Blood Violet Spirit Grass
Li Yan and Sun Wu quickly arrived at the specified location, near feets away from the old tree and the large rock.
The effects of Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection sharing ability was still in effect, so Li Yan was easily able to identify the estranged red leaf plant that is hidden under the disguised of a camouflage.
Its roots seeped deeply into the cracks of the large stone rock, firmly planted itself on the other side of the large stone rock.
Its appearance seemed to be very simple, resembling an alternatively red grass nettle leaves plant. At the tips of the grass nettle leaves, there seems to be a slight purple tinged.
But, upon a closer look, the estranged red leaf plant seems to have violet red venation like patterns, that resembles of blood vessels. They even pulsate lively with energy, constantly constricting and dilating, almost like it was alive.
There was a slightly damaged skeletal remains of a deceased spirit beast, laying next to the large stone rock on the ground.
The skeletal remains of the deceased spirit beast seems to resemble a rabbit or hare in term of appearance and body shape, but there is an unusual horn that resembles a sabre protruding out from the creature's head.
'Is that possibly a spirit herb.' Li Yan assumes to himself, making a reasonable assumption based upon the knowledge he acauires from reading Xianxia/Wuxia novels.
Spirit herbs, or also called Spirit Grass by others. It is a magical plant, which has absorbed the natural spiritual energy of the Earth, and is pretty much highly sought after by both spirit masters and alchemists alike.
They are usually either eaten rawly in to absorb the medicinal effects or spiritual energy that is contained in it or possibly refined into spirit medicines and elixir pills.
When Li Yan and Sun Wu approaches within a close distance of the estranged red leaf plant, the lingering sudden faint scent of blood then strongly assaulted their nose and nasal passage.
It then caused the overly cautious looking Sun Wu to become agitated, as if almost driven by its own naturally beastial instincts. It tries to immediately snatched the estranged red leaf plant and consumed it right before Li Yan's very eyes.
Growl!
Sun Wu then growls like a madly driven beast, as charges right directly towards the red leaf grass, whilst showing no restraints. It seems to have almost lost all sense of reasoning.
Having seen this, Li Yan was greatly alarmed, as he then immediately summons his spirit grimoire, and issues an immediate verbal command through the mental connection link between him and his spirit beast familiars Sun Wu.
'Sun Wu, restrain yourself this instance!' Li Yan spoke through the mental connection link between master and spirit familiar.
The instant Li Yan issued the command, Sun Wu then felt a foreboding strong force assaulting his body and restricting his movements. He immediately suddenly comes to a stop and falls over onto the ground.
It then took some time for the temporarily effects of the estranged red leaf plant to dissipates, and Sun Wu slowly regains full control of his mental and emotional state. Sun Wu then shows a particularly confused look, as it seems to have no prior knowledge on why he commited the act.
'Release.' Li Yan then issues a command, which seems to have released Sun Wu from some form of invisible chains abide by the spirit grimoire, within Li Yan's hand.
'It would seem that the mysterious spirit herbs seems to have an enraging effects on spirit beasts, forcefully inciting their beastial instincts, that which I don't have.' Li Yan thought so to himself, and inferred based upon his recent findings.
'Sun Wu, I want you to maintain a fair distance away from the mysterious spirit herbs. So that the spirit herb's effects on your are minimal.' Li Yan instructed Sun Wu through his mental connection.
Sun Wu immediately adhere to Li Yan's precise instructions, and maintained a fair distance away from the estranged red leaf plant.
Li Yan then went closer towards the mysterious estranged red leaf plant, nearing inches away from the plant itself.
He then reaches his hand out and grabbed a hold of the bottom lower half of the plsnt stem of the mysterious estranged red leaf plant, with the clear intention of pulling it out and uprooting it.
However, the mysterious estranged red leaf plant was deeply rooted into the cracks of the large stone rock, so it won't budge an inch whenever Li Yan was pulling on it.
'The mysterious spirit herb seems to be deeply rooted into the large stone rock, so I can't take it out, unless...' The an idea suddenly pops up inside of Li Yan's head.
"Sun Wu, I want you to destroy this large piece of stone rock over here, with your stone breaking fist, but try your best to leave as much of the spirit plant intact as possible, alright." Li Yan instructed Sun Wu to destroy the large stone rock that is blocking him from obtaining the mysterious spirit herb.
"Uwah!" Sun Wu making slight monkey noises, as it nodded his head in affirmation.
Sun Wu then took a huge step forwards, charging his stone breaking fist spirit skill with his own spiritual energy, until it reaches the limit to activate the skill.
Li Yan then quickly got out of the way, as he shouted, "Now," to give the okay signal to Sun Wu to launch the stone breaking fist attack.
Sun Wu then readily charges into the range of the mysterious spirit herb, with his stone breaking fist already fully prepared, and readied to be activated.
Sun Wu was already on guard against the effects of the mysterious spirit herb, so he was quite able to somewhat resist and put up a fight against the mysterious spirit herb's control.
Upon reaching nearing inches away from the large stone rock, Sun Wu then launches the stone breaking fist, and immediately shatters the large stone rock to pieces of rock and pebbles.
Stone debris or whatever that is left of the large stone rock is sent flying backwards crashing against the old tree, damaging it slightly, with some huge rock bits lying flat littering the ground.
Some parts of the mysterious spirit herb's roots were badly severely damaged by Sun Wu's stone breaking fist attack, but the mysterious spirit herb was pretty much intact.
And onced the large stone rock was immediately destroyed, Sun Wu didn't become laxed but remains cautious, as he quickly retreated a fair distance away from the mysterious spirit herb.
With the mysterious estranged red leaf plant becoming uprooted from the large stone rock, Li Yan was easily able to the obtained the mysterious spirit herb to his satisfactory.
Li Yan also stored the skeletal remains of the sabre hare into his storage inventory of his spirit grimoire. The bones of a spirit beast could be used as an ingredient in alchemy or as bone fertilisers for plants.
The loud ruckus caused by Sun Wu destroying the large stone rock, attracted some unwanted attention, but nevertheless, the hundred years old spirit beasts within the area was smart enough to not antagonise the creatures that have managed to kill the thousand years old datura snake. The top predator within the outermost area of the great Star Dou forest.
Bei Bei had been quietly observing Huo Yuhao this entire time, whilst testing out the upper limits of Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection sharing ability.
'What was that sound?' Bei Bei thought so to himself, as he suddenly looks in the particular direction where the sound is originating from.
However, it was then that Bei Bei suddenly came to a realization, realising an obvious fact that, 'Wasn't that the direction that Li Yan and his yellow vervet monkey spirit beast was heading off previously.'
With Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection sharing ability still in effect, and Li Yan & Sun Wu are within a thirty meters radius of the spiritual detection distance of Huo Yuhao's spirit skill. Bei Bei was easily able to make out that the two are unharmed, safe and sound.
However, when Li Yan and Sun Wu arrived at the group's location. Held within his hand, was the mysterious estranged red leaf plant. Its slightly ominous presence manages to caught the attention of the two.
Bei Bei's eyes immediately landed on the mysterious estranged red leaf plant held within Li Yan's hand.
'Isn't that a blood violet spirit grass.' Bei Bei thought so to himself, as he then immediately identifies the mysterious spirit herb upon a first glance.
'To think that Xiao Yan manages to find a spirit herb. What luck does the boy have.' Bei Bei thought, with a slight cheerful smirk on his face.
Bei Bei then shows a very shocked expression, 'It's not just any spirit herb, but rather it's a hundred years old spirit herb. A spirit herb that possesses a hundred years of cultivation.'
'As each ten years worth of cultivation for the blood violet spirit grass, it would indeed grow an inch and sprout a new leaf. So possessing twelve leaves proofs that it is a hundred years old blood violet spirit grass.' Bei Bei thought so to himself, whilst recollecting on his previous knowledge of spirit herbs that he learned.
Spirit herbs tends to be less rare than immortal herbs, and tends to grow plentiful in numbers in areas that are rich with spiritual qi and heaven & earth resources.
Whilst, immortal herbs are spirit herbs, but also classified as a plant type system spirit beasts, which are extremely rare to find and grow only under special circumstances or specific extreme environments.
And immortal herbs may take up to several centuries or even a millennium to even sprout and blossom.
"So where did you find the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass?" Bei Bei then asked Li Yan.
Li Yan then pointed in the direction of where he did acquired the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass.
'So this is a hundred years old blood violet spirit grass, huh. So it must be pretty valuable.' Li Yan thought so to himself, as he then assumes the values of the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass based on the tone of Bei Bei's voice and facial expression that was shown.
"So is the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass that valuable?" Li Yan asked Bei Bei a question, trying to gauge how valuable the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass that he is holding within his hand is.
"The blood violet spirit grass is an extraordinary strengthening spirit grass, by directly consuming it, it will indeed increases your cultivation by a few levels..." Bei Bei said to Li Yan.
He then continues, "The blood violet spirit grass also strengthens the user's physique and tempers the bone marrow, whilst at the same time, increasing the host's vitality, stamina, and blood essence." Bei Bei explains to Li Yan the effects of consuming the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass.
"Blood essence is basically a form of spiritual energy generated by the combination of the user's vitality and stamina, as it can be used to train and increase ones own physique." Bei Bei said.
"Whilst, some individuals used blood essence to train and practice certain types of martial arts that involves tempering and mastered ones own body." Bei Bei said to Li Yan.
Huo Yuhao was pleasantly surprised by the positive effects of the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass, but couldn't help but think about the negative connotation of consuming the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass.
"Is there any side effects for consuming the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass?" Huo Yuhao couldn't help it but asked Bei Bei just to be sure.
Bei Bei answers, "Upon consuming the blood violet spirit grass, the user would then be induced into a bloodthirsty enraged state."
He then later explains, "For tool spirit and body spirit masters the bloodthirst enraging would have a minimal effect, slightly affecting the overall mental behaviour, whilst for beast spirit type spirit masters. It would be entirely different."
"If they are not strong willed enough to resist the temptation of the blood violet spirit grass madly enraging effect, they would instead go wild, madly driven by the thirst for blood, and lose whatever sense of rationality for a period of time." Bei Bei said.