Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 19 Artemisia selengensis
Shortly after.

The waiter brought the food and drinks to the table.

Because Zao Wou-Ki was preoccupied, he did not say a word during the meal and just focused on eating.

Shao Xin focused all his attention on Oscar and did not notice anything unusual about Zao Wou-Ki.

Oscar did notice the strange atmosphere at the dinner table, but due to his age and experience, he didn't understand why.

The three of them quickly finished their dinner and went back to their hotel room to sleep.

……

Day two.

Lin Rong and his group entered the Star Dou Great Forest in the Tiandou Empire, while Oscar and his three companions entered the Star Dou Great Forest in the Barak Kingdom.

The Xingdou Great Forest is located directly south of the Tiandou Empire, and the Barak Kingdom is to the southeast.

The Tiandou Empire was connected to the territory of the Barak Kingdom.

Therefore, the locations of Lin Rong and Oscar's groups in the Star Dou Great Forest are roughly in the same area.

But even so, given the vastness of the Star Dou Great Forest, the distance between them is at least seven or eight hundred kilometers.

Normally speaking, Lin Rong and his group would not meet Oscar and his three companions.

But the area where Oscar and the other two were located happened to be a place that the secret guards searched less frequently.

As luck would have it, the search route that Lin Rong planned after unfolding the map turned out to be the area where Oscar and the other two were.

Walking in the Star Forest.

Fresh air blew towards us, the smell mixed with the fragrance of grass and soil, making people subconsciously forget that this is the primeval forest where soul beasts roam, and thus inadvertently let down their guard.

Just on the outskirts, there is not a single tall tree around that is less than twenty meters tall.

The dense forest is overgrown with weeds and there are no paths for people to walk on; the ancient trees around block out the sun, and the swaying shadows of the trees make the entire forest environment look dark and deep.

Among the group, half of the guards were leading the way in front, and the other half were guarding the rear.

Lin Rong walked in the middle of the team.

The old butler did the same, following Lin Rong closely.

As for the secret guards, they naturally went to the front to explore the way and search for intelligence.

While walking, Lin Rong took out the map from time to time to check it, wondering how long it would take to gain something.

That’s right, it’s about how long it will take to reap the rewards, not whether you can reap the rewards.

Because of this trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Rong did not plan to go back until he obtained the second soul ring.

The team was not large, with only fourteen people including Lin Rong and the old butler.

Among these fourteen people, except Lin Rong himself, the rest are at least a four-ring soul master.

Although Lin Rong's soul power is only level 20, with the old butler, the soul master, leading him on the journey, he will not become a burden to the team.

Instead, it was the guards who slowed down Lin Rong and the other two's journey.

Therefore, the team only advanced for half a day before Lin Rong decided to split the troops into two groups.

The twelve guards formed one team, and Lin Rong and the old butler formed another team.

The two teams searched separately.

The guards were slow, so they searched the first half of the planned route.

Lin Rong, accompanied by the old butler, hurried on the journey and went directly to search the second half of the planned route.

Without the burden of the guards, the old butler took Lin Rong and hurried on their journey.

A few hours later, Lin Rong and the other two arrived at the area where Oscar and the other two were.

……

"Xiao Ao, your first soul skill is the soul power recovery sausage." Shao Xin put his hand on Oscar's shoulder and said, "But in battle, what we face is not only the problem of soul power consumption, but also the various insidious and vicious means of the opponent, the most common of which is poison!"

"Therefore, your second soul skill had better have the effects of detoxification and healing."

"In nature, there is a medicinal herb called Artemisia selengensis, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling."

"When Artemisia selengensis becomes a plant soul beast, this effect will be even more powerful. It is the best choice for your second soul ring."

When Shao Xin reached this point, he turned his head to Zhao Wuji.

"Also, Lao Zhao, Artemisia serrata likes a warm and humid environment. I'd like you to take the trouble to look for more places like this. There's a high chance that soul beasts like Artemisia serrata can grow there."

Zhao Wuji, who was walking in front and clearing the way, said without turning his head: "I know! I know! You old man really ask for too much."

The three of them searched in this way and indeed found a lot of wild wormwood, but their cultivation was not high, basically less than a hundred years old, with a few being over a hundred years old.

Shao Xin expected Oscar's second soul ring to be around five hundred years old, so the three of them passed over the wild wormwood plants that were over a hundred years old and looked for their next target.

Lin Rong was looking for bamboo and gourd vines that had mutated into spatial properties, and Oscar was looking for wild wormwood that was around 500 years old.

These three plants all like warm and humid environments, and they are in the same area.

Therefore, as time goes by, the distance between them is getting closer and closer.

Two or three hours passed in a flash.

Somewhere in the Xingdou Great Forest, on the shore of a large lake, there grew a large clump of wild wormwood.

These wild wormwoods grow tall and strong, just like trees.

Oscar and the other two walked into the weeds and soon disappeared.

The wild wormwood on the outskirts of this wild wormwood patch is over a hundred years old. As the three of them go deeper, the age of the wild wormwood that appears is also increasing.

One hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years...

When they came to the center of the wild wormwood bush, they saw three wild wormwoods that were about five hundred years old entwined around a sky-blue bamboo.

This bamboo is not tall, only about one meter long, while the wild wormwood around it is at least three or four meters tall.

Thick sagebrush completely obscured the view of the area.

If you don't come and walk in this wild wormwood bush, no one would have thought that there is a bamboo growing here.

Shao Xin has lived long enough to know that the world is full of wonders and he doesn't care why the bamboo grows there.

He was only thinking about Oscar's second soul ring, so he told the two people around him:

"Old Zhao, thank you very much. Go and pull one of the three Artemisia spp. that is wrapped around that bamboo."

"Remember to be gentle, don't kill the wild wormwood."

"Xiao Ao, when Lao Zhao pulls that wild wormwood over here, you should rush over and give it a final blow while it's still alive. Got it?"

Zhao Wuji waited for Shao Xin to finish speaking, then walked straight to where the bamboo was.

Five meters, four meters, three meters...

The moment Zhao Wuji walked within one meter of the bamboo, a dazzling silver light flashed.

The dazzling silver light made Zhao Wuji close his eyes subconsciously.

When he opened his eyes again, the bamboo that was originally entangled by the three wild wormwoods had disappeared.

"Space soul beast! Space soul skills!"

Zhao Wuji was knowledgeable and quickly realized what had just happened.

"It is so intelligent that it actually knows to use this wild wormwood bush to hide its existence."

"However, the soul power fluctuations that the bamboo just exploded were very weak, only close to the range of a thousand-year soul beast."

"I've never heard of this kind of soul beast before. Could it be a new species that has mutated?"

(End of this chapter)