"What is he doing?"
In the distance, the severely wounded Lin Ru and the others watched this miraculous scene through the golden curtain of light, their mouths hanging open in disbelief.
The sudden appearance of the Clear Void Seven Hearts Lamp had already shocked them immensely, but what followed stunned them even more. No matter how they looked at it, the weakening aura of the sacred herb pointed to one conclusion: Lin Chuan was devouring the sacred herb!
But that was a sacred herb! Swallowing it directly like that—wasn't he afraid of bursting to death?
After all, the major first-grade cultivation forces all possessed sacred herbs, so they were no strangers to them. Yet this was truly the first time they had seen someone swallow a sacred herb whole, without any processing whatsoever.
The drawbacks of such a method were obvious. First, the medicinal power of a sacred herb was far too terrifying. Swallowing it directly could cause someone to explode on the spot. Even if that did not happen, it would be incredibly difficult for a cultivator to refine a sacred herb directly. Swallowing it whole meant wasting most of its medicinal power. If it were handed over to an alchemist instead, the effects of the resulting pills could differ by dozens of times.
Thus, in many people's eyes, Lin Chuan was simply wasting a divine treasure.
You had a sacred herb, so why not refine it into pills and carry them with you? Swallowing the sacred herb directly now might not even be enough to kill Crown Prince Hai, and you might end up killing yourself instead.
In the distance, Shi Jin's heart ached at the sight. That was the Clear Void Seven Hearts Lamp—the foremost of all sacred herbs. As the former Carefree Pill Immortal, he felt