Free Web NovelChapter 314: Chapter 75: Pole Star Grass, Rakshasa Sect
Holding the Talisman Decree, Fang Cheng easily passed through the great net of iron chains and entered the emerald green vortex.
He felt as if he was surrounded by green mist. After traveling for a long time, his vision suddenly cleared, and a vast world appeared before him.
Skyscraping peaks stood like a forest. There were mountains and great rivers, primeval forests, and towering ancient trees—a magnificent landscape.
With Fang Cheng’s level of Cultivation, he couldn’t even sense the boundaries of this Secret Realm.
"The Spiritual Qi here is so dense!"
The creature on Fang Cheng’s shoulder, disguised as a palm-sized, snow-white bird, sighed in admiration.
Fang Cheng circulated his Profound Skill and immediately felt the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi surging toward him. It was incredibly dense, and a comfortable sensation spread through his entire body. He felt that the Spiritual Qi in this Secret Realm was several times denser than on Demon Lion Peak of the Yinluo Sect.
He glanced around and said, "What level of mighty being could have created such a Grotto Heaven Secret Realm?"
At the very least, with his current Cultivation and Divine Techniques, he couldn’t possibly imagine the kind of immense power required to create a Secret Realm of this scale.
’Dharma Aspect? Tribulation Realm? Or an even higher realm?’
Cang Wuya was widely read, but he too had no concept of the Tribulation Realm, let alone the realms above it.
Fang Cheng summoned his Talisman Beast Giant Tiger, leisurely sat on its back, and picked a random direction. He had the giant tiger land in the mountain forest to begin the search for Spiritual Medicine.
This Secret Realm appeared once every three hundred years, so the Spiritual Medicine inside was at least three hundred years old, with some being even older.
Moreover, each time it opened, most Cultivators frantically fought over the Bodhi Enlightenment Tree, which in turn gave these other Spiritual Medicines a chance to grow.
The giant tiger sprinted through the wilds while Cang Wuya also took to the air, soaring across the sky in search of precious Spiritual Medicine.
He was now only five Spiritual Medicines short of completing the Pill Formula for the Vermilion Bird Divine Pill. With success in sight, he couldn’t help but feel a little excited.
As for the other Cultivators who had already entered the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm, Fang Cheng couldn’t be bothered with them, focusing solely on his search for medicine.
Among the Spiritual Medicines and Spirit Plants of the world, the rarer and more precious an item was, the more distinct its unique phenomena would be.
Fang Cheng’s ability to identify Spiritual Medicine was average at best, but Cang Wuya was an expert in this field. For every Spiritual Medicine involved in the first two Pill Formulas for the Four Symbols Divine Pill, he could recall its history and speak about it with great authority.
He even recognized several of the Spiritual Medicines for the higher-tiered White Tiger Divine Pill.
’The number of books his clan must have collected is staggering...’ Fang Cheng had long been in awe of this.
At this moment, eager to win Fang Cheng’s favor and respect, the self-proclaimed ill-fated Spirit Bird was working even harder, determined to make a great contribution.
Fang Cheng rode the giant tiger, letting Cang Wuya skim the skies at a low altitude. He himself used his formidable Divine Sense to locate precious medicines. Whenever he found one, regardless of whether it was part of the Four Symbols Divine Pill formula, he would transplant it and place it in his storage bag.
’Lu Wei can sort them out later.’
There was a peculiar aspect to this Secret Realm: there were very few Spirit Beasts or demonic creatures. Even the ones they encountered were weak, First-stage Early-stage Demon Beasts with superficial Cultivation.
Cang Wuya speculated that this was the result of generations of Cultivators entering the Secret Realm and slaughtering all the High-tier Demon Beasts.
As a result, a gap had appeared in the Demon Beast population of this isolated and sealed Grotto Heaven Secret Realm.
Traveling like this, the man and the bird found a new medicine from the Vermilion Bird Divine Pill’s formula in less than a day.
This Spiritual Medicine was called Pole Star Grass. It was purple all over with long, slender leaves covered in silver, star-like marks.
When the grass matured, the star-like marks on its leaves would flicker, emitting a soft, bright light. At night, a large patch of Pole Star Grass gathered together was an exceptionally spectacular sight.
The grass itself had the effect of strengthening the physical body and enhancing one’s qi and blood, making it a valuable treasure in the eyes of Body Refining Cultivators.
The patch of Pole Star Grass that Fang Cheng discovered was on a hillside, densely clustered together, numbering no less than a hundred stalks.
This Spiritual Medicine was used in large quantities for the Vermilion Bird Divine Pill. Discovering such a large patch now would save a great deal of effort in cultivating it later.
Fang Cheng personally took action, carefully digging up each stalk of Pole Star Grass along with its roots and the surrounding soil, and placing them into jade boxes.
Since Cang Wuya couldn’t help with this task, he flew a short distance away to search for other Spiritual Medicines.
Suddenly, Fang Cheng stopped what he was doing. He heard the sound of wind and thunder tearing through the air in the distance. Following the sound with his eyes, he saw a dazzling Profound Light approaching from the far-off sky. In the blink of an eye, it was upon him. The Escape Light descended from the heavens with great fanfare.
When the Escape Light dissipated, it revealed an old man with white hair and a youthful face, dressed in lavish robes.
He stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at the Pole Star Grass on the ground with a slightly arrogant expression. In a deep voice, he said, "You’ve already taken plenty of the Pole Star Grass here. Don’t touch the rest. I am Honghai Jiang, an Elder of the Rakshasa Sect. I will owe you a favor."
Fang Cheng couldn’t help but laugh. The Rakshasa Sect Cultivators really were all cut from the same cloth.
Pointing to the Pole Star Grass on the ground, he smiled. "Fellow Daoist, I was the one who discovered this patch of Pole Star Grass first, and I’ve only taken a third of it so far. To take the remaining two-thirds with just an empty promise of a favor... isn’t that a bit unreasonable?"
The old man sized Fang Cheng up and down, then sneered coldly. "It’s always so troublesome reasoning with you Loose Cultivators. This treasure ground was discovered by a Rakshasa Sect predecessor three hundred years ago. Why do you think I was able to come straight here?"
He paused before continuing arrogantly, "I offered you a favor out of consideration for the fact that you managed to find this place, which shows you have some fate with my sect’s predecessor. Don’t tell me you intend to take a mile after I’ve given an inch?"
As he spoke, an extremely tyrannical pressure emanated from his body and bore down on Fang Cheng.
His gaze instantly became as sharp as a blade, and he sneered, "I don’t recognize your face. You must be a Loose Cultivator who just recently broke through to the Late Stage, right? You only got in here because of a fast Escape Technique and a bit of luck. Do you really think that just because you have a Late Stage Cultivation, you can stand on equal footing with me?"
