"Alright!"
Shui Qingwu nodded and agreed.
Under Xia Mu's direction, Shui Qingwu spent a week thoroughly clearing out the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave.
"The Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave is a remarkable place!"
"In the future, 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 extremely rare sub-dragon Martial Soul with great potential for cultivation.
She was well 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 to go wherever she wished. She had been worried about having nowhere to go.
"Qingwu!"
"You and Nan Boer should settle matters here first. We plan to make a trip to the Icebound Forest!"
"Once I return, we'll head back together."
Xia Mu had calculated things well. He had revealed the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave precisely to deal with the Tianshui Clan.
Shui Qingwu was the eldest daughter of the Tianshui Clan and held a special position. Secretly whisking her away would be extremely difficult.
As the saying went, you did not slap a smiling face.
Once the Tianshui Clan accepted the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave, if they still refused to be sensible, 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 mean it.
"I'll be back soon!"
Xia Mu offered no explanation. He took the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal from Shui Qingwu and prepared to make a trapping cage!
Icebound Forest, core region!
"Let's go! Time to fish for ginseng!"
Xia Mu placed the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng inside the trapping cage, then darted aside and concealed himself.
"Xia Mu!"
"Are you sure this thing will work?"
Xia Feng muttered. It did not look reliable at all!
"Jiang Taigong fished, and only those willing took the bait. We're fishing for ginseng—the principle is the same!"
Xia Mu was using an open scheme. The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng was right there for all to see; whether the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King came or not was up to it.
The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng was born at the eighth grade and possessed an exceptionally noble bloodline. Legend 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 an unparalleled beauty!
Now that beauty was right before it, unable to move. Xia Mu refused to believe the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King would not come.
If the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King wanted 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?"
"It is bound to fall for this honey trap!"
Xia Mu declared with certainty. A gentle paradise was a hero's graveyard; throughout history, this tactic had never failed!
Countless famous figures had fallen at this hurdle!
Even the craftiest humans could not overcome this test, much less this Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King.
"Cunning humans!"
Hidden in the shadows, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King watched everything unfold, and its heart began to stir.
Xia Mu had not even bothered to hide what he was doing!
As a longtime resident of the Icebound Forest, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King had long noticed Xia Mu and his group!
"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 earth and headed straight for the trapping cage made from Ice Extreme Divine Crystal!
"The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King has finally appeared!"
Seeing this, Xia Feng could not help exclaiming.
"Don't rush!"
"We should at least let it have its wish!"
Xia Mu shook his head. Everything was under control.
"To die beneath a peony bloom is to die a happy ghost!"
"Looks like this Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King still failed to escape the honey trap. How tragic, how lamentable!"
Xia Feng sighed emotionally.
"Reproduction is a creature's instinct!"
"No living being in this world can escape it!"
"Besides, if the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King wants to completely transform into an Immortal Herb, it must complete the union of yin and yang!"
"It knows the danger, yet it still came."
After speaking, Xia Mu looked toward the trapping cage again.
The Purple-Rhyme Dragon King Ginseng risked its life to enter the trapping cage, where it successfully fulfilled the purpose of reproduction.
With the aid of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon King Ginseng, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng also made up for its weakness in age and transformed into a true Peerless Immortal Herb.
Click!
The mechanism snapped shut, and the trapping 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 herb!"
"But a peerless 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.
"Could the three of you speak with me?"
This Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng had lived for who knew how many years and believed it had seen countless humans.
Yet it had never seen humans like these.
Their open scheme carried a trace of cunning, yet it had no way to refuse and had been hooked completely.
"What do you want to discuss?"
Xia Mu stepped forward and lifted the cage as he asked.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor was around three inches long and had already taken on a roughly human shape. Its features were exquisite, making it resemble a tiny person.
Its entire body was crystal-clear, like a humanoid purple crystal.
Beside it, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng emitted a red glow. One ginseng was purple and the other red, their auras echoing one another.
"I can sacrifice myself willingly!"
"But can you refrain from killing it?"
"My offspring is gestating within it!"
With the help of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng had already transformed into a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
Furthermore, it was carrying the descendants of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor, which would take the form of ginseng seeds.
"Alright!"
"Before your offspring are born, I will not kill it. We will not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs."
"Your descendants will become true Peerless Immortal Herbs. They will take root and sprout in a treasured land."
Xia Mu gave his promise with absolute certainty.
"Alright, it's a deal!"
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng nodded.
Rumble—
A dazzling red light shot into the sky.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng voluntarily initiated the sacrifice ritual, and its target was Xia Mu.
"Man is the knife, and I am the fish on the chopping block."
"What a pity for all my cultivation. But if I can entwine with the empress before death, I will die without regrets."
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng Emperor's figure gradually blurred.
The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng radiated a blazing red light. It had already awakened its intelligence and understood complex emotions!
As the red light faded, an aura of pressure spread outward.
Xia Mu opened his eyes and felt the surging Soul Power. When he clenched his fist, an explosive crack rang out in the air.
"The sacrifice of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Immortal Herb!"
"What a terrifying stroke of fortune!"
Only at this moment did Xia Mu understand what power truly was. Such an opportunity was unparalleled in the world.
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