"Quick, there seems to be a spiritual medicine about to ripen up ahead," Qing Xuan suddenly said.
Bi Fan turned to look. There was a person-tall underwater plant ahead, with eighteen branches. Each branch held a deep-blue fruit that was growing steadily, now nearly the size of a fist. It looked ready to ripen.
It wasn't strange that a ripe immortal fruit had attracted so many demons.
Bi Fan examined it carefully, but couldn't identify the fruit.
"Qing Xuan, do you know what kind of spiritual medicine this is?" Bi Fan asked.
Qing Xuan had been staring in stunned silence. Only when she heard Bi Fan's question did she snap out of it. "It's actually a Ten Thousand Year Sacred Sea Heart!"
"A Ten Thousand Year Sacred Sea Heart! What kind of spiritual medicine is that?" Bi Fan asked in surprise.
His knowledge of spiritual medicines couldn't compare to Qing Xuan's, and since the Ten Thousand Year Sacred Sea Heart came from the Immortal Realm, he knew even less about it.
"Every ten thousand years, the Ten Thousand Year Sacred Sea Heart grows another branch and bears fruit. With ten branches, it can only be considered a Heaven-grade Spiritual Medicine. Once it has fifty branches, it becomes a King-grade Spiritual Medicine. When it reaches a hundred branches, it can attain the rank of an Emperor-grade Spiritual Medicine. They say its medicinal effects grow stronger as it branches out, and it might even reach the legendary grade of spiritual medicine," Qing Xuan said admiringly.
"Then isn't this Ten Thousand Year Sacred Sea Heart priceless?" Bi Fan exclaimed.
Qing Xuan smiled. "It's not quite that exaggerated. Our Qing Ming Sect has a few Ten Thousand Year Sacred Sea Hearts. They grow very slowly, and their growing conditions are extremely demanding, so it's