Chapter 98: No Need to Steal, Someone Will Offer It to You as Tribute!

This is a desolate plain, the vast earth covered entirely in earthy yellow hues.

Occasionally, a few patches of greenery dot the landscape, releasing a hint of vitality and life.

On this plain, some small Magical Beasts occasionally burst out, kicking up a wisp of yellow dust before vanishing into the distance.

The silence of the desolate plain lasted for a time, then the Void Space suddenly rippled.

Immediately following, two figures, one tall and one short, flashed out from the space.

These two figures that flashed out from the space were naturally Gu Fei and Zi Yan.

"So this is the Pill Realm..."

Gu Fei hovered in mid-air, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings; he could just make out the silhouettes of some mountain ranges at the edge of the plain.

He discovered that the energy here was much denser than in the outside world, yet it was filled with a violent factor that was unfavorable for humans to absorb.

Beside Gu Fei, Zi Yan was observing the surroundings with a curious look in her eyes.

"Zi Yan, it's up to you to perform now!" Gu Fei gave Zi Yan a wink.

"Got it!"

Zi Yan smiled, then began to close her eyes to sense her surroundings; her ability to sense natural spiritual treasures far exceeded that of an ordinary person.

This was also the most important reason why Gu Fei wanted to bring her along to the Pill Realm to hunt for treasures.

"I've sensed six locations; the medicinal herbs in those places should be quite good!"

A moment later, Zi Yan opened her eyes and pointed out several special locations to Gu Fei.

With Gu Fei's current speed, traversing the entire Pill Realm would not take too long, so finding the six nearby locations was naturally not a troublesome task.

An hour later, Gu Fei brought Zi Yan to the sixth location she had sensed earlier that might contain rare treasures.

"Strange, I can't even see a single green leaf here. Could it be growing underground?"

Upon arriving, Zi Yan, filled with some doubt, slowly flew toward the ground.

"Careful!"

Gu Fei sensed something unusual the moment he arrived here and hurriedly called out to warn Zi Yan.

Just at this moment, from the ground that looked like a sand dune, a giant python over ten zhang long lunged out like lightning, its hideous, bloody mouth biting directly toward Zi Yan's head.

"You're courting death!"

Seeing this scene, Gu Fei clenched his palm toward the massive python, and the python's head exploded as if subjected to immense pressure, after which its entire body fell to the ground.

"Damn it, ugly legless creature, you actually wanted to bite me!"

Zi Yan angrily kicked the remaining headless carcass of the giant python.

Her strength was great; with a light kick, she sent the giant python's massive body flying.

At the same time Zi Yan spoke those words, Gu Fei felt some unusual movement coming from the seven-colored little snake in his sleeve.

"It seems that Zi Yan's words have inadvertently offended Medusa!"

Gu Fei suppressed a laugh at the corner of his mouth and did not speak.

As the giant python's body was flung away, a sunken earthen pit suddenly appeared beneath the sand dune.

Inside the pit lay a deep yellow root as large as a child's head.

"It really was hidden underground!"

"This thing seems to be Earth Essence, and its age shouldn't be low..."

Putting away the deep yellow, root-like object the size of a human head, Zi Yan muttered to herself.

Although she had never seriously studied knowledge of medicinal herbs, having eaten so many, she still recognized a few to some extent.

"Zi Yan, move aside first!"

Gu Fei signaled for Zi Yan to leave the spot.

Although the Millennium Earth Essence was precious, it was not enough to make Gu Fei take it to heart; what he was truly interested in was something deeper.

Earth Essence is born from the condensation of steady and heavy pure earth energy, but this statement also has its limitations.

Any Earth Essence, once it grows past a hundred years, will not increase in volume at all due to energy saturation; it is precisely because of this that Earth Essence over a hundred years old appears so rare.

Ancient texts record that if Earth Essence can far exceed a hundred years of age, then what nourishes its growth is certainly not earth energy, but other natural spiritual treasures!

Therefore, beneath this piece of Earth Essence that has reached a millennium in age, there must be a rare treasure.

"It shouldn't be wrong!"

After Zi Yan walked away, Gu Fei's palm suddenly aimed at the location of the pit, and a massive suction force emerged, continuously drawing out the soil.

Very quickly, a deep hole several tens of meters deep was sucked out of the ground below, and a piece of snow-white jade gradually revealed itself.

"What is this thing?"

Looking at the snow-white jade that Gu Fei had sucked out from underground, Zi Yan's eyes lit up as she hurriedly leaned in to ask.

"This thing isn't for eating!"

Gu Fei gave Zi Yan a light rap on the head.

The object he held in his hand was Earth Heart Jade Mother, a miraculous jade formed only after countless years of condensation by earth energy.

When cultivating or refining pills, having a seat cushion cast from Earth Heart Jade Mother will have an extremely significant suppressing effect on the violent energy within the body, making it less likely to suffer from Qi deviation.

"It's quite a large piece..."

Gu Fei examined the jade; it was about half a zhang high and one arm's length wide.

An Earth Heart Jade Mother of this size is almost impossible to see in the outside world.

The next moment, Gu Fei's attention focused on the viscous liquid seeping out from the edge of the jade.

"Big Brother Gu Fei, what is this liquid? It should be edible, right?"

Zi Yan also noticed this; in her view, this crystal-clear, viscous liquid flowing out must be very delicious.

"If you want to eat medicinal herbs, I'll let you eat your fill in a moment. See that mountain range over there? The medicinal herbs inside are countless, and most of them have been packed up and collected by an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast; you can even save yourself the trouble of searching..."

"Really?"

Gu Fei helplessly pointed toward the majestic mountain range in the distance, and at the same time, a fire blade condensed from Exotic Fire appeared in his hand.

The fire blade sliced lightly across the surface of the Earth Heart Jade Mother, and a jade flake about a thumb's thickness fell off, revealing a hole the size of a walnut inside.

From within the hole, wisps of pale white mist faintly seeped out; Gu Fei took a deep breath and immediately felt a silent, comfortable groan resonate from the depths of his soul.

Sss! Sss!

Following that, Gu Fei turned his hand into a fire blade and danced it with lightning speed, cutting away the jade flakes.

When about half of the Earth Heart Jade Mother had been shaved away, a jade pit about the size of a head finally appeared in Gu Fei's line of sight.

And his gaze, at this moment, instantly froze upon the white liquid less than half a finger deep inside the jade pit.

"It really is Earth Heart Soul Marrow!"

Looking at the viscous white liquid, a smile appeared on Gu Fei's face; after working hard for this short half-day, he had finally found it.

Earth Heart Soul Marrow is an extremely rare treasure of heaven and earth, because it can temper the soul!

Even for Gu Fei's Spirit Realm Soul, it could produce a very good soul-tempering effect.

"Big Brother Gu Fei, when are we going over to steal that Eighth-Rank Magical Beast's medicinal herb storehouse?"

Zi Yan's attention was entirely focused on Gu Fei's previous sentence; because the opponent was an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast, she did not dare to go alone.

"Rest assured, this time we won't need to sneak around; once we get there, that Eighth-Rank Magical Beast will properly and voluntarily offer it to you!"

(End of this chapter)