The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 2958 The Other Shore Flower of the Underworld

Chen Mo was very fast, and he had prepared the array bases in advance, releasing them each time he passed a fork in the road. This saved him a lot of time.

The entire cave was quite similar, just a series of ravines and undulating paths leading downwards. As you went deeper, the air seemed to thin out, and the temperature began to rise, increasing the further you went. I wondered what lay at the bottom of the cave that created this unique environment.

Fortunately, Chen Mo possessed daytime vision, and although his divine sense was restricted, it could still cover a range of three meters. Therefore, even at a relatively high speed, he did not encounter any danger. Occasionally, he would encounter some ordinary strange beasts along the way, but he quickly used the Soul-Chasing Nails to send them to their deaths, without delaying his progress in the slightest.

Furthermore, Chen Mo also discovered that there seemed to be wisps of black mist inside the cave, drifting down from the cave ceiling towards the ground. Could the black clouds above the canyon be composed of these wisps of black mist from inside the cave?
To understand these black mists, Chen Mo took the time to observe them carefully and discovered that they contained a strong malevolent aura and were also rich in spiritual energy, much higher than the spiritual energy content of the entire valley.

He discovered that these black fogs, like the black fog floating above the canyon, were corrosive.

In addition, Chen Mo also discovered that the strange beasts he encountered on his journey were not only ordinary strange beasts, but also some that were smaller than ordinary strange beasts and were relatively weak. Some of them were even only about the size of a cat.

Of course, whenever Chen Mo saw these strange beasts, regardless of size, he would use the Soul-Chasing Nails to send them all to their deaths.

Each time, Chen Mo would choose the outermost cave and leave a mark and array base. To his surprise, the cave he chose did not disappoint him; the descent was smooth sailing.

Seeing the situation along the way, Chen Mo felt that if he chose other caves, they would probably be the same as the ones he chose on the side. These caves probably didn't have any traps or dead ends. These caves were just passageways for those strange beasts to enter and exit.

But this made him even more curious about where these caves led.

Chen Mo ran like lightning, moving at an incredible speed. Even so, it took him about half an hour, nearly forty minutes, to finally arrive at a huge space.

Upon entering the space, he was attacked by numerous strange beasts.

Before he could even observe the situation in the space, the beast guards rushed up and launched a dense barrage of attacks on Chen Mo using the spikes on their backs.

Numerous other beasts also rushed forward as spikes shot out, extending their sharp, gleaming teeth and fangs, attempting to tear it apart.

There are many strange beasts, no less than tens of thousands.

What puzzled him was that the beast guards hadn't been wiped out by his lightning sword above the canyon, so how come there were still so many beast guards here?

Regardless, let's kill them all first.

Chen Mo wielded the jade sword while attacking with the Soul-Chasing Nails.

The defense of the beast guards is significantly higher than that of ordinary beasts. Therefore, the Soul-Chasing Nails felt noticeably hindered each attack. Fortunately, Chen Mo's divine sense control, though limited to a three-meter range, was sufficient for his needs.

Therefore, after eliminating a certain area, they will move to a different location and continue.

During a lull in the beast's attack, Chen Mo scanned the entire space and was greatly shocked. He hadn't expected to find something good here.

What he saw was a huge space, like a porcelain bowl turned upside down, with a diameter of about 500 meters at the bottom and about 100 meters at the top, and the entire space was about 300 meters high.

Of course, although the space is like an inverted porcelain bowl, it is not perfectly symmetrical. It has a certain degree of deformation, with some parts protruding and some parts concave.

The walls of the entire space were covered with countless cave entrances. Chen Mo came out from one of these cave entrances, and from this, it can be deduced that these caves should all lead to the canyon floor.

The ground in this space is flat and level, entirely composed of hard rock. In the center of the ground is a deep black pool, about a hundred meters in diameter, its water as black as ink, the bottom of which is invisible, and its depth unknown.

In the center of the deep pool was a rocky platform about ten square meters in size, its color as black as ink, the composition of which was unknown. Rising about three meters above the water, a massive plant grew in the center of this platform. Its main trunk was about half a meter thick, and its branches and leaves were enormous and lush, resembling a giant anthill, with each leaf about three meters long. However, while giant anthills are herbaceous plants, the plant Chen Mo saw was as tall as a tree, approximately thirty meters high, its branches and leaves growing upwards in clusters, spreading out in layers, almost covering half of the space above the pool.

At the very top of this plant, a huge red flower blooms, about three meters in diameter and two meters in height. Its petals, like rose petals, are layered to form a flower sac. From the sac, a dozen or so red ribbon-like stamens extend, swaying in the air like ribbons being blown by the wind.

The red flowers looked incredibly beautiful, but the stamens floating in the air were constantly emitting wisps of black mist. If Chen Mo hadn't possessed daytime vision, he wouldn't have been able to see the black mist rising from the stamens in this pitch-black cave.

As the black mist rose, it gathered at a height of about a hundred meters in the air, forming a jet-black cloud that floated in the sky.

As the clouds floated in the sky, they also emitted wisps of black mist. These wisps of mist seeped into the caves in the walls of the space and disappeared. It turned out that the black mist he had seen in the caves originated from here.

The stamens of the red flowers formed wisps of black mist, while the petals of the red flowers, every now and then, would condense into a drop of liquid, the size of a broad bean and resembling a black pearl, from the tip of the petal. After forming, it would drip down into the pool below. Sometimes it would be blocked by a huge leaf, and the black liquid would roll along the veins of the leaf to the tip before dripping into the pool below.

The pool water, as black as ink, rippled and surged with each drop of black liquid. With each drop, a small, strange beast, about the size of a house cat, would crawl out from the edge of the pool, look up at Chen Mo, then turn and run off in another direction, disappearing into a cave.

It turned out that the small, cat-sized beasts he had seen in the cave had emerged from this pool. In fact, all the beasts must have originated from this pool.

As Chen Mo fought against the alien beast guards, he looked at the enormous plant and the brilliant red flowers at the top of the plant, and a strange sense of familiarity welled up in his heart.

What kind of talk is this? Have I seen it somewhere before?

After thinking for a long time, Chen Mo finally remembered that among the plants he had seen in the cultivation knowledge section of the Transmission Jade Talisman, there was one that had the same description as the plant he was seeing now.

This plant is called the 'Lycoris Radiata' (or 'Red Spider Lily').

The Yellow Springs Spider Lily needs to be planted in the earth's veins to grow and absorb the power of the yin spirits within them. It will only bloom after a hundred years of planting.

After the flower blooms, a kind of Yin Soul Water is produced within the flower sac. This water can nourish and repair remnant souls. However, the repair process is extremely long, lasting thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and may not even be fully completed. The length of the repair time depends on the amount of Yin Soul Water and the size of the earth's veins.

Even the degree of damage to the remnant soul can affect the repair time.

Although the repair process for the remnant soul is lengthy, once completed, the remnant soul can evolve and grow stronger, undergoing a complete transformation and becoming a rather unique existence. Whether it eventually returns to the body or exists independently, it can cultivate without bottlenecks and directly reach the Tribulation Transcending stage.

Moreover, after the soul is repaired, the probability of successfully passing the tribulation can be increased by 30% due to the powerful divine soul.

The Yellow Springs Flower will only bloom once in its lifetime. When the concentration of Yin Soul Water in the flower sac reaches a certain level, it will form Yin Soul Mist, which also has the effect of nourishing the soul and cultivating spiritual energy.

Furthermore, the Yellow Springs Spider Lily can generate Yin Soul Pearls, which can condense into life forms.

Of course, the life forms that are formed will be randomly generated if they are not controlled, and may even condense into various kinds of monsters and demons. If they are controlled, they will generate specific creatures.

It seems that the creatures condensed from this Yellow Springs Flower are the strange beasts before us. After all, these beasts were all formed under control.

Therefore, there should be a remnant soul inside the flower sac of this Yellow Springs Spider Lily!
After figuring out the name of the plant, Chen Mo understood what the strange beast cores he had obtained in the canyon were. They were actually Yin Soul Pearls, but each Yin Soul Pearl contained the remnant soul of a living being.

That's why the Yin Soul Pearl has those grooves and veins.

A pure Yin Soul Pearl is a black pearl that drips down, revealing its radiance, and it will not have any blood vessels or veins on its surface.

However, none of that matters. What is important is the Yin Soul Water in the Yellow Springs Other Shore Flower Pouch, which has great benefits for Yin Souls, Spirits, and other special soul forms.