Everyone ate the drugged food and fell into a deep sleep.
They were loaded onto flat carts, piled on top of each other, and transported into the depths of the corridor. At the end of these rooms, there was a passage leading to the outside.
The wheels rumbled forward, the air changed, and under the starlight, it was already late at night.
Wild grass and gravel appeared on the ground, making it uneven. Suddenly, the cart tilted, and Du Wei fell off.
"Ouch, that hurts!"
The rear wheel rolled over his thigh, and he almost cried out.
"Hold it in!" Shang Xie Shao Qing immediately transmitted a message to him.
Du Wei's eyes were tightly shut, motionless as a corpse. He let a disciple of the Seven Stars Sect run over, roughly throw him onto the cart, and pile him on top without a sound.
Steward Zheng's displeased voice sounded, "Be careful. They are precious Spirit Medicine Farmers. If you break them, are you responsible?"
"Yes, Steward Zheng, this subordinate understands."
The cart continued to bump along. After an unknown amount of time, a strange, faint fragrance drifted over.
In the night breeze, it smelled like spiritual flowers and herbs, emitting a dense spiritual energy that filled the heavens and earth. Su Luo guessed, could this be the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers they were looking for?
With Li Tian Jue's sleeve blocking her, Su Luo could see clearly through the gap without being discovered.
Under the moonlight, it was a vast valley, with a bowl-like spiritual energy shield covering its edges, spanning at least a thousand mu. In the center of the valley, a small white hill rose, subtly wriggling. Spiritual flowers and fruits were piled around it. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
This small hill was alive?
But it was too far, so Su Luo couldn't see clearly.
Turning her gaze, she saw the flat carts passing by fields of spiritual medicine. The spiritual grasses, which should have been lush and verdant, gave her a shudder of revulsion. This was because these spiritual medicines were intertwined with people.
They were all tied to pillars with their eyes closed, motionless.
Spiritual medicines sprouted from their faces, bodies, and limbs, as if rooted within them.
Some were vines, tightly wrapping these people, leaving only their faces exposed, barely breathing. Some had mushrooms growing all over them, with vibrant flowers in bloom, their faces pale. Some were covered in fruits...
The key was that they were still alive, which made Su Luo's blood run cold.
So these people were the Spirit Medicine Farmers!
Providers of nourishment for the spiritual medicines.
Su Luo finally understood why everyone who had worked at the Seven Stars Sect had become so weak, with so much of their vitality depleted.
Unaware, they ate food mixed with Dream-Intoxication Powder, remained in a coma without feeling pain, and for a full month, their bodies were used to nurture and cultivate spiritual herbs.
What kind of malicious method was this?
"Xiao Guo, don't peek. Close your eyes," Su Luo transmitted to Tang Xiao Guo.
She was afraid that Tang Xiao Guo's curiosity would lead her to peek and be frightened into screaming, which would cause trouble if they were discovered.
Immediately after, Su Luo heard Li Tian Jue's transmission, "There is indeed something wrong. I didn't expect the Seven Stars Sect to be doing this."
Shang Xie Shao Qing's transmission carried a tremor, "Oh my god, these people... Luo Luo, did you see it? It's so disgusting! I'm going to throw up. I can't help it... Ahhhh, the Seven Stars Sect is actually doing this!"
"Young Master, will they also take us to grow spiritual medicine?"
"Of course. Otherwise, why do you think they brought us here?"
"I, I want to kill them..."
"Hold on. No action allowed now!"
The transmissions were jumbled, and Su Luo's mind was filled with Li Tian Jue's voice, then Tang Xiao Guo's curiosity. Before she could finish listening, Shang Xie Shao Qing's noisy voice popped up, like a tangled mess.
The flat cart finally stopped, and they were transported to a new spiritual medicine field.
Seven Stars Sect disciples immediately came to move Su Luo and the others. They lifted all the Spirit Medicine Farmers and sent them into the spiritual fields, tying them to pillars.
Su Luo and the other four endured.
It wasn't until all the Spirit Medicine Farmers were 'planted' in the spiritual fields like scarecrows that it was over.
Steward Zheng came over. He looked at the unconscious people in the spiritual field and said sternly, "The number of Spirit Medicine Farmers is still far from enough. We must find more to ensure the output of spiritual medicines. The Blood Ant Queen is about to mature, and this is a critical time. Not the slightest mistake can be made."
"Yes, Steward Zheng."
After a while, the sound of footsteps gradually faded away. Su Luo then opened her eyes.
She saw Li Tian Jue also tied to a pillar beside her. His deep eyes looked at her. Apart from the five of them, all other Spirit Medicine Farmers were unconscious. In the field, vines and tender sprouts were rapidly growing under the催生 of the formation, already entwining her legs.
Du Wei was the first to exclaim, "Not good, Young Master, mushrooms are growing on my face!"
He had been planted in a field of mushroom spiritual medicine. Tiny spores flew onto his skin and grew rapidly. Everyone watched as a small black spot on his face turned into a small mushroom, which gradually grew larger.
"Du Wei, you can eat it. This seems to be a sixth-grade Black Spirit Mushroom," Shang Xie Shao Qing teased him.
"No!"
Du Wei controlled his blue vine to untie the rope and slapped the mushroom flat.
Su Luo and the others also broke free from their ropes and trampled to death the spiritual grass vines that had entwined their ankles.
Everyone regained their freedom.
"Good heavens, it actually is..." Tang Xiao Guo only then clearly saw the entire spiritual medicine field.
She gasped and threw herself into Shang Xie Shao Qing's arms, not daring to lift her head. Shang Xie Shao Qing instinctively hugged her and patted her head, saying, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Xiao Guo, it's alright..."
Only when he remembered there were others nearby did he awkwardly release Tang Xiao Guo and try to explain.
But Su Luo's mind was not on him.
These spiritual medicine fields, no less than several thousand mu, were planted with various precious spiritual medicines, two-thirds of which were filled with Spirit Medicine Farmers, numbering in the hundreds.
In the darkness of the night, their pale faces were incredibly eerie.
"This should be the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers. No wonder the security is so tight and protected by formations. Once the Seven Stars Sect's actions are exposed, it will definitely cause a huge uproar. It's too terrifying."
Although Su Luo had guessed that the Seven Stars Sect might not be doing good deeds, she hadn't expected it to be so disgusting.
It turned out that the spiritual medicines they sold were cultivated in this manner.
Li Tian Jue's face was grim as he said, "Centuries ago, there were indeed some evil methods for cultivating spiritual medicines and spiritual beasts and demonic beasts. Those evil cultivators have been wiped out and lost. I didn't expect the Seven Stars Sect... If they weren't afraid of it being spread, they wouldn't have kept these Spirit Medicine Farmers alive at all. They would have let them be parasitized and die by the spiritual medicines."
"So scary. We almost fell for it too," Tang Xiao Guo felt a lingering fear.
"What are you waiting for? Take action!"
Shang Xie Shao Qing said directly, "Since we've discovered it, we naturally have to destroy these spiritual medicines. To think that the Seven Stars Sect cultivated them in this way. I can't eat them anymore. Ugh... Fortunately, the Longevity Hall never did business with the Seven Stars Sect, or I'd want to vomit."
He made an expression of extreme disgust and grabbed a flower vine next to him, pulling at it.
Su Luo immediately stopped him, "Wait, don't rush."
Standing on the ridge of the spiritual medicine field, she looked at the continuously wriggling white hill in the distance, knowing that this was the purpose for which the Seven Stars Sect dared to do such a thing at great risk.
"Let's go and see that thing." After speaking, Su Luo flew towards the center.
The closer they got to the white hill, the clearer its true form became.
It was crystalline all over, semi-transparent, like a giant, jade-carved maggot, constantly wriggling.
Within its veins were the juices of the spiritual flowers and herbs it absorbed, constantly growing and nurturing. Inside its body, pink spheres could be seen, seemingly eggs.