TFHS: Chapter 74

It turned out that there were powerful restrictions guarding the outside of the valley. Every time the secret realm was opened, the restrictions here would be loosened after a while.

At that time, everyone just needed to attack the restriction so they could open it and enter the spiritual plant garden in the valley.

This was the experience and lesson taught by cultivators from various forces who had opened the secret realm and came here in the past.

It was extremely difficult to break through the restriction during the non-relaxed period. Some people speculated that this restriction was connected to the entire secret realm, so it was almost impossible to open it.

Therefore, cultivators who came in wouldn’t forcibly attack the restriction during the non-relaxed period.

Not only could it not be broken, but it would also be blocked and rebounded. This would cause damage, and it wasn’t worth the loss.

Once someone shouted, others took out their spiritual weapon or talisman and smashed it towards the restriction.

Not only after, there was a crash as the restriction broke into pieces and merged with the surrounding energy. All the cultivators outside rushed into the valley.

At this time, everyone no longer cared about the gossip about Feng Linlang and Wu Yingyan. They prepared to use every means to collect more higher-grade spiritual plants and bring them back.

They couldn’t use such high grade spiritual plants, but they could get a lot of rewards if they brought them back to the respective forces.

It was very cost-effective to use these rewards in exchange for the training resources they each needed.

Even if they didn’t exchange it, they could get a large amount of yuan crystals by selling it outside.

Gong Yuming also rushed in and urged Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo. “Hurry up and follow. Don’t let others snatch the good spiritual plants. If you go in early, you can get a good position early.”

After hearing that his words were so mysterious, Feng Ming became even more curious about the situation in the valley. He followed Gong Yuming with Bai Qiaomo.

The distance was quite short. Within a few breaths, they entered the valley and saw a large garden of spiritual plants. However, Feng Ming could see the problem at a glance.

A large area was covered in fog, and it was impossible to see what was growing inside.

Some places were revealed. Feng Ming could identify several types of spiritual plants at a glance, all of which were third-grade.

But no one touched these third-grade spiritual herbs at all. Everyone chose places covered in fog and started to attack with spiritual weapons and spiritual talismans. The valley suddenly roared and exploded.

Gong Yuming didn’t care about Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo any longer. He said, “This is purely a matter of luck. Find a place and find a way to break the restriction. Then you can get the spiritual plant inside. By the way, the restriction outside the valley will be restored in two hours. You have to leave within two hours, or it is unknown what the consequences will be.”

“Thank you. Go ahead and do your thing.”

Feng Jinghuai also specially reminded them. “Be sure to go out of the valley before the time arrives.”

“Okay, we got it.”

Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo weren’t in a hurry to pick a place. They first observed the actions of others.

Feng Ming was most interested in the two people with medicinal minks. The one in purple clothes was Liang Han, and there was a female cultivator in blue clothes. She was Han Shu, and she was feeding her medicinal mink a pill. Then she put the medicinal mink on the ground and asked it to help her find the best quality spiritual grass.

The medicinal mink squeaked twice before running deep into the spiritual plant garden.

Feng Ming could see that the upper part of this valley was filled with the strong smell of pills. It was the mixture of medicinal fragrances emitted by various spiritual plants. It was very difficult to distinguish the plants among them.

He asked curiously, “Can this medicinal mink really smell the spiritual plant through the restriction?”

Bai Qiaomo shook his head. “I don’t know, but I have heard of a rule. It is that the deeper you go, the higher the grade of the spiritual plant will be. Of course, it is also very likely that you will encounter a common second-grade spiritual plant. It is purely a matter of luck.”

Feng Ming became more and more interested in the spiritual plant garden of the valley and who created such a valley.

He scanned around the place where he could see the spiritual plants. Then he pointed to a few third-grade spiritual plants. “Brother Wu, can you get these spiritual plants?”

“I’ll try.”

They didn’t have any tasks, so they were the most relaxed. There was no burden on them if they couldn’t get any high-grade spiritual plants.

It might be useful for Father Feng if they got it, but it would be troublesome to find an alchemist who could refine it into a pill.

Therefore, both of them felt it would be better to get the spiritual plants they could get their hands on first.

Gong Yuming and Feng Jinghuai, who had already picked a place, both turned around to see where Feng Ming’s group was. They saw that not far from the entrance, Bai Qiaomo was trying to dismantle the restriction in an unhurried manner.

Gong Yuming opened his mouth to give a reminder, but closed it and didn’t make a sound.

Both these people were shrewd. They knew their own needs and didn’t need to be reminded by others.

In addition, if they really got a high-grade spiritual plant, their background would attract people’s attention, and the chance of keeping it might be very small.

This meant it was better to look for spiritual plants that were useful to them first. Gong Yuming thought for a while. Perhaps this was the smartest thing for them.

He shook his head at Feng Jinghuai, who also started focusing on attacking the restriction in front of him.

Bai Qiaomo didn’t choose to violently dismantle the restriction. Instead, he studied the structure of the restriction and wanted to dismantle it based on his research.

Few people would choose this approach unless they were extremely confident in their formation restriction level.

Therefore, everyone else used violent attacks that caused quite a stir in the valley.

Bai Qiaomo wasn’t in a hurry and Feng Ming wasn’t in a hurry either. Bai Qiaomo was studying the restriction while he was studying the spiritual plants and learning the content of the alchemy inheritance.

For example, the effect of the spiritual plant in front of him, which spiritual plants could be combined with it, what type of pill could be refined and the pharmacology properties of it.

He thought that pill prescriptions were developed by predecessors based on pharmacology. After thoroughly understanding pharmacology, he might be able to develop new pill prescriptions.

Even though he was standing there idle, he actually wasn’t wasting time at all.

A quarter of an hour later, someone cheered. They must’ve obtained a good quality spiritual plant.

Someone else screamed. Apparently, they opened the restriction, but the spiritual plant harvested inside was too different from their expectations. They were a bit unable to accept it.

Another quarter of an hour later, Bai Qiaomo’s expression relaxed. “I have a clue. I will be able to get the spiritual plant inside soon.”

“I’m not in a hurry.”

Bai Qiaomo took out a sword. Of course, it wasn’t his original sword to avoid being identified through the weapon.

The tip of the sword swallowed up his yuan energy and hit a certain point on the restriction. After several hits, the restriction in front of him could no longer bear it and collapsed. A richer medicinal fragrance filled Feng Ming’s nose.

“It is broken!”

Brother Bai’s formation level was really high. Feng Ming excitedly ran in, carefully dug up the third-grade spiritual plant inside, and put it in a special jade box. This would keep the medicinal properties of the spiritual plant from being lost.

“Next one,” Feng Ming directed Bai Qiaomo.

Bai Qiaomo wasn’t annoyed at all and launched an attack on the next spiritual plant that Feng Ming was interested in.

There wasn’t much difference in the restrictions covering different spiritual plants. This was why Bai Qiaomo was willing to spend time studying the restrictions.

As long as he researched and cleared one restriction, the rest of the restrictions wouldn’t be able to stop him.

It took Bai Qiaomo 30 minutes to open the first restriction.

It took him a minute to open the second restriction.

The third restriction was resolved in just half a minute.

For the fourth one, the time was shortened again.

If it wasn’t for the conflict between Feng Ming, Bai Qiaomo and the Kunyuan Sect disciples, and Bai Qiaomo repelling four Kunyuan Sect disciples with just one sword, not many people would be paying attention to them at this moment.

But after knowing this, the existence of these two people became more obvious and many people wanted to dig out their roots.

Therefore, despite the two of them staying close to the entrance and only being interested in the third-grade spiritual plants, people were watching to see how they broke the restriction.

At first, they had been watching Bai Qiaomo for almost 30 minutes. He was busy studying the restrictions but didn’t attack quickly. Many people felt they were being too careful.

Perhaps this person defeated four Kunyuan Sect disciples with one sword because these four were too incompetent, rather than Bai Qiaomo being powerful.

There was only two hours. No matter how stupid a person was, they had to know that they had to quickly find a way to break the restriction and try to collect as many spiritual plants as possible within two hours rather than spending time on useless research on the restriction.

What was the use even if he could come up with something? Was there still time to break the restriction?

Even the elders outside were aware of the difficulty of the restriction here. If they came in person, they might not be able to dismantle it in two hours.

Just as they stopped paying attention to these two people, an accident happened.

Someone was dumbfounded and asked the companion next to him, “How many restrictions has that guy broken?”

His companion gulped. “There are already four plants, and they will soon… No, the fifth restriction has been broken, and the spiritual plant is about to be obtained. This guy turns out to be a master of formations?”

The dumbfounded man looked envious. “It isn’t just that he is a master of formations. That person from Sihong Academy is also proficient in formations and is familiar with third-grade formations, but did he do any research? The strategy he adopted now is probably similar to ours, but he has more ways to break the restriction than us.”

“Where did these two guys come from? They can’t be the hidden cards of some family, right?”

Otherwise, it was logically impossible for them to remain unknown and have no reputation outside when they had such a clever method of breaking the restriction and such great strength. It was difficult not to think of this.

Gong Yuming and Feng Jinghuai also cursed in their hearts. They looked at each other, and both wondered the same question. Was Bai Qiaomo’s formation level so high? They had never heard of it before.

Gong Yuming thought about the information he had checked about Bai Qiaomo. It mentioned Bai Qiaomo’s formation level, but it was only second-grade.

Considering his age and the fact that he still had the energy to study formations while improving his strength, achieving second-grade was a pretty good achievement. However, it was incomparable to what he was doing now.

What was going on right now? It was simply amazing.

Gong Yuming gulped and wished that he could hug Bai Qiaomo’s thigh.

He acted as soon as he had the thought. Gong Yuming immediately put aside the restriction he was breaking, ran to Feng Ming quickly, and said shamelessly.

“Junior Brother Wen, your Brother Wu is so powerful. His formation level is so high. I have never seen it before in my life. Hehe, can Brother Wu please help me?”

D*mn, Gong Yuming was such a shameless person!

This was the thought of all the other cultivators who saw this scene. At the same time, they regretted why they didn’t previously talk to these two people and get close to them. This way, they could have a reason to approach those two people now.

One by one, they broke the restriction while listening carefully to hear Feng Ming’s reaction to these words.

If he agreed, could they also ask this cultivator surnamed Wu for a favor? They could pay for it.