Chapter 4252 — The Beast Boneyard
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"The infant ginseng's growing grounds?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. He truly had never heard of it—he had only recently formed his core, and had not even glimpsed the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage, let alone reached its full perfection. Had he not refined the Core-Gathering Golden Pill for Tianxing Dao, he likely would not even have known what an infant ginseng was, much less anything else about it.
Nor was it only Wei Zhao: Huang Xiaotao, Wang Feng, and even Feng Hongyu, Chu Bubai's own dao companion, all wore blank looks. Their strength fell far short of that level, and none of them had made a special study of such matters; it was only natural that they knew little of the infant ginseng.
"Taozi, why don't you tell them, so they stop jumping at shadows and frightening themselves." Chu Bubai gave the order without breaking stride, pressing onward and gesturing for the others to keep up and not fall behind.
"Right you are. It seems none of you know—the infant ginseng is only what we commonly call it. It has another name, and in a sense that name is more apt, and it explains the surroundings we find ourselves in." Guo Dengtao made a show of mystery, deliberately whetting their appetites.
"What name? Out with it!" Wang Feng gave him a shove. Perhaps because of his earlier injury, he had not been feeling well to begin with, and in this grim, horrifying place his hands and feet had gone cold of their own accord, and his heart was trembling.
"All right, all right. The infant ginseng's other name is the ghost ginseng." Guo Dengtao paused on purpose, and seeing them all watching him with curiosity, went on: "As for why—it isn't that the thing looks like a ghost, but that it generally grows where the yin energy runs heavy. In boneyards and the like, for instance."
"A boneyard? No wonder this place has turned so grim!" They exchanged glances. Now that they knew the why and wherefore, their hearts were no longer in knots. Cultivators of the Golden Core stage, after all—they could hardly be afraid of a mere boneyard. Their earlier panic had been nothing but the fear of the unknown.
"Exactly. According to the map, there should be a spirit beast boneyard just ahead, so it's only natural that this area has grown somewhat grim. And it also proves that my map is accurate and reliable, so there's no need for anyone to worry anymore!" Chu Bubai declared with certainty, without so much as turning his head.
"Indeed! Following Brother Chu this time was well worth it!" Guo Dengtao and the others said happily. When they looked at their surroundings again, they were no longer tense or afraid; instead they grew more and more excited, for it meant they were drawing ever closer to the infant ginseng they had dreamed of.
Wei Zhao nodded and said nothing more. Reasonable as all this sounded—and it came from Guo Dengtao's mouth, not merely Chu Bubai's own—some nameless oddity still nagged at him, impossible to put into words, yet impossible to shake. (To be continued..) R527