Chapter 4903 — The Nourishing Mystery Herb
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Wait!" Ni Caiyue looked at Wei Zhao pitifully, hesitating before she spoke. "If you don't take me with you, I'll never get out alone..."
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"That's unfortunate. We have at most a month on the Road of Giants, and after that we can never enter again. If we take you out now, we'll surely waste a great deal of time—the loss will be enormous. There has to be fitting compensation. What do you say?" Wei Zhao reasoned with her patiently.
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"This..." Ni Caiyue was still torn and troubled.
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"Take your time thinking it over. We can afford to wait that long. But the fellow with his head planted in the ground may not be able to. If he wakes up again, I may not help you deal with him a second time, you know. After all, three is the limit." Wei Zhao pointed at Chang Laiting on the ground.
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"No, no!" Ni Caiyue was startled and spun about in a fluster. At last she smacked her own head. "That's it! My master's exact words were that I couldn't give the map to anyone—but he never said I couldn't lead someone there personally! If I take you there myself, isn't that the best of both worlds? I really am clever and quick-witted!"
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Wei Zhao and the others were torn between laughter and tears. If that counted as clever and quick-witted, then what were they—geniuses whose intelligence pierced the heavens?
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Still, however one looked at it, since the girl was willing to lead the way in person, it was a stroke of luck they could only welcome. Everyone wanted Nourishing Mystery Herb, and Wei Zhao was no exception.
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Once the two sides reached an agreement, Wei Zhao and his companions at once set off for the main road with Ni Caiyue in tow. Only after the girl returned to the main road could she find that prized spot where the Nourishing Mystery Herb grew.
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Within the range of Wei Zhao's spiritual sense, finding the main road after a brief orientation was a simple matter. What followed was a journey under Ni Caiyue's guidance to an exceedingly remote and hidden place.
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The path twisted and turned the whole way. Without a map to guide them, not to mention Ni Caiyue herself, even Wei Zhao and the others would likely have been dizzy with circles.
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By now they had reached the depths of the Road of Giants. Along the way, traces of other academy disciples were few and far between. Those who successfully advanced to Mystery Ascension were rare enough to begin with, and those who dared venture in here to explore were rarer still—let alone in a place so remote and hidden as this.
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A day later, Ni Caiyue finally led them to their destination. Before them lay a deeply sunken basin, wreathed in swirling mist that blocked spiritual sense. Even Wei Zhao could not perceive the whole of it.
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"This is where you got the Nourishing Mystery Herb?" Wei Zhao frowned slightly. The basin gave him a faint sense of peril—but then again, the more a place produced treasures, the more perilous it tended to be. That was a common law of the cultivation world. If one could obtain such a heaven-sent treasure without the slightest risk, that would truly be the strange thing.
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"No, no—you can't go in there. This is a Land of Thunder Burial!" Ni Caiyue shook her head again and again.
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"A Land of Thunder Burial?" Wei Zhao and the others were struck dumb in unison.
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"That's right. They say anyone who sets foot inside is buried by thunder," Ni Caiyue nodded.
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"Such a thing exists?" Wei Zhao and the others exchanged looks. They had always assumed thunder burials occurred only at certain times—they had never imagined there could be a place of thunder burial.
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