Seeing that Chen Ming was unharmed, Dugu Bo let out a sigh of relief and slowly led him deeper inside.
As they walked, Chen Ming noticed that the heat here was not constant. It rose and fell in a certain rhythm, like the breathing of some living creature, exchanging the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
After entering the deeper area, they found a place brimming with life. With just a casual glance around, Chen Ming spotted several herbs that would fetch a high price in the outside world.
Some of these herbs grew extremely slowly, some bloomed only for a brief period, and some could grow only in specific environments. Yet here, these costly herbs grew together as casually as roadside weeds, utterly unremarkable.
Chen Ming crouched down and poked the "weed" by his feet. After Dugu Bo nodded in approval, he reached out and slowly pulled it from the ground.
"A thousand-year-old He Shou Wu? Its shape, its color, its quality... In the outside world, this single He Shou Wu could sell for at least several thousand Gold Soul Coins, right?"
He Shou Wu was not an especially precious medicinal herb, but aged He Shou Wu was worth quite a bit.
Once it had aged sufficiently, not only could humans consume it to increase their cultivation speed, but Soul Beasts could also eat it to increase their years of cultivation. It had already entered the category of heavenly treasures. Because it possessed mild, attribute-less nourishing properties, it was generally seen only at auctions.
A single He Shou Wu like this could make more than a dozen Soul Elders and Soul Ancestors gather together for a fight in the outside world. Even ordinary families using it for cultivation would carefully slice it into small pieces before consuming it.
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