Chapter 3: Ghost Grass (Shelf Explosion Seeking Votes and Fresh Flowers)

  After a long conversation with Lin Li, Andou seemed to have forgotten about it.

  He still spent all day in the pharmacy, occasionally making some movements that made Lin Li's heart tremble with fear.

  Lin Li has been thinking, with all these explosions going on, will this stubborn old man ever be blown to a good end...

  However, at present, it seems that although Andurin makes some noise every day, his body is still intact.

  It wasn't until the seventh day after their long conversation that the stubborn old man finally called Lin Li out of the wooden hut again.

  "How can I help?"

  Nor did he know why, but Lin Li always felt that the old man's smile on his face was somewhat sinister.

  But thinking carefully, for this whole month, he had been eating and living off others, and now he still wanted to learn magic from them. If they didn't even bother to help a bit, it seemed like too much to ask. So he gritted his teeth and responded: "Tell me about it, if I can do it, I'll definitely try my best to help."

  "It's not a big deal, actually..." Adouin rubbed his hands together in some embarrassment: "You know, I've had pretty bad luck these past few days. There have been several accidents during my potion experiments, and although they weren't very serious, I lost quite a bit of material."

  "I'm afraid it's not just bad luck...” Lin Li muttered to himself, having lived here for over a month, he had also figured out that Old An's mastery of magic was unparalleled, but in the field of potion-making, he was even worse than a novice apprentice. A novice at least knew to proceed step by step, but An didn't care about that at all, always trying to tackle high-difficulty tasks head-on. Now with Lin Li, a master potioneer by his side, if anything went wrong, the master would clean up the mess, and the old man became even more reckless, making the potion room feel like it was celebrating Chinese New Year every day. If there wasn't an explosion or two every day, it meant the old man had taken the wrong medicine.

  "But fortunately, I had already checked this morning, and most of the materials were fine, with only the Wild Steel Flower suffering the worst losses..."

  Only a large number of wild steel flowers were lost, which is indeed fortunate in misfortune. Compared to the leaves of the Tree of Wisdom, wild steel flowers are really too common. The only condition for their growth is shade, and the darker and more humid the place, the better they grow. This environment can be seen everywhere, and there are countless ones just on this mountain range.

  "So you want me to..." Andrew was about to say something, and Lin Li had already guessed it. Thinking that it wasn't a big deal, he just needed help getting some Wild Steel Flowers. Anyway, apart from practicing elemental arrangements, he didn't have anything else to do, so Lin Li replied very briefly: "No problem, if you can't leave for the time being, I'll go help you pick some too."

  "Thank goodness..." Old An let out a sigh of relief, somewhat embarrassed to explain: "These past few days I've been waiting for some very important news, and really couldn't spare the time to go pick it up. You're willing to help, that's just great!"

  After asking clearly about the growth location of Ye Ganghua, Lin Li left without delay.

  It was his first time away from Anduin's small cottage since crossing over.

  Walking in the dimly lit forest, Lin Li felt a mix of emotions, half curiosity and half tension.

  It was so sudden and tense that Lin Li wouldn't notice, he had just stepped out of the small wooden house, when Andrew recited an incantation, and as soon as the incantation was finished, a shadowy figure of Lin Li began to slowly appear on the crystal ball in front of him...

  According to Andurin, there is a wild steel flower growth point not far from here, just a few dozen minutes' walk from the wooden house. It is said that it was once a nest of lions, but they had already become extinct in the last Black Tide. No one knows what kind of demon beast killed them, and even Andurin can only guess from the surrounding marks that they probably encountered their arch-nemesis, the black dragon, during that Black Tide.

  Lin Li now stood outside the nest, and in just over a year, the nest had become desolate, with weeds growing all around, and a patch of wildflowers blooming exceptionally brightly at the entrance.

  As I approached the entrance of the cave overgrown with weeds, a cold and damp air hit me in the face. Lin Li had just walked near and knew that he hadn't found the wrong place. The cave was dark and humid, making it an ideal location for the growth of wild steel flowers.

  Like most wild steel flower growth locations, the cave was dark and humid, with slippery stone walls that felt like touching a giant python. The front was pitch black, without a single ray of light shining through. Lin had to light a torch, relying on this sole source of light to grope his way deeper.

  Actually, soon after entering the cave, Lin Li saw patches of wild steel flowers.

  But he didn't adopt it, instead holding a torch and continuing to grope forward.

  Because he still remembered that there was another herb, with the same habits as the Wild Steel Flower, which was the Ghost Grass. It also liked dark and humid environments, often growing in caves, only it was buried deeper and more hidden than the Wild Steel Flower.

  According to Lin Li's experience, where the wild steel flowers grow most luxuriantly, you can often find the ghost grass.

  He wants to figure out whether his past experiences are still applicable in this world.

  So he never looked back.

  The front seems to be getting more and more spacious, it was just a small cave when I first came in, but as Lin Li walked deeper, the cave seemed to have turned into a maze.

  Lin stood in the maze for a long time, passing through one passage after another, and suddenly felt that the front was open.

  This is simply a vast underground wilderness, empty and vast, with large patches of wild steel flowers sprawling across the wilderness, and amidst that purple-red hue, there are also sprinkled with dots of dark grey color, which is the color of ghost grass.

  When he saw the specks of gray amidst the flowers, Lin Li felt like his heart was about to jump out.

  In this world, probably no one can understand Lin Li's current mood, even his closest friend Andouin cannot.

  Experience in the endless world is also applicable in the Anruiel world.

  This means that Lin Li is also a professional grandmaster in the world of Anril!

  Not only does he possess a master-level proficiency in professions such as pharmacist, alchemist and blacksmith, but also in herbalism knowledge, which is more of a knowledge-based thing.

  Until he had harvested all the Ghost Grass in the flower cluster, Lin Li barely suppressed the excitement in his heart. This was probably the most exciting thing that had happened to him since crossing over. Lin Li knew very well what a fully-occupied master meant - it was almost equivalent to being an omnipotent superman. With this background, his future in this strange world seemed to be gradually becoming clearer.

  Lin Li spent almost an hour to finish collecting the ghost grass on the underground wasteland, and he wouldn't let go of a single one even if it cost him his life. Compared to Wild Steel Flower, Ghost Grass had many more uses. Besides being used to refine Wisdom Potions, Swift Potions, Petrification Potions, and other practical potions that were widely used, Ghost Grass was also an indispensable ingredient.

  Wild Steel Flower also picked some, but as the Lin Li Grass Medicine Master, he couldn't muster up interest in this cheap herb, and casually picked a few, thinking it was enough for the old man to squander, and didn't want to waste any more energy bending down.

  Lin Li had just finished everything and was about to leave the cave when he suddenly smelled a stench.

  A pungent smell with a strong bloody odor, as if it were thick and dense fresh blood.

  Before Lin Li could react, a low growl had already come from behind him.

  Turning back hastily, I saw a dark red shadow.

  "Awesome!"