Chen Mo thought that since the medicinal materials had to be used for Refining Pills after being gathered, it should not matter much even if the Ten-thousand-year Golden-edged Snow Lotus lost a little of its medicinal effect. At most, it would reduce either the number of formed pills or their quality.
Thus, he decided to use the Green Jade Sword to cut the Golden-edged Snow Lotus directly. As for the bulbs and stems, he would deal with those later. He would first harvest one plant and anger the two Big White Dough Balls, drawing them into chasing him and perhaps even leading them beyond the formation's range.
As soon as he thought of it, he acted. Chen Mo did not linger. He flashed to within three meters of the Ten-thousand-year Golden-edged Snow Lotus, threw out a Flame Burst Talisman, then immediately followed with two Thunderstorm Talismans aimed at the two Strange Beasts.
As his True Essence surged, he attacked the area around the two spirit medicines, clearing away the frozen snow that covered them and exposing the rocky ground beneath. Of course, the bulbs rooted in the rock crevices remained hidden. It was not that Chen Mo lacked the ability to shatter those rocks, but achieving such precise control in so little time was truly asking too much of himself. Clearing the snow around the spirit medicines with one palm strike without harming the plants was already quite good.
If he also had to shatter the rocks and expose the intact bulbs, that would have been making things difficult for himself.
The bulbs of the Ten-thousand-year Golden-edged Snow Lotus were also needed for pill refinement. In fact, they contained more than half the medicinal effect of the entire plant, so they could not be damaged.
That was why Chen Mo