236: Fog Grass, Fog Spirit

In the thick mist, the vegetation grew incredibly lush, yet strangely, there were no signs of any living creatures, not even common insects. The entire primeval forest-like environment was eerily quiet.

In this primeval forest that seemed to never change, the mist suddenly churned, and then indistinct figures appeared, accompanied by faint, rustling sounds.

"Every time I come to Shennongjia, I feel a shiver down my spine. Do you feel that way too?"

"Isn't that obvious? Any normal person coming here would be scared. I actually admire those ordinary people who dare to show up here without any supernatural powers. If it were me, you couldn't pay me to do it."

"Let you starve for two days, and you'd obediently come in yourself."

"By the way, have any of you encountered the White-Haired People? The few times I've come in search of mist grass, I haven't seen them."

"It's hard to encounter them on the outskirts, of course. Last time, I teamed up with a few people and went deep inside to look for mist grass, and we did encounter the White-Haired People."

"Holy cow, you guys are awesome! You really dared to go deep? You know, several Fourth-Level Experts teamed up before and never came out."

"People die for wealth, birds die for food. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to come out and collected a lot of mist grass. Otherwise, I'd still be second level now. Even my Talent was upgraded to a D-grade Talent by exchanging mist grass for a talent upgrade stone."

"Dude, how much mist grass did you collect?"

"Actually, not much. The main thing was I collected a very large Mist Spirit, which I directly traded for a D-grade talent upgrade stone and a hundred experience stones."

"I have a question I'd like to ask. What exactly are these mist grass and Mist Spirit you're talking about?"

"You must be new here, so it's normal not to know. After all, these are special treasures unique to our Shennongjia. These mist grass are actually mist-like plants that grow within the mist of Shennongjia. From a distance, they look no different from white mist, and it's very difficult to distinguish them from the mist. You can only observe them up close."

"Mist-like plants? That's amazing! These things can actually be exchanged for talent upgrade stones. Do they have some special effect?"

"Of course, otherwise how could they be so valuable? The mist grass here generally has two uses. One is to treat mental injuries; it has a miraculous effect on recovering from mental damage. The rarer the mist grass, the better the effect. The second is to enhance mental power; it can be seen as increasing mental attributes. But ordinary people can also use it. After taking it to a certain extent, ordinary people can also gain some supernatural abilities, such as extremely sharp five senses, and even gain mental vision and mental attacks. However, for the latter two, taking more ordinary mist grass is useless; higher-grade mist grass is needed, such as the Mist Spirit I obtained earlier."

"Increase mental attributes, heal mental injuries, gain mental vision, mental attacks!" The young man in the assault jacket's eyes burned with eagerness. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he said, "Can these mist grass be cultivated? If so, if we kill the White-Haired People and get a piece of land, wouldn't that be..."

The middle-aged man next to him smiled, "You're clever, but mist grass cannot be cultivated, nor does it have seeds, and we don't even know where it will appear. But there's one thing: if you obtain mist grass, you can find a place to continue cultivating it. The older the mist grass, the more valuable it naturally becomes. If it transforms once and reaches the level of a Mist Spirit, its value will skyrocket. Moreover, the deeper it's cultivated in the mist, the better it will grow."

The young man in the assault jacket, who had been disappointed by the first half of the conversation, had his eyes light up again after hearing the latter half: "Then wouldn't that mean, after acquiring a piece of land, one could recruit their own forces, search for mist grass, and then bring it back to their territory to cultivate!"

"Of course, after all, isn't that what the major powers are doing now? Otherwise, why do you think a small piece of land has such immense appeal? And acquiring a stable piece of land in Shennongjia isn't just about cultivating mist grass."

"Then what else is there?" The young man in the assault jacket asked curiously.

"Use mist grass to feed livestock and cultivate Mist Spirit!"

"Mist Spirit?" The young man in the assault jacket chewed on the two words, about to ask another question, when he suddenly heard a sharp shout from ahead!

"Everyone, gather immediately! Do not exceed one meter in spacing!"

Hundreds of people instantly tensed up and quickly gathered. Some who had been searching for mist grass along the edges of the main group, hoping to take advantage of the crowd, also immediately returned.

The mist suddenly thickened a few shades. Originally, people could be seen from dozens of meters away, but now, nothing was visible beyond ten meters, only a vast expanse of white.