Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng, the Immortal Herb's Sacrifice!

"Alright!"

Shui Qingwu nodded and agreed.

Under Xia Mu's direction, Shui Qingwu spent a week clearing out the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave.

"The Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave is a remarkable place!"

"From now on, the students of Skywater Academy can cultivate here and strengthen their Soul Power."

"As for you, Nan Boer, would you like to join my team and move to Heaven Dou City with us?"

Nan Boer's martial soul, the Rouge Dragon, was an exceptionally rare sub-dragon martial soul and well worth nurturing.

She was very suited to cultivating within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

The true dragon aura released by the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well might allow her Rouge Dragon martial soul to mutate further!

"Alright!"

Nan Boer had already graduated from Skywater Academy and was now free, just as she had been worrying about where to go.

"Qingwu!"

"You and Nan Boer should settle things here first. We're planning to make a trip to the Icebound Forest!"

"Once I return, we'll head back together."

Xia Mu had planned this well. He had revealed the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave precisely to deal with the Tianshui Clan.

Shui Qingwu was the eldest young lady of the Tianshui Clan and held a special position. Secretly whisking her away would be extremely difficult.

As the saying went, one did not slap a smiling face.

Once the Tianshui Clan accepted the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave, if they still refused to see reason, there would be plenty to argue about.

"Brother Mu!"

"Are you really going to the Icebound Forest to hunt soul beasts?"

Shui Qingwu asked in surprise.

She had thought Xia Mu was merely joking, but she had not expected him to be serious.

"I'll be back soon!"

Xia Mu offered no explanation. Taking the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal from Shui Qingwu's hand, he prepared to make a trap cage!

Icebound Forest, core region!

"Let's go fishing for ginseng!"

Xia Mu placed the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng inside the trap cage, then ran to the side and concealed himself.

"Xia Mu!"

"Are you sure this thing will work?"

Xia Feng muttered. It did not look reliable at all!

"Like Jiang Taigong fishing—those willing will take the bait. We're fishing for ginseng; it's the same principle!"

Xia Mu was using an open scheme. The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng was sitting right there; whether the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King came was up to it.

The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng was born at the eighth grade and possessed an exceptionally noble bloodline. Rumor had it that this immortal herb was the empress among ginseng.

In the eyes of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng before it was a peerless beauty!

Now that the beauty was right before it and unable to move, Xia Mu refused to believe the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King would not come.

For the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King to complete its bloodline transformation, it had to unite yin and yang with the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.

It was an instinct carved into its bones!

"The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King is the emperor among ginseng. With the ginseng empress here, how could it possibly stay away?"

"This honey trap is bound to work on it!"

Xia Mu declared confidently. A hero's grave was a gentle woman's embrace; throughout history, this tactic had never failed!

Who knew how many famous figures had fallen at this hurdle!

Even the craftiest humans could not overcome this hurdle, much less this Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King.

"Cunning humans!"

In the shadows, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King watched everything unfold, and its heart began to stir.

Xia Mu had not hidden what he was doing from anyone!

As a native of the Icebound Forest, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King had noticed Xia Mu's group long ago!

"Should I take this bait or not?"

The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King had always been timid and cowardly, but with the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng before it, it hesitated.

One day! Two days! Three days!

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.

That day, a figure burrowed out of the soil and headed straight for the trap cage made from Ice Extreme Divine Crystal!

"The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King has finally shown itself!"

Seeing this, Xia Feng could not help but cry out.

"Don't rush!"

"We should at least let it get what it wants!"

Xia Mu shook his head. Everything was under control.

"To die beneath the peony flowers, even as a ghost, one would still be romantic!"

"Looks like this Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King still couldn't escape the honey trap. How tragic, how pitiful!"

Xia Feng sighed with feeling.

"Reproduction is the instinct of all living things!"

"No creature in this world can escape it!"

"Besides, if the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King wants to completely transform into an immortal herb, it must unite yin and yang!"

"It knows the danger, yet it still came."

After speaking, Xia Mu looked toward the trap cage again.

The Purple-Rhyme Dragon King Ginseng risked its life to enter the trap cage, where it successfully completed the act of reproduction.

With the help of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon King Ginseng, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng made up for its shortcoming in age and transformed into a true peerless immortal herb.

Click!

The mechanism snapped shut, and the trap cage locked tight.

The Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon King Ginseng bloomed with a faint purple glow all over its body, evolving into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor.

"An ordinary Ginseng King is a ninth-grade supreme medicinal king!"

"But a supreme Ginseng Emperor with an age exceeding a hundred thousand years is an undisputed peerless immortal herb!"

The three of them marveled at the wonders of creation from the side.

"Can the three of you talk with me?"

This Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng had lived for who knew how many years and prided itself on having seen countless humans.

Yet it had never seen humans like these.

Their open scheme carried a trace of conspiracy, yet it had no way to refuse and had been hooked completely.

"What do you want to discuss?"

Xia Mu stepped forward, lifted the cage, and asked.

The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor was about three inches long and had already taken on a rudimentary humanoid shape. Its features were delicate, and it resembled a tiny person.

Its entire body was crystalline, like a humanoid purple crystal.

Beside it, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng radiated red light. One purple and one red, the two ginseng plants' auras echoed each other.

"I can sacrifice myself willingly!"

"But can you not kill it?"

"My offspring is being nurtured inside it!"

With the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor's help, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng had transformed into a ten-thousand-year soul beast.

Moreover, it was carrying the offspring of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor, which would appear in the form of ginseng seeds.

"Alright!"

"Before your offspring is born, I will not kill it. We will not kill the hen for its eggs."

"Your descendants will become true peerless immortal herbs. They will take root and sprout in a treasured land."

Xia Mu promised with utmost certainty.

"Alright, it's a deal!"

The Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng nodded.

Rumble—

A dazzling red beam shot into the sky.

The Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng voluntarily began the sacrifice ritual, and its target was Xia Mu.

"Man is the knife, and I am the fish on the cutting board."

"What a pity for all my cultivation. But to have entwined with an empress before death, I can die without regrets."

The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor's figure gradually blurred.

The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng shone with blazing red light. It had already awakened its intelligence and understood complex emotions!

As the red light faded, a wave of pressure spread outward.

Xia Mu opened his eyes. Feeling the surging Soul Power, he clenched his fist, and an explosive crack rang out in the air.

"A hundred-thousand-year immortal herb's sacrifice!"

"What an utterly terrifying stroke of fortune!"

Only at this moment did Xia Mu understand what power truly was. Such an opportunity was unmatched in the world.