Published: March 2, 2025
Chapter 163: Plotting for Spiritual Herbs
Bing Character No. 6 Spiritual Herb Garden is over six hundred miles from Moonlit City. With the escape speed of the three of them, the familiar black marsh appeared in their sight in less than two hours, much faster than the last time Liu Yu brought qi refinement stage cultivators.
As they landed their escape light outside the black water extreme wind formation, Cao Mengyu proficiently sent out a sound transmission talisman. In a short while, a wave of fluctuation came from the formation, and Yan Hongyu's figure appeared before them.
Only she held the formation disk that could open the formation, while the other cultivators' tokens did not have such authority.
“Please show your identity tokens and mission certificates, junior brothers and sisters.”
Although they were already somewhat familiar with each other, the matter of the spiritual herb garden was related to family interests and sect property, and Yan Hongyu did not dare to let her guard down. She asked the three of them to show their identification from a distance.
Since Liu Yu and the others naturally had no objections to following the rules, they took out their identity tokens and used their magical power to slowly send them to Yan Hongyu.
After checking and verifying them correctly, Yan Hongyu returned the items to the three, and then said:
“My apologies, junior brother Liu, junior sister Cao, and junior sister Ding, please enter quickly.”
Liu Yu and the others cupped their hands, repeatedly saying it was no trouble, and then entered the formation together.
As they walked, Yan Hongyu shared what had happened in the spiritual herb garden over the past few years to help them understand the situation.
“After you returned to Moonlit City, the spiritual herb garden suffered two attacks from enemy cultivators.”
“One was from the Snowfall Pavilion faction, which retreated after a brief probing.”
“The last one was from the Heavenly Harmony Sect and Qingxu Sect factions, deploying fifteen foundation establishment cultivators, including three late-stage foundation establishment cultivators.”
“After a day and night of a defensive battle, they barely managed to fend them off with the power of the formation before the enemy cultivators retreated.”
At this point, Yan Hongyu, a late-stage foundation establishment cultivator and the person in charge of the spiritual herb garden, showed a worried expression, clearly concerned about the future.
“The location of the spiritual herb garden has been revealed to the other two factions, and it is so close to the front lines. Continuing to hold this position puts us in a precarious situation!”
Cao Mengyu's expression turned serious, voicing the thoughts of the group.
“If the enemy faction is determined to attack here, it will be very difficult for us to hold on.”
Ding Hui interjected, her head slightly lowered, with a heavy expression.
Liu Yu silently listened and did not speak, contemplating his own situation as the three women spoke back and forth.
“Junior brother Liu, what do you think?”
Yan Hongyu suddenly turned to ask, eager to hear this junior brother's perspective.
“Senior sister Hongyu, in my humble opinion, this herb garden must not be held onto; otherwise, it will surely be destroyed. We should make plans as early as possible.”
Liu Yu pondered for a moment and spoke deliberately.
He did not directly say to give up the spiritual herb garden and retreat, but his words implied just that.
Upon hearing this, Yan Hongyu's expression remained emotionless as she continued to discuss other matters, but she felt extremely disappointed inside; this was not the answer she wanted to hear.
Everyone had different positions and perspectives on things; thus, the conclusions they reached were different, and there was no right or wrong in this.
Since they were discussing matters, their pace was not fast, but the inside of the formation was not very large. Soon they arrived at the central node where several people were already waiting.