Yearning Heartbroken Red...
A seemingly common white flower without leaves, its stalk connected to a pitch-black stone, with scarlet red flecks on the petals like dripping blood.
The stone alone was a unique feature of this immortal grass—Salas easily identified it.
"This is an extremely unlucky flower… Not to my liking," Salas shook his head as he thought about the life trajectory of all those who had owned this flower. Whoever takes this will have a tragic love story…
There were also many other immortal grasses in the area, but Salas didn't dare touch any herbs he didn't recognize. After all, he knew that among the herbs unfamiliar to him was the Snow Swan Kiss—a herb more dreadful than any poison.
Although he had some guesses about which one might be the Snow Swan Kiss, Salas didn't want to experiment and find out the hard way. That could wait until he finished his main task.
Without wasting time, Salas went directly to the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. He decided to start by taking it. Consuming it would increase his spiritual power and might help him train the so-called Piercing Eyes, which were said to see through ten thousand strange things and detect illusions—at least, that's what Tang San claimed.
"Although no one really trained this 'Piercing Eyes' alone, since both Tang San and Huo Yuhao used the herb to enhance their Purple Demon Eyes… now it's time to find out if it really works the way Tang San said."
Immediately, Salas sprang into action. He also reverted back to his normal form.
After enveloping the immortal herb with his soul power, Salas pulled it out with its roots, without damaging anything.
As for leaving seeds so it could regrow after a thousand years? Nah, Salas didn't care.
"It's better if I'm the only one who takes this immortal herb in the entire world… There's no need for a second plant to grow and another person with similar abilities to come into being."
Sitting cross-legged, Salas turned the herb over and let all the dew drops inside the leaves fall into his mouth.
The moment the transparent drops left the herb, the entire Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew withered in Salas's hand. In the blink of an eye, it turned to dust and scattered into the air.
Salas didn't react. He calmly started cultivating.
Nearly six hours later...
A vast surge of spiritual power erupted from Salas's mind, covering over a thousand meters. If one observed carefully, they would feel that the area touched by his mental power resembled a small world—spanning thousands of meters.
It was the prototype of a domain… a prototype of a Spiritual Domain.
Salas slowly opened his thin eyes… A golden light burst out the moment they opened, blinding everything within a ten-meter radius.
The glow slowly subsided. Within seconds, the light returned to Salas's eyes completely.
What was different now, though, was that his pupils had turned golden. If one ignored Salas's old face and looked only into his eyes, they'd be captivated by their beauty. There was an unknown charm hidden in those golden eyes.
Unfortunately, combined with Salas's old, wrinkled face, that beauty went unnoticed.
"Spirit Abyss Realm peak… I've also completely digested the herb," Salas mused.
He could clearly feel the improvement in his mental power—it had reached an extremely high level, touching the peak of the Spirit Abyss Realm. But he could also sense that the next realm was far, far away. If he tried to break through by normal cultivation, it would take him decades.
"And this prototype of a Spiritual Domain…" Salas willed, releasing the domain.
His spiritual power spread over a radius of a thousand meters. Within this range, nothing could escape his eyes. He could clearly see every detail as if time itself had slowed down.
"Time never slows down—it's just that my spiritual power allows me to process everything faster… And there's also a special ability of my domain: to suppress the spiritual power of others by 20 percent."
Spiritual Domains are something only those who break through to the Spirit Domain Realm can possess. And spiritual power at that level is something only Limit Douluos at level 99 can reach.
Everyone who enters that realm can create their own spiritual domain, each with its own unique ability based on the person's understanding.
Currently, even though Salas's spiritual power hadn't broken through to the Spirit Domain Realm, with the help of the immortal herb, he reached the peak of the Spirit Abyss Realm. The herb had also given him the ability to form a prototype domain.
(According to later Douluo instalments, Spiritual Power is divided into six levels: Spirit Origin Realm, Spirit Connection Realm, Spirit Sea Realm, Spirit Abyss Realm, Spirit Domain Realm, and the legendary Divine Origin Realm. Since the current era lacks a definitive ranking system, we'll go with this one.)
Naturally, since it was a domain, it had unique features—in Salas's case, a suppression effect. One could even say it was the result of consuming the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. This 20% suppression will only increase when he fully breaks through to the Spirit Domain Realm and completes his domain.
"As for the so-called Piercing Eyes… other than my pupils turning golden, there aren't any other abilities…" Salas looked dejected.
All in all, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had only given him a massive increase in spiritual power. Though it had taken him from the early to peak stage of the Spirit Abyss Realm, it was also because he had fully digested the herb.
With Salas's initial Titled Douluo-level physique and spiritual power, it naturally didn't take him months to digest the immortal herb like Tang san.
"Next is… Ice and Fire Alchemy Body. Oh, my good skin… I'm coming for you."
Getting up from his place, Salas moved toward the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
"Although those two Ice and Fire immortal herbs' poison won't hurt me that much considering my cultivation, it's still better to be safe than sorry later."
Bending his hunched back, Salas used the same method as before—enveloping the plant with his soul power and pulling it from the roots.
"Sigh… Since I don't have that storage tool that can hold living things, and I don't know the perfect way to store it, keeping it intact will be troublesome…"
As Tang San said, every immortal herb has a special way to consume it and a unique method to store it. And Salas… of course, didn't remember any of them.
"But what else can I do… I have to find a way to keep it. This will help me recruit Yang Wudi as my subordinate. Oh Dugu Bo, I can only borrow your pouch…"