Chapter 1871: Discovery of Spirit Ginseng

"Haha!" Ye Liuyun also laughed, "What he says makes sense; grilling meat is grilling meat, refining pills is refining pills!"

He just thought Shangguan Ming River's metaphor was amusing.

Lin Xiyao retorted, "He knows herbs, has fire, even knows how to control fire—how could he possibly not be able to refine pills?"

Shangguan Ming River had previously sensed Ye Liuyun's Fire Flame Power, knew his flame was strong, and even he was envious.

But he still said, "There are many who know ordinary herbs, and many Martial Cultivators of the fire element, but there are few Alchemists!"

"Eat meat, eat meat! I'm not really an Alchemist either, let's not go off-topic!" Ye Liuyun also urged Lin Xiyao.

He felt that arguing with someone who lifts themselves by belittling others was not worth the effort.

Lin Xiyao stopped paying attention to Shangguan Ming River and continued chatting with Ye Liuyun, "My flame is Red Refined True Fire; is your Fire Flame Power the strongest Golden Crow Holy Fire?"

"Yes!" Ye Liuyun replied vaguely.

He didn't want to discuss his strength, but guessed that others could also see the Golden Crow in the flame, so he didn't deny it.

"How did you obtain this flame? How strong is it now?" Lin Xiyao, upon hearing they guessed correctly, became more interested.

"This was many years ago!" Ye Liuyun said offhand.

At the same time, he was annoyed by Lin Xiyao's probing and interrupted her with a Transmission Voice, "Can you stop publicly discussing my matters? Do you think these Mercenaries are reliable, or is that Shangguan Ming River reliable?"

Ye Liuyun's words also enlightened Lin Xiyao, who quickly replied, "Sorry, I thought you were so suited to refining pills, felt you could become an Alchemist, so I got overexcited!"

Ye Liuyun said nothing more, just handed her another piece of grilled meat to shut her mouth. He himself began to eat heartily.

Kui Sen also noticed the awkwardness between them, knowing it must have been Ye Liuyun who sent her a Transmission Voice, telling her not to ask further.

So he laughed and said, "We Mercenaries, every day we lick blood on the knife's edge; who knows, one day we might get stabbed from behind. That's why we usually don't inquire about others' strength! If you want to ask, you need some strategy!"

"Haha!" Ye Liuyun also laughed, "You could strategically ask how strong his Demon Qi really is!"

In fact he had already seen that Kui Sen's Demon Qi was strong; he was only using half of his own now.

"Hahaha!" Kui Sen laughed, chuckling, and steered the topic away.

They ate and chatted, eventually devouring all the bear meat they had, then each cultivated for a while.

When everyone had recovered, the group continued onward.

Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense discovered that ahead were Fifth Layer Late Stage fierce beasts. He feared that even Lin Zhi'an and Tang Kuan would have to cooperate to deal with them.

Sure enough, subsequent beast attacks kept causing Mercenaries to lose lives.

The Fifth Layer Late Stage beasts' attacks were too strong; some Mercenaries' treasures weren't powerful enough, and they gradually couldn't block the beasts.

Ye Liuyun relied on speed to dodge the beasts, not endangering his own life; he would not reveal any other strength.

The sword intent he slashed with also only employed Fire Flame Power. At most it wounded the Fifth Layer Late Stage beasts or distracted them; the main killing force still had to be Tang Kuan and Lin Zhi'an.

After each battle, their rest periods became longer.

Ye Liuyun took the opportunity to gather various herbs. The other Mercenaries dared not wander, fearing they might encounter other Fifth Layer beasts.

Ye Liuyun was completely indifferent, even using Spiritual Soul Attack to proactively strike a Fifth Layer Late Stage Barbarian Ox, placing a Slave Seal on it.

This Barbarian Ox was an earth-element fierce beast; Ye Liuyun originally intended to kill it outright, but recalling they still needed to find the spirit ginseng, perhaps the earth beast could help, so he subdued it first.

The other beasts he encountered directly devoured Spiritual Soul; their core pills, he gave to Long Nv as cultivation resources.

Their party barely cleared the Fifth Layer Late Stage beast checkpoint, then stopped and began circling in place.

Lin Xiyao also ordered everyone to disperse, each heading to search for the spirit ginseng.

"Apparently that spirit ginseng appears around here. I guess it wouldn't dare go into the Sixth Layer beast area," Lin Xiyao analyzed.

The group's search targets were all within the area where they had previously slain Fifth Layer Late Stage beasts.

Ye Liuyun spread his Divine Sense, scanned the area with Golden Pupil, found no sign of the spirit ginseng, assumed it didn't exist, and thought it better to hunt some Sixth Layer beasts.

He killed Sixth Layer beasts also by using Spiritual Soul Attack cleverly, so it was essentially silent and didn't attract anyone's attention.

Suddenly, he noticed a child's silhouette flash in a mountain hollow; when he examined it more closely with Divine Sense, the situation there shocked him.

That hollow was teeming with spirit ginseng.

"Maybe there really is a manifested spirit ginseng," Ye Liuyun guessed, and chased after it.

At his current cultivation level, a Martial Cultivator rarely experiences hallucinations.

He thought the child's silhouette he just saw was likely the legendary spirit ginseng.

When he arrived at the hollow, he still didn't see the manifested spirit ginseng.

"Anyway, first move this whole patch of spirit ginseng into the Space World," Ye Liuyun thought, and directly uprooted the entire area of spirit ginseng along with the soil, and stored it in the Space World.

Suddenly, a child burst out from the spirit ginseng and rushed toward the mountain depths.

The figure, though short and childlike, had hair made of spirit ginseng roots, and its legs were also covered with many unclean roots.

"Turns out there really is one!"

Ye Liuyun, shocked, immediately gave full-speed chase, simultaneously using Golden Pupil and Divine Sense to lock onto it tightly.

"You can't catch me!" the spirit ginseng shouted while running, also cursing Ye Liuyun.

The spirit ginseng's speed was indeed fast, but it couldn't run far; after a stretch it had to burrow into the earth before continuing.

"Barbarian Ox!" Ye Liuyun tossed the newly subdued Barbarian Ox, putting it to use.

Just then the spirit ginseng burrowed into the soil to rest.

"Moo!"

The Barbarian Ox let out a low bellow, and the surrounding earth suddenly surged toward the spot where the spirit ginseng had burrowed.

"Ah!" Ye Liuyun clearly heard the spirit ginseng scream.

Then the Barbarian Ox stomped the ground again.

"Bang!"

With a deafening blast, the spirit ginseng and the underground soil were both propelled into the air by the Barbarian Ox.