I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 165 - 163: Cannibal Infant

Arriving at the place where the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng grows, Li Xing and the others finally saw Ye Qingting.

Releasing ice elements continuously for over ten days, even though Ye Qingting was a Heavenly Armor Primordial Spirit, he had reached his physical limit. If not for the superior Red and Blue Medicine given by Li Xing, he would have collapsed long ago.

Seeing Ye Chun leading three friends, Ye Qingting almost burst into tears and dragged his exhausted body forward, saying:

"Grandfather! Ah Xing, Ah Xiao, Xiao Ming! You, you finally came!"

Heaven knows what he went through these past days! Previously, he thought special training was hard, but now he really wants to go back to train!

Ye Qingting himself looked worse than in the video, with sunken eye sockets and sallow skin, drastically different from his usual sunny and handsome appearance. It’s no wonder Cui Tianxiao thought he had been drained by a female thief.

Alongside Ye Qingting guarding here were his uncle, Ye Family’s eldest son Ye Mubai, over twenty Ye Family Healing Masters, and two other hired Ice Elemental Spirit Martial Masters.

With such a big incident occurring, Ye Mubai, as the next Family Head, naturally had to oversee matters on the ground. Like Ye Qingting, he had been relentlessly busy since the incident happened, and his complexion looked terrible.

Seeing Ye Chun come, everyone gathered around. Ye Mubai greeted Ye Chun: "Father, you’re here."

"Mubai, come, come, let me introduce you. This is Li Xing, Master Li, the Great Healer! Whether the Ye Family can safely get through this crisis depends on Master Li!"

Li Xing really wanted to roll her eyes at him. Did he think she was a three-year-old child, using reverse psychology like that? This old man is quite cunning!

However, Ye Mubai was an honest person and respectfully said to Li Xing: "Master Li, great kindness needs no thanks. You should feel no pressure; regardless of whether you can resolve today’s crisis for the Ye Family, the Ye Family will always be in your debt. Mubai will repay you someday, no matter the cost!"

Li Xing quickly waved her hand: "Uncle Ye, you overstate it. Let me take a look first."

"Very well, Master Li, please!"

Ye Mubai led Li Xing to the ginseng garden, where she finally saw the true form of the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng.

According to the Hundred Herbs Atlas, the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng is a Spirit Grass formed by nature’s spiritual energy, full of spirituality. The ginseng’s body is identical to a human infant, with movable limbs, and on nights of a full moon, it can even emit cries similar to a baby’s.

Because the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng is formed by Spiritual Energy, the Heaven-defying Spirit Pill for breaking realms and advancing cultivation in the world of cultivation often uses it as the main ingredient. It is a highly precious Spirit Plant.

The ginseng garden was not small, and as Li Xing swept through it with her Divine Sense, she found no anomalies.

All the leaves of the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng were covered with a layer of white frost; originally lush and green leaves had now wilted.

If frozen for another two or three days, these Nine Curved Spirit Ginsengs would instinctively perceive the environment as drastically changing, no longer suitable for their growth, prompting them to rapidly flower, seed, and ultimately die. This entire expanse of Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng would soon no longer exist.

Ye Chun was right; she might truly be the Ye Family’s last hope.

To keep the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng in a state of pseudo-dormancy, the ice element must be used sparingly and frequently. As Li Xing observed the ginseng garden, the effect of the ice element had begun to weaken.

Seeing signs of the white frost melting, Ye Qingting gathered his spirit to apply the Ice Seal Technique again, but Li Xing stopped him. Though freezing the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng quieted them, it could also obscure clues.

"No rush, let me take another look."

After saying this, Li Xing took out a flower pot from her space and released the Big-mouth Flower, taking it along to carefully examine the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng by the fields.

Li Xing often let Hui Hui roam free from her pot, and Ye Qingting and the others were used to this, but the Ye Family’s Healing Masters were startled.

Among them, many raised or were currently raising Battle Pet Spirit Plants, and they knew that if a Spirit Plant were to leave its pot, it would either run away or attack.

This ugly flower, with its sharp teeth and a head almost as tall as Master Li, could swallow her whole if it went berserk!

The crowd exchanged glances, each harboring the same doubts, but with the Family Head and the young masters maintaining a calm air, saying nothing, they dared not gossip and could only watch with worry.

Li Xing couldn’t care less about what others thought, communicating with the Big-mouth Flower in her Divine Sense: "Hui Hui, do you think the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng has sentience?"

The Big-mouth Flower hunching its stem and moving with an aloof gait, followed behind Li Xing, appearing somewhat unsavory.

"They are Spirit Plants formed by Spiritual Energy, so they logically should have some. How intelligent they are, however, is unclear."

"If they have sentience, can you communicate with them?"

"I’ll give it a try."

Li Xing was delighted and immediately spread her Divine Sense to locate the oldest Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng in the garden, taking Hui Hui over.

The leaves of the Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng resembled a human hand, grouped in sets of five, with no more than six groupings of compound leaves. But this particular Nine Curved Spirit Ginseng had ten groupings, with its leaves much larger than those of other Spirit Ginsengs. Clearly, it was the Ginseng King of this patch.

Carefully digging the Ginseng King out of the soil, Li Xing couldn’t help but marvel. If she couldn’t feel the Spirit Ginseng’s absence of breath, she’d think she was holding a full-term baby.

Due to the freezing, the limbs of the Cannibal Infant were curled up, its head drooping against its chest, motionless. Li Xing gently shook it a few times; the Cannibal Infant’s tiny hands unfolded, its head lifted slightly to look around, then curled back up, not very lively.

Li Xing activated the Eternal Green Technique, channeling a small amount of Spiritual Energy into the Cannibal Infant, which gave a shiver, stretched its limbs, and fully awoke. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Finding itself grabbed by its stems and leaves, suspended in the air, the Cannibal Infant frantically waved its limbs, eager to escape, emitting cries of "wah wah."

But after a momentary struggle, the Cannibal Infant calmed down, relaxed its limbs, and turned its head towards the Big-mouth Flower. The ginseng and the flower eerily stared at each other in silence.

A few breaths later, the Big-mouth Flower’s voice echoed in Li Xing’s Divine Sense: "Master, it said there’s something underground!"

"What is it?"

The Big-mouth Flower shook its head: "It doesn’t know either, only knows that those things are still dormant, but once they wake, they will devour its kind until nothing remains. That’s why they are desperately trying to escape."

Li Xing pondered; this meant there were living creatures underground, and not just one!

"Can you get it to describe what those things look like?"

The Big-mouth Flower shook its head: "The Cannibal Infant’s communication ability is too limited. I only managed to gather these sparse details by asking repeatedly through guesswork. I can’t extract more information."

Li Xing extended her Divine Sense to investigate underground, attempting to locate the creatures the Cannibal Infant described. However, this land bore similarities to the swamp they had fallen into during the competition, effectively blocking Divine Sense.

Even though Li Xing’s Divine Sense had grown considerably since then, she could only probe a little over ten meters beneath the surface, finding nothing beyond worms and small Star Beasts like Earth Shiva.

Feeling helpless, Li Xing placed the Ginseng King onto the Big-mouth Flower’s head, contemplating while walking back.

The Ginseng King enjoyed being with the Big-mouth Flower, stretching lazily before curling up to sleep once more.