Chapter 92: Grade 4 Spirit Beast
He again started moving but this time with a slightly slower speed, as he did not wish to exhaust himself too much while encountering a Grade 4 beast.
He truly desired to battle an early-stage Grade 4 beast, for it would give him a good measure of his strength. It was already evening, and covering 1,000 miles even with his speed was a vast distance, not to mention he also had to slay some spirit beasts along the way.
The area beyond 1,000 miles was much less explored by humans. It was a given fact that there would be fewer spirit beasts, but every single one would be stronger than those before.
As he was moving, his eyes fell upon a pond. He had seen many ponds along the way, but this one was different. There was a single flower in it, and the size of the pond was also quite smaller.
The flower was in the center of the pond, and the area around it was frozen. He stopped and looked toward it carefully. As expected, it was an Ice-type spirit herb, and it was a Grade 4 herb in its late stage.
For a spirit herb to grow until the late stage this close to the 1,000-mile mark without humans finding it was quite dubious.
Usually, spirit herbs begin with the early stages of their grade, and if nobody plucks them once they mature, they will continue absorbing spirit qi, increasing their stages from early to peak stage before breaking through to the next grade and evolving. By then, their next seeds will also produce spirit herbs of evolved grade.
But since it takes immense time for spirit herbs to break through, not many can afford to wait that long. Thus, the only way this Spirit herb had reached the late stage was that it had not been discovered by anyone, or some spirit beast was using this spirit herb as bait.
Given how open this pond was, it definitely was the second option.
Jiang Hao had not yet felt any fatal danger through his instincts, which meant that if there was indeed a hidden spirit beast here, it had not shown any kind of aggression toward him.
The pond was about 50 meters away from him, so he should definitely be within its spiritual sense range.