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.
The Blood Yang Flower takes 300 years to take root, 300 years to flower, and 300 years to bear fruit. Seeing that the Blood Yang Flower was bearing fruit, it meant it was at least 700-800 years old!
A 700-800 year old Blood Yang Flower was definitely worth above 3000 dragon scale runes!
Yi Yun greatly coveted those 3000 dragon scale runes.
But…Yi Yun also coveted the Blood Yang Flower!
Yi Yun was unsure what to do with the Blood Yang Flower.
A typical herb-picking cultivator had no choice but to hand over all the herbs they picked, as they did not have the ability to refine such high quality herbs. Even if they had the ability, they could not bring the refinement equipment needed to the herb mountain as they were searched prior to entering the teleportation array. This prevented people from bringing their own herbs to exchange for dragon scale runes, as well as bringing their own refinement equipment, which prevented them from brewing the herbs on the herb mountain.
But with Yi Yun’s Purple Crystal, he did not need to brew the herbs. He could directly absorb the energy, so it was easy for him to steal the herb’s power.
“If I were to absorb the Blood Yang Flower’s energy, it will be a great supplement for me!”
Yi Yun was tempted. Previously, the Yellow and Mystic-ranked herbs he found were all turned in honestly.
The main point was that by stealing their power, it would do more harm than good. The low-grade herbs had impure energies, so they were not very helpful for Yi Yun. It had also a high possibility of revealing his secret.
The herbs picked in the Tai Ah Divine City herb mountain were given to the alchemists of the Divine City. Those old monsters were extremely terrifying. They knew all the properties of the herbs. If he had tampered with it, they were likely to discover it.
With the Blood Yang Flower, Yi Yun had three choices.
Sucking it dry, stealing the herbal essence or exchanging it for dragon scale runes.
If he didn’t suck it dry, then he would not get the Blood Yang Flower’s herbal essence but he would get 3000 dragon scale runes.
If he were to absorb a portion of it and then hand it over, it would be the best of two worlds, but it would increase the risk of his secret being discovered…
But upon careful thought, some loss in a herb’s essence would not be a great cause for doubt.
Yi Yun was wavering between the three and finally resisted the temptation by removing the third choice