Chapter 39: Low-Grade Spirit Medicine: Blood Mushroom King! (2/2)

”Could this possibly be…the location of the Earth Star Spring?!” Xiang Shaoyun could not help exclaiming to himself upon discovering this phenomenon. He had already known long ago that the Earth Star Spring was somewhere around this area. Although the location indicated on the map was not here, it did not mean that the Earth Star Spring was definitely not located here. The cave could be another way leading to the spring!

Just as Xiang Shaoyun was about to quicken his steps, he noticed Little White in a corner furiously trying to dig something out of the ground.

”Little White, in the future, before you eat any old medicines in the future, could you let me have a look first? This is a blood mushroom around 200 years old! It can replenish one's vitality and has considerable efficacy in healing wounds.” Xiang Shaoyun smiled helplessly as he watched Little White swallow the old medicine.

Before now, he would not have even taken a second glance at old medicines. However, his circ.u.mstances were different from in the past. Any random stalk of old medicine was now extremely important to him.

Obeying Xiang Shaoyun's words, Little White ran forward, digging out yet another old medicine from the ground and bringing it to Xiang Shaoyun.

”Another stalk of old medicine!” Xiang Shaoyun joyfully looked at this blood mushroom; it was about the same age as the previous one. Keeping the blood mushroom safely, Xiang Shaoyun continued his journey. Very quickly, he found numerous blood mushrooms growing together as well as a blood mushroom king more than 300 years old!

”Low-grade spirit medicine: blood mushroom king! The Earth Star Spring must be right ahead! Otherwise, why would there be so many blood mushrooms growing here?” Xiang Shaoyun grew increasingly crazed by the second. He quickly stuffed a blood mushroom down his throat, replenis.h.i.+ng the vitality he had lost that day before doing anything else.

Xiang Shaoyun then left the area, not plucking any of the other blood mushrooms. After all, it would not be too late to pluck them on his way back. Right now, his topmost priority was to reach the Earth Star Springs.

The blood mushroom was worthy of its reputation as an old medicine specially for replenis.h.i.+ng vitality. Right after Xiang Shaoyun had consumed the blood mushroom, he could feel his blood within him pulsing with much more vigour compared to before, slowly healing back to its optimal state, leaving him feeling extremely relaxed. As he was about to head deeper into the cave, he heard Little White meowing for him at the side. Heading to where Little White was, he found an extremely long bone lodged into the ground.

”Is—Is this snake bone?! No…why would a snake have footprints? Could this be…a snake transforming into a flood snake?” Xiang Shaoyun muttered to himself as he carefully examined the scene.

Xiang Shaoyun finally understood why there were numerous blood mushrooms growing in the cave. A flood snake had probably died here in the past, letting its blood seep into the ground. blood mushrooms grew as a result of that.

Examining the bones more carefully, Xiang Shaoyun found that the flood snake was close to ten meters long, most certainly an existence that was at least a Great Demon. Luckily for him, the flood snake was already dead. Otherwise, he would be dead without a doubt.

As Xiang Shaoyun reached the end of the beast's skeleton, he found a bead roughly the size of a toe lodged into the top of its skeleton.

”Demonic core!” Xiang Shaoyun lightly gasped.

As he was about to go and retrieve it personally, Little White leapt like an arrow at the skull, swallowing the core in one go.

”F*ck! You d.a.m.ned brat! Aren't you afraid of the energy inside going wild?!” Xiang Shaoyun could not hold back a curse.

Demonic cores could only be produced by demonic beasts at the Demon King level. If a normal beast were to swallow the core, their innards would be ravaged by the sheer power inside the core, causing them to explode.

Only Great Demons and above would dare to swallow such a core to aid them in raising their strength as well as in forming their own beast core. With how young Little White was, swallowing the core would probably do him more harm than good!

Xiang Shaoyun rushed forward and prepared to lift Little White up, forcing him to spit out the beast core.

”Roar!”

Out of the blue, a ferocious roar came from the throat of Little White as his body enlarged all of a sudden.