Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 1348 - 134 Shadow Vine and Dragonblood Flower

Chapter 1348: Chapter 134 Shadow Vine and Dragonblood Flower

"These are shadow vines, a type of vine that’s quite drought tolerant and avoids light. They have a high tolerance for the Energy of Death, but it’s hard to imagine it would be to this extent." After descending the last sand dune and traversing the cracked earth, she finally got a clear view of the grey plants covering the ground and preventing desert erosion. They were vines spread flat on the ground, and although they looked thin, they possessed great toughness. Catherine, who had never encountered this type of plant, tried to break off a vine, and found that even with her Legendary Rank strength, she had to exert a lot of effort just to barely snap one, suggesting that a single vine could bear a weight of hundreds of kilograms. Pannis took the vine from the knight girl’s hand, tossed it aside, and patiently explained, "Shadow vines that haven’t been processed shouldn’t be touched too much, they’re poisonous, and the toxins accumulate in the body, making it troublesome if you come into contact with it too much."

"Don’t just throw it away." The vine hadn’t even hit the ground when it suddenly levitated, drifting lazily towards Vivian. The mage girl gave Pannis a displeased look, caught the flying vine, and carefully placed it in a special box, complaining, "This is a rare material, especially fresh shadow vines; they’re hard to come by in the market."

"Hahaha, don’t fight, these things are everywhere here," Mr. Ghost, not understanding the group’s dynamic, thought there was an argument and intervened, "If you find them useful, you can take more when we leave. For us, these things are just for feeding mounts or making into ropes for tying stuff, not very useful. Take as much as you want."

"Really? Then I... hey, hey, Pannis, stop pulling me." Catherine hadn’t finished speaking when Pannis forcefully dragged her away by the collar, all the while she loudly protested, "Let go of me, my gold coins, all of these could be gold coins!"

"There’s something even more valuable ahead, what are these shadow vines compared to that," Pannis, still pulling Catherine along, whispered mysteriously, "Do you see that patch of red crops? That’s the real gold mine. You can’t imagine how much those crops in that small field could fetch. I bet if you knew about them beforehand, you might have fainted the instant you saw them."

"It can’t be that exaggerated," Catherine, with her heart racing, quickly ran to the edge of the field and crouched down, gazing lovingly at the plants in the field, "I’ve just realized how pretty these little red flowers are. What exactly are they?"

The knight girl saw a field of red flowers. In the field were similarly vine-like plants, snaking across the ground with their dark grey vines and leaves tightly covering the black soil, making it hard to distinguish between the two. Because of this, the clusters of red flowers seemed to burst forth directly from the earth itself.

Yes, the flowers were red. This was the first time everyone had seen brightly colored plants since entering the Death World. In this world without sunlight, it was nearly impossible to find normal green plants like in the outside main world. Given the intense Energy of Death, the group was prepared to not be surprised if all the plants were shades of grey, white, and black. On the contrary, seeing the red flowers gave them quite a shock.

"It really is the dragonblood flower. I’ve been suspecting it since we saw it from a distance, and this is just too great." Vivian knelt by the field, her gaze at the dragonblood flowers even more affectionate than Catherine’s, "Moreover, there’s such a large patch. If all of these were made into potions, it could practically heal everyone in the Yarran World at once. It’s just too great. If I could just pick one or two flowers, the several experiments I’ve been envisioning could all start immediately. I’m almost beside myself with excitement."

It was clear that the dragonblood flower was also an extremely rare alchemy potion in the Yarran world, so rare that even with Vivian’s status and financial resources in the Mage Guild, it was difficult to acquire even a few flowers. This plant was said to have been first discovered beneath the skeleton of a Guardian. Because of its bright red color, resembling blood, the discoverer mistook the flower for a condensation of dragon’s blood and thus named it the dragonblood flower. Of course, this was merely a coincidence. Later research concluded that this plant, like the Bone Mushroom, sustained itself by absorbing the Energy of Death. However, unlike the Bone Mushroom, they were infused with the Energy of Death throughout, and if a common person ingested even a small piece, they would die instantly and had a high chance of being transformed into Undead. Once the plant absorbed enough Energy of Death it would bloom, and its flowers were completely different from the plant itself. Perhaps due to absorbing an excess of the Energy of Death, the energy representing life inside the plant was all compressed into the flower. Then by blooming, it expelled this conflicting energy from its body. Therefore, the red flowers contained abundant Life Force and bright energy, making them a very useful Alchemy Potion, but because they were so rare, few people ever used them.

"Do you remember the Life Force Potion? It was the bottle Pannis smashed when we first met him," said Vivian. "That recipe included dragonblood flower as a very important ingredient."

"Hey," Pannis said with a sidelong glance, "Don’t think I don’t know you switched the mission item with that ineffective potion you got earlier, and now you even dare to bring it up."

"What are you talking about?" Vivian blinked innocently, "I don’t understand a thing."

"Rattle, rattle, rattle," While they were arguing, a small skeleton, busy directing three bodies to work on the ridge of the field next to them, walked over curiously, waving its hands at Mr. Ghost and the members of the adventure team, seemingly trying to say something.

"Ah, very smoothly, the supplies have all been delivered," Mr. Ghost could understand the content that the skeleton couldn’t verbalize, and spoke with joy, "Yes, these are the visitors we met at The Door Home. I really didn’t expect guests to visit so soon after the door just opened."

The small skeleton was only a little taller than Little Deer and was showing great Passion at the moment, extending both hands to everyone. Catherine was taken aback, recalling the goblin etiquette mentioned in one of her decorum classes, and hastily shook the skeleton’s hand, with a polite smile, "I am honored to visit your village, my name is Catherine, these are my teammates and family, and I hope our visit does not trouble you."

"Rattle, rattle,"

"He says it’s not a bother," Mr. Ghost translated. "He’s just seen you looking very curious by his flower field, so he came to ask if there’s anything he can help with."