I am in Yellow Maple Valley, and I have a demonic beast clone!

Chapter Forty-Nine: A Year's Treasure Hunt and its Harvest! A Level Three Demonic Beast's Primordial Spirit!

Time flies, and a whole year has passed since Xiao Jin advanced to the second level of demon beast.

That year, Zhou Ding's life was as regular as a pendulum: cultivating the "Azure Origin Sword Technique", refining the "Hundred Beasts Body Forging Technique", studying the basics of formations, and occasionally trying to refine Foundation Establishment stage pills.

Although the success rate remains appalling.

But the most important thing is treasure hunting.

Every morning, he would take Xiao Jin out of the cave and venture deep into the Taiyue Mountains, exploring this primeval forest that stretches for thousands of miles inch by inch.

Xiao Jin's Earth Listening Technique can now precisely detect an area within a radius of eight kilometers. Wherever he goes, no buried medicinal herbs, mineral deposits, or relics can escape his notice.

Over the course of a year, they explored a quarter of the Taiyue Mountains.

The harvest was so abundant that it would make any Foundation Establishment cultivator envious.

……

On this day, Zhou Ding's escape light landed in a hidden valley.

The valley is not large, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and can only be entered through a narrow passage.

The valley was densely vegetated with hanging vines. If it weren't for Xiao Jin's ability to hear the earth and detect the anomaly, Zhou Ding would never have imagined that a treasure was hidden behind this seemingly ordinary mountain wall.

With a clear goal in mind, he went straight to a stone wall covered with vines.

Probing with divine sense, a clear fluctuation of spiritual energy was faintly emanating from a depth of about ten feet behind the stone wall.

Without wasting words, Zhou Ding flipped his right hand, and the golden blade transformed into a streak of azure light, piercing fiercely into the stone wall!

"boom!"

Rock fragments flew everywhere, and a crater more than ten feet deep was blasted into the rock wall.

At the bottom of the pit, a narrow crevice was faintly visible. Deep within the crevice, a strange, ethereal herb, entirely emerald green with translucent, creamy leaves, was quietly growing, emitting a rich yet refreshing medicinal fragrance.

"Sap Grass!"

A look of surprise flashed in Zhou Ding's eyes.

Condensing Grass is one of the main ingredients used to refine pills for cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage or even the early Core Formation stage to improve their cultivation.

This herb has extremely demanding requirements for its growing environment; it can only grow in places with abundant spiritual energy and constant dampness.

Judging from the number of layers of its leaves and its creamy texture, this condensed liquid grass is at least 500 years old!

Five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are beneficial even to Core Formation cultivators!

Zhou Ding carefully took out the jade shovel, dug up the condensed liquid grass along with the soil around its roots, put it into a specially made jade box, and sealed it properly.

He turned around and went to the other side of the valley.

The terrain here is even lower and more prone to water accumulation, forming a small swamp.

In the middle of the swamp, a withered old tree lay crookedly, most of its roots...