Rumble! Rumble!...
Within the crystal-clear, dewdrop-like fruit, the crashing roar of great rivers grew louder and louder. The entire fruit twisted frantically atop the plant, trying to break through the air and fly away, yet it was firmly pinned down by a stream of Wei Suo's True Essence, utterly unable to break free from the stem and leaves.
The pigeon-egg-sized fruit continued to grow. Once it had reached the size of a hen's egg, the rumbling within it ceased, and the starlight converging from all directions faded away as well.
"There is no medicinal power in my Grass Spirit Crystal suitable for this spirit herb to absorb. Further catalysis will have no effect." Seeing this, the young man transformed from the Spirit Devouring Beast turned and spoke to Wei Suo.
"What a pity. We do not have much time to wait. Otherwise, once this spirit herb became a True Spirit, its medicinal power would increase by more than tenfold." Ancestor Yuan Yin looked at the spirit herb and spoke with some regret.
When spirit herbs absorbed spiritual energy and their medicinal power accumulated to a certain extent, they developed spirituality. This was known as spiritual transformation.
Once they possessed spirituality, they could very likely, like the Yang Zhi Bird, comprehend on their own a method of drawing in and absorbing Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, equivalent to cultivation. At that point, such spirit herbs were called True Spirits.
According to ancient records, the vast majority of spirit herbs that reached the level of spiritual transformation would become True Spirits within a hundred years. By then, the rate at which they accumulated medicinal power would become even faster, far beyond what their current medicinal power could compare with.
However, Ancestor Yuan Yin also knew perfectly well that even medicinal power at