Chapter 543: Chapter 543
With the successor of the Goddess of Nature instantly chosen upon their arrival, everyone was caught in surprise. There are lots of those in the group who wanted to complain of unfairness, but chose to keep quiet due to the fact that the one chosen had direct connection not only to the Starfield Sect which is the strongest sect in the Cultivation Realm, but also to the Moon Goddess.
The Moon Goddess is kind but she is overprotective. They had witnessed her clashing directly with the owner of the Hall of Water, after her aide, Tan Bingyu, was suppressed by the Water God. The Hall of Water was almost destroyed with the two divinities clashing inside.
If they complained about her grandmother being chosen as a successor of the goddess of nature, forget about the Moon Goddess. That Ill tempered Immortal Sun Emperor, Shen Jueyang would have burned them to ashes. This god only listens to the Moon Goddess and is also over protective of her. It is better to offend the person himself than the Moon Goddess. That’s why no one had opened their mouths to complain about such sudden successorship.
Thankfully, the trials in this Hall of Nature weren’t stopped just because the successor was chosen. They were even given a privilege for unlimited treasure hunting that lasted for three days. As long as they found anything good within this hall, that treasure will be theirs.
Moreover, even uncommon herbs can be exchanged with points and these points can be exchanged with treasures only the Hall of Nature possesses. Now most cultivators went roaming in the hall of nature which is a place of only forest to hunt for immortal herbs and such. This time, the Huashen Realm seniors are also allowed to join the fun. As for the reason why, of course heavenly treasure will always have a spirit beast guardian protecting it. So they can never avoid fighting.
Moreover, there aren’t any rules about stealing or killing, it can be said that the trial in this hall of nature is free from reins as long as they don’t destroy the forest, they will be safe from punishment from that Stone Golem, Growler.
Meanwhile, from the perspective of the couple, Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue, who were heading to the north.
They are now picking all the immortal herbs they say on the way. There are beasts who block their path and are frozen alive by them. Now Tan Bingyu was holding a small shovel in her hands and beside her Xue Renxue was holding a basket quarter full with herbs.
Xue Renxue asked, "Bing’er, are we not heading north, right away?" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel·fiɾe·net
"There are three days for us to roam around. We can take our time," Tan Bingyu said.
Xue Renxue said, "What if something stole our target? Everyone heard about the location when the Mistress told us about it."
"No need to worry. Phoenix Ice Herb is something only those who have the bloodline of the Ice Phoenix can pick. Among the group, only the two of us had such bloodline. The others will just turn into a human popsicle if they tried to pick it up," said Tan Bingyu, who was busying herself with herb picking.
Xue Renxue relaxed when he heard about that and said, "Well, if you say so. I heard that an Early Huashen Realm Snow Leopard was the one guarding it. Do you think we can tame that one instead of killing it?"
"Spirit Beasts, especially intelligent ones, are proud of nature. We aren’t even at Huashen Realm yet. Do you think it would accept us as master?" Tan Bingyu said.
Xue Renxue sighed and felt that it was a waste to kill such a good looking beast spirit.
"Did the Mistress not teach you beast taming? She seems to have a lot of beast contracted with her," He asked.
Tan Bingyu halted her actions and thought for a moment. It is not that the Moon Goddess didn’t teach her anything. She had all types of things to learn from. After all, Yue Xuexia didn’t hide anything from her. When the Moon Goddess is refining a pill, she would sometimes help passing the herb she needs. When refining artifacts, she was even taught how to control fire and basic blacksmithing.
Of course, she had also watched how her mistress had tamed some spirit beast for the Xia Clan and the process is simple yet almost unbelievable.
Tan Bingyu said, "I know how to tame a beast. But I’ve never tried it before."
"Really? How to do it?" Xue Renxue asked, looking very interested about this topic.
Tan Bingyu felt a bit uncomfortable about whether to tell this fool about it or not. However, in the end, she still told him how to do it.
She said, "The Mistress said there are only two ways to tame a beast. One is to feed it full and fool it to signing a contract with her, or you beast it up until it surrrend."
"EH?" Xue Renxue looked dumbfounded with what he had just heard.
Tan Bingyu ignored her dao companion’s reaction and said, "I’ve told you how to do it? Do you still want to try taming the Snow Leopard?"
"Hm~, it’s not a bad idea to try. But... What do snow leopards love to eat?" Xue Renxue asked.
Tan Bingyu also thought for a moment and said, "Maybe... Anything ice related to herbs or fruits? Or meat since it’s a carnivor. Are you planning to cook?"
"I learned a bit when the Mistress made some spirit food in the last hall. Though I haven’t tried doing it, maybe I can try," Xue Renxue said.
Tan Bingyu said, "Alright. I will accompany you. What do you want to try cooking?"
"How about barbeque with spirit beast meat?" Xue Renxue suggested.
Tan Bingyu stopped digging herbs and hid her small shovel and pats her robes. She stood up preparing to leave. Even though it cannot be compared to her Mistress’s cooking, Xue Renxue’s cooking can be considered good. At least when he was still in his female vessel as Meiren, he is capable of cooking and it can be considered delicious to her.
She said, "Alright. Let’s hunt for ingredients then!"
As the couple decided to hunt to do some cooking, the situation for others is not so optimistic. There are some who don’t think much and head to places with rich qi. They believed that these places would be full of immortal herbs of all kinds. They had indeed found a flower garden-like place and its field of flower type immortal herbs at least rare-grade and there were hundreds of them.
Blinded by greed, they’ve just entered the flower garden and started picking t flowers. They would have been alright if they had picked a few and left. However, they wanted to clean up the place and take everything. This is a team of five people, two female and three male cultivators. Among them only one is a pill refiner and knows the hidden rules of nature. By taking only half and not everything will the forest not punish you for it. That’s why he only took what he needed and prepared to leave.
"Yosh! This much is enough." The pill refiner said as he walked out of the garden and arranged the herbs he had taken, securing every single stalk into a preserving box to keep its effect at its peak state.
He actually thought that his group members were following after him, after all, he had already explained the rules more than a few times and warned them not to get greedy. But when he turned around he saw his friends still picking herbs without any intention of stopping.
"Hey! Everyone, I told you to only take half and not everything!"
"B-But each strand is at least 10,000 pts. It can be exchanged for treasures."
"It’s not like no one is watching us. Even if we leave some, the others will take away anyway!"
"Don’t be so rigid. A lot of points is better than less~"
The pill refiner frowned at these words and was about to scold them when suddenly the land under their feet shook badly which terrified them.
"W-What the hell is happening?!"
The pill refiner had a bad feeling and looking under the feet of his friends, he saw that the herbs that they were holding on just now had suddenly turned alive and wrapped around them. He wanted to save them but a tree root grabbed his ankle and he tripped badly.
"I don’t want to die!"
When he raised his head, he saw the land under the flower garden move and abruptly closed like a monster’s mouth. But he can see its shape, it was a young island man-eating flower. It seems to have awakened due to his friends picking too many herbs at the same time. Clearly, the flower garden is a bait for this man-eating flower. However, it wouldn’t have woken up if you only picked a few. Their greed is what killed them.