Time passed little by little. More than an hour later, Yang Yunhai slowly rose to his feet.
After some effort, with Yin'e's assistance, he had dug up over ten immortal herbs. He estimated that Tang San in the original story would not have recognized several of them, such as the Hunyuan Immortal Herb, which could maximize one's Soul Power. Others, like the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, required a spirit to possess the power of the stars in order to gain their recognition. The conditions for picking and consuming such herbs were simply too stringent, so he left them alone. There were also those containing potent toxins that could not be consumed at all, and he left those as well.
Besides that, some were being saved for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to consume in the future, so they could not be touched either.
Apart from immortal herbs, he also dug up a few non-immortal herbs with outstanding medicinal effects—fewer than ten in total.
Naturally, he also gathered the medicinal herbs needed to refine antidotes, as well as medicine to replenish Dugu Yan's bodily deficiencies later on.
Looking around, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well remained lush and verdant, filled with medicinal herbs. Unless one looked closely, it was impossible to tell that anything had been removed. It had to be said that there were truly many medicinal herbs here—at a rough glance, there were hundreds of varieties, though most of them were poisonous.
Why had the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well become such a devastated mess in the original story after Tang San's plundering? Simple—Tang San had dug up every poisonous herb to refine the King of Hell's Summons hidden weapons.
As for the nonpoisonous ones, he had dug them all up without a second thought, and did