Chapter 497 - The Herb Peak
There were many warehouses where the herbs were stored. This was a necessary part of the peak since most of the herbs took a long time to grow. Thus if they wanted a sufficient quantity and a stable supply, they needed to grow a lot of them at once.
Even the low grade spirit herbs needed few months to years to grow. While those that were of high grade would even need centuries to grow. Currently, the herbs that Lin Mu was seeing everywhere, were of either low grade or mid grade herbs.
These herbs were not as valuable as high grade herbs and did not have growth conditions that were as strict as those for the high grade herbs. The high grade herbs were grown in specific gardens that were well controlled by the elders of the peak.
As for the peak grade herbs, those were far too rare to be grown here. One could only chance upon them and not cultivate them. Though there were sometimes when a sect was able to grow a peak grade herb successfully. But any such instance was exceedingly rare, and repeating it would be taunting the heavens.
Not to mention the amount of time needed for a peak grade herb was far too much, often exceeding for a thousand years or more. Most cultivators were not even able to survive for that long.
Many plants had longer lifespans than animals. Even common trees could live for thousands of years if they never cultivated. Such was the blessing bestowed upon by the heavens, but in exchange, they did not have the movement or the intelligence that animals had.
Thus when these plants became spirit herbs and gained the ability to absorb spirit Qi, their aspects such as these were amplified further. Accordingly, they needed more spirit Qi the higher their grade was, because of which the higher the grade of the herb the further up they were grown on the Herb Peak.
The herb peak had only one vault, which meant that Lin Mu definitely needed to rob this one. The Pill peak had two vaults and the main peak had three vaults instead, so Lin Mu would have the option for those peaks. Along with these, there were six storage pavilions in the entire sect.
Two of these were the warehouses that were located in the herb peak, then the two pill repositories in the pill peak and the final two treasure pavilions in the main peak. Lin Mu would have to carefully pick his targets or he would never be able to complete his mission successfully.
Lin Mu continued on ahead and reached the second warehouse. This one was located halfway up the peak and was smaller than the previous one, which was understandable since the mid grade herbs took a longer time to grow than the low grade ones.
Lin Mu checked the security, which was obviously better than the previous warehouse’s.
"I will need more time to figure out the formations in this warehouse. If these are already this difficult, how will I open the vaults?" Lin Mu wondered to himself.
Lin Mu recorded the number of disciples guarding the warehouse as well as their patterns. Though there weren’t many changes to it, as they mostly stayed in the same place for twelve hours. Before a different disciple would replace them. There wasn’t even a lapse between the shift change as the second disciple would be here before the shift even began.
~Sigh~
"Let’s just see the vault and then on to the next peak." Lin Mu muttered to himself, feeling a bit overwhelmed.
He continued on ahead to the top of the peak. This was where the peak master resided and the core disciples lived as well.