Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 824 - 182: Peach Blossom Calamity_3

Aegean immediately discerned the true identity of this young girl—she was a human-formed Divine Beast who had cultivated from a "Wind System Green Jade Spirit Python," considered a high-rank Divine Beast, but hardly a match for the Beamon Sand Fire Cranes.

Just as eagles and badgers were on the Aegean Continent, on the Silk Continent, cranes were the natural enemies of all venomous insects, especially snakes. Fire Cranes possessed an exceptionally sensitive sixth sense for anticipating snakes; among all the snakes across the Silk Continent, ninety-nine percent of them, upon seeing a Fire Crane, would surrender as a mouse does to a cat, resigning themselves to their fate.

Although the "Green Jade Spirit Python" wouldn’t resign to waiting for death upon encountering a Fire Crane, fighting one was certainly a path to certain death.

This young girl had a name, a name that sounded extremely pleasant. Translated into Aegean Common Language, it was rendered as "Bai Suqing" or "Cypress Qing." In Beamon language, it meant "Qingya of White Jade."

Bai Suqing knew that the South Mountain had been occupied by the Beamon Sand "Eternal Aurora" Fire Crane. Over the years, the number of medicine thieves who had died here made this deep mountain infamous.

She too had come to steal the herbs.

Before he passed, an old mage had planted a type of herb with peculiar medicinal effects known as "Purple Ganoderma Grass" within these deep mountains. The sole benefit of this "Purple Ganoderma Grass" was to allow abstention from grains and promote longevity; the old mage himself had subsisted on this, drinking mountain spring water daily and leisurely living out over ninety years.

Starting from an unknown year, the medicinal effects of this "Purple Ganoderma Grass" had been greatly exaggerated among the people, morphing from a simple abstention from grains to rumors of "bringing back the dead and rejuvenating bones." Those with knowledge scoffed at such claims, but in this world, evidently, more people believed these legends.

In reality, deep within their hearts, they might not genuinely believe that such spiritual medicine existed in the world, but they still chose to believe the rumors.

The old mage had yet to ascend on a crane before two years passed, and then medicine thieves disguised as woodcutters, beggars, and heroes came to the mountain incessantly, contriving ways to steal a "Purple Ganoderma Grass."

Initially, Aegean always responded to pleas—healing with the grass stemmed from a compassionate heart. Aegean didn’t want to contradict this kindness, although he repeatedly emphasized that "Purple Ganoderma Grass" did not possess the miraculous effects of revival from death.

Of course, the freely offered "Purple Ganoderma Grass" could not possibly have the magical effects as the legends claimed; let alone "bringing back the dead and fleshing out bones," it couldn’t even cause a hair to grow!

Those who obtained the miraculous herb were originally overjoyed, but upon not achieving the effects they desired, these individuals became frustrated and angry.

Instead of considering the fundamental issues, they instead blamed Aegean for holding back, hiding the real miraculous herb........................ – Projecting their own thoughts onto others is a common trait among intelligent beings of the world.

Thus, the medicine thieves came again, this time to rob. Although Aegean was icy in demeanor, he was also quite approachable in human form, which unfortunately made him seem less intimidating to the medicine thieves compared to his Giant Crane form.

There were also Divine Beasts on South Mountain. Even if Aegean did not personally drive away these medicine thieves, the Divine Beasts of South Mountain would spontaneously take action, for even Divine Beasts knew how to curry favor and flatter.

Nonetheless, Aegean was not to be trifled with; the old mage hadn’t been wrong. There was a murderous aura between his brows. Aegean had once wanted to learn the "Floating Charm Technique" of Silk Continent from the old mage, deeply versed in mana. The mage pondered for a long time but ultimately did not pass on the technique due to the occasional slide of a strange, horrifying cold gleam across Aegean’s eyes, a sight which often made the old mage’s heart skip a beat.

The killed medicine thieves further proved the believability of the "Purple Ganoderma Grass’s" effects........................ – Ancient spiritual medicines were always guarded by the mighty Divine Beasts of the wilds. If there weren’t miraculous herbs, why else would so many Divine Beasts guard it on South Mountain?

As the number of thieves increased, so too did Aegean’s reputation grow.

It would be odd if Bai Suqing did not know this.

Bai Suqing’s cultivation was profound; even the joint efforts of South Mountain’s two high-ranking Divine Beasts, the "Ancient Clam" with six hundred years of cultivation and the "Vajra Moose" with five hundred years, could not stop her tender hand from reaching for the "Purple Ganoderma Grass"—not until Aegean appeared before her.