Ice Stone Grass Bumper Harvest

At the very front of the line were mostly people from the major families and the top ten sects of Yuanling City who had come out to gain experience. After the entrance to the secret realm opened, Yuan Zhiyun, who was at the head of the line, took five people and entered with the very first batch.

Lin Xiao observed the people around him. The vast majority were Foundation Establishment cultivators, but there were also some at the eighth or ninth level of Qi Condensation mixed in.

Those Qi Condensation cultivators either had powerful backgrounds, accompanied by many Foundation Establishment cultivators entering with them, or they were people who saw no hope for their cultivation and wanted to go in and take a desperate gamble.

However, regardless of the backgrounds of these Qi Condensation cultivators, at this moment, they all uniformly began to put on various items of cold-resistant clothing.

The efficiency of lining up to enter was still very high. It wasn't long before it was Lin Xiao's turn.

Looking at the entrance to the secret realm right in front of him, he followed the line and took a step inside.

In the next instant, he only felt the scene before his eyes ripple, and it completely changed its appearance.

Immediately following that was a chilling cold that invaded from all directions, forming a stark contrast with the comfortable morning temperature outside the secret realm just moments ago.

This temperature difference caused even Lin Xiao, who was already in the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, to involuntarily break out in goosebumps, let alone those Qi Condensation cultivators.

He immediately circulated his spiritual energy, and the icy sensation on the surface of his skin instantly faded away completely.

It was no wonder those Qi Condensation cultivators had looked fully armed and prepared earlier.

Lin Xiao looked around. Everything in sight was a vast expanse of white. Nearby was hard, thick ice, and in the distance were glaciers of various shapes and sizes.

Not far away, a few people were walking in different directions, but there were not many of them, which completely did not match the long line outside the secret realm's entrance earlier.

Lin Xiao guessed that the people who entered must have been randomly dropped into different locations.

Fortunately, this secret realm opened every year and had a history of over a hundred years by now. Therefore, most of the areas within this secret realm had long been mapped out by interested parties and were sold in Yuanling City.

Those who formed teams also relied on these maps. After being separated upon entering the secret realm, they only needed to rush to a pre-agreed location to regroup.

Lin Xiao had also bought a copy of the map.

He had gone to Wanwantong, said to be the most authoritative information channel shop in the Southern Spirit Domain, to purchase it.

This was also his first time going to the so-called 'black market'.

It was a pity that time was limited, and his wallet balance was also limited. He hadn't dared to browse too much at the time, afraid he wouldn't be able to pull himself away, so he just bought the map and left. However, he still had a great desire to explore this black market. He planned to make preparations and go in for a good stroll after resolving Senior Liao Pantu's soul body matter this time.

As for this map, he had spent ten spirit stones to buy the intermediate version. It was a scroll, and when unrolled, it displayed a rather three-dimensional phantom image.

Since there was an intermediate version, there were naturally advanced and basic versions. The basic one was just a roll of paper marked with terrain and routes, priced at only one spirit stone.

The advanced one, on the other hand, was a jade plaque. Lin Xiao didn't know its contents because it was too expensive and he couldn't bear to buy it; its price was fifty spirit stones.

When he brought this intermediate map back, he found that although this map was said to have been calibrated and drawn over more than a hundred years, there were still some gray areas that had not been recorded or drawn by anyone.

However, these places were very few, only three or four spots, and their area was not large. Moreover, people estimated that very few people would drop into these areas upon entering, otherwise, it wouldn't be that no one who entered these gray unexplored areas over the past century had drawn their terrain.

This was what the clerk at Wanwantong had explained to him.

Because he had previously inquired about Wanwantong's authority in terms of information, Lin Xiao did not doubt the quality of their map.

Furthermore, he had later looked around and compared it in the market; this was indeed the most detailed map available regarding the Ice Field Secret Realm.

The cultivators who had just appeared in this clearing with him all hurriedly left, and suddenly Lin Xiao was the only one left in the vicinity.

But it wasn't long before a flash of white light appeared, and newly entered cultivators showed up near him.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao didn't linger in place and quickly left the area.

Before he could take two steps, Liao Pantu, who had been completely silent in his chest pocket, suddenly spoke up:

"I sense it! Turn a bit to the left quickly."

Hearing this, Lin Xiao obediently turned his footsteps to the left, deviating from the random direction he had originally chosen.

"Hold it, hold it, yes, yes, yes, this is the direction! Keep going straight, that's where my soul body is!"

Liao Pantu in the Soul-Nourishing Pendant was extremely excited, causing the pendant to flutter up and down in Lin Xiao's chest pocket.

If his soul body were to come out of the Soul-Nourishing Pendant right now, Lin Xiao guessed he would see him constantly jumping up and down on the ground.

Thus, Lin Xiao walked in the direction Liao Pantu pointed.

Not long after, Lin Xiao saw a vast expanse of white ahead, swaying in the cold wind.

Looking closely, he realized that this large patch of white was actually formed by a snow-white plant.

This plant was pure white all over, with long, narrow leaves and inconspicuous stems and roots. A single stalk had at least seven or eight leaves, and its length was about forty to fifty centimeters.

Its shape was very similar to a plant called Ice Stone Grass recorded in the Ice Field Secret Realm illustrated handbook he had bought in Yuanling City.

This Ice Stone Grass seemed to sell for one spirit stone per stalk in Yuanling City, yet here there was such a massive patch, spanning a full five acres...

Lin Xiao first took out his map for a glance, then surveyed the surrounding terrain, confirming that this should be a fringe area within the secret realm. Moreover, the map seemed to only indicate scattered Ice Stone Grass nearby, not the vast field right before his eyes.

However, when he bought the map, Wanwantong had also mentioned that every time a secret realm opened each year, there would be more or less some differences from before; this was an uncontrollable factor.

Lin Xiao could understand this kind of discrepancy. After all, this was the cultivation world, and anything was possible. Wanwantong just had more comprehensive information, but they weren't true immortals who had everything under complete control.

None of that mattered. What mattered right now was this field of Ice Stone Grass!

"Senior, do you mind if I harvest the Ice Stone Grass here first?"

Liao Pantu in his chest pocket gave a soft hum. Just as Lin Xiao thought he would continue urging him to hurry on his way, he heard him say:

"Go ahead and harvest it. We have to stay in this secret realm for fifteen days anyway, so there's no rush for this little bit of time."

Actually, with Liao Pantu's mindset of having his soul split for decades, he very much wanted to find his soul body as quickly as possible. But for whatever reason, he ultimately chose not to rush Lin Xiao.

Upon receiving this reply, Lin Xiao immediately spread out his spiritual sense to scan the surroundings. After confirming that there were no other cultivators within a radius of several hundred meters, he eagerly pulled out the spiritual sickle he had previously synthesized from his private inventory and walked toward this vast expanse of lovely, pure white Ice Stone Grass with shining eyes.