Heaven Refining physique
Chapter 166: Serene Night Herb

Chapter 166: Serene Night Herb

There were two women and three men in the group. Since he had saved them, they wouldn’t mind paying some spirit stones in gratitude, right?

After reaching the Soul Sea realm, every minor advancement required a tremendous amount of spirit stones. He could refine a single spirit stone in five minutes now, but the amount needed to break through was far more than what he had required during the Core Formation realm, so the time it would take to break through would be far higher compared to the Core Formation realm, even with his enhanced refinement strength.

"10,000 spirit stones or similarly valued resources, whatever you like. That was the price of this help. You can pay me, or I will take it by myself."

The cultivators were stunned. Forget about them, even Yi Lin was stunned too, but Ming Yue nodded in approval. That’s how it should be.

The cultivators came out of their stunned state quickly, and one of them nodded.

"Of course, thank you for your help."

He could definitely sense Jiang Hao’s cultivation realm, it was at the early stage, but he didn’t want to judge Jiang Hao by cultivation standards right now.

He didn’t know who had attacked the cultivators among the three, but they definitely had the ability to kill those twelve in an instant, so killing only five of them wasn’t an issue for this group.

Nonetheless, it wasn’t hard to pay 10,000 spirit stones for their lives, so he accepted it quickly.

They had gathered enough resources to pay the equal amount, so they immediately handed over spirit herbs and some beast cores, which they had gathered by killing other cultivators’ contracted beasts.

Jiang Hao felt satisfied with the amount and nodded before flying away.

They continued their journey. They had already travelled at least half of the distance, and by now they were able to sense many cultivators who were moving towards the next safe zone.

Given how small their group was, it wouldn’t be surprising if they were attacked again, this time, perhaps openly.

But none of that had happened so far. It wasn’t luck or anything, most groups had definitely fought one or two battles over some resources, so they might just not want to get into another conflict.

It was more or less true. As they were moving slowly, whoever they met definitely had stopped recently for some reason, and in the inheritance site, it would definitely be a battle for resources or ambushing someone.

After some time, they came above a place where multiple groups were present.

There were disciples from both Mountain Sword Sect, Blazing Valley, Thousand Petal Order, and some other sects and clans from the Eastern Region, or maybe other regions too, he didn’t know about it.

But the group of the top three sects of the Eastern Region was the largest.

They all were standing around a small mound on which a single spirit herb was present.

"It’s a Serene Night Herb"

Yi Lin said in surprise as she saw the herb. Its flower bud was purplish black and still in the budding phase.

"Yes, it’s quite rare indeed"

Ming Yue nodded.

Jiang Hao didn’t know about it. Looks like he had to study all the spirit herbs of this world sometime later. But it was just a Soul Sea realm herb,was it really that good?

"Junior Brother, you don’t know about it, right?"

Ming Yue turned towards him.

Jiang Hao shook his head. It was true, but why did she ask specifically this time? She definitely knew that he didn’t know about these things much.

"Figures. How would you know that when you just care about fighting, not to mention, fighting alone..."

Ah, there she goes again. He sighed inwardly. She really wasn’t going to let this go easily.

"Anyways, it blooms every night, and whenever it does that, it gathers spirit qi from the nature around itself.

It also creates a serene domain around it. Cultivating inside can be very useful because not only is the spirit qi in the domain high in density, but due to the serenity, your mind always feels clarity, which helps in the cultivation process."

Jiang Hao nodded. Now he understood why it was considered quite rare. Its value definitely wasn’t lesser than a Nascent Soul realm herb. No wonder these people seemed quite hell-bent on obtaining it.

There was only one thing, though, why wasn’t anyone fighting for it? It was like they were all in a stalemate.

"Should I go and pick it?"

He asked. After all, none of those cultivators could stop him if he wanted to take away this spirit herb.

"As I said, Junior Brother, how can your mind, filled with only fighting, care for minor details?"

Jiang Hao was tongue-tied. Fine, he wouldn’t even speak now.

"Oh well, Junior Brother, look at them. Is anyone among them fighting?"

Jiang Hao looked at the groups again. He was already aware that they weren’t fighting for it, but since they were still standing there, they definitely wanted the herb.

This really was a strange occurrence, which he had previously thought about. But maybe all of them were worried that whoever moved first would become the common enemy of all other groups.

This was quite natural in conflicts between multiple groups.

"There is a simple reason for it, Junior Brother. The Serene Night Herb can only be plucked at night when it is bloomed. If you pluck it in the morning, it will wither and you won’t be able to replant it.

So everyone is waiting for that moment."

Jiang Hao finally understood the reason. No doubt, once it bloomed, they all would fight for it. Just as he was thinking about this, he heard a coarse voice from the ground.

"Hey, you three, it’s forbidden to fly above here. If you want to fight for it, then you can come down and stand around it like us."

It was said by the leader of Blazing Valley.

When he looked towards the ground again, he saw that everyone was looking at them. He could also see the Blazing Valley cultivator to whom he had given 100 spirit stones for information, but that disciple was standing behind now. Well, since he had been in the outer area of the city previously, it wasn’t surprising to see that.

There was even mockery in their gazes, as if seeing some fools who thought too highly of themselves.

He was a little amused by it. If given the chance, these people wouldn’t hesitate to act in a similar way. But oh well, now he really wanted to see what they would do if they stayed here instead of going to the ground.

"Should we go down? Or leave?"

Yi Lin asked. She was now totally at ease with Ming Yue, so she always asked for her opinion.

Although she would follow Ming Yue’s decision, this time she definitely seemed interested in the spirit herb.

"You want it?"

Ming Yue asked. She could definitely feel from Yi Lin’s tone that she seemed interested in the spirit herb.

"I would be lying if I said no. Remember, Sister Ming, how I told you that I don’t get along with my sect mates? Because of this, I’m not able to do any sect missions worth more contribution points.

Not to mention, I have to look after Hunlang’s resources too, so getting something like this is really beneficial for me. It will be helpful for me to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, and once I’m done, then Hunlang can eat it to reach the peak stage of grade 4.

So yeah, it does hold quite the attraction for me, but given how there are so many cultivators vying for it, I doubt that I will be successful, so I’m not going to try for it.

But aren’t you interested in it, Sister Ming?"

She was really puzzled by it. Ming Yue wouldn’t have asked her opinion if she herself was interested in it.

But the way she asked her, it implied that she really didn’t care about it.

Ming Yue was just about to reply, but they heard the voice of the previous cultivator again.

"Looks like you three think we are a joke, huh? Good, good. Listen everyone, I doubt any of you would be happy with these flies flying above us, right? So how about we send one cultivator from each group to pull them down here to show them that the world doesn’t work the way they want?"

"Sounds good to me."

"Yeah."

"Definitely, these idiots really don’t have the mind to understand the severity of their actions."

.....

Ming Yue just listened for a few breaths, then replied to Yi Lin’s previous question. Although Yi Lin looked a little nervous facing all these cultivators who were thinking of targeting them, There were about three hundred of them, after all.

"Nope. We both don’t need that spirit herb. It would be just a waste for us to use it.

Also, I haven’t given you any gift, let this spirit herb be the gift I give you for our friendship. And why be scared of these cowards who can only raise their voices when they are in a group like this?"

Ming Yue’s voice was enhanced by her spiritual qi, making it clear for everyone to hear it perfectly.

And no doubt, every one of them heard it. It was clearly evident from their menacing expressions.

Before they could retaliate with anything, they all heard her again as she said her next words, enhanced with spiritual qi once more.