Volume 2: Savage Wilderness Chapter 32: Demon-Subduing Spirit Grass

  The desolate and barren lands are fraught with extreme danger, and every year countless cultivators lose their lives within them. Yet, large numbers of cultivators still swarm in, taking such risks for the rich and abundant cultivation resources that lie within.

  After years of exploration, the locations with the most concentrated heaven-sent materials and earthly treasures are no longer secrets, as long as you're willing to spend a few thousand spirit stones, you can buy a detailed map.

  Finding the location is not a difficult task. The hard part is how to obtain the valuable resources and return safely afterwards.

  Chu Yi and his seven companions rode the "Luo Lion" over the dense forest in front of them, and suddenly the scene before their eyes opened up, revealing a deep mountain valley stretching out for hundreds of miles.

  What meets the eye has a somewhat ethereal and otherworldly air, with an abundance of spiritual energy from heaven and earth that surpasses the mundane world by several degrees. Along the winding road down to the valley, one can see spiritual herbs and rare fruits everywhere, and thousand-year-old spiritual materials are so abundant as to be seen everywhere.

  "This place, 'Huoyun Valley', is one of the five major resource points. It got its name from a spring with a mysterious fire eye in the valley. The valley has countless natural treasures, but at the same time, it's also a place where demonic beasts like to gather..."

  "Moreover, everyone needs to be careful about the cultivators of other sects. If it's one of the nine major sects, that's one thing, but those small sects and individual cultivators are all ruthless characters. Here, killing people and robbing them, bullying the weak is always a very normal thing."

  Among the seven, only Lu Wanzhan, who had been to "Huoyun Valley" before, reminded him in advance. From his cautious tone, it's not hard to find that he has deep concerns about this place.

  "Huh, Tu Huang Jing..."

  "A thousand-year-old stone milk, great stuff, it filled up half a calabash."

  "The Jiuxu wood spirit leaves are everywhere on the road, and you can even pick up such rare spiritual materials. This Huoyun Valley is indeed a treasure land."

  "Ten-thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum, unexpectedly it's a pair of twin plants, they've sprouted, they've sprouted!"

  This journey has taken no more than half a time, and the seven-man team has already made gains. Even Xie Qianqian, who is used to seeing top-notch materials, couldn't help but pick a few stalks of spiritual material that have been tempered for over 3,000 years.

  Unlike others, Chu Yi was not interested in ordinary spiritual materials that had already become popular, but instead focused on rare spiritual materials that were only a few hundred years old.

  "Why do you always insist on doing things that are not worth the effort? These spiritual materials may be rare and precious, but their age and quality are far from sufficient. They're basically useless. Are you planning to take them back and cultivate them for a thousand years?" Xie Pianpian asked with a hint of concern, clearly unwilling to see Chu Yu lose out.

  "I have this one hobby, thank you for Miss Huanhuan's kind intentions."

  Chu Yidang smiled faintly, and on his own initiative, he pulled out a stem of unknown spiritual grass from the ground. "This spiritual grass is indeed one that I have never seen before?" He pondered the origin of the spiritual grass in his mind, but his train of thought was interrupted by Xie Pianpian's soft laughter.

  "You, you, it's a wonder you've come to this desolate place, yet you don't even recognize the famous 'Demon-Subduing Grass' that grows here." Xie Pianpian rarely had the chance to show off in front of Chu Yi, and she covered her mouth, giggling.

  "Devil-suppressing grass?! The main spiritual material for refining the Devil-subduing Talisman is this?!" Chu Yi exclaimed, seemingly deep in thought.

  "It's true that the reason why the Demon-Suppressing Talisman is so rare, to the point of being priceless, is because this 'Demon-Subduing Grass' is just too hard to find."

  "It's hard to find anywhere, they're all over the place..."

  Chu Yi's line of sight fell on a forest not far away, where there were at least over a hundred stems of silver-white "Demon-Subduing Grass" swaying in the wind.

  "Yao Cao advances in rank once every thousand years, divided into three stages. It is a rare spiritual material essential for refining the 'Demon-Sealing Talisman'. Only produced in the Wàn Lǐ Mán Huāng Domain, within a thousand years, Yao Cao's color appears silver-white and can be used to refine Demon-Sealing Talismans below level 3; exceeding one thousand years changes it to gold, allowing refinement of Demon-Sealing Talismans below level 6. If the fire time exceeds two thousand years, its color is like crimson red, a rare spiritual material that even ten million spirit stones cannot seek out. Using it to refine a Demon-Sealing Talisman can seal all demon beasts below rank 9."

  "Originally, two thousand years of fire tribulation was not considered long for spiritual materials, but because the 'Demon-Subduing Grass' would emit a strange fragrance that attracted demonic beasts after growing for a thousand years. The temptation of this fragrance to demonic beasts was so great that it was unmatched, from first-class to ninth-class demonic beasts, all regarded it as a delicacy and risked their lives to devour it. As a result, in the vast wilderness where demonic beasts roamed, wild Demon-Subduing Grass with over a thousand years of fire tribulation was almost extinct."

  "Moreover, once the Demon-Suppressing Grass is moved out of its natural environment, it immediately withers and dies, leaving no living species behind. This is why Demon-Suppressing Grass that has been tempered for over a thousand years has become an extremely rare spiritual material, and even among materials that can be used to refine Dao pellets, most are not comparable to it."

  Xie Pianpian obviously had a deep understanding of the various things related to "降妖草", and she told Chu Yitao about it in detail, with an appearance of a small woman who wanted to show off her skills, which was really cute.

  After listening to Xie Yunyun's detailed explanation, Chu Yi couldn't help but suppress the excitement in his heart. It was truly a case of "treading on iron shoes without finding a place", and yet he had obtained it effortlessly. His trip to this barbaric outer domain was precisely for the purpose of searching for rare spiritual materials, so that he could use the source water mother in the Hongmeng space to nourish and cultivate these spiritual materials.

  "That's it! What withers and dies outside the wilderness, that's for others to say, other places will wither and die. Can't the mother of all things nourished in the Hongmeng space even keep it alive?"

  At this moment, Ren Chuyi searched his mind and still couldn't find any spiritual materials that were of the same two thousand year old fire attribute and more valuable than "Demon-Subduing Grass".

  "Thanks a lot."

  Chu Yi was excited, and with a big hug, she spun Xie Pianpian around 360 degrees. This bold and sudden move made the latter extremely surprised and delighted, her little girl's posture was fully displayed, and two blushes flashed across her delicate face.

  "Hold me tight."

  Not like an ordinary girl's pretentious attitude, Xie Pianpian knew that this seemed a bit inappropriate, but she still followed her nature and indulged herself, with a pair of white jade-like arms hooked around Chu Yit's neck, fully enjoying the special feeling of this moment.

  This scene made Lu Wanjian and others stare in shock, the cultivators were not surprised, as dual cultivation between dao companions was a common occurrence. However, Xie Huohuo's identity was extraordinary, and Chu Yi's "crazy" behavior was clearly beyond their understanding.

  In a sense, their mindset is still far from being on the same wavelength as Chu Yat, this socialist youth with four haves from Earth.

  Fortunately, whether it was Chu Yi or Xie Qianqian, they were both the type of people who did their own thing, and the gaze of the crowd had no impact on the sparks that flew between them in that instant.

  After a long time, Chu Yi gently put down the girl in his arms. The latter still refused to let go of her arm around Chu Yi's neck, revealing a charming and cute expression. She pouted slightly and said: "You're really bad, except for Dad, you're the first man to hold me like this since I was little."

  Chu Yi shrugged and slightly raised his shoulders, gently stroking the girl's nose tip, a hint of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he counter-questioned without answering: "Men are not bad, women don't love, isn't that right?"

  "Men are not bad... Women just don't love..."

  Chewing on Chu Yi's words, which were unknown to have come from the mouth of a romantic mastermind on this earth, Xie Pianpian nodded thoughtfully and met Chu Yi's gaze with a pair of enchanting eyes, saying in a voice that only the two could hear: "This lady has decided to rely on you, this big bad egg."

  For Xie Qianqian's enthusiastic display of affection, Chu Yi accepted it calmly. To be honest, this little girl was indeed very annoying, but after spending some time together, Chu Yi really did develop a lot of loving feelings for her.

  Cultivating the truth is not like being a monk, finding a wife is not that easy!

  Chu Yiru comforted herself and straightforwardly pulled over Xie Pianpian's delicate small hand, her eyebrows slightly raised as she said: "Pianpian, remember this, with me around, no one can bully you."

  Although he clearly knew that Chu Yi was only a beginner in the initial stage of cultivation, when he heard this promise, Xie Pianpian's heart was stirred up for no reason, as if a small deer was running wildly, and his eyes were about to shine with little stars.

  "Dada... dada..."

  A sudden, urgent rushing sound interrupted the warm moment between Chu Yi and Xie Huanhuan. A giant wolf-like monster was rapidly sprinting towards them from a distance.

  "It's a sixth-grade demonic beast, the Cyan Wolf!" Lu Wanjian was the first to react, his giant sword at the ready, already charging forward.

  At the speed of Lu Wan Jian, a distance of 100 meters was just a matter of an instant. Who would have thought that he had only flown halfway when he saw a flash of silver light flying out from behind, drawing a beautiful arc and beheading the massive head of the dark green wolf.