Chapter 4248 — A Rare Opportunity
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Wang Feng, standing off to one side, looked just as shaken; by now he too must have grasped what the two words "infant ginseng" truly meant.
"Indeed. I am now at the late Golden Core stage, no great distance from perfection, and must begin preparing ahead of time to condense my Nascent Soul. To condense it swiftly, one cannot do without the Nascent-Condensing Golden Pill—and infant ginseng is the chief ingredient in refining that very pill!" Chu Bubai said with an unabashed smile at the others.
"But…" Guo Dengtao's breathing was heavy, yet he was cautious by nature and had not let the words "infant ginseng" go straight to his head. He hesitated. "A top-grade natural treasure like infant ginseng—never mind whether the Rufeng Forest truly has any, even if it does, it would surely be in the deepest core. There could not possibly be any on the forest's outskirts."
"Well said. Infant ginseng would certainly not appear on the outskirts, which is precisely why I came here resolved to press into the depths. Do you dare come along? Rest assured—so long as we go together, whether or not we find the infant ginseng, no matter how much we ultimately gain, every last natural treasure shall be divided equally among us, share and share alike!" Chu Bubai pledged with an utterly sincere face, swearing to it as though by oath.
"Infant ginseng is indeed a prize men dream of…" Guo Dengtao exchanged a glance with Wang Feng and still hesitated. "Everyone wants infant ginseng, but I have heard tell that in the past, those who came to this Rufeng Forest—even parties that ventured into the deep mountains—well, even late-stage Golden Core masters never once came out alive. This is a place of certain death. With our meager strength, we stand even less chance…"
"True enough. Infant ginseng is fine, but you need a life to go fetch it with!" Wang Feng chimed in from the side. "With the little strength the few of us have, going into deep mountains like that would only make our deaths come faster and uglier!"
This was no alarmist talk. The spirit beasts on the outskirts were weak; those in the depths were strong. The group had so far not even left the outer reaches, and already they had encountered a Golden Core Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast. If they pressed deeper, who knew what they might run into?
This was the South Island, the stronghold of the spirit beast clans. Even though the Rufeng Forest lay at its very edge, should a Golden Core perfection beast—or even a Nascent Soul spirit beast—pop out at random, that would be far beyond anything those present could handle.
"Yes, and there is another point. Even if we were lucky enough to find infant ginseng and escape this place with our skins intact, if we cannot refine it into a Nascent-Condensing Golden Pill, it is of no use to us whatsoever. Surely we cannot commit such waste as to simply hawk it on the market?" Guo Dengtao said, heavy with worry. "The Nascent-Condensing Golden Pill is a sixth-grade elixir; I reckon only an alchemy god like Zhang Lifeng could refine it. Ordinary alchemists are hopeless to ask. With the connections we have, where would we find a top-tier alchemist like that to help us?"
Chu Bubai could not help but frown. He had assumed that the fatal allure of infant ginseng would be enough—that the moment he raised it, the others would grow hot-headed. Yet to his surprise, Guo Dengtao and Wang Feng, plain-looking as they were, could keep such level heads. To enumerate so long a list of objections was plainly to say they did not wish to go.
As for Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao, neither said a word. They simply sat to one side listening quietly, watching coldly from the sidelines.