Xue Fuyao continued letting her blood drip steadily onto the flower's stamens. Gradually, even the petals and leaves were all stained red.
When the entire Jade Glass of the Azure Moon had turned red, its body suddenly began to emit a faint purple glow.
The next second, the Jade Glass of the Azure Moon turned into a streak of light and merged into Xue Fuyao's body.
"It worked."
The corners of Xue Fuyao's mouth kept lifting in excitement.
But she soon calmed down again.
She looked up at the barrier overhead. Without the Jade Glass of the Azure Moon sustaining it, the barrier would soon disappear, and the aura given off by the spirit medicines within would soon draw countless Monster Beasts and people. She had to move quickly and harvest every spirit medicine here before the barrier vanished and before those people and Monster Beasts discovered them.
First, she disguised her Spiritual Root and constitution again, then began harvesting the spirit medicines.
She still started with the oldest ones. As she harvested, she also discovered two golden tea trees and took both of them away.
Before the barrier disappeared, Xue Fuyao finally managed to harvest all the spirit medicines that were ten thousand years old or nearly so, but quite a few thousand-year-old and hundred-year-old spirit medicines remained in the valley.
Looking at those spirit medicines, Xue Fuyao could not help feeling a little regretful, but she also knew she had to leave now.
Originally, she had planned to erase every trace of her aura before leaving, but on second thought, leaving like that seemed a bit of a waste.
So after erasing her own aura, she disguised it as the aura of the Zhang Family Triplets.
The Zhang Family Triplets had identical auras. Outsiders could not distinguish which of them had left a trace, and even the triplets themselves could not do it. At most, they could confirm that they had not left it themselves.
Xue Fuyao did this as a precaution as well. If she failed to eliminate all three in the Secret Realm, or let one or two escape, this little performance should still plant a seed of suspicion in their hearts.
Even if they truly trusted one another, what about everyone else? Others might not believe what they said.
After leaving the triplets' aura in the valley, she tore open a Teleportation Talisman. The next second, she vanished from the spot.
When Xue Fuyao reappeared, she was already several thousand meters away from the valley.
From afar, she could see waves of medicinal spiritual energy rising into the sky above the valley.
Medicinal spiritual energy, as its name suggested, was spiritual energy with medicinal properties. It could only appear in places where large numbers of spirit medicines had grown for many years.
Once it appeared, it meant that the place contained numerous rare spirit medicines.
Xue Fuyao saw quite a few people and Monster Beasts rushing toward the valley after detecting the medicinal spiritual energy.
Seeing this, Xue Fuyao headed over as well.
Even setting aside the many spirit medicines still in the valley, the Zhang Family Triplets certainly would not pass up medicinal spiritual energy this dense.
After all, the Zhang Family's main business was selling pills, and the Lineage supported numerous Alchemists, so the Zhang Family had an enormous demand for spirit medicines.
By the time Xue Fuyao arrived, quite a few people had already gathered outside the valley. Traces of battle covered the surroundings, along with the corpses of Monster Beasts and cultivators.
Clearly, a fierce battle had just broken out here.
Xue Fuyao immediately picked out one of the triplets in the crowd, though she could not tell exactly which one he was.
His expression was extremely ugly at that moment, however, and the others around him were all looking at him with hostile eyes.
Of course, Xue Fuyao knew why they were acting this way. Although quite a few spirit medicines remained in the valley, signs of harvesting and digging were everywhere.
Clearly, someone had beaten them to it and gotten there first.
The more precious the spirit medicines left behind were, the more precious the ones taken away must have been.
And the aura left in the valley clearly came from the Zhang Family's Cultivation Method. Among everyone who had entered the Secret Realm this time, only one person cultivated that method-no, three people.
At that moment, Zhang Hongzhi was furiously cursing his two brothers in his heart. Damn it, couldn't you have wiped your tracks clean after harvesting the spirit medicines? You actually left such a glaring opening, and now you've dragged me into it too.
However, whether they were too far apart and beyond the range of their telepathy, or the other two had something more important to do at the moment, neither responded to Zhang Hongzhi's Mind Call.
He took a deep breath and looked at everyone, a gentle smile appearing on his face. "The opportunities in the Secret Realm belong to no one to begin with. First come, first served-isn't that the unspoken rule?
"Besides, I arrived together with you. I wasn't the one who left this place like this."
Hearing this, some felt that he had a point. Although they looked exactly alike, they were two different people after all. Others, however, were not buying it. Who did not know that the Zhang Family Triplets shared a mental connection and were inseparably close?
Still, they also knew this was not the time to quibble over such things. Although someone had taken a portion of the valley's spirit medicines ahead of them, quite a few remained, including some rare thousand-year-old spirit medicines.
Everyone began rushing into the valley to harvest the spirit medicines.
Perhaps because there were competitors around, and quite a few of them at that, everyone's harvesting methods were decidedly rough.
After all, moving a little slower could mean harvesting one fewer spirit medicine than someone else.
Xue Fuyao mingled among them, but every spirit medicine she harvested was fed to the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet on her wrist.
Compared with these spirit medicines, however, the corpses of the slain Monster Beasts on the ground were clearly much more to the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet's taste. It had been trembling constantly since earlier, wanting Xue Fuyao to bring those Monster Beast corpses over for it to eat.
Since there were still quite a few people around, Xue Fuyao did not act immediately.
Only after everyone had harvested nearly all the spirit medicines in the valley and left one after another did she collect all the Monster Beast corpses on the ground into the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet, letting it absorb them slowly.
Watching the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet flicker continuously, Xue Fuyao could sense that it was steadily being repaired.
Before leaving, she took one last look at the valley, now changed beyond recognition, then turned and pursued the direction in which one of the triplets had left.
During the pursuit, Xue Fuyao disguised her appearance, aura, and voice, and changed into a set of black men's clothes. She no longer concealed her cultivation, restoring it to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
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