Liu Hanshu's gaze was blazing as torches. In an instant, she saw Chen Changming follow the squad members into the dense fog.
"Ning Jin's cultivation is still too low. I only hope the members of his squad can keep him safe..."
She let out a soft sigh.
Although Liu Hanshu thought highly of this cultivator from the Human Realm, that did not mean she would provide him with all-around protection.
After all, she had entered Fuli Marsh this time because she had an extremely important matter of her own.
She had come to find the Rootless Flower.
This flower grew in places of extreme yin where water vapor hung thick in the air. It could never see sunlight in its lifetime; the moment it did, it would wither and die.
Rootless Flower—
As its name implied, it had no roots. Its stalk plunged deep into the marsh, absorbing the spiritual energy within Fuli Marsh, rich with dense water-aspect energy, to grow.
Once the Rootless Flower left the soil, it would wither within the span of seven or eight breaths. Thus, Liu Hanshu had to find it and swallow it at once.
"I must find the Rootless Flower..."
Liu Hanshu stroked her flat lower abdomen, a pained expression surfacing on her face.
This natural spiritual treasure could heal the hidden ailment in her Dantian.
If Liu Hanshu failed to consume a Rootless Flower within a year, her cultivation would fall by one minor realm within ten years.
Over the last decade, she had fallen from the tenth level of the Void Refinement Realm to the ninth.
This had stripped her of her title as the leading figure of the Liu Family's sixth generation, reducing her from a cultivation prodigy to something like a useless waste.
Over those ten years, she had