nyslfriends Chapter 521 - 60: Ruins and Tombs
Chapter 521 - 60: Ruins and Tombs
Whoosh!
In the instant his body landed, a black light shot towards him, and Lin Chen swiftly struck out with his right palm.
Snap!
A black snake, three zhangs long, lay flat on the ground a zhang away, its head already shattered.
Lin Chen focused intently on his surroundings. After a few moments, he confirmed there was no more danger and then walked towards the black snake.
A few moments later, a look of disappointment appeared on Lin Chen’s face; this black snake had not produced a demon core.
"Where am I?"
Surveying his surroundings, Lin Chen confirmed he was in the mountain forest, a look of surprise in his eyes.
He hadn’t expected to be transported into the mountains as soon as he entered.
According to Dan Muqing, those who were teleported into the relic site all appeared in a vast plain area, whereupon they could choose to search for teammates on the plain or enter the deep mountains alone.
In previous sessions, most people chose to find one or two companions on the plain before venturing into the mountains.
It’s not that they didn’t want to gather ten people before setting out, but there wasn’t enough time.
The seal of the relic site is only open for three days, and traversing from one end of the plain to the other, even tried by the four families’ offspring, couldn’t be completed in three days.
Since he wasn’t on the plain, Lin Chen decided not to look for Dan Family members, glancing towards the depths of the mountain forest and deciding to proceed alone.
After a hundred breaths.
Lin Chen looked ahead, his eyes brightening.
He spotted a silver plant more than ten zhangs away, its leaves numbering five.
It was actually Five-finger Silver Grass!
In Linhu Village, from the many books his teacher sent him, there were introductions about the exotic flowers and herbs of the Nine Kingdoms.
Five-finger Silver Grass is a relatively precious herb unique to Zhao Kingdom, primarily used to refine the Refining God Pill.
The full name of this plant is Five-finger Grass, named for its leaves resembling five fingers, with silver referring to its color.
Five-finger Grass seedlings are green, turning silver once fifty years old, and golden at a hundred years.
The Refining God Pills, mainly from five-year-old Five-finger Grass, are priced around ten gold each, while those made with Five-finger Silver Grass as the main ingredient have double the effect and are valued at fifty gold.
Though the efficacy is only doubled, the price is five times higher, not due to arbitrary pricing but because the Refining God Pill has pill poison, allowing a Grade-Entering Martial Artist to consume only one in several months.
Though the price is quintupled, it essentially allows the consumption of one extra pill. For many well-backed martial artists, time is their lacking resource, not dozens of gold coins.
As Lin Chen approached and crouched to pick the Five-finger Silver Grass, the nearby soil suddenly splattered, and from beneath it, a black light shot rapidly towards Lin Chen.
Snap!
Faced with the sudden attack, Lin Chen calmly struck out, the palm wind sending the black light flying backward, landing in the bushes over ten zhangs away.
It turned out to be a black python!
The python flicked its tongue, its sinister eyes coldly measuring Lin Chen for a moment before turning to slither into the forest ahead.
"Trying to escape?"
Though his palm strike only repelled the python without dislodging a single scale, Lin Chen remained unafraid, gripping the Dragon Shadow Bow, drawing the string, and shooting an arrow.
Golden light shot out, and the python seemed to sense the danger, twisting its body, but the arrow was too fast, piercing the spot seven inches along its body before it could fully react.
The python thrashed frantically in the underbrush, but after a dozen breaths, it fell still.
Strike the snake at seven inches, any fracture there means fatality.
Even a Grade-Entering Snake Monster is the same; this is the weakness of the Snake Race.
After searching the snake monster’s body for a while, Lin Chen pulled out a demon core from its corpse.
Simultaneously, Lin Chen retrieved a jade token from within his clothes, which Dan Muqing had given him for scoring demon beast kills.
Placing the demon core against the jade token would record it, where a Ninth-Grade Demon Pill equated to 1 point, and an Eighth-Grade Demon Pill to 10 points, as for a Seventh-Grade Demon Pill...
There aren’t even Seventh-Grade demon beasts in the entire relic site, and encountering one would mean turning and running as fast as possible, and doing so successfully is considered very fortunate.
Combined, the forty entrants wouldn’t even fill a Seventh-Grade demon beast’s teeth.
Placing the demon core onto the jade token, it quickly displayed a small black dot, indicating 1 point.
The four families adopted this method for scoring, rather than tallying the demon core numbers after everyone exits, after careful consideration.
Once a demon beast is killed, registering the demon core immediately prevents others from seizing it to increase their score. Moreover, each family invited foreign geniuses; counting demon cores openly could lead to envious tensions, so best unseen, undisturbed.
All arrangements aim to reduce slaughter among the young generation within the relic site.
Stowing the demon core in his clothes, Lin Chen continued on.
One two-hour period later, Lin Chen watched as the black dot on the jade token turned green.
A green dot signifies ten points.
In just this one two-hour period, Lin Chen had encountered ten Ninth-Grade demon beasts, without needing to actively search. These beasts attacked him upon intruding into their territories, with some like the python lying in ambush.