Demon’s Diary

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In a short while, he had reached a few kilometers deep in the forest before finally slowing down his pace and observing his surroundings.

It was unclear how long this forest had remained untouched by people.
In between the trees were countless unnamed coiled black and green vines.
On the ground, dead tree leaves over a few feet long lay sprawled out.
The lover half had completely transformed into ooze while the upper half were still the dead leaf’s original form.

The overhead of this entire forest was covered by a canopy that consisted of layers upon layers of fertile branches and leaves.
Only a small amount of sunshine broke its way through which caused the lower levels to be abnormally gloomy.

Liu Ming’s eyes flashed before he tore off a nearby dried up vine.
Using twenty percent of his strength, he was unexpectedly unable to tear it off.
This couldn’t help but cause him to express surprise.

He meticulously examined the vines again before wrapping his five fingers around them and used half of his strength.

“Peng!”

This time, the vine responded by disintegrating in his hand.

Liu Ming shook his head and immediately began to ignore these items as he continued to float along.

After walking for the time it takes to have a meal, Liu Ming’s expression suddenly changed.
His figure slowed as he unexpectedly floated down onto the thick layers of dead leaves.
After a quick movement, he appeared in front of a withered tree with only half its tree trunk remaining.

The upper half of this tree had been completely obliterated for an unknown reason and the lower half of the tree was comprised of abnormally shriveled bark of yellow color.
Not even a trace of life was present.

Liu Ming had no interest in this tree and his gaze was completely focused on a small black and red fungus that had its back to the sun.
It seemed to be similar to a regular fungus but its edge contained shiny golden lined circles that emitted a captivating fragrance.

Liu Ming brought his hand up to his bosom and fished out a light silver thick book.
On its surface was written six large words, “All Inclusive Guide to Spirit Objects”; he proceeded to flip through it.

This book was specially distributed by the Barbarian Ghost Sect leader to the top ten disciples just before they left the sect so as to avoid missing out out on any precious resources.

After all, they were disciples who didn’t specialize in picking medicine plants.
Although they knew a bit about spirit objects and materials, they were mainly only normal goods.
As for the legendary Heaven and Earth Spirit Objects, they naturally had not had a previous encounter with them.

Equipped with this book, they only had to take a quick glance through before hand and gain a slight impression of the objects so that when they came across familiar items, they could accurately recognize the item with the help of the pictures.

This All Inclusive Guide to Spirit Objects not only contained spirit medicines and plants, but also had many legendary rare resources and a few difficult to categorize Heaven and Earth Spirit Objects.

When his finger paused, the pages immediately stopped turning.

“It really is a Golden Spirit Ear.
This item is a supplementary material to concocting a few high level Spirit Pills; in the external world, it’s very rare.
This small piece should fetch a price of nearly a thousand Spirit Stones.” Liu Ming looked at the picture on the guide before looking at the Spirit Object on the tree trunk.
He couldn’t help but mutter to himself in an excited voice.

Subsequently, he retrieved a small wooden case from his body and used his other hand to flip it open.
In it astonishingly appeared a short cyan sword.

His wrist shook slightly and a ray of cyan light flashed; the Golden Spirit Ear and the small chunk of rotten wood proceeded to fall off.
They fell into the wooden case that had been prepared earlier.

Liu Ming covered the wooden case with the Sumeru handkerchief and it quickly shrunk into a small soybean sized object.
He then put it in his bosom and proceeded to search the nearby area once more.

Ultimately, two hours later, he found another two Golden Spirit Ears on two adjacent withered trees.
Amongst the two pieces, one of them was about the same size as the one he already had while the other was about three to four times in size.

Thus, it could be said that in a short span of time, he had acquired 5000 to 6000 Spirit Stones.

This naturally caused Liu Ming to feel rather satisfied.

Although he knew that if he were to continue searching in a larger area there would definitely be other harvests, he suppressed this excitatory urge and left this area.
He continued to move ahead.

Despite the Golden Spirit Ear having a large price tag with it, it wasn’t worth it to spend most of his time searching for it.

After all, the time he had in the secret realm was limited and he still had to find the secret realm’s true treasures.

Just like this, Liu Ming followed a particular direction in the forest and continued his journey.
On the way, if he encountered spirit medicines and spirit plants, he would instantly look around for more before leaving once again when he lacked results.

Not much later, his Sumeru handkerchief had seven or eight more distinct spirit plants.
Amongst them, a few did not have the same value as the Golden Spirit Ear while others were even more precious than the Golden Spirit Ear; his harvest was quite good.

Suddenly, in the middle of moving, Liu Ming’s figure suddenly froze and he stopped on top of a certain large tree.
He stared at a nearby large tree’s branch.

What greeted him on the front end of that arm thick branch astonishingly was a grey velvety small animal corpse.
A small portion of its body had already vanished without a trace but the remaining portion was still dripping fresh blood.

Simultaneously, the stench of blood covered the nearby area; this animal clearly had died not too long ago.

Although Liu Ming had already known that there would definitely be animals in this sort of a large Natural Secret Realm, this scene still couldn’t help but cause his heart to jump.