Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 183: Herbal Garden

"Viper, I can sense another crowd not far from here, let's go rob them"

Knight said and the three of them didn't delay any further and flew to the place on their swords where Knight sensed the people were gathering. They could feel that the space in this spatial zone wasn't that big, but had very vigorous Life energy. There were ancient green pines and trees that the three of them didn't recognize were three hundred meters tall, shooting through the air above.

After flying for five or six minutes, they saw many people heading towards the same direction, making the place crowded all of a sudden.

"Wolf, Viper, I think they are from the Star Empire"

Arrora pointed out a group of people as Don and Knight saw the symbol star on their chests.

"Why are they all wearing a star emblem?"

"I've heard the people in star empire wear their empire's emblem, it's mandatory there"

"Oh"

It wasn't a surprise for Don as he had already been notified by Joel that the people from Star empire also entered the dungeon with them but he forgot to tell Arrora.

This spatial zone was a deeper zone than the previous one. They could see that many cultivators had already entered into this spatial zone.

"Let me quickly make sure that there's no other entrance to this realm"

Knight said and bolted away in a flash.

"Wow, he's super fast"

Arrora didn't know that Knight could fly at this speed 

"Can he fly faster than you?"

She curiously asked

"Yes, he is faster than me"

"Really?"

She was surprised to hear that Knight could fly faster than Don.

"I was right, there is no other entrance"

Knight appeared in a few minutes after flying around the realm

At this time, one group greeted another group quickly after they saw them. One of them said, "Brother Phil, it seems like there is some sort of treasure in front, why are you all not going there yet?"

These two groups were the disciples of Gepria, the school of alchemy and medicine, and had no idea that Don, Knight, and Arrora was listening to them from above.

When the three of them approached the area where the crowd was, they saw a huge herb garden. He remembered the time when he visited an Island in the divine continent, there was also an herb garden there, but the difference in size between this one and that herbal garden was large.

This huge herb garden had a radius of more than 10 miles. Its internal part was grown with rare and invaluable herbs. Many of the herbs were full of pure life energy and nutrients needed for a cultivator's body and soul, and one could roughly tell how old these herbs were with just one look.

"Fuck, this garden is at least 10 miles long in all directions! There are herbs everywhere, and many of them look really old! If this garden was located in our world, all superpowers would be at war for this garden"

There was even an Orange Galangal that transformed into a small humanoid, it kept on bouncing around in the herb gardens, which made those who were watching drool.

"Holy shit! This is a great treasure! Look at that Galangal! It has grown into its essence, if I can eat it, my body will evolve again!"

A cultivator licked his mouth. The cultivators were all aiming for the jumping Orange Galangal, they were prepared to be the first one to catch and eat it.

A student from Gepria joyfully started laughing. He stretched his arm forward, grabbing toward the blood witch Fruit. However, right before his palm could touch the fruit, a light curtain suddenly appeared and stopped the student's hand. At the same time, the man was struck by a backlash and was forced several steps backward.

On the other side, another student drooled like a dog that saw a juicy piece of meat and tried to grab a herb that was in front of him, but he too was stopped by a light curtain. Just like before, the backlash made him take a few steps back before he could steady himself.

"Fuck, that really hurts"

"Haha, idiots, all these herbs are protected by a defense spell! You won't be able to put your hands on them until you break the spell "

Don was looking at the scene calmly from above without getting noticed by the group.

"All these newcomers are just idiots"

Arrora recognized the voice, she looked down and saw Aster leading a group towards the garden.

Some people started laughing. Aster and her friends seemed like they knew how to dispel the spell because of their arrogant look on their faces.

"Let us show how a core disciple handle the spell, Sister Aster give these kids a demonstration"

Aster smiled and drew a symbol onto the light curtain covering the Emerald spearmint herb. Immediately, the light curtain began vibrating, then it shattered right afterward. The girls behind Aster looked proud with a smug on their faces as Aster gently picked up the herb and put it inside her space ring.

" Why do all these herbs have to be protected by a spell?"

A youth complained to his friend beside him.

"Without it, do you think there would still be so many herbs here? Not to mention this is only a garden with a ten-mile radius. Even a 50-mile radius garden would be emptied in an instant if there were no spells to protect them. Every single herb here is protected by a defense mechanism, meaning we have to break the mechanism before we can get the herb. Also in some places, according to the rarity of the herb, how many years it has grown, and its value, the strength of the defense mechanism will be different as well. For the herbs with a higher value than others and who are also old, their defense mechanisms will be more difficult to break, I'm pretty sure this place also has a mechanism like that"

The other youth explained with a gloomy look on his face.

Indeed, Don, Arrora, and Knight saw many youths restlessly trying to break the defense mechanisms of those high-value herbs. One of them stood in front of a Spider grass, and his face had turned red and had sweat all over it. No matter how much life energy he used, he just couldn't break its defense mechanism even though he used a similar spell-like Aster.

"Viper, what's your plan? Should we go down and try to break the mechanism? I think if we used our full strength we could shatter the spell"

Don shook his head because he didn't want to reveal too much of his strength at this early and he had a feeling that Aster didn't dispel the spell for a show.

"No, let's wait a few minutes, I have a feeling that Aster would make our lives better"

While they were waiting for Aster to make a move, she looked around the place

"Sister Aster, are you searching for someone?"

One of the girls behind Aster asked

"I thought there will be more people here, I hope nothing happened to them"

"I don't think so Sister Aster, but you have a good heart "

Hearing the girl, Arrora wanted to jump down and cut the girl and Aster down as she didn't lift a finger when she was caged by Brian.

"If she has a good heart, I'm a goddess "

Arrora gritted her teeth.

"Alright, my fellow alchemists and cultivators, why don't we help each other?"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Aster

"If we don't work together, we will miss the chance of taking these herbs with us and waste this opportunity so I'm suggesting, me and my sisters will help you break the spell and gather the herbs, and when we get out from here, we will share the herbs with each other, me and my sisters will take a forty percent of the herbs and don't worry, Gepria will distribute the remaining sixty percent fairly to the rest of you "

The youths from Star empire looked gloomy since they neither had the knowledge to break the spell nor heard of Gepria.

"And brothers and sisters from the star empire, please avoid being in moon empire's way"

Aster deliberately put the word moon empire to unite the youths of her empire and prevent them from ganging up on her group.

"You can take your help and shove it up"

"Watch what you're going to say next, brother"

One youth from the Gepria warned the youth from the Star empire. Unfortunately for the star empire, the people of the moon empire outnumbered them two to one so they had to swallow their pride to avoid fighting a losing battle.

The youths of Star empire looked at them with rage in their eyes but they didn't choose to fight and went back to try to break the spell on their own.

"Good luck everyone"

One girl behind Aster giggled as Aster looked at the youths of the moon empire.

"So what do you say, my friends? If you don't take us our help, it's only your loss because me and my sisters would fill our rings with rare herbs and get out of here while you waste your time trying to break the spell and end up with nothing"

Even though many of them didn't like to share the herbs, they had no other option considering none of them had the skill to break the spell. However, if they agreed with Aster, at least they would end up with some herbs rather than nothing.

"But what if you take all the rare herbs and give us the common ones?"

One youth asked as some of them nodded and looked at Aster

"First my friend, there are no common herbs here, second, no we will not take all the rare herbs, we'll take Ocra Grain, Tulleo Grass, King's Safflower, Demon Cassia, Fade Chives, Wolf Cress, Cinder Lavender, Rain Seed, White Mace, Storm Ginger, Lake Dill Seed, this is non-negotiable"