The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

Chapter 37 Spiny Beast

After arranging the salted fish, Shen Yao immediately took out a large tree branch and prepared to leave Lishui Ridge.

Shen Yao jumped onto the tree trunk and asked the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle, "Sect Master, can you pinpoint the location of the high-level exotic beast?"

The golden beetle replied, "No, they are constantly moving, and they are moving very fast."

'They'? It seems there are indeed more than one. Shen Yao unleashed her full spiritual power and quickly ascended into the air.

Seeing that the forest beneath her feet was already very far away, Shen Yao finally felt relieved and flew towards Lishui County.

Before they had gone far, the golden beetle shouted, "Girl, be careful!"

Shen Yao glanced away and saw a strange beast soaring into the sky from the forest below. She hurriedly dodged, but the beast still rammed her head into a tree branch.

The large tree branch, struck by the impact, fell uncontrollably downwards, and the ugly, terrifying beast also fell down.

This strange beast can actually affect the flow of spirits!

Shen Yao felt a chill in her heart. This must be the high-level beast that the sect leader sensed. This beast cannot fly, yet it can jump so high!

Furthermore, it can even affect the flow of spirits!

I don't know how long this strange beast can restrict a cultivator's spiritual energy flow. If it can keep affecting them, then if I fall down, I'm afraid my chances of survival are slim.

Shen Yao felt that she had been in this world of cultivation for many years, and it would be too shameful if she needed the sect leader to protect her before even starting a battle!

The enormous beast fell into the forest first, its massive body crushing a patch of trees.

Shen Yao looked down at the advanced-level beast and felt a wave of nausea wash over her...

What a load of rubbish!

It's absolutely hideous!

In the forest, there was a thick, long worm, which looked like a long lump of skinned meat.

The flesh has white stripes of varying lengths, and as the insect wriggles, it looks like a long lump of rotting flesh crawling with maggots!

At this moment, this long mass of rotting flesh crawling with maggots stood guard in the forest, its large, tooth-filled mouth wide open, waiting for Shen Yao to fall down.

The fangs were of varying sizes and covered in an unknown sticky substance.

Such an ugly thing, growing in the world of cultivation gods, simply lowers the standard of the entire plane!

Purple Cloud Golden Beetle: "It is a high-level exotic beast, the Spiny Beast."

Shen Yao: "The Spiky Beast? What are its tricks?"

Purple Cloud Golden Beetle: "It can suppress a cultivator's spiritual energy for a quarter of an hour every hour... You're about to fall into its mouth, quickly turn around and get out!"

Unable to use her spiritual power for a quarter of an hour, Shen Yao had no choice but to use her movement techniques to evade.

As it retracted the large tree branch, it flipped several times in mid-air and landed on the forest floor not far from the thorny beast. It immediately got up and ran away.

The nearby trees and plants were crushed by the thorny beast, and Shen Yao ran at full speed toward the nearest dense forest.

The Spiny Beast waited with its mouth wide open for a long time, but showed no sign of wanting to eat. It then closed its mouth, revealing its round, fleshy head with three intersecting white stripes on it.

The white stripe on the head of the Spiny Beast spun around a few times, and sensing that its prey had escaped, it flew into a rage, wildly slapping its body in all directions.

Shen Yao had already changed direction and was running at full speed towards another dense forest, because two thorny beasts were coming straight at her from the forest she had originally run through.

The two spiky beasts looked older and uglier than the previous one. Their fleshy bodies, covered with maggot-like stripes, were purplish-black.

"It's absolutely disgusting," Shen Yao complained as she ran. "How many more of these disgusting, messy things are there?"

Golden Beetle: "There's another one in the direction you're running."

"Fuck you!" Shen Yao cursed in anger. She looked around and found a tree hole about knee-high. She ran over, crawled into the hole, and disappeared instantly.

A round, all-spirit stone bead fell onto the ground inside the tree hole, rolled a long trail, and came to rest at the very back of the hole.

As the two purplish-black thorny beasts chased each other, the three rather perfunctory white stripes on their heads kept spinning erratically.

The two thorny beasts, having chased their prey for half their distance, sensed the disappearance of their target and, like the previous thorny beast, became enraged.

The two insects thrashed wildly around, occasionally hitting their companion, which only made the companion angrier, causing them to thrash at each other even more fiercely...

Shen Yao hid inside the All-Spirit Source Stone space.

The salted fish, who had long since returned to his spirit and was nestled beside the Cloud Cliff Black Hoof Beast, closing his eyes to rest, opened his eyes and saw Shen Yao, and immediately his face lit up with joy.

The Water Spirit Beast, which had been lying obediently beside him, also stood up.

The little stone man sitting in the pile of perfect stones glanced at Shen Yao. Having finally calmed down, it became angry again, crossing its arms and glaring at them.

Xianyu hopped over to Shen Yao: "How did you get in? Have you arrived in Lishui County yet?"

"We can't get out for the time being." Shen Yao didn't hide anything and told everyone about the thorny beasts in the mountains.

The little stone man rolled his eyes and thought coldly to himself, 'Serves him right!'

Xianyu said, "There's more than one high-level beast that can suppress a cultivator's spiritual energy, so we really can't go out for the time being."

Since none of them had any outside help, they could only hide in the Spirit Source Stone space and focus on strengthening themselves first.

After resting for a while, Shen Yao began to assess her current combat strength.

Breaking off small pieces of the "Perfect Stone" at any time, Shen Yao began to categorize them: "Most of the cultivation techniques I can use now are auxiliary techniques, which are sufficient for survival but insufficient for combat power."

"The Divine-level Soul Meridian Opening Technique and the Divine-level Spirit Returning Technique are both auxiliary techniques for cultivation and for circulating spiritual energy."

"I have mastered the Divine-level Body Tempering Technique to a minor degree. People of the same level cannot harm me, but I don't know if I can withstand a single blow from a high-level alien beast."

"The Divine-level Qi Concealment Technique is useless against the Spiky Beasts. They have no eyes and rely on spiritual power to sense their prey."

"God-level cultivation techniques have no restrictions on spiritual root level, but advanced cultivation techniques can only be learned by those with a fifth-grade or sixth-grade spiritual root. My master left me many advanced cultivation techniques, but I can't learn them."

"I can't learn some intermediate-level techniques related to metal, water, fire, earth, thunder, ice, and soul."

"Our Spirit Herb Sect is based on practicing medicine and refining pills, and focuses on cultivating wood spirit roots. Therefore, many of the intermediate wood spirit cultivation techniques that my master left me are used to capture spirit plants or refine pills, and they can be considered auxiliary techniques."

"There are also Wind Blade, Wind Spirit Barrier, Qi Spirit Chaos Technique, Qi Needle Stagnation Meridian Technique, etc., which are all intermediate-level techniques. I have also mastered them to perfection, but how they will fare against the Thorn Beast is still unknown."

After Shen Yao finished speaking, she looked at Xianyu and waited for Xianyu to estimate his combat strength.

What Qi Linzi left for Zhao Zhen were all advanced cultivation techniques and high-level spiritual treasures.

When Zhao Zhen founded the Spirit Herb Sect, all the disciples he accepted were of the eighth grade with three spiritual roots. Only his own daughter, Zhao Xuan, and the eldest elder's daughter, Xu Mengmeng, had the seventh grade with four spiritual roots.

These disciples can only practice low-level and intermediate-level cultivation techniques. Many of the low-level and intermediate-level cultivation techniques and spiritual treasures were specially obtained by Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen was grateful for Mu Zhensi's appreciation and shelter, and for marrying off his daughter. For hundreds of years, he provided medical treatment and even free medical consultations to the people of Xuanhu Town at low prices, which also cost him a lot of his savings.

Whenever Zhao Zhen distributed medicinal herbs and pills to the townspeople or made house calls to treat patients, he would always tell them, "I was sent by the Mu Town Chief." He never sought credit for his services.

The elders of the Lingcao Sect are all teachers with the heart of a candle, who never ask their disciples to offer tribute or lead them out of the mountains to amass wealth.

This was also Zhao Zhen's original intention in establishing the sect: to treat each disciple like his own child, and only require them to focus on cultivating their skills.

If these disciples can live a peaceful and stable life after leaving the sect, treat others kindly, and live to a ripe old age without any unexpected events, then they will have lived up to the expectations of Zhao Zhen and the three elders.

Therefore, over the past few hundred years, even though Zhao Zhen was only supporting a small sect, he gradually acquired many of Qi Linzi's relics and exchanged them for various resources suitable for the Spirit Herb Sect.

The Spirit Herb Sect is truly a breath of fresh air in the world of cultivation.