Chapter 698 - 633: Stepping onto the Peak 42 (4,000 Words)_3
Just like the Wine Plum, the Beast Spirit Fruits growing in the Secret Realm have hung on the branches for an unknown time due to the lack of Magic Beasts to eat them, and ordinary wild beasts being uninterested. Though they’re just ordinary Spirit Fruits, they’ve become comparable to top-grade spiritual fruits.
Tan Shuangshuang picked all the Beast Spirit Fruits from a tree and placed them into her Space Bracelet. These are food for Fei Hu, and Tan Shuangshuang couldn’t bear to share them. While she was picking, Fei Hu watched eagerly from below. Its claws were sharp, and it couldn’t manage the task of picking spirit fruits.
After feeding Fei Hu two Beast Spirit Fruits, it purred happily like a cat and nuzzled with Tan Shuangshuang for a while, then coaxed two more Beast Spirit Fruits from her.
After feeding Fei Hu the fruits, Tan Shuangshuang prepared to continue searching for Spiritual Medicine with Fei Hu. However, Fei Hu tugged on her pant leg, refusing to let her leave, trying to pull her toward the canyon ahead. Tan Shuangshuang realized there must be something valuable in that canyon.
But Qian Mu and Ling Zhan were still following her, which was a bit inconvenient. Tan Shuangshuang thought that if there were valuable things in there, such as Spiritual Medicine, she wouldn’t be greedy and try to take everything for herself. She would put the Spiritual Medicine in her Storage Bag to submit to the Wuji Sect. However, if the medicine was beneficial to Fei Hu, she might selfishly keep at least half.
But all this relied on nobody being with her when she did it. Now, with Qian Mu and Ling Zhan nearby, unless Tan Shuangshuang wanted to reveal her Space Bracelet, she couldn’t afford to act.
Tan Shuangshuang glanced back at the people still following her, thought for a moment, then simply turned, picked up Fei Hu, and left. As expected, the two hurriedly followed, but Tan Shuangshuang didn’t give them a chance to catch up. She utilized her Martial Master Fourth Rank power and soon left Qian Mu and Ling Zhan behind.
Tan Shuangshuang didn’t plan to travel with anyone when she entered the Secret Realm this time. She was well aware of the small abacus Qian Mu and Ling Zhan were computing. Their gratitude towards Tan Shuangshuang was real, but their intention to rely on someone powerful like her for safety in the Secret Realm was equally real.
She didn’t mind saving a life in passing, but being a caretaker protecting two youngsters was out of the question. Tan Shuangshuang didn’t have that kind of patience.
After chasing Tan Shuangshuang for a segment and still losing her, Qian Mu and Ling Zhan sat in frustration. The Secret Realm was unexpectedly dangerous. They originally planned to rely on Tan Shuangshuang for safety and refused to leave, no matter what she said, pretending to be ignorant.
Little did they know Tan Shuangshuang would use such a direct method to shake them off, but they understood that she firmly didn’t want to travel with them. After a moment of frustration, they realized they had to rely on themselves to explore and proceed in the Secret Realm.
After ditching the two tails, Tan Shuangshuang happily returned to the canyon she found earlier. Upon entering with Fei Hu, she discovered, much to her chagrin, that the valuable find was an extensive orchard of Beast Spirit Fruits.
It took Tan Shuangshuang a full ten days to pick all these Beast Spirit Fruits, showing how many there were in this place. Such low-tier Spirit Fruits weren’t the most urgently needed items for the sect.
Similarly to the Secret Realm discovered by the Tan Family, the Wine Plum Tree’s fruits were precious, but they couldn’t resist the allure of Spiritual Medicine. Unless a Secret Realm had been thoroughly scoured many times, low-grade fruits like those of the Wine Plum Tree went uncollected.
No one wanted Spirit Fruits taking up limited Storage Bag space; everyone preferred to gather as much Spiritual Medicine as possible over a heap of Spirit Fruits, as Spiritual Medicine was always more valuable.
After collecting the Beast Spirit Fruits, Tan Shuangshuang continued to gather herbs with Fei Hu. If she found Spiritual Medicine, she put it in her Storage Bag to submit everything to the Wuji Sect. Spiritual Medicine was of highest value to the sect, and she wouldn’t indulge in keeping any for herself.
However, if she came across delicious Spirit Fruits, Tan Shuangshuang wouldn’t hesitate to keep them all for herself. After all, no one else in the Secret Realm was picking Spirit Fruits, and even top-grade Spirit Fruits were seldom collected since they weren’t as useful or valuable as Spiritual Medicine, leaving them conveniently for Tan Shuangshuang.
That day, while Tan Shuangshuang and Fei Hu were searching for Spiritual Medicine and Spirit Fruits, they came across a cave entrance. When Tan Shuangshuang passed by, she suddenly had a strange feeling, as if there was something inside the seemingly ordinary cave calling to her!
The feeling was incredibly peculiar, and Tan Shuangshuang couldn’t describe it. She stood at the cave entrance, unable to move, sensing that whatever was summoning her inside was exceedingly important to her.