Missing Thoughts Literature

Chapter 23: Xuan Yu Ginseng (Page 1/2)

Yun Luo felt like she was in a washing machine, spinning so hard she didn't know up from down.

After an unknown amount of time, she was flung to the ground, seeing stars.

"Yue..."

Yun Luo vomited profusely, dizzy and disoriented as she propped herself up with the Black Iron Sword.

She began to survey her surroundings and found herself in a swamp.

Occasionally, strangely shaped monsters poked their heads out of the swamp pools.

They were all demon beasts without demon cores, so killing them was useless.

Yun Luo ignored them and took out a jade slip to contact Qin Mushuang.

"Little Junior Sister, where are you?"

Qin Mushuang connected almost instantly. Yun Luo held the jade slip and turned it around, showing her the environment she was in.

"I see. Swamps are very dangerous. Stay put, I'll come find you right away."

Yun Luo held the Black Iron Sword horizontally in front of her, warily observing the changes around her.

A quarter of an hour later, Qin Mushuang arrived, flying on her sword.

"Senior Sister, time is tight. Let's complete the sect's mission first."

The sect's mission was mainly to collect heavenly materials and earthly treasures from the secret realm.

As long as they collected enough, anything extra would be theirs.

Yun Luo knew that Eldest Senior Sister was intentionally looking out for her and didn't want to hold her back from finding opportunities.

As the lead disciple, Qin Mushuang had already formed teams and assigned tasks based on everyone's landing points on the way.

"You and I are a team. The mission is a bit harder: to collect the Xuan-grade Five-Colored Lotus and Dragon Saliva Grass."

Both of these spirit plants could purify spiritual energy and improve the quality of elixirs.

However, Xuan-grade spirit plants were usually guarded by Golden Core demon beasts.

"No problem, Senior Sister. Let's get started now."

Qin Mushuang summoned her spirit sword, and the two of them stood on it, heading in the direction indicated by the map.

The Gui Xu Secret Realm was vast, and many spirit plants grew in more than one location.

After flying for about an hour, Qin Mushuang stopped at a cliff.

This was a growth point for Dragon Saliva Grass.

Perhaps they had arrived early, as there were no others by the cliff yet.

Qin Mushuang gripped her spirit sword tightly. "Junior Sister, I'll lure the demon beasts away. You go pick the Dragon Saliva Grass."

"Okay, Senior Sister, be careful."

The cliffside was covered in dense Dragon Saliva Grass, but less than a tenth of it had a grade. Less than one percent could reach Xuan-grade.

Qin Mushuang flew closer to a particularly well-grown Dragon Saliva Grass. Just as she was about to touch it, a scorpion the size of a wild boar leaped out.

This scorpion was surrounded by purple smoke, and its long, barbed tail had a metallic sheen.

Qin Mushuang breathed a sigh of relief. The scorpion was poisonous, but fortunately, it was only at the early Golden Core stage.

She didn't rush to fight the demon beast but continued to approach a few more Dragon Saliva Grass plants.

As expected, two more scorpions leaped out from the cliff face.

After circling twice and confirming there were no other scorpions, Qin Mushuang led them to a clearing above the cliff to fight.

Yun Luo, seeing that Qin Mushuang could handle them, approached the cliff and began collecting the Xuan-grade and Yellow-grade Dragon Saliva Grass first.

"Hiss..."

Vile humans!

The scorpions, seeing someone stealing their home, let out a sky-shattering roar and were about to rush towards the cliff.

Qin Mushuang unleashed her sword intent, blocking their path.

"Your opponent is me."

Seeing this, Yun Luo leaped even faster on the protruding rocks.

Around these Dragon Saliva Grass plants, there were also some fist-sized small scorpions.

However, they were all ordinary demon beasts without any grade.

Yun Luo could crush one with a single hand.

She moved swiftly, hopping around like a bee, and quickly swept up all the Xuan-grade and Yellow-grade Dragon Saliva Grass.

She also grabbed some of the ordinary ones along the way.

She'd take them back for hot pot.

"Senior Sister, I'm done."

Qin Mushuang's sword intent suddenly sharpened, and the previously evenly matched situation instantly reversed.

Chapter 23 Xuan Yu Ginseng (2/2)

She used Jinghong, and Yun Luo took this opportunity to observe carefully.

Within one move, Qin Mushuang severed the tail of a scorpion, and the other two, seeing this, tried to escape, but they were captured before they could get two miles away.

The first battle was a success.

Qin Mushuang put away the scorpion's corpse and then counted the amount of Dragon Saliva Grass Yun Luo had collected.

"We're still a bit short, let's look for a few more places."

Over the next three days, the two collected enough Dragon Saliva Grass and Five-Colored Lotus.

The fourth day after entering the Secret Realm.

All the small teams from the Hehuan Sect had gathered enough treasures for their missions.

The remaining time was for everyone to play freely; anything they found would belong to them.

Besides the locations marked on the map, most of the heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the Secret Realm would change their positions with the passage of time.

Yun Luo took out the Treasure Seeking Mouse from her Spirit Bracelet's space.

The Treasure Seeking Mouse circled a few times on the ground, its pink nose twitched a few times, and then it trotted off in one direction.

She had already dripped her essence blood onto the Treasure Seeking Mouse's forehead as Lian Yifan had instructed.

At this moment, the Treasure Seeking Mouse appeared as a red dot in her Sea of Consciousness.

She could find it by following the direction of the red dot.

She stood on Qin Mushuang's sword, acting as the navigator.

"Senior Sister, it's in the Xun position."

Qin Mushuang flew the sword swiftly and steadily, always maintaining a stable distance from the Treasure Seeking Mouse.

After following the Treasure Seeking Mouse like this for two days in the Secret Realm, their already abundant Qiankun Pouches became even more so.

The sixth day after entering the Secret Realm.

After chasing for about two mountain ranges, the Treasure Seeking Mouse stopped again, scratching at the ground with its claws.

This was the furthest they had ever chased it, and Yun Luo had a premonition that there was a great treasure.

"Senior Sister, there's something underground."

As she spoke, she took out a pitchfork from her Qiankun Pouch and began to dig.

With one strike of the pitchfork, a block of earth about three feet cubic was overturned. Yun Luo's sharp eyes spotted something white and plump, like jade, with a head and feet.

But the white shadow only flashed for a moment before quickly disappearing.

"Squeak squeak squeak..."

The Treasure Seeking Mouse jumped anxiously, leaped into the dirt pit, and began digging to chase it.

"It's a Xuan Yu Ginseng that has achieved sentience."

Qin Mushuang's tone couldn't help but rise a few notches.

Spirit plants were divided into Heavenly, Earthly, Profound, and Yellow grades, with each grade further subdivided into nine levels. Heavenly grade spirit plants had a chance to achieve sentience.

Once a spirit plant achieved sentience, not only was its medicinal efficacy a hundred times higher, but it could also find fertile ground to root and grow on its own, and some could even self-repair after damage.

It was equivalent to a Heavenly grade spirit plant that could be used repeatedly.

"Junior Sister, I'll seal off this area, you dig."

With that, she took out a stack of talismans, formed seals with her hands, and chanted incantations.

Sixteen talismans spread out evenly in different directions, flying dozens of feet before adhering to the ground.

The power contained within the talismans spread underground and then connected with each other, forming a restriction that could prevent any living being from crossing the barrier.

As expected, the red dot in Yun Luo's mind began to circle within the restriction.

She circulated her spiritual energy and maximized the speed of her pitchfork.

After plowing through the entire area, Yun Luo felt like she had a very tough life.

Fortunately, the Xuan Yu Ginseng could only burrow to a limited depth and lacked intelligence.

At this moment, it was like a headless fly, banging against the restriction set by the talismans.

"Junior Sister, hurry, this restriction won't hold for long."

Qin Mushuang reminded her rapidly, and Yun Luo immediately took out a net from her Qiankun Pouch and precisely scooped up the Xuan Yu Ginseng.

The Xuan Yu Ginseng struggled in the net, but the net tightened, leaving fine marks on its plump white body.

Finally, perhaps out of strength, it just lay flat and gave up.