Some of the herbs were like summer crickets. Without anyone around, they would chirp within the grass happily. But once people walked close to the grass, no matter how silent, they will be discovered by the crickets, thus the crickets silenced themselves. Every summer night, people would hear the sounds of crickets chirping as if there were hundreds. But without any tools, trying to look for one was almost impossible.
It was the same situation for warriors trying to pick herbs. It was too difficult to find a herb.
Facing the huge beast’s bones, Yi Yun pondered for a while. In the Purple Crystal’s vision, he could see that the beast bones had suffered from the elements and that there was very tiny amounts of energy left within the bones.
And these were not an ordinary animal’s bones, they were bones that belonged to a desolate beast. And it was even a high-grade desolate beast!
An idea flashed in Yi Yun’s mind. For such high-grade desolate beast bones to be weathered down so much, to have so little energy left, it gave Yi Yun a thought.
Could it be…
Yi Yun stroked his chin. Now, the herb had hidden its herbal essence and concealed itself, but… this had no effect on Yi Yun.
Yi Yun smiled, with his spiritual energy interfaced with the Purple Crystal, quickly, his vision turned white.
And the hidden herb was obvious like a bright star in the night. Yi Yun spotted its position at one glance.
Yi Yun came to a clearing and drew out the Thousand Army Saber.
“Cha! Cha! Cha!”
In a split second, he sent three slashes. With the Thousand Army Saber inserted in the ground, Yi Yun smacked the saber’s hilt.
“Peng!”
With an explosion, the ground blasted open!
After the dust settled, Yi Yun brushed aside a thin layer of soil. Under the soil hid a red fruit the size of a fist.
This fruit was like a red crystal and gave off a sweet aroma. On the fruit’s surface, there were small shining particles, like a ripe pomegranate without its exterior.
It was incredible that such a beautiful fruit was growing underground.
There were seven leaves around the fruit and the leaves were dropping and their color dark, as if they were about to wither at any time.
But every leaf was aromatic. In the middle of the leaf, there was a shining, blood-red wavy line.
Yi Yun took a sniff and felt a great aroma rush into his body, which nourished his body. It made his body’s blood warm up and surge.
“This is a Blood Yang Flower! It’s a middle-grade Heaven-ranked herb!” Yi Yun remembered a record of it in the ‘Divine wilderness’ book.
The Blood Yang Flower grew underground and it liked the dense and rich sunlight.
Typically, a Blood Yang Flower’s seeds would take root near a desolate beast’s corpse. When it germinates, it will absorb the desolate beast corpse’s energy to help it grow.
Within a short span of one to two days, it sucks the desolate beast’s corpse’s energy dry, leaving only its skeleton.
This energy would then be stored away for later, the fruit slowly absorbs it, and the energy aids the fruit in its growth.
When the desolate beast’s energy was completely digested, it would sprout out some leaves from underground when the sun was at its fullest and then soak in the extremely thick Yang sunlight!
Once people approached it, it would shrink its leaves back, looking like nothing was there to begin with.
The only thing that could expose the Blood Yang Flower was the pile of desolate bones nearby.
As the energy was fully absorbed by the Blood Yang Flower, the desolate bones would look like ordinary bones, making it difficult for people to recognize them.
There were too many types of desolate beasts species. Even if one saw living desolate beasts, one would have a tough time recognizing all the different types. To recognize badly weathered bones and guess which desolate beast they came from by the shape of the bones, you would require an experienced Desolate Heaven Master.
“Blood Yang Flower. It’s a great thing. This Blood Yang Flower is probably 700 to 900 years old.” Yi Yun carefully picked the Blood Yang Flower.