eurekapd Chapter 36 Who Stole the Purple Cloud Ginseng?
Chapter 36 Who Stole the Purple Cloud Ginseng?
In a flash, the Windwing Tiger appeared in front of Qu Xin.
Qu Xin was prepared. She raised her hand and released an explosive talisman, then flashed into the sky and disappeared into the distance.
The Windwing Tiger fears cultivators' magical treasures the most. Seeing Qu Xin flick her hand and a beam of spiritual light rush towards it, it hurriedly flapped its wings and flew far away.
The explosive talisman exploded in the open space, creating a large crater.
The Windwing Tiger dared not give chase, roaring repeatedly, and retreated to guard a short distance from the Purple Cloud Ginseng.
After Qu Xin fled to a distance, she lit the Soul-Chasing Incense again, cursing incessantly in anger.
Zhong Lingxin seemed to have taken root in Feng Yihu's territory.
Qu Xin couldn't help but worry. Could it be that Zhong Lingxin was studying "Illusory Realm"?
Thinking about it again, it seemed impossible. That was the territory of the Windwing Tiger, not a good place to study.
Suppressing her anxiety, Qu Xin began circling the Windwing Tiger's territory again, hoping to find a way to break in.
As the ripening time of Ziyun Danshen draws closer, its bitter ginseng aroma grows stronger.
The cultivators' hearts finally stirred, and they approached the Windwing Tiger's cave several miles away.
The wind wing tiger's fur stood on end, and its entire body appeared to grow larger.
Perhaps because the cultivators and demonic beasts had all gathered around, it felt for a moment that the spiritual energy had thinned out a little.
But soon, it forgot all about spiritual energy.
The fifth leaf of the purple ginseng is slowly unfolding.
The purple danshen is about to mature!
More cultivators and demonic beasts are closing in!
Feng Yihu secretly took out a defensive array, preparing to activate it just before the Purple Cloud Ginseng matured.
At the same time, it also saw that many cultivators were clenching their right hands.
There should be something tightly gripped in that right hand, perhaps a defensive array or some kind of magical artifact.
The cultivators probably didn't notice that it was also tightly attached to a defensive array plate, right?
It shouldn't have been discovered.
Who says monsters can only fight head-on?
It will also use array plates, okay?
The Windwing Tiger was smug.
This purple ginseng grows right next to its burrow.
It can be said that it has protected this purple cloud salvia for a hundred years.
It had already decided that as soon as it got its hands on the salvia miltiorrhiza, it would chew it up and swallow it without stopping for even a moment.
Then it ran away and hid in the distance.
It had already prepared a temporary cave dwelling on a mountain cliff, waiting for the cultivators to leave so it could advance to a fifth-tier demon beast and settle in the inner area. It would then become a large demon beast that accepted tributes from other smaller demon beasts.
The battle began after a junior cultivator tentatively activated an explosive talisman.
That explosion was like a signal to seize something.
All the cultivators and demon beasts rushed towards the Windwing Tiger's cave.
The Windwing Tiger glanced at the exploding talisman that had exploded not far from its cave entrance, gave a cold laugh, and simply didn't bother to move.
It refused to believe that the cultivators would actually dare to throw the exploding talismans in front of its door and on top of Ziyun Danshen's head.
This is only the initial stage of the competition; no ruthless cultivator is in a hurry to destroy the Purple Cloud Ginseng.
Sure enough, after the cultivators rushed in for several dozen feet, they all stopped and greedily looked at the Purple Cloud Ginseng that was unfurling its fifth leaf.
One of the cultivators asked in a low voice, "Where is the Windwing Tiger? Wasn't it in the cave? Did it get scared away by so many of us?"
One of the cultivators said impatiently, "Are you stupid? How could it be scared away by something that's right next to its mouth? Even if it did run away, it would eat the Purple Cloud Ginseng first."
Another cultivator chimed in, "That's right, that's right. The Purple Cloud Ginseng, which is less than a hundred years old, is still better than many third-grade spiritual herbs, even though its spiritual essence is a bit lacking. The Wind Wing Tiger is hiding in its cave and won't come out. It probably doesn't want us to destroy the Purple Cloud Ginseng."
Behind the crowd, a sarcastic voice rang out: "That's not necessarily true. If I can't snatch it, I'll destroy it! Nobody else will get it."
The crowd ignored him, focusing instead on the Purple Cloud Ginseng a hundred feet away, plotting how to snatch it.
Qu Xin also squeezed behind the crowd.
However, she didn't look at Danshen, but instead searched through the crowd.
Just now, she lit the Soul-Chasing Incense again. The smoke from the incense drifted upwards, indicating that Zhong Lingxin was among the group of people in front of her.
She couldn't help but regret it and wanted to berate herself.
Having already established her foundation, she is able to remember the aura of others.
How could she forget that she remembered Zhong Lingxin's scent the moment she saw her?
It's all Zhong Lingxin's fault for making a contract with a nine-tailed fox, which made her so angry that she forgot to remember her scent.
Several hundred people gathered here, and several had already reached the foundation stage.
She dared not use her divine sense to probe recklessly, for fear of angering some restless cultivator or demon beast.
Looking at the cultivators of varying heights in front of her, she really couldn't tell which one was Zhong Lingxin from their backs.
Meanwhile, Zhong Lingxin was sweating profusely underground, completely unaware of what was happening above her.
Even if she knew, she couldn't care less at the moment.
As a native, Xiao Huanhuan naturally knew that the Purple Cloud Ginseng grew above her head, and she had also witnessed the ferocity of the cultivators who entered the secret realm in previous years when they fought for resources.
She was unwilling for her newly made soulmate to take that risk.
It's just one Purple Cloud Salvia miltiorrhiza plant; the spiritual stone ore they dug underground is enough to buy dozens of plants.
She kept urging Zhong Lingxin to hurry up.
Those high-grade spirit stones outside are not important.
All the spirit crystals in the middle must be removed; not a single one can be left.
Zhong Lingxin nodded frantically.
Xiao Huanhuan is right; all the spirit crystals must be taken.
Perhaps the spirit ore was buried too deep underground.
Not a single sound of battle overhead could be heard.
The sounds of them mining underground were completely blocked by the defensive array, and not a single vibration reached the mountaintop.
As the fifth leaf of the Purple Cloud Ginseng fully unfolded like a small purple cloud, all sorts of spiritual magic weapons simultaneously lashed out at it.
Among them, Wind Wing Tiger had the advantage of higher cultivation and closer distance, so the defensive formation arrived first and covered Purple Cloud Ginseng.
Immediately afterwards, it plunged into the defensive array, dug up the Purple Cloud Ginseng and threw it into its mouth, then tore up a teleportation talisman and ran away.
It left an empty defensive array, giving the cultivators and demonic beasts time to attack.
Those cultivators who were unaware that the Purple Cloud Ginseng was no longer available assumed that the explosion of the talisman had been too intense, the air too distorted, and the defensive array too effective in blocking out the fragrance of the Purple Cloud Ginseng.
They all attacked the central defensive formation without prior agreement.
As various magical artifacts exploded, the defensive formation quickly shattered.
However, what appeared before them was a small pit.
The purple ginseng that originally grew in the pit is no longer there.
What about Ziyun Danshen?
Who dug up the purple cloud ginseng?
A cultivator screamed, "Windwing Tiger! It's a Windwing Tiger!"