studiobondurri Chapter 96: Revisiting the Island in the Mist
Chapter 96: Revisiting the Island in the Mist
Chapter 96: Revisiting the Island in the Mist
The middle-aged steward took the waist token handed over by Yuan Ming with a complicated expression, then turned around and entered the room again. He soon brought out a rough, gray-brown animal skin-covered booklet.
After Yuan Ming took it, he immediately found a place to read it.
This time, he read it even faster, but because of the rich content, it took him more than an hour to finish reading it all.
In this booklet of the Second Cave Master’s medicinal collection, he found the descriptions of the Black Scale Fruit and Yin Marrow Liquid as he wished. The former is a black fruit that grows on some shady cliffs in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
The latter is the spinal fluid that needs to be extracted from specific poisonous insects, which are special spiritual materials used for refining pills.Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com
The medicinal materials recorded in this booklet are even rarer and more valuable than the "Hundred Herbs Collection," greatly enriching Yuan Ming’s knowledge in this area.
After he finished reading the booklet, he left the Storage Pavilion amidst the puzzled eyes and sighs of the middle-aged steward.
Coincidentally, on his way back to the Fire Refining Hall, Yuan Ming saw a familiar figure from afar, it was Wu Lu.
The latter also noticed him and instead of avoiding him, he actively walked towards him.
"Brother Yuan, long time no see." Wu Lu greeted him with a fist and a smile on his face.
"Wu Lu, why are you here?" Yuan Ming looked around and didn’t see Kun Tu.
"Oh, I just came back from a mission and was about to return to the Beast Taming Hall. Shall we go together?" Wu Lu smiled and said.
Yuan Ming nodded, and the two walked side by side towards the direction of the Fire Refining Hall and the Beast Taming Hall.
"Speaking of which, I envy you, Brother Yuan. You are really lucky to be appreciated by the Third Cave Master." Wu Lu took the initiative to speak.
"Compared to me, you are even more curious. How did you suddenly enter the Bi Luo Cave?" Yuan Ming smiled, didn’t answer, and instead changed the topic to the other person.
When he saw the other person last time, he was still following Kun Tu, and there were some topics that he couldn’t and didn’t want to talk about.
Wu Lu didn’t hide it and said frankly, "Kun Tu appreciates me. After he became an inner disciple, he used his power to make me his servant and follow him as a lackey."
Hearing the term "lackey," Yuan Ming couldn’t help but laugh.
"Just now you mentioned that you came back from a mission, but... servants shouldn’t be able to take on tasks from the Execution Hall, right?" Yuan Ming asked in confusion.
Upon hearing this question, Wu Lu clearly hesitated for a moment.
He looked around and found that there was no one around, so he leaned close to Yuan Ming.
Yuan Ming found his sudden action strange, but he didn’t dodge and instead leaned his ear closer.
"This is not a task from the Execution Hall, it’s a task from the Beast Slave Hall." Wu Lu’s voice lowered as he said.
A task from the Beast Slave Hall?
Yuan Ming was puzzled at first, but soon realized.
"You mean the task of capturing wild humans?" Yuan Ming asked.
"Do you know?" Wu Lu looked surprised.
"Hehe, Wu Lu, have you forgotten? How did we become Beast Slave Handlers?" Yuan Ming laughed.
Wu Lu slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, "I almost forgot. We were captured together with the wild humans, and it seems that only the two of us are still alive."
Hearing this, Yuan Ming vaguely felt something was off, but couldn’t remember for a moment.
Yuan Ming’s aura suddenly soared, his clothes fluttered without wind, and the nearby air also vibrated. It took a while for everything to return to calm.
He opened his eyes, a smile on his lips.
The nearly hundred-year-old Red Heart Spirit Peach indeed had a strong medicinal power. Even without refining it into an elixir, the abundant spiritual energy it contained surprised him greatly, allowing him to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refining as he wished.
With this, his confidence and self-protection ability for taming spiritual beasts increased a bit more.
The next day, Yuan Ming greeted Fang Ge, then applied for a leave token and left the Bi Luo Cave.
If disciples of Bi Luo Cave wanted to tame spiritual beasts on their own, they would go deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where there were many fierce beasts, and they could find suitable targets.
However, the Hundred Thousand Mountains were vast, and finding a suitable spiritual beast was a matter of luck. Many people searched for several months and still couldn’t find the beast they desired. It was not only time-consuming and laborious but also involved great risks.
For this reason, most disciples bought their spiritual beasts from the Beast Taming Hall, and very few chose to find them on their own.
However, Yuan Ming was not worried about this. When he first learned beast taming from the Third Cave Master, he had already decided where to find his target: the Misty Island.
The island was full of strange and fierce beasts. Catching any one of them would make a good spiritual beast.
The only trouble was the black water monster around the island. But now he was different from before, and he had prepared some countermeasures.
Yuan Ming left the sect and quickly arrived at the shore of Thousand Reed Lake.
Instead of tying another raft, he waved his hand towards the lake, and a small boat appeared and landed on the water.
This was a boat Yuan Ming had asked a brother in the sect who was good at craftsmanship to make. Its speed on the water was much faster than the previous raft.
He jumped onto the boat, rowed the oars, and headed towards the Misty Island.
An hour later, Yuan Ming arrived at a place where the fog was particularly thick.
Relying on his memory and several times of flying up to search with the help of the incense burner, he finally found the Misty Island again.
Yuan Ming was lucky this time, he didn’t encounter the black water monster. But to be safe, he put away the boat from a distance and used the incense burner to fly directly onto the island, landing in a purple forest.
"It’s not the Black Pine Forest..." He was quite disappointed.
The Red Heart Spirit Peach had a significant effect. He originally thought he could land from the side of the Black Pine Forest and pick all the Red Heart Spirit Peaches, but it seemed impossible now.
He would look for that fruit tree after he finished his business.
Yuan Ming looked around at the environment and the nearby purple trees. The leaves of these trees were palm-shaped, similar to maple leaves, and emitted a faint fragrance.
He had crammed a lot of knowledge about the Hundred Thousand Mountains in this period, including the trees and vegetation. However, he had never seen these purple maple trees in the books, nor the black pines he had seen before.
Looking at the other plants, they were all unfamiliar to him.
"This island is quite strange. The vegetation seems to be completely detached from the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Is it because it’s surrounded by water?" He muttered to himself.
Yuan Ming didn’t immediately go into the island. Instead, he found a safe place in the maple forest to fully recover his mana before heading into the island.
There seemed to be no fierce beasts in this purple maple forest. He walked out of the forest without encountering any danger.
He continued to move forward. The fog in front became sparse, and a vast swamp appeared in front of him. With his eyesight, he could see about ten or so feet away.
The swamp was full of green-black mud. Looking around, there were lush water plants everywhere, with a few trees standing here and there. The air was filled with the smell of decay.
(End of the chapter)