The two martial brothers returned to the ninth stone platform and told Tian Buyi and the others what they had discovered.
The four of them jumped down from the stone platforms again and, following He Dazhi and Ghost King's instructions, moved the stone platforms.
When the stone platforms were arranged in the positions of the Nine Palaces, the cavern suddenly shook. Then, to the four's delighted surprise, a stone cave appeared in the mountain wall not far away.
When the four of them reached the stone cave, they found Killing Monk baring his teeth and grimacing as he rubbed his body. He had probably lost his footing and fallen straight down. He did not have a heaven-defying cultivation art like "Footwork," and he had been standing at the edge of the stone platform earlier, so Tian Buyi and the others were not surprised in the least that he had fallen.
The five of them filed into the stone cave. After passing through a stone passage, what appeared before them was actually a wooden courtyard.
Sunlight shone down from the cavern roof. Pavilions towered within the courtyard, and flowers and grasses bloomed in competition. When they drew closer, Tian Buyi and the others were astonished to discover that these flowers and grasses in the courtyard were all rare spiritual herbs. Ghost King, however, showed little interest in them.
Seeing this, He Dazhi took out the jade medicine cabinet they had obtained in Imperial City from the Mountain and River Fan, removed the relatively inferior medicinal plants inside, and placed them into Zhang Xiaofan's Bamboo Bag to make space. Then he selected the most precious and ancient rare spiritual herbs from the courtyard and collected them.
Fortunately, Luo Yunji had not come along. Otherwise, not a single stalk of these spiritual grasses