Chapter 266: Shepherd Heaven Grass

Two months of honing gave the four of them enough understanding of the dense forest.

Demonic beasts above the Jin Dan stage generally have strong self-esteem. As long as they don't encounter the ancient barbarian bloodline causing public anger among demonic beasts, they won't act in groups.

"It is indeed a bit strange. Theoretically, my bloodline should have a suppressive effect on demonic beasts, but in the battle just now, I didn't have this feeling," Seeing Man Gu recalled the strangeness encountered during the battle just now.

The ancient barbarian bloodline was invincible against demonic beasts. Since successfully awakening the bloodline, Seeing Man Gu hadn't encountered this situation.

Lu Yang frowned, thinking about the reason.

"Ah—what is this!"

Suddenly, a sharp cry interrupted Lu Yang's thinking.

"Song Wuguo, what are you screaming for!" Song Hua scolded his companion. Everyone was thinking about problems, and this shout of yours made everyone's thoughts messy.

"You, you look!" Song Wuguo sat on the ground, trembling and pointing at the demonic beast he had gutted.

He originally wanted to dissect the demon core to repay the life-saving grace of Lu Yang and the four of them, but was frightened by the strangeness of the demon core.

Lu Yang walked straight over. He saw the lone wolf gutted, with a demon core in the dantian position, a bit dim, wrapped in withered yellow leaves, the leaves thin and dense, with white filamentous objects connected between them, sticky and mushy.

Lu Yang covered his right arm with spiritual energy and took out this strange demon core.

"The demon core has no strangeness, which means the problem appeared on the leaves?"

"Go dissect other demonic beasts!"

Everyone moved to dissect the demonic beasts, and soon the results came out—the demon cores of the five demonic beasts were all wrapped in this kind of withered yellow leaves.

Lu Yang thought through all the knowledge he had learned, but none of them corresponded to the leaves: "Who among you recognizes this cluster of leaves?"

Even the knowledgeable Meng Jingzhou shook his head repeatedly.

Tao Yaoye and Seeing Man Gu also shook their heads to indicate they didn't recognize it.

It went without saying for the Song family. Their level was limited to identifying common spiritual plants.

The two bodyguards had lived at Demon Suppression Pass for many years and hadn't seen this kind of leaf either.

"I always feel like I've seen this in a book... Is it Shepherd Heaven Grass?" Song Wuguo muttered in a low voice.

"Shepherd Heaven Grass?" Everyone turned their heads to look at Song Wuguo together.

Song Wuguo felt immense pressure. He was timid and fearful, liked reading books since childhood, and didn't like communicating with people. This was the first time so many people looked at him.

"Wuguo, do you recognize the origin of the leaves?"

"I, I just feel familiar, I'm not sure either. I saw an ancient book from the Great Yu period in the Scripture Library. It was a manuscript of a pill refining master, which mentioned a kind of spiritual grass called Shepherd Heaven Grass. The drawing in the book is very similar to this."

"The book says that Shepherd Heaven Grass grows like weeds at the beginning and has strong camouflage. Whatever the nearby plants look like, it grows like what."

"When it is about to become an adult, it will swallow demonic beasts and use demonic beasts as nutrients to promote its own maturity."

"At the same time, it can also parasitize a part of itself in the demonic beast's body, controlling every move of the demonic beast, letting the demonic beast go out to forage for it."

"The 'Shepherd' in Shepherd Heaven Grass originates from its parasitic characteristics, meaning grazing."

"You know the spell to drive corpses, right? Legend has it that the cultivator who created the spell to drive corpses got inspiration from the parasitic method of Shepherd Heaven Grass."

"What an evil grass!" Meng Jingzhou frowned. This Shepherd Heaven Grass revealed a sense of evil.

"Fairy, have you heard of Shepherd Heaven Grass?" Lu Yang asked the Immortal Fairy secretly.

"There are a few small mistakes, but generally it's not far off," the Immortal Fairy confirmed the existence of Shepherd Heaven Grass.

Song Wuguo rarely got attention once, and the more he spoke, the more excited he became: "Big Brother Song Hua, this Shepherd Heaven Grass is so rare that even Integration stage great powers haven't seen it. It is beneficial to the cultivation of Integration stage great powers. If we pick Shepherd Heaven Grass and return to the family, and offer it to Great-Grandfather, our status in the Song family will be stable in the future!"

"If we operate it again, the position of patriarch might not be impossible for you!"

"Is this thing really so rare?!"

"Really, the ancient book I read was an Integration stage pill refining master, who only saw two Shepherd Heaven Grasses in his life. The ancient book also recorded that using Shepherd Heaven Grass to refine Shepherd Heaven Elixir can improve an Integration stage small realm!"

Song Hua's eyes lit up. It was indeed good stuff, but he quickly calmed down: "We were almost hunted by Shepherd Heaven Grass. With our ability, where do we have the ability to pick Shepherd Heaven Grass alive? It's better to go back and inform the uncles and ask them to take action."

"If we let the uncles take action, how will the credit be calculated? Big Brother Song Hua, don't worry, we really might be able to pick Shepherd Heaven Grass."

"How to say?"

"The maximum number of demonic beasts that Shepherd Heaven Grass can drive is ten. These five are all Jin Dan stage, which means it can drive at most Jin Dan stage, which means it only has five Jin Dan stage demonic beasts left."

"As long as we have Young Master Meng's help, these five Jin Dan stage demonic beasts are not to be feared!"

Song Hua thought about it, and it was indeed the case.

Cultivators of the Meng family and the Congwendao Sect have a characteristic, that is, they will not use elixirs to directly improve their realm.

Therefore, neither the Meng family nor the Congwendao Sect will compete with him for Shepherd Heaven Grass.

"That's how it is. After I get Shepherd Heaven Grass, I will definitely report it to the family and thank the four of you with heavy gifts!"

The Song family keeps their promises and will not break their word.

Song Hua didn't cover it up and generously stated his real thoughts.

If he covered it up now, if Meng Jingzhou found out later, it would instead destroy the relationship between the Meng family and the Song family, which would be a loss that outweighs the gain.

Meng Jingzhou represented everyone and agreed. They originally intended to eradicate Shepherd Heaven Grass. The threat of Shepherd Heaven Grass was too great. If it were allowed to hunt and obtain nutrients, I don't know how many people would suffer.

"We were attacked by demonic beasts in this direction. Shepherd Heaven Grass is likely here!" Song Wuguo recalled the escape route. He was the calmest and remembered the route when escaping.

"Set off!" Everyone finished resting and headed deep into the dense forest.

Ten figures shuttled through the dense forest, taking turns opening their spiritual sense to find clues about Shepherd Heaven Grass.

"The ancient book says Shepherd Heaven Grass likes dark and humid environments. Please focus when searching," Song Wuguo reminded loudly.

"Got it."

"Found it, right in the middle of that swamp!" Song Hua shouted, his tone revealing excitement.

"Don't relax your vigilance! Maybe the demonic beasts controlled by Shepherd Heaven Grass are nearby!" Lu Yang reminded everyone with his spiritual sense.

Just as Lu Yang finished speaking, everyone heard the roar of demonic beasts coming from overhead.

"Roar—"

Five majestic demonic beasts appeared above everyone's heads.

"According to the previous plan, two people in a group, our Congwendao Sect will be the main force, the Song family will cover, and the two bodyguards will join forces to deal with one!"

"Yes!"

Everyone reacted instantly. Lu Yang found a demonic beast, Song Wuguo covered for Lu Yang, and Song Hua covered for Meng Jingzhou.

Zing—

The Green Sharp Sword was unsheathed, a silver light flashed, like a silver moon in the night sky, bright and inviolable.

The sword light turned into a sharp murderous intent, facing a demonic beast.

Tao Yaoye observed the Shepherd Heaven Grass in the middle of the swamp with her peripheral vision, and an inexplicable sense of unease wandered in her heart.

She always felt that something was wrong, but couldn't say what was wrong.

The second update before eleven o'clock.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 267 =====