"Perhaps I could make something of the Blood-Colored Trial a few years from now?"
As Liu Yu walked out of Jade Pill Hall, pondering how to collect the rare spirit herbs needed to refine Golden Core Condensation Pills, a bold idea suddenly surfaced in his mind.
Cultivators entering the Blood-Colored Secret Realm could not have cultivation beyond the Qi Refining Period.
He was now in the Foundation Establishment Realm. Although he could not enter himself, couldn't he "arrange" for a few disciples to go in?
Given the difficult circumstances of low-level disciples, he would have no shortage of people willing to work for him if he promised a few benefits.
If he arranged for several powerful, cautious, and meticulous disciples to enter and search for spirit herbs on his behalf, perhaps he really could make this work?
Besides mobilizing his various connections to search, perhaps this was another promising avenue?
At that thought, Liu Yu's spirits lifted, and he began carefully considering the feasibility of this method.
Disciples leaving the secret realm would have their Storage Bags thoroughly inspected. The sect would collect their harvests, then distribute rewards according to how much they had gathered.
But the so-called "harvests" meant valuable, mature spirit herbs or other rare cultivation resources. Spirit herb seeds certainly were not included.
The rare spirit herbs inside simply could not survive once removed from the secret realm. They could only grow within that realm, which retained the conditions of ancient times.
It was not as though no cultivators had tried transplanting them, but every attempt had ended in failure. Gradually, the major sects of the Chu Kingdom lost interest in transplanting the herbs. They also prohibited bringing seedlings out of the secret realm, lest they drain the pond to catch the fish.
The Five Great Sects