They moved forward while harvesting the herbs they found on the way. Little White made sure that they didn't miss anything valuable on the way.
Chu Miao found that some of the herbs they found in that forest weren't available in the forest within the soul ring and decided to transplant some there.
Thus, when she found rare herbs that had been declared extinct in ancient times, she would use her consciousness to transplant them into the forest within the soul ring.
Doing this, the resources within the space ring would only increase and that also meant that her people would have one more way of survival in case things went south.
Especially when some of the herbs are the ones listed as capable of bringing back the dead in some of the books she had read before.
As it turned out, even though she hadn't been very diligent in studying alchemy, the books she had read to gain theoretical knowledge weren't in vain.
