204: Picking medium-grade spiritual herbs

After all, steamed bun costing two thousand low-grade spirit stones each was truly... this wasn't eating steamed bun at all, it was clearly eating low-grade spirit stones!

And the kind where you gnaw on a pile of low-grade spirit stones.

Who could be so extravagant?

The three of them arrived at the front car, and seeing the incredibly familiar setup inside, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“Welcome aboard this train. Please sit down and hold on tight.”

“The fare for this car is one hundred and eighty low-grade spirit stones.”

The price had increased again, but this time, the increase was within Xiao Shen's expectations, so he wasn't particularly surprised.

Moreover, the interior of this car was so simple that even if the price increased, it couldn't possibly reach the high price of the VIP car.

“Three tickets.”

Xiao Shen took out their three train tickets, and the three of them prepared to take their seats.

“Look, there's also a strange microwave oven here, just like in the VIP car over there,” Liu Ling'er carefully noticed the microwave oven.

They had seen it in the car behind them just now, but there were no signs on it, and they didn't know what the buttons were for. Plus, their attention was on the menu at the time, so they didn't bother with it.

“Let's cultivate first. We'll check it out when the time comes,” Zheng Jinfeng was eager to cultivate and didn't want to waste a single second.

“Right, let's cultivate first. Let's go,” Xiao Shen also thought the same... After Wang Yi and his group got off the green train, they went to do a mission. Since Gu Mingzhu already knew about the green train, they no longer kept it a secret. They took on a team cooperation mission, and the goal was to defeat a fifth-tier fierce beast and obtain the spirit herb it guarded.

The beast crystal could be kept for themselves, and by submitting the spirit herb to the guild to complete the mission, they could receive a reward of over three thousand low-grade spirit stones.

This reward was actually optional for Wang Yi, but for Ge Yunying and Feng Zhi, it was not a small sum.

“So the guild Outside the Bastion also issues missions to collect spirit herbs,” Gu Mingzhu was very curious about everything Outside the Bastion, and it was her first time going to a guild.

“Hmm, I heard that the guild is backed by people from the Martial Artist Training Base, but I don't know who exactly.”

Compared to Gu Mingzhu, Wang Yi knew more about these things, but he wasn't clear about the deeper details.

“Martial Artist Training Base?” Gu Mingzhu felt like she had been constantly shocked since she came out of the Wall, never stopping.

Principal Liu didn't seem like the kind of person who would support a large-scale organization like a guild!

And she had met Principal Liu's son, Liu Chen. To be honest, she felt that although he had good strength, his way of dealing with people was not very good, not even as good as Wang Yi.

“Just hearsay,” Wang Yi shook his head, indicating that he also didn't know the inside story. In short, he went to the guild only to earn low-grade spirit stones; everything else had nothing to do with him.

Seeing that he also didn't know the specifics, Ge Yunying thought about asking her senior brother when she returned to see if he knew.

The four of them arrived together at the location of the fifth-tier fierce beast. They saw a thick, sturdy tree standing there, which looked to be at least a hundred years old.

And beside that large tree was the spirit herb they were looking for this time, emitting a faint glow.

Most of the spirit herbs in the Inner Circle were of medium grade, and there was a high possibility of guardian fierce beasts around them. This spirit herb was no exception.

“Roar—”

Sure enough, just as they approached the spirit herb, a loud roar shook the ground.

“Everyone, be careful,” Wang Yi quickly retreated, spreading his arms and saying.

Everyone quickly prepared for battle, taking out their weapons.

“It's a fifth-tier fierce beast,” Gu Mingzhu recognized it at a glance.

“Roar!!”

A Cloud-Piercing Tiger with mottled patterns on its body appeared before everyone. Its expression was very displeased, as if it was complaining that these people had disturbed its cultivation.

Wang Yi and the others didn't recognize this Cloud-Piercing Tiger, but if Lin Feng were there, he would have recognized it at a glance—this was the fourth-tier Cloud-Piercing Tiger, A-Hu, that had dared to provoke him when he was in the Outer Circle!

And now that A-Hu could appear in the Inner Circle, it meant that it had reached the fifth-tier.

Actually, A-Hu should really thank Lin Feng, because if it weren't for Lin Feng's collision back then, A-Hu wouldn't have flown into the Inner Circle, and naturally wouldn't have just happened to smash to death the Jade Chicken, which was originally the spirit herb's symbiotic fierce beast, when it fell.

With the symbiotic fierce beast dead, A-Hu swallowed that spirit herb, breaking through to the fifth-tier!

The Jade Chicken's corpse was also eaten by it, and the Jade Chicken's beast crystal even became a resource for its cultivation.

A-Hu thus began to roam the Inner Circle, but whenever it encountered the green train, it still didn't dare to show its head.

Perhaps it was the effect of that spirit herb, but A-Hu always felt that its strength had improved a lot, and it had also become sharp-eared and keen-eyed.

Later, it defeated the symbiotic fierce beast of another spirit herb and wanted to devour a spirit herb again, but found that for some reason, it had been bound as the symbiotic fierce beast of this spirit herb.

It couldn't eat it, nor could it let others snatch it away, so A-Hu had no choice but to guard it here, truly becoming the symbiotic fierce beast of this spirit herb.

“Be careful, this Cloud-Piercing Tiger doesn't look simple,” Gu Mingzhu narrowed her eyes. She had learned a lot of theoretical knowledge, and her teacher had once talked about some fierce beasts mutating. She suspected that the Cloud-Piercing Tiger in front of her was a mutated fierce beast.

“There are four of us. Miss Mingzhu and I are stronger. The two of us will distract the Cloud-Piercing Tiger, and Yunying, you and Feng Zhi will be responsible for taking the spirit herb amidst the chaos, understood?”

Wang Yi was indeed worthy of being the leader of the team. In a flash, he had already formulated a plan and clearly assigned tasks to everyone.

“Okay!”

Since it was a team cooperation mission, there had to be a captain, and what the others had to do was obey.

Gu Mingzhu's expression was solemn. Although she had once fought with the fierce beasts kept in the manor's fighting arena in the City Lord's Mansion, those were all domesticated, and there were higher-level Martial Artists guarding them during the fights, so the situation was completely different.

This was her first time truly facing a wild fifth-tier fierce beast.

It was conceivable that this would be a difficult and tough battle.

But even so, she had never been afraid!

“I'll count to three later, and we'll strike first!” Wang Yi didn't even turn his head, his gaze fixed on A-Hu.

Gu Mingzhu said tacitly, “Okay!”

It was their first time cooperating, yet it was as if they had cooperated countless times, so tacitly. Perhaps this was the communication between masters?

Ge Yunying, who was preparing to move towards the spirit herb, saw this scene and couldn't help but feel a little sour.

However, this bit of sourness was quickly covered up by nervous emotions. The most urgent task now was to seize the opportunity to get the spirit herb, otherwise, if this Cloud-Piercing Tiger truly erupted, they would not have a good outcome.