The Grand Elder took out a jar and handed it to Xu Qingtong.
Xu Qingtong accepted it and opened it. Inside was a whitish-brown lump that resembled flesh yet was not flesh, resembled wood yet was not wood.
He had never seen anything like it and could not help asking the Grand Elder in puzzlement, "What is this? It doesn't seem to have even a trace of spiritual qi!"
"This is flesh lingzhi! Nine Yin Pills refined from flesh lingzhi are among the very best choices for the Witch Clan when breaking through cultivation realms!"
"Flesh lingzhi? How come I've never heard of it?" Xu Qingtong asked.
"Hehe, flesh lingzhi is exceedingly rare. It is neither a demon beast nor a spirit herb, but a thing of extreme yin. The red resembles coral, the white resembles fat, the green resembles emerald feathers, and the yellow resembles purple gold! Without anything to feed on, it will not grow for ten thousand years, but with food, it can swell enormously in a single day!"
Xu Qingtong's curiosity surged. "Such a wondrous thing actually exists?"
"That hardly counts as wondrous! More wondrous still is how difficult it is to kill. Even if you chop it to pieces, every fragment can become a new lump of flesh lingzhi! They would simply be too small to refine pills with!"
"Then how can it grow larger?" Du Siwen came over, looked at the flesh lingzhi in the jar, and asked.
"It likes stillness, shuns light, and feeds on things tainted with yin. The stronger the yin energy, the faster it grows!" the Grand Elder said. "I searched the entire Demon Baleful Forest, and this is the most suitable place for flesh lingzhi to grow!"
Xu Qingtong glanced at Black Water Pool, seeming to understand something. Black