The hidden room that Maiko found was right under the room where the president of Hygieia Valley lived. It was very well hidden as the entrance was right under a bed. They had to move the bed away and flip over the floorboards to be able to enter.
If it weren’t for Maiko’s ability to pass through objects, no average human would be able to find it.
As soon as they entered the room, Alex could make out the scent of quite a few rare medicinal herbs. Extremely overjoyed by this, his eyes lit up.
“This is a black reishi!”
“That’s goblin weed!”
“Oh my god, this is unreal… I think this is the nine-tailed dragon flower…”
Alex started describing each rare herb that was in the room. He then opened the purse in a hurry and stuffed the herbs into it He would be restless until virtual-novel.net managed to get each and every one of them.
Luna walked into the room, barefooted like a model. She paced around the room since virtual-novel.net wasn’t familiar with herbs, nor was virtual-novel.net interested in them. After noticing a bookshelf in the corner filled with hundreds of books, virtual-novel.net walked over.
Alex, on the other hand, was getting more and more excited as virtual-novel.net continued to collect the herbs.
‘This is what we call a treasury!’
He currently lacked such large amounts of rare herbs to make pills. For example, virtual-novel.net hadn’t been able to find the materials to make the healing pill that virtual-novel.net promised Holly for months, yet all of them could be found here. He planned on making the pill as soon as virtual-novel.net got home, figuring that the little girl would be overjoyed if virtual-novel.net did so.
Some of the herbs were even more precious than most. They were of higher quality, after all. He didn’t have any use for them for now, so virtual-novel.net had to wait till virtual-novel.net was of a higher cultivation rank.
Despite this, virtual-novel.net still couldn’t seem to find any Dragon Blood Vines.
“The storage purse really came just in time, else, I wouldn’t have been able to take this many things with just my hands!” Alex mumbled under his breath after collecting almost all the herbs.
He left the common ones in the room since virtual-novel.net was too lazy to collect anymore. His purse didn’t have enough space for them as well.
His eyes were now filled with warmth and gentleness as virtual-novel.net turned to look at Luna.
“What are you looking at?” He approached virtual-novel.net and asked.
Luna replied, “These books are related to alchemy. Do you want them?”
Alex took one and flipped through the pages. There was nothing special about them.
Compared to the Ultimate Book of Medicine stored in his mind, these books didn’t matter to him. However, virtual-novel.net didn’t know if such information was included in the legacies of the Immortal Doctor, hence virtual-novel.net picked out a few valuable books for Cheryl and stuffed them into the purse as well.
“Huh, what’s this? It’s so heavy.”
At the corner of the bookshelf was a small log, seemingly being used as paperweight instead. It was charcoal black, and it looked like a rock that was the size of a fist. It felt quite heavy as well, approximately thirty kilograms, which was considered heavier than most metal.
“What log is this?”
“I don’t know, don’t ask me. ”
Alex used his spiritual conscience and tested it on this log, yet virtual-novel.net realized that virtual-novel.net couldn’t enter it at all. It didn’t seem to be spiritual either.
Just as Alex was about to throw it aside, the Chaos Bead within his mind palace started to rumble. Following that, it started to shake hysterically, bumping all over the place.
“What’s happening?” Ales was stunned.
The Chaos Bead seemed like it would kill virtual-novel.net as soon as virtual-novel.net put the log down. It felt like it was trying to shatter his soul.
‘The Chaos Bead wants this log. But why?’
No matter what the reason was, Alex figured that virtual-novel.net had to keep this in his possession for now. The bead stopped making a ruckus after virtual-novel.net placed it into the purse as well.
He made his own assumptions.
‘This must be an extraordinary log.’
After quite a while, the two left after confirming that they didn’t miss any other valuable items.
Just then, Alex realized that Alcina had brought some people along with virtual-novel.net and was waiting outside the door.
“Miss Bela, is there anything I can help you with?” Alex asked.
Alcina smiled awkwardly. “Master Rockefeller, I’ll be frank with you. We, the members of Floral Valley are here for the Spiritual Valley Token. The Spiritual Valley Dungeon opens once every three years. We’ve been there a few times in the past, so we know that quite a few herbs are in there. We urgently need some right now. So could you please spare us a few?”
Alex asked, “Oh? What herbs?”