Chapter 343 (1/2)

Chapter 343

Long Chen arrived in front of that skeleton . Whatever clothes it had been wearing had long since rotted, and its bones had also been badly damaged by erosion . He couldn’t tell whether this person had been from the previous generation or even earlier .

But the thing that surprised Long Chen slightly was that one of its fingers was gone now . That was the finger that usually wore a spatial ring .

“This person’s spatial ring was taken away, and from the markings, it seems like it happened very recently . These footprints are new . There were more people who entered?”

Long Chen was slightly surprised . Other than himself, it seemed that there were more people who had also entered this deeply into the Misty Mountain Valleys .

He carefully examined the footprints . It looked as if there had been multiple people, perhaps around two or three .

“Looks like I’m not the only one with a secret technique to enter here . ” Long Chen couldn’t help sighing . Since he could enter, he supposed it wasn’t surprising for others to also have their own secret techniques to enter . It seemed like it wouldn’t be so easy to get all the treasures here for himself .

Just as he was sighing sorrowfully, he heard a whistling in the wind, and out of nowhere, something shot at Long Chen like a cannonball .

Taken by surprise, Long Chen hastily dodged . Only when the attack pa.s.sed him did he realize it was actually a rock .

“Wind spirit stone?” That rock was the exact same as the wind spirit stone Xu Yang had showed him . His hand quickly whipped out and caught it .

When he looked in the direction it had come from, he saw that it was completely misty . He couldn’t tell where exactly this wind spirit stone had shot out from . However, he couldn’t sense any killing intent .

That made sense . If someone really was aiming to kill him, they wouldn’t be such a blockhead and use such a precious wind spirit stone as a surprise attack .

“Then does that mean there’s some strange formation that is shooting out stones?”

Observing the wind spirit stone in his hand, he noticed that it was around the same size as the one Xu Yang had showed him . However, he could clearly sense that the wind energy contained in this one was slightly purer .

Xu Yang had said that he had found his wind spirit stone on the fringes . Then were these things flying out from a deeper region?

“Another piece . ” Long Chen’s divine sense spread out, encompa.s.sing a region of several hundred meters . He immediately noticed another fluctuation identical to the one coming from the wind spirit stone in his hand .

Rus.h.i.+ng over there, he saw a wind spirit stone lying beneath a bunch of weeds .

“There’s more over here!” Long Chen celebrated . He found another wind spirit stone located in the ground .

These things would be heavenly treasures to Tang Wan-er . If she could comprehend some of the wind element mysteries contained within these wind spirit stones, her wind blades would become even more terrifying .

Long Chen even began to regret that he had been solely focused on the medicinal herbs this entire time . Who knew how many wind spirit stones he had missed while advancing this far .

But now wasn’t too late . Spreading out his Spiritual Strength, Long Chen began to gather both medicinal herbs and wind spirit stones .

Eventually, he entered a side path . Long Chen saw some marks that showed at least one other person had recently come in this direction .

“This person probably didn’t even recognize some of these medicinal ingredients and didn’t notice these wind spirit stones . ”

Long Chen found a total of eight wind spirit stones . Although he also noticed that there were several parts of the ground that had just been excavated, he still found more than ten precious herbs . Whoever had gone by probably hadn’t recognized them .

Long Chen once more buried a Spirit Guide Pill and began to go in another direction . He’d rather not collect other people’s leftovers .

As he entered deeper, he found more and more precious herbs . Over ten thousand herbs had filled the majority of his life ring . That gave Long Chen a happiness like a beggar who had found a treasure house .

After three days, even Long Chen didn’t know how many valleys he had walked through . In any case, he had found over a hundred types of rare herbs that had completely filled his life ring . He had no choice but to move some of the lower value herbs into a spatial ring .

Within a spatial ring, those herbs would quickly die . That caused Long Chen some pain .

When it was still alive, the price of a medicinal ingredient would be at least twice what it would be if it were dead .

That was because many large sects had their own medicinal fields . These precious herbs could be sold to them as seedlings .

Those sects would pay several times the price for living herbs they didn’t have so they could grow them in their sects .

That was an investment . Although they’d lose out at first, as time pa.s.sed, perhaps in tens or hundreds of years, that herb would begin to flourish and multiply . Then they would continue making a profit forever . It could be said to be a small investment for a huge profit .

That was why rare herbs were priceless treasures in the outside world . Each time such a rare herb appeared in the world, it would cause a clamor amongst the large sects .

Unfortunately, Long Chen had no way around this . His life ring’s s.p.a.ce was limited, and couldn’t store that many herbs . Placing some of his precious herbs into a spatial ring, Long Chen’s heart dripped blood .

Over these days, Long Chen had not only obtained rare herbs, he had also obtained one hundred and thirty wind spirit stones . That was a shocking number . As he continued forward, he had found that the quality of the wind spirit stone had continuously increased .

“Huh? What is this wind energy?” Long Chen suddenly stopped with a perplexed expression . He could feel wind, but the mist wasn’t moving at all . That was extremely bizarre .

Another wind spirit stone shot out of the mist at Long Chen . Long Chen raised his hand and caught it . When the wind spirit stone collided with his hand, his hand was forced back slightly .