Chapter 694 - Wood Spirit Tulip
Five minutes had passed since Lin Mu began his search through the jade slip but he was still unable to find anything in it.
"Hmm... it’s not in this." Lin Mu said while furrowing his brows.
The record that he had just checked was the one that Jing Wei had given him and it had most of the information of spirit herbs that he could find. In fact, if the information was present in this record, Lin Mu would have already recognized the spirit herb with his eyes.
But since he didn’t he thought that he had missed one of the herbs or forgotten about it.
"I’ll need to check the other records. But keeping it in this manner is not viable." Lin Mu said.
"Send it into the ring. The spirit herb should be fine, unlike beasts. As long as it has a small source of spirit Qi it will stay calm." Xukong suggested.
"Ah yes! I’ll do that." Lin Mu said before storing the onion like herb into the ring.
Little Shrubby had been watching Lin Mu’s hand without moving and saw the herb suddenly disappear. His eyes went wide and he quickly snapped his neck around looking to see if the herb had escaped or something.
"Don’t worry. I kept it in the ring. I’ll take it out once we know what it really is." Lin Mu said seeing the lost little Shrubby.
For example, a herb of the fire element is weak to water and thus it would reside in a habitat that was strong against water which was nothing but earth. It was a rather unique phenomenon in which a herb chose to live and grown in an environment that wasn’t actually its own element.
And all of this just because they had a great fear for the opposing element. While the author had been unable to gather any of such herbs he did theorize that if these herbs came into contact with objects or spirit Qi of the element they were weak to they would instantly die.
This would happen, no matter how strong those herbs really were or how high their rank was.
The onion like herb Lin Mu caught was alone one such herb and had been described in the book. It was one of the only handful of herbs that the author actually managed to find and observe enough to write it down.
Since he was the first one to find the herb, he named it the wood spirit tulip. It looked just the same as what Lin Mu had caught except that it also had a vibrant green flower at the top.
’The one I got should be an immature one which has not blossomed yet.’ Lin Mu reckoned.
While there was no flower at its top, the herb matched all the features such as the onion like bulb, long brown roots that moved around like whips and green stalk and leaves.
But to confirm further, Lin Mu withdrew the spirit herb from his ring and held it back in his hand.
~rustle~ rustle~
It tried to escape again, but could not. Lin Mu used his spirit sense to probe the spirit herb and realized that it had wood attribute spirit Qi within it.
"Just as I thought. The Wood Spirit Tulip is of the wood element and is weak to the metal element, thus it is residing in an area rich in the fire element which is the Hong Lin forest.." Lin Mu analyzed.