I Can Use Myriad Divine Abilities-Chapter 262: Bumper Harvest

Putting away the General-Slaying Saber, Zhang Yuan took down his travel bag.

He pulled out a short-handled medicine hoe.

This short hoe was specifically used for digging various herbs, an essential tool for a medicine gatherer.

Zhang Yuan had purchased it from the medicine shop in Ruins City.

But now, he wasn’t using the hoe to collect herbs at all.

He was digging soil!

Digging the dirt beneath his feet.

One thrust of the hoe, and a large chunk of humus-rich soil overturned.

Zhang Yuan wielded the hoe like the wind, digging downward at an astonishing speed.

The mysterious creature had just been slain underground by him.

He had to see if there were any spoils left behind.

In a very short time, Zhang Yuan dug three feet down and discovered traces left by the creature.

But it was only a large patch of foul-smelling, dark green liquid seeping into the soil, without any apparent value.

Zhang Yuan did not give up because of this and continued to dig deeper.

Until he reached a depth of about five or six feet, a pitch-black tunnel appeared in his view.

This tunnel had a diameter of about three feet, almost perfectly circular, and its walls were covered in slime, resembling the passage left by some large soft-bodied animal.

So Zhang Yuan continued to dig against this tunnel, enlarging it, and pushed forward step by step!

Although the creature didn’t leave anything behind, it must have a lair somewhere.

Zhang Yuan’s intention was to uncover the creature’s lair.

There might be an unexpected surprise!

As time passed, the sky gradually darkened.

Zhang Yuan not only did not stop his actions but continued to dig deeper along the tunnel.

Taiwu Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, hiding countless birds, beasts, and bizarre creatures in the deep mountains, traditionally a forbidden area for humans.

Only experienced hunters and skilled, daring martial artists dared to venture slightly into the mountains.

To gather herbs, hunt beasts.

But even the bravest hunters and martial artists do not dare to stay overnight in the mountains.

Because the night belongs to the mysterious creatures!

Yet, Zhang Yuan continued to dig for the lair after dark, not because he was ignorantly fearless.

It’s essential to know that mysterious creatures, like wild beasts, have a sense of territory.

Typically, in the area occupied by a strong creature, there won’t be any other creatures of the same level or stronger.

Creatures also fight, kill, and even devour each other.

Only low-level creatures would roam in small groups, disturbing other beings.

Thus, after Zhang Yuan eliminated this creature, this area would be very safe for a short time, and returning to Ruins City would be a waste of time.

Even if other low-level creatures appeared, they wouldn’t be a match for him!

And the creature’s lair was deeper than Zhang Yuan had expected.

He dug the whole night, reducing his Qi Blood by more than a third.

Only after digging over ten Zhang deep did he discover an underground cavern.

This cavern wasn’t large, its walls smeared with dark green slime, and the air inside was terribly unpleasant, making Zhang Yuan feel like he was inside the stomach of some giant beast.

At any moment, he could be digested by the stomach acid.

He had to switch to True Qi internal circulation for breathing to avoid feeling nauseous.

However, the surprise was right before his eyes!

In the cracks on the cavern’s floor, he saw dense clusters of green-stemmed leaf grass, each leaf surface showing strands of gold thread as thin as hair.

Gold Thread Dendrobium!

Zhang Yuan recognized it immediately.

Since the long-term Daoist Merit mission he accepted from the Celestial King Hall required precisely this type of dendrobium.

Strictly speaking, the task required three types of dendrobium.

Copper Thread Dendrobium, Silver Thread Dendrobium, and Gold Thread Dendrobium, the Gold Thread Dendrobium being the most valuable, with the richest Daoist Merit!

These three types are of the same species, merely differing in the years of growth.

At a glance, Zhang Yuan found that over eighty percent of the dendrobium was Gold Thread.

The rest were all Silver Thread.

Jackpot!

Suppressing his inner delight, he immediately began digging up these invaluable herbs.

Dendrobium, unlike wild ginseng, does not require intact, undamaged excavation, just keeping the main stem intact is sufficient.

Thus, Zhang Yuan’s excavation was swift, using the hoe to pry open the rocks, then inserting bone fragments into the crevices to lift them up.

All the dendrobium in the cavern was completely cleared out!

Initial estimates show over two hundred Gold Thread Dendrobium, nearly fifty Silver Thread Dendrobium.

Taken back to the Celestial King Hall, they could surely be exchanged for a large sum of Daoist Merit!

Though the Xia Ruins Celestial King Hall belongs to the Daoist Lineage,

its collection of Martial Arts Techniques not only is plentiful in number but also high in tier.

Although Zhang Yuan has already obtained the heritage of the "Primordial Celestial Spirit True Method,"

he still wants to exchange for a Qi Entry Realm Saber Technique.

Also a Fist Technique or Palm Technique.

As the saying goes, the more skills you have, the greater your advantage. With the elevation of his Cultivation Realm, Zhang Yuan needs to update his Martial Arts Techniques to match his tier, to face increasingly powerful foes.

So Zhang Yuan’s adventure into Taiwu Mountain, apart from herb collection and hunting to pay off debts,

primarily aimed to earn Daoist Merit to exchange for Cultivation Techniques.

Unexpectedly, on the first day of entering the mountains, he practically achieved both targets!

When Zhang Yuan dug up the last dendrobium, he suddenly noticed in the cavern’s corner a plant resembling a succulent, like a houseleek.

Initially, Zhang Yuan didn’t pay much attention.

Since the gains of the past day were substantial enough.

He wasn’t a man of endless greed!

But this thing seemed somewhat familiar to Zhang Yuan, though his memory was a bit fuzzy.

So he picked up the medicine hoe and cleared the rubble and soil beside this "succulent."

The result was that the more he dug, the more intrigued he became!

The plant above was short, but the root was not only robust but also exceedingly long.

It twisted and turned, penetrating deep into the mudstone.

Due to the increasing difficulty of excavation, Zhang Yuan had to channel True Qi into the medicine hoe to break through the hard layers of rock.

To dig out the entire root intact.

It was over four feet long, the thickest part nearly as wide as his arm!

At this point, Zhang Yuan had confirmed the identity of this thing.

Cistanche!

Cistanche is also a precious medicinal material, although not as valuable as ginseng, it’s a Yang Fire attribute, precisely what martial artists cultivating the Qianyang Technique need as an auxiliary resource.

And the "Primordial Celestial Spirit True Method" that Zhang Yuan currently majors in belongs to the Qianyang Technique category!

In other words, this cistanche could be used by him personally.

Cistanche underground grows an inch every three years, a four-foot length meant it had grown for a hundred and twenty years.

And the cistanche Zhang Yuan dug out was more than four feet long!

From the earlier wild ginseng to the current dendrobium, and now cistanche, Zhang Yuan felt he had truly hit the jackpot this time.

A genuine bonanza.

He wrapped up the cistanche and, with half a rucksack of dendrobium, returned to the surface with satisfaction.

But Zhang Yuan did not leave immediately.

Instead, he summoned the Red-eyed Crow to search the nearby area again.

Since he was here, he might as well make it a full gain!