Ximen Mei had successfully dug out the blood origin mushroom. Rather than touch it with her hands, she picked up the blood-colored silk cloth from the ground, draped it over the mushroom, and wrapped it through the cloth before placing the whole bundle into the black wooden box.
Only after carefully finishing all this did she let out a long breath.
Wang Yu caught a faint bloody scent from the silk cloth. It seemed to have been soaked in Demon Beast essence blood as well.
Ximen Mei took out another silk cloth and wooden box, then began digging out the second blood origin mushroom.
Wang Yu stopped watching. He walked a few steps away and looked around, searching for anything else worth taking.
After all, this earth origin spirit spring was clearly extraordinary. Besides the blood origin mushrooms, there might be other valuable things to find.
However, the entire bank was covered in small white stones, a broad, barren expanse at a glance. That was also why the two of them had spotted the blood origin mushrooms immediately.
Still unwilling to give up, he moved closer to the pool and leaned his head out over it, checking whether anything could be found on its exposed inner wall.
Aside from some pale-blue, moss-like growths, nothing particularly caught his eye.
Wait, what was that?
Wang Yu still had Overclocking active. When his gaze happened to sweep across the pool, his eyes pierced straight through the surface, revealing a small, dark hole in the inner wall barely half a foot below the water.
It looked small, only about as thick as an arm, but its opening seemed exceptionally smooth, unlike something naturally formed.
Surprised, Wang Yu glanced back at Ximen Mei nearby. She had successfully harvested the second blood origin mushroom and was