The garden entrance was sealed by a pale yellow concave light screen, obscuring the view inside.
Shi Yue released the Elk Beast. It unleashed the Five-Colored Divine Light, easily breaking through the concave light screen.
On the left was a large stretch of desolate Spirit Fields; on the right stood a side courtyard.
Without a word, Shi Yue strode toward the courtyard.
He searched more than a dozen courtyards but didn't find a single Spirit Herb. The Spirit Fields lay empty, without a single herb. There was, however, a grove of dead Spirit Herb Trees, reduced to their lower halves. He couldn't tell what kind of Spirit Herb Trees they had been.
After the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Shi Yue stood outside a Green Bamboo Forest. Deep within it stood a Green Pavilion more than thirty zhang tall.
A dust-covered plaque hung above its entrance. The three characters "Qinglan Pavilion" were barely visible.
As the Spirit Herb Garden of a major cultivation sect, it couldn't possibly be without any protective measures.
Shi Yue flicked his sleeve, sending five Black Round Balls flying. Amid the clatter of mechanisms, they transformed into five Humanoid Puppets.
"Go."
At Shi Yue's command, the five Humanoid Puppets strode toward the bamboo forest.
One step, two steps, three steps... ten steps. Nothing unusual happened.
Had he been worrying over nothing?
Shi Yue controlled the five Humanoid Puppets and sent them toward Qinglan Pavilion.
Just as the five puppets approached within fifty zhang of the pavilion, a startling sight unfolded.
The spirit bamboo in the forest began to sway violently. A sudden gale swept through, and a vast shower of bamboo leaves fell from the sky, transforming into razor-sharp wind blades that shot at the five Humanoid Puppets from every direction.
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