A life of leisure is worse than a life of flowers and splendour

After stopping his training and removing the formation, Du Shuangshuang began his shopping spree. He cast the Explosion Fire Technique in a direction as if it were free. Du Shuangshuang controlled the spell to avoid damaging the ground, otherwise he would not be able to walk on the bumpy road. He directly opened a flat road.

Each Explosive Flame spell would leave a dozen or so pieces of Wood Essence on the ground, and Du Shuangshuang was delighted to pick them up. An hour later, Du Shuangshuang had already walked a long way, but her spiritual power was beginning to run low. She had very few talismans in her hand, and she was reluctant to use them here. However, as time went on, the amount of Wood Essence she produced each time became less and less, and now she could only produce three or five pieces at a time. Du Shuangshuang simply took out the formation and hid inside to recover her spiritual power.

Du Shuangshuang tried the communication stone, but it didn't work. She immediately meditated to quickly recover her spiritual power. After all, time here was limited, and even if she stayed on the grassland, she would try to get more wood essence.

This thing is equivalent to a top-grade wood spirit stone. Top-grade spirit stones can be found, but wood essence is rare, and obtaining wood essence is much faster than digging for spirit stones. Having come across it, Du Shuangshuang naturally didn't want to let it go. Even if she could only get ten or eight pieces a day, it was still extremely cost-effective. Not only does wood essence contain abundant wood spiritual energy, it can be used as a top-grade spirit stone and even as a wood-type magic weapon when setting up high-level formations. Most importantly, those with wood spiritual roots can continuously refine their spiritual energy by using wood essence in cultivation, just like the difference between compressed biscuits and ordinary biscuits.

Normally, if you want to condense spiritual power, you need to suppress it hard when you advance, so as to achieve the effect of compressing the spiritual power, which will have a certain refining effect. Du Shuangshuang feels that every time the spiritual power is exhausted and restored again, his spiritual power will be a little refined, but the effects brought by these are very small, but it is better than nothing.

Du Shuangshuang couldn't wait to test the effects of the Wood Essence. Holding a piece of Wood Essence in each hand, the rich wood-type spiritual energy quickly poured into her meridians. As expected, the spiritual energy contained in the Wood Essence was exceptionally pure. As the spiritual energy from the Wood Essence flowed into her meridians, Du Shuangshuang felt as if her meridians had widened, and the spiritual energy flowed through her meridians much faster than before.

Delighted, she quickly increased her absorption of the wood essence. Before long, she could feel her dantian and meridians filling with pure wood spiritual energy. The spiritual energy adhered to the walls of her dantian and meridians, and these membranes gradually changed, becoming more resilient. The spiritual energy flowed freely across them, no longer causing the pressure so easily.

The amount of spiritual energy in his body was now about 1.5 times greater than before, which was fine, but if he continued to absorb it, he would feel uncomfortable. Du Shuangshuang knew when to stop and quickly stopped absorbing the spiritual energy. The wood essence in his hand only shrank a lot, not even half of it was used, and the other piece remained intact. This was really economical to use.

At this moment, a circle of grass spirits surrounded the formation. The grass leaves tried to poke at the formation boundary, as if they were very curious about what this thing was. The path that he had previously cleared was occupied by grass spirits again. It was green and no different from other places. However, Du Shuangshuang knew that there was no ordinary grass there now, only grass spirits that could eat people.

Du Shuangshuang was thinking about whether she could try to clear a clearing, then hide in the formation and wait for the grass spirits to enter. Then, she could cast a spell and all the grass spirits would fall, followed by a clatter of wood spirits. Just as she was thinking this, two members of the Demon Sect suddenly descended from the sky. They were not far away from her, and they quickly gathered together. With her current hearing, she could still faintly hear their conversation if she listened carefully.

Huh? The grass spirit didn't eat them. They both appeared to be at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, though one looked rather unsightly and eerie. Du Shuangshuang didn't dare to confront them head-on, so she stayed inside the formation, observing them.

Although they managed to adjust in time and didn't fall in a particularly awkward position, the imagined scene of being besieged by grass spirits didn't occur. They walked on ordinary grass like they were walking on ordinary grass. The grass around them was even sparser than elsewhere. Could this grass spirit be picky about its food?

These two lucky people were able to be teleported together, and they didn't seem to be strangers. How much virtue must have accumulated to be so lucky. The two of them walked and talked, and the direction they walked was exactly towards Du Shuangshuang.

"It's all grass here, this endless prairie. When will I ever reach the end? It's all the same everywhere."

"With such rich spiritual energy, there shouldn't be no spiritual plants. Let's look for them first."

Suddenly, one of them released a ball of demonic energy, heading straight for Du Shuangshuang, frightening her so much that her hair stood on end. She was already thinking about what to do if she was discovered, with several attack talismans already in hand and the Explosion Flame spell ready to be unleashed.

"What are you doing!" Another person saw it but it was too late to stop it.

"What are you afraid of? These things are obviously afraid of us. Don't you notice that they are hiding from us? What are you afraid of?" the man said indifferently.

"I'm so unlucky that I meet such a reckless man like you." The man said gritting his teeth, observing carefully as he spoke, ready to take action at any time.

The evil energy did not hit Du Shuangshuang, but hit a slightly taller clump of grass not far behind her. That clump of grass was particularly conspicuous among the grasses that were almost the same height everywhere. The grass in other places was only half a foot high, but that clump was more than a foot high. Looking closely, the grass was particularly lush and the leaves were particularly wide.

A sound that was sharper and louder than any other sound Du Shuangshuang had heard before rang out, and it felt like it was about to pierce her eardrums.

Du Shuangshuang seemed to see the ripples of the sound in the air, her mind swirling. Although Du Shuangshuang was close, the formation was blocking the way. The two men were in a terrible state, with blood oozing from the corners of their eyes, ears, and noses. If she hadn't been holding on, her legs would have given way and she would have sat down on the ground.

At this time, countless grass spirits no longer avoided the two people as before, but swarmed over them, stretching out grass leaves towards them, either to bundle or to tie them up.

The attacker quickly raised a banner, chanting "Hundred Ghost Banner Out." Black energy surged from the banner, and the same black energy swirled around the two men. The grass spirits that approached screamed and withered, but countless grass spirits continued to advance. The grass spirits surrounding Du Shuangshuang's formation and the path she had previously opened also ran away, revealing a long, bare road.

The Hundred Ghosts Banner was surrounded by the howling of ghosts and wolves, along with the screams of grass spirits, creating a piercing sound of demonic sound. The two demon cultivators continuously released demonic energy, but the grass spirits were too numerous and they were almost drowned.

At this moment, a formation suddenly rose up within a ten-meter radius around the two of them, and then they could hear nothing. They only saw grass spirits pouring in, but they had no idea what was going on inside.

Du Shuangshuang didn't plan to participate, so she just stayed in the formation and waited for something to happen.

Not long after, perhaps sensing the heavy casualties among its companions and descendants, the larger grass spirit let out another sharp cry and rushed towards the formation like a gust of wind. At the same time, Du Shuangshuang felt another powerful sonic attack, the force pounding her body like a surging ocean wave. Fortunately, the formation was there, otherwise she would have been killed by this sonic attack.

Du Shuangshuang could almost hear the grass spirit's rage and sorrow in that piercing scream. The voice was like a sharp sword, piercing her heart, sending a chill down her spine. The grass spirit was filled with grief and indignation for its fallen companions and descendants, and now, it was venting all that rage on the two demonic cultivators. Facing such a powerful grass spirit, Du Shuangshuang dared not move. She was as quiet as a cat within the formation, thinking, "As long as you don't come to me, I'll pretend I don't exist." There was no reason for Du Shuangshuang to rush forward.

Immediately afterwards, the grass spirit positioned itself outside the formation and launched relentless attacks. However, each attack not only placed immense pressure on the formation but also inflicted immense damage on the grass spirit itself. Each time it lashed the formation with its leaves, a circle of them withered. Over time, the formation began to destabilize, rippling with ripples until it finally broke apart under the grass spirit's relentless efforts.

By this time, the two demon cultivators within the formation were exhausted, their demonic energy nearly depleted. Their bodies collapsed on the ground, covered in a thick layer of wood spirit, completely powerless to resist. Ultimately, the two demon cultivators were impaled and strung together by the giant grass spirit's blades. Surprisingly, the grass spirit seemed uninterested in the two demon cultivators. Rather than devour them, it casually tossed them aside and returned to its original position.

As she walked, Du Shuangshuang felt it glance in her direction. Although it was just a blade of grass and her features were invisible, she could sense it. In an instant, she felt not only her sweat hairs but also her hair stand on end. Fortunately, it only glanced at her and then left.

"This grass spirit is so powerful!" Du Shuangshuang was secretly surprised. She originally thought that the grass spirit was just an ordinary plant spirit that could be killed in large numbers by her explosive fire technique, but she didn't expect it to have such powerful strength.

Du Shuangshuang knew it all when she saw the two demon cultivators killed by the grass spirit. She couldn't help but feel a wave of fear. If it weren't for those two demon cultivators who had let her discover the grass spirit's abnormality in time, if she had accidentally provoked it, she was afraid it would not let her go. With this in mind, Du Shuangshuang decided to temporarily abandon the idea of collecting grass spirits. After all, the grass spirits were too dangerous and not worth the risk. Moreover, the two cultivators killed by the grass spirits were no less powerful than her own, and their methods were not weaker. They also restrained the grass spirits. She was not sure she could escape unscathed if she faced them. Even they couldn't withstand the grass spirit's attack, let alone herself? Du Shuangshuang knew that her strength was limited and she couldn't take risks lightly.

But looking at the pile of wood spirits on the ground, Du Shuangshuang was tempted. There must be at least a few thousand of them here. If she didn't take them, they wouldn't survive. The big grass spirit wouldn't mind. It was probably not feeling well right now, probably recovering, and didn't have much energy to care about her. Besides, she had just made some small moves before, and it hadn't attacked her.

Du Shuangshuang retracted the formation. Outside, the grass was sparse and sparse. Just in case, she covered herself with a fire vest to prevent any grass spirits that had escaped from attacking her. Using ethereal, traceless footwork, she stealthily ran over. She collected the wood spirit and glanced at the large grass spirit, seeing it was still. She searched the two bodies again, ensuring they were clean and free of valuables, before fleeing without looking back. She headed away from the large grass spirit until her spiritual energy was mostly depleted, then she stopped to rest and recover.

The Explosive Fire Technique was used, clearing a gaping hole. Du Shuangshuang controlled the spell to avoid damaging the ground. Otherwise, it would create a huge pit and she would have to stay in it. That would definitely be uncomfortable.