garden from ancient times was completely moved and sealed within this ruin!
Lin Ming frantically harvested the medicinal herbs from the Ancient Forest, causing the reserves of resources in Lin Ming Inner World to become richer and more abundant than ever before at an alarming rate.
Various Divine Medicine and Sage Grass that had long disappeared from the outside world and existed only in ancient books have now taken root in his world in large swaths, causing that once somewhat empty world to begin to radiate amazing vitality and Spirit Qi.
Along the way, Lin Ming and his companions clearly sensed many ferocious auras hidden deep in the forest. On several occasions, some enormous, mountain-like, and terrifyingly ferocious Magical Beasts flashed past in their field of vision, exuding overwhelming ferocity!
However, perhaps intimidated by Puppet One's undisguised and powerful Killing intent, and by the faint yet powerful Dragon Might emanating from Zi Yan's bloodline, these truly powerful beings, even with their territories disturbed, only let out low, warning roars from afar and did not actually appear to fight Lin Ming and the others to the death.