Ordinary observers in fast time travel

The area in front of us is extremely empty. Compared to the dense thickets of jungle, it is pitifully empty, even compared to the grassland.

Apart from the open space created by the battle between two high-level beasts, the vegetation in the rest of the area was pitifully sparse. However, it is worth mentioning that there is a sizable lake in the center of this open area.

The lake water was clear, but there was no sign of animal activity.

There's definitely danger in this lake!
Shi Jia looked away.

Huh? "What's that?!"

About ten meters away from the lake, under a huge rock, a plant was growing. It emitted a faint blue light and was shaped somewhat like an orchid, giving people a sense of purity and beauty.

He couldn't help but breathe softly, yet his steps involuntarily drew him closer to it.

One step, two steps, three steps...

Soon, he squatted down in front of the plant and reached out his hand...

"Snapped!"

Shi Jia was startled. Upon closer inspection, she saw a small, blue-green snake. The snake was currently bound in a pretzel shape by the aerial roots of the sapling, while the sapling was "sitting" on it, emitting a faint green light that conveyed a subtle joy to Shi Jia.

Shi Jia couldn't help but feel a lingering fear. "Thank you, little sapling!" After sensing that the little sapling seemed to be absorbing energy, he looked at the plant again.

This time, however, he was much more cautious. He first used his spiritual sense to observe the area and only reached out to pull it out after confirming that there was no problem.

Upon acquiring the plant, Shi Jia felt an overwhelming desire for its gentler yet more powerful energy than the Azure Crystal, making him yearn to devour it immediately.

"rustle"

Suddenly, a sound came from the woods, and Shi Jia quickly put the plant into the mustard seed bag.

"Little sapling, it seems someone is coming. Let's get out of here quickly!" Shi Jia said, looking around before finding a spot where the thorns were less dense and crawling inside.

Yes, he didn't try to catch the sapling and ran off on his own. Well, it must be a tacit understanding he developed with the sapling in the previous world: the sapling can't stray too far from him, and the sapling will catch up on its own!
The sapling left behind shook its leaves anxiously, bending its body as if observing the little snake. The bound snake stared with its vertical pupils, seemingly resigned to its fate.

The sapling shook its leaves again, and as it watched its owner disappear, the sapling vanished from its spot, along with the bound blue-green snake.

The somewhat nervous Shi Jia was completely unaware of the extra thing above her head.

Of course, he also failed to discover the scene of the vines and thorns devouring the two blue-tiered beasts after he left.

About fifteen minutes later, several sword lights flashed, the vines that were devouring the turbid beast were cut off, and the group of five entered the area.

"Madam Lanxin, the guardian beast here is dead," Aqui said in surprise.

Madam Lan Xin frowned. "Go find the Spirit Melting Grass quickly."

The Spirit-Melting Grass resembles orchids in appearance, but it has the ability to fuse energy and promote the improvement of energy levels. It is usually made into special pigments by spirit painters. When a spirit painter advances, this pigment is used to draw corresponding totems or arrays on the human body to help the spirit painter advance.

This Spirit-Melting Grass was the main reason she came to the Black Zone from the Blue Zone. Unfortunately, she had been in the Black Zone for nearly two months without any success. A few days ago, her subordinates accidentally learned of the Spirit-Melting Grass's whereabouts, and she immediately brought them there.

However, she seemed to be a step too late.

Madam Lanxin's gaze fell upon the mangled corpse of the beast beside her, a bad premonition rising in her heart. Her eyes lingered on the beast's head, where a crack had appeared. The crystal was nowhere to be seen!

He's a spiritual painter!

Madam Lanxin quickly looked around, her gaze soon settling on a boulder a dozen meters from the lake. She darted to the boulder and stood before it. She stared at the damp, loose soil beneath the boulder and a small depression beside it.

She crouched down and placed her hand on it. The next second, her expression changed, and her breathing became rapid.

"Madam, I haven't found it here."

"Madam, I didn't either..."

"Madam..." Madam Lanxin took a deep breath, "There's no need to look anymore, the Spirit Melting Grass has already been dug up."

"What! Damn it, it must be that information broker who sold us the information." Aqui was furious upon hearing this.

Madam Lan Xin said with a stern face, "Don't be impulsive. The matter of the Spirit-Melting Grass should not be made public." The information brokers knew their identities and would not sell the information to a second person. Unless the other party was a member of the Purple Clan, no, even if it was, they would not risk offending them by selling the information.

They are most likely other people exploring the Black Zone.

"Madam, there's a path here, and a tattered snakeskin." A guard exclaimed, and they rushed over.

Lady Lanxin glanced at the snakeskin, then stared at the narrow path through the thorns, barely wide enough for one person to pass, and murmured in thought, "A low-level spirit painter? How is that possible?"

"...Madam, Madam!"

Madam Lan Xin frowned and glanced at her subordinate. "What is it?"

The subordinate quickly and respectfully retreated. "Madam, this snake should be a blue-rank turbid beast. It should have been strangled to death by the thorn vines." He looked at the thorn vines slowly wriggling in the woods and swallowed.

"Hmm, has Qingjing disappeared too?"

"Yes."

Madam Lanxin nodded, "Go along this road and take a look. Be careful to conceal your presence so as not to provoke the mutated thorns."

"Yes."

"Ah Kui, search the other areas and see which direction that person left from. Judging from the condition of the two beast corpses, that person shouldn't have gone far," Madam Lan Xin calmly instructed. Now that she had come, she couldn't possibly leave empty-handed!

No matter what, she must find the Spirit-Melting Grass!
"Yes!"

A kilometer away, Shi Jia stopped, panting. "Phew, I hope I haven't been discovered yet?" He looked back at the dense bushes and thorns, and the footprints he had made that were particularly noticeable in the gaps between the bushes, and felt very uneasy.

Will those people come after us?

Upon considering this possibility, Shi Jia's heart pounded like a drum.

No, we can't let them find out!
If only he could restore those trampled plants. Shi Jia subconsciously took out his paintbrush and sketched a few lines on the bushes, but immediately dismissed the idea. With his current painting skills, he simply couldn't blend the painting with its surroundings. Besides, the things she conjured would disappear after a while.

Wouldn't that be a waste of effort?
"Oink oink~" Suddenly a pig's squeal came from behind. Shi Jia quickly turned around and saw a tusked boar munching on wild grass in the bushes not far from him.

Behind it, the grass had been ravaged beyond recognition.

Shi Jia's eyes lit up. That's right, since it can't be restored, why not just destroy it?

She immediately took out her drawing board and with a few strokes drew a not-so-good-looking tusked pig. As the tip of her pen touched the lines, colorful light shone, and the tusked pig on the paper became full and jumped to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Its shape and size are half the size of the one next to it.

"Oink oink~" The little tusked boar made a sound that Shi Jia couldn't understand. A tusked boar not far away, which was eating wild grass, suddenly looked up at it, a hint of disbelief flashing in its eyes. "Oink oink~" it cried out, its voice somewhat shrill.

The next moment, a series of pig squeals came from the jungle.

Shi Jia was startled—a group of pigs! She quickly had the sapling lead her to a nearby tree. Meanwhile, the little tusked pig had already begun to destroy the marks he had made, just as he had instructed.

The big tusked boar seemed very angry and was charging at the little tusked boar.

Shi Jia, who was hiding in the tree, was a little worried.

Suddenly, a loud "boom" shook the earth, and then a group of huge tusked boars rushed out of the forest and charged straight toward the little tusked boar.

Shi Jia's worry instantly turned into joy. (End of Chapter)