Chapter 161: The Many Herbs in Medusa's Lair
[With the Soul Bone distributed, this Spirit Hunting operation can be considered over.]
[Dugu Bo gained plenty. Although Yu Xiaogang and the others only tagged along, making a man who was virtually guaranteed to become a Titled Douluo in the future completely devoted to their Sect was also quite a good result.]
[However, the group was not prepared to leave immediately.]
[First were Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen; they planned to enter that Medusa's lair to take a look.]
[Having experienced the previous treasure hunt, Yu Xiaogang and the others now knew exactly how many Treasure Troves were hidden within the Soul Beast forest.]
[Now that a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast had died at their hands, they felt they would miss out on something if they didn't visit its lair.]
["Elder Dugu, I'll have to trouble you with these poisonous mists."]
[Yu Yuanzhen glanced at Dugu Bo.]
["Leave it to me. After absorbing the Medusa's Soul Ring, these poisonous mists it created seem like ordinary air to me."]
[Dugu Bo said with a face full of confidence.]
[Thus, the next scene was everyone watching Dugu Bo exercise his abilities to carve a path through the poisonous mist for them.]
[The poisonous mist receded, revealing the entrance to a valley.]
[Even before entering the valley, Yu Xiaogang keenly detected a faint scent of medicinal herbs.]
[Years of taking medicinal baths and conducting simple research—aiming to find herbs with Heaven-Defying effects like Whale Glue, but whose true functions hadn't been discovered yet—]
[Combined with the insights into medicinal herbs and flowers that the Soul Douluo Yue Guan had shared with him after they met, Yu Xiaogang was no longer a layman in the Dao of medicinal herbs.]
[So, as soon as he smelled this medicinal fragrance, Yu Xiaogang's eyes lit up.]
[From the scent alone, he could tell that this was definitely a place where medicinal herbs grew in abundance.]
["Father, let's go in and look quickly. I think we're about to have another harvest!"]
[Yu Xiaogang could no longer suppress his curiosity.]
[To be able to smell such a clear medicinal scent from just the outside, he couldn't even imagine what it would be like inside.]
[Yu Yuanzhen raised an eyebrow and glanced at the somewhat excited Yu Xiaogang.]
[He knew almost nothing about medicinal herbs; usually, professional members of the Family would prepare them for his use.]
[So, at this moment, he didn't know why his son was so excited.]
[But thinking that it could make his usually steady son so excited, Yu Yuanzhen began to look forward to what was inside the poisonous mist.]
[After traveling some distance along the path Dugu Bo had opened, the group began to head downhill; clearly, this was a basin.]
[Just as they entered the basin, the sharp-eyed Yu Xiaogang spotted a cluster of medicinal herbs by the roadside.]
["Is that... a several-hundred-year-old Ginseng?"]
["That Lingzhi mushroom, is it also several hundred years old?"]
["Heavens, Snow Lotuses! So many Snow Lotuses!!"]
["..."]
[Upon entering the valley basin, Yu Xiaogang was completely dumbfounded.]
[He kept rubbing his eyes and pinching his arm to confirm if everything he saw was real.]
[Yu Xiaogang's shouting didn't seem strange to Yu Yuanzhen and the others.]
[Because at this moment, Yu Yuanzhen, the Grand Elder, and Dugu Bo were all acting the same way.]
[Yu Yuanzhen himself didn't understand medicinal materials, but he still knew of things like Ginseng and Lingzhi.]
[They were regulars at the Auction, after all.]
[Precisely because he often saw these things at Auctions, Yu Yuanzhen could better understand how incredible the place they were currently in was.]
[Several-hundred-year-old Ginseng and Lingzhi, which would be considered treasures at an Auction, grew here like common weeds.]
[A Snow Lotus that would have a crowd fighting over it if a single one appeared at an Auction was now covering the ground.]
[There were countless other medicinal herbs of similar types.]
[A scene like this made it impossible for even someone like Yu Yuanzhen, a Titled Douluo, to remain calm.]
[The reactions of the Grand Elder and the others were even more intense.]
[The Grand Elder was like the head butler in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect; almost all of the Sect's finances passed through his hands.]
[Therefore, he was very clear about the value of these medicinal materials.]
[Lin Lang was a Soul Master of commoner origin, so he also knew very well how valuable these medicinal materials were.]
[Not to mention Dugu Bo; how could someone who worked with poison not have some understanding of medicinal materials?]
[So when the three of them saw the scene before them, they were even more excited and thrilled than Yu Xiaogang.]
[Because they had only just entered this valley basin, and already these medicinal materials were like weeds; so what lay deeper inside?]
[They didn't dare to imagine it, nor could they.]
[The group then exchanged glances.]
["Elder Dugu, close off the entrance. No one can take these medicinal materials while they're here; let's head inside to take a look first."]
[The Grand Elder glanced at Dugu Bo.]
["Right, right, right. We must close the back; we can't let anything else in."]
[Reminded by the Grand Elder, Dugu Bo finally snapped out of it and immediately resealed the path they had just walked with poisonous mist.]
[Then, the group continued to walk forward.]
[The further they went, the more dazzled they became.]
[They had thought the scene they saw earlier was shocking enough.]
[But it wasn't until they reached the depths of the valley that they realized that was just the beginning.]
["Is that... a thousand-year-old Ginseng? Heavens, to see a thousand-year-old Ginseng that hasn't yet become a Plant-type Spirit Beast—how much medicinal power must it have accumulated?"]
["Holy crap, that Cordyceps is as thick as my forearm!"]
["Polar Snow Lotus! That's a Polar Snow Lotus! I never expected to see such a treasure again in my lifetime, and so many of them at once?!"]
["What kind of blessed land is this? Why are there so many high-aged medicinal materials?"]
[As they walked along, the exclamations never stopped; every few steps, everyone would pause and cry out in surprise for a long time.]
[In the end, a distance of just over ten meters took them a full two hours to traverse.]
[And the further they went, the more numerous the precious medicinal herbs became.]
[Finally, a massive curtain of Dendrobium stood before them, leaving everyone speechless.]
[Dendrobium, a medicinal herb that is already precious when it's only the size of a palm, was hanging before them like a curtain.]
[This was a scene they wouldn't even know how to begin imagining.]
[Yet at this moment, it was all truly appearing before their eyes.]
[It wasn't surprising they couldn't speak for a long time; who could say anything when faced with such a scene?]
[A rich medicinal fragrance wafted from that Dendrobium curtain—hahaha, Dendrobium actually forming a curtain?]
[If he were hearing someone else tell this story, Yu Xiaogang would only want to laugh.]
[Though he felt like laughing right now, too.]
[However, the Dendrobium curtain was not the end of this journey.]
[Yu Xiaogang had a premonition that behind the curtain, there were definitely precious medicinal herbs that would be beyond his wildest imagination.]
[At that thought, Yu Xiaogang took a breath and slipped through the Dendrobium curtain.]
[After passing through the curtain, red and blue colors caught his eye, with numerous flowers and plants scattered all around.]
[Yu Xiaogang took a casual glance, but that single look made it impossible for him to tear his eyes away.]
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