Lin Feng turned his eyes while shrugging his shoulders, "It’s just a speculation too, senior sister, so I don’t mind, but do you know that this world exists on the edge of our upper realm, and the next realm is where beasts live?" He didn’t say more than that.
Xie Ruyue’s eyes widened a little, if she thought about it like this, then it did sound believable... but in the end, speculation was speculation. She doubted anyone even knew what the real truth was.
After flying for a while, Lin Feng began to feel the air heavier than before. He felt that his senses and immunity were getting affected a little before his physique purified the Darkness Law.
This was also one of the reasons why cultivators, especially those who were weak, couldn’t enter the Central Region casually, if they got exposed to more Darkness Law, then their health would deteriorate.
"We’ve arrived, junior brother, I think we should look for herbs nearby. There is no need to take unnecessary risks." Xie Ruyue didn’t want anything to happen to him, even by mistake.
Lin Feng nodded, although he would ask her to go a little deeper later, "Let’s just find some empty area where no one can disturb us."
There were some cultivators visible from their vantage point, a few of them belonged to their own sect. He didn’t want them to see him using a voice transmission talisman, at this point, any rumors would be harmful for him.
Xie Ruyue herself wanted to find a spot that was empty and have good enough spirit herbs, so she agreed, "Alright."
They moved far to the right from their location and after a few minutes arrived in an area that was totally empty, it had a small pond nearby, so they came down in the little clearing around it.
"This looks like a good spot, I can already sense good enough Foundation Establishment herbs nearby, go pluck them, junior brother," Xie Ruyue patted his shoulders.
Lin Feng became a little speechless, "How about a little help?" Since she had spiritual sense, it was easy for her to pinpoint the location of spirit herbs.
The wild grass here was long, and finding spirit herbs for him would be tough. Although he had asked her, he had a feeling that she would not help him.
Xie Ruyue’s expression became serious, as if it was a grave matter, "Junior brother, it’s your mission, it will be good experience for you to do it, if I help you, then I will be a hindrance to your growth, how can I bring myself to hamper the growth of my beloved junior brother?"
Lin Feng was already walking away when she said good experience, there was even no need to hear the rest, although listening to it all made him a little speechless.
Xie Ruyue snickered and climbed onto a tree to look at him.
This wild grass didn’t only contain spirit herbs, it was hiding some low-level spirit beasts too, she wanted to see him battle.
These beasts were mostly at the Blood Awakening stage with a few of them at the Flesh Tempering stage, so she had a feeling he would be fine.
Lin Feng wasn’t unaware of them, he had already felt multiple hostile gazes on his body, he sighed inwardly, not because of the beasts but because finding the herbs wouldn’t be easy.
After coming in front of the wild grass, he took a step in, it’s not like he didn’t have any clue about how to find those spirit herbs, no matter what, a spirit herb affects its surroundings a little, if a good spirit herb is growing in an area, then about 1 meter around it will be empty of any grass.
The moment he took a second step into the grass, a snake, which was purplish-blue in color, lunged at his left leg, Lin Feng’s left hand was already moving down the moment the snake lunged, he could have moved even earlier, but he didn’t want Xie Ruyue to become too curious about it.
He easily caught it, it was only a Mid-Stage Blood Awakening beast. Lin Feng gripped its neck tightly, his fingers sinking in with enough force to mince its flesh. The beast’s neck was thicker than his full grasp, yet his hold was immensely strong, as though he was gripping a velvet cloth instead of a snake.
Lin Feng threw the snake away, he wasn’t interested in its poison sacs or gall bladder, although they could fetch some spirit stones.
As for beast cores, all beasts form their core at the Beast Core Formation Stage, it is equivalent to the Soul Sea realm.
Since most body cultivation follows the route of beast cultivation, human body cultivators also form cores in the same realm as beasts.
It was little different for Humans qi cultivators though, they form their core at the Core Formation realm, which is the next step after the Foundation Establishment realm.
He walked for a few more steps when he saw another beast, it was again a snake in the Late Stage, it wasn’t surprising, big wild grass and a nearby pond were specifically a preferred territory for snake type beasts.
HISSSSSS!
It didn’t attack Lin Feng, it only coiled its body and hissed at him.
If it was only that, then Lin Feng would have left it alone, but right now, this snake was inside an area that was a little clean, and it was coiling around a spirit herb, which he could easily tell was attuned to the Darkness Law, not to mention it was at the peak stage of Foundation Establishment, and it was what he needed for the mission.
Lin Feng shook his head, "If you can leave quietly, then I won’t do anything to you." Although he said it, he himself doubted that this snake would leave.
Beasts do get intelligent as their level increases, they can even speak like humans, but it happens at higher levels, not at the Blood Awakening stage.
The moment he stepped into the clearing, the snake opened its mouth and lunged for his neck, a bad choice.
Lin Feng didn’t even blink as he used his fingers as a sword and stabbed into the head of the snake, "That’s not a vulnerable spot." Lin Feng used his qi to clean his fingers from blood and picked up the herb.