“We have to do it here?”, Kai Min asked timidly. Zhan Chen nodded with a serious expression. Kai Min saw the expression of Zhan Chen and knew Zhan Chen was not playing around.

“I will listen to you”, Kai Min spoke softly.

“Take a little rest. I am going to pick up a spirit fruit”, Zhan Chen spoke. Kai Min nodded her head and stretched her hand towards her clothes.

Zhan Chen’s action was faster than her hands. He picked up her clothes from the group and placed them on the stone bench. “Thank you”, Kai Min looked towards Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen chuckled and cupped her beautiful face with both of her hands. He took a quick taste of her beautiful lips and dashed towards the northern end of the herb mountain.

Kai Min stared towards the fading silhouette of Zhan Chen and a look of longing appeared in her eyes. She was known as a strong and cold hearted girl but noone knew it was a facade. 

She had to show her strong appearance Infront of everyone. She needed to be strong to support her family amidst her hypocrite clan members. This was the first time that she was feeling like she could rely on someone. The aftertaste of Zhan Chen’s kiss was yet to fade from her lips. Kai Min blushed slightly as a sweet feeling appeared in her heart.

After leaving Kai Min on the stone bench, Zhan Chen dashed forward towards the northern part of the herb mountain. He was using the Ethereal cloud steps to move forward. His figure floated away like a cloud as he dashed forward in the northern direction.

Zhan Chen stopped after reaching the northern end of the herb mountain. He passed through many level four and level five herbs but he didn’t stop near any of them. His target was clear. He was hear to pick up the seven Yang golden fruit.

Zhan Chen looked ahead and saw a small spirit herb ahead. There was no other spirit herb nearby. There was not even a single weed near the spirit herb which occupy the northern corner of the herb mountain for itself.

Zhan Chen felt curious about the appearance of this small herb in the herb mountain of Cleansing Incense ancient sect. The small herb ahead of him was Golden Yang tree which was famous for its rarity in the cultivation world.

The spirit herbs were divided into seven grades and Golden Yang tree was ranked at the peak. It was a grade seven spirit herb. Compared to other grade seven spirit herbs, golden Yang tree was considered much more precious as it was quite difficult to find a Golden Yang tree in this cultivation world.

Zhan Chen was feeling curious since he discovered this small Golden Yang tree in the herb mountain of Cleansing Incense ancient sect.

It was common knowledge among alchemists that Golden Yang tree could only survive in extreme yang condition but the appearance of Golden Yang tree in the herb mountain made Zhan Chen curious.

Zhan Chen spread his soul consciousness and tried to find out any irregularities in the surrounding. But no matter how much he tried, he couldn’t find anything abnormal in the surrounding of the Golden Yang tree.

“Am I missing something? How is it possible for a golden Yang tree to appear in a normal condition?”, Zhan Chen thought to himself.

Zhan Chen felt confused but didn’t give up. After attentively looking for sometime, he found an array formation below the golden Yang tree. The array formation was built brilliantly. It was made in such a way that even Zhan Chen couldn’t find it’s existence even with his sage level soul consciousness.

Zhan Chen’s eyes lit up with interest as he observed the array formation below the Golden Yang tree. “Divine symbols!”, he exclaimed in surprise after observing the array formation for a moment.

‘There is such a method to use divine symbols in array formation!’, Zhan Chen thought to himself. He observed the complete formation and finally found out the source of Yang energy. It was the skull of an unknown beast which was proving Yang energy to the Golden Yang tree. The array formation was laid out to guide the Yang energy to the Golden Yang tree.

‘The formation techniques of this Cleansing Incense ancient sect is a never before seen kind. I most find a way to get my hands on these techniques’, Zhan Chen decided in his mind. After sorting out his thinking, he didn’t wait any longer.

He walked towards the Golden Yang tree and stretched out his hand after reaching near it. The technique to harvest the fruit of Golden Yang tree was special and other would find it difficult to harvest the fruit even if they discovered the golden Yang tree.

Zhan Chen also didn’t have anything that could store the fruit of Golden Yang tree. Normal wooden case couldn’t hold the fruit of Golden Yang tree and it would crack after the fruit was stored in it.

Zhan Chen knew the property of the fruit of Golden Yang tree very well. So, he didn’t try to pluck it and store it. His planning was simple yet dangerous. He was planning to directly consume the essence of the fruit.

There was a golden coloured fruit on top of the small Golden Yang tree. If one looked carefully, then he or she could find six distinct lines in between the dazzling golden colour.

Every line proved the growing time of Golden Yang fruit. The fruit had six lines. It meant the golden Yang fruit was six hundred years old. 

‘Fortunately, it is yet to mature. Otherwise with my current cultivation stage, I dare not eat a golden Yang fruit with seven lines on top of it’, Zhan Chen thought to himself.

The Golden Yang fruit melted slowly under the soul fire of Zhan Chen. It would have taken only few minutes if it was some grade four or grade five spirit herbs but the Golden Yang tree was a grade seven spirit herb.

The golden Yang fruit was yet to mature but it still had reached grade six. Zhan Chen took almost an hour to melt it into essence liquid.

The fist sized fruit turned into few drops of essence liquid. Zhan Chen didn’t put away the golden coloured liquid. It was a fact that he had not prepared a suitable container with which he could store the essence liquid of Golden Yang fruit.

He took a long breath and a determined look appeared in his eyes. He opened up his mouth and swallowed few drops of essence liquid gathered from the Golden Yang fruit.

(To be continued…..)