Beneath the towering trees, Ye Haiyu carefully harvested the stone sunflower essence mushrooms one by one, taking their roots and the surrounding soil along with them.
They left behind holes filled with spiritual traces of the water spirit root.
Pools of clear water began seeping out.
"The spirit vein on this island really is excellent. No wonder so many stone sunflower essence mushrooms grew here." Ye Haiyu's eyes brimmed with delight.
She possessed three spirit roots—water, metal, and earth—and cultivated a technique of those same three attributes. These essence mushrooms were potent tonics for her.
If they could all be refined into suitable spirit pills, they would even be enough to support her breakthrough to the middle Golden Core stage.
Beside her, Ye Qingnian, Ye Xuefan, and the three Demon Emperors had also gathered plenty of stone sunflower essence mushrooms and were already standing beneath the old locust tree in the forest.
"This old locust tree was probably a wood demon too. It simply failed to survive its lightning tribulation..." After studying it for a long time, Ye Xuefan sighed.
He knew that, despite how many members of the Ye Family had successfully weathered their tribulations lately, deaths beneath lightning tribulations were far from uncommon in the Cultivation World.
This was especially true of Nascent Soul lightning tribulations, which was why Nascent Soul rogue cultivators were so rare in both the Eastern Region and the Central Region.
It was not that they lacked opportunities or talent. Rather, they could not find an array capable of resisting the lightning tribulation and were prone to underestimating its power. Combined with their lack of magical treasures and practical experience, this made Nascent Soul rogue cultivators as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
"Not only has this king stone sunflower essence mushroom reached